Nice choice Time magazine. Scholarly. Tasteful. A cover I hope to one day find in a time capsule of 2012. When did breastfeeding become decent enough for the cover of a major national magazine? Because in my book it is on par with diaper rash, or pink eye. Keep that shit under wraps, please.
Now I’m under no delusion that brands don’t copy off one another. But have you ever seen such a DIRECT and UTTER duplication of concept, design, name, everything?! Skechers even owns up to what they have done, which makes its worse, saying on their website ‘It isn’t a new idea, but it’s a great idea’. As a comparison let’s take the iPhone, a great idea which every cell phone and tech company is trying to closely match. But at least they all have the decency not to name their company ‘Pear’ and the product the ‘MePhone’. I will never buy Bobs!! If not for my loathing of Skechers’ completely uninspired business plan, then out of protection for the shoeless kids in South America. Can you imagine waiting your whole life for a pair of shoes, and then your friends get TOMS while you get a knockoff?
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Last night at the Billboard Music Awards, arguably the most appropriate time ever in which to look young and hip, Katy Perry decided instead dye her hair and lips this relentless shade of purple. I know the spirit of dying her hair purple was made in twentysomething pop star vain. But when paired with the Helen Mirren inspired smoosh-boobed jeweled frock, the whole look is reminiscent of a post menopausal women trying desperately to still feel beautiful. I want to slap her and say ‘KATY stop being so garish. You’re never going to be more naturally beautiful then you are right now’ and then slowly pull the lipstick out of her hand.
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And so begins another season of The Bachelorette, and with it the introduction of the most God-awful title graphics on television. Past sequences have included Jake the pilot’s airplane themed montage, Ben the winemaker’s sweeping vineyard fields. But nothing can compare to this season for single mom Emily, where we find her chillin with her daughter in some Photoshop purgatory. Do you ever fool around with Photoshop effects just to see how it pans out? Maybe a hue/saturation layer, maybe nuke the contrast levels, maybe apply a Posterize effect. But ultimately you command Z ten times because everything looks shitty. This designer didn’t have that reflex. This designer thought nope– I have done it. I have struck that perfect chord and erected a design that is both tasteful and relevant. And now all season we’ll be forced to cringe under the orange glow while we listen to Chris Harrison ask “do you know someone who’d like to be on the next season of the Bachelor or Bachelorette?”. The only thing worse than the title graphics? At least 20 out of the 25 men look like guys you’d desperately ask your girlfriend to ‘save’ you from at a bar. And the only back up Emily has is her freaky little orange child.
Tags: ABC, Bachelorette, Emily Maynard
Apparently all those years of orthodonture were for nothing. This model’s parents sure thought so. But man, that was a gamble. One day she’s stirring buttermilk on the farm, the rest she’s modeling tshirts for the GAP. Gap teeth, the GAP… oo the irony. This demonstrates a trend in modeling to appear unkept… see my post on their brows here. Guess its better to share around than taking pills or only eating lettuce.
You know how Facebook does something new and you hate it for two weeks and then realize that you’re actually obsessed with it and that Facebook knows your deepest desires better than you do? This isn’t one of those times. THIS is bad design. I can not believe I am seeing white text, on top of a black gradient?! It’s illegible! It’s tacky! It’s uninspired! And it truly defies Facebook’s always pristine aesthetic. I feel like a parent telling my child that I’m…. disappointed in them.
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Really, none. He’s not attractive or talented or of worth to our culture. The best thing he’s ever done is the song ‘F*ck you’, which Gwyneth Paltrow went and sang better on ‘Glee’. The oneness of his head and neck reminds me of a cankle. And with his stint as coach on ‘The Voice’, he has somehow managed to be even less sensical and of worth than ‘American Idol’s Randy Jackson… which is really saying something. All these qualms without even mentioning the reason I started this post, which was to gawk in horror at the kitten shirt he wore on the show last night. Plus the necklace he borrowed from my childhood ‘Pretty Pretty Princess’ board game. Its enough to elevate him from irritated to full blown loathing on my personal scale of celebrity grievances.
Tags: cee lo green, the voice
