Pretty dumb. Hugh Jackman has definitely been working out.
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Movie Review of X-Men Origins (with Wolverine)
Carmen
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Review of Raw Minerals
Carmen
So I recently tried a free trial from glow.com (I am not linking it because no one should be visiting this site) for only $4.95! That is until 30 days go by and if you don’t read the fine print (i didn’t) then they charge you a whole lot more! I called and they are refunding me half – but its not good enough. Especially because their product sucks. And I’m not just saying that because I failed to read the fine print. I’m saying it because its the gosh darn truth. If you want your face to age 10 years right in front of your eyes then by all means cake on the Raw Minerals! They want you to believe that this 4 (four!!) step process of putting foundation on your face will make you glow like the airbrushed models in their ads. I’m not that much of a sucker ok, I live in reality, I know what photoshop is, but I thought I would try it. With each new layer I put on it was like the natural glow of my skin (yes, i have that) disappeared only to be replaced by a desert… a cakey, dry desert…on my face. And no, its not because I didn’t apply it right. I think any time you are required to put 4 layers of stuff on your face its not going to look good. I knew that already somewhere in the recesses of my brain, but now I know it for REAL!
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I wont to create my OWN font!
Emilily
I couldn’t help it, I know, that was an absolutely terrible word play. I should be ashamed…and I would be, if not for the fact that I know my sense of humor can and has done much worse.
I was reading the ilovetypography blog this morning, and they have a few articles on creating your own font. I think I am going to give this a shot – I love drawing, fonts and words – what’s not to love about putting them all together?! Well, I can answer that – the expensive font developing software programs one must buy. So I think I will create my own font that no one else can use because it won’t be a font, it will just be a bunch of Illustrator drawings. Okay, you can use it too. I just really love the idea of creating your own font, then making a poster with it…it’s art, words, and a message on potentially so many layers.
I’m not sure if you follow ilovetypography as fanatically as I do, but here is something I know you will appreciate: the Font Police! This is a blog devoted to bad use of fonts, improper typesetting, and just some general abuses of signage. Finally, a way for me to punish that stupid store downtown that has a sign out front in some godawful version of curlz that says: Fantasys’ Jewel’s. I mean, seriously, I don’t even know what they are trying to sell in there, it could be baby seal pelts, I simply cannot get past the horrible font (which you can’t see, obviously, in this post) or the bizarre use of apostrophes.
Lastly, here is an interesting notebook company. You subscribe to their Field Notes collection, and receive 10 three-packs, in assorted colors, of their fine notebooks, in graph, ruled or mixed. Lovely and functional! They had me with the graph paper option, but the little color wheel in their logo sealed the deal. -
a review
Emilily
I don’t know if I told you, but I saw Inglourious Basterds last weekend, and I just wanted to say – highly recommended. Two thumbs up, five stars, a juicy red tomato, the whole shebang. I have probably seen almost every Tarantino film, and find him to be entertaining, but often a little over done. Take Kill Bill, for example – it was great, but after the 57th blood-spewing-jugular, I was over it. Before now, True Romance and Reservior Dogs were tied for my favorites, with Pulp Fiction a close second. But I am going to go out on a limb here and say that every other Tarantino movie ever made was simply in preparation for this, his masterpiece, a perfect combination of comedy, gore, and, most importantly, restraint. (More …)
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Some reviews
Emilily
This post was originally intended to review two magazine spreads, but I wanted to start by saying I am slightly disappointed with Gilt Fuse. From what I can tell, the only difference between Gilt and Gilt Fuse, is that in the latter, the models are all posed like idiots. I think they were going for “edgy and playful” but I’m sorry, an adult (late 20’s even?) model wearing Juicy Couture, blowing a bubble, and yanking on her thigh-high stockings like a schoolgirl in a Brittany Spears video looks like an idiot to me. Ok, moving on.
The pictures below are from a Wired magazine article on Somali piracy. While the content of the article was compelling and well-researched (it was very similar to the ongoing NPR coverage of the same events) it was the unique layout that really grabbed me. I especially liked the little facts boxes and graphs scattered amongst the illustrations – a great example of print media effectively borrowing design elements from the web world.
This next review is less about a particular article and more about the apparent laziness of a few fashion photographers and magazine editors. All of these ads appeared in the first half (the prime half) of my August issues of Elle and Lucky. I find it incredibly hard to believe that they have run out of creative things to do with fashion models, and all they are left with is to just line them up in front of the camera and say “cheese.”
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I'm just not into - He's just not that into you
Carmen
Ok, I did another nice Saturday thing – I watched a movie at 5 in the afternoon. It took some rationalizing to get myself to watch it in the first place and now all i can do is curse the idea! Ugh. Why did i do it. Rather, why did I choose that particular movie to watch and subsequently waste 2 hours of my time. Goshdarnit!! For your future reference – do not watch “he’s not that into you”. And i hope i’m not too late. Ok, I know i’m a girl but chick movies are bullshit and they should all be shot in the face. This movie spent about the entire time showing me how insane chicks are because they get all obsessed about men and (by the way I was convinced chicks are crazy before i saw this movie!) and then in the end of course they end up happily in love and everything works out and the narrator, one of the crazy chicks, is explaining “see! even though we are crazy it still works out sometimes!” Its like one big backwards fucking joke.
