a ridic long post of pictures i like

this is how i feel about my blog sometimes.

dogs never win in a cat fight

i miss ny soooooooo mucho.

i want this sooooooooooo bad *le sigh*

im getting a neck face tattoo. 

and a skateboard. thats final!

this should be my halloween costume

but instead im making this

WITH THIS.

i'm actually almost done with the head.

so hot

DIANA +

SOOOO... I've had my eye on this pretty thing for the past few weeks.

I can even get an instant back for it! = instant photo/film= squealing borraheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Having some spending $$$ now means that I can support my own artistic hobbies! Like illustrations (scanner, lightbox, here I come!! <3) and a camera, since I didn't have the opportunity to take photography at Otis: it came down to either taking photography or silkscreening/letterpress, and I opted to take the latter because I really wanted to learn how to burn a screen, and print, etc, which I don't have any regrets doing because I loooove it! *just glanced over my left shoulder to see my 2 giantic screens in my room*
Also, my friend Jasmine who is a photog buff, will help me out when I need to load and unload film into the canister. Vouyeurism, here I come!!! ALSO, the lomography store in Santa Monica is the largest in ze world! So that's where I'm headed to next weekend! They have free classes on how to use cameras and such too :) can you say LOVE?

What the Eff, Vice Magazine?

My dream job is to work at Vice Magazine. In any form. I even emailed them about myself last year, and guess what? Never heard back. *le sigh* I'm sure they get emails all the time from young, eager, and willing designers who will do anything to get their foot in the door.
Anyways, if you've been to my publication site, you'll notice that it is a FULL BLEED production. Great name, if you ask me. (FYI its a technical printing term for making sure the ink gets printed to the edges of a document, do you don't end up trimming it, and then having a dumb looking border that is the color of your paper.) Then, as I was doing my weekly cruise of Vice Magazine, I stumbled upon THIS!

What the Eff?!

I have a sneaking suspicion that someone was like "Hey, we got an email from this chick, let's steal her ideas!" hahaha im totally joking. That's just what I think in my young, eager, and willing mind, and my ego crying out to the over lords of Vice. *le sigh #2*
This book totally combines about %50 of what is Borrah Jackson. Skating, Photography, NY, street culture, graffiti, urban life! Holler!

This would probably be a good gift for my bff Frank, whose an awesome skate boarder, and if you are reading this, you should go stalk him at the Northridge Mall. He works at Boarder's and you should sign him as a pro skater already. And this photographer who shot all of this is pretty awesome, too.

Photo Credit to J. Chase

partying with a purpose

So once, a few years ago, one of my best friends Melissa aka Skippy, wanted to go FIDM's open house to check out their campus/curriculum. "Pshh...Fidm? That school is like sooooo expensive for just an AA!" Being and Otis Alum, I have to represent, and of course downgrade FIDM. But I know a few really hard working FIDM grads who are doing well, too, I must say. Anyways, I was walking around the campus, doing the tour thang, checking out everything, and they didn't seem professional at all...it was just kinda like "Hey, we're in downtown, we're popular with the A-Lister Hollywood types, like, whoever wears Ed Hardy, and watches the Hills." Sarcasm, aside, I didn't feel as if I was in a very polished environment as Otis has whipped me into shape for. Later, during the tour, we sat in some auditorium to listen to an Alumni's speech. This alumni was some girl who was a stylist (cool job) but had a speech about how she would go out to Hollywood, and hit up all the cool clubs to basically annoy the shit out of people to give her a job, and complained about her "5 inch heeled, 5 minute" shoes. That's the moral of the story.

Jusssst kidding! She said she'd "party with a purpose," which I thought was really funny, since maybe being a professional crossed over into her nightlife, which doesn't always go well. 

But yes, last night I was "partying" (checked out a free show, and then went to the Cha Cha lounge (located in beautiful hipsterville, Silverlake) with my friend and his uncle from out of town) and my friend, Nick, was squealing like a japanese school girl about how he saw this photographer whose apparently "like THE MOST FAMOUS/DOPEST SKATE PHOTOGRAPHER OF ALL TIME." and if you know me, then you know I have a lot of skater buddies. So he pretty much pooped his pants after we ate a taco truck burrito, and then went over to him to talk to him. Go check out this guys awesome website, so you can poop your pants, too.

P.S. If you can get Chris Nieratko to write your Bio, then you are most definitely fucking IN.