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:: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 ::

Road Dump

Betraying the fact that I was away on work most of last week the yawning gap in posts is now filled with a link dump of Radio 4 listening and Independent articles that I collected whilst on the road:

The Moral Maze - Should a person's political views ever disqualify them from doing a job?

"This week the Moral Maze asks should a person's political views ever disqualify them from doing a job?

"Some members of the BNP in professions like the police and prison service, face losing their job after the leaking of the party's membership list. While others, for example, teachers will not.

"Where do we draw the lines over freedom of belief and expression?

"Should we have a right not to be offended or have we lost our nerve over freedom of expression and are we becoming a more intolerant, illiberal society?"

Very interesting listening, it's a massive grey area. I found myself sat in a carpark for 20min listening to this as I didn't want to miss any of it when I was checking into a hotel.

Woman found guilty in 'cyber-bully' case

"A housewife who posed as a teenage boy to send hostile emails to a neighbour's daughter was found guilty yesterday of several minor charges related to the "cyber-bullying" that prompted the girl's suicide.

"The case made legal history because it revolved around charges that Ms Drew lied on the fake MySpace profile, violating the site's terms of service which require users to provide "truthful and accurate" registration information.

"Ms Drew had throughout the trial denied that she was using her computer when the fateful, final message to Megan was sent. While she knew of the existence of "Josh Evans", she claimed the hostile emails were sent by her daughter, Sarah, and several friends."

Yes, that's right. Blame your own daughter. Nice one.
RIP

The phone that says bling bling

"Frank Nuovo cradles in his palm what is, if not the world's most costly mobile phone, then perhaps its most elegantly conceived. It's the Vertu Boucheron 150, designed by Nuovo himself, a dapper, serious Californian whose passion for his product is entirely unapologetic. Formerly head of design at Nokia, he is the founder and chief designer of Vertu, the world's leading maker of luxury mobile phones."

I commented on these back in 2005 and apparently showed myself to be a lowlife (see comments). My opinion hasn't changed.


Crusher
Originally uploaded by gusset.

How turtles got their shells

"The fossilised remains of an ancient reptile that lived 220 million years ago may have solved the puzzle of how the turtle got its shell and, in the process, cleared up one of the most enduring mysteries of animal evolution.

"The latest discovery, made by palaeontologists excavating in China's fossil-rich province of Guizhou, shows that the shell of the turtle evolved from bony growths that expanded from the spine and ribs, rather than the merging of bony plates found in the skin of some reptiles."

Labels: evolution, Fashion, Law, Liberty, science, Secuirty

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Following my link to Dark Daze' / Dead Dead Dead's zombie shoot last week, check out this shoot for INSA heels




Interview

Labels: Fashion, Photography

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There is probably NO GOD, so stop worrying and enjoy your life
Atheist Bus Merchandise available now

Labels: Atheism, Fashion, Humour, Religion

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Katy Perry's Gusset
Originally uploaded by gusset.


I was reading someone else's Metro over their shoulder on the bus last night when this photo caught my eye. I love the way the pedals at the front make it look like some dancer is in the middle of some extreme noise improvisation performance. In fact, it's just Katy Perry having a wardrobe malfunction near a guitarist, but I prefer the noise idea. Maybe she consider it as a back up career.

Labels: Fashion, Gusset

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The love of tentacles
Found this when looking for joke tentacle images but I've got to admit it looks pretty good.



It's all Hijack's fault.

Labels: Fashion, Fetish, Food

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Bamboo panties are really ever soy saucy

"Knickers made from bamboo and soy have been launched as part of an eco-friendly underwear collection. Designer Joanna Ketterer [of Luva Huva]said the garments are super soft and 'not only beautiful but ethically sound'. The fabric for the lingerie is made from the pulp of bamboo grass which resembles unspun cotton and can be woven and dyed."

Labels: Environment, Fashion

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Rights, here's another fashion observation I can't get my head around. Firstly, I saw a girl on the bus last week who was wearing a fashionably distressed denim mini-skirt OVER a pair of jeans. I dismissed this as a freak occurrence until Monday, when I saw someone walking through the centre wearing a pair of mid-thigh blue denim shorts over a pair of black drain-pipe jeans. This should not be allowed.

Labels: Fashion, Humour, Spotted

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Marianne Maric and her awesome lamp girls at yatzer

Labels: Fashion, Photography

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Asymmetric Leggings. Spotted on a woman walking down Cheltenham Road this morning.
One to the knee, one mid-calf.
Fashion icon? Freak? Accident?

Labels: Fashion, Spotted

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Wtf is the world coming to?
And do I even need to mention how appalling that photoshop is?
Although it does look quite impressive on billboards it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny.

ghd

Labels: Advertising, Fashion

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Lily takes a trip
Originally uploaded by Keroles.


stern Fotografie : Tim Walker

Loads more shots on his agent's site

The Sunday Times - The Dreamcatcher


[image via]

Walker is famed for his very British, Alice-in-Wonderland aesthetic. He has shot Erin O’Connor as a goose, Lily Cole as a peacock girl standing awkwardly on a mantelpiece in a dilapidated mansion, a redcoated Otis Ferry crammed into a tiny room with a pack of beagles.

The Guardian - Tim Walker's best shot



'A lot of people get confused when they see this image. They think it was done by computer, but we actually took pigment powder, mixed it with talc to get the right ice-cream pastel colours, and brushed it into the cats. ... they were so vain they loved it. ... There wasn't enough light to do the picture indoors - but, by a fluke, all the cats seemed to gravitate to this clematis at the bottom of some steps. I didn't arrange them. This is just what the cats did, and they all pretty much stayed where they were throughout. So it's actually quite a naturalistic portrait - apart from the colour.'

Pictures, an exhibition of Tim Walker photographs, is at the Design Museum, London SE1, until September 7. His book of the same name is available now.

Edit: More images from the Lily Takes a Trip shoot

Labels: Art, Cats, Fashion, Photography

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Originally uploaded by n i k a.

It's a little out of focus but I really like the colours and the composition of this picture from n i k a, found on flickr.

Labels: Fashion, Flickr

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My friend Sofi's (aka DJ Misoh) shop, Donuts, goes online today. Have a look.



YOOOOOO ALL!

We are very excited announce that our online store will finally be going live at 10AM!

Go check it out & purchase some stuff....as you all know we get mad limited amounts of stuff, so don't sleep! ;)

Donuts x

Labels: Fashion, Shopping

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Oobject's Guide to Anechoic Chamber Architecture
"In this kind of space, no one can hear you scream. Anechoic chambers use spiked walls to eliminate echoes, the end result might literally sound dull but the visual effect can be stunning, such as at the enormous anechoic hangar. Vote for your faves."

[via Music Thing]

"There is nothing not to love at Oobject's Guide to Anechoic Chamber Architecture. Above is AFJ International's tank-sized chamber, and the Auditory Localization Facility is a person-sized loudspeaker-filled geodesic sphere packing a generous punch of awesome. Less high-minded readers might also enjoy Nick Knight's rather splendid fashion/audio crossover The Sound of Clothes, which includes several not entirely SFW videos."

Labels: Acoustics, architecture, Fashion

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[photo from DV8 Bristol magazine]

When did recycled fashion ever look so good?

"FLOCK was set up by Poppy Pitt, and joining the project shortly after its conception was Lucy Ibrahim. Together their aim is to create events that are brimming with glamour, great design and sound ethics.

Our aim is to create a strong, exciting and innovative fashion show that marries style and ethics seamlessly and without compromise.

We are based in Bristol and feel that that it is a great place to both launch your label or expand an existing one. Bristol is teeming with ethically conscious consumers that care about fashion and the future.

Bristol is a stong hold of independant and ethical businesses, and we feel it is the perfect place to base our promotions company, put on shows and bring our designers together.

We are holding our first fashion show as FLOCK [on 8th March at the Attic], it will be an exciting show with a range of emerging and more established designers from around the UK."

And while I'm on the subject of clothes recycling, here's a picture of Helena Bonham Carter modelling an outfit from her Pantaloonie "refurbishing" line:


[photo from The Sunday Times Magazine]

Labels: Fashion, Recycling

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ndeur shoe graf on etsy.com ("your place to buy and sell all things handmade")

"I AM NOW PAINTING CANVAS SNEAKERS WITH ANY DESIGN YOU CHOOSE!
Hello hello, I am Mathieu Missiaen. My brand is NDEUR; I paint canvas, walls, anything and everything. My designs are street, modern, fun and will make your shoes a work of art. Together we will change the way the world thinks of fashion. You can see more of my work at www.myspace.com/ndeurr."
[found in outofhand magaize]

Labels: Fashion, graffiti

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You don't expect to see the phrase "widespread gusset anxiety" in the Guardian everyday, but it was there yesterday, when quoting Jeremy Paxman nonetheless.

Paxman raises smalls problem with M&S [full text]

Quote:

Jeremy Paxman, the Newsnight anchor famous for grilling cabinet ministers and airing his robust opinions on subjects as diverse as the future of broadcasting and the latest entries in Who's Who, has now voiced his dissatisfaction on another matter of importance to the nation: Marks & Spencer underpants.

The broadcaster is so concerned about the declining standards of men's underwear that he has written to Sir Stuart Rose, the chief executive of M&S, detailing his "anxiety" about its gussets, which he said no longer offered "adequate support".

"Like very large numbers of men in this country, I have always bought my socks and pants at Marks & Sparks," he wrote. "I've noticed that something very troubling has happened. There's no other way to put this. Their pants no longer provide adequate support. When I've discussed this with friends and acquaintances it has revealed widespread gusset anxiety. I do feel that someone should take up this mighty battle.

I have to say I'm with him on this, on two counts:
1. I also buy my underwear in Mark's and its quality has been declining over the years, and
2. It gets the word 'gusset' in the broadsheets.

[via lmg]

Labels: Fashion, Gusset, Humour, News, Politics

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Japanese Louis Vuitton commercial by Takashi Murakami

[music by Fantastic Plastic Machine]

Takashi Murakami is probably best known for his Manga related work. "[His] style, called Superflat, is characterized by flat planes of color and graphic images involving a character style derived from anime and manga. Superflat is an artistic style that comments on otaku lifestyle and subculture, as well as consumerism and sexual fetishism. Social commentary is nothing new, nor is appropriation of mass media or popular culture." [source wikipedia]

Murakami - Army of Mushrooms


Which reminds me. I bought the recent Pop magazine because I was intrigued by the article about creating mushrooms out of designer clothes with similar sounding names. eg Shitake Versace:

Labels: Animation, Art, Fashion, Food, graphics

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Fashion ads from Ebony Magazine, 1970 - '76
[via hijack]

Labels: Fashion

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[From This Hour Has 22 Minutes]

Labels: Fashion, Humour

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The UK media are applauding the fashion industry's announcement for London Fashion Week that under 16yo models will be banned and that models will have to prove that they don't have an eating disorder.

It’s the lamest cop out solution the industry thought it could get away with. All they have done is shift the burden of dealing with it onto the models themselves rather than deal with it sensibility but not picking stick thin models.

As Bob Carlos Clarke put it, "the female fashion editors have colluded in the demise of their own sex by going along with the ludicrous charade of supermodels. Fashion poses a far greater threat to modern woman than pornography, with its wild demands that she conform to that freakish body shape."

Labels: Fashion, News

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Looking over someone's shoulder on the bus last week I spotted this picture in the Metro, so obviously decided to grab a copy and find out what it was doing in there.



Who would wear shoes like that and not have the sense to put on black nail varnish? Fucking amateurs.

The text from almost full page article is here: The height of fashion turns 500. It would seem that the near full page article is justified merely by a press release from Shoe Express claiming that high heels are around about 500 years old, give or take, so have produced these beauties above to celebrate. Sounds pretty tenuous to me, and I very much doubt I'll see anyone walking around in those, but it's a nice picture none the less. So here's some more free publicity for them.

Labels: Fashion, Fetish

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Another one of my photos has popped up on Schmapp, this time for Clothing & Fashion in Bath. It's this night time shot of the Eureka window display.


Window
Originally uploaded by gusset.


My complete Bath flickr set can be found here.

Labels: Bath, Fashion, Flickr, Maps, Photography

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125 magazine - Japan issue
Originally uploaded by gusset.


125 magazine issue 9, Japan special, international cover, reprint.
Cover image by Felix Larher.

If you browse the online shop it's best to search by Photographer rather than Keyword btw, as the images don't seem to be tagged very well. Love the way you can order prints of pretty much every image.

"...the only magazine in the world, which acts as a completely unbiased photography gallery, open to both emerging and established artists, and making affordable art available to all."

"JAPAN ISSUE RE-PRINT
Our Japan issue went on-sale worldwide on March 1st and sold out in record time, as a biannual we make every effort to maintain at least a 5 month presence in stores, so we have decided to capitalize on the popularity of this issue by re-printing and re-distributing in the UK later this month across all key and major outlets. The re-print will feature the international cover version which was previously only available outside the UK so this is your chance to get both versions of our best issue to date."

"SOLD OUT ONLINE - NOW AVAILABLE ONLY IN SHOPS"

Found this in Boarders (£6.99) in the week. Stunning material. All fans on Japan, Fruits, fetish, fashion and just plane good photography should get this.

Labels: Art, Fashion, Fetish, Photography

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I've mentioned before my fascination with the strange juxtaposition of seeing someone riding a bike in high heels. You have to applaud the dedication to the cause of heel wearing when they are used in such inappropriate circumstances. Here's another example found by Mrs P in a magazine, along with a public health warning about the possible side effects of cycling.

[Sorry about the white space. I added that so flickr would centralise the thumbnail on the photo without cropping the text.]



And it applies to men just as much as women. Summary of the 2003 Bicycle Saddle Report



So don't forget your anatomical saddle.

Example, Mens:


Example, Womens:


The jury is still out on this one:

[found via google image search here NSFW]

Labels: Bike, Cycling, Fashion, Fetish, Photography

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Stilettos ‘sent fetish thief over the edge’
"A shoe fetishist who moved to London found the fashionable footwear there so exciting that he robbed a series of women of their shoes to satisfy his sexual obsession, a court was told."

"He said, although he was sexually attracted to women and had had a sexual relationship with a girlfriend as recently as November 2005, his past relationships with women had been somewhat complicated by the fact that he would find a particular girlfriend’s shoes more sexually attractive than the girl herself."

Um, this definitely wasn't me either, btw.

He should have read The Boner Theory of Economics

Labels: Fashion, Fetish, News

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The Metro tells me (see above) that day-glow sports wear is in fashion, and that pretty contorted photo shoot gave me an idea. What better excuse for another round of the Cyber-Goth Gymnastics photoshop competition?

The original one is here, flickr set here.
2004 Winner:


Get your Gimp out, there's a lovely set of glow sticks on offer for the best. Submissions to gusset[at]gmail[dot]com please. Closing date is the end of March.

Labels: Competition, Cyber-Goth Gymnastics, Fashion, Photoshop

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