Cindy Sherman

I know Cindy Sherman best for her conceptual portraits which explore women's roles and representation in society and the media. For me her work also raises issues of sexuality,  gender, identity and stereotypes. The work I know her for best is her photographic collection The Unititled Film Stills, where she places herself as an unknown actress in shots resembling various film genres.

CINDY SHERMAN FOR BALENCIAGA

An interesting interview with Sherman on her work http://www.jca-online.com/sherman.html

Procrastination (Tales of Mere Existence)

Saw this a while ago while at uni and had to get my stuff done.....

LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS! LITERALLY!

TEN SONGS IAN HUNTLEY MIIIIIIIGHT HAVE SUNG!!!


- It Wasn't Me - Shaggy
- Drown, Drown, Deeper and Drown - Status Quo
- You Got To Hide Your Love Away - The Beatles
- Huntley House - Blur
- Here In My Bath... - Gary Numan
- Soham Macho - Sinitta
- Huntley High & Low - A Ha
- Handle With Caretaker - Traveling Wilburys
- Updrown Top Ranking - Althia & Donna
- I Just Died In Your Bath Tonight - Cutting Crew

Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, model, and singer. She ready her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread credit playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was selected for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
 

Dunst achieved international celebrity as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon (2004), the romantic sci-fi Eternal Sunshine of the clean Mind (2004) and Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006).In 2001, Dunst made her singing debut in the film Get Over It, in which she performed two songs. She also sang the tap song "After You've Gone" for the end credits of the film The Cat's Meow (2001). In early 2008, Dunst confirmed she was suffering from depression, checking into a treatment center before discharging herself in March and resuming her career.

TIRED AND CONFUSED ALAN SUGAR NOT SURE WHAT SHOW HE'S ON

"You've got the X Factor...I mean, you are the weakest link...I'm fired!"

DO YOU LIKE MY PONYTAIL?

Ruined Urban High Density Sites

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/06/battleship-island-other-ruined-urban.html

Ruins, what is it that fascinates me about places that are no more than ghosts now but once bustled with people. This website has some great examples of one abroad but my favorites are the British sea side resorts once hugely populated and now not so much

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HARVEY SPEAKS

Mummy thinks I look like Paije off the XFactor. I can't see it myself.

https://twitter.com/misskatieprice/status/28526352435

The Sea in Their Blood (1983) - extract

Ive always loved the British Sea side and coast line, and I think documentaries like this are fantastic, words images and the impression of place ^^

STORM FROM X FACTOR HUMILIATES HIMSELF IN FAILED MURDER SPREE

"I want everyone to never give up. You haven't seen the last of me." - The very nearly chilling words said by 37 year old X Factor reject Storm, as he left the show last weekend. Few could have known how potentially omenous his words would prove.

Just days later, the angry, vengeful singer set out on a murderous spree, vowing revenge on Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh, who he blamed for his early demise, and the general public who had failed to back him.

Loading a holdall with shotguns, the failed celebrity set off on his vengeful quest, but didn't have any bus fare to get to Cowell's home in West London. "This isn't the last you've heard of me!", he warned the bus driver.

Walking slowly into town, Storm decided to start his kill spree, but realised he had mislaid his bag of guns somewhere back a few miles ago, during the bus kerfuffle. Grabbing a blunt knife from a local cafe, he attempted to slash a passing pensioner, but slipped on a banana skin and landed face first in some freshly laid horse shit.

"Follow your dreams, horse shit, you haven't heard the last of me!", he angrily promised the manure.

Storm then tried to storm into a primary school and do a Dunblane, but it was Saturday. "I'll be back!", he warned, before returning to a life of failure and obscurity.

RAOUL MOAT WORD CLAOUD

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2610449/Raoul_Moat

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Bella strut in The Twilight Saga. She has also starred in films such as Panic Room (2002), Zathura (2005), In the Land of Women (2007), The Messengers (2007), Adventureland (2009) and The Runaways (2010).Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox. 

Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script manager originally from Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. She has an older brother, Cameron Stewart. Stewart attended school until the seventh grade, and then continued her education by correspondence. She has while completed high school. Her whole family all worked behind the camera, and Stewart thought she would become a writer/director, but never considered being an actor. "I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasn't that 'I want to be famous, I want to be an actor' kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens.

Sasha Cohen

Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984) is a U.S. figure skater. She is the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, a three-time World Championship medalist, the 2003 Grand Prix Final Champion, and the 2006 U.S. Champion.Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a region in Los Angeles. Her nickname "Sasha" is a Russian nickname for "Alexandra". Her mother, Galina (née Feldman), is a Jewish settler from Ukraine and a former ballet dancer.

Cohen rose to prominence in the skating community during the 2000 United States Figure Skating Championships. Just up from juniors, Cohen drop from first place after the short program to second after the free skating and fit for the world team. Too young for the World Figure Skating Championships, a dodge at the time would have allowed her to compete in senior worlds if she medaled at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Cohen did not medal at world juniors and so did not go to senior worlds.

PC DAVID RATH-BLAND!

PC David Rathband could really do with a makeover! His look is so July 2010!

BEYONCE'S MOM: I'VE CHANGED MY MIND

"Now I think it's OK to diss people on the internet after all"

Andy Roddick

Andrew Stephen "Andy" Roddick (born August 30, 1982) is an American professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. He is the top-ranked American player, and the only American inside the ATP Top 10. As of September 27, 2010, he is ranked World No. 10 by the ATP rankings. He became a Grand Slam singles champion when he won the title at the 2003 US Open, defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the finals.

Roddick has reached four other Grand Slam finals (Wimbledon three times and the US Open once), losing to Roger Federer each time. He and Federer are the only players to have been ranked in the Association of Tennis Professionals top 10 at year-end from 2002 through 2009 consecutively. Roddick is known for his extremely powerful serves and holds the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 155 mph (249.5 km/h). Roddick is the last American male player to win a grand slam singles event (the 2003 US Open).He is married to Brooklyn Decker, a Sports Illustrated swim wear model and actress

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 in President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

 

 

Gore is currently an author, businessperson, and environmental protester. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985–93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election

Alyson Lee Hannigan

Alyson Lee Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television sequence Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Michelle Flaherty in three American Pie films and Lily Aldrin on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

Hannigan was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Emilie Posner, a real estate manager, and Al Hannigan, a truck driver, Hannigan is of Irish descent on her father's side and Jewish on her mother's Her parents divorced a year after her birth and she was raised mostly by her mother in AtlantaHannigan has dated Ginger Fish of Marilyn Manson. She married actor Alexis Denisof (who played Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the Buffy/Angel franchise) at Two Bunch Palms Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California on October 11, 2003. They bought a house together in Santa Monica, California. Their daughter, Satyana Marie Denisof, was born six years later at home on Hannigan's 35th birthday, on March 24, 2009.

RAOULAN MOANTOB

The BBC today angrily denied reports that "creative director" Alan Yentob is leaving his post under new belt tightening reforms.

Yentob, a man who once falsely passed off acclaimed American film maker Stephen Kijak's work as his own, who earns around £500,000 a year on three different BBC salaries, who said he couldn't do his job unless he flied first class, and published a report that claimed he was the most popular of all BBC presenters with viewers, is going nowhere.

To cement this fact, Yentob today announced his first new project: an Imagine special looking at the artistic and cultural heritage left by Raoul Moat.

"I'd like to meet this fascinating, controversial man", he said. "Book me a first class ticket to Rothbury".

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/news/a282166/bbc-denies-alan-yentob-exit-reports.html

WHICH ONE OF YOU IS THE BIGGER PAEDO?

GEORGE MICHAEL JOINS CHILEAN MINERS CELEBRATIONS

"Freedom!"

Mena Alexandra Suvari

Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, fashion designer, and model. She best known for her role as Angela Hayes in American Beauty (1999), as well as the comedies American Pie (1999), Loser (2000), and Sugar & Spice (2001). She has also appeared in the HBO's drama series Six Feet Under.
 

Suvari made appearances in television shows such as Boy Meets World and ER at the age of fifteen and sixteen respectively. In 1999, she starred in the Oscar-winning American Beauty and the popular teen comedy American Pie. Suvari was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for her role in American Beauty, and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Actress - Newcomer" in 2000 for American Pie. She followed these movies with roles in Loser (2000), The Musketeer (2001), and Spun (2002). Suvari also starred in the music video for the Wheatus song "Teenage Dirtbag" in 2001, with her Loser co-star Jason Biggs.

Hilary Erhard Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her babyhood, Duff gained celebrity for playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. Duff subsequently ventured into feature films, with many successful movies to her credit including The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. She has most recently appeared in According to Greta and Stay Cool. As of October 2010, her upcoming films include, Bloodworth and The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Duff has since expanded her repertoire into pop music with the release of three RIAA-certified platinum albums and over thirteen million records sell worldwide as of February 2007. Her first studio album, Metamorphosis, was certified triple platinum and supplemented it with two more platinum albums, Hilary Duff and Most Wanted. Duff released her third studio album, Dignity, which was certified gold in August 2007 and released two singles, "With Love", her highest charting US single to date and "Stranger". In November 2008, she released a compilation of her greatest hit, Best of Hilary Duff, whose single "Reach Out" became her third #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play.

CHILEAN PAEDO MOIR

Comedian Vic Reeves, real name Jim Moir, has been arrested in Santiago, Chile, on suspicion of having sex with a minor, a bitter irony as the world eagerly awaits the happy resolution to the case of the 32 trapped miners.

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the movie The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway and followed that appearance with roles in three major 1998 movies:

2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as "Elle Woods" in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date. 2003 saw her return as lead actress and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2.
 

Witherspoon married actor and Cruel Intentions co-star Ryan Phillippe in 1999; they have two children, Ava and Deacon. The couple separated at the end of 2006 and divorced in October 2007. Witherspoon owns a production company, Type A Films, and she is actively involved in children's and women's advocacy organizations. She serves on the board of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and was named Global Ambassador of Avon Products in 2007, serving as honorary chair of the charitable Avon Foundation.

Jessica Ann Simpson

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American singer, actress, television personality and fashion designer who rose to reputation in 1999. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and five studio albums of which four have been positioned in the top 10 on Billboard 200 and besides that have been certified by the RIAA, three gold and two Multi- Platinum. 

Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. She ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know. She has sold 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 385,000 copies and was ranked in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts (1980–2010).

In 2009, Billboard named Simpson as the 95th overall best Artists of the Decade. Also was ranked at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales

CHILESEAN MINERS SHOULD BE RESCUED FROM ADRIAN'S ARSE "WITHIN HOURS"

Rescuers hope to reach the 33 miners trapped underground in TV presenter Adrian Chiles' arse within 24 hours.

Drilling equipment is being changed in preparation for the final push, but it will be three to eight days before the rescue mission will begin. Engineers said the shaft was now just 34m (112ft) from Chiles' anal chamber.

The miners were trapped 700m underground when part of blokey host Chiles' arse collapsed on 5 August. The miners have now been underground longer than any other group. Andre Sougarret, the engineer in charge of the drilling, said the final part of the operation would have to be handled very carefully.

"There are dangers - that we break through the hard rock, and when we break that, someone might have to watch Daybreak," he said. "That's why we need to send a camera down the shaft to make sure they're not going to be in danger."

Mr Golborne said the camera would help determine if the miners could be winched up through the exposed rock, or if they would have to wait for Chiles' anal shaft to be encased with steel piping.

He said the casing would take three to eight more days, and a decision would be made on Saturday. Officials say everything needed for the rescue is now in place. It is expected to take an hour to winch each man to safety. They will be given a pair of sunglasses to protect their eyes when they emerge into the sunlight, fresh from the grumpy Midlands' presenter's brown cave.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Steve Austin (born Steven James Anderson; December 18, 1964, later and formerly Steven Williams), improved known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American film and television actor and retired professional wrestler. 

Austin wrestled for several well-known wrestling promotions such as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and most famously, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which later became World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002. Austin gained important mainstream popularity in the WWF during the mid-to-late 1990s as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, a disrespectful, beer-drinking antihero who routinely defied McMahon, his boss. Austin held nineteen championships throughout his professional wrestling career, and is recognized by WWE as a six-time world champion, having held the WWF Championship on six occasions, and the fifth Triple Crown Champion. He was also the winner of the 1996 King of the Ring tournament, as well as the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Royal Rumbles. He was forced to retire from in ring competition in early 2003 due to a series of knee and neck injuries sustained throughout his career. Throughout the rest of 2003 and 2004, he was featured as the Co-General Manager and "Sheriff" of Raw. Since 2005, he has continued to make part-time appearances.

AFTER TOMKAT AND BRANGELINA, MEET GOAT!

The hot new celeb couple setting the world on fire!

'Naked Cowboy' to sprint for US president

Robert Burck, known to New Yorkers as the "Naked Cowboy" plans to challenge Barack Obama in 2012 for the presidency of the United States.
The presidential hopeful is better known for playing the guitar in New York's Times Square wearing only underpants, boots and a cowboy hat.
 

But he wore a suit and tie on Wednesday when he announced his intention to run for president in 2012 as a member of the conservative Tea Party movement.
Among his policy goals, he listed cracking down on illegal immigrants, reducing the size of federal governemnt, defeating the Taliban and ending the United States' reliance on foreign energy.

American women 'mounting richer'

The number of American women in well paid jobs is rising more than three times faster than for men, as 30 years of increased higher education begins to pay off. According to figures from the new United States poll, in 2009 one in 18 women earned more than $100,000 (£63,000) per year, a rise of 14 per cent over two years. In the same period the number of men earning over that amount rose by just four per cent. 

The census showed that there are now three women for every two men at undergraduate and postgraduate level, while a bulk of law students are female and almost half of medical students. The area with the highest average wage for women was Washington with £34,000. The capital's educated labour force is dominated by lawyers, civil servants and academics, all fields with a strong female presence.

COMING SOON TO ITV2:WHAT GAMU DID NEXT

Return to Zimbabwe, to be brutalised by Mugabe's henchmen.

JAY KAY WRITES SONG ABOUT RAOUL MOAT

"Shibidibidee doobap girl, red faced Raoul rocks my world...cosmic funk, she is the one...angry doorman so much fun! "

Johnny Depp - Actor

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II is one of the American actor and musician known for his portrayal of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow. Depp rose to prominences in a direct role on the television series 21 Jump Street and quickly became regarded as a teen idol. Uncomfortable with this career direction, he twisted his focused to film roles. He firstly came to film prominence as the titular characters of Edward Scissorhands, and later found box office success in roles such as Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Jack Sparrow in the Pirated of the Caribbean film series and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

He has collaborate with directors and close friend Tim Burton in seven films, the most current of which are Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). Depp has garner acclaim for his portrayals of real life figure such as Edward D. Wood, Jr., in Ed Wood, Joseph D. Pistone in Donnie Brasco and George Jung in Blow (2001). Films feature Depp have gross over $2.6 billion at the United States box offices and over $6 billion worldwide. select for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times, Screen Actors Guild Awards four time and Golden Globe Awards eight times, Depp won the Best Actor Awards from the Golden Globes.

Larry Page

Lawrence "Larry" Page is a American computer scientist and industrialists, who co founded Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin. Page is an active investor in option energy company, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 220-mile ranged battery electric vehicle. He continue to be dedicated to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promote the acceptances of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.

In 1998, Brin and Page established Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. Together Page and Brin earn an annual compensations of one dollar. In 2004, Page and Brin were name "Person of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page acknowledge an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercise of the class of 2009. In 2009, he was ranked 26th on Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, in spited of his compensation of one dollar annually. In 2009, Brin and Page were ranked fifth on Forbes' "The World's majorly Powerful People" list.

Sergey Brin

Lawrence "Larry" Page is a American computer scientist and industrialist, who co founded in Google Inc., along with Sergey Brin. Page is an active investor in option energy company, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 220-mile range battery electric vehicle. He continue to be dedicated to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promote the acceptances of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.

In 1998, Brin and Page establish Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. Together Page and Brin are earn an annual compensation of one dollar. In 2004, Page and Brin were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page acknowledged an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercise of the class of 2009. In 2009, he was ranked 26th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, in spited of his compensation of one dollar annually. In 2009, Brin and Page were rank fifth on Forbes' "The World's mainly Powerful People" list.

LORD SUGAR IN NORWAY

"You're Fjord!"

MICHAEL BARRYMORE TAKES A HOLIDAY

"I love the Isle of Awight!"

"No, it's the Isle of Not Awight"