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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
one size fits all
V Magazine dedicated the issue to plus-size and ALL-size beauties.
They used 2 models: one typically skinny, one voluptuously plus-size
and they’re wearing identical outfits.
Crystal Renn took on a typically slim model to prove fashion CAN flatter any figure.
Renn herself has written a book detailing her own battle with the modeling industry,
and the pressure to be thin:
and the pressure to be thin:
The book tells how she developed an eating disorder that nearly killed her, and the extreme lengths she went to in order to obtain a fashion-thin body.
Now a staunch campaigner against identical catwalk models, she said: ‘I’d love to see the fashion industry open their eyes to the variety of women. That variety is what’s beautiful.
target market? The AVERAGE woman who is 5’4” tall and weighs 140 pounds, NOT the average American model stands 5’11” tall and weighs 117 pounds.
Friday, July 29, 2011
pretty amazing news
I knew it!! we were just talking about this before bed~
curious to see what else we'll find in our lifetime..:
Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever--so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.
The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it's turning out to be pretty lush.
Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water--20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth--Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over--20,000 times over.
The water is in a cloud around a huge black hole that is in the process of sucking in matter and spraying out energy (such an active black hole is called a quasar), and the waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together.
The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as “140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.
That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.
Mind you, our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has about 400 billion stars, so if every one of those stars has 10 planets, each as wet as Earth, that’s only 4 trillion planets worth of water.
The new cloud of water is enough to supply 28 galaxies with water.
Truly, that is one swampy patch of intergalactic space.
Equally stunning is the age of the water factory. The two teams of astrophysicists that found the quasar were looking out in space a distance of 12 billion light years. That means they were also looking back in time 12 billion years, to when the universe itself was just 1.6 billion years old. They were watching water being formed at the very start of the known universe, which is to say, water was one of the first substances formed, created in galactic volumes from the earliest time. Given water’s creative power to shape geology, climate and biology, that’s dramatic.
“It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times,” says Matt Bradford, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and leader of one of the teams that made the discovery. (The journal article reporting the discovery is titled, without drama, “The Water Vapor Spectrum of APM 08279+5255: X-Ray Heating and Infrared Pumping over Hundreds of Parsecs.”)
It is not as if you’d have to wear foul-weather gear if you could visit this place in space, however. The distances are as mind-bogglingly large as the amount of water being created, so the water vapor is the finest mist--300 trillion times less dense than the air in a typical room.
And it’s not as if this intergalactic water can be of any use to us here on Earth, of course, at least not in the immediate sense. Indeed, the discovery comes as a devastating drought across eastern Africa is endangering the lives of 10 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. NASA’s water discovery should be a reminder that if we have the sophistication to discover galaxies full of water 12 billion light years away, we should be able to save people just an ocean away from drought-induced starvation.
The NASA announcement is also a reminder how quickly our understanding of the universe is evolving and how much capacity for surprise nature still has for us. There’s water on Mars, there’s water jetting hundreds of miles into space from Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, there are icebergs of water hidden in the polar craters of our own Moon. And now it turns out that a single quasar has the ability to manufacture galaxies full of water.
But it was only 40 years ago, in 1969, that scientists first confirmed that water existed anywhere besides Earth.
splendid
just splendid.
I want to try something different - live on a mountain alone in meditation perhaps.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
virtuous vices
(thanks julia for the fancy~ a lot more where that came from)
nuke lamp
straight shooter ring
gun bag
notepad
salt + pepper
a dope wallet
iphone case
iphone case
cigarette case
I want everything!!!!
dream log
I love how you guys send me cool pics for my blog~
this is from liz - it's a real door in a house. I wish I can have it for my cats..
someone told me I should keep a dream log,
so I started one this morning.. I had to. I remember every dream so I'll continue from today
I dreamt, my fiance tranquilized a troll, and shot 3 acidic needles at it
it was horrible.. it woke up and it wasn't a mean troll..
it didn't understand why someone would do this to him, the pain of his skin melting
it was mean of my fiance. he did this after swinging through vines in a jungle.
in another, I was in a flying pepper shaped superhero car. it was shiny, red and chrome.
there was a fight, and in the background, a huge, brown sun(man), wanted to peek at the action.
his ray of light revealed there was a banana man hiding in a banana mobile.
but he was a good guy and his plan was spoiled.
in another, my fiance wore a pink curly wig with a bouncy ball headband.
it was sooo cute I needed to take a picture,
but instead of a photo, it was a stamp. and then, instead of a stamp, I had to sketch him.
I had some more dreams I logged, but that's enough for here~~
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my momz
the most beautiful person I know, without a doubt, inside and out..
I love you more than I could ever express
(and I wish you still had that shirt so I could steal it~)
ignorance and superstition
are things I ponder while I work these days.
superstition including religions.
these are so exciting~
I want to hurry to have time to make some wedding dresses I can sell already
Monday, July 25, 2011
one day last month
when I was looking for the save the date pictures,
I came across a ton of unblogged pictures - here was one memorable day when my sis was in town:
I love when they have the markets at madison sq park
gallery hopping, antique stores, museums and good food.. come back soon deb!! :D
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