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Monday, September 29, 2008
Diet Butcher Slim Skin
I fucking love these. Diet Butcher Slim Skin (yea that's the brand name) is droping these hi-top kicks next year. They were available for pre-order, but they're sold out. Of course. Check 'em, they're ill. (and cost about $350)
i dig.
T.I.$.A. Vi$ion makes some hot rings, but this shirt was a pleasant surprise. I dig the hood & love rings. The retail price sucks, but hey, it is what it is.
Check the site for some good stuff
Sunday, September 28, 2008
21-7 Weekly Poll: It ain't trickin if you got it?
Tricking (1)- To spend a large amount of money on a person
Tricking (2)- To sleep with multiple people
Flashback Video: Bitches that run this
East coast v. West coast
Taunusheim Discography
Band: Taunusheim
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Year: 2005
Country: Germany
Track Listing:
1. Sleipnir
2. Getrunken Das Bier
3. Nebelkämpfe
4. Wundenschmiede
5. Taunusheim
6. Followed By The Raven
7. Die Reise Zum Aar
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Band: Taunusheim
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Year: 1998
Country: Germany
Track Listing:
1. Die Schlacht von Stainmore (Intro)
2. Dunkler Wald, Dunkler Weg
3. Das Volk der Treuen
4. Dark Voices Behind The Trees
5. Andelos I den Kamp
6. Fomoyelse (Intro)
7. From The North
8. Day of The Tribe
9. North Star (Intro)
10. Born In The Forests of The North
11. Llmarsj
12. En Stor Land og Likevil Alene (Outro)
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Album Name: I'm A Viking From Norway
Band: Taunusheim
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Year: 1996
Country: Germany
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Vikings, We Are
3. Die Schlacht der Gewinner
4. I'm A Viking From Norway
5. Kampf der Macht
6. Normannen
7. Erik der Wikinger
8. Hendes Sidden Dod
9. Outro
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The Eye Discography
Band: The Eye
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 1997
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. The Eternal Oath of Lie
2. The Land
3. The Call of A Thousand Souls
4. My Supremacy
5. Aidyl
6. The Purest Domination In Wisdom (The Eternal Eye)
7. Your Wickedness... (Bastard Son of Fear)
8. The Eye
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Album Name: Normanniska
Band: The Eye
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 1996
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Your Glory Beyond Our Dead
3. The Purest Domination In Wisdom (The Eternal Eye)
4. An Ancestral Journey In Your Blood
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
how the hell?
Antonio Berardi created some heeless shoes for a brave fashionista last year. Now we see Victoria Beckham rockin' his latest heeless creation, a thigh high boot. I just don't understand how someone could possibly find balance in these and walk gracefully. I need to try 'em on.
Hear & Soul Exhibit
Younity is having their 2nd annual art exhibition, titled Heart & Soul opening on October 17th, 2008 at Alphabeta in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It's open until Nov. 17th and will include the work of 60 international women artists including TOOFLY, Lady Pink, & Swoon.
The opening reception is 8pm-10pm (rsvp)
take the G to Greenpoint ave.
It's gonna be great!
Moonfrost Discography
Album Name: Towards The Twilight Realm
Band: Moonfrost
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2007
Country: Switzerland
Track Listing:
1. Dark Times To Come
2. De Gfaune in Ehr
3. Endless Conquest
4. Twilight Journey
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Womanizer
This is Britney's new single off her next album Circus (set to drop in December).
What yal think?
i could only find a playlist
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
I actually kinda want to see this movie. Meeting your musical soulmate? After becoming their 5minute girlfriend? Fun.
Too bad I'm too broke to go. So this Friday, October 3rd, you guys should go see it and tell me how it goes. I think it'll be surprisingly good. Plus Michael Cera is a super cutie.
Have fun!
As minhas Novidades...
quero em primeiro lugar deixar um beijinho muito grande de amizade e MUITO OBRIGADA para todas as meninas, madrinha, afilhadas, que me enviaram carinhosas mensagens de amizade e preocupação para comigo, por estar tanto tempo sem dizer sequer um olá.
Agora está tudo melhor e com muita vontade de querer voltar rapidamente á normalidade.
Foi muito importante para mim todas as vossas mensagens. a partir de amanhã começarei a colocar as visitinhas em dia.
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Agora quero dar-vos a conhecer um forúm de artesanato, que é uma coisa incrivel.
Muitas de vós já conhecem e até fazem parte. Mas desafio quem não conhece a ir fazer uma visitinha e depois se decidir inscrever-se vai ficar maravilhada.
Fala-se, aprende-se sobre os mais variados tipos de artesanato.
Temos depois tb vários tópicos de assuntos sempre na moda e na ribalta.
Existem passatempos e prémios.
Existem trocas tb, almoços de convivio. Passo a passo das mais variadas técnicas.
Um lugar onde qualquer uma pode aprender novas coisas, só tem que perguntar como é.
Vão espreitar, basta clicar na imagem.
E depois se decidirem inscrever-se, coloquem Coisinhas com Amor no local onde diz referido por:xxxxx
Beijinhos grandes para todas recheados de extremo carinho e amizade.
The Eye vs. The Eye
Last week I watched "The Eye", the 2002 Chinese thriller directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee (aka Lee Sin-Jee) as Mun, a young blind woman who receives a corneal transplant, and discovers that she can see ghosts. I was mesmerized by this film. The suspense was great, the soundtrack was interesting and superbly mixed for maximum dramatic effect, and Lee's acting was convincing and superb (and resulted in her winning several best actress awards in Asia). I was so impressed with this movie that I immediately added the Hollywood remake (2007, starring Jessica Alba) to my Netflix queue.
Having now seen both versions, I feel compelled to compare them. I don't claim to be a cinematic critic, so I'll compare them from the standpoint of an access technologist. I have a long interest in how disability is portrayed in the media, and The Eye is especially interesting since the two versions of the film come from different cultures. People with disabilities, like people from other minority groups, have a long history of being stereotyped and ridiculed in cinema. However, I think both versions of The Eye portray the lead character as a person with dignity, strength, intelligence, and a solid ability to live independently. Both films open with the character striding confidently down a crowded urban sidewalk. In the Chinese version she's using a red umbrella, while in the U.S. version she's using a white cane (she does use a white cane later in the Chinese version, so I'm not entirely clear on the symbolic function of the umbrella, but that's why I'm not a film critic). In both versions the character encounters an accessible crosswalk (in China it's clicking, in the U.S. it's chirping). In the U.S. version she saves the life of an iPod-wearing skateboarder who almost enters the crosswalk into the path of a speeding bus. OK, so maybe that's over the top, but it does show how incredibly capable this blind woman is!
When the character gets home after her pedestrian commute, we see in both versions that her home is well-organized, and that she lives alone and is able to live a fully independent life. In the Chinese version the character's portrayal prior to the corneal transplant is very brief. What I just described is pretty much the extent of it. She changes into her PJ's, climbs into bed, then after the opening credits she wakes up in the hospital following her surgery. In the U.S. version, the pre-surgery character development is a bit longer. She's an accomplished violinist, and spends her days practicing with the orchestra. In the Chinese version, she plays the violin but her skills are comparatively rough, at least in the beginning, and she plays in an all-blind chamber orchestra. Interestingly, she is told after her corneal transplant (despite still having extremely blurry vision) that she will no longer be allowed to perform with the group, since she is no longer disabled. I found this to be interestingly reminiscent of the debate in the U.S. over whether a person with a disability continues to have a disability if their disability is offset by mitigating measures such as medicine (or a corneal transplant). This debate was fueled in the U.S. by multiple Supreme Court decisions that narrowed the definition of disability covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). These decisions were finally overturned this past Thursday when President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act. So, it's interesting that this issue should come up in the Chinese version of the film.
Following the lead character's corneal transplant, the story becomes the thriller it was intended to be, as the character begins to see things that others can't, but since eyesight is new to her it's difficult for her to distinguish the ordinary from the supernatural. There's a minor subtext throughout the film of the character wishing she had not had the surgery, and appreciating how good she had it when she was blind. This is particularly drawn out in the U.S. version, including one dramatic scene in which she puzzles over the complexities of a printed musical score, then ultimately tosses it aside and returns to her Braille score.
There's also a considerable amount of assistive technology in the U.S. version, not true of the Chinese version. The U.S. character has a talking alarm clock, and uses a computer equipped with some sort of highlight-and-read application, like Kurzweil 3000. I didn't recognize the product, and I found it curious that a life-long blind person would be using a product with visual features rather than a screen reader developed specifically for people with no sight. Similarly, I found it curious that she had her speech output set to a very slow speed, even slower than the default setting on most products. Perhaps this is a new product that she acquired post-surgery, and she hasn't yet figured out how to use it effectively. I should check the deleted scenes for more clues.
She also has an Enabling Technologies Juliet Braille embosser, featured prominently in a climactic scene in which she discovers "Cellular Memory" on a Medical Dictionary website. This is actually a curious scene: She's reading the page with highlight and speech, yet typing frantically at the same time, while her Juliet prints pages upon pages of Braille content which accumulate in a large pile on the floor. I guess all this I/O activity was designed to maximize the tension of the scene, and it works for me, but only because I feel like all her technology is freaking out at once, and I can relate to that. As a footnote to this paragraph, the Medical Dictionary website seems visibly to be quite accessible. It mostly contains text, and seems to have good heading structure. I watched this scene closely for signs of alternate text on images, but the director apparently decided to leave this detail for audiences to ponder.
I should also mention accessibility of the medium. The U.S. DVD includes TheatreVision audio description, superbly acted by Danny Mora. I actually watched the U.S. version entirely through a second time with audio description because it brought so much more excitement to the production. The Chinese version, at least the release that I received from Netflix, has English subtitles but no audio description. It does, however, feature opening credits in Braille. Not that this would do blind viewers any good, but it's a cool visual effect.
Final impressions: Both The Eye and The Eye are good, entertaining flicks. It's rare these days for a scary movie to approach scariness without resorting to graphic gore, and I appreciate both versions for accomplishing that. I came away with a slight preference overall for the Chinese version - it's darker, tighter, better acted, better directed, and more believable. However, if it's assistive technology you're after, or if you require or prefer a film with audio description, the U.S. version is the one for you. Both films treat blindness with respect and realism, and I think they both provide a positive portrayal of people with blindness in their respective cultures.
Next up in my Netflix queue: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Ravenbanner Discography
Album Name: ...And The Ravens Sing Our Glorious Past
Band: Ravenbanner
Genre: NS Black Metal
Year: 2008
Country: Greece
Track Listing:
1. Our Swords Cut Deep Into Christian Flesh
2. The Werewolf Has Risen Again
3. The Destiny of Our Path
4. White Power Black Metal
5. Where Blood Writes Our Names
6. ...And Ravens Sing Our Glorious Past
7. For The Might of Heathen Blood Ch. I
8. For The Might of Heathen Blood Ch. II
9. Wolf In Dungeon Ch. I
10. Wolf In Dungeon Ch. II
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Album Name: For The Might of Heathen Blood
Band: Ravenbanner
Genre: NS Black Metal
Year: 2000
Country: Greece
Track Listing:
1. For The Might of Heathen Blood Ch. I
2. For The Might of Heathen Blood Ch. II
3. Wolf In Dungeon Ch. I
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Shemhamphorash Discography
Band: Shemhamphorash
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2003
Country: Spain
Track Listing:
1. Crossing My Hell
2. The Call
3. Bloody Falls
4. Immortal Realm
5. Matrunka
6. Mystical Ceremony
7. Shemhamphorash
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Blut aus Nord Discography
Album Name: Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2009
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Acceptance (Aske)
2. Disciple's Libration (Lost In The Nine Worlds)
3. The Cosmic Echoes of Non-Matter (Immaterial Voices of The Fathers)
4. Translucent Body of Air (Sutta Anapanasati)
5. The Formless Sphere (Beyond The Reason)
6. ...The Meditant (Dialogue With The Stars)
7. The Alcove of Angels (Vipassana)
8. Antithesis of The Flesh (...And Then Arises A New Essence)
9. Elevation
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Album Name: Dissociated Human Junction
Band: Bloodoline/Reverence/Blut aus Nord/Karras
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2007
Country: France
Track Listing:
Bloodoline:
1. Voyage Till Death
2. Scom
3. Kristallkrush
Reverence:
4. Inner Phaze
5. Sextasysm
Blut aus Nord:
6. I
7. II
8. III
Karras:
9. Xenoglossy
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Album Name: Odinist - The Destruction of Reason By Illumination
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2007
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. An Element of Flesh
3. The Sounds of The Universe
4. Odinist
5. A Few Shreds of Thought
6. Ellipsis
7. Mystic Absolu
8. The Cycle of The Cycles
9. Outro
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Album Name: MoRT
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2006
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Chapter I
2. Chapter II
3. Chapter III
4. Chapter IV
5. Chapter V
6. Chapter VI
7. Chapter VII
8. Chapter VIII
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Album Name: Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Industrial
Year: 2005
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Enter (The Transformed God Basement)
2. Level-1 (Nothing Is)
3. Level-2 (Nothing Is Not)
4. Level-3 (Nothing Becomes)
5. Exit (Towards The Asylum)
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Album Name: Decorporation...
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2004
Country: France
Track Listing:
Blut aus Nord:
1. I
2. II
3. III
Reverence:
4. The Flesh's Decadence Nihil Process
5. Nihil Luciferia
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Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2003
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. End
2. The Choir of The Dead
3. Axis
4. The Fall
5. Metamorphosis
6. The Supreme Abstract
7. Our Blessed Frozen Cells
8. Devilish Essence
9. The Howling of God
10. Inner Mental Cage
11. Density
12. Procession of The Dead Clowns
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Album Name: The Mystical Beast of Rebellion
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 2001
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. The Fall: Chapter I
2. The Fall: Chapter II
3. The Fall: Chapter III
4. The Fall: Chapter IV
5. The Fall: Chapter VI
6. The Fall: Chapter VII
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Album Name: Memoria Vetusta I: Father's of The Icy Age
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 1996
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. Slaughterday (The Heathen Blood of Ours)
2. On The Path of Wolf... Towards Dwarfhill
3. Sons of Wisdom, Master of Elements
4. The Forsaken Voices of The Ghostwood's Shadowy Realm
5. The Territory of Witches/Gaurdians of The Dark Lake
6. Day of Revenge (The Impure Blood of Theirs)
7. Fathers of The Icy Age
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Album Name: Ultima Thulée
Band: Blut aus Nord
Genre: Black Metal
Year: 1995
Country: France
Track Listing:
1. The Son of Hoarfrost
2. The Plain of Ida
3. From Hlidskjalf
4. My Prayer Beyond Ginnungagap
5. Till' I Bifrost
6. On The Way To Vigrid
7. Rigsthula
8. The Last Journey Ringhorn
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Friday, September 26, 2008
The Cool Kids: Oscar the Grouch
"Oscar the Grouch" is off Cool Ass Ninjas (2008)
Listen to full version here
Life is a maze.
remember when i showed you Lenka performing at DCB? Well here's the video premiere for her single The Show!
Yay!
Presidential Debate # 1
TUNE IN!!!!!
House of Harlow 1960
Nicole Richie's jewelry line is finally set to drop in November. Unfortunately it'll only be sold in store at Kitson in Cali, but we'll be able to cop the goods at shopkitson.com. The line is made in partnership with Mouawad Jewelry and was inspired by Nicole's favorite eras, the 60s & 70s. House of Harlow 1960 will include cocktail rings, cuffs, and headpieces. The prices will range from $30-$150. perfect!
Here Nicole wears a huge House of Harlow ring for InStyle magazine. It's gold plated with leather (inspired by African jewelry).
Jump to see another picture of the style icon with her jewelry collection. She's beautiful.
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MR.BOOBER
THE DOERNBECHER FOUNDATION AND NIKE LINKED UP TO MAKE SNEAKERHEADS AND KIDS THAT NEED HELP, HAPPY. A LUCKY LIL MOFUCKA NAMED TONY TAYLOR JR. GOT A CHANCE TO DESIGN HIS OWN PAIR OF SNEAKERS BEING THAT HE'S BATTLING NEPHROTIC SYNDROME AND WAS ALSO HELPED OUY BY THE DOERNBECHER HOSPITAL IN PORTLAND. JUST SO HAPPENS, THE YOUNG KID SEEN HIS DOCTOR WITH A NICE PAIR OF SNEAKERS ON AND COMMENTED ON HOW NICE THEY WERE, SHE THEN FILLED HIM IN ON ALL THE INFO ABOUT HER SNEAKERS AND TONY, BEING A SNEAKERHEAD, THEN MADE HISTORY.
THE DESIGN OF THE SNEAKERS IS SO DOPE. ON THE TOUNGE OF THE SNEAKER IS A CARTOON VERSION OF THE KID AND HIS NICKNAME "MR.BOOBER". ALONG WITH A TAG THAT HAS THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE HE CONSIDERS HIS ANGELS. I WILL DEFINTELY BE GOIN DOWN TO NIKETOWN TO COP THESE WHEN THEY COME OUT. A PORTION OF THE MONEY FROM THESE SNEAKERS WILL BENEFIT THE FOUNDATION
RELEASE DATE NOVEMBER 14
PRICE $125
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SEEN OVER AT SOLECOLLECTOR.COM
MAN I SWEAR EVERYTHING WANTS ME
TIGER WOODS SIGN ALL OF THE LEFT SHOES BECUASE HE DONATES ALOT OF MONEY TO THIS FOUNDATION
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Luella
Luella Bartley is my kindred spirit. I fall in love with all her collections. It's like she designs for the girl in me.
This is her Spring 2009 collection. It's signature Luella with her full dresses, added with asymmetrical silhouettes, florals, tiers, frills, and lace. The color palette was spring perfection, with pinks, lavendars, oranges, and greens. She added tweed jackets, straight-leg pants, blazers, stripes, and ruffles galore.
Luella told us; "I wanted it to be a proper, ladylike character—but a bit psychedelic." She finished her funky-lady off with bow hairpieces, net veils, cutesy gloves, pearls, and bags to match. Her shoes were the most adorable endings, pretty princess t-straps & heart-toe ankle straps.
Jump to fall in love.
These are my favs...see the whole happiness at Style.com