October 31st, 2008 by Joe
A great news for all Fashionese mothers and every mommy-to-be out there. I read this headline on the daily NY Metro last Wednesday while riding the subway on my way to work. Stella McCartney teamed up with LeSportSac in designing a limited edition line of travel bags, luggage, and maternity accessories (diaper bag, baby bag, etc.).
The idea for this collaboration came out when Stella McCartney and LeSportSac Chief Creative Director, Elizabeth Kiester, were talking about how uninspiring most baby bags are in today’s market. “It’s almost as if they’re made for the baby and not for the mom who’s carrying it”, added Kiester as quoted on Metro. The conversation led the British designer and mother of three, to design a collection of bags that “meet needs you didn’t even know you had”. As a busy mom, McCartney seems to understand the importance of a well-designed multipurpose handbag. A handbag which could turn out as a chic diaper bag, an overnight duffle, and gym bag, all at once. The Mum tote comes complete with changing pad, insulated pouches for baby bottles, and a removable “Mum pocket”. The Mum pocket, as McCartney calls it, is “to carry your makeup and keys or any necessary items so they’re not jumbled up with diapers“.
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October 31st, 2008 by Joe
Digital cameras blend the art of photography with the science of the computer age. They serve as an outlet for creative expression and as a serious communication tool. Just as important, digital cameras are fun. Digital photography, however, does have its pros and cons.
Advantages of digital photography
For convenience, quality control, flexibility, and fun, digital does a slam-dunk on film photography. Here are just a few advantages of working with digital images:
* More creative control: With traditional film photos, you have no input into an image after it leaves your camera. Everything rests in the hands of the photofinisher. But with a digital photo, you can use your computer and photo-editing software to touch up and enhance your pictures.
* Instant, easy, photo sharing: You can send an image instantaneously by attaching it to an e-mail message. Not only is electronic distribution of images quicker than regular mail or overnight delivery services, it’s also more convenient. You don’t have to address an envelope, find a stamp, or truck off to the post office or delivery drop box.
* In addition to sending photos via e-mail, you can share photos with friends, family, and clients, no matter how far away, via a personal Web page or a photo-sharing site such as the Kodak EasyShare Gallery. Read the rest of this entry »
October 26th, 2008 by Joe
“In civilized life it has at last become possible for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear. Many of us need an attack of mental disease to teach us the meaning of the word.” William James.
We have all heard the seemingly discriminating remarks that fear is normal and abnormal, and that normal fear is to be regarded as a friend, while abnormal fear should be destroyed as an enemy.
The fact is that no so called normal fear can be named which has not been clearly absent in some people who have had every cause therefor. If you will run over human history in your mind, or look about yea in the present life, you will find here and there persons who, in situations or before objects which ought, as any fearful soul will insist, to inspire the feeling of at least normal self-protecting fear, are nevertheless wholly without the feeling. They possess every feeling and thought demanded except fear. The idea of self-preservation is as strongly present as with the most abjectly timid or terrified, but fear they do not know. This fearless awareness of fear suggesting conditions may be due to several causes. It may result from constitutional make-up, or from long continued training or habituation, or from religious ecstasy, or from a perfectly calm sense of spiritual selfhood which is unhurtable, or from the action of very exalted reason. Whatever the explanation, the fact remains: the very causes which excite fear in most of us, merely appeal, with such people, if at all. to the instinct of self-preservation and to reason, the thought-element of the soul which makes for personal peace and wholeness.
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