As you probably are aware of, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and everybody has been showing support, whether it be a simple pink tee shirt, a pink ribbon pin, etc. But you can easily shop to find a cure. (I know it is nearing the end of October, but it is never too late.) Check out http://pinkitude.com/ …. a percentage of the sales go to the Susan G. Komen For The Cure fund.
(paw pendant from the site)
(Estee Lauder’s pink ribbon pin, $12.50)
(OPI Nail Lacquer)
(Avon Lip Balm)
There are also many retail stores that sell tee shirts to support the cure. These are just a few items that have been advertised. On the other hand, what is everybody being for Halloween? :)
Thanks for the compliments but I actually live in New Jersey (currently). I lived in New York City when I was a young child and am planning to move back there for college. Anyways, a good place to buy cheap and long lasting makeup-Ricky’s NYC would probably be your best bet. It’s located in SoHo on Brodway and I believe there is also a location on the lower east side. You can probably find the location closest to you on their website. Ricky’s has every drugstore brand of makeup and some that aren’t found anywhere else. There is also Missha-I believe it is a Korean chain, but I am not positive. I’ve actually never been to the Missha’s in New York but I purchased quite a few products from them while I was in Hong Kong. wasn’t sure about their price range in America so I logged onto their website. The prices are actually similar to drugstore brands. Their products are fantastic, especially the blush. Hope this post helped you! Good luck on picture day :)
We all remember back to when we were younger when we are today, watching cartoons until our eyes were beat red (which I strongly advise against). Though not many teens watch things like that animation also affects video games, movies, and a lot of stuff on computers. Looking closely at animation shows how inaccurate the human’s movements are, however. Take Scooby-Doo(by Hannah Barbera). All of their steps are exactly the same length.
The solution to this? The newest kids show on PBS “Sid the Science Kid”. “Sid”’s format is the answer to accurate humanistic traits. This show, made by Brian Henson (Mark Henson’s son, Mark Henson created the Muppets) puts humans in giant space-looking suits. They record every little thing for their designers to analyze and interpret into little characters. This isn’t a great show for teens, yet it could open up a new doorway to the future.
Video games as we know it are getting very high tech. Take Half-Life for example. Every little detail is portrayed so clearly it makes games like Super Mario 64 look like a poorly drawn sketch. Graphics seem to be to be the single key to a great game, which it shouldn’t. Why do people seem to buy games purely because they look good. The real thing is how they use those graphics to entertain. Unless you really like art, you wouldn’t buy a game based on it.
Animation is awesome. It is the only way to visually bring your thoughts to life. Technology simply enhances it. Many years ago Walt Disney originally drew his cartoons frame by frame, by hand. Today we can only imagine how long that would take. Even with all this technology it still took “The Simpsons” 4 years to make a 1 1/2-2 hour movie. Think of 3-D animation, this originated as geometric shapes. The progress we have made on such a seemingly minor subject is slightly whelming. All is just to entertain us, including the eager little children who plant themselves at the T.V. on a rainy Saturday evening.
Sorry about the slacking of the updates lately. Last weekend was SAT’s, enough said. Trying to get all of my college things in as soon as possible while balancing everything else in life. Anyways, to reply to your question about Victorian style, Tory: it began with Queen Victoria. Of course most people nowadays don’t wear petticoats and huge hoop dresses with long trains but the styles we see today have some elements of the original Victorian clothing. It basically consists of corsets, ruffles, lace and whatnot. Gothic elements seem to play into it too with a lot of dark colors, especially black. And that reminds me, Tory, my closet is an enormous mess right now, with trying to swap out the summer clothes with fall and winter. My apologies for making this post so short but longer posts will emerge as soon as college stress rolls over!
