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Lost Soles...

(Source: Style.com)

Oh, Project Runway, how we all miss you dearly! So much so, Bravo had to come out with The Fashion Show, which I've only watched one episode of, and felt lacked in so much (mainly: no Tim Gunn). And now there's another show in development: Sole Perspective. 

"Drawing from the design competition elements of shows like Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model, as well as corporate driven marketing challenges from The Apprentice, Sole Perspective will provide a never-before-seen inside look into the world of footwear design and shoemaking, one of the most influential areas of the fashion industry today. In addition, it will leverage the intense drama of a top shelf competition reality format, shepherded by one of the top reality producers in the business.

 

“When I was first presented with the concept for Sole Perspective, I was immediately intrigued” noted Bud Brutsman, Executive Producer and CEO of BCII.  “The shoe industry is the pinnacle of the fashion business. This gives us the opportunity to take TV design competition to a whole new dramatic level, with new on-screen challenges in design and marketing never before attempted by other series.”

Hmmm...interesting. Bud does have a point: Shoes have become increasingly spectacular (see my previous post It's Official, The Shoe Is In), and sometimes outlandish...and the celebrities who seem to be able to afford them (Beyonce, Gwyneth, Mary-Kate, Victoria Beckham) and brave their soaring heights certainly do wear them. I'm personally waiting for my fave pair of boots from the Fall 2009 season by Rodarte to hit the red carpet. If I had to choose a celebrity to brave them, it would be Vicki Posh. But I'm not sure she has a relationship with Rodarte. The girls that wear Rodarte—Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman—they don't seem to have the cojones for such out-there gorgeousness.

(Sources: Style.com)

I, of course, have the cojones to tackle these Rodarte bangers. These boots were made for me! Alas...my bank account begs to differ.

I Remember When...

...I had four of my permanent teeth pulled when I was a little kid, and after I woke up I could swear I was one of those turtles in Super Mario Bros. For the first 10 or 20 minutes, I kept asking my mom if I was.

So I feel like kindred souls with this kid.

I'm a Scroller, Baby...

Stupid Question: To people really like to click through several web pages?  

Reason I'm asking stupid question: I think it's sort of lame that merch companies ask if you want to "View 12" or "View 60" or "View All"...I mean, duh. I want to "View All." Why would I want to click through a bunch of pages and wait for them to load? I'd rather just scroll down.

There must be some study behind what type of people like "click" and what type like to "scroll."

I'm a scroller.

R.I.P. Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty)

Source: Estellegetty.com

This saddens me. I absolutely adore "The Golden Girls." Crazy how a group of seniors could entertain me from age 10 to now...Estelle Getty will be missed.

Too Much Time On One's Hands

It would have been cool to see it. But really, who does this stuff?

Dancing Brings the World Together

I love it when something makes you feel so good inside, you can't stop smiling for hours. This video makes me feel this way. To say it's "feel good" is an understatements.

Where the Hell is Matt 2008 - A funny movie is a click away

Read a great article about the background of this video (which is a great story in and of itself) at the NY Times.

Hooping

My friend took up hoola hooping not too long ago and made it into a business: Hoopadelic. I visited her recently and tried to pick up the hoop moves--but barely got past the basic "make-the-hoop-go-around-your-waist" move. Yes, I can hoola hoop, but what my friend does, "hooping," takes a ton of work. I ended up giving myself a huge--humongous, actually--bruise on my right hip. I "hooped" for four hours, so I guess that will do it to ya. I was really pumped after I would get a move down, and was so excited that I actually contemplated buying a hoola hoop and getting my hoop on back in NYC. Alas, I have yet to do it.

Anyway, Hoopadelic was just featured on Mahalodaily.com—I'm very proud of Cat and her success. Check it out!

Futurama

The other day, I was deeply ashamed of my lack of awareness of what's going on the world.

Exhibit A)

Husband: Obama won.
Me: Really? I didn't even know they were at that point.

Exhibit B)

Husband: It's amazing how many people died in China.
Me: Huh?

Here's the problem. It's not that I am stupid, nor is it that I am not interested in current events. I am pretty smart, and I like to know what's going on. It's just that, since I moved to NYC, I've acquired an addiction—an addiction that has become so hard to quit, I even stopped reading my celebrity blogs that I so adore (a previous addiction that I managed to quit, unknowingly). You see, I'm addicted to work. Yes, I said it. I have become one of those drones who actually "lives to work"...uck. The idea of that makes me ill, right down to my nonconformist soul. I work from home, and since moving here, I have fallen into a routine.

9 am: Wake up. Make coffee. Settle onto couch with laptop and start working.
12 pm: Go to bathroom.
12:05 pm: Settle back onto couch with laptop and work.
9 pm: Get up from couch and welcome home husband.

All the while, I don't turn the tv on. I don't visit any websites (the occasional celeb blog might be visited, but for the most part, I haven't been completely indulging in that quite as much as I should be).

It's disgusting. I have no news coming from tv; none from the web. I certainly don't read newspapers. Nope, I just work--24/7.

So, after the whole China-earthquake-that-I-had-no-clue-about incident, I decided to check out the NY Times website. I read up on how Hillary Clinton came off as a sore loser. Then...I read the Science and Technology sections, b/c they are just so much more fascinating to me than Hillary and her non-concession speech.

And I came across this:

Source: NYtimes.com

This guy, Ray Kurzweil, is, by profession, a "futurist." His career is largely made up of predicting the future. How cool is that? Anyway, I had heard about another futurist on NPR. The story was about how he often consults with the major movie houses about everything from set design to prop development—that is, whenever a movie is set in the future. So, he consulted on movies like Bladerunner. Super-cool. If I had a job like that, I would definitely have no problem with the term "live to work."

So, back to Ray. He has been dead-on on most of his predictions (he predicted the explosion of the Internet), so it might come as some source of comfort that he predicts we will be solely dependent on solar energy by the year 2028. And his predictions are so dead-on because he came up with that chart I published above, which looks at the exponential growth of human progress. He calls it the Law of Accelerating Returns, I call it some cool-ass mind Jedi capabilities. He basically looks at how progress has accelerated in the past, and, based on that, he is able to chart future progress. It makes sense, if you think about it. In the past 40 years we have made leaps and bounds in technological progress. If you look at the last 10 years, it's been so hard to catch up with technology, you're always one step behind. Ask anyone how pissed they are when they buy a computer only to find out that five months later a new, shinier, more capable version has been released. Or, let's not get started on iPods. Man, would I love to give a piece of my mind to Steve Jobs.

Anyway, if you get a chance, check Ray out.

So, long story short: I probably won't be caught up anytime soon on current events. But, if I could peer into the future, I would say I will definitely at least read the front page of the science section.