Double, Double Toil and Trouble

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100 Years of Style

Can we please go back to hippie fashion??? Can we also just dance in the street in front of fun colored garages? I think this would make the world a better place. Here's the link. Here's the video:

The Ever Beautiful, Emma Watson

I just discovered Emma Watson's new ad for Lancome's Tresor Midnight Rose Fragrance.

This two minute, mini-movie, is an enchanting work directed by fashion photographer Mario Testino. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was getting teary-eyed as I watched this. After all, who doesn't dream about the fantasy love tale? Matters of the heart, fate, chance, and plain old fashion luck are the foundation of life. Why do you think the most powerful relationships, songs, movies, and novels have a central love story or a love story deeply intertwined in the action?

As always, Ms. Watson is classy, sexy, and beautiful. (Though I do prefer the longer hair). Her professionalism, demeanor and maturity seem to channel the "classic" beauty of those such as Lana Turner, Veronica Lake, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly.

I hope you enjoy the ad as much as I do:

Life's 100 Photographs that Changed the World

This weekend I read Life's 100 Photographs That Changed the World. What an amazing collection of work, it itself is a piece of art. The photos are inspiring, depressing, confusing, sickening, and most importantly, thought provoking.

I agree with the introduction, it's very difficult to pick a top 100, but the ones chosen do not fall short of their goal. If I still taught high school, I would develop not just a lesson plan, but an entire course section on this collection and concept. There are so many wonderful lessons that can be taught and learned from this book.

The "Society" section is what gripped me the most. Yes, these photos changed the world at the time of their publishing, but I do not think their purpose has come to an end. What affected me the most was the fact that all  of these photos, dating back to the 1700's still play a role in our society in many forms. I always thought the purpose of sitting through dreadfully boring, monotone history lectures (why can't teachers make it more like the History Channel?) was to learn from past mistakes, to continue to grow as people, as a deep thinking, caring, productive citizen of the human race. Many of these poignant photos demonstrate that we are not evolving. Our technology may be evolving, our means to an end may be evolving, but we continue to make the same mistakes again and again.

There are many beautiful aspects of people and humanity. People do possess the ability to care, to nurture, to be philosophical, and brilliant and creative and loving. Yet, they also have the ability to destroy others, to be cruel, arrogant, and evil. In fact, all the evils of society are the fault of the human race. I often feel the evil winning in society and find that I envy those who, no matter what is happening in their lives or the world, are permanently surrounded by sunshine. They must take amazing drugs.

I hope you find time in your busy schedule (who isn't busy these days?) to seek out this collection, find a quiet place where you can reflect on whatever emotion or thought you find provoked by these images and join me in contemplating how to make people see the the repetition of the evils of the past in our present.

Here are some of the photos.

"Modern" Art

If you ignore the safety hazards and the fact that I would be really pissed off if I got paint on my car, this is really creative and beautiful on both an artistic and societal level.