"I don't know whether it is good or bad to dig out a Chinese knotweed that looks like a human. I'd better put it back in the earth!"
Did you know sportswear companies Adidas and Puma were founded by rival brothers? 60 years go Adi Dassler founded Adidas and Rudolf Dassler founded Ruda (later renamed Puma). World War 2 politics divided the brothers and the feud continued. Tho no one from the family runs either companies now, on September 21 employees will shake hands and play a football match (cough PR stunt) to officially mend fences.
HP - invent from Tom and Matt on Vimeo.
HP issued a challenge, Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth answered with this amazing musical short featuring some old ass inkjet (HP brand of course) printers and some snazzy stop motion fx. I feel like channeling Peter Gabriel every time I watch it. I also feel like giggling when I say Tom's surname aloud. Tee hee. Good job guys. You're brilliant in the mind and obviously creative.
Music by Round Table Knights
They're smart! Wild Russian dogs have been commuting to and from the city centers where they beg for food, to the suburbs where they sleep. These clever pooches have managed to figure out our sociological behaviors and learned to take advantage of them. Passengers seem smitten with them but in general the dogs try and stay out of the way. They only cluster in the first and last trains and collectively know when to get off!
via The Sun
Stem cell research is advancing fast. Scientists announced 3 legally blind patients now have restored vision thanks to stem cell contact lenses. Crazy!
No one can touch the fabulousness that is Andre Leon Talley, NO ONE. His red carpet frock at the Met Costume Gala probably sent paparazzi into shock. To rock an Adidas inspired graduation gown with little miss pilgrim shoes requires balls too big to measure with any proper scale. Speaking of which, check out the scale of that necklace. I swear I've seen that same exact one at Claires except it was about 10x smaller and designed as an anklet. Andre, I am not worthy.
Andrea Vasa, a defender for Milan's local football club Brera, is currently living in the new Dirk Bikkembergs boutique in Milan in an attempt to fully immerse customers in a star athlete's luxury lifestyle.
Selected by Dirk Bikkembergs himself, Andrea now lives in the flagship store under the eyes of the store's clients. Among the shelves and clothes hangers exposing the items that are for sale, Andrea's personal clothes can be found, as well as the pictures and books he chose to take with him to his new home.Andrea lives in the apartment at Via Manzoni 47 in total freedom. He can invite family and friends and can count on a housekeeper, who will tidy up his living quarters at set times or upon demand. His role is to be admired alongside the sunglasses, shirts, jackets and football boots. Visitors can come and have a look at his wardrobe. Before going out, Andrea will take a shower in a relax room papered with pages from Gazzetta dello Sport, compose his outfit for the following occasion, preen himself in one of the silver trophies, step into his Porsche and drive it out through a massive window that doubles as a garage door.
More pics after the jump!
The worst thing any artist of any medium wants is to be compared to someone else. I'm not one to usually point the finger when I see something remotely similar because as creatives - originality comes from not being afraid of making mistakes and even then uniqueness is just a distant abstract of mimicry.
To be frank, Lady GaGa (CaCa as Dlisted puts it) is a damn near clone of Roisin Murphy. I say damn near because Roisin is less plastic looking. But everything from the electronic beats, pop melodies, right down to the Theirry Mugler and Sonia Rykiel inspired clothes. They both ooze electro-pop and yet Roisin is barely known in the states. Thank GOD she is a successful artist in Europe.
Can you believe this fuckery? A rare white roebuck was spotted in England and now hunters are lining up to get a chance to kill the poor thing. Fortunately the deer is on private property whose owners promise not to accept any offers from sick hunters. One German dude offered over £5,000 for dibs!
I am sooo not feeling this. I can't believe this sport is still allowed. And really I think the word "hunter" is incorrectly used since that implies you're going to eat the animal. These men are more like murderers with premeditative thought. Bastards!
Every generation has a group of kids destined to uplift our society to the next level. Sadly I wasn't one of those kids but but I get my optimistic fix by looking to the younger generation - their passion and love for all things good in life makes me think life when I'm in my 50's won't be so bad.
Brennon Williams is one of those kids. His passion for science and public keynotes about finding that passion in everything you do is catching on. It's soooo weird to see someone only 14 so articulate. With more kids like him in charge, I have no fears of the future.
The fashion press was up in arms earlier this week when model August Tomasuite walked down the runway with tears streaming down her face during the Jil Sander show. Was it part of the presentation? Was it her shoes? Was it some underlying emotional problem reflective of the industry as a whole? It didn't help that Jil Sander's publicist Pierre Rougier refused to even acknowledge her tears even after rewatching the video. Conspiracy?
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, and later this year will see the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Scientists have a reputation of being a bit unsentimental, but we do have a habit of marking major intellectual milestones; 2005 was the Year of Physics, celebrating Einstein's anno mirabilis, and this year is also notable as the Year of Astronomy in recognition of work by Galileo and Kepler.
Still, the celebration of Darwin seems to focus on the man himself as much as the theory he produced, in part because he seems to have accomplished what every scientist wishes they could do. He made insightful observations in locations from remote islands to his own back yard, integrated them with information from everyone from Thomas Malthus to pigeon breeders, and produced a theory that was argued in such compelling terms that the Origin was widely read by the public. All that, and he appeared to remain a generous and humble person, by all accounts.
Public health types are always agonizing about oral sex. Should we say it's dangerous or not? Now, Swedish researchers have shown that lots of oral sex with an HIV-infected partner may actually be protective against the virus.
The study, published in the (expensive, subscription only) AIDS journal and helpfully summarised by Aidsmap suggests that men who give lots of blow jobs to their HIV-positive partners develop antibodies specific to that partner's virus, protecting themselves against infection. The more virus their partner has kicking around in their semen, the higher the concentration of specific antibodies, and the protection seems to last for quite a while too. None of the men became infected over the course of the study, even though their partners were not all on treatment.
I love drawing conclusions to support my own beliefs. A pair of gay penguins were caught repeatedly stealing eggs so they were ousted by the main group. Zoo keepers gave them a couple eggs an inexperienced mother rejected. Turns out the gay duo are much better parents than their hetero counterparts. SEE!
In penguin world, the males are the ones that care for the eggs. Despite being gay, the biological drive to look over eggs is strong and in their case, doubly strong.
Above is the fatherly duo yelling at their neighbor for having a hideous rock garden.
"There's one indulgence every man should try in his lifetime: If you're straight, sleep with a man at least once, and if you're gay, don't go through life without sleeping with a woman. Either way, you might be surprised at how natural it will feel if you can get past the mind-fuck stereotypes. In the end, it's just another person that you are relating to in a physical way."
-Tom Ford, Rules of Style
Oo Snap ya'll. Check out baby Karl Lagerfeld! Amazing, he was obviously born with style.
Researchers made a break-thru this week when the Hubble Telescope photographed 2 planets orbiting a star very similar to our own. What's more the two planets seem to be within the habital zone - the area where it's just the right temperature to support liquid water. Unfortunately the system is over 130 light years away - longer than a human lifetime. More surprising to the researchers is the fact that the system looks like the Eye of Mordor.
via Bad Astronomy
The Eye of Mordor is Watching Us