“For the moment, this stands as an interesting example of unusual behaviour. Chucherousset doesn’t know why these particular catfish started stranding themselves to kill pigeons, or whether they particularly benefit from doing so.”
How does a fish get an idea?
One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed lots of other people were doing it too, but apparently they were not. And so now I have what is probably one of the world’s largest collections of personal data.
Every day—in an effort at “self awareness”—I have automated systems send me a few emails about the day before. But even though I’ve been accumulating data for years—and always meant to analyze it—I’ve never actually gotten around to doing it. But with Mathematica and the automated data analysis capabilities we just released in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, I thought now would be a good time to finally try taking a look—and to use myself as an experimental subject for studying what one might call “personal analytics”.
You’re going to want to click through and read all of this.
We should say happy birthday to another child star and veteran of the catwalk with 6 years of experience. This is a shot from 2012 Summer collection and today she is an adult. Impossibly tall, skinny, with the most impressive rosebud pouty lips with a distinctive gap in her front teeth, she is very distinct and yet the perfect clothes horse for the biggest fashion names in the world.
Here is an antidote for all those bulimic young girls representing desire in fashion
A few funny things about this image I’d like to point out to you - first it is the banal consumer items and foodstuff, choppers and lamb chop cuts that neatly invert wannabe fashion desire that adorn Action’s body; and secondly, despite the obvious pale skin, bluey ‘bear’ like features, he is actually a seriously good rhyming rapper, well respected among his (mostly black) peers. I love the little feigned modesty of his hand draped across his central chest tattoo. Thats got us all wondering what he’s shy about, I bet (?). Lastly the same guy who shot many of the models earlier also did this shoot, Terry Richardson. I think everybody that works with him, find the process revealing of themselves inspiring, whilst feeling at ease with his great unpretentiousness to capture the secrets of the everyday.
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Banning Skinny Models Could Help Curb Anorexia, Experts Conclude
This is a link to a social psychology news site which is interesting for its tardiness; especially considering that it has been well believed for some time that this is the case to the extent it is felt that we cannot prove or disprove the causation from skinny models owing to the amount of inputs in a young woman’s world we can never be sure, but well… it figures, right? As I mentioned in an earlier post, off their own back Germany’s best selling mainstream fashion mags ‘Brigitte’ have already acted upon that belief and have stopped using under-average sized women and underage-women to represent their fashion stories. It doesn’t the likes of Mark Jacobs and his Italian counterparts.
who would’ve thought Burberry for steam punk. I have to admit with the recent Sherlock Holmes movies and low tech retro having some provenance way back in all of the major developed economies, even in japanese animé, it is not going to go away too quickly. Speaking of the Art Direction, when you see her in her civvies and you catch the androgenous form of Lily and her friend Freja on Kensington high street, it goes to show the value of having long shapeless legs on narrow hips, when contrasted with this image of her posing with layers of expensive clobber among this well heeled posse; which look like they’ll torture you at cool hand canasta.
