Dunking And Swinging Babies With Lena Fokina And Igor Borisovich Charkovsky
RUSSIAN baby yoga is all the rage. The video of Lena Fokina whirling Ukrainian baby Platona Goryun about her body was unusual.
Fokina teaches the skill in Dahab, Egypt. Her yoga is called “extreme developmental gymnastics“. And if you parents aren’t doing it then your children are going to be left behind.
Nathan Thornburgh interviewed Lena. She’s 50:
Um, what exactly are “extreme developmental gymnastics”?
That’s what we call it when it gets scary for the parents and children and me (just kidding). It’s actually skipping rope, climbing, all sorts of flips, trampoline, stretching…
Fokina says her baby yoga was invented “by life“, and is inspired by the ideas of Igor Borisovich Charkovsky. Who he?
Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Amanda Holden died for 40 seconds – the Sun mocks Hugh Grant’s Leveson lines?
AMANDA Holden kicks off the Sun on Sunday by telling readers “My Heart stopped for 40 seconds”.
It’s a dead ‘n’ tell.
Speaking of her hell for the first time in a world exclusive interview, Amanda told The Sun: “I was moments from death.“
The Sun has decided that the next best thing to a dead star is a TV star who nearly died. When Amanda Holden gave birth to Hollie, she suffered a haemorrhage and was treated in intensive care.
Posted: 26th, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Is it a bag of crisps? Is it a nightclub performer? No, it’s a Swedish princess Estelle
SWEDEN’s newborn future monarch has been given a name: Estelle. But it has been lampooned by some Swedes who don’t think it’s a worthy moniker for an heir to the throne.
While many feel such criticism is highly inappropriate, others yet have weighed in to say that engaging in a debate about the princess’ name is beneath them. In other words, there’s been more than a whiff of snobbery to the reactions to this royal affair.
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Three musicians play the Badgermin for the first time – video
YOU are about to see three musicians play the Badgermin for the first time. The Badgermin is part badger and part theramin.
The electronics are from a PAiA Theremax kit, with new 8mm diameter removable antennae…200 points to whoever it was that said “Can’t wait to see it play a live sett…”
The live sett (dead sett):
Posted: 24th, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In photos – Central Saint Martins MA Catwalk show for London Fashion Week
LONDON Fashion Week in photos – the Central St Martins Fashion Show at the BFC venue at Somerset House. A bit of Abu Ghraib, a spot of McDonald’s chips and Doogle shoes…
Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Fashion, Key Posts | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail says nutritionists it promotes put health at risk – massive fail
HEALTH Tuesday – the Daily Mail’s weekly look at new ways to die features an article on nutritionists by Louise Atkinson:
EXPOSED: The nutrition therapists who puts your health at risk.
Louise Atkinson has news:
The therapist peered at my tongue. ‘Should I be worried about bowel cancer?’ I asked her. I’d told her about my changed bowel habits over the past six months, weight loss, fatigue and dark stools.
Louis is talking shit – literally.
Last month an alarming report by the consumer organisation Which? highlighted the risks posed by rogue nutritionists. All are classic symptoms of bowel cancer that, to a GP, would flag up the need for further investigation. I’d even mentioned that my father had died of the disease.
But the therapist seemed unconcerned: ‘Oh, you don’t need to worry about having cancer,’ she said. ‘I can tell you’re quite well. You’d be much better off thinking about changes you can make to your diet to help you prevent cancer.’ She recommended I cut out sugar (‘because cancers feed on sugar’) to reduce my risk.
Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Scare Stories | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Adele presents the Top 10 Showbiz Fingers Ever
ADELE’S Top Ten Showbiz Fingers. Following new on THAT finger Adele waved at the Brit awards, we’ve trawled the archives for more showbiz fingers:
10. Katie Price
In 2002, Katie Price was treated for cancer on her finger. Some said it was the residing place for her talent and when it was cut out her dreams of being a Hollywood great died.
Posted: 23rd, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
FakeGate: Heartland Institute calles Gleick a forger and a thief
PETER Gleick is the conduit of the so-called FakeGate missives. Gleick, founder of the Pacific Institute, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an expert on water resources, lied to get his hands on a documents from the Heartland Institute. He then made them public. George Monbiot was thrilled:
Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected but could not prove.
Leo Hickman frothed with excitement:
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” pleaded the Wizard of Oz as Toto revealed the true identity of the man with the big, booming voice to Dorothy and her friends. But it was too late: the illusion was shattered.
The Heartland Institute, an influential rightwing thinktank based in Chicago, which has long pushed misinformation about climate change, is currently having its own Wizard of Oz moment following theleaking of internal documents which reveal the true extent of its funding and efforts to cast doubt on climate science.
Posted: 22nd, February 2012 | In: Global Warming, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
For sale: Box Canvas Print of Paul Ross (with added priceless comments)
Posted: 22nd, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Whitney Houston is dead Channel 5: ‘She looks better in a body bag’
WHITNEY Houston is dead and Channel follows a trailer for a corpse-still-warm ghoulish show about the singer’s demons with an indent featuring a puppet saying”She looks better in a body bag”…
Touchings stuff from Five, the stablemate to OK!, the organ that which gave us the greatest Whitney tribute ever….
Posted: 22nd, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Facebook secret content rules – the full Abuse Standards Violations document
AMINE Derkauoui has shown the world the secret Facebook rules governing what content the site’s owners let the site’s 800million plus customers see. Content can be “flagged” by users as inappropriate. Staff at outsourced companies – paid as little as $1 an hour – then investigate. Derkauoui, a Moroccan employee, has leaked the Abuse Standards Violations (ASV) document. Facebook does not like sex. It bans breastfeeding photos. But hurting is ok:
“Deep flesh wounds are ok to show; excessive blood is ok to show. Crushed heads, limbs, etc, are ok as long as no insides are showing.”
Same-sex kissing is allowed. But “so long as no part of the [female] nipple is showing”. “Snot” is ok. Ear wax is banned.
Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Technology | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Lindsay Lohan beat Miss Piggy to Elizabeth Taylor role
LINDAY Lohan is to play the part of Elizabeth Taylor in Lifetime’s made-for-TV biopic Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story. No Taylor’s wide-load hair or iris-blue eyes. Lohan will play all of Taylor.
Lohan is turning into the Judge Judy reject who can play every Hollywood great. Having done Marilyn Monroe for Playboy, and now Liz Taylor for Lifetime, Lohan will soon be doing impressions of other Hollywood legends. She’s already had a stab at Ghandi. Who can forget when Lohan went to India for Lindsay Lohan’s Indian Journey , a charity-driven travelogue in which for reasons never explained oe just unfathomable to even the producers, the Herbie Fully Loaded star was sent to India to expose the country’s problem with child exploitation. Of course, the children ended up comforting Lohan, who looked like she needed it.
Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Sun At 40: When Arthur Scargill Was ‘Mein Fuhrer’
THE Sun newspaper is 40 years old this year. Brendan Montague looks back at a headline that never made it into the retrospective issue. Your writer once presented a feature on the BBC about tabloid journalism’s front pages. I never saw this one in the British Library’s exhibit. Brendan explains:
THE EVIL Sun front page showing NUM leader Arthur Scargill apparently giving a Nazi salute under the headline “Mine Fuhrer” has been revealed for the first time.
The-sauce.org has secured a world exclusive from a former mole at the News International printing plant in London’s Bouverie Street.
The leak comes 25 years to the day after the hard-right tabloid first tried to tar the Marxist union leader as a Nazi.
The Sun front page never made the light of day.
Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Robin Coles naked fashion show is all about the titfer (photos NSFW)
AT the Robin Coles catwalk show for London Fashion Week, Sophia Cahill, former Miss Wales, modelled a hat at The White Rabbit Studio, in London. Aside form that she was naked. Her nudity took nothing away from the lid, which as one male onlooker notes, was orange with bits of feather on…. It’s all about the tit for tat, as they say in London. Photos are of a nude and NSFW:
Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View – photos of human nature
IS Google Street View art? Jon Rafman says it is. He;’s collected images form Google Street View and created a show “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View”:
One year ago [2008], I started collecting screen captures of Google Street Views from a range of Street View blogs and through my own hunting. This essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world. The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project. At the same time, I acknowledge that this way of photographing creates a cultural text like any other, a structured and structuring space whose codes and meaning the artist and the curator of the images can assist in constructing or deciphering.
Posted: 21st, February 2012 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
