Jon Peters' pint-sized styling. Photo courtesy of Lifetime
"Project Runway's" Season 7 took a trip to the primary grades last night to teach the designers' the ABC's of children's style. We were expecting temper tantrums and time-outs when a coterie of little girls swarmed the workroom, but only the designers got them.
Here's our Episode 6 recap:
The Itsy Bitsy Challenge: The designers are told to create age-appropriate, yet fashionable looks, for some little dolls (ages 5 to 8) who look like they were picked out of a line at the American Girl cafe. Actually, they are probably the lucky daughters of Lifetime network execs.
Tim Is Such a Bully: He comes back to the workroom on day two with one of his mischievous surprises. The designers are instructed to create a second, corresponding look for their runway models. And a warning is issued: "No maxi-me, mini-me" looks.
The Workroom: "Is like 'Romper Room' on crack," according to designer Jonathan Peters, who finds children, in general, very scary. Yes, the little girls cut up scraps of fabric and played with the goodies on the BlueFly accessories wall, but wait... That is little girl crack.
It's the designers who show their inner children. Peters, who is doing a "kimono" for his child muse, busts up the room with a hilarious imitation of judge Michael Kors critiquing his work-in-progress. "It looks likes 'Memoirs of a Geisha' met Barney." And the designers play a game. It's called: "How long can our favorite designer Anthony Williams go without talking?" They tie a bandanna around his mouth, draw lips on it and count up to 14 minutes, 56 seconds. It is the longest Williams has ever gone without opening his mouth. Ever. That was fun. Can we play again?
The Guest Judge: Designer Tory Burch, little "Miss Popular" with big and little girls alike. We're surprised her signature flats were not mandatory for the runway show.
The Runway Show: Is like playing pretend. Refined little princesses accompanied by "mama" models in custom-made clothes. Funny, the "Models of the Runway" don't look anything like the car pool moms at the kids' school.
Best Line by a Judge: The honors return to Kors for his trashing of Jon Peters ill-conceived clothes which read way too sophisticated for his little girl. "She looks like she got caught in a tornado of toilet paper" Kors says. The designer was, however, not all mean. He told Peters' kid model she did a very good job on the runway.
Tag You're In: The winner is Henderson for an edgy girl look in pink, black and white houndstooth accented with his signature zippers. Burch calls it "Something a little girl would dream of wearing." (Probably some moms, too.)
Kors praised his model's look for displaying, "the best tailoring we've seen this season." Jay Nicolas Sario, who came in second with a sophisticated look in plum and black, was bummed. He's thinking Gap executives are looking for Henderson's number.
Tag You're Out: It's designer Janeane Marie Ceccanti. The sweet California native gets trashed by all for creating cheap-looking" mall clothes." Heidi Klum might as well have said, "Na. Nah. Na. Nah. Nah." It was the second week in a row Ceccanti landed in the bottom three. And quite frankly, we were not surprised by her ouster after attending PR's runway finale show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York last week. Ceccanti's 10 piece casual collection seemed thrown together. She just wasn't making it work.
I can’t say enough good thing about Woods. A new release, even if it is just a 7″ that will probably just end up on my small wall of 7″ only to be played on the rare occasion I end up sitting next to my record player listlessly flipping tiny records. Yet, this 7″, in [...]
Paramount Pictures has premiered a new television spot for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender during the Olympics on Saturday. I was somewhat impressed by the original teaser trailer which accomplished everything in one continuous (yet stitched together) shot. But the television spot which aired during the Super Bowl had me completely sold. To me that spot had all the power of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying the film will live up to that expectation — but the tv spot was pretty damn awesome. The full length movie trailer wasn’t quite as impressive. The new tv spot brings the focus back to the action visuals, which appears to be the film’strong spot . Watch it now, after the jump. Please leave your thoughts in the comments below.
Official Plot Synopsis: Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire. The Fire Nation is waging a ruthless, oppressive war against the other three nations. The film’s hero, the reluctant young Aang (Noah Ringer), is the “Last Airbender” — the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together. Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. Dev Patel plays the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko. Exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, Zuko is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.
The Last Airbender will hit theaters on July 2nd 2010.
Objects repurposition is a fantastic idea to give a second life to a completely old and even a bit boring thing. For example, have a look at the following shovel …
In a nick of time it became “Stiller Gefährte” – that stands for “silent companion”. It seems to be completely unusual – a shovel is turned a bit in one direction and it becomes a coat rack.
European environment ministers,
including Ed Miliband, today agreed Europe's position going into December's
global climate summit in Copenhagen when they met
in Brussels.
By failing to bring commitments on
emission cuts in line with scientific requirements, Europe has now fallen behind
Japan and Norway, and Europe's position is not strong enough to unlock the
stalled international climate negotiations.
Gordon Brown's meeting with European
leaders in Brussels next week will be the last
chance the EU has of giving the global climate negotiations a much-needed boost
before Copenhagen.
John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace,
said:
"As it stands, Europe's lack of
ambition in terms of cuts in carbon, and its non-existent commitment to
providing money for developing countries to adapt to climate change, means we're
further than ever from a real
breakthrough in Copenhagen. With Japan and Norway taking the international leadership
position away from Europe, its clear there's a
real need for a step change from European leaders when they meet next
week."
Environment ministers have only
reiterated a conditional commitment to a 30 per cent cut under a global agreement in
Copenhagen. But
countries such as Japan and
Norway have already committed to
strong cuts that are more in line with recommendations from the world's leading
scientists. [1]
Ministers also agreed today they
would propose targets for reductions in global emissions from shipping and
aviation (by 20 per cent and 10 per cent respectively, compared to 2005 levels). This is
actually an increase in emissions from these sectors by more than a third from
1990 levels.
John Sauven
added:
"Once again European
governments are proposing to give special treatment to the aviation and shipping
industries. Whilst all other European industries are legally bound to make
significant cuts, under Europe's proposals
these two industries would be permitted to grow their emissions by more than a
third. It just doesn't make sense. In practice this is bad news for the European
economy, as other industries will inevitably have to make deeper cuts so ships
and planes can have a bigger slice of the pie."
Notes to
editors:
[1] Japan
has committed to 25 per cent emission reductions, compared to 1990 levels. Based on the
European Commission's indicators of national emission levels, efficiency levels,
wealth (GDP per capita) and population development, Japan's
commitment is comparable to a 30 per cent EU reduction target. Norway
is committed to a unilateral 40 per cent emission cut.
Thought WiMAX was just beaming high-speed internets to a very few lucky technosapiens in far-away lands? Think again! If all goes according to plan, more than 800 million people from the future will be wrapped in its soothing vibrations by the end of this year, and over a billion worldwide in 2011, surpassing expectations. That's an impressive spread given that Sprint just got things rolling domestically in Baltimore about a year and a half ago. Next up will be stops in New York City and San Francisco, good news for urban folks, but will it be enough to hold off the progression of LTE? Don't you love a good wireless format war? We don't.
....Several drugs are currently used to minimize the impact of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI);
the precise one(s) prescribed often depend on the symptoms expressed.
But 25 years of research on a biologically available hormone,
progesterone, is finally in Phase III trials, having shown promise for
early-identified and early-treated TBI patients, regardless of the specific symptoms.
Han Han Video Of Chongqing Police Subduing A Kidnapper
