I wanna be: By Tiffaney Danielle

Edgy like her

With his lip ring

With her boots

With his swag

With her hair

With his bag

With her tattoos

With his attitude

With her friends

With her bong

With his connections

With her major

With his rhymes

With her moves

With his everything

And

With her everything

Don’t sit here and tell me you don’t hate yourself when all you want to do is copy every single FUCKING move that he or she does.

xoxo TiffaneyDanielle

Prima Ballerina

For ten years I danced. From age two to twelve I did ballet, tap, and jazz. I loved it, especially tap. But for the passed year I have found myself enraptured in ballet. Stretching, practicing my leaps, pirouettes, etc. I can still remember my father taking me to go see The Nutcracker and the heartbreak of us leaving early, because he thought it was boring. But I still remember how the ballerina twirled effortlessly through the props on stage. It was beautiful.

But I said all that to say that…I am minoring in dance. I’m nervous. What will my parents say? Am I even good enough? Am I too old? Is it pointless? What if they think I’m really good? Should I pursue this? I am aware that I don’t have the typical ballerina body, the torso atleast. My legs are strong ass hell and my arms are 90% stronger than I remember.

What will my parents say? They can’t say its pointless, because they paid for ten years of dance lessons. Maybe I could double minor. No. They won’t even consider me messing up my “important” classes for some dance classes. We’ll see where this goes.

xoxo TiffaneyDanielle

*I must really love all my readers, because I’m sharing personal thoughts more and more with each post*

Dear Summer,

This summer might be different. I hope it is. I pray it is. I was bored and broke last summer. That means I was in the house on the computer, eating, watching the idiot box, or sleeping. While I did cherish that wonderful sleep, I can’t be idle like I was last summer. I mean ill be working and going to school (yay!), but that can’t be my life. That’s high school all over again.

I really don’t want to plan my summer, because where’s the excitement in that? But I do know what I want to do. (Ah yes! Another list)

-Go to Cafe Grumpy (Chelsea, NY)
-Go to Van Gogh’s Ear (Union, NJ)
-Get another tattoo
-Go to a play
-Build my portfolio
-Have a huge waterfight (lol)
-Wear my natural hair atleast once
-Meet Inka Essenhigh (i can dream)
-Go to a film festival (not likely)

What do you think? Not that I actually care, just being polite.

xoxo TiffaneyDanielle

I’m still an artist

I’m still an artist…

I wish I had the ability to make good art.
I wish I could tell a story with my body.
I can’t sing.
I don’t have enough flavor to rap.
All I have are my words.
But, I’m still an artist.

(short and sweet or quick and painless, its all about perception)

It didn’t take a long time for me to realize that I could use words as weapons. At first, I didn’t know I had the ability to do that. Words have been my strongest ally throughout my life. I learned the power of words, and the damages they could cause. I’ve always been especially good with words and pictures, though. Picture prompts were my thing, this is definitely due to my overactive imagination. But I always feel like its not good enough. I feel like if it were great I would be able to express it with acrylic paints. I can IMAGINE myself in paint covered clothes, with paint smeared on random parts of my face and body. But that will never happen, because if my passion for expression was that potent I wouldn’t have to just imagine. If I cared like I said I did, I would have done it. But my words are always there to say “stick to what you know”. It’s not a bad thing at all though.

If I said I loved Spring, how would I show it?

The artist’s name is Inka Essenhigh, and her imagination is superb.

(more from the artist)

Picnic

Green Goddess I

The Grass At Night In July (one of my favorites)

Things my friends don’t know:

I love art, especially paintings.

Georgia O’ Keefe is my favorite artist.

I like foreign films with subtitles.

I want to be a photographer that takes amazing photos.

I like being photographed when I least expect it, because they make for the best photos.

I want to model and have a spread in popular a magazine.

I want to travel overseas, but I want to frequent the local areas, just like Anthony Bourdain.

I want to travel to The UK, France, Italy, & recently added Spain.

I like walking, because nature helps me clear my head.

xoxo TiffaneyDanielle