August 23rd, 2010 by Ludique
The Sunrise Series, by Jasper Goodall
Entitled the Sunrise series they are a mix of surrealism, symbolism and erotica, brought to life using photo-realistic airbrushing techniques to capture the slick sheen of the oily figures and the soft windswept sands of the desert.
Enjoy! I love his work :X
August 1st, 2010 by Ludique
Proiect: “Behind the Surface”
Fotograf: Nadia Moro
Maiestuos, ireal, magic!
Sursa: trendland
Iunie 16th, 2010 by Ludique
As more and more men and women visited public beaches to swim, relax, and play recreational water sports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, issues about swimwear arose regarding popular fashion, functionality, and modesty.
The early years of the twentieth century were daring ones for women’s swimwear design. Bulky suits with pant and skirt combination were replaced by loose, one-piece suits that fit snugly against the body. They featured short skirts that covered the frontal area like aprons.
In 1907 Australian swimmer Annette Kellermann (1887–1975) was arrested on a beach in Boston, Massachusetts, for indecent exposure. She was wearing a black formfitting sleeveless, apronless woolen suit with a scooped neckline and opaque black stockings. By 1910 the Kellermann suit was embraced by young women, although more conservative females chose one-piece suits with an attached modesty skirt. Men’s suits were bulky two-piece cotton or woolen garments with vests that covered most of the chest, torso, and legs down to the shins or ankles. Many featured skirt-like coverings.
By 1916 swimwear was a popular form of fashion. That year the first annual “Bathing Suit Day” was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City where new styles of swimwear were modeled. For the first time, men’s and women’s swimwear was viewed as sporty, trendy, and even sexually appealing. At that time aprons began to disappear on fashionable suits. Still, regulations on many public beaches required men and women to wear lightweight untucked
tops and skirts or skirt-like covers over the fitted shorts.
Jantzen Knitting Mills of Portland, Oregon, began manufacturing men’s and women’s suits of a rubberized rib-stitched fabric that held its formfitting shape wet or dry and did not retain water. They were inspired to create this new style of suit by a male rower searching for a functional suit. This suit also was appealing to the many young people of the post–World War I (1914–18) period who sought to make sports and recreation a bigger part of social life. The company patented this swimsuit in 1921. The suits were manufactured on special automated circular knitting machines similar to those used to make hosiery. The Jantzen advertising slogan, “the suit that changed bathing into swimming,” reflected its recreational appeal.
In the 1920s the short apron skirt disappeared, as did stockings for females. Men’s and women’s swimsuits actually resembled each other. Both covered the torso and were sleeveless and formfitting. Early in the decade, women wore one-or two-piece knit suits with vest-shaped tops, scooped necks, and shoulder straps, called maillot style. Later, a more conservative one-piece California suit with a sleeveless top and skirt was fashionable. Along with the changes in fit, swimwear began to feature bold designs and colors. Instead of the dark black or blue suits of the past, swimwear began to be made in bright colors. Art deco, a type of modern art, also began influencing swimwear styles, and novelty suits with sleek art deco animal adornments became popular.
Source: The Gale Encyclopedia Of Fashion Costume Culture
Iunie 4th, 2010 by Ludique
Un machiaj frumos începe cu o piele sănătoasă
Foloseşte dimineaţa şi seara o cremă hidratantă pentru faţă şi una specială pentru ochi. Aplică săptămânal o mască purificatoare şi una hidratantă. Şi nu uita de exfoliere – îndepărtarea celulelor moarte este esenţială pentru luminozitatea tenului, dar şi pentru combaterea ridurilor.
Demachierea este obligatorie, chiar dacă eşti foarte obosită şi nu ai folosit decât o pudră uşoară.
Ţine cont de momentul zilei şi de context
Un machiaj puternic etalat dimineaţa în metrou sau când te indrepţi spre sala de sport nu va fi niciodată în trend. Foloseşte nuanţele tari sau umbrele foarte puternice numai pentru seară sau evenimente speciale. Un machiaj natural, dar executat cu atenţie sporită pentru detalii, poate face faţă oricăror împrejurări.
Deşi machiajul trebuie întotdeauna adaptat la lumina la care vei fi expusă, este bine să fie executat la lumină puternică, ideal la lumina de zi.
Foloseşte produse de bună calitate
Să ai multe culori cu care să te joci poate fi încântător, dar este mult mai eficient să jonglezi cu doar câteva nuanţe de farduri de calitate foarte bună.
Fondul de ten este esenţial pentru aspectul general al machiajului, deci ai mare grijă când alegi nuanţa şi textura care ţi se potrivesc. Întotdeauna încearcă-l pe ten, în zona mandibulei, la lumină naturală. Nuanţa aleasă trebuie să fie o trecere subtilă între culoarea gâtului şi a feţei.
Opreşte-te la timp
Nu face exces de pudră, fard de obraz, tuş pentru gene, creion pentru sprâncene, mai ales dacă ieşi la lumina zilei. Nu insista în corectarea micilor defecte ale pielii, există riscul să atragi atenţia asupra lor.
Subliniază acele trasaturi care crezi că îţi definesc frumuseţea şi estompează-le pe cele de care nu eşti mulţumită.
Şi nu uita că frumuseţea vine din interior! Simte-te bine şi vei arăta bine!
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Mai 7th, 2010 by Ludique
Source: It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be – the world’s best-selling book by Paul Arden
“A NEW idea can be either unfamiliar, or silly, or both.
It can’t be judged by description.
It needs to be done (made) to exist.
It is unlikely that anyone will sanction the cost of something they don’t understand, therefore you have no choice but to do it yourself.
At whatever cost.
You may have to beg, steal and borrow to get it done. But that’s for you to work out how you do it.
It’s exciting.
It’s difficult and it’s fun.
If it was easy anyone could do it.
The film Citizen Kane is a very good example. It was stolen not sanctioned.
Orson Welles could not find any backers, but he did raise a small sum for casting.
He begged, borrowed and cajoled people into building sets and shooting full-blown screen test which eventually formed a third of the film.
IT EXISTED.
Backers could see what they were getting. He got the money.
Without him doing it when it supposedly couldn’t be done, it would be another in the endless list of ideas that never happened”.