Remember during last year's TIFF, when Colin Farrell took a homeless man known as 'Stress' on a $2,100 shopping spree and gave him $830 in cash to find a place to stay? The Sun reports today that Stress is now 'clean and sober, has a comfy bachelor pad, goes to church and the Y and darts around town on a mountain bike,' has 'taken up yoga,' and credits Farrell for giving him the help he needed to turn his life around.
Puppy, the dog flower sculpture by Jeff Koonz, is able to show its personality even placed beside the Guggenheim monstre museum by Frank Gehry.
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Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi, has sold more than 200 million copies of his 24 books, with translations published in more than 50 languages. He died in 1983, but would have been pleased at today's news. Spielberg reportedly tried to buy the rights to the Tintin stories shortly before the artist's death. But the film-maker would not confirm his participation as director, and Hergé promptly refused to sign the contract. Read more
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An Italian Catholic priest is launching a beauty contest with a difference - it will open only to nuns.
Father Antonio Rungi, from Mondragone in the province of Caserta, near Naples, said he expected at least a thousand nuns to enter the "Sister Italia" contest. It would at first run online, but he hoped it would then become a "real pageant" on the lines of the annual Miss Italy contest, complete with a parade and interviews.Father Rungi, a moral theologian who has his own blog
Last Wish: That a womanless library be created.
T.M. Zink left some $50,000 in trust for 75 yeas, at the end of which time he hoped the fund would have swelled to $3 million, enough to found the Zink Womanless Library. The words No Women Admitted were to mark each entrance. No books, works of art, or decorations by women were to be permitted in or about the premises. “My intense hatred of women,” he explained in the will, “is not of recent origin or development nor based upon any personal differences I ever had with them but is the result of my experiences with women, observations of them, and study of all literatures and philosophical works.” His family successfully challenged the will. Zink was a lawyer from Iowa.
When my younger son was a preschooler he used to look at the ponies but knew they were "girl toys" and that he shouldn't want one. A girl bought him the one "boy pony" for his birthday but it was baby blue and girly looking so it only made it out of the toy box to be a victim of He Man or someone of that ilk. I suspect these would have held great appeal. Alas too late for Baby Nag who plays with big boy toys now.
This exhibition almost becomes a homage to Annie Leibovitz. This is no bad thing, but it shows how the Vanity Fair photographers – including Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Mario Testino – have played such an integral part in the magazine's history.
It instantly made me think of what could be an interesting design challenge, something I am calling 'Barcoding people'. Simply put, if you have to create a barcode to represent a friend, how would that barcode be?
