Un-HATE Benetton's Un-HATE ads

Be a human before a gender.
Be a human before a religion.
UnHate.
"The Unhate campaign seeks to promote tolerance and combat hatred."More:

Toscani raises the bar when producing these photographs-United Colors of Benetton are just that...United. The message behind this ad is that the world must unite and that humanism must overcome things that separate us. We must relate on the human level first as a priority.

When someone asks me my religion I say that I'm spiritual and open minded, because I learn from all religions and take into my thoughts what personally relates to me for myself.

I'm SO proud of this ad by Benetton's Oliviero Toscani, the world famous photographer who told my mother to go to New York City to exhibit her photograph!
Find out more at ---> www.dijanamesin.blogspot.com (One Photo, One Hundred Miracles)

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (left) kissing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Hu Jintao (left), leader of the People's Republic of China, kissing President Obama

My personal favorite: Pope (left) kissing Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) kissing French President Nicolas Sarkozy

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (left) kissing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak

 U.S. President Obama (left) kissing Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela

What do you think about these ads?! Comment below!

Haiku: Wednesday by Nova

Haiku called Wednesday by Nova :

Middle of the week.
Dying since we were living.
Another day gone.

I believe that my haiku really connects with the quote I personally resonate with below:

“I think if you are really into words and poetry and situations of life, there is always a little kiss of sadness on everything you do… It’s just the kind of person who I am. I always look carefully beneath the outward appearance of things. I want to know what’s really going on in somebody’s heart.”
-Stevie Nicks

Being in my senior year of high school is bittersweet. Its the year between growing up and holding on.
I've always been an extremely observant person with a self-reflective perspective, yet there's something about senior year that's making me think even more.

Maybe its the decisions that are still ahead? Maybe its saying goodbye to what I've grown up with?
Maybe its being nervous in thought of experiencing full independence? Maybe its because I feel myself growing up?

There are times when I think about "everything going so fast" or even "so slow" however I've realized through theater how to experience life to the fullest.
How you ask? Through the 5 senses my friends.

Wherever I go I think like a thespian which has not only helped my sensory recognition for scenes but my spiritual upbringing. I stay and take in a moment. I sit. I meditate. I hear the scraping of the subway tracks. I smell the "newness" of a car. I cascade my fingers through the sand. I close my eyes and picture the moment in my head.
This experience never lets me regret something by saying "I wish"...instead I say "I did/ I will."

On my free time I explore New York City by getting off at random train stops and taking in the community. In my room I hung up my Subway Map and on it I wrote-
"I refuse to be a tourist in my own city. I came. I saw. I conquered. I learned. I got lost. I became me." I've marked a heart on all the places that I've been to. I hope to one day visit every train station in New York City.

These poems/thoughts below resonate with me as well and are beautifully written.

I REFUSE to ever lose my curiosity and love of life. Unlike others I get high off of life not drugs or negative influences. I choose to be straight edge and say yes to my future and not be a statistic.

Are you Dazed or Confused?

She finds happiness in hidden places
and makes friends with unknown faces.
Not everything is scheduled A through Z
so when you can't get A, choose B.
Its not life thats hard, its the decisions you make,
but you have to realize it's still up to fate
You can't stop time but you could start your growth,
and where that'll take you...nobody knows.

Uncover your magic in a a thrifty shop,
however sometimes you'll find it between the rocks-
a place that goes about ignored,
which your ignorance can't even destroy.
When you choose to guide your own path in life you won't settle for only for the things in sight.

- By Nova ♥

^ My Halloween costume haha! Yes mother, I don't want to be a princess for Halloween, I want to be Cousin It! While trick -0- treatin' a man said, "I haven't seen that costume since 1987!" Great, I'm extremely proud I brought it back! Holla!

I was initially supposed to dress up like an 80s chick, but it turns out that's my style everyday and people couldn't tell the difference so I decided to depend on a good-ol homemade costume!

Isn't it amazing how people think there's a limit to what age you should "act" like a kid, as if I'm too old to have candy in my system! If I'm not mistaken teens eat more candy and get more breakouts (yes, I said it, PIMPLES), get more stressed (those midterms!), and save their allowance money for food. Throughout the night, of course I got awkward comments like "aren't you too old to be trick or treatin'? Why do adults just love to get you out of your innocent phase and into adulthood faster? ...

"You should think about it, take a second..*ring*" Nope Snoop Dogg, nothing came up.

Anywho...I shall continue to carry out my behaviors because I can say, according to Huggies that "I'm a big kid now!"  Halloween should be everyday right?

A poem by Nova

She takes the key

 But she still breaks the lock,

 Oh the times changing fast,

 Will it ever stop?

 They might be partners, but she’s a loner in her heart

 Sitting at a table with coffee and her thoughts

She didn't expect this, why did it ever come,

 Such a troubled soul under the vibrant sun,

She's dyes her hair and bites her lips,

She walks steady yet somehow she trips,

 And so the bird flies as she sinks in soil,

 She’s the victim of the full moon midnight torture

In a full room with shallow talk and laughter is one of the world's greatest disasters,

 She feels misunderstood, even remarked by her journal's quietness

 As her pen's tip plasters a life story on her sheets,

 Yet somehow somewhere she's secretly looking for someone's critique.

 Negative or good, she doesn't care; in fact she wishes she wasn't there.

 There is no good versus evil in her mind,

 Only a conscience that re-examines all her crimes,

 As the flaws creep in, and the confidence disappears,

 She produces tough skin instead of tears

 Her innocence weeps away on the day of each decay

As her angry visions enlighten the bad,

 She doesn't even see the world in black or white,

 But in fright of day verses night

 She wishes she could get more out of life,

but her lack of energy isn't giving up a fight

Her happiness was gone when she started pursuing it.

A POWERFUL long sentence > a long sentence

I’m an emotional creature, a hard worker who enjoys saving her money rather than spending it, a girl that believes in spirituality and being open minded instead of a religion, a girl with curiosity that didn’t kill the cat, a tourist of the New York City insane madness, a weekly card scratcher and Skype camerawoman, an actress that embodies the feminism behind the Vagina Monologues, with a pacifist United Nations kind of touch on humanity, a girl that races to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with her friends in the depths of Croatia’s core, a girl with a booming laugh, a vibrant smile, with enough positivity, energy, and enthusiasm to go around and uplift people’s days, a volunteer that volunteers for the good of human kind instead of community service credit, a microorganism for the higher power’s worldly problems, a girl with an overly long resume portraying the things she actually wanted to do instead of ‘needed to do’ for college requirements, a girl that whistles with the birds yet flies away from land dreamingly not physically, a girl that walks home bare feet in the rain, a girl who gets her adrenaline rush from reaching the sky with her rattling swing set, a comedic with sarcastic, witty jokes resembling Kathy Griffin swag with pickup lines that would make Napoleon Dynamite embarrassed from jealousy, a girl who got cavities from her sugar crave, a girl that pulls stickers off of St. Mark’s poles and plasters them on her planner and closet, a fashionista with a sprinkle of fairy dust that chooses thrift store treasures over mass produced clothing companies, a girl that has the emotional intelligence to take part in any conversation and talk to anybody, a humanist that sits with someone sitting alone at lunch, a girl that chooses to be high off of life rather than stupid chemicals, a girl that dances her insecurities away at concerts in the burning summer afternoons, an explorer that hangs a subway map that marks all the places she still has to visit, a girl that chooses to be unique and different over conformity.

Charlotte Ronson Fashion Show @ NY Fashion Week Spring 2012

Singer Sky Ferreira and I!

Charlotte's Sister in the Fashion Show Spring 2012!

Stylist Robert Verdi!

Russell Simmons

Patricia Field and I!

Charlotte Ronson and DJ Samantha Ronson!

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The Importance of Fashion...Its more then just "clothes"

Fashion is beautiful. It gives me the excitement I feel from finding a unique item at a thrift store. The eccentricity when it seems as if the dress I bought was personally designed for me. The adrenaline I got from learning to walk in heels, as I transfered from adolescence into womanhood.

Its the satisfaction of going to your first day of school picking an outfit that is the definition of your eye. The happiness you feel when someone remarks how amazing you're looking & the honor you feel when someone asks for fashion advice.

Fashion without hesitation has given me my confidence and expression to be the Nova that I am.

I scattered amongst the colored fabrics in my closet and I pondered some questions that I feel every fashion lover should ask themselves or ponder about.

Do you change your style around from rocker to boho or do you have a constant consistent chic vibe?

Does mode or eye effect fashion?

If you’re tired will you still wear what you were planning too, or will you have a lazy day?

Do you believe in lazy days- just cuddling up to the good ol’ hoodie and jeans day. Or do you believe every day you should be making a statement.

How do you make a first impression? Do you dress to impress or dress how you feel?

No one ever mentions how makeup effects an outfit.

What is your definition of style or a fashionista?

Confidence really affects the way an outfit looks.

Does it bother you how fashion week is a season ahead of time. Do you wish designers focused on the season we’re in?

OMGITSNOVA.BLOGSPOT.COM @ Vivienne Tam Fashion Show @ New York Fashion Week Spring 2012

I Am An Emotional Creature by Nova

An emotional creature is a girl who isn't afraid to speak her mind.
She's loud and proud of her beliefs.
She's the girl that isn't afraid of feeling her feelings.
She's the energy that triggers this world with positivity.
She's the girl that's offering her opinions and responding back to the debates.
She's the girl that breaks stereotypes and cliches.
She's the girl that says no to sexism and male dominance.
She's the girl whose vibrancy attitude brightens any ones day.
She's the girl that's not scared of raising her hand.
She's the girl that's not intimidated by everyone starring.
She's the girl that takes pride in her booming laugh.
She's the girl that does everything full out.
She's the girl with self-confidence in a dull room.
She's the girl that loves the way the fabric grabs onto her curves.
She's the girl that will prove everyone wrong.
She's the girl that's unavoidable because her vitality doesn't let her stop dreaming of a better world.