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It's been a long long while (nearly two years?!) since anything that resembles a favourites list has been uploaded so I thought that it's about time for another. You would've thought my tastes would have changed a bit since the last one but it appears I'm still riding the brightly coloured and borderline y2k vibes.

Anna Dobos

'Wetware' by Anna Dobos, 2014

Although shot fairly recently - you can tell this photo series is obviously heavily influenced by the y2k futurism aesthetic by the style of eyewear, wet look hair and highlighting and the metallic blue tones. The yellow hair wefts have me itching to go down the afro hair shop to buy myself some extensions.

UNIF Kit Dress

The new UNIF kit dresses are nothing short of a surfer babe's wet dream. Unfortunately for me the last and only package I ever ordered from them got lost in the post and never arrived so I daren't try again, fingers crossed for it making an appearance on ASOS sometime soon. Variations on the site include one in blue and another in yellow.

Carly Rae Summers' Shoot Set

Pornography isn't usually my source of inspiration but this great set with the model pink flamingos, gaudy forest backdrop and the is totally doing it for me. It's taking a lot of willpower not to spend all my money fake grass carpet to cover my bedroom floor right now.

Coco Layne

If you're bored of your mates' awful Facebook statuses of chicken nugget dinners then you'll probably feel a bit more refreshed after feasting your eyes on Coco Layne's phantasmagorical food photography. That is unless you never want to see another food pic ever again, in which case I am sorry but your friends need to learn a recipe or two.

David LaChapelle

My forever favourite <3

Von Dutch

My ultimate find on Depop was this amazing Von Dutch patchwork jacket and after haggling the price down some lucky fucker swooped in and bought it before me. Hopefully I can bag myself something similar soon before I end up getting one of those ridic trucker caps. 

Parker Day

Another case of the backdrops and bright colours. Each of Parker Day's stills are a portrait of a different eccentric character and going through their Instagram makes me want to crack out the dress up box and spend hours doing my makeup. Be sure to check out their latest foot series 'Footwear For Foot Fetishists' on Polyester.

Tayler Smith

Look at this majestic canine friend, look how happy it is, if we lived in an equally magical maybe my face would be plastered with a grin that wide too. All of their photography is an absolute treat but Tayler Smith's meticulously curated feed for Othen is worth more than all the Instagram goals combined.

MTV's LiLi

Back in the 2000s, vivacious virtual VJs and 3D rendered cyberbabes were all over everything. In a collaboration with Sony Ericsson, MTV Asia launched the interactive cybernaut LiLi at the start of the new millennium. Viewers could call in and talk to their host in real time and have her take their music video requests. Have a look at the rest of the LiLi stuff over on Behance.

Molly Soda at Annka Kultys

Here are a few pics from net artist Molly Soda's debut exhibition at the Annka Kultys gallery in Bethnal Green that I recently visited on my last trip back down to London. 

Climbing the stairs into the space, you could hear audio of the artist crying and it was almost as though she was trapped inside this pink bubble. Walking round the room was a lot like being in a dystopian fiction where the protagonist has had multiple experiences trapped inside a container and you're going through their memory library trying to understand their life.

One video saw Molly trawling through a pile of roses, continuing the "he loves me, he loves me not" rhyme with phrases that presumably relate to a past relationship of hers. Another - the one with the sobbing - played from a seemingly broken monitor screen. There were also various lip sync videos scattered around on iPhones and iPads.

The gallery owner mentioned to me that each piece was priced according to the amount of views the particular moving image had amounted online and that they came on their own memory stick hand decorated with plastic gemstones by the artist herself. Unfortunately it's no longer open to the public, however you can watch all the videos featured here on Molly's YouTube channel. 

I need more plants and beanbags in my house.

Lol it me

The Worst Gift Ever

Another Christmas has passed and insatiable children from all over the world will be sobbing into their stockings after their godforsaken parents have forgotten to get them the new edition Call of Duty, Animal Crossing or whatever the latest game is. Once upon a time I was that hopeful kid, the one who desperately wanted to spend all their home time as an animated bandicoot in a race car or as an Italian plumber... in a slightly different race car. 

One day my elders returned home from Makro with a non-descript plastic bag containing the game that could potentially change my life. This bag that contained the object that would define how I would waste the rest of my foreseeable weekend life. This would be the game. This day could change everything.

I peered into the shopper and my stomach dropped. A tantrum ensued. This is what was inside:

Before you accuse me of being an ungrateful brat, I need to you to realise just how fucking dreadful these supposed "games" really are. Aside from a few badly designed puzzle games and overly simple colouring pages at the end, there isn’t any actual gameplay which is really fucking pointless. 

If you were expecting to have a series of fun and vaguely challenging interactions instead of piddling half an hour of their life away on some piss poor animation you’d be one hundred percent guaranteed disappointed. No testing out your virtual skateboarding skills like in Tony Hawks Underground 2, no pretending to live an immensely exaggerated life of an adventurous ant like in the Bugs Life game, nothing. Chess would be more entertaining.

Dingo Pictures’ whole schtick is to essentially suck the life and soul from every Disney animation in order to trick unsuspecting parents into getting their kids what they assume to be genuine merchandise instead of the bargain bin monstrosities that they truly are. Obviously my edition of Nice Cats was a total rip off of the classic Aristocats film where a bunch of cats get abandoned by a bad guy so that he can reap the rewards of the fortune they inherit. The plot of the dupe cartoon is presumably something to do with a rich ladies kittens running away whilst they’re on holiday but to be honest it makes little to no sense so I can’t really be sure. 

One of the main kitten characters - Lucy - is voiced by a fairly terrible unnamed actress that features in pretty much every single one of Dingo Picture’s productions. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the cheapskates got her to record lines for every single animation in one go purely to cut costs because I doubt she even rehearsed any of the lines. 

Characters are duplicated multiple times across many films and our young Lucy appears again in the unsurprisingly terrible Dalmatians 3. Aladdin was even re-used in his own imitation, poor guy. 

You could probably forgive the replications if it was animated well but even that falls further than short as some bodily movements don’t even make physical sense. In Animal Soccer World, a particularly questionable rip of multiple kids’ motion pictures, a team of wild cats are challenged by a group of dogs to a football match. Clearly this is a little farfetched as animals don’t tend to understand the rules of sport but even worse is the thought of all these animals running around on their hind legs. 

There’s a particularly jokes moment where the black panther character. Basic biology clearly doesn’t click well with Dingo because some herbivorous species in Dinosaur Adventure resort to cannibalism after an eruption leaves them without plants. Then again, there’s a T-Rex with a button nose and everything seems to be drawn in crayon so anything is possible.  

The script leaves a lot to be desired as most of it doesn’t make sense, if there were literally any good attributes of these films we’d probably put it down to bad translation seeing as they’e originally made in German but that’s probably not the case at all. Notable lines such as “your father the Black Panther is your father” and “can you image India?” will forever haunt my nightmares. 

My original copy of Nice Cats sits and gathers dust on the bookshelf in my living room, only ever being disturbed from it’s hiding place when nosy guests rifle through my belongings and wondering  “what the fuck is that?” after the awful kitten illustrations catch their eye. Hopefully now that writing this is over I can finally put Dingo Pictures to rest and the next time you get a fairly terrible gift, just be grateful that it wasn't this.

Trashy Ratkin

Wearing: Fluffy Bomber Jacket by Gemma Goldstone, Ugly Crop Top by Lazy Oaf, Dress by Textile Federation, Vintage Minnie Mouse Backpack, Plain Tattoo Choker Necklace, Nike Socks, Nike Air Force Ones.

All photos taken by Elisa Von Brockdorff.

 Makeup, styling and modelling by your old pal Hatti. 

Rummaging through your bins since 1992

LondonEdge Blogger Meet Up With Jawbreaker

Yours truly taking herself very seriously, as per.

Whilst everyone else on planet Earth spent Sunday nursing their hangover, a number of particularly dedicated bloggers headed to Kensington Olympia for the London Edge event to scour out items for future outfit posts, hang out and generally have a rad time. Upon arrival we were handed a massive bag of goodies and a glass of Prosecco so it was obvious that it would already be a great day. Surprisingly I wasn't yet tipsy in the photo above where I'm flailing about in my new Jawbreaker dress, just overly excited.

Being reunited with a bunch of cool cats* that I'd met at the last event back in September was really great and it was great fun going round together ogling at all the clothes on offer. My absolute favourite items included the Iron Fist Care Bear collection, everything the Yummy Gummy latex brand has ever made and one particular dress by House of Intelligence which at first appeared to be an allover print of space but was actually an image of cancer cells under a microscope.

Outfits suitable for a space empress.

Selfies with Sabrina, Isabella, Samantha, Susan and Kent from throughout the day and a customised Furby hat by Gobbolino UK

Iron Fist's sheer Care Bears shirt that I need in my wardrobe ASAP. 

Samantha and Isabella on the afterparty bus on it's way to Gem bar, unfortunately I have no pictures after this point due to free bar reasons.

*not actual cats 

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• Europa Track Top by Adidas Originals, £60
• Trefoil Leggings by Adidas Originals, £22
• Light Up Shoes by Inu Inu, £36.34
• Unisex Windows Tee by Inu Inu, £16.50
• A Source Says Cap by SMH Girls, £21.35
• Windows 95 Nail Decals by Total Pansy Prints on Etsy, £2.72

Here's an outfit moodboard inspired by errors that's fit for any glitchy princess or computer virus.

Light up shoes were all the rage when I was a tadpole, my parents unfortunately never bought me a pair but I was forever jealous of anybody who had some.  Earlier this year when the Ashish x Buffalo collaboration hit the catwalks, I was instantly in love but obviously I wasn't the only person enamoured by the majestic platforms because they immediately sold out when they were released in Topshop. Although these light up trainers from Inu Inu aren't platforms, they're super cheap and will do just as well. They'll be way easier to walk in too.

Pizza Party

Biggest dorks with the biggest pizza box

If there's one thing I love more than literally everything else in existence - it's pizza. Whether you're in a good or bad mood, alone or with others - there is never a bad time for pizza. If my friends all suddenly turned into pizza, I would eat them all with no remorse. If my house turned into pizza, I'd be homeless. Back in February I managed to style an outfit around some pizza slice accessories and there is literally a pizza in my oven right now, that's how dedicated I am to the cause. 

Whilst sifting through my inbox the other day, one particular email titled "Pizza Box Exhibition" caught my attention. It was from Hungry House, evidently I'd ordered pizza using their website previously, and my interest was piqued. Obviously the show would be a great feast for my eyes (lol) so I rounded up the scallywags last night and took a trip down to the Old Truman Brewery.  The exhibition is free and will be on until this Sunday but luckily for those who won't be able to make it, here's a few photos of my favourites.

The woman in top-centre isn't impressed by the lack of toppings