these cool moves and the style of the past 100 years.
“Beautiful, almost wistful video. I don’t want to criticise any of the fashions – they made sense at the time. But what the video shows me is just how much change the last 100 years have wrought – I bet a video showing 1811-1911 would hardly be as interesting to watch. I just wish some of the fashions could have hung around a little longer. They’re gone in an eyeblink – literally. Makes you wonder what the next 100 years will bring, and what people 100 years from now will make of this century.”
(And then on September 13 head to London for the grand opening of Westfield Stratford City shopping center, if you’re so inspired.) [via & Via]
Are our children’s childhood experiences being stolen by making them into a miniature adults? This is not something new. We’ve seen old paintings from the Victorian era where children also dress up as a miniature adults. The question is: As a parent, what is our role in this? We can’t always control how or what other people see or say about them. But we can certainly educate our children as to what they can say or see in our homes, all through open communication…
Interesting doc from National Film Board (Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence 0:35:26min), talking about over sexploitation of kids for the sake of consumerism. Tween market is a transition from kid to adult, introducing lip-gloss that the young girls have no need for by adding enticing flavors that appeal to them (cherry, vanilla…)
Would an adult wear this? Iif not, what makes it ok for a kid to wear it?
“Shopping gives meaning to our life? We have replaced religion, and spirituality with the shopping God” Young girls of 5/6 years old see sexy as an image, not sex. One point in the doc, one of group of girls from a workshop realized that most of the images she sees in teen magazines are not much different from that of a porno magazine. Se then gets very upset about how she sees these things as so normalized.
Sexy Inc. Our Children Under Influence
“Sophie Bissonnette’s documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences and bombarding them with sexual and sexist images. Sexy Inc. suggests various ways of countering hypersexualization and the eroticization of childhood and invites us to rally against this worrying phenomenon.”
gold olympic metal 2010 / click on link to see who got what
The Last olympic hockey game were full of drama. Canada had 2/1 goal again the USA.
but with frustration, USA was able to score a goal just 0:00:20+ second ending of the game!!!
Sidney Crosby save the day by scoring the winning goal in the overtime!!!
Sidney Crosby getting the medal
“It’s a dream come true to win a gold medal,” said Crosby, who just eight months ago won his first Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins. “To score in overtime, here in Canada, what’s better than that? I’ve dreamed of that moment a thousand times.” CBC
“CONGRATS to all Canadian athletes for making 2010 Vancouver Olympics the most successful games – 26 medals, 14 golds & many personal victories!!” Christina C. via Facebook
guy with cnd flag on the Street of Toronto
“Dave R. thinks he aged ten years during ten minutes of a hockey game” via Facebook
Olympic medal count
Full list of Canadian athletes who won medals in the 2010 Winter Olympic
Improv In Toronto did it again. 350 people take part in The 3rd Annual No Pants Subway Ride, caught many subway rider of guard, my self included seeing a few people walking around with what look like hot pant, almost pull out my fashion police badge and give them ticket.
But alas. As I turn the conner there are hundred of them with no pant on the platfrom and into the subay.
Here are what some what other people are saying or random conversation over heard.
“Not to be intrusive, but do you two wanna be the cute couple holding hands with your pants off?”
“For too long have we been oppressed by pants! Finally, our day of reckoning has arrived! Our day…of REVOLUTION!”
“Come on, don’t make us feel weird.” (Said to a random guy who walked into the burrito place.)
“Atiev, who’s an aspiring musician and cinematographer, wanted to “up the level” for his next video and do something crazy. So, starting at 9 a.m. on a clear day in April, he and his friend, Djabrail Tataev, armed themselves with two cameras and walked forty-two kilometres from Yonge and Wellington Streets in Aurora to the point where Yonge Street begins at Queens Quay in Toronto—a journey that took them fourteen hours to complete.” Ref: torontoist.com
Just in time for xmas, here for all those fab lady and the wannabe. A tutorial vid below will show you how to be the fabulous that you are. have a look of some of New york notorious fab personality and their persona!
“This music video for Silencefiction’s “Lipstique” is part drag queen makeup tutorial and part drag performance by Fauxnique, Peaches Christ, Kiddie, Vinsantos, Katya Smirnoff-skyy and Hoku Mama. Watch closely for make up techniques and fierce lip synch. Listen to Fauxnique list her favorite lipstick colors to a churning disco groove”
