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Sunday, April 29, 2007

This is definitely too gray, too melancholy, too self-abandoning. Looking from left to right, into the end, curving himself from somewhere where the beginning hasn't even started - straight into the blue, self-effacing space. And look at his look. A sight that has more shadow than seeing.
I like it.





Saturday, April 28, 2007

Sticks




Contemporary art could be described as the look-out for presence. There are very pragmatic ways in which presence can be experienced. If anything can be art when given the right focus, we need to look for ways of better focusing. So when we get it, we get it. Thus, it is a constant game between what we know and what we think we might have known, had it been a slightly different setting. Darren Harvey-Regan is a beautiful example of finding what is already there, of creating what had already been there and just giving it that delicate push which makes us grow our of here and into the work.
And if you think you know exactly what it is, it might just mean you need to look more carefully, and take the time to see the landscape he has found.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Elsa Benítez

Elsa Benítez

Elsa Benítez was born on December 8, 1977 in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. She is a Mexican supermodel. Her modeling careers started after winning an international model search, held in Costa Rica in 1995.

In 1996, she appeared on the cover of Vogue Italy three times in April, August and September. After signing with Elite Model Management, she then appeared on the covers of many fashion magazines, including Vogue, ELLE, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, and Marie Claire. Benítez has also done advertising campaign work for Dolce & Gabbana, Macy's, Episode, I-N-C, J.Crew, Óscar de la Renta, Rena Lange, Nine West, Valentino, and Jones New York, and has modelled for Victoria's Secret. Benítez appeared in the 1999 Pirelli Calendar that featured "Women Through the Decades."

She also appeared in Enrique Iglesias' music video "Love to See You Cry" in 2002. Benítez was also selected to be on the cover of the 2001 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has appeared in the Swimsuit Edition five times since her debut in the magazine.



You can spare yourself the trouble of reading the artist's statement. These landscapes speak for themselves. See the online gallery here. I labeled this post as 'funny', though I don't consider it just a joke. It has real beauty (come on, stop chuckling...). Somehow, though, I didn't label it as land art.

Roshni Chopra

Roshni Chopra

Roshni Chopra, a TV actress popularly known as Pia of ‘Kasamh Se’ aired on Zee TV. Roshni, who had begun her television innings by hosting a cricket-based show with Charu Sharma on DD.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

The two lowest steps of this staircase are used as shoe drawers. Found here.

This is what this chest sounds like. Unfortunately the people that make them seem to think children are the only ones who would enjoy this type of furniture. Found here. This rings a bell - I remember discovering an amazing installation, a table where one would hear sounds through the vibrations going through your body. Does anyone have a clue?

There is a pleasure in the usable object that is simply magical. This glovy feeling - it fits like a glove, and it feels like a glove, and it can be the most exquisite thing. Some sort of harmony, I guess. As if design gave us the world as we had imagined it ought to be, though only now does it live up to expectations. Artsy art rarely seems to head that way. (If we insist on distinguishing the two).

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Leah Remini

Leah Remini

Leah Remini was born on June 15, 1970, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan on the sitcom The King of Queens.

Leah Remini auditioned for the role of Monica Geller on Friends but it eventually went to Courteney Cox.

Remini is a practitioner of Scientology. In fact Jennifer Lopez gave her company as she is also interested in Scientology.

Shubhangi Atre

Shubhangi Atre

Shubhangi Atre, who hails from Indore, is a Puneri gal and had auditioned for Kasturi in the past and is now playing central character in Kasturi. Star Plus has introduced its new primetime offering daily soap, 'Kasturi' – Laakhon Jaisi Par Laakhon Mein Ek from April 23, 2007.

Kasturi is a story of a middle class girl and her struggle to protect her family's legacy. It's about her dreams and aspirations-which are closely intertwined with her family.

Shubhangi has an MBA in marketing.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Pretty science

And now for something completely unrelated.


Rent a Wife



What the hell is going on?
Wives for rent? For an unlimited time? Chose your preferred category?
Of course, Rent-a-Wife is a joke. But is it an artistic joke? A provocation joke? A silly joke? A horribly sexist joke? Or is it?
If it is an ironic look at the way women are seen by today's society (not only male), than why does it seem strange?
Because there is a catch. (Duhh...) And it is not about feminism. It is about renting DVDs. As what we have here is an ad for DVD rental.
How far is this from Vanessa Beecroft installing her objectified women in a shoe-shelf, to sell shoes?


Could I be accused of the same hypocrisy, exposing something by exposing it?

Oh, and if you think it's getting pretty much impossible to look at gender issues in a witty way without being accused of this or that, the desert is for you:



There is a melancholy light in Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez's work that makes one want to stay there.
By «there», I don't mean the place that is being photographed, but rather, the space of the photography itself. The picture seems not so much to portray something, but rather, to use it for its own means, as if the image had a goal of its own, quite separate from the object matter, or even the photographer herself.
What is left of the person? What form can a person have if light goes through her and plays with her seeming irrelevance? Maybe, the person becomes distant. Translucent.
Yet there is something about that form that appeals precisely because it is being put so close to forgetting.

This may well be what remains of memory, when what is left to oblivion, is rescued by thickening the nearly empty space, the traces gaining contours that are not what was left behind, but are some ambiguous form we vaguely recognize as ours, as belonging to us, as representing this left-over area that is neither the object we knew, or the eye of the beholder. It is this lovely, strange in-between.(via)

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Kate Middleton


Kate Middleton (Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton) was born on 9 January 1982 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire, England . She is a former girlfriend of Prince William of Wales.

Shubra Aiyappa

Shubra Aiyappa

Shubra Aiyappa is 5 feet 11 inch tall model from Bangalore, India. She was the winner of Ford Model Supermodel of the World Contest in 2005 at the age of 18. Shubra was born in Coorg and schooled in Baldwin Girls School and Mount Carmel's College.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank was born on July 30, 1974 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid (1994). She has become known for her two Oscar-winning performances: first as Brandon Teena, a transgender man in the movie Boys Don't Cry, and a struggling waitress-turned-boxer, Maggie Fitzgerald, in Million Dollar Baby.

Friday, April 20, 2007

Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek BachchanAbhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai

Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya RaiAishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan

Aishwarya Rai
Aishwarya Rai married to Abhishek Bachchan today on 20th April 2007. The much-publicised wedding has been solemnised at Amitabh Bachchan's home Prateeksha, in suburban Juhu of Mumbai, India.

We are really happy as this blog started with the picture of Aishwarya Rai. You can see our previous posts of Aishwarya Rai here, here, here and here.

Hearty Congratulations to both Aishwarya, Abhishek and their family. Our best wishes are with them for their blissful married life.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Neha Ahmed

Neha Ahmed

Neha Ahmed is 23 year old model from Pakistan. Neha catwalked in Paris and Dubai and soon will do a show in London.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Hansika MotwaniHansika Motwani is an Indian actress who performs in South Indian movies.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani was born on October 3, 1969 in Anaheim, California. She is an American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and occasional actress. Stefani made her debut in 1992 as the front woman of the third wave ska band No Doubt. Stefani is a fashion trendsetter and she debuted her clothing line, L.A.M.B., in 2003.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Melissa Theuriau

Mélissa Theuriau was born on 18 July 1978, in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble, France. She is a French journalist. She has also been called the most beautiful newscaster in the world, and has a cult following in the United States and the United Kingdom.

She made her breakthrough as a newscaster and travel show host for LCI, the news channel and for TF1.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Anushka Sharma

Anushka Sharma
Anushka Sharma is 5 feet 9 inches tall model from Bangalore, India.

Monday, April 9, 2007














Miss Beautiful Smile 2007 : Priyanka Shah
Miss India Earth 2007 and Miss Femina Sexy legs 2007: Pooja Chitgopekar
Miss Beautiful Hair 2007 : Nova Krishnan
Radio Mirchi Miss Listener's Choice 2007 and Pantaloons Femina Miss Talented 2007 : Meera Kirpekar
Sony My Miss India 2007 and Pantaloons Femina Miss India Fresh Face 2007 : Akuonuo Khezhie
Miss Beautiful Eyes 2007 : Kiran Thappar
Miss Photogenic 2007 : Esha Gupta
Indiatimes Miss 8888 2007 and Miss Zoom TV Personality 2007: Shilpa Keswani
Miss Congeniality 2007 : Shipra Malik
Senorita Femina Miss Dancing Queen 2007 : Diksha Pathak
Miss Mermaid 2007 : Gauri Anand
Miss India World 2007 : Sarah-Jane Dias
Miss India Universe 2007 : Puja Gupta

 

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