I live in Chocolate City, Work for NPR, am currently working on an MA in Interior Design, Love my roommate, friends and Kitteh, "Bits." Day to day I find more and more beauty lurking in the oddest spots. Rouge My Knees is an accumulation of notes on what I find whets my curiosity for all things toxic and pretty.
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Parents Were Awesome… Before They Were Parents
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November 18, 2009, 07:32
Filed under: photography
Filed under: photography
NPR’s The Picture Show is always a great source of fun photo-related content.
The most recent, a highlight on Eliot Glazer’s Tumblr My Parents Were Awesome.
You can submit photos of your own Momma and Pappa Bears.
Here’s one of my mom and dad I found digging around
…taken shortly before they married
at the New Mexico State Fair. Handsome couple, eh? Loving both of their hairstyles.
It’s so funny to see how fashionable and hip these parents were.
You can see more on Eliot’s Tumblr…some of my faves:
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I’ve always asked myself, how can being a parent change people so much? Why do I feel my parents were normal people who transformed in a way to forget everything they were once they become parents?
Comment by thelocalguide November 18, 2009 @ 10:52OMG! I LOVE your blog. These pics are so fun to look at. I may have to submit my own of mom and dad.
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Comment by Pretty Project November 18, 2009 @ 11:14Oh, this is great – I’m gonna look thru my photos tonight! Thanks for sharing.. North Coast Muse @ http://sally1029.wordpress.com
Comment by SallyK November 18, 2009 @ 12:20When I look back my parents I see that my mom was tres chic,but my dad has always had that farmer’s tan. I love him anyway!
Comment by Frances Bean November 18, 2009 @ 12:50Oh man- it’s hilarious checking out my parents old pictures….. there was one with my dad in a pair of white bell bottoms with zippers that went all the way up the sides of the legs- and my mom gave me a tmi story of why she liked those pants…..gross lol.
Comment by Kristi November 18, 2009 @ 13:16Love the blog. Extremely fun to peruse!
Comment by Jacob Frommer November 18, 2009 @ 14:07I love your blog!!!! it’s got this really nice vintage look – love love love it!!! keep it up
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Comment by Tasha November 18, 2009 @ 14:34This is such a great idea for a site. I always thought my parents were fashionable and I was always proud to introduce them to others. They instilled in me that there is a time for work and a time for play. They were very supportive and I’ve got some good memories of us having fun together.
Comment by lifelessons4u November 18, 2009 @ 14:50Girl, I LOVE your blog!! You have managed to attain your own sense of self, which is rare on this earth. Keep it, cherish it, and don’t ever let anyone tell you who you are.
Comment by Mandie November 18, 2009 @ 15:45PS-I should send you a picture of me before I had kids. I was ROCKIN!! LOL
Thank you all so much for such kind words! Thanks for visiting my blog too! It’s so fun to be able to share with you! xoxoxo – marina
Comment by rougemyknees November 18, 2009 @ 17:30just love your blog, i had spend more than 1 hour checking out all the post. nice one!
Comment by jessantander November 18, 2009 @ 19:25check out mine.
Very good and thought provoking. Like some of your other readers, I’ll have to have a delve into the parental picture archives too. I suspect I’ll find a lot of Aran jumpers.
Comment by blackwatertown November 18, 2009 @ 22:38I love these photos!!! Isn’t it amazing to think these people became Parents with a capital P? The young pictures really humanize them. Thank you for posting. I am going to check out the rest of your blog — I like your sensibility!
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Comment by Diana Rico November 18, 2009 @ 22:44http://www.wordARTist.net
I love the top photo. there is so much subtext there. It reminds me a an old photo of Richard Brautigan (great author). Think it was the cover of Pill vs Springhill Mine Disaster.
anyhow, great work. Am doing some more reading and digging around your site. Hope you don’t mind.
Lono
Comment by Lono November 18, 2009 @ 23:44Parker, CO
hi really lovely snaps
Comment by Amit November 19, 2009 @ 00:55i really wish i could find some snaps of my parents but let it be …..
Thank you all so much for such kind words! Thanks for visiting my blog too! It’s so fun to be able to share with you!
Comment by rougemyknees November 19, 2009 @ 03:09No sideburns, no fun! Amusing post.
Comment by guitarra pirata! November 19, 2009 @ 06:15That first couple are hilarious… they must be posing like that for a laugh?
Comment by Stephanie Farrell November 19, 2009 @ 10:06Cool! I like how in the 70s, 80s, all of us thought we had to match! Same colors, patterns, like above!
Comment by Anthony Carr November 19, 2009 @ 10:11wow! nice photos! funny a bit but really nice!
Comment by warlock6 November 19, 2009 @ 10:12yes, parents change much after they become parents… strange, but it is the fact. so, what does it mean? not to become a parent? this is not a variant… so?
Great photos. Unfortunately, I don’t have photos like that of my parents, but I enjoyed the ones you posted here. When I get more time, I’ll have a look at the rest of your blog.
Comment by Pie November 24, 2009 @ 19:28