Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Cool Girls on Motorcycles, Vintage Photo Contest
This is a photo of my Great-uncle Frank's former girlfriend taken in the early 1930s on my Great grandfather's ranch in Sun Valley, CA. I "borrowed" this photo from my Grandpa about 5 years ago so I could take it to my hair stylist for inspiration for a new haircut. I don't know anything about this woman other than she dated a family member and she liked to ride motorcycles, my Grandpa was only about 7 around this time so he doesn't remember much about her. Still I love this picture and everything the girl on the bike embodies.
I’m used to walk in the small markets of antique dealers and I found this pictures.I paid attention to it as I liked the woman personality, riding the bike in an unusual or not so femenin way for the times it was done, but at the same time because she appears kind of “daring” style.
paper magazine : beautiful people 2010
Why Don't You?... by Diana Vreeland
Rinse your blond child's hair in dead champagne to keep its gold as they do in France?
s.zine : Go Chic
they offer the view of new Taiwan fashion, touche my soul so much. see the scene? that's traditional stores, which is like K mart and 7-eleven now, but they disappeared after 90s, when my childhood stood.
seeing four girl band Go Chic doing British avant garde look, with the historical scene, "where we were and where we are going ?" soon appears in my mind.
i hope we could do something, even very little, but something cultural to build part of new future for Taiwan.
via s.zine
seeing four girl band Go Chic doing British avant garde look, with the historical scene, "where we were and where we are going ?" soon appears in my mind.
i hope we could do something, even very little, but something cultural to build part of new future for Taiwan.
Contest Update
Thanks to everyone that submitted a photo for the contest!
I thought we might get a few hundred entries but we ended up with over 2,200 submissions.
We've all enjoyed the images and related stories. No matter who gets the book I think we were all winners.
If you like, continue to send vintage photos to this email address sartorialistcontest@gmail.com (and only to that email address)
I thought we might get a few hundred entries but we ended up with over 2,200 submissions.
We've all enjoyed the images and related stories. No matter who gets the book I think we were all winners.
If you like, continue to send vintage photos to this email address sartorialistcontest@gmail.com (and only to that email address)
I still have quite a few images that I will be posting occasionally over the next few weeks.
Because of the huge response to the contest it will take me a week or so to sort through all of emails myself. I plan to announce a winner next week.
Can you guess what the next contest will be?
Because of the huge response to the contest it will take me a week or so to sort through all of emails myself. I plan to announce a winner next week.
Can you guess what the next contest will be?
¿Cuánto se mueven los continentes?
En este planeta nada está en el mismo lugar demasiado tiempo. Cuando aparecieron los dinosaurios casi todo estaba en dos únicos supercontinentes que hemos llamado Laurasia y Gondwana. Antes habían sido Pangea y antes aún Rodinia. Las piezas del gran puzzle siguieron moviéndose. El choque entre la placa India y la Asiática levantó el Himalaya. El hundimiento de la placa de Nazca bajo la de Sudamérica provoca terremotos como el de Chile.
Actualmente las placas y con ellas los continentes se siguen moviendo. Pero ¿cuánto?
Gracias a los GPS es posible hoy medir esas pequeñas magnitudes aunque lógicamente los datos son mucho más abundantes sobre los continentes que en el mar, donde las estaciones sólo pueden estar en islas. Cada día, esas estaciones fijas calculan su posición miles de veces con lo que se obtiene una sorprendente precisión de menos de 1 mm. Los resultados derivados de esas medidas se muestran en la figura de abajo. Aunque no se dan valores numéricos fíjense en la escala gráfica a la izquierda, sobre la Antártida.
Los nombres son acrónimos de localidades. Por ejemplo, GOUG corresponde a la isla de Gough, situada 10º grados al Oeste del meridiano de Greenwich y -40º de latitud. Los gráficos del movimiento de esta isla, integrada en la placa africana, son los siguientes:
Gough se ha movido en los últimos 7 años unos 15 cm en latitud y unos 17 en longitud. Además se ha hundido unos 12 cm en ese periodo. Pueden encontrar los datos numéricos completos en GPS Time Series, del JPL.
Desde hace décadas se han realizado modelos de movimiento de las placas tectónicas, algo necesario para comprender su dinámica y los fenómenos como lo ya mencionados terremotos.
Hace pocos días se ha presentado el último modelo, resultado de 20 años de observaciones. Los principales responsables son el geofísico Chuck DeMets ((Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison), Richard Gordon (Rice University) y Donald Argus (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). El modelo MORVEL ("mid-ocean ridge velocities") se presenta en un pedazo de artículo de 80 páginas en la revista Geophysical Journal International y describe los movimientos relativos de 25 placas que, en su conjunto, representan el 97% de la superficie terrestre:
Actualmente las placas y con ellas los continentes se siguen moviendo. Pero ¿cuánto?
Gracias a los GPS es posible hoy medir esas pequeñas magnitudes aunque lógicamente los datos son mucho más abundantes sobre los continentes que en el mar, donde las estaciones sólo pueden estar en islas. Cada día, esas estaciones fijas calculan su posición miles de veces con lo que se obtiene una sorprendente precisión de menos de 1 mm. Los resultados derivados de esas medidas se muestran en la figura de abajo. Aunque no se dan valores numéricos fíjense en la escala gráfica a la izquierda, sobre la Antártida.
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| Mapa donde se sintetizan los movimientos de las estaciones GPS en el mundo. |
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| Movimiento en latitud, longitud y altura de la estación GPS de Gough |
Gough se ha movido en los últimos 7 años unos 15 cm en latitud y unos 17 en longitud. Además se ha hundido unos 12 cm en ese periodo. Pueden encontrar los datos numéricos completos en GPS Time Series, del JPL.
Desde hace décadas se han realizado modelos de movimiento de las placas tectónicas, algo necesario para comprender su dinámica y los fenómenos como lo ya mencionados terremotos.
Hace pocos días se ha presentado el último modelo, resultado de 20 años de observaciones. Los principales responsables son el geofísico Chuck DeMets ((Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison), Richard Gordon (Rice University) y Donald Argus (Jet Propulsion Laboratory). El modelo MORVEL ("mid-ocean ridge velocities") se presenta en un pedazo de artículo de 80 páginas en la revista Geophysical Journal International y describe los movimientos relativos de 25 placas que, en su conjunto, representan el 97% de la superficie terrestre:
Charles DeMets, Richard G. Gordon, Donald F. Argus, 2010. Geologically current plate motions. Geophysical Journal International, 181(1): 1-80.Entre los resultados está, lógicamente, los desplazamientos de la placas, encontrándose que están entre los 15 y los 200 mm/año. Finalmente, como resultado colateral, aparece que el centro de masas de la Tierra se mueve unos 2 mm al año, algo de cierta importancia para los datos GPS ya que los satélites utilizan un sistema de coordenadas geocéntrico. En cualquier caso, la deriva continental debe ser contemplada cuando se hacen mediciones exactas con GPS ya que los vértices geodésicos que se usan como referencias supuestamente estables no lo son en la realidad. Los datos para estas correcciones se proporcionan por parte de la EUREF (IAG Reference Frame Sub-Commission for Europe) que publica los movimientos de las estaciones GPS de referencia todos los años.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Vogue Korea April 2010 : Abbey Lee Kershaw
i like the print socks here, would like to try some mix&match in this style, sort of mystique and ancient feeling
but Abbey, could you bring out your soul? from the very first time till now you are only a mannequin, and i'm sick of that already.
since you are close to Freja now,why not try to learn some from her? Freja is great.
and if you visit my blog for all kind of streetsnap, i'm really sorry for less of that kind posts these day.
those interesting people soon gone, and i feel so bored of all streetsnaps sites i visit,
they don't really offer some inspiring things like Bill Cunningham does.
(i mean where the hell is Anna Dello Russo? Olivia Palermo? Sasha Pivovarova? comeon don't hide at home, we need new stuffs!)
via Lab Daily
but Abbey, could you bring out your soul? from the very first time till now you are only a mannequin, and i'm sick of that already.
since you are close to Freja now,why not try to learn some from her? Freja is great.
those interesting people soon gone, and i feel so bored of all streetsnaps sites i visit,
they don't really offer some inspiring things like Bill Cunningham does.
(i mean where the hell is Anna Dello Russo? Olivia Palermo? Sasha Pivovarova? comeon don't hide at home, we need new stuffs!)
via Lab Daily
please don't tell me you're ready for children : Gerhard Freidl
The Family Portraits, Vintage Photo Contest
The date is January 3, 1954. Pictured in the center is my grandfather Yukio (known to me as Ji-chan, Japanese for Grandpa). My dad (pictured on left) is 9 here, his brother a couple years older. The three of them are getting ready to leave Japan for the first time and emigrate to California. My Japanese-American grandmother (born/raised in Calif.) had earlier left her family in Japan in order to find a job, a place to live, and get settled here. Then she sent over for her husband and kids to come and join her in the States.This photo of Ji-chan reminds me of a Japanese Indiana Jones with the leather jacket and fedora, ready to go on an adventure in a far-off land. He always looked sharp when he went out.
Ji-chan was always a bit of a mystery to me as there was a language barrier (he spoke only Japanese) and he was a quiet man. But I really loved him. He would sneak behind my grandmother's back and smoke cigarettes in the garage or in the car. I'd always laugh at him becuase it was so obvious. He would awe me with his yo-yo tricks. When I was little I'd hold his hands and he would let me step on his toes while he'd walk around the house. And he was a highly regarded gardener in the Japanese community and won awards for his amazing bonsai plants. He was in his backyard garden, sitting at a chair next to a little table tending to one of his mini-tress when he passed away when I was 14. When my grandmother discovered him she thought that he was simply taking a nap because he looked so peaceful.
When I saw the pictures of my graceful compatriot on your site, I felt the urge to send some of my most cherished family photos too, those of my paternal grandmother Theresa Moreira Reis. She was born in 1903 in Recife, Northern Brazil, daughter to the city's most sought-after tailor. Politicians and other affluent people were part of his clientele, and her father's work influenced her sense of style throughout her life. Grandma Theresa was congenitally chic, and unpretentiously glamorous before fashion was in fashion. Her European taste in dressing must have made her stand out there and then.
Why Don't You... by Diana Vreeland
Paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys' nursery so they won't grow up with a provincial point of view?
On the Street.....Little Leopard, Lotta Yellow, Paris
For me, this shot is all about wearing color in a bland colorless city. Look how she explodes out of the background griege of it all.
Again I don't really think this is about these specific clothes but about the idea of color in a black and white world.
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