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Monday, January 31, 2011
Natalia W and Tim Rueger for P2 S/S 2011 by Mario Schmolka
Natalia W and Tim Rueger for P2 S/S 2011 by Mario Schmolka
Production: Renate Kluss
Set: Robert Schweighofer
Hair/Make Up: Steffen Zoll
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Michael Gstoettner: VERSACE pour homme - fragrance contract 2011 by Mario Testino
Michael Gstoettner: VERSACE pour homme - fragrance contract 2011 by Mario Testino
Friday, January 28, 2011
Who Was Mahatma Gandhi?
Next Sunday - 30th January - we'll celebrate Peace Day. Mahatma Gandhi died that day in 1948.
Biography
Indian nationalist leader. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869 in Poorbandar, Kathiawar, West India. He studied law in London, but in 1893 went to South Africa, where he spent 20 years opposing discriminatory legislation against Indians. As a pioneer of Satyagraha, or resistance through mass non-violent civil disobedience, he became one of the major political and spiritual leaders of his time. Satyagraha remains one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today.
In 1914, Gandhi returned to India, where he supported the Home Rule movement, and became leader of the Indian National Congress, advocating a policy of non-violent non-co-operation to achieve independence. His goal was to help poor farmers and laborers protest oppressive taxation and discrimination. He struggled to alleviate poverty, liberate women and put an end to caste discrimination, with the ultimate objective being self-rule for India.Following his civil disobedience campaign (1919-22), he was jailed for conspiracy (1922-4). In 1930, he led a landmark 320 km/200 mi march to the sea to collect salt in symbolic defiance of the government monopoly. On his release from prison (1931), he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian constitutional reform. In 1946, he negotiated with the Cabinet Mission which recommended the new constitutional structure. After independence (1947), he tried to stop the Hindu-Muslim conflict in Bengal, a policy which led to his assassination in Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu fanatic.
Even after his death, Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and his belief in simple living--making his own clothes, eating a vegetarian diet, and using fasts for self-purification as well as a means of protest--have been a beacon of hope for oppressed and marginalized people throughout the world.
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Gandhi Speech
The Power of One
Be the Change
Be the Change You Want to See in this World
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Anja Rubik & Sasha Knezevic for VOGUE Russia February 2011
Anja Rubik & Sasha Knezevic for VOGUE Russia February 2011
Supermodel Anja Rubik and Austrian Topmodel Sasha Knezevic are the stars on the cover of the recent Vogue Russia shot by Alex Lubomirski.
Kingdom Hearts pushes Monster Hunter off Japanese Top Spot
Gamestation were only selling pre-owned games for the PSP (all at ridiculous "not-much-cheaper-than-new" prices!!) and HMV had a shelf end dedicated to no more than ten titles, all of which were all roughly in the same genre and no real variety.
Skip over to Japan, the reigning country for video gaming, and it couldn't be a more different story, and the fact that a PSP game in the form of Kingdom Hearts, has pushed another PSP game off the top of the Japanese gaming charts shows this quite nicely.
From personal experience, the PSP has the capabilities of offering some really nice games. For evidence just check out Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core or the game this is really about which is Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. So, why don't more companies make games for the console?
The Nintendo DS is of course competition, but gaming is very different between the two consoles. For example, Kingdom Hearts on the DS is always cute, but has terrible gameplay. For me, KH has never quite got the DS right. But, on the PSP, KH games (well game, there's only actually one) look incredible graphically, and there's much more scope for playability.
Nevertheless, I guess there is a little bit of good news, in the fact that sony seem to be really filling the Playstation Network up with tons of old Playstation games to download for the PSP (as well as the PS3), which is really great, because we now have wider access to games like the Final Fantasy series, Grandia, early games in the Persona series and games that weren't released over here.
Unfortunately, there are problems with downloading all the time:
- Buying large enough Memory Sticks gets expensive
- Downloading games isn't necessarily cheap. You have to pay for the game, and some are still close to £20, and then you're eating up your internet too and potentially slowing everything down
- Sometimes you just want to experience a brand new game, and not one that was made over ten years ago (even though it is nice to play them again)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Javier Bardem as Best Actor
The Spanish actor is nominated for his role in 'Biutiful'.
Spanish actor, Javier Bardem, proves he remains a darling of Hollywood with the news that he has been nominated in the Best Actor category for this year’s Oscars. It comes for his role in the Mexican film, ‘Biutiful’ and is his third nomination.
His first was in 2000 for ‘Antes que anochezca’ and then he won the gong in 2007 for his role in the Coen brothers film ‘No Country for Old Men’
The film he stars in this year, from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, is also in the final nominations for Best Film in a Foreign Language, but the Spanish candidate in the category from Iciar Bollaín, ‘También la Lluvia’ has missed out.
The gala takes place on February 27.
Read more: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_28872.shtml#ixzz1CBP9UHoy
Andy Gray: Was Sky Right to Sack him?
Okay, so just a little note that I don't intend to get "political" very often with my blog posts, but since football is a form of entertainment for quite a lot of people, I thought I'd give my thoughts on this whole matter of Andy Gray.
So, did Sky do the right thing by sacking Andy Gray? Personally, yes, I honestly think they did. But, because he was a completely sexist and masoginistic pig? No.
At the end of the day, football is predominantly a man's sport. It is played by men, it is watched by men. Most women, myself included, don't have a clue about it...and nope, I have no idea about the offside rule. I tried learning it once, but I got confused, I'm not afraid to admit that! But then, I've never really needed to know it!
Like most things, you are going to still get people (in this case "women") that you don't expect to, getting involved in the activity, which in this case is of course football. A small group of women play it, some women watch and as we have recently seen, woman have started taking a more active role, which on this occassion was as a Referee.
Perhaps quite rightly, men don't like this. We all know that a lot of men like having things that they can share with their other male friends, that women don't get involved with. It's like make up. Men don't get involved with the female make up rituals, so men like to keep women out of their football rituals too, and I imagine that is most definitely including on the pitch, in the form of a Referee.
And, I guarantee that roughly 80% of the men watching Andy Gray 100% agreed with everything that he said, and you can understand why. In fact, that 80% were probably already saying it themselves.
So, if practically every other football obsessed man in England is agreeing with him, does that make Sky wrong in their choice?
No.
It's not really an issue of what was said, because yeah, I bet a lot of people were saying the same as Andy Gray, but the issue is more down to the fact that he was in a professional position, where he was being paid a very nice wage, and did not act in a professional manner. It's fine to say things in private, but not when you are working, and acting in the public image of the company that you're representing.
That I think is the point. Gray is representing the company that he works for, and in this instance, it was in a very negative way. If they hadn't done something (even if they had just disciplined him), it would have given off the impression that Sky agreed with him, and that would have potentially lost them a fair amount of customers.
Even though this whoel thing was about and during a football programme, Sky offer a much wider variety of sports, that are watched by women, and they couldn't afford to lose that amount of trust.
So, ultimately, is it about company image? Yes, to a degree, it most certainly is. Doctors get sacked for sleeping with their patients, whilst teachers lose their jobs for making porn videos.
In show business, however, we all know that negative press like this doesn't have to be the complete downfall of someone's career. Here are just a few people who have completely fallen from their Pedestal, but have bounced back, potentially even higher:
So, did Sky do the right thing by sacking Andy Gray? Personally, yes, I honestly think they did. But, because he was a completely sexist and masoginistic pig? No.
At the end of the day, football is predominantly a man's sport. It is played by men, it is watched by men. Most women, myself included, don't have a clue about it...and nope, I have no idea about the offside rule. I tried learning it once, but I got confused, I'm not afraid to admit that! But then, I've never really needed to know it!
Like most things, you are going to still get people (in this case "women") that you don't expect to, getting involved in the activity, which in this case is of course football. A small group of women play it, some women watch and as we have recently seen, woman have started taking a more active role, which on this occassion was as a Referee.
Perhaps quite rightly, men don't like this. We all know that a lot of men like having things that they can share with their other male friends, that women don't get involved with. It's like make up. Men don't get involved with the female make up rituals, so men like to keep women out of their football rituals too, and I imagine that is most definitely including on the pitch, in the form of a Referee.
And, I guarantee that roughly 80% of the men watching Andy Gray 100% agreed with everything that he said, and you can understand why. In fact, that 80% were probably already saying it themselves.
So, if practically every other football obsessed man in England is agreeing with him, does that make Sky wrong in their choice?
No.
It's not really an issue of what was said, because yeah, I bet a lot of people were saying the same as Andy Gray, but the issue is more down to the fact that he was in a professional position, where he was being paid a very nice wage, and did not act in a professional manner. It's fine to say things in private, but not when you are working, and acting in the public image of the company that you're representing.
That I think is the point. Gray is representing the company that he works for, and in this instance, it was in a very negative way. If they hadn't done something (even if they had just disciplined him), it would have given off the impression that Sky agreed with him, and that would have potentially lost them a fair amount of customers.
Even though this whoel thing was about and during a football programme, Sky offer a much wider variety of sports, that are watched by women, and they couldn't afford to lose that amount of trust.
So, ultimately, is it about company image? Yes, to a degree, it most certainly is. Doctors get sacked for sleeping with their patients, whilst teachers lose their jobs for making porn videos.
In show business, however, we all know that negative press like this doesn't have to be the complete downfall of someone's career. Here are just a few people who have completely fallen from their Pedestal, but have bounced back, potentially even higher:
- Robert Downey Jnr - Drug Use - Now one of Hollywood's most respected Actors
- Hugh Grant - Prostitue charges - One of Britain's best loved actors
- Cheryl Cole - Punched a girl in night club toilets - Popular X-Factor Judge
- Piers Morgan - Infamously sacked as Editor of the Mirror newspaper - Just replaced Larry King on US television channel CNN!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
From London to Anfield
Just in case you want to visit the Anfield Stadium and support Liverpool F.C.
Here you are a very useful guide
You'll never walk alone (lyrics)
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