holiday:halloween

The Balancing Act of Being Female; Or, Why We Have So Many Clothes - Sociological Images
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/01/22/the-balancing-act-of-being-female-or-why-we-have-so-many-clothes

http://static.thesocietypages.org/socimages/files/2013/01/o-ROSEA-LAKE-570-500x700.jpg

Women’s closets are often mocked as a form of self-indulgence, shop-a-holicism, or narcissism. But this isn’t fair. Instead, if a woman is class-privileged enough, they reflect an (often unarticulated) understanding of just how complicated the rules are. If they’re not class-privileged enough, they can’t follow the rules and are punished for being, for example, “trashy” or “unprofessional.” It’s a difficult job that we impose on women and we’re all too often damned-if-we-do and damned-if-we-don’t.

#femmes

Nettoyer les vinyles avec de la colle à bois. - comment faire -
http://www.astyouce.fr/astuces-loisirs/nettoyage-vinyle-colle-a-bois-2755

Cela peut paraître complètement surréaliste de nettoyer les vinyles avec de la colle à bois. Et pourtant le résultat est plutôt impressionnant.Des audiophiles US ont testés cette technique de nettoyage, en voici le résultat :

http://www.astyouce.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/nettoyage-dun-vinyle-avec-de-la-colle-a-bois-450x270.jpg
Bon, je m’en fous un peu, je n’ai pas de vinyles et je n’achète même plus de CD. Mais j’aime bien le côté système D
#DIY

Trop la classe : le moule à glaçons « Han Solo dans son bloc de carbonite » :
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004R7S9I2/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=t85g-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&cre
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81fbI2ITf0L._AA1500_.jpg

La table « Han Solo dans son bloc de carbonite » :
http://www.tomspinadesigns.com/Han-Solo-Carbonite-Desk-Charity-CV.html
http://www.tomspinadesigns.com/custom-themed-furniture_files/Han-Carbonite-Star-Wars-Furniture-desk-concept_1.jpg

« Georges Lucas dans son bloc de carbonite » :
http://newsmw.com/why-was-han-solo-tortured-before-he-was-sealed-in-carbonite-in-empire-strike
http://newsmw.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/1309331433-54.jpg

Le costume « toi-même dans ton bloc de carbonite » :
http://www.wtfcostumes.com/han_solo_carbonite_costume.php
http://www.wtfcostumes.com/costumes/han-solo-carbonite-costume.jpg

Et finalement je tombe sur cette collection complète :
http://walyou.com/han-solo-frozen-in-carbonite-remakes
dont le savon Han Solo :
http://walyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/han-solo-frozen-in-carbonite-soap-design-image.jpg

Zombified Cartoon Caracters
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lindsaymarie/cartoon-carachter-zombies-andre-de-freitas-255t#

http://s3-ak.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2011/10/21/13/enhanced-buzz-4202-1319217792-17.jpg

http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2011/10/21/13/enhanced-buzz-4202-1319218005-18.jpg

No more bubble gum | Mike Davis (Los Angeles Review of Books)
http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/11725867619/no-more-bubble-gum

Who could have envisioned Occupy Wall Street and its sudden wildflower-like profusion in cities large and small? John Carpenter could have, and did. Almost a quarter of a century ago (1988), he wrote and directed They Live, depicting the Age of Reagan as a catastrophic alien invasion. Source: Los Angeles Review of Books

Sign in front of Northeast El Paso home: “No blacks welcomed to trick-or-treat”
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_19234985

A small sign stating “No blacks welcomed to trick-or-treat” jolted a Northeast El Paso neighborhood this Halloween.

Anonymous Skeptical of Proposed Attack on #Zetas Drug Cartel | Threat Level | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/opcartel

It’s useless to ask whether OpCartel is a fraud; wherever it came from, if it picks up steam it will be an Anonymous operation. If, as many anons I talked with have said, no one will touch it with a 10-foot pole, it simply never will become one, regardless of its origin.

En écho à ce billet http://seenthis.net/messages/39516

A noter que la reporter de Wired Quinn Norton http://www.twitter.com/quinnnorton est « embedded » dans les mouvements #occupy et #anonymous

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/quinn-norton-occupy

I’ll be exploring how that works, and how, counterintuitively, this kind of anonymity coupled with an institutional sense of humor have made them players on the global stage. I’ll be visiting irc channels and Scientology raids, political protests and 4chan. I’ll be interviewing anons, those who study them, and those they come into conflict with.

It might seem odd that I’m covering #occupy and Anonymous together, but it’s not. Both #occupy and Anonymous are each examples of a new kind of hybrid entity, one that breaks the boundaries between “real life” and the internet, creatures of the network embodied as citizens in the real world. As one member of The Pirate Bay explained on IRC, “We prefer afk (away from keyboard) to irl (in real life). This is real life.”

Zombies infest Leicester Square

http://www.demotix.com/news/902729/zombies-infest-leicester-square

http://www.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_610x456_scaled/photos/902717.jpg
#halloween

Je crois que je viens de trouver mon costume d’Halloween
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/303846_301678093177077_266952343316319_1315753_235112417_n.jpg

Roboto, la police d’Android 4.0 serait un monstre à quatre têtes.

Roboto is a Four-headed Frankenfont | Typography Commentary | Typographica
http://typographica.org/2011/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-four-headed-frankenstein

Just in time for Halloween, from the depths of the Android 4.0 laboratory emerges a frightening cross-breed creature called Roboto.

http://typographica.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Roboto1.gif

I’m all for the strategy of developing a unique identity typeface, and I commend Google for employing type designers in house, but this is an unwieldy mishmash. Roboto indeed has a mixed heritage, but that mix doesn’t have anything to do with the gibberish from the press release. Its parents are a Grotesk sans (like a slightly condensed Helvetica) and a Humanist sans (like Frutiger or Myriad). There’s nothing wrong with combining elements of these two styles to create something new. The crime is in the way they were combined: grabbing letters — almost wholesale — from the Grotesque model, along with a Univers-inspired ‘a’ and ‘G’, welding them to letters from the Humanist model, and then bolting on three straight-sided caps à la DIN.

#typographie

I like to move it move it... On en apprend donc de belles sur les princes séoudiens.

US embassy cables : Saudi youth ’frolic under princely protection’ | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/235420

Summary: Behind the facade of Wahabi conservatism in the streets, the underground nightlife for Jeddah’s elite youth is thriving and throbbing. The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available — alcohol, drugs, sex — but strictly behind closed doors. This freedom to indulge carnal pursuits is possible merely because the religious police keep their distance when parties include the presence or patronage of a Saudi royal and his circle of loyal attendants, such as a Halloween event attended by ConGenOffs on October 29. Over the past few years, the increased conservatism of Saudi Arabia’s external society has pushed the nightlife and party scene in Jeddah even further underground.

On peut lire l’article du Guardian sur le sujet, assez marrant :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-cables-saudi-princes-parties

#Arabie_saoudite #cablegate