Topics I Want To Write About (Or: 365 Blogpost Ideas)
Yet another picture from Alexa Chung's Insta... I can't remember a life before or after...
One for every day!
While the countdown for a New Year has begun, here are some blogpost ideas for the new year...
365 BLOGPOST IDEAS
- A blog manifesto
- Let the inspiration inside you guide you
- The Incomplete History of Fashion
- Fashion and museums (or: Why museums can('t) do fashion right)
- The 'art' of fashion
- The 'art' of knitting
- The 'art' of us
- (strong) OPINIONS (being 'called out' for having strong opinions. Whatever that means)
- Vintage. Just vintage. Anything vintage. Or old. Old is fine too.
- Vintage Mondays
- Vintage shopping in Amsterdam (or, like, any other city) (or, like, not vintage but, like, your groceries or something. I don't know)
- Vive le vintage!
- Something cultural, old school, personal: how art (in whatever way) can make you '(re)discover' yourself (but not as cliché as that sounds)
- Vinyl
- The benefits of unity
- Mental Health (not sure about this one, find it important that it's being talked about but I find the whole subject scary to directly, consciously, discuss)
- A victim of the brain
- 'I'm not lost, just undiscovered'
- Sustainability in fashion. In life.
- Being 90% vegan (or: how it is ok to not be perfect, to make mistakes, because you try your best and the best is all you can give)
- Declaring my love to Vivienne Westwood
- Declaring my love to my mum (or someone else 'special' to me, you, whatever)
- Winning is for losers
- Wish you were here (not)
- I'm tired of castles in the air (or: 'don't just dream in your sleep it's just lazy')
- Le Voyage Dans La Lune (how flying to the moon can fix all your problems)
- Rainy day outfits
- 'I'd read your future but it's written in the past'
- The meaning of colours (or: colours talking)
- One month, one colour, EVERYTHING (or: one blogpost, one colour, EVERYTHING)
- Think pink. Think yellow. Think blue. Think green.
- Summer of colour/black and white of winter
- 'I keep wishing tomorrow was yesterday'
- Everyone is everyone else
- In the world of rock and roll a bad hair day is a good hair day (or: look out you rock 'n' rollers)
- Grey days (or: the colour of truth is grey)
- The truth of it
- You don't know what you're thinking
- I really don't know clouds at all
- Lost thoughts
- You're boring now (but boring is best)
- 'You've got the wrong lipstick on, mister'
- From outer space, to you
- Zine. I want to make a zine that's pretty and clever.
- Book. I want to write a book that's pretty and clever.
- A shortstory about a painting (or a monster)
- These are a few of my favourite things
- A journey of understanding
- Comfort is key
- "(...) stability is always a product of decay: the present has no fixed existence." (from: Museums as spaces of the present, p. 352)
- A documentary approach to the present (see above)
- Landscape of the present
- The world became a stage; "As contemporary society has become more theatricalized, so have its presentations." (Greer Crawley in Museum Making, p. 13)
- Trying to understand yourself through things
- Take your guess
- Telling stories is telling lies
- An aesthetic experience
- The imagined world of the exhibition
- A kiss to build a dream on (or: alone for the lonely)
- Dreams are for fools
- Are you a good kid?
- Sketchbooks (because they're cool)
- Create a comic (because they're cool)
- Murder through words
- A story in space
- Floating through the air, the weight of a feather crushing on my existence
- A post in the style of the My 1980s essay by Wayne Koestenbaum (although a bit more boring)
- What if I'm scared for what's coming next?
- What do I want?
- Catch the day
- In the middle of my mind
- Feeling a weird attachment to stuff you own but are sort of worthless (although what's worth anyway)
- The benefits of knitting
- DIY Drama (or: D-I-whY?)
- All hail the power of fabric!
- Wool is cool
- Only for the lonely
- A creepy tale
- Every Day Feels Like a Monday
- Girls with short hair/boys with long hair/hair
- Tell me your name and I pretend that I don't know you
- Someday you'll be sorry
- Love is enough
- I read books in nightclubs
- 'We can't be lovers and we can't be friends'
- FBI's most unwanted
- Mug shots
- A good example of a bad idea
- Reflecting reflections
- 'A coat borrowed from James Dean'
- Mais pourquoi? (or: a story on confidence)
- Maybe I've got no idea what I'm doing
- In search of meaning
- Bad thoughts: the making of
- Dress-up doll
- Appetite for solitude/value of solitude
- Feminism
- Victorian dolls and their owners (or: the literal embodiment of femininity and gender roles)
- The tea party
- Par-TEA time
- A wild tea party (or: The tiger who came to tea and other silly stories)
- A little twist of the knife
- 'Well I must be crazy if I follow every word you say'
- Buttons
- A little stitching
- 'We are stars fashioned in flesh and bones'
- You're the bee's knees
- Neck ties
- Sunglasses
- Don't wait
- The way we are
- Sometimes it's good to take some risks (or: Approach with caution)
- Still standing
- Remember when
- Vive le comfort
- I'll send you love notes
- Green with envy
- A winner at auction
- Darkness on the edge of town (or: how bad thoughts can ruin your day)
- I remember yesterday
- As ugly as I seem
- I am idling, I have idled, I will idle
- Feels like home
- Space to think
- 'Great' outdoors
- Best bite (or: put your teeth in it)
- Hidden treasure, guilty pleasure
- I have no reason to run
- A list of things that inspire me
- What if that what you're wearing -at this very moment- is a work of art. What if your daily wardrobe is part of an art performance. 'I' am a performer and my clothes, the way I combine and wear them, are an expression of this. 'I' am what I wear and 'I' am an artist.
- Stuffed up
- Friendsick
- Sometimes my brain does this funny thing, "thinking" I believe it's called, and it makes me "think" about stuff. Normal stuff. Weird stuff. Stuff stuff. It just takes a spark within that tiny box one may call a head, and this -with some casual research I must confess- will be the outcome...
- The fabric of moonbeams
- Pushing my luck
- 'Honey, we can't afford looking this cheap' (or: working with a budget)
- Last kind words
- Five Friday Faves
- Three Tuesday Tunes
- Cultural appropiation
- Who made these rules?
- If I could, then I would
- If you smell smoke, you're already on fire
- For the love of stuff
- Wear one piece of clothing five different ways for a Monday-Friday post
- Imaginary clothes I wish I owned (badly drawn by me)
- 'Nothing sacred, but it's a living'
- A bunch of lies
- 'I'm conteemplating thinking about thinking'
- Loved drowned eyes
- 'You'll have to find someone else to be in your company'
- Kill your darlings
- Let them knit
- Babes in wool
- Knitting into the history
- Kn-IT-ting
- Sweater curse
- Passion for fashion
- Brainwashed.
- Bright old things
- I think I've figured you out
- A tad more mod
- Picture perfect
- Poor me
- Tell me your dreams and I'll tell you what they mean
- A visual love letter
- Dear: No One, This Is Not A Love Letter
- Platonic love
- Glamboy
- Cultural complex
- Non-verbal communication
- In memory of my feelings
- What's in your imaginary bag? Mine is filled with regret and nerves, but deep down, at the bottom of the bag, there are lost thoughts and happy memories.
- Escaping from myself (identity)
- Books & Berets
- You hadn't me at hello
- Little big mistakes
- An illustrated wishlist
- Things to do when you're bored (or: 10 random things)
- Reasons to be happy: you can always make, write or do something new
- He's my kind of girl
- She's my kind of boy
- What makes you feel good?
- How easy it is to be egoistic
- "You buy history for what it represents" said by Charles Hanson (on Bargain Hunt)
- Between memory and history (or: Lieux de mémoire, "We speak so much of history because there's so little left" (...) "There are lieux de mémoire, sites of memory, because there are no longer milieux de mémoire, real environments of memory.")
- (Hyper) Reality
- Entertaining small dogs (or: the small dog inside your head)
- What your tummy tries to tell you
- 'Don't underestimate the things that I will do'
- On being culturally uncultured (or: I don't know anything)
- Fake it till you make it, scream it till you believe it
- How to art
- So modern it's old-fashioned
- Maybe I should send this email... (and other thoughts to keep yourself entertained, living on the edge)
- More disco than yesterday
- A touch of disco
- Just not feeling it
- Everything's a mess, but that's OK.
- Eat to the beat
- If I had my own fashion label...
- Dogs rock
- Fashion talks
- Why the 80s are perfect for my butt (or: My 1980s)
- My love for pinafore dresses and aprons...
- On language and numbers (how 'we' say four-forty instead of forty-four, but also how 101 stays the same. Emphasis changes, a sign of what's more important in 'our' culture or just annoying?)
- Relax! (or: 7 ways in 7 days to calm down, wind down and to relax, taking it easy...)
- She falls asleep (or: My tips and tricks to try to fall asleep when the mind keeps spinning around in unendless circles of doubt, hate, fear and loathing)
- Products User (or: a visual impression of the objects I use on a daily basis)
- Who am I (or: a fashionable philosophical exploration of 'self')
- Writing a script for a potential movie/stage performance
- Wrap Up for Winter
- Slide through Summer
- Imitation (in fashion, in life, in mind)
- Make a moodboard (every month, every day, ever second of your life)
- A compilation
- (e)Quality
- Sometimes things just aren't working out (and sometimes that hasn't have to be ok)
- See me in the gallery
- To do lists
- Things to do when you're ill
- Things to wear when it's cold outside (or: don't leave the house. ever.)
- ... things to do in an hour
- .... things to do before 2017/2018/20whatever
- Things to do when you're bored
- Things to do before the weekend
- Things to do when you've got no other things to do (or when you do have other things to do that you don't want to do so you lie to yourself that you've got nothing to do. Sounds familiar?)
- Sing-a-long songs
- From cover to cover
- This road is long
- Brainfreeze
- Brainfart
- Last minute
- Coats
- Dark matter
- Mind over matter
- Mystery matter
- Hidden meanings
- How girls have fun
- Wild Child (crying at night)
- She just don't care
- According to fashionbloggers... (or: Ridiculousness - a fantasy driven madness)
- Literally?
- Almost
- Too much, too little, never (good) enough
- Help me face the world (and other minor problems)
- Cyclical thoughts
- Assemble thy self
- Everyone at once
- Hardly managing anything
- Time consuming
- Little knowing
- Big nose, small eyes
- Fighting For Peace & Disco
- &Others
- The Fear
- The content you're getting of me is purely recreated
- Sunday Funday
- Hi, My name is Dominique. I can't sing. I can't dance. But I’m marvelous at reblogging stuff on Tumblr (if I may say so myself).
- About There
- The Other Day
- Leftover vintage
- Full of Charm and Character
- Wasting Time
- Ugh.
- Interacting
- Don't sing a clear melody
- The uninteresting aspects of life
- Things I say to my dog
- It's just another day
- It wasn't that long ago
- Help, I'm stuck in the past
- Don't you remember?
- #buzzword
- There's something in the way you move
- Still thinking about it
- A million reasons
- Bad poetry
- Much loved
- Growing old
- Love affair
- What to do?
- Nice Things
- Scary tales, Magical ways
- Outfit Challenge
- Books to read
- Words to write
- Thank Goodness! (Or: A list of what you're thankful for)
- Disheartened
- Relevant/relevance/Relevating
- Become Brilliant
- The entertainer
- Where the heaven are we?
- My Dog Is Cute (and other facts)
- Consistency is key
- Saying forever too fast
- My Heart is Like a Boat Sailing Out For You
- My Breathe is in the Wind Whispering I Love You
- [INSERT TITLE HERE]
- Let's Bring Back Ghosts
- Sense-making
- Writing my worries away
- Silliness is the holiday's best selling point
- The Lucky Loser Show
- 'You dance secretly inside my heart, where no one else can see'
- 'I won't dance for anyone, but I would dance for you' (or: I would die for you)
- I Don't Dance, I Boogie
- 'I love you.' Do you have evidence to support your statement?
- I Love Having Imaginary Social Gatherings With My Imaginary Anti Social Friends
- Join the club! (please don't)
- Forever alone
- Mad Love
- Don't Be The Bunny
- Conscious of Consciousness
- Like a Spider Spins Its Web
- Bag To School
- There's no reason for a reason
- That ain't no way to have fun
- Once a day
- Be anything or nothing (or, like you know, in between)
- Are you in or out? (or like, you know, in between)
- A postcard from...
- Greetings
- Fear no mess
- A lack of colour
- A bit of blush
- The turning of the leaves
- Desk tour (or: a good excuse to clean up the mess I've created, the piles I've made, the life I've wasted)
- A party without a cake is just a meeting
- Taking it downtown
- No such thing as the news
- The essence, what's the essence?
- Fast talkers
- 'Makeup is a creation, fashion is expression and art is the purest form of emotion.' (from fashion nymphomaniac)
- I don't care at this hour
- No hugs! Get away from me.
- My revenge will be artistic, not personal
- Found Narratives
- Do You Speak
- Disconnection
- You are the sweetest ache in my chest
- The magic of beginnings
- Motel Money Murder Madness
- Get Your Ducks On A Row
- The Bad Baby Boy (or: Forever Young)
- Dream the world awake
- An empty body (or: Nobody's Country)
- A new body for everybody
- What a fool I used to be
- This sudden fear is strange
- Talk to the moon & other self-help tips
- Reflections of a butterfly
- This Teenage Heart
- The Longest Time
- Thoughts of an over-thinker
- I am what I am (& you can't change me)
- Something embarrassing
- Almost there
- This list is too long
- This list is too short
- Thinking of thoughts
- For you
- From me
- Currently out of order (or: please excuse our appearance, we're inbetween looks)
- Wayne Koestenbaum essay on Andy Warhol: "Warhol's affect is poised between happiness and sadness, between a speedy emptiness and a lethargic fullness. We can't pinpoint his mood, and we may, sympathetically, wish to ask: Is Andy okay?" (P. 238).
Did you make your way through the list? Till the bitter end? Well, if you did, I take my hat/head off to you sir/madam/alien/dog/whatever! If you've still got some suggestions of your own: try. me. out. I'm all ears (or eyes) (or, like, nose) (well no, that would be stupid. I apologise. No noses will be listening or reading your comments, I promise). Anyway, I thought it to be fun that -when I use one of these ideas- that I'll link the blogpost in this list. So it becomes a 'working list'. Something I 'work my way through'. Something I can reference throughout my blogging career ('career'). What do you think? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Love,
Dominique
5 comments
I THINK. that you. are. so. quirkily philosophical. AND I BLIMMIN' LOVE IT. All of these post ideas are so unique to you. My favorite is, 'this list is too short'. Now that is a great idea for a blog post ;). Personally, I identify as Mongolian, and a gold fish, and I am rather offended that you did not include that within your list of genders. You must be racist against goldfish. On the other hand, I only listen with my nose, so I find it quite strange that you, in fact, do not listen with your nose. But I guess not everyone can be as perfect as I am. Wow, that was fun. Thanks Dominique!
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It only seems right to reply to this comment in list-form...
Delete1. I'm glad you agree that 'this list is too short' is one of my finest moments. It indeed reflects my philosophy in life. In love. In blog.
2. GOLD FISH *angrily puts fist in the air* Gold fish are nothing but liars! I mean, where's the gold? They've betrayed me from the moment I looked one of them in the eye and asked 'Are you really made out of gold?' and that distatasteful creature looked back at me, casually winked and said 'Blub'. From that day on I knew I could never trust a gold fish again. As you also identify as a Mongolian I will tolerate you, but please, leave the fishtail at home.
3. I was a nose-listener once, but then I got a cold. Never truly recovered from that... *snorts* *sad face* *snorts again*
Thank you for this comment it really made my day. It's something to keep me going while I'm trying to workout a projectcontract for an internship, which just makes you want to sigh (or sign hahahaha. no.) away your life. Not the actual internship is sigh-full, but setting up that contract is. Deeply. *deep sigh*
Well, at least there is a contract to be signed. And your comments always make me laugh. So you are racist against gold fish. hmph. racist. To you I say this: blub.
DeleteOh my god this is incredibly inspiring! I really want to get back on the blogging bandwagon this year, I should definitely do something like this!
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Thank you! Although I would recommend making a smaller list because after all this I sat back, looked at my screen and thought 'now what?'. A bit too excessive, I think. But certainly bringing all your ideas together is a 'cleansing' experience. ;)
DeleteLove,
Dominique