AD LOVE: wonderful pistachios

besides the fact that he shouldn't be in any commercials, or even be around anymore (his 15 minutes are totally up...), this commercial is amusing. the tag line is great: "now levi johnston does it with protection." hilar.

vid: how to fold a shirt in two seconds!

pretty genius way to fold your clothes! of course it was a japanese lady who figured this out. they are folding mavens. their gift-wrapping is also fairly spectacular. :)

quotable: giambattista valli

"an actress ought to be an actress, and a fashion designer ought to be a fashion designer. these are their own professions, so everybody ought to concentrate on one thing. i chose, in my life, to be a fashion designer."

-former ungaro art director giambattista valli to fashion week daily on lindsay lohan as ungaro's current  artistic advisor. (***such a train wreck, btw. oy, linds. get thee to rehab...) 

amazing gorgeous fashion shoot by tim burton for harper's bazaar

enjoy the pure amazingness of it all.

notice tim himself in the 8th photo.

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/tim-burton-halloween-fashion-1009?click=try

check the site for clothing credits

styled by: tim burton

photos by: tim walker

is proper grammar dying?

they're actually taking hyphens out of words, officially, because ppl don't know how to properly use them! don't you think we should be upping our grammatical standards instead of lowering them? or is this just something that only i find unsettling... (i realize i have a problem with capitalization, but that is only bc i am lazy. otherwise, i am a spelling and grammar fiend!)

Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on

By Simon Rabinovitch

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.

And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby).

The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.

"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.

Another factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words.

"Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography," he said. "The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned."

The team that compiled the Shorter OED, a two-volume tome despite its name, only committed the grammatical amputations after exhaustive research.

"The whole process of changing the spelling of words in the dictionary is all based on our analysis of evidence of language, it's not just what we think looks better," Stevenson said.

Researchers examined a corpus of more than 2 billion words, consisting of full sentences that appeared in newspapers, books, Web sites and blogs from 2000 onwards.

For the most part, the dictionary dropped hyphens from compound nouns, which were unified in a single word (e.g. pigeonhole) or split into two (e.g. test tube).

But hyphens have not lost their place altogether. The Shorter OED editor commended their first-rate service rendered to English in the form of compound adjectives, much like the one in the middle of this sentence.

"There are places where a hyphen is necessary," Stevenson said. "Because you can certainly start to get real ambiguity."

Twenty-odd people came to the party, he said. Or was it twenty odd people?

Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition: 

Formerly hyphenated words split in two:

fig leaf

hobby horse

ice cream

pin money

pot belly

test tube

water bed

Formerly hyphenated words unified in one:

bumblebee

chickpea

crybaby

leapfrog

logjam

lowlife

pigeonhole

touchline

waterborne

AD LOVE: oliver peoples

spectacles company oliver peoples 2010 ad campaign features the always gorgeous shirley manson, from the band garbage, and actor elijah wood, who's actually looking quite fierce here...

i love the riley with the flip-up sunglasses on elijah in the first photo and the dannie on shirley in the fourth. hawt. really craving some new glasses now...

boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses? ummm... i think they're wrong.

http://www.oliverpeoples.com/index.php/site/detail/announcing_the_2010_campaign/

lip-dub video: "i gotta feeling"

music by the black-eyed peas.
really sweet lip-dub video by 172 communications students from UQAM in Quebec in 2h15!




apparently the lip-dub thing is a real craze, at least in canada! love it.