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The celebs have started to pile up for New Years in Miami but the real action was on the beach! Jamie Lynn Sigler showed off low-maintenance beach style with zebra-print bikini, using a long white t-shirt dress as cover up with matching headband. Sigler finished off the look with gold flip-flops and and a men’s watch.
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Paris Hilton hit Bondi Beach, Australia with occasional stylist and best fashion friend Kim Kardashian in a muticolore Louis Vuitton bikini top (left) and a dashiki-inspired tunic (right). The ladies paired their looks of- the -moment metallic bags that are almost bigger than their owners, silver for Paris and gold for Kim, kudos for coordination and coloring ladies!
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Renee Zellweger looked stunning arriving at “Late Show With David Letterman” in L’Wren Scott’s black headmistress dress paired with peep-toed Christian Louboutin slingbacks. Scott has been receiving rave reviews for her new line “Little Black Collection” of slim sexy dresses. The uber-stylist-the-stars-turned -designer recently stated to W magazine that “I’m not interested in making clothes for 12 year olds. These clothes are for women.”
Two commercials for Vaseline and Sanex (made by the snack cake moguls, Sara Lee, who knew?) have been launched that are incredibly similar. How exactly do these moments of seeming collective consciousness happen? Plus – was Spencer Tunik involved in any of this??
What do you think of these? Between this and Tyra Banks’ televised tyrade, Vaseline is so hot right now!
According to the Department of Homeland Security “the United States government threat level remains at Orange – High Risk of Terrorist Attacks”. When did Orange become the color of High Risk Terror? It’s such a pleasing color, it cheers me up, my home is full of orange accents. Gatorade is the symbol of a Super Bowl win, it’s
Orange! I like Orange Juice and Oranges, Florida is the Sunshine State – they grow oranges there, I like Florida too. (I have many more Orange examples up my sleeve, but I’ll refrain.)
Outside of the clear assault on one of my favorite colors, which of course I’m taking personally, I’m actually wondering…. Will the constant use of the color orange as a link to the threat of terrorist attacks effect how we feel about the color and subsequently how we use it in our communication and products?
We’ve been on Orange alert for some time now. I can’t remember in fact when we weren’t. Are Consumers becoming immune to it? Or Not? Will We, Will Our Children, subconsciously walk (shy) away from products or advertising where orange is the dominant color. Will Hot Wheels have to change the color of their track?
Color questions for our times….
Thank you to photographer Ryan McVay for letting me use his Delicious Image of an orange; I’m going to have one now…
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As a photographer, shooting skiing is one of the most demanding sports to cover. No other sport requires you to practically participate in the event, often being on the course when you are shooting. One has to be a proficient enough skier to be able to work of steep ski hills, especially when you are carrying a 40 pound pack on your back. Often times, the race course is injected with water the night before, to make the course faster and more trecherous for us. Luckily, there was a lot of snow on the course to slip on this time.
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Dealing with all of the challenges that Mother Nature has to offer is often a challenge as well. For example, as we went off to work today, the temperature was a balmy -17 degrees. Standing on the side of a ski slope for hours on end, concentrating on athletes moving at high speeds at regular intervals throughout the day is test of ones’ will. It is important to have finger dexterity when operating a still camera, and when the temperature begins to drop, that becomes more and more difficult. One of the great things about ski photography is the camarederie amongst the photographers who are from around the world. France, Italy, Austria, Norway, Germany and Japan all send photographers to cover their athletes, or who cover the enitre World Cup curcuit.
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When the weather is nice, the photography is often much better. As with all photography, background is very important. But with ski photography, you only have one chance to choose where you shoot from. If you are at a baseball game and you don’t like the position you are in, it is easy enough to move and find a better spot. The rules of FIS (International Ski Federation) state that all photographers must be in place one hour before the start of the race. In order to find the proper spot on the course you must ski the course a couple of times before this time and try to visualize how the skier would look at different positions. You also have to be approved by the resident race official named Gunter, who will not hesitate to kick you out of your spot for safety reasons. If you choose the wrong spot, you are stuck and basically screwed.
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It is difficult to try to come up with something different at the races. It is easy to shoot from the “pack” of photographers, because often times there are just not that many positions to shoot from and you want to come back with the required shots.
Overall, the challenge is equal to the reward when working ski racing. You have a greater appreciation of the athletes and what they do when you are out there on the course.
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A girl stands in a field wearing a white dress March 28, 2004 in Richards Bay, South Africa. She is an orphan whose parents died of AIDS. Getty Images is partnering with the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS ongoing projects.
In recognition of World AIDS Day (December 1, 2006) I am in Nairobi, Keny with the GBC working to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The main focus of my trip is to document, through imagery, HIV+ orphans and other vulnerable children, women’s empowerment and healthcare accessibility.
Today, approximately forty million people are living with HIV worldwide – a number that continues to rise everywhere, every day. Only by continuing to educate and raise awareness can we work to prevent the spreading of this disease any further.
AIDS sufferers, no matter where they live, generally have on thing in common – the neglect of government, a lack of understanding from their communities, prejudice, ostracism and a general lack of acceptance and support. Most sufferers have been surprised by the disease – it would have snuck up on them in an environment without information or education. The fact is that what is most common to AIDS worldwide is ignorance. That is how the disease is able to inundate itself into people’s lives on such a grand scale.
While in Kenya, I am simply attempting to provide good people with a visual body of evidence which they can use to compel the relevant authorities to act. My pictures are my reaction to what I am seeing and for the most part, I have seen great dignity and stoicism in the people that I have photographed.
In the cycle of human drama that is constantly presented to a working photojournalist, I think we have to find new ways to tell an old story. If we don’t, we risk that story slipping into oblivion and falling off the radar of collective social responsibility. All I am trying to do is tell that story in the most powerful way I can under the limited circumstance that time brings to any story.
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