This year for Halloween you can go as your favorite opposite-marriage loving, values voting, bigger crown coveting skank.
Perhaps one of these modest little numbers will suit ya. They are costumes from Women of Marvel modeled by none other than biblically correct former Miss California Carrie Prejean.
Defying the usual conventions of film, RAGE is the new cinematic creation from ground-breaking writer/director Sally Potter. Using a radical narrative structure focusing entirely on individual performances, RAGE builds a tragicomic portrait of people persuaded to reveal their secrets in the midst of a crisis. The film consists entirely of a dynamic series of interviews, as if shot by a schoolboy on his mobile phone. He goes behind-the-scenes at a New York fashion show during seven days in which an accident on the catwalk turns into a murder investigation.
Fourteen actors, both celebrated stars and exciting emerging talents, play characters who each have a role in the show, from the designer (Simon Abkarian) and his models (Lily Cole and Jude Law), the fashion critic (Judi Dench) and photographer (Steve Buscemi), through the seamstress (Adriana Barraza) to the fashion house financier (Eddie Izzard) and his bodyguard (John Leguizamo). As they start to confide in Michelangelo, the unseen schoolboy with his phone camera, their personal truths begin to surface and the reality of events taking place off screen at the show start to unravel.
Potter spent two days with each actor, shooting the character’s interviews against a blue screen, with just herself behind the camera and a sound recordist. Returning to this type of pure performance and intimate style of filmmaking was a liberating and challenging experience for both the cast and director.
The avant-garde style and filmmaking methods of RAGE are also embraced in its unique multi-territory, cross-platform distribution strategy, which will see the film premiered by Babelgum as a custom seven-part version on mobile and internet, day and date with the digital screen and DVD release.
Converting to solar energy means covering a roof in unsightly solar panels. Not necessarily: Philadelphia company SRS Energy has developed the Solé Power Tile, a roof tile designed to sustainably convert sunlight into electricity without compromising aesthetics. The dark blue tiles, manufactured by SRS Energy, are jointly branded and distributed by US Tile and specifically designed to be compatible with the clay roof tiles manufactured by US Tile. Customers who purchase clay tiles will be given the option to upgrade a section of their roof to Solé Power Tiles. When installed, the system can offset a large proportion of a homeowner's energy costs—not to mention cleaning their carbon conscience. The tiles are available in select West Coast markets this autumn, with a nationwide rollout planned for spring 2010.
This amazing video was shot over the summer by Ben Wiggans who obviously has a love affair with the San Francisco Bay Area! From the fog rolling over the foothills in the moonlight, with shooting stars overhead to the night shots of the Golden Gate bridge and the City, it shows how fortunate we are to live here! I was fascinated with the shots of the planes' lights as they waited to land. It looked like a spaceport in some science fiction movie. The music was perfectly appropriate "revolve" by hisboyelroy.
John Lyon Burnside III, an inventor, dancer, and activist, died Sunday, September 14 in San Francisco Ca. Recently diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer, he passed away surrounded by loving friends at the age of 91. Mr. Burnside was perhaps best known as the life partner of Harry Hay, who started the first U.S. gay rights organization, the Mattachine Society, in 1950.
Mr. Burnside was born November 2, 1916, in Seattle.
An only child, he was raised by his mother after his
father left the family; being poor, she periodically
placed her son in the care of orphanages.
Mr. Burnside joined the Navy at age 16. Soon after
his discharge, he settled in Los Angeles and married
Edith Sinclair; the couple had no children. He studied
physics and mathematics at the University of California
at Los Angeles, graduating in 1945. He pursued a career
in the aircraft industry, including a stint as a staff
scientist at Lockheed.
Mr. Burnside's interest in optical engineering led him to
invent the teleidoscope, a type of kaleidoscope that works
without colored glass chips. He received a patent on the
device, which brought him considerable income. In 1958,
he started his own company, California Kaleidoscopes. He
later created the symetricon, a large kaleidoscopic device
that projects patterns, which was used in several Holly-
wood films. Mr. Burnside began coming to terms with his
attraction for men in the 1960s. Some gay workers at the
kaleidoscope workshop told him about the ONE Institute,
and he began attending classes. There, in 1963, Mr.
Burnside (then age 47) met Mr. Hay (then 51), who was
promoting a gay square dancing group.
The two embarked on a whirlwind romance that
led to Mr. Burnside divorcing his wife and moving
in with Mr. Hay. Together, Mr. Burnside and Mr.Hay
participated in many of the key events of the
burgeoning gay movement. In May 1966, they were
part of a 15-car motorcade through downtown Los
Angeles to protest the military's exclusion of
homosexuals. In 1969, they attended the founding
meetings of the Southern California Gay Liberation Front.
In 1970, Mr. Burnside and Mr. Hay moved to San Juan
Pueblo, New Mexico, drawn by their involvement in the
Indian Land and Life Committee and Mr. Hay's growing
interest in Native American culture, in particular the
two-spirit people. Like Mr. Hay, Mr. Burnside came to
see gay people as a distinct group with a particular role
in society. "The crown of gay being is a way of loving,
of reaching to love in a way that far transcends the
common mode," he wrote in 1989.
In 1979, frustrated with the gay movement's drift
toward mainstream assimilation, Mr. Burnside and
Mr. Hay, along with fellow activists Don Kilhefner and
Mitch Walker, organized the first Spiritual Gathering
of Radical Faeries. Since that first gathering of 200
men at an ashram near Tucson, the faerie movement
has held dozens of gatherings around the world and
established permanent sanctuaries across the country.
In 1970, Mr. Burnside and Mr. Hay moved to San Juan
Pueblo, New Mexico, drawn by their involvement in the
Indian Land and Life Committee and Mr. Hay's growing
interest in Native American culture, in particular the
two-spirit people. Like Mr. Hay, Mr. Burnside came to
see gay people as a distinct group with a particular role
in society. "The crown of gay being is a way of loving,
of reaching to love in a way that far transcends the
common mode," he wrote in 1989.
In 1979, frustrated with the gay movement's drift
toward mainstream assimilation, Mr. Burnside and
Mr. Hay, along with fellow activists Don Kilhefner
and Mitch Walker, organized the first Spiritual
Gathering of Radical Faeries. Since that first
gathering of 200 men at an ashram near Tucson,
the faerie movement has held dozens of gatherings
around the world and established permanent
sanctuaries across the country.
John was also a poet and here as he recites : Learning
Burning Yearning" some of his life with Harry Hay goes by.
Mr. Burnside and Mr. Hay were among the first long-
term gay male couples in the public eye, and thus
served as role models for countless LGBT people.
As early as 1967, they appeared together on the Joe
Pyne television show in Los Angeles. They were
featured in the groundbreaking 1977 documentary
Word is Out, as well as the 2002 biographical
documentary Hope Along the Wind . "People mostly
remember him as Harry Hay's partner, but John was
his own very powerful and very creative person,"
said Hope Along the Wind director Eric Slade.
In 1999, Mr. Burnside and Mr. Hay came to San
Francisco, where Mr. Hay had been selected as grand
marshal of that year's Pride parade. After Mr. Hay
became too ill to return to Los Angeles, friends
helped the couple to relocate to the city. Mr. Burnside
became a familiar presence, never missing the weekly
Faerie Coffee Circles at the San Francisco LGBT Comm-
unity Center.
Although they maintained a loving partnership for
nearly 40 years, Mr. Burnside and Mr. Hay had an
open relationship and expressed no interest in legal
marriage. John and Harry, along with Del Martin and
Phyllis Lyon, symbolized for a whole generation the
possibility that two gay people could sustain a
committed, long-term loving relationship. John
had no interest in imitating society's rules. He
believed that gay people would create new forms
of relations that were suited to their unique ways
of loving one another. Indeed, Mr. Burnside and
Mr. Hay created around themselves a broad
community of friends, lovers, and supporters.
A group of Radical Faeries dubbed the Circle of
Loving Companions cared for the two men during
their final years.
A spontaneous memorial for Mr. Burnside has been set up
at the corner of 18th and Castro streets San francisco.
A public memorial service is being planned. In accor-
dance with his wishes, Mr. Burnside's ashes will be
co-mingled with those of Mr. Hay and scattered at
the Nomenus Radical Faerie Sanctuary in Wolf Creek,
Oregon. Donations in Mr. Burnside's memory may be
made to the Harry Hay Fund, which will continue their
The FDA is expected to approve laser-etching of fruits and vegetables in the next month or so, paving the way for produce "tattooed" with product information to hit store shelves, an official with the USDA tells Slashfood.
"We figure maybe next month or the month after it will get FDA approval," says Jan Narciso, a research microbiologist with the USDA's Citrus and Subtropical Products Laboratory in Winter Haven, Fla.
But will these new labels affect the taste of your fruits and vegetables?
"Not at all," Narciso says. The laser beam penetrates the outer layer of the fruit or vegetable's cells, exposing a bit of the pith. "What this does is just penetrates the few cells of that colored layer and exposes the underlying layer. So it doesn't go anywhere near the part of the fruit that you eat. It's just on the peel."
To make sure the technology was safe, Narciso's lab tested it on foods painted with pathogens and disease organisms to see if they would infect fruit that had been labeled with lasers; they didn't. The laser "zaps the tissue, and it makes kind of like a callus, so that nothing gets through there," she says. "It's really very, very clean, and you can eat it."
The technology was invented by Greg Drouillard, the director of research technology for laser development for Sunkist Growers Inc., in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the Packer, a trade publication for the packing industry. Time called it one of the best inventions of 2005.
"It can print anything," Drouillard tells the Packer. "The criteria of what determines what you're printing are how fast the product is moving on the packing line and how big the product is. How much of the tomato do you want to cover with information?"
Narciso says their tests of the technology shows that it can print on just about any fruit and vegetable.
"We determined you can use them on just about anything except leafy greens, which we don't stick labels on anyway," she says.
The new labels could hit shelves as early as late autumn.
This was filmed in one of my favorite neighborhoods Noe Valley. Although it is very well edited, it is obviously to anyone living here that it was created using many different stairways and streets. Never the less, it's still excellent!
SAIL TOWER WINS ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW 2009 FUTURE AWARD FOR TALL TOWERS.
The Kempinski Hotel Jeddah will be located on Jeddah Corniche overlooking the Red Sea shores. Designed to be the first green intelligent hotel in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this 60 story high tower will boast 242 luxury guest rooms and suites, while the rest will be serviced apartments .
It will be the finest address for leisure travellers in Jeddah. The hotel will include a full array of first class facilities including luxurious leisure suites, two restaurants offering a range of international cuisines, a 1000 sqm ballroom, a stunning wellness centre and spa, fitness centre and swimming pool. Corporate guests can avail themselves of the advanced corporate and meetings facilities including fully equipped modern meeting rooms, VIP rooms and business suites. This mix is orientated to maximise views of the water, and stacked so that balcony size and depth increase with height. This in combination with balcony sails and LED fixtures means the night-time appearance of the elevation can be programmed.
France circa 1988 Limited edition Mitsubishi color TV in French designed (signed Loys) clear lucite with purplish blue neon surrounding the picture tube and diagonally around the chassis. About a dozen were made for Philadelphia department store Strawbridge and Clothier for a fashion display in 1988. Original price tag of $1500. Excellent condition, seems to work well.
Price
$3,000
Condition Excellent vintage, several small knobs missing.
Measurements height: 48.26 cm (1 ft. 7 in.) depth: 45.72 cm (1 ft. 6 in.) width/length: 46.99 cm (1 ft. 6.5 in.)
Specifications Number of items: 1 Materials/Techniques: Television components, lucite, neon lighting. Creator: Loys
Photography provided by 1stdibs
Location Harris Kratz 3901A South Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, FL 33405 USA