Showing posts with label lifestyle news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle news. Show all posts
Photographer plans mass nude Dead Sea shoot
A statement from online art fundraiser Kickstarter.com said that the goal was to raise $60,000 by June 6 to fund the project entitled "Naked Sea."
Some of Tunick's previous shoots included one of 18,000 nudes in Mexico City's Zocalo Square and another of 7,000 in Barcelona, Spain.
Kickstarter said that Tunick had been motivated to try the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, because of its natural beauty and to draw attention to the danger to its future caused by evaporation
US flush with royal wedding events for all pockets
For this, they will have paid $329 (225 euros).
At the Ritz Carlton in Washington, 15 royal wedding overnight packages have been booked so far at $429 a room, and more than 200 guests have reserved seats at the $40 royal wedding-watch breakfast that starts at 5:00 am local time.
In New York, fans of British royalty with very deep
Viewing Mount Fuji from a legendary place
It is a story portrayed in many works of art. They all have in common Mount Fuji, pine trees and a beautiful woman in elegant robes. It is also a very famous Noh play.
Mayumi Endo, who runs an inn in Miho no Matsubara, has studied the legend and its links to her hometown.
She also owns many works of art portraying the legend.
According to the story, there is
All bets are on for royal wedding wagers
Betting shops, an institution on every British high street, regularly offer "specials" on politics and reality television programmes alongside the usual sporting staples of football and horse racing.
And major chains wasted no time offering a vast range of odds on the wedding once Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement in November.
"If it's not exciting enough for
Arabic second-most common Australian tongue
The Australia Early Development Index, a government-backed study of more than 260,000 children in their first year of school, found that 18 percent spoke a language other than English.
Despite no Arabic nation making the top 15 countries of birth for Australia's children, some 5,565 spoke the language at
Singapore... fashion capital?
Does Singapore have what it takes to become the next fashion capital?
The first two Men's Fashion Weeks were held in the fashion capitals of Paris and Milan.
The third was in Singapore -- a relatively newcomer to the scene.
But what is the difference among the three fashion weeks?
Men's Fashion Week creative director Daniel Boey said:
Katy Perry leads US singles chart
Rihanna's "S&M" was also unchanged, at No. 2, while the Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" rose two to No. 3. Cee Lo Green's "F**k You (Forget You)" at No. 4 and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" at No. 5 each slipped one place.
Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now," featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, rose one to No. 6; Jeremih's "Down on Me," featuring 50 Cent, jumped two to No. 7; Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor,"
Kebaya exhibition kicks off
Now, a 10-month exhibition on the kebaya worn by their women, is attracting the spotlight.
The "Sarong Kebaya, Peranakan Fashion and Its International Sources" exhibition features more than 130 pieces of kebaya to showcase the hybrid nature of Peranakan culture.
Guest curator Peter Lee said: "One of the directions for the exhibition is to show that everybody was sort of Peranakan in the pre-modern age.
"Funnily enough, nowadays, Peranakans have gotten back into a kind of boundary
Police fashion show: Taylor Swift’s Perp walk
“Taylor tried to write another one of her boring songs about this dress, but they
continue to fall asleep and pee on herself.”And there is more. Fake boobs, pregnant
bellies and cowards laaf Idol judges are all fair game when the police Fashionhost gets
rolling.
Celebrity stylist predicts basket-weave trend
Jessica Paster says basket-weave shoes will be on all the best-dressed celebrities this season.
The fashion expert is one of Hollywood's most in-demand stylists, having dressed A-listers such as Mariah Carey, Cate Blanchett and Emily Blunt. Jessica says her top tip for the upcoming season is investing in a pair of basket-weave shoes, as they evoke sunny weather perfectly. She believes that style will be adorning the feet of all the world’s most stylish stars, along with other top trends such as
Need a toilet urgently? Unfold one in a minute
Frenchman Laurent Helewa designed the lightweight, easy to construct and carry toilet after Hurricane Katrina, when thousands of displaced people were crammed into a stadium for a week, with hardly any access to facilities.
"It's a taboo subject, but necessary in case of natural disasters," he told AFP at the annual International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, pointing to the earthquakes in Japan and Haiti that displaced tens of thousands of
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