| Modeling needs a new ideal | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:46:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | We can blame it on Kate Moss. Or the fashion designers. Or the glossy magazines that feature those fashion designers. Or ourselves, for buying those magazines and feeding the beauty machines. It doesn't really matter, does it? A decade ago, give or take a couple of years, the fashion world changed so abruptly that we're all still reeling. Cindy Crawford and the rest of the glamazons were out. Moss and the so-called waifs, the purveyors of "heroin chic," were in. So long, self-confidence; hello, self-criticism. Do you remember George Michael's "Freedom '90" video? It featured Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Tatiana Patitz. These models, these runway glamazons, were far from average, but at least they still looked like women. Compare them with the runway models of today whose bodies are at the center of an international debate.... | |
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| | | Victoria Beckham Bans Size Zero Models from Modeling Her Jeans | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:47:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | That's right, Victoria Beckham, who is a size zero herself, has banned size zero models from modeling her new line of jeans. Skeletal Spice has declared that she does not want women like herself, to model her denim range. Instead, she has choosen the more voluptuous Brazilian model Daniella Sarahyba to represent her brand. "Victoria doesn't want to be accused of giving young girls a complex about their image and putting pressure on them to be as skinny as her," said a source. So far Victoria hasn't announced any plans to start eating and expanding her own tiny frame. add new comment ยป .... | |
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| | | Thetus Unveils Next-Generation Knowledge Modeling and Discovery Software | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 10:47:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thetus Corporation, a leading provider of knowledge modeling and discovery software, today announced the release of Thetus Publisher 2.5, the company's flagship infrastructure software product. The new version includes dramatic improvements in performance and scalability; a highly-optimized semantic search engine; out-of-the-box integration with databases and other repositories; JSR168 portlets for dynamic web-based interfaces; and automated workflow for incorporating third-party analytics. Thetus' latest technology will be showcased at this year's GEOINT conference in Orlando as part of Accenture's Knowledge Discovery Capability -- a commercial-off-the-shelf-based platform that combines complementary software from leading vendors to form a comprehensive solution for transforming massive amounts of geospatial data and knowledge into actionable intelligence.... | |
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| | | Software offers cost modeling capabilities. | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 12:36:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | November 9, 2006 - Allowing variable and fixed cost components to be interactively modeled for specific products, customers, markets, salespeople, and production facilities, Maxager 7.3 enables users to predict impact of cost component changes and to analyze cost-to-serve. It integrates production velocity data and margin information, offering detailed view of sources of profitability. Software features variance analysis and drill-down capability and supports multiple currencies and units of measure. .... | |
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| | | Papal pinup? Italian mag to publish calendar of pope | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:50:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | VATICAN CITY -- He already has been spotted as a fashion follower, from his signature shades and shoes, to his ermine trimmed velvet robes, but now Pope Benedict XVI is trying his hand at modeling for a 2007 calendar to come out later this month. ''Together, a year with the pope,'' said the Italian Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana in announcing the calendar. The calendar features 14 original poses of the 79-year-old pontiff taken during an entire day of shooting this summer at Castel Gandolfo, the pope's country residence near Rome. While many VIP calendars feature celebrities in scanty attire, the papal version is as chaste as it is charitable. Proceeds from the photos of the pope dressed in his white cassock and skull cap, will go to a mission in Rwanda. AP .... | |
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| | | Rose-Hulman, Team Apex USA helping develop virtual wind tunnel | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:47:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Terre Haute-based racing team has partnered with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in a joint venture that has the racing world taking notice.Terre Haute-based Formula BMW racing team, Team Apex USA, has joined with Rose-Hulman and Z Corporation to use 3-D modeling to improve race car aerodynamics.This sort of technology is not normally found in the Formula BMW series, Team Apex co-owner David Hunt said Friday. Such technology would normally be found in top racing series, such as Formula One, he said.Members of other race teams – including teams in the Champ Car and Indy Racing League – have contacted Team Apex to learn more about what they are doing, he added. "Part of beating the competition is beating them off the track," Hunt said.In addition to making Team Apex even more competitive for the 2007 season, the joint-venture is giving Rose engineering students with an interest in motor sports an opportunity for some real world experience."That's what we're trying to do here is give these guys a chance" to enter the highly competitive world of motor sports, said Nick Synder, a 2006 Rose graduate who is now race engineer for Team Apex.... | |
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| | | Colorado State University receives $11 million grant | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:48:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Colorado State University's Don Estep, a professor in the mathematics and statistics departments, was recently awarded a $500,000 grant from U.S. Department of Energy, to provide mathematical tools to enable whole-device modeling for the U.S. fusion program. The grant is a component of a major $11 million project called Framework Application for Core-Edge Transport Simulations, or FACETS, awarded to the Boulder-based Tech X through the Department of Energy 2006 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Awards 2, or SCIDAC2, program. FACETS will provide a multi-physics parallel-framework application that will enable the modeling infrastructure needed to develop a device called ITER, which can be used to confine magnetic-fusion plasma. ITER is a joint international research and development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of a full-scale fusion power reactor.... | |
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| | | Dickinson is a TV hit | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:48:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | Sylvester Stallone's ex Janice Dickinson is celebrating after landing a Christmas TV special and a second series of her reality show The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency. The first season of the show, in which Dickinson attempts to create a real-life fashion industry force, was such a hit at US cable network Oxygen that TV executives there have upgraded the programme to an hour slot. Meanwhile, the former supermodel will star in Christmas With The Dickinsons, which will air in December. Email Story Send Story via IM Blog via Y! 360 Print .... | |
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| | | Risk Management Solutions inks licensing deal | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:47:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Risk Management Solutions Inc. announced Monday that Beaufort Underwriting Agency Ltd., a Lloyd's of London managing agent, has licensed its catastrophe modeling platform to manage insured risks. Newark-based RMS said Beaufort will license its models for the United States, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom and will take advantage of 2006 upgrades to the U.S. and Caribbean hurricane models that include updated risk data on storm and surge behavior. .... | |
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| | | Disquiet on the set | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 6:46:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | B eing asked if your home can be photographed for a magazine is almost as flattering as "Did you ever think about modeling?" So what does it mean when someone offers to put your home in a movie? For photographer Larry N. Olson, it was a chance of a lifetime. For art lovers who take the Portland Open Studios tour Oct. 21-22, it's a chance to get a peek at a Southeast Portland home that turned Hollywood heads. "The Feast of Love," the movie starring Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear, has been shot all over Portland. The film is an ode to love and its vagaries, based on the novel by Charles Baxter. In the movie, Kinnear plays a coffee-shop owner and photographer who has a studio in his home. His studio, garden and coffee shop are sites in the film.... | |
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