Lust For Life: Skye

Skye is a rather fabulous, pink-haired treat of sweet, sweet dee-lish-ness…

We first discovered her poetry-like diary entries on Myspace, then we saw her photo journals and then we fell head-over-pink Converses in love with her mini-movies. Basically, she’s a totes creative girl who we’re diggin’.

A lot.

Describe Skye in five words…

I

AM

SKYE

4

EVER

What do you do exactly, Skye?

I WAKE
I THINK
I WORRY

I CRY

I BATHE

I DRESS

I COFFEE

I LEAVE

I BIKE

I SIT

I WORK

I BREAK

I READ

MORE WORK

I STAND

I RETURN

I BREATHE
then

I PLAY

I SING

I DANCE

I DREAM

I LAUGH

I SKIP

I JUMP

I HOP

I HOPE

I WRITE

I CALL

I LISTEN

I HUG

I TRY.

We HEART creative girls mostest - you are a creative girl and we deffo heart you, tell us all about your fabulous website - what is it, what’s on it, why do you do it?!

Let’s see…

there are three!

Each one is different

But they are all the same.

There are

PICTURES

that tell stories

of all the weeeeirdthings

that happen to me.

There are

VIDEOS

of me

when I’m lonely

when I’m confused

when I need a friend

or a cat

when I’m just

trying to figure stuff out.

There is

MY DIARY (shh! it’s a secret!)

Sometimes there is

a SONG

or

a THING I find.

And most of all…

there is YOU.

You write to me

and I

A L W A Y S

write back.

Why?

Why.

WHY!

hm…

You know

I’m afraid

to ask

a centipede

WHY

it walks

because

I worry

it might fall over.

We LOVE your website and we HEART your blog, A LOT. What made you start writing it and what do you love about the blogging process?

My diary

is

what’s in my head.

Where do you put

what’s in your head?

In the closet?

Out the window?

Down the drain?

Up the chimney?

Under the rug?

On a shelf

Above the hands

With the other fragile things?

No.

Even when they’re (hidden)

from you

They always

find

their way

back.

So I put them

where they can be seen

because

maybe

they’re not for

only me.

What’s the feedback to your posts like?

Friends of Skye

are soooooooooooooo

GENEROUS

with their words

with their humor

with their vulnerability

with their sincerity (hooray for sincerity!)

with their feelings

with their lives

with their EVERYTHING!

Can I pleeeez

say

thank you?

THANK YOU!

Your movies rock too - why do you create them and when did you know you were a creative-girl with oodles of talent?

Oh no!

More why’s

without any wise!

Sometimes

you

are all you

have.

Sometimes

a mirror

is not enough.

Sometimes

talking to air

is not enough.

Sometimes

the cat

is not enough.

Sometimes

you need

to reflect

who you are

where you’re at

just that moment.

I make a movie

because

the mirror

isn’t enough

when

I am

all I have.

As for number two

that’s you too!

ALL girls (everybody reallllly)

are creative

with ooooodles of

talent.

Creative is

thinking

talking

walking

problem solving

fixing

feeling

NOT JUST

movie

book

painting

sculpture

dance

music

theater.

Those are just

things

AND

things

are not

LIVING.

Creative

comes from

simply

BEING.

Talent is

doing “it”

over and

over and

over and

over and

over

and

over

and

over

again.

Do that

and what people call

“talent”

happens.

You have pink hair, Lola has pink hair - high five! What are your tips for dyeing your hair pink and maintaining it?

Is my hair dying?!?

Wait.

What?

Oh.

Whoops!

Phew!

I was worried for a sec.

My hair came pink.

It’s the only hair I got.

To maintain your hair

Read it a good book every month.

Take it to the ballet.

See a foreign movie in a cinema.

Keep up on world events.

Go on a bike ride together (hair loves the wind like that).

Eat something different occasionally.

And drink plenty of water.

Okay, so you’re good at advice too, right? Well it looks to us that your life is sweet-as-sugar - how do we create a sweet life?

If

SWEET

is

tripping

and

catching yourself

over

and over

again,

because

that’s what

my life

is like

all day

long,

then

to create

a sweet life

you only need to

be

here

now

the best

you can

and

catch yourself

when you fall.

Oh but

Sweet is

only nice

when

there is more

than

sweetness.

Who are your inspir-o girls Skye?

Cindy (Sherman)

Kathleen (Hanna)

Emma (Goldman)

Simone (DeBeauvoir)

Yoko Ono

What makes you jump-in-the-air happy?

I looooove that question!

Because

I

LOVE

TO

JUMP!

Jump!

jump jump!

Jumpety-jump jump jump!

Jumpety-jump jumpety- jump jumpety- jump jump jump!

jumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpjumpety-jumpjumpjumpjump

breath

jumpjumpjump breath jumpjump breath jump breath jump

breath breath jump breath breath breath jump

breath breath

breath

sit.

I’m tired!

Happy is good

breath

but I think

breath

you can’t be jumping all the time.

And that’s

breath breath

just fine.

What’s a typical day in the life of Skye?

Today

I bit

into a honeycomb

which

I don’t know

if you’re supposed to do

because

all day

I tried to get the wax

out of my teeth

and

I’ll probably try

again

because

I think

maaaaybe

I just didn’t do it right.

Quick fire round - what’s your favourite…

Colour: Brown

Hang out: The bakery up the street (yummy!)

Magazine: Bitch

Music: All Girl Summer Fun Band

Movie: Daisies

Book: A People’s History of the United States

Us UK girls LOVE the Americano - can you take us on a tour of the place you live please? Would we like it? What’s the best place to pick up a bargain? Tell us all Skye!

Where I live

is a city

but

not the kind of city

like

Manhattan

Chicago

Los Angeles

where you can say

So and so

ate there

wrote there

slept there

or

that building

that landmark

that restaurant

that museum

is important.

I like those cities

A LOT.

But my city

has culture

RIGHT NOW

and

everybody

contributes

all the time.

If you don’t like it,

you make

your own.

you

DO IT YOURSELF.

And

what could be better

than

inventing

your own city?

And I call that a bargain

at any price.

What’s next in the life of Skye?!

my life

is an act

of uncertainty.

every morning

i wake i think i worry

and all that jazz

and ask myself

that very question.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

I’m glad

at least

my towels

my letters

my maps

unfold

more easily

than

my life.
Visit skye: www.thisisskyeswebsite.com

www.myspace.com/hugskye4ever

www.youtube.com/TheSkyeProject