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Lady Gaga’s recovers from hip surgery in golden wheelchair

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:43:53 +0000

Classy.

Lady Gaga’s Gold Wheelchair: All the Details

Pop star recovering from surgery on 24-karat throne

By Lauren Musacchio | March 13, 2013 | rollingstone

Trust Lady Gaga to turn injury into spectacle. After canceling the rest of her Born This Way Ball Tour and going into surgery for an inflammatory joint infection called synovitis, she is currently confined to a wheelchair – but, per usual, the chair is an elaborate one covered in 24-karat gold.

According to the Daily Beast, the chair was commissioned by Gaga’s stylist to jewelry designer Ken Borochov. Borochov, of the label Mordekai, completed the throne with only a week’s notice and worked with manufacturers across the country on each costly component. “It was a huge undertaking,” Borochov said. “It was made all over the United States. My assistant had to run around everywhere.”

The chair is plated with 1.5 ounces of gold, an approximate $2,600 value. It’s a functional chair but not state-of-the-art – Gaga will have to power herself manually in it – with a tufted leather seat that was inspired by leather jackets. It also has a removable canopy to keep Lady Gaga guarded from the sun. The singer has not been seen in public with the chair except at a Terry Richardson photo shoot.

The Mordekai jewelry line was launched two years ago by the 30-year-old Borochov and has received attention from Gaga, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj. Borochov has not met Lady Gaga yet but says he hopes to “when the time is right.”

Victoria’s Secret “consent” web site too good to be true

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:12:18 +0000

When I was sent a link to the fake site I fell for it and thought it was the best things since sliced bread. A wonderful fresh change for venerable VS? Nope. Dream on. But the site is still up and maybe, maybe pretty panties that say “ask first” will be sold soon.

Image from http://pinklovesconsent.com/pink/pink.victoriassecret.com/about_pink_nation.html

This Is What A Victoria’s Secret Sabotage Looks Like

Dec. 4, 2012 | http://www.businessinsider.com

Monday at noon, journalists and Victoria’s Secret social media fans were told that the lingerie line was promoting a new campaign: the “consent revolution” that ”promotes consent to fight rape in new panties.”

A new website featuring women with various body types (as opposed to the highly photoshopped norm) called Pink Loves Consent explained how although previous thongs read “No Peeking” and “Sure Thing,” new ones would say “No Means No” and “Ask First.”

After doing some digging, Jezebel’s Katie Baker found out that the new campaign to increase rape culture awareness was, unsurprisingly, a hoax. Although the woman posing as Molly Reagan, ”Media Relations with Victoria’s Secret’s new PINK loves CONSENT line” assured baker that this was legit, Victoria’s Secret owner Limited Brands said that it was not, in fact, an official campaign.

“My only complaint is that you can’t actually buy anything off the site, because now I kind of want some underwear that says “respect” on the crotch,” Baker wrote.

Soviet Army finally drops cloth foot wraps for socks

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:43:49 +0000

This is an amazing example of how old habits die hard. Boy do these look like a pain to put on. Makes you wonder what’s next. Toothpaste instead of wood ash?

Soviet era instructions for putting in foot-cloths. Image WikiCommons

Agence France-Presse Young soldiers learned how to wear portyanki in 2007. Image — Getty Images, http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com

Russian soldiers to trade foot wraps for socks

Jan. 15, 2013, 8:30 a.m. | http://www.kyivpost.com

MOSCOW — A Russian official says it’s time for the nation’s soldiers to switch from foot wraps to socks.

Since the late 17th century, Russian soldiers have been using wraps, rectangular strips of cloth that are carefully wrapped around their bare feet to prevent blisters from tall heavy boots with no laces.

But Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who took the post two months ago, said he was surprised to learn that some soldiers are still using the wraps, called “portyanki” in Russian, and told them to use socks instead.

At a televised meeting with military officers Monday, he said, “In 2013, or at least by the end of 2013, we must forget the word portyanki.”

Czar Peter the Great adopted the custom from the Dutch army in the late 17th century.

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admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:38:50 +0000

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Design snafu creates WHORE magazine

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:21:51 +0000

Actually it is WHERE magazine but unfortunate layout choices have changed the name of the magazine. Could this be one of those things designers do to display displeasure with unkind clients?

Blunder: Designers of Where have obscured part of the first ‘E’ in the title lettering with the head of its cover model. The result is that one might assume the name of the magazine is ‘Whore’, instead

Blundering Where Magazine designers accidentally brand cover model ‘Whore’ by covering part of the first ‘E’ with her head

By Tamara Abraham | www.dailymail.co.uk | 3 September 2012

A magazine has sparked ridicule due to the unfortunate layout of some of its cover images.

Designers of Where, a tourist guide published in cities across the U.S. and around the world, have obscured part of the first ‘E’ in the title lettering with the head of its cover model.

The result is that one might assume the name of the magazine is ‘Whore’, rather than ‘Where’.

The reader could also be mislead into thinking that the cover model is not a wholesome, tourist-friendly figure, but something else entirely.

The error appears on the cover of two editions of the magazine; the new fall 2012 Orange County issue, and the January 2012 Milan issue.

The Phoenix & Scottsdale September 2012 edition narrowly avoided making the same mistake, obscuring a different part of the letter ‘E’ – one side, rather than the lower half.

Designers of the Chicago edition made the wisest choice though, laying the words over the model, rather than the other way around.

The blunder was first noticed by Buzzfeed and AdWeek. The latter pointed out that the Orange County issue cover has not been published on its page on the Where Magazine website, unlike the pages of its sister editions which proudly display the latest issue.

MSN commented: ‘It’s rather unfortunate that whoever did “last looks” down at the publisher’s didn’t have a dirty enough mind to notice how crucial that first “e” was to the cover.’

Bitterwallet added: ‘If you had a magazine called ‘Where’, you might want to be a little more careful about where you place your cover star or else you may end up sending out a very different message altogether.

Mechanics who don’t wear pants

admin — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:31:15 +0000

When I first saw this headline I wrongly assumed these mechanics worked naked like this guy. I was wrong. They are just wearing kilts.

NewsOn6.com – Tulsa, OK – News, Weather, Video and Sports – KOTV.com |

Proud: Mr O’Brien says as long as he keeps his knees down and feet crossed when sliding under cars, everyone stays ‘happy and safe’

Don’t bend too far! Mr O’Brien has been wearing the kilts during the summer months from May to October for four years and often runs errands around town wearing it.

It’s So Hot, I saw a Mechanic Wearing a Kilt

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 | www.ktsm.com

TULSA – No it’s not a bad joke, The blistering summer temperatures have many thinking of ways to beat the heat.

In the past, when you’ve taken your car to the shop for a tune or repair, you were greeted by a common stereotype. Greasy hands, thick boots and a long sleeved/pant work garment known as a one piece. The heat these mechanics work in have forced many to rethink the typical uniform because garages and auto bays often don’t have air conditioning and the engines usually put off their own heat.

Mechanics working under the hood in Tulsa, OK have found a cooler solution. They are wearing Scottish Kilts. Yes, those manly plaid skirts that are often the punch line to a joke. The hot conditions these guys work in is no joke though, and many have sworn off pants until the winter months. You don’t have to be from the Isles to wear one of these things, you just need to be ready for some relief and be mindful, (insert joke here), of hot leather seats.

It is official all modern pop music sounds the same

admin — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:03:35 +0000

I do not dispute these findings but I do wonder who would pay for such a study and why? I think one of the biggest reasons modern pop music sounds the same is that is IS the same. Not long ago Ke$ha, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga all had hits in the charts that were produced by the same producer and really did sound the similar to one another.

Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official

Chris Wickham | www.reuters.com | Thu, Jul 26 2012

LONDON (Reuters) – Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.

Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.

A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.

“We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse,” Serra told Reuters. “In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations – roughly speaking chords plus melodies – has consistently diminished in the last 50 years.”

They also found the so-called timbre palette has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on, say, a piano and a guitar is said to have a different timbre, so the researchers found modern pop has a more limited variety of sounds.

Intrinsic loudness is the volume baked into a song when it is recorded, which can make it sound louder than others even at the same volume setting on an amplifier.

The music industry has long been accused of ramping up the volume at which songs are recorded in a ‘loudness war’ but Serra says this is the first time it has been properly measured using a large database.

The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, offers a handy recipe for musicians in a creative drought.

Old tunes re-recorded with increased loudness, simpler chord progressions and different instruments could sound new and fashionable. The Rolling Stones in their 50th anniversary year should take note.