I will not write much: the bottom line is that the topic is already littered. Everyone knows that more and more people on Earth spend more and more time on social networks (Facebook; vkontakte; Myspace; Twitter ...). This is sad, because the value of communication disappears and the main time. I am not going to preach how to get rid of dependence on this, either do not come in my opinion, and if you can’t, then stupidly deleted everything on the page and the page itself.

Martin Standka is one of my favorite photographers. A little earlier on Luke there was already a post dedicated to his work, but I decided to open his deep inner world woven from fragile feelings, pierced by thin matters and voiced by beautiful music and poetry - just all this gives us the opportunity to enjoy the visual embodiment of this universe in one person. Especially for Lookatme visitors, I took an interview from Martin.

Google is developing the first technology of instant oral translation. Google announced that he was working on the creation of a universal translator, who will soon allow you to translate speech, in whatever language it is made. An analogue of the Babylonian fish from the Hitchhiking Galaxy will be based on existing technologies for speech recognition and automatic translation.

Most of us are unlikely to fall for the week of fashion in London and will be able to enjoy the shows in full. With the advent of new technologies, designers partially solved this problem. Now their show will be broadcast online. Showers of fashion houses Mark Fast , Mary Katrantzou , Todd Lynn , Rihard Nicoll and many others will be broadcast in real time. The official website of the London week allows you to choose and mark your shows in advance.

Lindsay Lohan became the heroine of the next shooting of Terry Richardson for Purple Fashion. Terry Richardson is a great friend Olivier Zam and shoots for his publication for free. This time, a girl with a difficult fate (bulimia/anorexia, alcohol and drugs) Lindsay Lohan got into his lens. Olivier deputy also lit up in the frame a couple of times. The atmosphere that prevailed on the set can be caught by the video posted on the network.

- The demand for modern Russian society in some areas of design is alarming. Industrial design is in distress. Professionals with experience, as well as young specialists of this area are forced to look for work in related areas of design. Project activities and production are not parts of a single process. - There is no system of distributions of specialists, diplomats are produced in the “air”, there is a long -term outflow of brain to countries with developed economies.

A brevity is a sister of talent. Minimalist artists attached a hand to the design of the posters to the films. The main task of the poster is to attract attention and intelligibly explain what awaits the viewer, while not to disclose the plot. Such a seed. But if you look at the posters presented below, you won’t understand anything, that's for sure. There is definitely no question of any disclosure of the plot, you don’t even immediately understand what is depicted on the poster.

The Chinese do not cease to surprise and conquer their achievements. So the next innovation in art came from the Communist East - Leaf Carving carving - Leaf Carving . To create these masterpieces, sheets of the eastern platan are used, in our latitudes this tree is called “shameless”, I saw such trees in the Crimea. The leaves of the platan is quite dense with tight veins, which allows you to create a pattern without violating them. They become part of the image, and the sheet holds its shape.

The Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver will soon start. The Olympiad will be held under the slogan “With Glowing Hearts” (“With Burning Hearts”) from February 12 to 28. In this regard, Canadians have developed a rather original design of various Olympic paraphernalia symbolizing all the main geographical wealth of Vancouver: forests, mountains and beautiful water basins. Medal design. For the first time in the history of games, each medal will be one of a kind.

The mystical film shot in the style of documentary newsreels with the participation of the most legendary personalities of the St. Petersburg underground. The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics pushes humanity to the abyss. In Russia, a revolution begins. Crazy Doctor Farkus causes an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are activated. The second sun appears in the sky.

On foreign sites there is an active discussion of a new “iron guy” that appeared in Ukraine next to Odessa. On the way to Odessa there is a huge robot, which is made of old rusty cars and various scrap metal. Probably, it was installed by Transinvestersvis , so that he, in turn, served as a pointer. Now, instead of telling the country's visitors, “turning left over 161 km” to get to Odessa, now you can say “turn left when you see a huge Autobot”.

Daily section representing new music videos. Daily section representing new music videos. Someone will like a boy behind a microphone, the other will not be able to break away from the clinging solo, the color scheme will delight the eye with an unusual combination-the reasons why this or that video may be more than enough.

This year, the Boyscout movement in America marks a hundred years. When in 1910 the publishing Magnat William D. Boyce founded the scout organization of America, he imagined a program that would teach the boys a courage and self-confidence. Both that and the other will need this largest youth association in the United States when celebrating its centenary, which will cost no less than $ 4 million. Since the founding of the organization, 110 million Americans have managed to try on scout ties.

Every year, since 2003, Electrolux has been holding an international design competition for students and industrial design graduates Design Lab. They are invited to present innovative ideas for household appliances of the future. All the time of the competition, thousands of students from 100 countries took part in it. The winners of the competition are awarded good prizes.

Now you can become a model: Benetton has begun searching for people with a unique appearance around the world. "It's My Time" - Benetton’s Internet casting, this year it is held for the first time. Its goal is to find new faces for shooting in the 2010 Benetton advertising campaigns.