The environment friendly clothing is produced of material like bamboo, hemp, organic cotton, organic wool etc. hemp clothing, bamboo clothing and organic cotton clothing is increasingly becoming the first choice of material both for men clothing and women clothing. People who are trying to live a healthy and natural lifestyle are the ones opting for environment friendly clothing. By making a choice and wearing clothes made out of organic material we are also saving the planet and environment surrounding us. Environment friendly clothing is also available in variety of designs and style that suit the need of both men's clothing and women's clothing.
By opting to wear clothes made up of organic material you are keeping all the harmful chemicals like urea, halogens, bromines, formaldehyde etc away from touching your body. So by wearing hemp clothing, bamboo clothing and organic cotton clothing, you are just allowing only natural fabric to come close to your skin. As chemicals are used to grow non-organic material clothes made up of that material might cause some cause of allergies or skin cancer. Hemp clothes, bamboo clothes and organic cotton clothes are ideal for toddlers. Hemp clothes are made up of fiber that is made up of ultimately light weight. It is a very strong and absorbent material. This kind of organic clothing helps in giving us relief from the ultra violet rays. They are also mold resistant.
All these qualities make them a perfect choice to wear outdoors. Not only is this organic material made up of such excellent fiber that makes it so easy for them to be blended with other kind of clothing material to make different kinds of garments for men, women and children. There are any hardly any growth requirements for producing these eco- friendly organic clothing. Hence it's less expensive and cost friendly for farmers as well as for end consumers. Not only this it also requires less water for cultivation. Suppose if a child is wearing clothes made up of non- organic material and wets it then the harmful toxic chemicals may enter their skin through the process of osmosis. So it is advisable to buy clothes made up of organic material. Apart from being good for our skin clothes made up of organic material are very durable and lasts long. Not only clothes but all kinds of stuff like towels, handkerchief, bed sheet, bedspread etc can be made out of organic material.
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2015年1月25日星期日
This is what my clothing shopaholic addiction was about
When we get a compliment or an admiring stare on the way we look, we feel great. And here is another truth about our addiction: we all have a "female appraiser". A "female appraiser" is the female in our life that we always imagine envying us and complimenting us when we try on new clothes. She is the one we always wear new outfits in front of to get appraisal and compliments about how we look. She is the one who notices every new pair of shoes, every new piece of jewelry, whether our hair looks particularly healthy and attractive that day, and every new item of clothing we are wearing to the minutest degree. She dissects us physically; she is our lifeblood to feeling we exist; by noticing us, envying us and complimenting us; she makes us feel alive.
And we are her female appraiser as well. We notice every new item she wears and we comment about how good she looks as well. We often envy her appearance and new outfits. Our relationship is the mutual symbiotic feeding of our ego envy. Usually our female appraiser is our female mother, sister, friend or coworker who we subconsciously compete and look to get approval from about our appearance. We always try to upstage her in appearance and make her feel envious of us; we always think about whether what we buy will make her envy how we look before we buy it and when she sees a new outfit on us and we feel her envy (of course the ultimate high is when she asks us where we bought it) we have our ultimate addictive fix. We even watch how many people notice us more than her when the two of us walk together in public, to know that we are getting more attention than she is. Yes, it's an "envy/dislike/need of approval dynamic" we have with our female appraiser (or multiple female appraisers) on a complicated physical and emotional level.
When I was a clothing shopaholic, I lived for clothes, they were my life passion. I still love clothes. But I am less in need of the power they give me to be noticed, admired, and envied. The need to shop for clothes and imagine wearing them and getting compliments from women when I wear them has taken less of a hold on me. But there was a time when shopping for clothes was an essential part of my daily life because I lived for the attention and praise those new outfits gave me. I would fantasize as I tried them on in the store and imagine being envied by my female appraiser when I wore them. And once I bought them, wearing them always made me feel special and alive when I got that attention, envy and praise from my "female appraiser". I always needed to wear something new to be noticed and that is why the money was spent; to continually have new clothes to wear so I would continually get compliments and be noticed. When I wore that outfit a second time, it wasn't new anymore and no compliments were given because they'd already been given when I wore it the first time. So that outfit did not serve its purpose any more for my addiction unless I wore it in front of a different female appraiser who never saw it before (sometimes I had 3 or more female appraisers in my life). On the days I wore an outfit that I received no attention about, I actually felt invisible and depressed. Sometimes just thinking about another new outfit I would wear the next day and how good I'd look and how envied I'd be was all I thought about on those depressing days. It was the only thing that kept me going; imaging that outfit in my closet and the power it would give me to be noticed and complimented.. I'd fantasize about the shoes I'd wear with the outfit and how I'd match my eye shadow to it and the admiration I'd be getting. Because I always knew exactly what to buy and wear that would make my female appraiser envious and wish she had my clothes and got the attention I was geting. And what a euphoric high that would give me; even thinking about that happening.
Clothing shopaholics have an odd addiction because when you take away the women you feel competitive with, the addiction loses its hold on you. That's because the addiction is about fantasizing about being envied for how you look in clothes. But take away the female appraiser, and you don't have the envy and you lose the need to fantasize or shop for clothes. Of course, eliminating female appraisers in your life isn't easy. As long as you have a mother or work in a corporate office, or have a female sibling you see, you will have a woman in your life assessing your appearance. Even when babysitting my friend's 10 year old daughter, she assessed my appearance by informing me my pants didn't match my top; "the colors were off" she told me. And here I thought I was free of that kind of appraisal from children and could just "throw on sweats and any old top." After all, why care what a 10 year old girl thinks about how I look when I'm babysitting her? But yes, her comment did bother me, although I stood my ground and refused to change my clothes. Needless to say, she is a budding clothing shopaholic in the making.
Here are some more truths about this secret clothing shopaholic life: I would go into my favorite clothes stores every day to return clothes (which I loved to do because it gave me an excuse to shop again) and always walk out buying something else, usually something I knew I would probably return. Walking into a store filled with clothes and breathing in the smell of new clothes gave me a euphoric high. Trying some new outfit on and imaging my female appraiser noticing it and complimenting me on it and asking me where I bought it; just imaging that happening as I tried on the clothes in a store gave me an adrenaline rush. This is what my clothing shopaholic addiction was about. Most women who are clothing shopaholics are clueless about what the core of their addiction is about. They think it's about an addictive need to spend money, but it really isn't about that. Yes, you do need to spend money to buy new clothes to feed your "attention fix", because without buying something new, you don't wear something new; and without wearing something new, you don't get your "fix". And you have to go to a store to try on something so you can experience the fantasy in your head of getting the attention, which is the first stage of the addiction.
So this is why spending money becomes a problem. And mistakenly becomes what everyone thinks the addiction is about: the inability to stop the urge to spend money on clothes. But teaching someone to resist spending money does not curb or cure the addiction. The only way to curb or "cure" it is to remove the need for a "female appraiser" in your life. But that is another article for another time. The money spent by clothing shopaholics becomes the casualty of the addiction, but it is not the addictive need to spend money that causes the addiction. I would venture to say that alcoholics get an addictive fix sitting in a bar and breathing in the smell of alcohol and seeing other men who are alcoholics around them. Yes, the need to drink alcohol plays a role in the alcoholic's addiction, but so does the need to be in the environment. It's the same with clothes shopping addicts, we need to be around clothes, smell the smells, and try on clothes. It is a comforting experience that calms our nerves and gives us an inner peace. But, why? It has taken me a very long time to understand my addiction to buying clothes; why I shop for clothes and why I need the attention, flattery and criticism about my appearance. I realize it all started when I was a child growing up in my mother's clothing shopaholic world. So let me share my childhood story with you:
I was born a beautiful little girl full of life and love. I received a tremendous amount of attention from my grandparents, father, aunts and cousins. It seemed as if everyone wanted to be with me, hold me, walk with me and give me endless praise about how cute I was. Well, almost everyone. My mother envied the praise and attention I received. She found it difficult to praise me or give me physical affection. She rarely stayed in the same room with me unless she had to tend to me needs. This went by unnoticed by others, because my mother did interact with me on the surface; she picked me up; fed me; dressed me; bathed me; she did all those "interactive" things a mother has to do to raise her daughter. But there was one very important thing she did not do and that was to LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY.
She never hugged or kissed me, she never told me how much she loved me, and she never expressed true appreciation of anything about me to me. Yes, she told others what she appreciated about me, but she could never say those words to me. My mother was unable to give me the emotional connection of unconditional love because she did not feel good about herself as a person. She envied me for the attention and love I received. She envied me for having so many qualities she felt she didn't have, because her own mother raised her with the same kind or resentment and envy. She found it very difficult to be in the same room with me, or to have a picture taken with me, especially when I got attention, just as her mother had found it difficult to do the those things with her.
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And we are her female appraiser as well. We notice every new item she wears and we comment about how good she looks as well. We often envy her appearance and new outfits. Our relationship is the mutual symbiotic feeding of our ego envy. Usually our female appraiser is our female mother, sister, friend or coworker who we subconsciously compete and look to get approval from about our appearance. We always try to upstage her in appearance and make her feel envious of us; we always think about whether what we buy will make her envy how we look before we buy it and when she sees a new outfit on us and we feel her envy (of course the ultimate high is when she asks us where we bought it) we have our ultimate addictive fix. We even watch how many people notice us more than her when the two of us walk together in public, to know that we are getting more attention than she is. Yes, it's an "envy/dislike/need of approval dynamic" we have with our female appraiser (or multiple female appraisers) on a complicated physical and emotional level.
When I was a clothing shopaholic, I lived for clothes, they were my life passion. I still love clothes. But I am less in need of the power they give me to be noticed, admired, and envied. The need to shop for clothes and imagine wearing them and getting compliments from women when I wear them has taken less of a hold on me. But there was a time when shopping for clothes was an essential part of my daily life because I lived for the attention and praise those new outfits gave me. I would fantasize as I tried them on in the store and imagine being envied by my female appraiser when I wore them. And once I bought them, wearing them always made me feel special and alive when I got that attention, envy and praise from my "female appraiser". I always needed to wear something new to be noticed and that is why the money was spent; to continually have new clothes to wear so I would continually get compliments and be noticed. When I wore that outfit a second time, it wasn't new anymore and no compliments were given because they'd already been given when I wore it the first time. So that outfit did not serve its purpose any more for my addiction unless I wore it in front of a different female appraiser who never saw it before (sometimes I had 3 or more female appraisers in my life). On the days I wore an outfit that I received no attention about, I actually felt invisible and depressed. Sometimes just thinking about another new outfit I would wear the next day and how good I'd look and how envied I'd be was all I thought about on those depressing days. It was the only thing that kept me going; imaging that outfit in my closet and the power it would give me to be noticed and complimented.. I'd fantasize about the shoes I'd wear with the outfit and how I'd match my eye shadow to it and the admiration I'd be getting. Because I always knew exactly what to buy and wear that would make my female appraiser envious and wish she had my clothes and got the attention I was geting. And what a euphoric high that would give me; even thinking about that happening.
Clothing shopaholics have an odd addiction because when you take away the women you feel competitive with, the addiction loses its hold on you. That's because the addiction is about fantasizing about being envied for how you look in clothes. But take away the female appraiser, and you don't have the envy and you lose the need to fantasize or shop for clothes. Of course, eliminating female appraisers in your life isn't easy. As long as you have a mother or work in a corporate office, or have a female sibling you see, you will have a woman in your life assessing your appearance. Even when babysitting my friend's 10 year old daughter, she assessed my appearance by informing me my pants didn't match my top; "the colors were off" she told me. And here I thought I was free of that kind of appraisal from children and could just "throw on sweats and any old top." After all, why care what a 10 year old girl thinks about how I look when I'm babysitting her? But yes, her comment did bother me, although I stood my ground and refused to change my clothes. Needless to say, she is a budding clothing shopaholic in the making.
Here are some more truths about this secret clothing shopaholic life: I would go into my favorite clothes stores every day to return clothes (which I loved to do because it gave me an excuse to shop again) and always walk out buying something else, usually something I knew I would probably return. Walking into a store filled with clothes and breathing in the smell of new clothes gave me a euphoric high. Trying some new outfit on and imaging my female appraiser noticing it and complimenting me on it and asking me where I bought it; just imaging that happening as I tried on the clothes in a store gave me an adrenaline rush. This is what my clothing shopaholic addiction was about. Most women who are clothing shopaholics are clueless about what the core of their addiction is about. They think it's about an addictive need to spend money, but it really isn't about that. Yes, you do need to spend money to buy new clothes to feed your "attention fix", because without buying something new, you don't wear something new; and without wearing something new, you don't get your "fix". And you have to go to a store to try on something so you can experience the fantasy in your head of getting the attention, which is the first stage of the addiction.
So this is why spending money becomes a problem. And mistakenly becomes what everyone thinks the addiction is about: the inability to stop the urge to spend money on clothes. But teaching someone to resist spending money does not curb or cure the addiction. The only way to curb or "cure" it is to remove the need for a "female appraiser" in your life. But that is another article for another time. The money spent by clothing shopaholics becomes the casualty of the addiction, but it is not the addictive need to spend money that causes the addiction. I would venture to say that alcoholics get an addictive fix sitting in a bar and breathing in the smell of alcohol and seeing other men who are alcoholics around them. Yes, the need to drink alcohol plays a role in the alcoholic's addiction, but so does the need to be in the environment. It's the same with clothes shopping addicts, we need to be around clothes, smell the smells, and try on clothes. It is a comforting experience that calms our nerves and gives us an inner peace. But, why? It has taken me a very long time to understand my addiction to buying clothes; why I shop for clothes and why I need the attention, flattery and criticism about my appearance. I realize it all started when I was a child growing up in my mother's clothing shopaholic world. So let me share my childhood story with you:
I was born a beautiful little girl full of life and love. I received a tremendous amount of attention from my grandparents, father, aunts and cousins. It seemed as if everyone wanted to be with me, hold me, walk with me and give me endless praise about how cute I was. Well, almost everyone. My mother envied the praise and attention I received. She found it difficult to praise me or give me physical affection. She rarely stayed in the same room with me unless she had to tend to me needs. This went by unnoticed by others, because my mother did interact with me on the surface; she picked me up; fed me; dressed me; bathed me; she did all those "interactive" things a mother has to do to raise her daughter. But there was one very important thing she did not do and that was to LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY.
She never hugged or kissed me, she never told me how much she loved me, and she never expressed true appreciation of anything about me to me. Yes, she told others what she appreciated about me, but she could never say those words to me. My mother was unable to give me the emotional connection of unconditional love because she did not feel good about herself as a person. She envied me for the attention and love I received. She envied me for having so many qualities she felt she didn't have, because her own mother raised her with the same kind or resentment and envy. She found it very difficult to be in the same room with me, or to have a picture taken with me, especially when I got attention, just as her mother had found it difficult to do the those things with her.
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clothing designs and international and national rules and regulations
The clothing industry is a major manufacturing sector of Hong Kong. Its gross output is one of the highest among all manufacturing sectors, amounting to HK$35.9 billion in 2003. It is the largest manufacturing employer in Hong Kong, with 1,673 establishments hiring 28,752 workers as of June 2005. It is also the leading earner in terms of domestic exports, taking up 40% of the total in the first 11 months of 2005.
Hong Kong's geographic boundary has never constrained the development of the forward-looking clothing industry. The majority of clothing manufacturers have set up offshore production facilities in an attempt to reduce operation costs. Relocation of production facilities offshore has however resulted in a steady decline in the number of clothing manufacturers in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is not only a leading production centre but also a hub for clothing sourcing globally. Companies doing garment trade in Hong Kong are experienced in fabrics procurement, sales and marketing, quality control, logistic arrangements, clothing designs and international and national rules and regulations. The professionalism that they command and the combined services offered are not easily matched elsewhere. With a total of 15,190 establishments hiring 95,889 workers, they form the largest group involved in import-export trade in Hong Kong.
Performance of Hong Kong's Exports of Clothing
Hong Kong's total exports of clothing rose year-on-year by 9% in the first 11 months of 2005. While Hong Kong's re-exports of clothing rose by 20%, domestic exports fell by 14%. The contrasting performance of Hong Kong's re-exports and domestic exports was basically ascribed to the increasing relocation of garment manufacturing to the Chinese mainland, resulting from the removal of quotas under WTO's Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). But the declining trend of domestic exports has been reversed somewhat in recent months, due to the re-imposition of quantitative restraints on mainland-made textiles and clothing by the US and EU.
Retail sales in the US held firm in the first 11 months of 2005, rising by nearly 6% from the same period in the previous year. In the first 11 months of 2005, Hong Kong's clothing exports to the US rose year-on-year by 11%.
In the first 11 months of 2005, Hong Kong's total clothing exports to the EU surged year-on-year by 18%. Clothing exports to major EU markets like France, Germany and Italy recorded growth rates in excess of 20%.
On the other hand, Hong Kong's clothing exports to Japan levelled off in the first 11 months of 2005 partly due to the trend of direct shipment. On the back of the rising income however, Japanese consumers tend to resume their spending spree on premium clothing items. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's clothing exports to the Chinese mainland dropped by 11% in the first 11 months of 2005, compared with the same period last year.
Product-wise, Hong Kong's exports of woven wear rose by 12% in the first 11 months of 2005. While woven wear for women/girls grew by 13%, those for men/boys recorded a growth of 8% from the same period in the previous year. Knitted wear grew by 2%, with women/girls and men/boys rising by 1% and 6% respectively. While clothing accessories declined by 3%, other apparel articles, for their part, increased by 13%.
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Hong Kong's geographic boundary has never constrained the development of the forward-looking clothing industry. The majority of clothing manufacturers have set up offshore production facilities in an attempt to reduce operation costs. Relocation of production facilities offshore has however resulted in a steady decline in the number of clothing manufacturers in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is not only a leading production centre but also a hub for clothing sourcing globally. Companies doing garment trade in Hong Kong are experienced in fabrics procurement, sales and marketing, quality control, logistic arrangements, clothing designs and international and national rules and regulations. The professionalism that they command and the combined services offered are not easily matched elsewhere. With a total of 15,190 establishments hiring 95,889 workers, they form the largest group involved in import-export trade in Hong Kong.
Performance of Hong Kong's Exports of Clothing
Hong Kong's total exports of clothing rose year-on-year by 9% in the first 11 months of 2005. While Hong Kong's re-exports of clothing rose by 20%, domestic exports fell by 14%. The contrasting performance of Hong Kong's re-exports and domestic exports was basically ascribed to the increasing relocation of garment manufacturing to the Chinese mainland, resulting from the removal of quotas under WTO's Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). But the declining trend of domestic exports has been reversed somewhat in recent months, due to the re-imposition of quantitative restraints on mainland-made textiles and clothing by the US and EU.
Retail sales in the US held firm in the first 11 months of 2005, rising by nearly 6% from the same period in the previous year. In the first 11 months of 2005, Hong Kong's clothing exports to the US rose year-on-year by 11%.
In the first 11 months of 2005, Hong Kong's total clothing exports to the EU surged year-on-year by 18%. Clothing exports to major EU markets like France, Germany and Italy recorded growth rates in excess of 20%.
On the other hand, Hong Kong's clothing exports to Japan levelled off in the first 11 months of 2005 partly due to the trend of direct shipment. On the back of the rising income however, Japanese consumers tend to resume their spending spree on premium clothing items. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's clothing exports to the Chinese mainland dropped by 11% in the first 11 months of 2005, compared with the same period last year.
Product-wise, Hong Kong's exports of woven wear rose by 12% in the first 11 months of 2005. While woven wear for women/girls grew by 13%, those for men/boys recorded a growth of 8% from the same period in the previous year. Knitted wear grew by 2%, with women/girls and men/boys rising by 1% and 6% respectively. While clothing accessories declined by 3%, other apparel articles, for their part, increased by 13%.
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2015年1月23日星期五
How a queer black filmmaker made virtual reality a reality at Sundance
When Shari Frilot first kicked off New Frontier, an exhibit that
pushes the boundaries of traditional storytelling through art and
technology, at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2007, the attending
press didn't quite know what to make of it or the works on display.
"People came and they had no idea what we were doing, but they thought it was really cool," says Frilot of that inaugural exhibit. "And people were calling it 'art at Sundance.' So we had to fight that in the press. We're decidedly not doing an art show."
New Frontier may not be an art show housed within the grander show that is Sundance in Park City, Utah, but it certainly welcomes the convergence of that world with those of technology and cinema. The exhibit, now in its ninth year, even attracts the participation of bold-faced names. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and James Franco are just two examples of the high-profile Hollywood talent Frilot, the exhibit's curator, says have sought out New Frontier as a venue for their work. "[2010] was a big corner turn where we started to see major players in the film world looking to New Frontier for opportunities. That was a big shift. It brought the profile that they bring to it," she says.
This year, although Hollywood is once again paying attention and participating in New Frontier (see: Fox Searchlight's Wild - the Experience with Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern), it's not the star attraction. Virtual reality is. Eleven cinematic works, which run the gamut from the immersive journalism of Nonny de la Peña's Project Syria to the sensory simulation of bird flight in Birdly to the point-of-view and gender shifts of Perspective, will all be on display and freely open to the public. And all will feature a VR twist.
Inside the New Frontier exhibit in 2009.
"This year's show is the beginning stages," says Frilot. "We're going
to see the very beginning engagement of storytellers from all different
walks of life -- from media-science labs to straight-up filmmakers to
journalists to performance artists [to] installation artists. You'll see
nine different approaches to telling the story with [VR]. It just
really speaks to what may really lie in the future for this."
You can thank the rise of YouTube and the likes of artists Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) and the works they were producing in the early 2000s for inspiring Frilot to create New Frontier. "We started to see a lot of film coming out of the art world into Sundance that was just ready for the close-up," she says. "That's where New Frontier came from. These two important things were happening that were so relevant to the festival ... this major advance in moving-image culture on the internet and what was happening in the art world."
Shari Frilot poses with Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Frilot eventually moved on from Mix to Outfest, where she created
Platinum, a festival section dedicated to highlighting experimental
work. And then within that came a "racy" multimedia performance art
subsection called Platinum Oasis in 2000. It was then that Sundance Film
Festival Director John Cooper, whom she'd worked with at Outfest,
tasked her with creating something similarly inventive in Park City.
"Cooper was like, 'How can we bring Platinum to Sundance?'" Frilot says
of New Frontier's beginnings.
"I was also very convinced that if we bring [together] these three siloed areas [film, tech and art], then something larger than the sum of its parts would come out of it. VR culminates that dream," Frilot says of this year's lineup.
Of New Frontier's early involvement with Oculus, Frilot explains, "My relationship with Oculus is from the cradle. Palmer was an intern when he was at New Frontier. There was no Oculus. It was just what Nonny was doing and this incredibly talented teenager and what he had made. And it was me tracking an artist that had been at a festival. I had no idea two years later it would be a billion-dollar company. I really didn't know that. I just believed in the technology."
Nonny de la Peña demos her virtual reality project at New Frontier in 2012.
You could call it an extremely providential case of "right place,
right time," but Frilot insists that it's merely a product of New
Frontier's pioneering spirit. That's the nature of her show and her
accidental curation. "It's more of a subjective process," she explains.
"It's different from art curation for a museum. [It] doesn't start with a
show that I'd like to put together. I come up with a curatorial
statement ... after I see the body, after I get down to the shortlist."
Given Frilot's organic approach to curating New Frontier and its progressive foundation, it's understandable that she's hesitant to describe the exhibit as a showcase for virtual reality. Even Frilot's curatorial statement for this year's show skirts around that particular wording, opting instead to emphasize "the new forms of immersive media." Still, VR is undeniably the main thrust of the exhibit, a fact best evidenced by Google's participation in giving away 8,000 units of Cardboard.
Cardboard, Google's DIY approach to virtual reality.
"It really makes VR super accessible and DIY. And I love the DIY
aspect of it," Frilot says of her decision to give away Cardboard. "It's
really in line with Sundance and a lot of filmmakers and how they make
their films. ... I'm interested in other classes being able to touch
this stuff."
For all its accessibility, Frilot's aware Google's VR tech can still be somewhat intimidating to the uninitiated, which is why New Frontier will be holding daily workshops to get folks acquainted with it. And in the evenings, Google plans to host happy hour workshops where attendees can gather to learn how to assemble and use Cardboard, as well as engage in conversations about their VR experiences. That's Frilot's hope, anyway.
"As an exhibitor," she says, "I feel responsible to find ways to present this VR, which can be very isolating, in a social way; in a way that then encourages people to come out of the goggles and talk to each other. New Frontier has always been about that."
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"People came and they had no idea what we were doing, but they thought it was really cool," says Frilot of that inaugural exhibit. "And people were calling it 'art at Sundance.' So we had to fight that in the press. We're decidedly not doing an art show."
New Frontier may not be an art show housed within the grander show that is Sundance in Park City, Utah, but it certainly welcomes the convergence of that world with those of technology and cinema. The exhibit, now in its ninth year, even attracts the participation of bold-faced names. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and James Franco are just two examples of the high-profile Hollywood talent Frilot, the exhibit's curator, says have sought out New Frontier as a venue for their work. "[2010] was a big corner turn where we started to see major players in the film world looking to New Frontier for opportunities. That was a big shift. It brought the profile that they bring to it," she says.
This year, although Hollywood is once again paying attention and participating in New Frontier (see: Fox Searchlight's Wild - the Experience with Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern), it's not the star attraction. Virtual reality is. Eleven cinematic works, which run the gamut from the immersive journalism of Nonny de la Peña's Project Syria to the sensory simulation of bird flight in Birdly to the point-of-view and gender shifts of Perspective, will all be on display and freely open to the public. And all will feature a VR twist.
You can thank the rise of YouTube and the likes of artists Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) and Matthew Barney (The Cremaster Cycle) and the works they were producing in the early 2000s for inspiring Frilot to create New Frontier. "We started to see a lot of film coming out of the art world into Sundance that was just ready for the close-up," she says. "That's where New Frontier came from. These two important things were happening that were so relevant to the festival ... this major advance in moving-image culture on the internet and what was happening in the art world."
"People were calling it 'art at Sundance.' So we had to fight that in the press. We're decidedly not doing an art show."Beyond seizing upon the zeitgeist, Frilot's background as a filmmaker and, in particular, the frustration she experienced when making the festival rounds with her first film also contributed to the genesis of New Frontier. Seeking to break her work out of the "black gay section" where it would inevitably wind up and foster a larger conversation around it, Frilot decided to organize a festival of her own called Mix. And it was there that she began to experiment with the inclusion of technology in festival work. In 1994, Frilot held Mix's first digital showcase, which featured CD-ROM works. "It is a direct line from that work to what I'm doing at New Frontier," she says.
"I was also very convinced that if we bring [together] these three siloed areas [film, tech and art], then something larger than the sum of its parts would come out of it. VR culminates that dream," Frilot says of this year's lineup.
"My relationship with Oculus is from the cradle. Palmer was an intern when he was at New Frontier. There was no Oculus."New Frontier is also somewhat of an incubator for new technologies. Just three years ago, in fact, a plucky, teenaged Sundance intern teamed up with a journalist (de la Peña) to tell her stories using prototype equipment. That intern was none other than Palmer Luckey -- founder of Oculus, the billion-dollar virtual reality startup acquired by Facebook last year.
Of New Frontier's early involvement with Oculus, Frilot explains, "My relationship with Oculus is from the cradle. Palmer was an intern when he was at New Frontier. There was no Oculus. It was just what Nonny was doing and this incredibly talented teenager and what he had made. And it was me tracking an artist that had been at a festival. I had no idea two years later it would be a billion-dollar company. I really didn't know that. I just believed in the technology."
"I feel responsible to find ways to present this VR which can be very isolating a social way; in a way that then encourages people to come out of the goggles and talk to each other."What's more, submissions to exhibit at New Frontier work differently from the open-call process of the greater Sundance Film Festival. "It is more of a solicitation process," she says. Frilot actively researches and networks at different events and festivals, and then requests works from artists she's interested in. And, occasionally, those artists may even gain entry into Sundance's New Frontier creative workshop or "Story Lab," as was the case for this year's 1979 Revolution, a documentary-cum-videogame about the Iranian Revolution created by former Rockstar developers.
Given Frilot's organic approach to curating New Frontier and its progressive foundation, it's understandable that she's hesitant to describe the exhibit as a showcase for virtual reality. Even Frilot's curatorial statement for this year's show skirts around that particular wording, opting instead to emphasize "the new forms of immersive media." Still, VR is undeniably the main thrust of the exhibit, a fact best evidenced by Google's participation in giving away 8,000 units of Cardboard.
For all its accessibility, Frilot's aware Google's VR tech can still be somewhat intimidating to the uninitiated, which is why New Frontier will be holding daily workshops to get folks acquainted with it. And in the evenings, Google plans to host happy hour workshops where attendees can gather to learn how to assemble and use Cardboard, as well as engage in conversations about their VR experiences. That's Frilot's hope, anyway.
"As an exhibitor," she says, "I feel responsible to find ways to present this VR, which can be very isolating, in a social way; in a way that then encourages people to come out of the goggles and talk to each other. New Frontier has always been about that."
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'X-Men' casts 'Game of Thrones' star Sophie Turner
Director Bryan Singer announced on Twitter Thursday that the latest installment in the X-Men movies, X-Men: Apocalypse, has cast young actors in three familiar roles, including a familiar face from HBO's Game of Thrones.
Shipp appeared as the titular character in the recent Lifetime movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, and Sheridan has appeared in several films including The Tree of Life and Mud. Fans are especially excited about Turner, who is best known for her role as Sansa Star on Thrones. The actress tweeted a very excited reaction shortly after Singer made the announcement.
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2014年9月25日星期四
The Fappening part 2 -- More naked celebrity photos leaked
Three weeks ago hundreds of nude celebrity photos were leaked onto the internet. Dubbed The Fappening, the collection included pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Kaley Cuoco, with the majority of the personal images apparently obtained from hacked iCloud accounts.
It’s not clear yet where the new photos have come from -- if they’re part of the original leak, or a new one -- but the images appeared briefly on 4chan and Reddit before being swiftly deleted. However, as you know, once something has appeared on the internet it can never be fully removed, and the new photos are freely available on other sites across the web.
The new set reportedly includes photos of Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, Leelee Sobieski, Aubrey Plaza, Amber Heard, and US soccer star Hope Solo, along with new shots of Jennifer Lawrence and Hayden Panettiere -- both victims of the original leak.
Kim Kardashian appears topless under open tuxedo jacket as daring dress fails to contain her famous assets
If there's one way that Kim Kardashian can command an audience, it's with her enviable curves.
The
brunette beauty was leaving nothing to the imagination on Thursday
night when she stepped out in Paris with beau Kanye West looking topless
under an open tuxedo jacket.
Kim
upstaged her husband with an eye-popping dress that cut down to her
middle, using just an oversized jacket to hide her modesty after a day
previewing the designer collections at Fashion Week in the city.
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Show-stopper: Kim Kardashian wears a shockingly plunging neckline to step out with husband Kanye West at Paris Fashion Week
The
33-year-old was diverting attention back to her famous frame and
increasingly high profile marriage after suffering an unfortunate run in
with Ukranian red carpet pest Vitalii Sediuk earlier that day.
Kim was
pushed almost to the ground outside the Balmain Spring/Summer 2015 show
but maintained her poise on a night out with her husband, putting a
brave face on the day's antics.
There
was no way that Kim would be accepting wallflower status on Thursday
night however, as she ensured a show-stopping entrance to the city, the
couple's playground for the night, while they left their 15-month-old
daughter North West at home.
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Plunging: Kim left little to the imagination in a dress that dropped nearly to her belly button on Thursday
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Wow-worthy: The mum of one was stopping traffic when she stepped out with legs and cleavage on show
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Eye-popping: Kim's dress ended in a flapper-style skirt, but attention was surely on her open chest
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Edgy: The beauty toughened up her sexy outfit with a masculine tuxedo jacket on Thursday night
Her
dress, a little black number, ended with a flapper style skirt that
ruffled elegantly as she stepped out of the Art District apartments in
the city on Thursday.
But attention was surely focused on her burgeoning chest that was barely contained by the plunging mini.
Wearing
a tough leather waistband on her dress and pointed shoes, Kim added the
edge as she layered on a masculine tuxedo jacket featuring satin
lapels.
She almost met her husband in height as she balanced on simple black stilettos and walked ahead of him with conviction.
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Upstaging: Kim walked ahead of her husband, who wore ripped jeans and a cut away navy blue top
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Faithful: Kanye looked protected over his brunette beauty as he walked her to the kerb in Paris
Kanye,
dressed in ripped jeans and a cut off shirt, looked protective over the
stunning starlet and kept a stern face beside his pouting wife.
The
37-year-old rapper kept close by her, watching the brunette steal the
attention in front of the cameras for another evening in Paris.
Kim become the latest victim of Vitalii earlier on Thursday afternoon.
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Dipping low: The stunner had nothing to hide on Thursday night as she went open chested for the night
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Eye full: Kanye can't help but steal a look at his wife's impressive offering on Thursday night
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The look of love: The reality star gazed at her husband with a smile on her face
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Just the two of us: The couple seemed to have tuned out the other party goers completely as they shared a tender moment
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What's he saying? The new mom had a smile on her face as her husband whispered something into her ear
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Inseparable: The couple were glued to each other at the hip
The
Ukranian former journalist - who is trying to carve out a career as a
model - was in the huge crowd which gathered around Kim and her husband
Kanye's car as they arrived at the Balmain show at Paris Fashion Week,
in which her sister Kendall Jenner was walking.
In
bizarre scenes Vitalii - the prankster who accosted Brad Pitt at the
Maleficent premiere in Los Angeles earlier this year - is reported to
have pulled Kim's hair [which he denies] and almost knocked the
33-year-old starlet to the ground, in front of Kanye and her mother Kris
Jenner.
A
source close to Vitalii said: 'The information about Vitalii pulling
Kim's hair is untrue. Vitalii hugged Kim and that caused a big crowding
with the security that pulled him down to the ground. Because of the
mess, Kim may have lost her balance , But Vitalii didn't mean any harm.'
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Scary scenes: The reality TV star was attacked in the crowd by former journalist Vitalii Sediuk in Paris earlier that day
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Holding on: Kim's bodyguard leaps to her defense as she's caught up in an attack outside the show
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Terrified: The brunette was helped by her bodyguard who protected her from the outrageous scenes
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Gripping: The star holds closely to the car as she's swept under by the crowd at the Balmain show
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Support: Kim clings to her faithful husband as she recounts her ordeal outside the show on Thursday
Security quickly jumped in and escorted a shocked Kim into the building.
This
is just one of the many times the former journalist has had run-ins
with celebrities including America Ferrera, Leonardo DiCaprio and
Jennifer Lopez.
Brad
Pitt recently spoke out about the infamous run in with the
now-notorious Sediuk at the Malificent premiere in Hollywood in late
May.
The
movie hunk said he was forced to defend himself after the Ukrainian
television personality tried to 'bury his face in my crotch.'
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Crying for help: Kim was accompanied by her husband Kanye and her mother Kris Jenner outside
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Leaving: Outside the Balmain show, the star was struggling to get out of her car and into the fashion event
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Owning the runway: Kim and Kanye were out to support Kim's younger sister Kendall at the Balmain show
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Nearlu nude: Kendall walked in the SS15 preview show, wearing a sheer checked dress in black
Brad,
50, said he was having a great time mingling with fans on the red
carpet, but things soon turned nasty when Sediuk sparked a melee that
left the heartthrob with broken sunglasses.
He
told People: 'I was at the end of the line signing autographs, when out
the corner of my eye I saw someone stage-diving over the barrier at me.
'I
took a step back; this guy had latched onto my lapels. I looked down
and the nutter was trying to bury his face in my crotch, so I cracked
him twice in the back of the head – not too hard – but enough to get his
attention, because he did let go.'
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Lanvin fans: Kim and Kanye sit front row for the Lanvin show, admiring the detail on the outfits
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On the runway: Lanvin's SS15 show, on Thursday evening, was displaying creations by Israeli-American designer Alber Elbaz
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Shadey: The dark and brooding show featured floaty dress designs and a muted palette with burnt oranges
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Line up: Kim and Kanye enjoyed the evening show of Lanvin's Spring/Summer 2015 preview
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Box office preview: Denzel Washington eyes top spot with 'The Equalizer'
Here’s how things might play out:
1. The Equalizer — $30 million
Denzel Washington plays a former black ops agent who’s attempting to lead a quiet life until he gets entangled in a dangerous situation trying to help a girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) with ties to Russian gangsters. Columbia Pictures’ $55 million pic premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to decent reviews and there’s already a sequel in development. Analysts are predicting anywhere from $25 to $30 million+ for opening weekend grosses. It’s currently at a 58 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but EW‘s Joe McGovern gave it a D, writing: “The plot has been gerrymandered so that we sympathize with the protagonist’s plight no matter how many goons he gores through the chin with a corkscrew. But make no mistake: It’s as challenging as slaughterhouse footage — and about as watchable.”
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2. The Maze Runner — $17 millionThe Maze Runner might not have to contend with a particularly dramatic second weekend drop. The $34 million pic could net out with over $58 million by the weekend’s close.
3. The Boxtrolls — $16 million
Laika’s quirky 3D stop-motion animated fantasy about an orphan and the cave-dwelling trolls who raised him features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, and Elle Fanning. Rated PG, the pic, launching in 3,464 theaters, will likely open in the range of Laika’s previous efforts Coraline ($16.8 million) and ParaNorman ($14.1 million). In his B- review, Joe McGovern wrote: “The script lacks the wit of Wallace & Gromit — even the trolls groan at a giant cheese named the Briehemoth — and never sinks its teeth into the twisted fantasy of its premise.”
4. This is Where I Leave You — $7 million
Warner Bros.’ star-studded $19 million pic has the potential for a 40 percent fall, considering it’s targeted to older audience who aren’t necessarily going to rush out to theaters to see something opening weekend.
5. A Walk Among the Tombstones — $5 million
After failing to connect with critics or audiences, the Liam Neeson-starrer, which cost a reported $28 million to produce, has earned an estimated $20.7 million worldwide and should drop over 50 percent in weekend two.
In limited release the Christian-audience targeted musical drama The Song opens in 300 theaters while Lionsgate and Pantelion’s horror Mas Negro Que La Noche launches in 178 locations. Magnolia is also releasing the psychological thriller The Two Faces of January, which is currently available on VOD and stars Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst.
Meanwhile, CBS Films’ excellently reviewed Pride, a post-Cannes acquisition about a U.K. workers’ strike starring Bill Nighy and Dominic West, debuts in six theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Fransisco.
Check back in this weekend for estimates and analysis.
Jason Derulo Speaks Out About Jordin Sparks Breakup: "Everything Is Cool"
Presumably those who were rooting for Jason Derulo and Jordin Sparks to make it last are crushed—but the newly single Derulo is keeping his head up.
He told KDWB-FM's Big D, during a phone interview with the Twin Cities station today, that everything is "cool" between him and his ex. At first the "Talk Dirty to Me" artist said he'd "rather not" comment on the breakup, which E! News was first to report earlier Thursday, but Big D coaxed it out of him.
"Yeah," Derulo said when the DJ asked if he and Sparks would at least stay friends.
PHOTOS: Celebrity couples we wish were still together
"Yeah, everything is cool, man," he continued. "It's not a bad situation. You know, it's not one of those kinda things."
He and Sparks were first romantically linked three years ago, and then went public as a couple in January 2012.
Asked at the beginning of August if he was planning on popping the question anytime soon, Derulo told E! News, "When the time is right, for sure."
"I knew that [he wanted to be with her longterm] pretty early on," he also said at the time. "I felt that when I was in the hospital with my neck injury...I felt different…I felt like I needed her in my world."
A source told us in confirming the split that it was mutual, but that they both care about each other and will remain in each other's lives as friends.
As for Jordin, she was apparently making music yesterday, tweeting, "Stu. Di. O."
News/ Kim Kardashian Prankster Vitalii Sediuk: I Hope She Won't Be Mad at Me After Paris Fashion Week Stunt
You may be asking for a little too much there, Vitalii Sediuk.
The infamous red carpet prankster is currently on damage control after pulling yet another one of his notorious stunts, this time against Kim Kardashian. The E! star was attacked while trying to make her way through the pandemonium outside of Balmain's Paris Fashion Week show when a man (who has been identified as Sediuk) dived for Kim's legs.
In a video that captured the encounter, Kris Jenner can be heard yelling, "Stop it," as she realized what was happening, while Kim seemingly yells, "Babe!" at Kanye West. Luckily, her security team was quick to subdue the individual and pull the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star to safety.
And now, Vitalii wants to make amends.
WATCH: See Vitalii Sediuk grab onto Kim Kardashian!
"The prank with Kim was my protest that US banned me from entering the country," Sediuk says in a statement to E! News. "I hope Kim is ok and won't be mad at me as I didn't mean any harm. Kanye is one lucky man as Kim is a Goddess!"
It was claimed that he had pulled Kim's hair, but a source close to him told The Daily Mail, "The information about Vitalii pulling Kim's hair is untrue. Vitalii hugged Kim which caused a big crowding with the security that pulled him down to the ground. Because of the mess, Kim may have lost her balance. But Vitalii didn't mean any harm."
Vitalii echoed similar sentiments when he posted a selfie with the famous trio's ride beside him and captioned the snapshot, "Kanye, you are one lucky man! Kim is Goddess!! #Balmain #PFW #KimKardashian #NoOffence #LOVE #KanyeWest #VitaliiSediuk #parisfashionweek #prankster #Paris@kimkardashian."
Tune in to the premiere of Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons this November on E!
How to Get Away With Murder series premiere recap: 'Pilot'
THIS IS WHERE I INTIMIDATE YOU Professor Keating (Viola Davis) keeps up her "Can you believe my teacher did that!?"
reputation by using a class assignment to choose four students to work
for her firm during the school year. The assignment prize is a statue of
Lady Justice, which can be exchanged for extra credit and/or homicide.
Nicole Rivelli/ABC
Now, first things first—if you don’t immediately know how to pronounce the phrase How to Get Away with Murder, then you probably didn’t watch the show. Viola Davis says the phrase approximately three and a half times in the pilot and each utterance is more dramatic and eerie and fabulous than the last. If you don’t know how to pronounce the phrase, then you may not recognize that HTGAWM is meant to be your newest guilty pleasure roller-coaster ride, custom built for you to enjoy on Thursday nights paired with an entire pint of ice cream, a well-assembled cheese board, or your favorite toasted artisan crackers and Sauvignon Blanc (twist-cap only). And if you still don’t know how to perfectly over-pronounce “HOW to get a-WAY with MUR-der,” then you clearly aren’t buckled in for what’s going to become your new favorite legal thriller/Shondaland drama/time-wasting watercooler theory-fest.
As my colleague Melissa Maerz writes, the show is campy and colorful and solely intended to send you flying into a world of escape, which entails wild cliffhangers, unrealistic legal procedures, and shocking developments likely to spur a host of all-caps tweeting. True Detective this is not; I like to think #HTGAWM is a juicy mix of Pretty Little Liars ("We have to hide this body, girls!") and Legally Blonde ("FOUR of you will come join me at my firm!") with just a little hint of A Few Good Men to keep things classy.
And so, with those descriptions in mind, it’s my honor to be guiding you through these weekly recaps wherein we’ll laugh, cry, reveal our deepest fears and crippling insecurities, and try to unravel a few answers to the two major mysteries that were introduced in the pilot. Sometimes we’ll move chronologically and I’ll give you a solid play-by-play. For this jam-packed pilot, I think the best approach is to lay out exactly what we’re dealing with.
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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LILA STANGARD
FACTS: Looming over the episode is the disappearance of a popular, pretty sorority girl named Lila Stangard who, according to flyers trumpeted all over campus in a very uncreative font, was last seen at a Kappa Kappa Theta party on August 30. The campus mourns and holds a vigil—in which her athlete boyfriend Griffin delivers a heartfelt speech—but shortly after her disappearance, Lila’s body is found floating in the water tank on the roof of her sorority house. (Fact: Sorority houses apparently have water tanks on their roofs.)
SUSPECT #1: Annalise Keating (Viola Davis)
Shocked? Our main conduit into the world of How to Get Away with Murder is Professor Keating, a fiercely terrifying yet wildly intelligent law professor who exercises sketchy moral ambiguity in the courtroom and a sick sense of humor about her awful reputation in the classroom. (Being so brilliant, you might wonder why she’s spending her time teaching a 100-level course, but she’s probably one of those teachers who gets her kicks frightening the young’uns at an early age to instill a proper threshold of fear, like a George Bluthian tiger mom.)
Now, I don’t believe that Annalise killed Lila, but I do think Annalise killed her husband Sam and Lila is the reason why. At the end of the episode, the news report announcing the discovery of Lila’s body appeared to distress Mr. Keating, but it left Annalise relatively blank-faced. (The wistful, vague Guess-My-Emotion expressions are a staple in Shondaland.) So, Lila is clearly a touchy subject in the Keating household. Was she Sam’s mistress, and Annalise found out and did something about it? Or will she take her vengeance out on Sam himself? Or, as Michaela foreshadows when she's presenting a case defense in class, "What better way to get revenge than to kill your cheating husband and pin it on his mistress?" (Watch out, Bonnie?)
If her cavalier attitude toward guilty clients and her ambiguous moral compass don’t already suggest Annalise's willingness to break bad, her dubious motives were, to me, on major display at the Dean’s cocktail party. Remember when she corners Wes in the bathroom? When she cries and confesses that she and her husband have been trying for a baby? When she rubs Wes’ chest and shoulders and arms in that slightly creepy, horny weeping willow way? I submit to you that it’s all an act, a calculated effort by Annalise to paint herself as a lonely married woman who fell victim to cheating in a moment of weakness—a helpful portrait for Annalise should Wes ever find himself talking about her to someone important. Granted, I could be wrong about whether those tears and that story are fake—but I believe Annalise had something to do with one of the murders. Because, like, let’s all just be up front and admit that on a show called How to Get Away with Murder, the main character is proooobably getting away with murder.
2014年3月10日星期一
Red is the traditional color of Asian bridal wear
For a traditional bride who wants an Asian wedding dress it can be a daunting task to find one; you may have to order online and then find a seamstress to finish it to your personal specifications.
Here are some interesting facts about the beautiful Asian wedding dresses.
Red is the traditional color of Asian bridal wear; the dresses are made of rich fabrics in bright colors and adorned with ornate embroidery and beading.
The dresses are representative of traditional dresses worn by the brides of that culture.
The Asian bride usually doesn't wear a veil that covers her face, instead an ornate headpieces is what they most often wear.
While each Asian country has their own form of traditional dress and style they do all tend to be ornately detailed and use rich fabrics.
Shiro-Maku
The traditional dress of the Japanese bride is actually two kimonos: a white brocade kimono which is worn during the ceremony and a separate colorful kimono called a uchikake for the reception.
In a very traditional Japanese wedding, the bride's hair is done with a number of gold combs which is covered by a white headpiece called a tsuno kakushi; the covering of the gold combs symbolizes obedience.
Cheongsam
A Southern Chinese bride, as is custom, wears a bright red dress; in China this symbolizes luck.
The Cheongsam is a two piece gown.
It is embroidered with dragons and a phoenix and typically done for the most part in gold; the edges of the skirt and jacket usually have a gold trim also.
The traditional bridal crown has beading and fabric balls on top, it's very ornate is often one of the most expensive pieces of the outfit.
Jeogori and Chima
The Korean women's wedding attire includes a jeogori, which is a short jacket with long sleeves and two long ribbons which are tied to form the otgoreum.
Here are some interesting facts about the beautiful Asian wedding dresses.
Red is the traditional color of Asian bridal wear; the dresses are made of rich fabrics in bright colors and adorned with ornate embroidery and beading.
The dresses are representative of traditional dresses worn by the brides of that culture.
The Asian bride usually doesn't wear a veil that covers her face, instead an ornate headpieces is what they most often wear.
While each Asian country has their own form of traditional dress and style they do all tend to be ornately detailed and use rich fabrics.
Shiro-Maku
The traditional dress of the Japanese bride is actually two kimonos: a white brocade kimono which is worn during the ceremony and a separate colorful kimono called a uchikake for the reception.
In a very traditional Japanese wedding, the bride's hair is done with a number of gold combs which is covered by a white headpiece called a tsuno kakushi; the covering of the gold combs symbolizes obedience.
Cheongsam
A Southern Chinese bride, as is custom, wears a bright red dress; in China this symbolizes luck.
The Cheongsam is a two piece gown.
It is embroidered with dragons and a phoenix and typically done for the most part in gold; the edges of the skirt and jacket usually have a gold trim also.
The traditional bridal crown has beading and fabric balls on top, it's very ornate is often one of the most expensive pieces of the outfit.
Jeogori and Chima
The Korean women's wedding attire includes a jeogori, which is a short jacket with long sleeves and two long ribbons which are tied to form the otgoreum.
2014年3月9日星期日
bride is becoming a part of his family
For a Chinese wedding, just like in every other country, there are customs and traditions that are upheld. Traditionally, in China, the wedding is not about the bride, but the groom. It is his family that hosts the ceremony, as the bride is becoming a part of his family. Modern Cheongsam, it is custom that the bride and groom host the wedding and they become a part of each other's families.
Some customs do still take place in China, such as arranged marriages. Once the bride has been chosen for the groom, they are to be married on a lucky day according to the lunar calendar.
With all of these other traditions to be upheld, it is no surprise that the dress a Chinese bride wears is also part of the tradition. Depending on where in China a bride is from will determine the dress that she will wear. A bride in northern China will wear a one piece gown embroidered with silver and gold called a Qi Pao. Whereas the bride in southern China wears a two piece gown, Cheongsam, embroidered with a gold phoenix and dragons symbolizing male and female. However, what these wedding gowns do share is the Chinese color of luck - red. In the Chinese culture, it is believed that red will keep away evil.
2014年3月4日星期二
Chinese Cheongsam has become a mainstream dress style
Another option for shopping online for a Chinese Cheongsam is to hit up American retailers and/or auctioneers. This can be a bit more expensive as far as individual item cost, but in many cases buyers save a substantial amount of money on shipping. Not to mention time when it comes to waiting for their item to arrive. Because domestically mailed packages often qualify for flat rate shipping, many shoppers are able to order multiple Chinese Cheongsams and have them delivered in a timely manner for a reasonable flat rate.
If you are more traditional when it comes to shopping for articles of clothing and prefer to try before you buy, you are going to want to look at brick and mortar stores rather than online. The problem is that the vast majority of traditional clothing stores simply do not carry Chinese Cheongsams. If this is the problem you are encountering, you may want to look at Chinese specialty shops instead. These types of outlets can be found at most larger shopping malls, and they often carry a wide array of inexpensive imported Chinese goods, including decorative items and apparel. If you are lucky enough to live in an area where shopping in this manner is a viable option, you will be rewarded with a physical inventory selection, the ability to try on your purchase, the ability to walk out of the store with your Chinese Cheongsam and the ability to know exactly the quality of item you are purchasing. These can all be excellent selling points.
Sleek, exotic and sexy, the Chinese Cheongsam has become a mainstream dress style. A fashion statement in itself, it is fast becoming a dress of choice for many women in the West as well. Visit our online Chinese Clothing store to check out more dresses available at really great prices.
If you are more traditional when it comes to shopping for articles of clothing and prefer to try before you buy, you are going to want to look at brick and mortar stores rather than online. The problem is that the vast majority of traditional clothing stores simply do not carry Chinese Cheongsams. If this is the problem you are encountering, you may want to look at Chinese specialty shops instead. These types of outlets can be found at most larger shopping malls, and they often carry a wide array of inexpensive imported Chinese goods, including decorative items and apparel. If you are lucky enough to live in an area where shopping in this manner is a viable option, you will be rewarded with a physical inventory selection, the ability to try on your purchase, the ability to walk out of the store with your Chinese Cheongsam and the ability to know exactly the quality of item you are purchasing. These can all be excellent selling points.
Sleek, exotic and sexy, the Chinese Cheongsam has become a mainstream dress style. A fashion statement in itself, it is fast becoming a dress of choice for many women in the West as well. Visit our online Chinese Clothing store to check out more dresses available at really great prices.
2013年10月6日星期日
The name "cheongsam" means simply "long dress"
All entrepreneurs have their own stories of how they started their own
businesses. This article will tell the story of one amazing entrepreneur, who
embarked on her journey 30 years ago. Under the recommendation of a close
friend, I was fortunate to be able to meet with Jade, the proud owner and
designer of Jade Collections, a boutique which specializes in cheongsams (or ciao)
with intricate details and exquisite workmanship.
Jade was a freelance seamstress for several years before she started her
first boutique at a tourist district well-known for tailoring services. It was
difficult to make money out of the business then as the rent of the boutique
was very high. In addition, most people of the time find it hard to accept
cheongsams that can be bought off the rack, believing that made-to-measure
cheongsams are of better quality.
Jade's break came when she was invited to lease a boutique at a newly
built shopping mall, at a much more affordable rent. After several years of
hard work and perseverance, Jade is now collecting the fruits of her labor. The
impeccable workmanship of the cheongsams at Jade Collection has earned the
boutique a good reputation among both new and regular customers, which
consisted mainly of working professionals, brides, bride maids and mothers of
the brides. New customers are built on a regular basis as more people are
becoming aware that the quality and fit of a ready-made cheongsam can be as
good, if not better, than one that is custom-made.
In my opinion, cheongsams from Jade Collections are dreams come true for
modern women who are looking for designs which retain the traditional edge and
appeal in the ever changing fashion industry. For busy women who are particular
about finding a cheongsam with a good fit but who simply does not have the time
to meet a tailor, cheongsams from Jade Collections may provide the best
alternative solution to a custom-made piece. As many of the embellishments on
the cheongsams are painstakingly hand sewn, the designs come in very small
quantity and are truly unique.
For those of you who have never worn a cheongsam before, you will be
amazed by how beautiful, elegant and charming a well-made piece can make you
look once you put it on. The silhouette of a well-fitted cheongsam is made to
accentuate the best of your figure and to express your feminine side.
Interestingly, woman of many shapes and sizes (including plus-size) can wear a
cheongsam, as long as the size is right. Minor alterations may be necessary at
times but it is definitely worth the time and effort for a more glamorous look.
Interesting facts about cheongsams - Do you know that...
The name "cheongsam" means simply "long
dress"
It is a myth that cheongsam is only meant for the perfect bodies
Cheongsam can be made with different materials to present different styles
Women in countries such as France and Japan love cheongsams and will not hesitate to purchase them, especially those of top-notch quality.
We are the online fashion store which specialties in Cheongsam with wholesale price. If you are interested to know more about the latest design of Oriental Cheongsam, please feel free to visit our site http://www.qpsale.com/
It is a myth that cheongsam is only meant for the perfect bodies
Cheongsam can be made with different materials to present different styles
Women in countries such as France and Japan love cheongsams and will not hesitate to purchase them, especially those of top-notch quality.
We are the online fashion store which specialties in Cheongsam with wholesale price. If you are interested to know more about the latest design of Oriental Cheongsam, please feel free to visit our site http://www.qpsale.com/
2013年9月27日星期五
Amorous feelings of the Chinese dress
In
so many beautiful clothes, the Chinese dress has a unique style and
charm. Move, such as a flowing melodious song swaying in the wind; Calm
down, like a graceful willow picture was on the bottom of the eyes.
Speaking
of qipao, my eyes always have such a picture: jiangnan, drizzle, blocks
of white wall tiles of local-style dwelling houses in apricot spring
rain misty, into a beautiful charming xieyi painting, curved arch
bridge, the oar oar WuPengChuan running upon ancient ancient ballads,
swim in the lake, a divide the hair into two hung plait of woman,
dressed in blue and white cheongsam, holding the oiled paper umbrella,
with a bow of tender, through the mist, through the long and narrow
ancient alley, slowly to...
Looking
back to the old Shanghai film, beauty of costume is closely associated
with the Chinese dress. Movie, play, butterfly, ruan, such as women and
cheongsam bring out the best in each other, leng yan coagulation. On the
scent of a woman s, in the deep shallow light and shadow, deducing the
elegant elegant amorous feelings of all kinds, and once the nexus of the
sea and the sentimental, countless fans think of them, always can't
help but a "woman such as flower flower like a dream".
Now,
often see the bund in Shanghai, I can smell the flavour of The Times
and time of fragrance, my thoughts, like a white magnolia flower,
through the time tunnel, through heavy YanShui, gradually floating to
the old Shanghai...
Cheongsam,
should be feminine taste has most in eastern clothing, collar half mask
with graceful necks, vents, and gentle reflected on * * * *. Chinese
dress it is not just a clothes, it still has language, implicit
midstream shows sexy, contains the graceful noble, the mature feng yun, a
woman with a classical wen wan quality is most suitable for a cheongsam. When they manage cloud high wan, eyebrow fiber into the
temples, breath iced like orchid, lotus, leisurely a hand, a cast
sufficient reveal the amorous feelings, the most can deduce the nobility
and elegance of qipao. Their light eyes across from you at random, but
it can make you feel glad eye such as silk, poetic dream, infinite
charm. Them out while the faint fragrance, always silently recounting
their bamboo filament was made without ceasing of the mood, and misty
rain in the world of mortals touching story...
2013年9月26日星期四
Herve Leger short sleeves with multicolor yarn splicing bandage dress
| Herve Leger
面料成份/Material:90% RAYON 人造丝 9% NYLON 1% SPANDEX
Style: strap type, shoulder type, Bra Type, skirt typeSize: XS S M LGrade: First gradePrice: $ 199
|
(Size reference)
SIZE: XS: Bust: 32 "Waist: 25" on the Hip: 32 "under the Hip: 36" (feet)
SIZE: S: Bust: 34 "Waist: 27" on the Hip: 34 "under the Hip: 38" (feet)
SIZE: M: Bust: 36 "Waist: 29" on the Hip: 36 "under the Hip: 40" (feet)
SIZE: L: Bust: 38 "Waist: 31" on the Hip: 38 "under the Hip: 42" (feet)
The products are sold both at home and abroad for famous brand, all pictures were taken by the owner or manufacturer is illustrated, but each shipment may appear different parts and details. Accessories in pictures, but the product quality and work are the first-class level, absolutely not because of lower costs and increase profits shoddy, perfect design is in fashion.
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