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The DNA of Luxury: Defining Desire With Consumers. 34 Coolest Food Packaging Designs Of 2012. How to Be Happier at Work: 10 Tips. Happiness--in your business life and your personal life--is often a matter of subtraction, not addition.

Consider, for example, what happens when you stop doing the following 10 things: English pronunciation test. While most of you non-native speakers of English speak English quite well, there is always room for improvement (of course, the same could be said for every person for any subject, but that is another matter).

To that end, I'd like to offer you a poem. Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone: Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Monday probably won't be so bad... The Gayness of Batman: A Brief History [Opinion] “Gayness is built into Batman. … Batman is very, very gay.

There’s just no denying it. Five Manifestos for the Creative Life. By Kirstin Butler How a numbered list can start a personal revolution.

Some days everyone needs a little extra encouragement. The words or lines or colors don’t want to come, or worse, we don’t even want to sit down to create. That’s when we turn to these inspiring manifestos, any one of which is guaranteed to give our uncooperative creativity a sharp kick in the pants. Brain Pickings. POST INTERNET SURVIVAL GUIDE. Post Internet Survival Guide is a project initiated by Katja Novitskova.

At the moment it is realised as a book, an installation (FORMATS) and a series of events and exhibitions. Rouge Reveries: Fashion is Not for Everyone. Yesterday I would have considered myself an advocate for fashion for the masses - about fashion being available for everyone, affordable fashion, designer and high-street and vintage and the like.

Four or five decades ago, high-fashion was strictly for the elite classes. Predictions Week 2013: The Art World's Year Ahead. Los Angeles contemporary arts advocate Bettina Korek zooms in on ceramics by Ken Price and exhibiting online while Moscow's Baibakov Art Projects founder Maria Baibakova predicts digital enhancements for international fairs in these forecasts from dynamic young players on the creative scene. Korek has been central to the cultural reinvigoration that her native SoCal sprawl has seen during the past few years, having worked in development at LACMA, where she started a young donors group before leaving to found the development company For Your Art.

And the biggest fashion trend of 2013 will be... No trends at all! Industry experts predict style for the year ahead. By Associated Press Published: 22:19 GMT, 28 December 2012 | Updated: 22:19 GMT, 28 December 2012 The biggest trend in fashion for the new year might just be that there isn't anything especially trendy.

Based on runway and retailer previews, the must-have look in 2013 could be menswear-inspired and tailored, or ladylike chic. And the biggest fashion trend of 2013 will be... No trends at all! Industry experts predict style for the year ahead. What Happens When Bloggers Share Too Much. Recent debate about disclosure of our personal lives as it relates to daily activity and sex on The Cut, coupled with a debate on IFB have led up to bring by this post we wrote in May.

How personal should bloggers get online? The editors of FMM discuss the dangers of sharing too much. Here at FMM, our blog is our business. We work hard to bring you intelligent, professional content about the latest in fashion digital marketing trends. The Psychology Behind The Rise Of Microblogging. Krista Peck On 12/14/2012 Anyone who has been online for the last few years has noticed a remarkable shift away from busy, poorly designed websites and communities; and towards streamlined, almost minimalist sites and applications.

While we are undeniably more digital than ever, it seems that we are taking a step back — not to move backward, but to regroup, realign and refine our online experiences as we move forward. With the rise of microblogging platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram, one has to wonder why these virtual tools are currently in vogue. I Have A Degree In This! Art and design. You Better Work! Conditional vs. Unconditional Love. What Will We Miss When It’s 2033? How Zara Grew Into the World’s Largest Fashion Retailer. Fashion: how the global market is changing seasonal collections.

So, What Does a Fashion Digital Content Producer Do? On Friday we linked to an article put out by Weber Shandwick that sounded the alarm bells for any PR agencies not taking content marketing seriously.

In the article, Michael O'Neil states that "Agencies...need to infuse digital creativity throughout their network and practices. They need to build teams of designers, editors, coders, developers and more, capable of recognising and responding to the opportunities when they emerge. " While the idea of content marketing has its origin in B2B as a strategy to drive leads, fashion brands routinely lauded for their digital savvy - ModCloth, Burberry, NastyGal, Net-a-Porter, the list goes on - have all made investments in a robust content development strategy.

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If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. T. Fashion On Film: 9 Movies With Inspiring Style. The Glossy Glossary: Fashion Journalism A to Z. Top 250.

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