Public Yoko Ono's letter written to her beloved Japan, n a time when we are seeing a real disaster and where nature is screaming, desperately, something.
NEW YORK My dear people of Japan, I feel dizzy right now, just as if I was there with you, and I was struck by this disaster than it was you.
just recently I went to Tokyo, and I was thrilled that the city was beautiful, clean and quiet! I did not expect a disaster of similar proportions could hit the country I love so much.
Once, John, my husband, Sean and I were in Tokyo, in a hotel. It was the morning and the earthquake suddenly surprised us.
immediately grabbed Sean, who was then still a small child. I went into a closet, holding tight, Sean and I sat there, repeating over (the mantra, ed.) Namyohorengekyo.
When the quake subsided, John laughed and told me I could not understand why I went to put me in a closet.
explained that it is important to be protected by a structure. Well, at least that's what I was taught as a child.
The earthquake we experienced John, Sean and I was completely different from what you have just suffered. But tonight my body continues to shake his only memory.
So I'm deeply saddened by the earthquake who have suffered, and that was the most serious of all the history of Japan.
must have been really horrible. I offer each of you my deepest sympathy and my human love. I am very sorry for what you have to live. My heart is with you until the end.
With love, with love. (Translation by Luis E. Moriones)
- YOKO ONO
Lady Gaga has signed a bracelet with the words Pray For Japan, for sale on his website (as low as $ 5) and whose proceeds will go to the Japanese people.
Uniqlo, the Japanese chain of cheap cashmere sweaters, dresses and helped provide more than three hundred thousand blankets, as well as a grant of thirty million euro, signed by the owner, Tadashi Yanai. Two thousand two hundred stores worldwide, including Theory, pricess Tam Tam, Comptoir des Cotonniers, are putting the box, inside their stores for donations of money.
and Bergdorf Goodman, a famous American mega-store, on his Facebook page allows you to donate money.
Yoko Ono and George Takei, through Twitter, to find help with the many missing people finder.
smile thinking that I reviewed this movie, the original title "The Kids Are All Right July 31, 2010. I saw him again the other night here in Italy, where he has just come out. Strange to think who has already received awards, he has talked so much and come here just now. In a moment I questioned the adoptions by gay and single, a film that manages to tell, very normal, a family of "normal" has very little. And, despite this, the daily problems and the commonest of a lesbian couple that at least this has nothing other than a heterosexual couple, education of children, marriage tired, respect of the parties. Why it is always a relationship.
I found the film a bit 'slower than the English version. Annette Bening in the great sword to defend his family and Julianne Moore in a good version ambiguous and less strong than the first, but perhaps for this reason, a character closer to reality.
In a cinematic landscape that offers only Italian cinema, a gem tucked away in a smaller room. I think I should devote myself more to the summer movie, because here, in a little while ', will disappear well as evening shows! I say this with great regret. But perhaps the cinepanettoni, are what they deserve ....
Kristin Cavallari Let's pretend that there is a sun out spectacular, approaching the summer, you're going on a trip to the Maldives ... I want! It 's time to think about costumes!
You know, I'm early, but starting to think a bit 'before is more the desire to get really thin and prepare for the test suit. For those not going to the beach this summer, there are no excuses. The test begins costume with his arms and ankles discoveries, no exceptions!
Although my passion is costume Malia Mills (oh by the way! Has just opened a new boutique in Brooklyn at 375 Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt and Bond fabulous), I will talk about the new tendnza California: the costumes of the Maya.
Jennifer Aniston, Kristin Cavallari, Vanessa Minnillo, spotted some of the stars. Summer colors, not too "revealing", really cute! My favorite? To Kristin Cavallari, color and shape. To find absolutely!
gloomy day (strange!). However, at least, has stopped getting cold. Time leather jacket. The trend continued tight sleeve. By Rick Owens, whom I adore, at All Saints. Brand new ones Trosman, Argentine designer detached by Owens to create, since 2007, his collection of leather garments. The extra touch? The dancer studded, glittery high heels for the evening, the t-shirt printing, Louis Vuitton scarf and spotted the bag with a touch of color. Will stay because ... well ... it will be raining too dark, but spring is just around the corner!
When dancing was a nightmare: the history of Dance Marathons
Imagine being hungry, very hungry and have no money in his pocket. Imagine not even have a roof to sleep because the economic depression (very topical these days) has left you all 'bivouac a "Black Thursday" before not to a very cold and long winter. Suppose that there is a place to find shelter, a hot meal waiting for you and the promise of monetary reward, a tempting prize, indeed, vital, so there is something crazy to ask in return: to dance till you drop. It sounds like the plot of a movie but it is a real experience, a mass delusion that raged in North America between the twenties and thirties, and that dragged on dance generations of men and women driven by poverty and want. The "Dance Marathons" were not racing but real threats to health. The debate is for participants to dance continuously for several days (sometimes months), forcing them to eat or sleep standing up; disqualified. The stock market crash on Wall Street shook the 'world economy that on October 24, 1929 on the streets throwing the middle class who had invested their earnings in durable consumer goods or put "safe" life savings in the bank. A few hours and the "welfare" 's time, that naively promised by the thirty-first U.S. President, Herbert Hoover, to' crack dawn of economic, was dissolved with funds, property and labor.
What better solution than participate in a dance competition with a lot of prize? Fun and profit in view, nothing easier than to join the 'ultile pleasure. Unfortunately, things went differently and ended up with the competitors' naively adhere to that, over time, turned into a shameful scam, since the sponsors of the marathon, I decided to earn the highest income in return for an insignificant expense, wore make-up races hiring professional dancers and actors taken "on loan" from Vaudeville who ended up winning the competition or simply extending the hours of dancing hideously. The great American director Sidney Pollack turned, in 1969, a film entirely inspired by the dance marathons, and entrusted the role of the bravvissimi is protagonist Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. The original title of the film was "They Shoot Horses, Do not They?" Translated into Italian, "It was not like they kill the horses?". In fact, the term "horse" was referring metaphorically to competitors who were exploited on the dance floor until the "death" as was the case with horses. To think that in principle this competition was invented by University of Pennsylvania as a collective charity event aimed to ease the pain of the country. Enrolling couples ushered in the opening night filled with hope and energy as a result nurito attended by "stands rudimentary" set up for the 'occasion, upon payment of a' ticket 'entry' of little economic value.
To cheer the 'event which took place a band that gave way, with the sunrise, a gramophone willing to tirelessly trumpeting notes of jazz until the diabolical' arrival of the 'other band' night "which replaces the previous one. We danced for hours with little rest intervals in which participants were allowed to lie down, sleep or loose shoes. L 'clothing was generally unsuitable physical effort, women danced wearing clothes mezzitacchi and "elegant", the men did not fail to wear jackets and ties while the rest end up in his shirt sleeves. The meals offered by the sponsor, were consumed in motion while the judges, sometimes fitted with shoes, looked at couples in ensuring compliance with the rules. Indeed, it was essential that the partners remain "joined the company and that your knees remain straight, or at least, remote from the floor. If the competitor now exhausted, fell to the ground or pour himself bent on supporting the knees inevitably, the pair was eliminated. We narrate episodes in which after marathon lasted 19 days, brave (and desperate ) Participants give way to the brink of victory or were excluded for a trivial incident. It was common to see someone supporting your weight on one foot to allow all 'other leg to rest while some people are literally chained' to an 'other to avoid slipping and collapsing during sleep. Ropes and leashes for dogs had an excellent "glue" artificial. Women often bear the brunt of sleeping companions, and vice versa, just as frequently, as problems of physical injuries, muscle injuries, sprains or broken bone forced the dancers to leave the race.
C 'was also who was able to read, write, or work knit during 'performance, time spent outside the house was filled as usual and domestic habits were moving on the dance floor. While parents were competing, the children if they were to sleep on the benches or splat against the wall. Happened to that famous radio personality documented in the direct 'event. It was also possible that, during the highly intervals, the sadism of the organizers unforgivable touched peaks, draw at random, the name of one of the competitors to delight the audience with some poetry, song, story or imitations. Viewers were invited to partake of refreshments meanwhile shelling out a few cents. In no way could interact with competitors , If only verbally incitadandoli with choirs, praise or warnings. Another trick used by the organizers to discourage participants were unaware of tunes to choose quick advantage of their weakness, s' rule required them to modulate the pace the pace you choose, alternating sounds slower then other vortex. The prize was usually a very attractive amount of money given the lack of time but the victory was always a bitter taste. Often the victors were too tired to enjoy the prize that was given them between the flash and clamor of the local photographers of the ending. No wonder, after having read, though many Americans were the "Dance Marathons" were declared illegal and therefore prohibited, from human point of view, the candidates to subjugate a heavy physical exertion, while considering the 'moral aspect, it was unthinkable, as the priests had to say on the pupiti of the churches, to help pay for this type exploitation. With the 'advent of World War II and the slow economic recovery marathons lost its charm and ended with the' openly boycotted by the public. During those years we are moving images of women reverse the bodies of comrades, prey of sleep and fatigue.
Yesterday, taken by the discomfort of the weekend I went to the site of Topshop, well-known (at most) London shop (and now New York, although a bit 'more expensive) where to find clothes and accessories to fun Low prices. Until last winter was also the collection of Kate Moss, who I adored. Much more expensive than the rest, but very glam.
The first approach to the site is fantastic. Find it all, well-divided and do much less effort compared to the store where everything is much more confusing, the garments are appiccicatissimi and you find it difficult to choose anything, especially in the larger stores.
That's why I chose a pair of black flats with ankle flowers, a bag and a two-colored trench coat with the hood chiccosissima phenomenal. I arrived at the check-out and my trench had already sold out. What a disappointment! On the verge of desperation (it was really beautiful), I folded it up another trench, however, did not taste the same.
Finished all paid, I get an email antipaticissima. They can not process my order. Why? What happens? Delivered in Italy so the problem is not that.
Ugh ... I'm desperate!
But I do not give up! "Never give up" (or "in") said Churchill in '41. Never give up!
There are fabrics that are real works of 'art as color, embroidery, prints, and touch. Run your fingers on the silk, feeling the relief of the drawing, being enveloped by soft heads and extremely seductive .. 'experience that engages the senses and free the' imagination. Fashion East is an example of style and timeless appeal, an aesthetic luxury that enhances the beautiful magazine Gulhamed catalog from which I extracted these beautiful images. If you want to give a 'look at new proposals for the summer or just to know the brand, enjoying the' wealth of fabrics to say the least "legendary", this is the referring link : Http://www.gulahmedshop.com/, I hope you enjoy!
