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Sunday, 27 November 2011

2011 ARIA Awards Red Carpet - Dressed List

2011 ARIA Awards Red Carpet - Dressed List
Black seemed to be the theme on the ARIA Awards red carpet this year, with many stars ditching bright colours for a more sleek look.

But they didn't all get it right... and there's nothing we love more than a good best and worst dressed list!!

Best Dressed

2011 ARIA Awards Red Carpet - Best And Worst Dressed List

Reece Mastin

We love Reece! He rocked the red carpet in different style, getting himself noticed in this rock star white suit and a bit of bling!

Delta

Delta is always stunning and has really turned it on in this gorgeous gown! No wonder Nick Jonas is so smitten!

The Potbelleez

The Potbelleez are always good fun and games and they've certainly 'brought it' tonight! Chains, sparkles, bling, mohawks... amazing

Marvin Priest

Marvin Priest is one awesome dude... and tonight he looks just like he's out to own the club tonight!

Benji and Joel Madden

Props to Benji and Joel for going all out with their outfits! Benji and his studs and Joel with the purple hair... awesome!

Worst Dressed

Havana Brown

Oh Havana... honey you are not in the clubs right now.... So why can we see your boobies?! No amount of Hollywood tape is going to stick that revealing loose top down.

MiKylie nogue

We know Kylie is awesome and a legend in Aussie pop music, and while she still has a super hot body.... Sometimes we think she needs to start covering up a bit -- after all, she is well and truly over 40 now! This dress is cute but it looks a bit too much like a sexy nightie Kyles.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte

Nat Bass looking like she's going to an after party in outer space in this silver, ill-fitting dress! What gives?

Molly Meldrum

While we know you've been in the music industry partying with rock stars since we were barely an embryo Molly, it doesn't give you any excuse to dig a musty old shirt out of your cupboard that looks like it's from the 80s! Ew.

Jessica Mauboy

We love Jess and she normally never gets it wrong on red carpets but this dress is a bit of a boring disaster. Too much going on with the sheer lace and all the detail bits -- plus it looks like she bought it at Target.

SAG Awards Best & Worst Dressed 2011: Red Carpet Fashion

Golden Globes Best & Worst Dressed 2011: Red Carpet Fashion

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Madonna Photos:Madonna Movie Photo Gallery 2011

Madonna Photos:Madonna Movie Photo Gallery 2011

Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone (Italian pronunciation: [tʃik̚ˈkoːne] chee-co-nay); August 16, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983.

Madonna

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Michelle Williams’ Hollywood Film Awards Photo Gallery

Michelle Williams’ Hollywood Film Awards Photo Gallery

Michelle Williams’ performances have established her as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after and respected actors earning her two Academy Award® nominations.
This fall, Williams takes on the iconic Marilyn Monroe in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN opposite Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. The film will be released by The Weinstein Company on November 4, 2011. She will star opposite Seth Rogan in Sarah Polley’s TAKE THIS WALTZ, which made its world premiere at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival.

Michelle Williams Photo Gallery!

My Week With Marilyn Monroe

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams

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Thursday, 17 November 2011

Louis Daguerre

Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography

On January 7, 1839, members of the French Académie des Sciences were shown products of an invention that would forever change the nature of visual representation: photography. The astonishingly precise pictures they saw were the work of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), a Romantic painter and printmaker most famous until then as the proprietor of the Diorama, a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects. Each daguerreotype (as Daguerre dubbed his invention) was a one-of-a-kind image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper.

Daguerre's invention did not spring to life fully grown, although in 1839 it may have seemed that way. In fact, Daguerre had been searching since the mid-1820s for a means to capture the fleeting images he saw in his camera obscura, a draftsman's aid consisting of a wood box with a lens at one end that threw an image onto a frosted sheet of glass at the other. In 1829, he had formed a partnership with Nicéphore Niépce, who had been working on the same problem—how to make a permanent image using light and chemistry—and who had achieved primitive but real results as early as 1826. By the time Niépce died in 1833, the partners had yet to come up with a practical, reliable process.

Not until 1838 had Daguerre's continued experiments progressed to the point where he felt comfortable showing examples of the new medium to selected artists and scientists in the hope of lining up investors. François Arago, a noted astronomer and member of the French legislature, was among the new art's most enthusiastic admirers. He became Daguerre's champion in both the Académie des Sciences and the Chambre des Députés, securing the inventor a lifetime pension in exchange for the rights to his process. Only on August 19, 1839, was the revolutionary process explained, step by step, before a joint session of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, with an eager crowd of spectators spilling over into the courtyard outside.

The process revealed on that day seemed magical. Each daguerreotype is a remarkably detailed, one-of-a-kind photographic image on a highly polished, silver-plated sheet of copper, sensitized with iodine vapors, exposed in a large box camera, developed in mercury fumes, and stabilized (or fixed) with salt water or "hypo" (sodium thiosulphate). Although Daguerre was required to reveal, demonstrate, and publish detailed instructions for the process, he wisely retained the patent on the equipment necessary to practice the new art.

From the moment of its birth, photography had a dual character—as a medium of artistic expression and as a powerful scientific tool—and Daguerre promoted his invention on both fronts. Several of his earliest plates were still-life compositions of plaster casts after antique sculpture—an ideal subject since the white casts reflected light well, were immobile during long exposures, and lent, by association, the aura of "art" to pictures made by mechanical means. But he also photographed an arrangement of shells and fossils with the same deliberation, and used the medium for other scientific purposes as well. The journalist Hippolyte Gaucheraud, in a scoop that appeared the day before daguerreotypes were first shown to the Académie des Sciences, wrote of having been shown the image of a dead spider photographed through a solar microscope: "You could study its anatomy with or without a magnifying glass, as in nature; [there is] not a filament, not a duct, as tenuous as might be, that you cannot follow and examine." Even Arago, director of the Observatoire de Paris, was reportedly surprised by a daguerreian image of the moon.

Neither Daguerre's microscopic nor his telescopic daguerreotypes survive, for on March 8, 1839, the Diorama—and with it Daguerre's laboratory—burned to the ground, destroying the inventor's written records and the bulk of his early experimental works. In fact, fewer than twenty-five securely attributed photographs by Daguerre survive—a mere handful of still lifes, Parisian views, and portraits from the dawn of photography.

Louis Daguerre