For the social media savvy who are looking for the best in tweet — err, street— style photography, here are our recommendations for your Twitter list!
@MrStreetPeeper — At the IFB conference, Phil Oh of Street Peeper talked about how the media used to shrug at style photographers, whereas now that mentality has taken a complete turn! Follow him to see his tweet style:
Every year, when it seems like the season of spring conveniently forgot about poor little Pittsburgh, I battle my cold weather blues with a ticket to a local screening of The Oscar Nominated Short Films. I’m lucky to live in a city which screens both the nominated live action and animated shorts. With the purchase of just one ticket, I can sit back and enjoy 10 varied short films, which never cease to amaze me with their engaging stories, or entertaining animation.
Even though this year’s Academy Awards have passed, Shorts International is still screening The Oscar Nominated Shorts in a few select cities. Check out their locations listing here, or download the nominated films on iTunes.
If you’ve seen this year’s nominated shorts, do you have any favorites?
When I happened upon this clip, I had only one word for it: magical. People may indignantly ask, “Didn’t you play with those ponies as a child? Doesn’t this sully your pristine memories of them?” Sure, I had a collection of My Little Ponies, and I cherished them, brushed their manes, and allowed them to gallop about the expanse of my bedroom floor. They’ll always hold a special place in my childhood. But that does not make the video above any less amazing.
There’s just one thing — is this a real show? Personally, the prop-kicking gave the impression that it was just a few folks having fun on a set, but anything’s possible! Do you gals ‘n’ guys know? I mean, I’m just curious, ’cause it’s not like I’d actually go buy tickets to a My Little Pony musical or anything… JK. I totes would.
Have you ever seen a flier for your fave indie act and thought, “That is too awesome to throw away”? Then you’re already familiar with the artistic allure of gig posters!
The 60’s spawned some of the first fantastic fliers, but today there are a plethora of places that you can suss out posters of beloved bands, from A Tribe Called Quest to Rachael Yamagata, as well as superior sites which feature vast collections, such as GigPosters.com, and individual artists’ sites, like Todd Slater’s. You could even ask around your city to find local haute handbill-creating talent, such as my favorite Pittsburgh poster gal — StrawberryLuna!
One thing’s for sure — if you’re a lover of music and appreciator of art, you will be captivated by gig posters. Do you have a favorite gig poster artist or fantastic flier that you’d like to share? Tell us about it!
Another January has come and gone, and another Fun-A-Day project is completed! Here in Pittsburgh, Fun-A-Day is in its third season, a success with 20+ contributors! At the end of last year, I wrote a blog post to spread the word and hopefully garner some last-minute buzz for all participating cities (and prospective cities) about this project. The idea is to work on a fun and creative project each day in the month of January, and show off your results in February!
I encourage you to take a gander inside the screen printing studio AIR that hosted the 2010 Fun-A-Day finale in Pittsburgh.
Check out the pictures of some of my favorite pieces, including the one, the only, the amazing “Tiny Sweaters”!
Didn’t realize there was no Women’s Ski Jump event in the Winter Olympics? Despite the fact that the current World Champion for the sport and record holder for highest ski jump is 25 year old American woman Lindsey Van, ski jump in the Olympics has been deemed “not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view,” according to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge.
The MSNBC.com video above outlines this controversy and introduces viewers to a few leading women ski jumpers who have been left out of the Olympics for vague and senseless reasons.
Forget the Guggenheim, MoMA, and all those other museums of contemporary art. If you make only one museum visit this week, make it to the Museum of Modern Celebrity Tweets. Run by illustrator Odessa Begay, this Tumblr-based museum features interpretations of various celebrity tweets, with hilarious results. Now, where can we buy museum memberships?
Ah, modern design. It’s clean, colorful, light, airy, and uh, have you noticed? Empty. Unhappy Hipsters makes light of the people who occupy these über sleek, über chic landscapes, taking beautiful photos from popular design mags and giving them humorous captions. It reads like “The Farside” with a cast of the cooler-than-thou. If you have an appreciation for all things modern, and a good sense of humor, you’ll love these daily doses of droll.
We know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but these dust jackets by graphics designer and illustrator Igor Udushlivyare too good to pass up. Instead of keeping bookmarks and covers in their separate spaces, Udushlivy decided to use them together to playfully and creatively “expand the book’s space.”
We’ve been talking about feminism a lot lately. Many people don’t learn much about feminism or the women’s movement until college – however, one of today’s youngest and most prominent fashion bloggers has decided to dip her toe into the feminist pool!
After the jump, find out what style blogger Tavi has to say about feminism…
The other day on a road trip from Pittsburgh to Punxsatawney, I switched between Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster album and Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, which apparently means that I fit right in with the rest of the Gaga-loving demographic Pittsburgh! However, if I were living somewhere else in the world, say a city in Germany, or perhaps Sydney, Australia, chances are, I could have been driving to the beat of another tune!
Using this fun little find on the web, My City vs. Your City, you can input your city (or any), and compare your regional top music artists to that of a list of cities around the world! Based on data taken from last.fm, the site then calculates the similarity of the two cities to come up with a number of how similar the two locations are in musical tastes. There is no winner, but apparently Pittsburgh and Sydney, even though we are a fair distance and many oceans apart, hold a 38% compatibility in the music we listen to!
In addition to your current city, if you were to hop in the car and go for a road trip, what would you pop in the stereo system?
Do you love pop music? Do you love the orchestra? Then, have I got a treat for you! On second thought, just about anybody with ears should appreciate this. It’s For Orchestra and it’s a-maz-ing.
For Orchestra is the brainchild of Walt Ribeiro, a New York City composer enamored by the seemingly star-crossed pairing of Top 40 pop and orchestral arrangements. So, he thought, why not combine the two? The result is virtually indescribable, but it manages to make tunes you’ve heard 10,000 times sound fresher than ever. It’s something that you and your cello teacher can both appreciate, and may even find yourselves rocking out to in unison. Yup — rocking out to an orchestra.
As if that isn’t cool enough, he also takes song suggestions from the community — you can tweet him here (make sure to use the hashtag #ForOrchestra), or use this forum. Since he’s more open to requests than the most crowd-pleasing DJ, Walt has arranged covers of everything from GNR’s “Sweet Child o’ Mine” to Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” to The Roots’ “Seed 2.0,” so you’re bound to find an old favorite made new again. But quite frankly, if you’re not hooked after watching the above rendition of “Kids,” then you’d better get your ears checked, yo.
It’s easy to quickly search the web for a definition to an unfamiliar word. But, did you ever get lost in a tangible dictionary? Have you flipped through the tissue thin pages and scanned the tiny print that’s packed with information, some practical, some esoteric, while forgetting what word you looked up in the first place? If you’re not near your old tattered dictionary, you can have the same enlightening experience with these two websites, both of which are brimming with little known, overlooked, and weird words.
Wordnik is a major project whose goal is to collect all the words used in the English language and create a database in which these words are not only defined lexicographically, but by personal connotations and references. Click on “Random Word” and find bits of language that you didn’t know existed.
Save the Words, pictured above, is an interactive collage of forgotten words awaiting to be revived. Once a member, the site allows you to “adopt” a word and encourages you to use it and save it from extinction. Try using drollic, lococssession and nepheliad.
What are some of your favorite, obscure or mundane, words? Are there words or phrases that you’ve made up and care to share with the world?
Now that we’ve taken a look at how plus size models are portrayed in the media, debated the existence of a size spectrum in fashion, and seen the world through plus size model Mandy Fierens’ eyes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… ModCloth’s take on the size of the times.
In Part I of “Size of the Times,” we examined one of the most hotly debated portrayals of plus size women today – V magazine’s “The Size Issue” – and deliberated whether or not a size spectrum exists in the fashion world. Today, we’ll continue to explore the great body debate by taking a look at the issues through the eyes of one plus size model – Mandy Fierens. Here’s how she sizes up the situation…
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