This t-shirt design called “Animal Circles” is my best friend’s independent-designer-boyfriend’s design. For some reason, the little animals remind me of mahjong tile pictures, if the pictures were all of disturbingly cute chubby animals that you just wanna squeeze a little too hard. If you like this design, vote for it at threadless.com so people can revel in its beauty right on their own chests.
Besides, It could be the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your boyfriend. Because men love t-shirts and everyone hates those fucking worthless teddy bears in a bag.
In a statement released through Twitter’s company blog, they explain their motives concerning censorship in countries who request it:
“As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content.
…Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world.”
What are they afraid of? Us? Photo via webpronews.com
That’s disturbing. Especially seeing as Twitter and Facebook were huge catalysts in the uprisings and subsequent revolutions in the Middle East and South America over the past year.
Twitter only gives famously bad examples of group communication like Nazis, but who’s to stop them from censoring socialist or populist uprisings against, say, a massive opposition to big governments and big corporations? (Hello, Occupy Movement!)
The legality of this political- I mean company- move is not the question: Twitter can do whatever they want with their company and their product. Someday we will have a social network that is neither Facebook nor Twitter that will be run by people who have an actual grasp of this idea behind freedom.
Until that day, all this current censorship talk, first coming from the US government with SOPA and PIPA and now through Twitter, makes one start to wonder: What are they so afraid of?
The first (and only) time I met Crocodile’s Clock singer Pat G. was in 2008 at a dance club in São Paulo, Brazil called Clube Glória, when she was still in high school and I was studying abroad. (I think it was a Yelle concert but I can’t remember!)
Through the genius of Facebook and social networking, 4 years later I am sipping on coffee on a different continent and listening to her and bandmate Thom Levisky’s new self-titled EP, Crocodile’s Clock. The sweet and simple folk music is reminiscent of summers spent around bonfires contemplating life and love. My favorite track is definitely “Love is Not Enough.” So true!
Singing in both Portuguese and English, the Brazilian duo composed songs on the album that could be in literally any indie movie ever filmed. Their song “Bob’s Song” (although not featured on the EP) was even featured in the soundtrack of the Brazilian movie “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo” (The Best Things in the World).
Check out “Bob’s Song” below and download their free EP here.
Kim Kardashian will reveal the moment she broke things off with Kris Humphries this Sunday on E!
Tabloids are making things up left and right and Katy Perry and Russell Brand: Sex addictions, drinking problems, tell-all books, etc.
Yuck. Take all that money girl. A cheater is one of the lowest forms of humans, right above murderers and twilight moms. Photo via snarkfood.com
Breakups are super gross, for real. But the divorce rate in Hollywood disgusts me. It’s nearly every week some other marginally talented celebrity is getting press because their relationship is crumbling due to crazy infidelity, or the fact that they didn’t really know each other in the first place.
Can you imagine MARRYING someone you had only known for a year? Let alone six months? I’ve had iffy relationships with crappy hair dryers longer than some celebrities get married and divorced.
Relationships and marriage are very, very hard work. I won’t sit here and judge people who couldn’t honestly work out their differences and decided to get a quiet divorce. But when real-life marriage and divorce seems like little more than something to fill the tabloids and get a quick paycheck, one starts to wonder what the real motives are behind these fanatical relationships in Hollywood. (COUGH COUGH Kim Kardashian!)
This story line is SO played out, Hollywood. Like, shitty Katherine Heigl romantic comedy played out. Can’t we go back to plastic surgery accusations or something? It’s a little less soul-crushing than constant divorce battles.
I still can't believe she's gone. Rest in Peace, beautiful girl. Photo via covermesongs.com
The death of amazing singer Amy Winehouse left us all with a little hole in our soul parts. However, her memory will be honored in Jean-Paul Gaultier’s SS 2012 show, as she is the muse who inspired his new line.
The hair is styled like her signature beehive (tear!) and the clothes mimic Amy’s legendary 50s and 60s style.
Gaultier comments on Amy’s inspiring style, saying that “What she stands for above all, is uniqueness. Both in music and the way she dressed, she mixed a great many influences.”
Soon we'll all look like floating heads. Also, screw diets! Photo via telegraph.co.uk
A breakthrough has been made in invisibility cloak technology. I know people, I know. HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
According to BBC, “Researchers have “cloaked” a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. It uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a “photo negative” of the object being cloaked, effectively cancelling it out.” Awesome. What a great beginning to cloakdom. Someday people, it will be ours.
Can you imagine, invisibility cloaks in actual life? People are gonna get into so much trouble, it’s gonna be hilarious.
Firstly, Harry Potter role-play will get even more realistic. Also, can you imagine the show “Cheaters” with invisibility cloaks? Knives coming out of nowhere, punches to the face from invisible sources and gun shots appearing out of nowhere. That sounds pretty dangerous actually.
Maybe monogamy will make a comeback simultaneously with the invention of the invisibility cloak. “I’m going to follow you, and if I catch you cheating, I’m going to murder you both horribly.” It’s what Jesus would have wanted.
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