Adrian posted a link to an article a few weeks ago from the Guardian titled ‘When taking selfies in Trinidad, it’s what’s on the outside that matters‘ and it was a great article.

What I got most from this article is that Trinidadian women “generally have a healthier sense of body image” than Australian women.

“I felt like it”

“I was in a good mood.”

“I liked what I was wearing.”

“My make-up looked good.”

Are reason enough to take a selfie, and I think that is so great! If I took a selfie and used that for a caption, my Facebook ‘friends’ would either criticise me to the max for being self-centred or would praise me for being a brave women and seeing the beauty in myself because it’s such a rare thing to see. Is that ridiculous to anyone else?

Recently I’ve been watching HBO’s Girls and lead character Hannah is played by Lena Dunham and she is the most natural female character I’ve seen in a while and while Hannah has some deeply embed issues, Lena Dunham is incredible and is so comfortable with herself, and gee I envy her confidence and gee I wish everyone could share her self love.

Selfies shouldn’t be attacked about showing narcissism, because women and men deal with enough body shaming and beauty issues already… Rejoice in the fact that people find themselves attractive enough to take a photo.

Recently Bob the Builder himself went under construction, and now has become a CGI version of his old self. According to Twitter and this poll people aren’t happy. I can tell you I definitely voted for old Bob.

Even the original Illustrator Curtis Jobling was disappointed, saying the handyman wasn’t broke so why fix him?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11158285/New-Bob-the-Builder-unveiled-which-do-you-prefer.html

Post by Rodrigo Pires.

When i was a child the children that lived next door to me and down my street were my best friends. We would play on our bikes all day and our home time would be when the street lights came on.
Nowadays though, i know that the lady at no 3 leaves at 6:30 like me on Tuesday mornings, and that the boy at no 1 has a personalised number plate “Keirun’ but i do not know my neighbours. Perhaps its because i am older, and riding my bike around like a motor vehicle has lost its appeal or perhaps (and more likely) it’s because I’ve replaced physical social interaction with virtual social interaction.
I no longer need to go outside to make friends and communicate because i can do it from my bedroom inside.

From the reading, and the exert that Betty chose for the symposium “A few external links connecting these clusters keep them from being isolated from the rest of the world.” stood out and reminded me of the film Wall-e, and the scene where people are floating around with chairs and laptops and no one is communicating and yet they are passing by each other. They’re so isolated from the world in every physical way, there is no face to face communication, no hand shaking or high fiving, no personal displays of affection- nothing, they’re flying past each other but are too immersed in their screens that the world passes them by.

This reminds me of the train ride i take to and from Uni in which people sit next to each other, huddled and close yet never speak to each other because their noses are stuck in their phones.

Is this what our world is coming to? Thousands of people close and with the ability to talk and make new friends, communicate with new people but don’t even try.
At least once a week i get a friend request on Facebook from someone I’ve never met, obviously trying to start some type of relationship, yet when we’re so close on a train or walking down the street no one wants or asks to be my friend. Yes social interaction is good for family and friends that are separated by distance but its not a replacement for communication.

So apparently theres a new Apple Watch?

According to MacRumors On September 9th 2014 Apple unveiled a wearable device the Watch!

It actually looks really cool! I mean other than starting at the price of $349, i’m a big fan of how the watch with the buckle strap looks!
mmm definitely something i’d consider saving up for.

Journalist Priscilla Yuki Willson sent her picture out to over 25 international editors to “make her beautiful”, through which she revealed how subjective and prevalent the culture of beauty is on a global scale, and to see the different beauty standards of the world.

With this being the original:

and these being a select few of the most disturbing changes:

from Montenegro-

from Macedonia-

and from Vietnam-

Despite all of the changes, Willson is glad that her face looks nothing like the altered ones. She’s setting her own beauty standards for women, especially those of diverse backgrounds.

“I define beauty as an act of self love and embracing my own humility,” she said.

To read the article and see the remaining pictures, visit

http://aplus.com/a/Priscilla-Wilson-woman-of-color-beauty-photoshop-images-around-the-world

and see the another experiment by Ester Honig who did a similar study with similar results
http://www.estherhonig.com/#!before–after-/cvkn

So other than films, one thing i love is music.

And recently i saw Lorde and she was amazing! sounded exactly like she does on her album and i think that is an incredible talent to have.

MICA Sisters, Four lovely Philippines dominated the talent show in Korea and wow do they have talent, and i love that they all have the same hair cut!!

Theres an article on them too, if you’re interested:
http://phnews.net/mica-sisters-dominated-korean-talent-show/

In Warner Bros film The Dark Knight Rises, Anne Hathaway’s character Selina Kyle, uses her skills as a cat burglar in return for a software that will erase her criminal history from existence. This software being the ‘clean slate’

Since 2000 Fortres Gran has been selling their ‘clean slate’ product, which allows people to erase the trail of history on their computer.

Fortres Gran sued Warner Bros because of the studios ability to overwhelm the market, believing that consumers would mistake Fortres Gran’s product as something sponsored by Warner Bros. Fortres Grand sued Warner Bros. for federal trademark infringement and unfair competition under federal and state law.

To which of course, Warner Bros won.

The district court granted Warner Bros.’ motion to dismiss, finding that plaintiff’s allegations failed to establish any consumer confusion as to the source of its product, which is an essential element of plaintiff’s claims. Noting that trademark infringement protects only against mistaken purchasing decisions, not against confusion in general.

Remembering that trademarks aren’t copyrights. They serve to identify and distinguish the goods of one seller from another.