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Thursday, February 5, 2015

The First Review Of 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Movie

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February 05, 2015

Fans of E.L. James' best-selling S&M novel are eager to see just how true the R-rated film stayed to the book, but they'll have to wait until it hits theaters on Feb. 13 to find out. As for Kardashian, maybe she and Kanye West can become the new Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. In 2013, West was one of the first people to review of "Pacific Rim," which he called one of his favorite movies of all-time.


Fifty Shades Of Grey'

The first review of "Fifty Shades of Grey" is in, and "OMG it's sooooo good!!!!!"

That's according to none other than Kim Kardashian.

No, she hasn't added film critic to her resume. But since celebrities get famous people perks, the reality star was treated to a private screening of the film on Tuesday night, and it's safe to say she liked it:



source: huffingtonpost

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Friday, January 30, 2015

Celebrity Crash Diets

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January 30, 2015

If you think celebrity life is all about shine and glamor, you better think again. Some of the best actors need to make big transformations for their roles, and when they talk about the ways they lost so many pounds so quickly, they usually give different answers. In most cases, these weight losses are result of enormous pressure, craving for the Oscar award and merciless entertainment industry. The extreme measures these celebrities take sometimes pay off more and sometimes less, but the results are always incredible. Both men and women look kind of scary after these transformations and they often admit that they had a negative impact on their health.

Christian Bale
1. Christian Bale had to lose basically all weight he once had for psychological thriller role in The Machinist. During the preparation period, Christian ate only an apple and a can of tuna a day. If you think this is too rigid, wait to hear he did this for months. The results were scary and great in the same time. He achieved what he wanted for the role, but his appearance and his health were not so great.

Megan Fox
2. Megan Fox has gone through a severe transformation. Even though veganism can’t really be considered a crash diet, Megan has dropped some serious weight. She explain her diet as raw and very strict. For year and a half, she followed a strict vegan diet based only on raw vegetables and fruits. She didn’t eat any bread, sugar and she drank no coffee for all that time. Results? Megan has lost too much weight.

Amanda Seyfried
3. Amanda Seyfried is another Hollywood star who has gone through crash diet in order to look skinnier. Mean girls star admits it wasn’t easy to be so disciplined all the time. She says it is an intense journey and kind of awful, too. What does Amanda eat for lunch? Spinach. What else is she eating? Well, mostly spinach and some seeds. It makes you wonder if being skinny is so much more important than a normal meal.

Hilary Duff 
4. Hilary Duff admits being obsessed with her weight (or dropping some at least) while she was a teenager. Teenagers easily get trapped by looking at their bodies wrong. The period of adolescence is hard because all of the psychological and physical changes. Hilary say it wasn’t any easier for her and her method of staying extremely thin is to eat steamed vegetables and grilled chicken. Nowadays, Hilary is more into being healthy than superskinny.

 Charlize Theron
5. While preparing for the role of dying woman in Sweet November, Charlize Theron had to lose too much weight. This kind of crash diet wasn’t easy at all, Charlize admits. Her diet consisted of totally avoiding starches, dinner and generally food after 5 o’clock. She didn’t drink any alcohol at all and she did a lot of yoga. Also, Charlize did a lot of running, which helped her to take her mind off the hungry stomach.

Natasha Henstridge
6. Natasha Henstridge has lost a ton of weight thanks to, believe it or not, diet pills! The Species star has tried out different pills and supplements in order to lose weight, and she admits that wasn’t the smartest choice she could make. Initially, she went to a Chinese herbalist who gave her some herbs and acupuncture. Natasha thought it would be good for her, but she lost too much weight and made a big mistake.

Matt Damon 
7. Matt Damon looked incredibly skinny in Courage Under Fire. Famous actor said that his regimen wasn’t so easy during his preparation period. He had to run six and a half miles in the morning and again in the evening. Only meals he was allowed to eat were chicken breasts, egg whites and one plain baked potato per day. Also, Matt admits drinking large amounts of coffee and smoking too many cigarettes.

source: thehealthlane

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Measuring the top celebrities' fame and fortune

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December 22, 2014





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Sunday, December 21, 2014

Spent $150,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like Kim Kardashian

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December 21, 2014

Meet Jordan James Parke, a 23-year-old British man and makeup artist who dropped $150,000 on lip and chin fillers, Botox and eyebrown tattoos to look like Kim Kardashian. According to The Sun, he's had his lips done a whopping 50 times.

Kim Kardashian 
Jordan James Look Like Kim Kardashian 
Umm, if you're a makeup artist, can't you just do some contouring and fake lashes to get Kim K's famous face? Or load up on lots of lipliner like Kylie Jenner?

We think the results are downright scary, but don't tell that to Jordan. "I laugh when people try to insult me by telling me I look plastic or fake," he said. "Do they think I'm going for the natural look? If I was, I'd ask for my money back."

We think you should get a refund either way because you look like nothing like Kim to us. Do you see a resemblance?

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

How Hollywood’s Most Realistic Sex Scenes Were Made

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November 30, 2014

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (2013)

“Sex and death,” William Butler Yeats once wrote, “are the only things that can interest a serious mind.” And since its inception, the cinema has held a unique fascination with human sexuality.

In 1899, just four years after the Lumière brothers hosted their first private screening of moving black-and-white images—or motion pictures—French filmmakers Albert Kirchner and Eugène Pirou birthed Le Coucher de la Mariée. The film, silent and seven minutes in length, featured cabaret star Louise Willy performing a sultry striptease. Kirchner and Pirou’s short is widely regarded as the first pornographic film ever made.

It wasn’t until Un chant d’amour, a short film directed by Jean Genet and released in 1950, that unsimulated sex crept into “mainstream” cinema. The 26-minute film, featuring cinematography by Jean Cocteau, told the tale of a guard in a French prison that derived pleasure from watching the inmates masturbate. Genet’s groundbreaking black and white film boasted close-up shots of male masturbation. Following the abandonment of the Hays Code, a strict set of moral censorship guidelines that governed Hollywood from 1930 to 1968, sex became more prevalent in cinema.

Lars von Trier’s 1998 film Idioterne, which contained a close-up shot of penetrative (vaginal) sex ushered in an era of unsimulated sex in movies, which included Catherine Breillat’s Romance, Leos Carax’s Pola X, Chloe Sevigny’s oral sex scene on Vincent Gallo in The Brown Bunny, and Michael Winterbottom’s music-and-sex flick 9 Songs.

The Danish provocateur’s latest is Nymphomaniac: Vol. I. It’s the first in a two-part saga centered on Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the titular sex addict, who traces her erotic journey from birth to the middle age. The risqué psychosexual odyssey also contains what appear to be unsimulated sex scenes between a twenty-something Joe (Stacy Martin), and her one-time lover, played by Shia LaBeouf.

How did von Trier’s team pull it off? And how have cinema’s most realistic-looking sex scenes been created? Let’s take a look.

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOL. I (2014)

In the climactic scene of von Trier’s sexually explicit film, the audience is treated to close-up shots of LaBeouf penetrating Martin. The scene is shot from below while LaBeouf is standing and Martin is straddling him, so you see his shaft repeatedly entering her—with the troubled actor’s face appearing in the leftover space.

“We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two,” producer Christine Vesth explained. “So above the waist it will be the star and below the waist it will be the doubles.”

The CGI-matching was such a painstaking process that it delayed the film’s production, which wasn’t ready for Cannes.

“Because of the special effects, they needed the porn doubles to do it first,” said Martin. “So they would have sex—they would do their job, basically, because I think they’re porn actors in Germany—and then we would come on and do exactly the same thing, but with pants on, basically. And then it’s all [edited in] post.”

There’s also a very real-looking blowjob scene in the film, with Martin orally servicing a train passenger, but the Nymphomaniac team used a prosthetic, according to Martin.

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (2013)

Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour epic, based on a graphic novel by Julie Maroh, tells the story of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), an awkward (but beautiful) 15-year-old girl who, after a failed fling with a male classmate, finds herself falling for Emma (Léa Seydoux), a blue-haired college student studying art. It’s as honest and raw a depiction of first love you’re likely to see onscreen, and contains a much-ballyhooed seven-minute sex scene between the two young women that looks awfully real—a mélange of writhing, grunting and slapping, as well as what appears to be manual and oral vaginal penetration.

“We had fake pussies that were molds of our real pussies,” Seydoux told me. “It was weird to have a fake mold of your pussy and then put it over your real one. We spent 10 days on just that one scene. It wasn’t like, OK, today we’re going to shoot the sex scene! It was 10 days.”

“One day you know that you’re going to be naked all day and doing different sexual positions, and it’s hard because I’m not that familiar with lesbian sex,” added Exarchopoulos.

IRREVERSIBLE (2002)

It’s one of the most notorious—and disturbing—sequences in modern cinema. In Gaspar Noe’s French rape-revenge thriller, told in reverse-chronological order, Alex (Monica Bellucci) has become frustrated by the antics of her boyfriend, Marcus (Vincent Cassel), and leaves a party. On her way home, she sees a pimp named “le Tenia” beating a transgender prostitute. He turns his attention to Alex, follows her into an underpass, pins her to the ground, and brutally beats and anally rapes her.

One of the reasons why it’s so chilling—and caused a string of walk-outs—is that the scene appears to be shot in a continuous take, making it seem all too real. After le Tenia is done raping and beating Alex, you see him removing his penis and putting it back in his pants. But the “continuous take” effect was achieved by joining two of the takes via editing. Noe shot seven different versions of the scene uninterrupted, and ended up with a “virtual take”—combining the first half of take 7 and the second half of take 4.

“It’s not real,” said Bellucci. “It looks like a snuff film because Gaspar shot it in such a realistic way, so people get very upset when they see it. But it’s just acting…You know that nice dress I wore? We had 10 of them because they get destroyed during the rape. So I asked for one for me when we finished. I thought that maybe one night I would wear it because it’s so pretty. But after the scene, I couldn’t touch it. I couldn’t even look at it.”

The scene’s realism was further enhanced by digital clean-up and CGI effects, including adding blood and gashes to Bellucci’s face, as well as attaching a detumescent penis to the rapist as he rolls off her.

“We kept the zip up while we were filming the rape scene because otherwise it would have been too much for Monica,” said Noe. “But I [digitally altered] the scene in postproduction to make it more real.’”

MONSTER’S BALL (2001)

Arguably the most memorable part of Swede Marc Forster’s race relations drama is the feral, cathartic sex scene between Leticia (Halle Berry), a single mother whose husband was executed on death row, and Hank (Billy Bob Thornton), the racist corrections officer that led the man to the electric chair. Angela Bassett was reportedly offered the role but turned it down because of the sex scene, which is very raw, and sees Berry’s character—butt naked—riding Thornton’s while screaming, “Make me feel good!”

But the scene, which shows both actors stark naked and appearing to have sex, was merely the result of excellent acting.

“I would only do it if Billy Bob agreed to be as naked as I was,” said Berry. “We shot the sex scene on Day 19 of a 21-day shoot. I always say Billy Bob and I dated for three weeks and then we had sex. The sex scene scared me completely, but courage comes in strange ways. I look at it now and I think, who is that girl up there?”

“Halle said, ‘Either you tell me every angle of the shoot’—which would make it very stiff—‘or you just give me final cut over the scene,’” added Forster. “I said that was fine. It was better because they didn’t have to worry about it and so we had more freedom. We shot the scene and then three of us went through the dailies. Basically it was decided from there what they wanted to cut or keep. When they saw the final scene, they were both very happy with it.” Berry went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for her uninhibited performance, while Thornton later claimed the realistic nature of the sex scene contributed to the demise of his relationship with then-girlfriend Angelina Jolie.

CALIGULA (1979)

Now regarded as one of the worst films ever made, this biopic tracing the rise and fall of the titular Roman Emperor, played by Malcolm McDowell, contained a great deal of nudity from its stars—including Helen Mirren as his ex-courtesan/wife, Caesonia. But Penthouse founder Bob Guccione’s $17 million epic, scripted by Gore Vidal and (mostly) directed by Tinto Brass, contains a laundry list of unsimulated sex scenes featuring Penthouse Pets, including fisting, fellatio, urination, and penetration.

After Guccione fired Brass, he hired Giancarlo Lui to film an addition 14 minutes of hardcore sex scenes featuring his beloved Penthouse models, editing six of those minutes into the final cut.

“In the two hours of this film that I saw, there were no scenes of joy, natural pleasure, or good sensual cheer,” wrote the late, great film critic Roger Ebert. “There was, instead, a nauseating excursion into base and sad fantasies.” Caligula is one of only three films that Ebert ever walked out of.

DON’T LOOK NOW (1973)

Forster used the sex scenes in the films of acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg as a model for his big scene in Monster’s Ball. The most famous—and notorious—of which is in his 1973 classic Don’t Look Now.

After the accidental drowning death of their young child, John (Donald Sutherland) and Laura (Julie Christie) take a trip to Venice, Italy. While Laura is out at a restaurant, Heather, a blind woman who claims to be a medium that’s able to communicate with her deceased daughter, approaches. Laura faints, and is taken to the hospital. Upon her return, John and Laura engage in passionate sex—a four-minute sequence that, for years, was claimed to be real thanks to the actors convincing performances.

In Peter Bart’s tome Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex), Bart, then a young Paramount exec, claims he visited the Venice set of the film on an “auspicious” day—the day they shot the sex scene. Bart claims he had the following conversation with Roeg:

Bart: Don’t they expect you to say “cut?”

Roeg: I just want to be sure I have the coverage.

Bart: His dick is moving in and out of her. That’s beyond coverage.

The actors, however, claim it was just great acting.

“Peter Bart mendaciously writes that he witnessed the shooting of the love scene in Don’t Look Now and saw sex,” claimed Sutherland. “Not true. None of it. Not the sex. Not him witnessing it. From beginning to end, there were four people in that room. [Director] Nic Roeg, [DP] Tony Richmond, Julie Christie and me. No one else. Wires under the locked door led outside, and this was 20 years before video monitors.”

“It was pretend sex, (but) it was tough on both Donald and myself,” added Christie. We did the scene at the beginning of the film and we were dreadfully embarrassed. After the film came out, my stepfather said to me, ‘I hope you’re not doing any writhing in your next one.’”

source:thedailybeast

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Zach Galifianakis displayed drastic weight loss at a screening of Birdman in New York

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October 14, 2014

Zach Galifianakis before and after weight loss

He played the portly and lovable Alan in the 2009 comedy hit The Hangover.

But Zach Galifianakis was more Bradley Cooper than the rotund funny man fans are used to seeing when he attended a movie screening on Saturday showing-off a much slighter frame.

The 45-year-old actor displayed the drastic weight loss at the premiere of Birdman at Alice Tully Hall in New York - his first public event in a year.

Zach Galifianakis before and after weight loss

While there, the Campaign star spoke to The Hollywood Reporter and revealed his feelings about life in the spotlight. He said: 'It's confusing to me - all of this is confusing to me. They oversell it like we're curing cancer, you know what I mean? I just think it can be gross sometimes, the way Hollywood congratulates itself all the time.'

Earlier in the day at a press conference, the funny man reportedly said: 'Being a celebrity is sh*t - it's dumb, and I'm not interested in it,

'I like to be an actor, and that's it. The blurred lines are, I think, man-made. I think celebrity is a man-made thing; it's not innate in us…I'd rather just do my work and go home and watch Lifetime.'

The Due Date star looked dapper in a grey suit featuring fine blue checks and matching pale blue shirt with navy tie to complete the ensemble.

He also sported jaw-length curly locks as well as his signature scruffy beard.

According to IMDb, Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance focuses on a washed-up actor called Riggan Thomson, played by Michael Keaton, 'who once played an iconic superhero'.


He 'must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.'

Naomi Watts plays the protagonist's girlfriend, Lesley, a nervous actress in the play while Zach plays Jake, the play's producer, in the black comedy.

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Hundreds of Dropbox passwords leaked online but Dropbox denies it was hacked

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October 14, 2014



A thread surfaced on Reddit today that contained links to files containing hundreds of usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts in plain text, but it’s unclear where they were obtained from.

In four Pastebin files linked to from the site, a few hundred username and password pairs were listed in plain text as “teases” for a full leak from an anonymous user, who asked for Bitcoin donations for continued leaks.

A message annotated at the top of the leaks said:

Here is another batch of Hacked Dropbox accounts from the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts To see plenty more, just search on [redacted] for the term Dropbox hack.

More to come, keep showing your support

Users in the Reddit thread allegedly confirmed the credentials in the spreadsheet worked at time of writing on multiple accounts listed, however it’s not clear where these credentials actually came from nor how many users were affected.

Dropbox, however, said in a statement to The Next Web that it is not to blame for the leaked passwords and that these were stolen from other, third party services:

Dropbox has not been hacked. These usernames and passwords were unfortunately stolen from other services and used in attempts to log in to Dropbox accounts. We’d previously detected these attacks and the vast majority of the passwords posted have been expired for some time now. All other remaining passwords have been expired as well.

Dropbox says it performed password resets when it detected ‘suspicious activity’ on these accounts a few months ago.

source:thenextweb

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Miley Cyrus Shares Topless Sunbathing Photo

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October 14, 2014



There are some things you can count on in life: The sun will rise in the east and set in the west, and Miley Cyrus will continue to share topless photos on Instagram.

The 21-year-old singer soaked up as much sun as possible for the Australian leg of her Bangerz tour, and that meant making sure she didn't get any pesky tan lines.

Cyrus, of course, shared proof of her topless sunbathing with her fans on Instagram, covering her chest with alien heads to comply with Intstagram's terms of service.

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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Interview With Roger Deakins About Shooting The Coens' 'The Man Who Wasn't There'

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October 11, 2014


Roger Deakins is a man who needs no introduction. Arguably the most renowned cinematographer currently working, Deakins has burned vivid and unforgettable images into our cinema-going minds, having worked with some of the most respected directors of our time—including Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Bob Rafelson, Norman Jewison and many others. He’s also lensed some of Joel and Ethan Coen’s best pictures, summoning indelible imagery from the nightmarish, Kafka-esque apartment complexes of “Barton Fink," the sleazy, delirious L.A. daydream of “The Big Lebowski” and the godless Texas frontier of “No Country for Old Men.” He was also behind the cameras for one of the brother’s most sadly overlooked efforts, “The Man Who Wasn’t There," a gorgeous, sullen, 1950’s-era drama about a taciturn barber who gets mixed up in some real bad business. The movie doesn’t traffic in the splashy violence or broad comedy that characterizes some of the Coens' other pictures, but it is a subdued and compelling film, made all the more watchable by Deakins’ inky, alluring and staggeringly beautiful black-and-white cinematography. For those curious viewers desiring a deeper look into the film’s visual conception, here is a fascinating in-depth interview with Mr. Deakins himself about his work on the film.

Deakins touches on a number of interesting topics here: the virtues of black-and-white photography, the process of successfully transporting an audience into the past and the peculiar rituals of working with Joel and Ethan Coen. He also discusses the “seamless” nature of his preferred working method, and how shots that call attention to themselves can sometimes distract from the film as a whole as the audience watches. Listening to Deakins talk about his craft is almost intoxicating—he’s a calm, articulate and deeply thoughtful man who has a frighteningly preternatural understanding of both the art of photography and how said art services a cinematic narrative. All of Deakins’ collaborations with the Coens—even purportedly minor films like “The Ladykillers” and “A Serious Man”—feel like fully lived-in and fleshed-out worlds, each with their own distinct rhythms and set of rules. “The Man Who Wasn’t There” is one of Deakins’ most visually evocative pictures—a brooding melting pot of commie-era paranoia, shadowy Chandlerian noir and typical pitch-black Coen humor, with dashes of domestic melodrama and even a little sci-fi thrown in for good measure. This interview goes deep into Deakins’ mastery of his craft and it’s both absorbing and deeply informative.

Deakins recently wrapped principal photography on Angelina Jolie’s WWII drama “Unbroken”—a project that the Coens have actually done a few rewrites on—which now has a December 25th release date.


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Friday, October 10, 2014

Latvian Cyclists Show How Much Space Bikes Save

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October 10, 2014

To celebrate International No Car Day (Sept. 22), some clever Latvian bicyclists from the Let’s Bike It organization dressed their bikes up as automobiles in Riga to show how much space people waste when they commute by car instead of by bike. By hanging colorful car-sized frame from their bikes, they highlight just how absurd it is that a single individual should take up so much space during their commute.

Bicycles can reduce traffic congestion by saving space, but that’s not all they’re good for. They help the environment by reducing traffic emissions and producing none of their own, and they’re a great form of exercise for workers who might otherwise sit at their desk all day.






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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Bobo Chan scandal and business in jewellery

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October 07, 2014

Bobo Chan Man-Woon is a former Hong Kong singer and model. She was also an actress in several movies and TV-series. Ended her career ofter scandal.

Crystal Jamming with Bobo Chan
The Yes Style 2011

As Chan talks about her business, however, and her love for deco bling, the air of a starlet is gone and the conversation reveals a down-to-earth young woman who is passionate about her crafts and all things girly. “The shop comes from my passion for deco bling,” Chan says, referring to the mosaic art hobby that she discovered six years ago in Japan and eventually turned into a business opportunity. “I saw these girls holding catalogs of gorgeous jeweled cell phones on the street[in Tokyo],” Chan recounts. “They were actually advertising a service where they decorate your cell phone, using all sorts of gems, plastic pearls, flowers and other trinkets. [The designs] were so beautiful and I had my phone accessorized. The first thing I accessorized was my cell phone. It was an old Sony Ericsson with no case obviously, so I glued the gems directly on to the phone.” She returned from her trip and sought out similar stores in Hong Kong, hoping to decorate her other gadgets as well. When she realized that there were no local shops that offered this kind of DIY service, Chan decided to set up her own. “I’m very girly,” she explains, “and I also love crafts and handcrafting things, so I wanted my shop to share that. I didn’t want it to be just a shop, I wanted it to be a DIY experience. I wanted to create a space where customers could also come in and sit through a DIY workshop to make their own creations using these crystals.”

In January and February 2008, explicit photos were found online involving Chan and Edison Chen. Photos of Chan performing fellatio on Chen were leaked over the internet. The scandal also involved Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, and others.The photos badly affected Bobo's career and personal life: strong public scrutiny, cancellation of media contracts, ending all product endorsements in her image, and the end of her engagement. Bobo went into seclusion along with those involved in the photos for over a year. Eventually, Gillian, Cecilia, and Edison had returned to the entertainment industry, however, Bobo never returned. She had quietly left the industry and used the remainder of her resources to create and maintain a private business in jewellery.



Bobo Chan ft. Matt Yeung - Before After

2008

Was previously involved in the Edison Chen photo scandal, last year Bobo Chan left for the United States to avoid the news. The results of her wedding plans with her boyfriend was a failure. Although during this period of time, Bobo had her boyfriend's care and support for her, recently she found her boyfriend opened a Crystal Jam nail shop for over nearly a million dollars in North Point. However, until this day, Bobo still has not forgiven Edison Chen, the other day she just heard Edison's name and already appeared displeased, she quickly closed the gates thereafter.




On Tuesday, the Media spotted Bobo with make-up on with her boyfriend on the streets, the couple appeared very loving. Wearing all black, Bobo and her boyfriend went into a store to take care of some errands, at first Bobo had her boyfriend accompany her on both sides, but after a while Bobo felt impatient and became upset. Her boyfriend who had itching hands couldn't help but to brush her on the back, but she still had her hands crossed. Afterwards, Bobo went alone to dress up, she was constantly putting on nail polish on her fingers to look pretty.

When Bobo discovered that there were Reporters, she became nervous and quickly left the store. She walked out of the store and met up with her boyfriend as they went into a office building together, Bobo's boyfriend followed his girlfriend in. In the evening at 8pm, Bobo appeared at the nail shop again, this is when Reporters went up to her and asked her about Edison's return to Hong Kong, did he apologize to her? At first Bobo had a smile on her face, but once she heard Edison's name, she immediately turned around and left. The staff at the nail shop came out and asked for the Reporter's name and identity. Afterwards, Bobo called out two security guards to watch the front entrance and then later she even pulled in the gates to close the shop.

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Kelly Rowland Boasts Flawless Pregnancy Physique For ELLE Magazine

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October 07, 2014

Staying fit has always been a priority for Kelly Rowland, and the Destiny’s Child dame isn’t letting her pregnancy force her to pack on the pounds.

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kelly rowland pregnant

kelly rowland pregnant

kelly rowland pregnant

kelly rowland pregnant

In her new spread for ELLE magazine Kelly is in tremendous shape, proving that it’s possible to be disciplined even when there’s a bun in the oven.

Of her determination to maintain a healthy weight for the duration of her term, Rowland explained, “Everybody always tells you to go crazy with food, and you can eat whatever you want.”

“It's fine to have your cravings but I wanted an easier delivery. All the women that I've talked to, that have worked out, have such an easy and speedy delivery. Exercise really helps that.”

Photo Credit: Lance Gross/ELLE 
source:Hollywood Gossip

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Evolutionary history of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens - Sex and war

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October 07, 2014


In the same issue of Science as Kaplan's review of Sex and War, there is a News/Focus article on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

The standard view has been that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common ancestor, most likely in Africa, something less that 500,000 years ago. The population that became the Neanderthals was first to migrate into Europe and western Asia a few hundred thousand years ago, where they lived unmolested until H. Sapiens appeared on the scene about 40,000 years ago. The two species of humans lived side by side for 10,000 years until the Neanderthals were driven into a final refuge -- southern Spain -- where they became extinct. The evidence seems to suggest an unharmonious relationship between Neanderthals and H. Sapiens, an early chapter, perhaps, of sex and war.

Recent fossil finds have complicated the picture. Some anthropologists now believe that two or more hominid species might have lived in Europe and western Asia before H. sapiens came sweeping out of Africa. More sex and war, no doubt, more competition for resources, more chances to practice the fine art of killing. In these earlier hypothesized encounters, Neanderthals came out on top, driving the other populations to extinction, only to be vanquished in turn by our own immediate ancestors.

The image above from Science (credit: Mauricio Anton) reconstructs the species of hominids represented by a trove of half-million-year-old fossils found at Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain. They aren't us, but they aren't all that not-us either. In the drawing, they look rather like they are posing for a group photo at a family reunion. Did they have language? Religion? Did they bury their dead? Did they sing and dance? We have lots left to learn. In any case, once H. sapiens moved into their territory, they were soon gone.

War? Likely. Rape? Mate capture? As far as I know, there is no widely-accepted evidence of interbreeding between H. sapiens and their Euro-Asian predecessors, although the complete sequencing of Neanderthal DNA may yet have more to tell us.

I keep coming back to that haunting drawing of the Sima de los Huesos humans. Modern humans don't have to learn sex and war; it would appear to be in our genes, and probably in their genes too. Learning to love the other is rather more problematic.

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jennifer Lawrence speaks out for the first time about nude photo leak to Vanity Fair

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October 07, 2014

Well Vanity Fair has scored a big coup: they've got Jennifer Lawrence on the cover of the November issue of the magazine, giving her first statement since her nude photos were stolen from her.

As the magazine proudly touts in a preview of the issue, which is out on Wednesday, though writer Sam Kashner interviewed Lawrence before the photos were put on the internet, he called her later in the hopes that she'd comment further, outside of the statement her lawyer made.

...Kashner followed up with Lawrence's team in hopes of giving the actress "a chance to have the last word.""I could just sense after having spent a little time with her that she would come out swinging," Kashner tells VF.com.

In the piece, Lawrence said she considered releasing a statement, some sort of apology, when she found out about the photos getting out, but realized "I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for. I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he's going to look at you."




"Just because I'm a public figure, just because I'm an actress, does not mean that I asked for this," she says. "It does not mean that it comes with the territory. It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe that we even live in that kind of world."

Additionally, she specifically addresses the legality of sites like Reddit, etc. that allowed the photos to be posted in the first place. (Fun fact: Reddit was once owned by Condé Nast's parent company Advance Publications and Advance is still a major shareholder in Reddit. As Reddit describes it, they are a "part-sibling-once-removed" of Condé Nast.):

"It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime," she tells Kashner. "It is a sexual violation. It's disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change. That's why these Web sites are responsible. Just the fact that somebody can be sexually exploited and violated, and the first thought that crosses somebody's mind is to make a profit from it. It's so beyond me. I just can't imagine being that detached from humanity. I can't imagine being that thoughtless and careless and so empty inside."



As well as pointedly calling out the many people – including people she is close to – who didn't leak them but still looked at them:

"Anybody who looked at those pictures, you're perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame. Even people who I know and love say, 'Oh, yeah, I looked at the pictures.' I don't want to get mad, but at the same time I'm thinking, I didn't tell you that you could look at my naked body."


source: jezebel

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Saturday, October 4, 2014

Which Dictator Killed The Most People?

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October 04, 2014


They say that it takes compassion for humanity, love for country and a strong pursuit of justice and mercy, to become a strong and respected leader of the masses.

However, every once in a while, there are politicians or generals who decide to do things their own way. These cold-blooded dictators do not care for the value of life as much as they do for achieving their selfish motives of domination, power and immortality.

This infographic shows worldwide dictators ordered by the number of killings: 1 drop, 1 million dead.

Apparently, Hitler and Stalin combined killed less people that Mao Zedong.

Disclaimer: There is a mistake in this infographic. Turkey as a country exists since 1923, before that region the infographic refers to was known as an Ottoman Empire. Also, İsmail Enver Pasha wasn’t a dictator, he was a general in Ottoman army and a leader of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. Big thanks to Osman! 

 Credits: 
 memolition.com 
 imgur.com 
 whydontyoutrythis.com 
 Via: trueactivist.com

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Friday, October 3, 2014

Google deletes 'tens of thousands' of celeb nude pics

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October 03, 2014

Google has removed "tens of thousands" of nude pictures stolen from celebrities and published online.

A statement from the web giant said it has deleted photos "within hours" of requests being made and has "closed hundreds of accounts."

Cara Delevingne is one of a group of stars who had photos stolen from their private online storage

It comes after reports Hollywood entertainment lawyer Marty Singer has threatened to sue Google for "violating privacy".

The New York Post published a letter addressed to senior staff at Google.

Pics of Jennifer Lawrence were reportedly stolen last month

The letter states that Google failed "to act expeditiously, and responsibly to remove the images" and "was perpetuating the despicable conduct of these habitual pervert predators".

Cara Delevingne and Jennifer Lawrence were among the group of stars targeted by cyber thieves who posted their stolen pictures on sites including 4Chan.

Although the women involved in the potential lawsuit have not been named, the legal papers stated: "We are litigation counsel for over a dozen celebrities."

In his letter, Marty Singer said, the female stars would seek damages for Google's "blatantly unethical behaviour" and "knowingly accommodating, facilitating, and perpetuating the unlawful conduct" of the hackers.

Stolen private photos of Anna Kendrick, fully clothed, have reportedly turned up on hit Reddit and 4Chan

The high profile lawyer added: "Google knows the images are hacked stolen property, private and confidential photos and videos unlawfully obtained and posted by pervert predators who are violating the victims' privacy rights".

In response, Google said: "Our turnaround is generally hours, not weeks.

"Of course people continue to post these images on the web, so - like other online services - we rely on people notifying us to help us take them down, whether by flagging content, or filing DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requests."

Other celebs to be targeted by cyber thieves are Kate Upton, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian and horror star Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Pitch Perfect actress Anna Kendrick has also reportedly had photos of hers
elf fully-clothed published on Reddit and 4Chan.

Rihanna is among those targeted by hackers

According to Mr Singer's legal document, some of the photos have also turned up on YouTube and Blogspot, owned by Google.

Google said: "We're removing these photos for community guidelines and policy violations (eg nudity and privacy violation) on YouTube, Blogger and Google+.

"For search we have historically taken a different approach as we reflect what's online - but we remove these images when we receive valid copyright (DMCA) notices."



By Emma Brant 
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iPhone 6 Look Great in Slow Motion and Time lapses

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October 03, 2014



In spite of the earth-shattering scandal that is "Bend-gate," early adopters of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have already shot some outstanding footage with the improved cameras on the new devices, most notably some first-person perspective hyperlapses as well as some stunning 240fps slow motion.


Of the many features added to the iPhone camera in the latest hardware/software update (timelapse and super slow motion being among the most notable and flashy of them), there's one feature in particular that might put the iPhone 6 Plus is a class all its own in terms of video capture. I'm talking of course about optical image stabilization. Lack of stabilization of any kind has always one been one of the biggest issues and dead giveaways smartphone video. Hopefully a well-implemented OIS technology could begin bridging the gap between phones and dedicated cameras, and making smartphone video more palatable.

A recent video from Uncage the Soul Productions shows off all of the new features of the iPhone 6 Pus and then some.


Here's what they had to say about the footage and the capabilities of the phone in this short video.

Is the iPhone 6+ amazing? YES. Would I bring it to a job shooting for a client? No. It will shoot 240fps, but it degrades and is not what you’d want full size in a polished video. The in-camera stabilizer in the Instagram Hyperlapse app is AMAZING, but it exports final video in 720 not 1080. Timelapse looks great when the conditions are stable, but changing light has the phone struggling to smoothly change exposures following the light.

Nature footage is all well and good, but how does a wine pour look at 240fps, you ask? The folks at Osbourne Images have you covered.


And a little bit of footage from the Apple folks themselves:


As much as I'm not fond of the idea of using a phone as a primary camera for making films (unless there really is no other option), it's getting harder and harder to deny that the technology has progressed to a point where many phones are more capable image capture devices than the professional digital cameras of 10 years ago. When combined with apps that ostensibly make the most of those hardware advances, like the hotly-debated $1,000 4K video app Vizzywig 4K, it's clear that smartphone filmmaking is not a passing fad, as many have claimed, but instead an extension of the democratization of filmmaking technology that was spurred by cameras like the Panasonic HVX and the DSRLs that would follow.

As much as we may not like it, smartphone filmmaking is here to stay. The technology will continue to progress and the image quality will continue to inch closer to the cameras that we consider suitable for professional video production work.

source:nofilmschool

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

18 World Cup Soccer Stars Who Look Exactly Like Celebrities

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June 18, 2014

With the 2014 World Cup nearly a week underway in Brazil, the American sports world has quickly been introduced to a new crop of international superstars. We couldn't help but notice that a bunch of these soccer players -- or footballers as they're known around the world -- look strangely familiar. Here are 18 people on the World Cup stage who have their very own celebrity doppelgangers:


David Luiz of Brazil and Sideshow Bob of "The Simpsons."


Mesut Ozil of Germany and silent film actor Buster Keaton.


Pavel Mogilevets of Russia and the Sprint Framily Plan kid.


Robin Van Persie of the Netherlands and actor Ben Affleck.


Angel di Maria of Argentina and German-language author Franz Kafka.


Aron Jóhannsson of the U.S. and a young Kevin Bacon.


Diego Lugano of Uruguay and actor Simon Baker, of "The Mentalist."


Uruguay striker Diego Forlan and actor Bradley Cooper.


 Chris Wondolowski of the U.S. and singer Enrique Iglesias.


 Croatian manager Niko Kovac and actor Joseph Gordon Levitt.


Italian maestro Andrea Pirlo and Sandor Clegane, the Hound, from "Game of Thrones."


English goalkeeper Joe Hart and "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek.


French striker Karim Benzema and actor Shia LeBeouf.


Kevin De Bruyne of Belgium and Prince Harry.


Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi and Adam Young of the band Owl City.


U.S. midfielder Kyle Beckerman and College Liberal meme girl.


Omar Gonzalez of the U.S. and actor Adam Driver.


Sami Khedira of Germany and comedian/actor Sacha Baron Cohen.

source: huffingtonpost

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