Deep South Magazine – Southern Food, Travel & Lit » Blog Archive » Southern Movie Primer. 10 films that dive into the beauty and terror of Southern life. By Jake Cole “Gone With the Wind” may be the film that dominates the conversation when it comes to the South, but it’s hardly the only great movie about the region. The South may not grace the screen regularly enough, or at least not as something more than a cultural punching bag, but there are movies that capture both its reality and cultural spirit. From a silent masterpiece to modern works of poetry and progressiveness, these 10 films should be on every Southerners’ to-watch list. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926) The Civil War was at the heart of American cinematic innovation in the medium’s first few decades, from D.W.
Griffith’s medium-changing “The Birth of a Nation” to a little film about a woman named Scarlett. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955) Organized crime: it’s not just for Chicago anymore! The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt, 1958) "Whores' Glory": A riveting, humane prostitution documentary - Our Picks. Prostitution isn’t just the world’s oldest profession. It’s also a longtime focus of cultural obsession, across many historical periods and on every continent, from the poetry of Catullus to the woodblock prints of 19th-century Japan. There’s such a long history of male artists, writers and filmmakers who depict prostitution in erotic, romantic and sentimental terms that it’s only natural to approach Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger’s “Whores’ Glory” with suspicion.
Indeed, in the film’s opening scene, Glawogger’s camera directly engages the lurid allure of sex work, showing a group of scantily clad young women in a Bangkok brothel called the Fish Tank as they try to attract clients: Pretending to make out with each other, pressing their breasts and buttocks against the window, using a laser pointer to pick out likely-looking men on the street. Compared with the dire conditions found in Faridpur and Reynosa, the women who work at the Fish Tank have almost middle-class lives.
Google: Yep, we're testing augmented-reality glasses | Cutting Edge. Google finally acknowledged that it's testing a prototype set of eyeglasses that can stream data to the wearer's eyes in real time. A video of this augmented-reality experiment was posted by Google on YouTube showing someone wearing the glasses as he made his way around variety of Manhattan venues, receiving up-to-the-minute updates as information streamed into his glasses. Let's not be too cynical about an idea that, at first blush, seems delightful but not very relevant. Also, given that the authorities take a dim view of driving while texting, you can image how they'll react to someone behind the wheel of a car with yet another distraction.
But this is fun stuff, and if it works as advertised could prove useful to a lot of people. What's more, this isn't a static project. Word of the special glasses project, which reportedly has been something of an open secret on the Google campus, began to spread into the media in December. Now Google's touting it as Project Glass.
15 Ways to Pull Back Your Bangs. I am so excited to introduce you today's guest blogger: Stephanie has actually been doing my hair for a couple of years and I am in love with her and her work! Not only does she do a fantastic job on hair, but she also does incredible make-up. Her blog is full of great tips and ideas, even for busy moms who don't like to spend much time getting ready (like me!). Stephanie also does hair for many brides and fashion shoots . . . you should really head over and check out her portfolio to see some of her amazing work! Today Steph is going to be sharing with us 15 Ways To Pull Back Your Bangs. Take it away, Steph! We all have those days when our bangs drive us crazy!
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Have you ever wanted to learn how to do a fish tail braid? Steph also shares how to get those fabulous Victoria Secret curls we all are envious of: Thanks so much, Steph! Study shows that ADHD diagnoses rose 66 percent in ten years. Why? Photo by Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images. A new study from the March/April edition of Academic Pediatrics reports that the number of American children diagnosed with ADHD in doctors’ offices reached 10.4 million in 2010—a 66 percent increase from 2000, when the number was 6.2 million. The diagnosis now appears in 14 percent of the under-18 population of the United States, up from 9 percent in 2000. Katy Waldman is a Slate assistant editor. Follow her on Twitter. Follow Author study Craig Garfield, a professor and pediatrician, also followed trends in ADHD treatment between 2000 and 2010, mapping the frequency with which certain drugs were prescribed onto the release of public health advisories from the FDA.
Moreover, the study showed that specialists, rather than general pediatricians, were increasingly beginning to shoulder the responsibility of treating and managing kids with ADHD. Garfield demurs: It’s too soon to tell. Give up your bank for Lent - Occupy Wall Street. Growing up Protestant in a small town in upstate New York, the commemoration of Lent was not as major an event as it would be in, say, a Catholic household.
We didn’t give up chocolate or gum or anything else for those 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, nor did most of the grown-ups we knew forsake any of their particular pleasures or bad habits. When I was 12, one night a week during Lent was spent in religious training before becoming a member of our church at a service on Maundy Thursday (what Catholics and many others call Holy Thursday, the day of The Last Supper). But baptism was a prerequisite for membership and I had not yet been christened in the Congregational Church we attended; neither had my parents or my younger brother and sister. So all five heathens were lined up in the living room one Monday evening, and our minister quickly did the deed with a glass of tap water.
Then we had cake. Yawning protests to the contrary, those meals were worth it. Yoga in the Olympics? Jason Gay Weighs In. Adele: Too fat for fashion designer - Body Wars. Is it possible to be both “too fat” and “beautiful”? Ask Karl Lagerfeld – the man who this week found himself about as popular as last year’s jeggings when, in his capacity as Metro’s guest editor, he sounded off about Adele. The 78-year-old Lagerfeld, a man who co-authored a best-selling diet book featuring “protein sachets,” “homeopathic granules” and “quail flambé” — and who has very publicly struggled with his own weight issues over the years — has never been one to hold his tongue on the subject of women’s bodies. In 2009, he was quoted in the German magazine Focus saying, “No one wants to see curvy women. You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly.” But this time, the Chanel designer seems to have believed he was paying a compliment.
Yet despite his unique version of high praise for Adele, plenty offense at Lagerfeld’s remarks. Your relationship: mathematically doomed or not? I came across an interesting paper that uses a mathematical model of relationships to show that relationships are likely to fall apart unless you put more energy into them than you'd expect. To prove this, the paper, A Mathematical Model of Sentimental Dynamics Accounting for Marital Dissolution by José-Manuel Rey, uses optimal control theory to find the amount of effort to put into a relationship to maximize lifetime happiness.
Unfortunately, due to a mathematical error, the most interesting conclusions of the paper are faulty. (Yes, this is wildly off topic for my blog.) To briefly summarize the paper, it considers the feeling level of the relationship to be a function of time: x(t). Next, your overall happiness (i.e. utility) is based on two more functions. To summarize the model so far, you need to put effort into the relationship or it will deteriorate. The heavy-duty mathematics comes into play now. However the paper has one major flaw at this point. Study: Men spend if women are few. A Dangerous Method: Jung, Freud, and the Pursuit of Scientific Legitimacy | Age of Engagement. Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future. Jobs | EveryMove. EveryMove is creating a rewards platform for your healthy moves. We enable insurance companies, employers, and brands to provide incentives and rewards based on your healthy lifestyle choices. We partner with and enable devices, apps, services, fitness studios, insurance companies, weight-loss programs and others, so we all can work together to make you the healthiest you can be!
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Why Google is ditching search | Digital Media. There has been a huge maelstrom about Google integrating Google+ into its search links . And it all misses the point. Twitter and others are complaining that Google is throwing its massive 65 percent plus market share weight around and quashing smaller competitors. The reason Twitter and others are so threatened is that the pattern of shared links within Google+ provides a decent enough indicator as to what links are interesting. What's important is what's trending, and algorithms can get a sense of that with just a subset of everything that's getting shared on the Web. The most interesting aspect of Google's move, however, is its tacit acknowledgement that its stalwart search links are largely irrelevant and might as well be replaced with social results.
Google search results are essentially gamed results produced by search optimizers. In other words, the search results that we supposedly value so highly are themselves paid placements, just like Google's keyword ads. HEY WHIPPLE » Blog Archive » Good Creative People are NEVER Bored. (or) What I learned at the “George W. Bush Presidential Li-Berry.”
How to Behave in an Art Museum – Paper Monument. From Issue Three Ray Sorin On one of MoMA’s free Friday evenings in January, I went to see the room with the giant video projections where everyone lies around, which I’d heard about probably thirdhand, since I don’t find time to read reviews and never know what’s going on, unless someone visits me from out of town, and then I assume that they want me to pretend like I do. On the carpet lots of people were stretched out, some with their heads propped on each other’s torsos, and several were napping with their mouths agape, like you see in a college library around finals time. One couple was making out, and I’m not sure if they were more or less self-conscious than everyone else in the room, since the music that accompanied the installation did have a lulling quality, so you never know.
I’m sure you’ve seen it. Your friend comes to visit. You want to seem down-to-earth of course, but if only your desires were that simple. So what do you say to your friend? This is very American. Let the Little Children: How to Behave in a Museum | Picture This. One of the unavoidable realities of going to look at art in a museum is the feeling that you the viewer are being viewed yourself—especially by your fellow patrons. In the current issue of Paper Monument: A Journal of Contemporary Art, Timothy Aubry muses on “How to Behave in an Art Museum.”
Aubry wonders what the proper balance of informality and formality might be, and if the typical American is capable of finding that proper balance. As much as adults, especially parents, try to tether children in museums, maybe we have something to learn from how children see the art, see themselves, and behave. “Very few people leave college these days with the kind of well-developed reverence for high culture that would make it easy to know how to behave in a museum,” Aubry writes. Although I believe that challenging art through modern critical approaches doesn’t necessarily exclude the possibility of respecting it, I can see where Aubry and others feel that way. Breakup Survival Guide « Simply Solo: Single girl starting over – follow the journey. Photo courtesy of Chris McClanahan “A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself trying to fix it.” Breakups aren’t easy. Trust me, I know. In April of 2010, I cancelled my wedding to my love of seven years.
It was tough, but I’ve survived. And you will too. Take care of yourself! Catherine’s Story Guest Posts Related to Breakups The Better Way to Handle a Break-Up – How to leave a breakup with your self-respect intact3 … 2 … 1 … Happy New You! Copyright 2012. Like this: Like Loading... Why In-Person Socializing Is a Mandatory To-Do Item. I’m a 30-year-old writer who works from home and thrives on the neat things you can do with technology.
I’ve written books about smartphones and online social networks, and I’m reading things all day. But perhaps the most idea-generating part of my workweek is attending a knitting circle. I’m pretty sure at least a half-dozen other web professionals feel the same way, and you might as well. Not a traditional knitting circle, mind you, but it’s the same kind of idea. Every week, I carve time out of a weekday morning to meet up with a semi-regular crew of guys about my age. Left to our base instincts, we'd all probably spend that scheduled time, like most of our time, in front of a screen. That’s just dandy for me. You need a real Third Place The Third Place is a concept of Ray Oldenburg, urban sociologist and author of The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community.
You need to argue your ideas more. Concerned About Facebook Privacy? Drink Up. One of the great ironies of our time is the sheer number of Facebook users who label their debauched post-Las Vegas photo albums some variation of: “What Happens in Vegas…” Obviously, very little that happens in Nevada’s party district, or anywhere else, manages to stay there these days. As long as cameras are on hand to capture the evidence, and social media networks exist to distribute it, the days of worry-free decadence are gone.
Or are they? A new campaign from South American beer brand Cerveza Norte promotes an improbable new product the company developed with Buenos Aires-based agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi. Norte’s Photoblocker is a futuristic beer cooler that purports to do just what its title says: defend drinkers against unwanted interference from amateur paparazzi and day-after embarrassment (or worse). We've seen photoblocking technology applied in the automotive sector, as a speeding ticket evasion mechanism, but this may be the first bar-centric application. Have It Your Way: The Evolution of the Kids' Meal - Lifestyle. Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations | Wired Science.
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