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Sexy Social Change: Don’t Shun the Vapid Selfies and Videos; They Can Be A...
My buddy John alerted me to this fascinating story from the Telegraph, Is this the first Instagram masterpiece? A well-regarded young artist, Amalia Ulman, spoofs the Instagram’s selfie phenomenon...
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Would You Risk Your Lives for Art? These People Did.
Painting by Nelly Toll Musings by @APosner on the @NYTimes article “Art From the Holocaust: The Beauty and Brutality in Hidden Works” If you think beauty is a luxury and not a necessity, think again....
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What’s Your Most Attractive Quality? It’s Deeper Than You Think
Given the nature of my posts, I absorb myself in reading and writing about beauty. While I’ve presented many theories on what makes something or someone beautiful, I don’t often share what I consider...
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Provocative Theories of Beauty: Why & How It Stirs Us
“As the force of physical attraction, beauty drives fertility, inspiration, creation, and reproduction. Beauty ricochets through the body and mind … Beauty has been the root of deep division and...
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Beauty Vloggers: A Sign of a Digital’s Much Bigger and More Powerful...
What if I told you a bunch of beauty bloggers reflects a great, new and culture-altering phenomenon? A report was just published that proves what we, in the tech business, have known for quite a long...
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As one of the world’s ugliest problems, could beauty be part of the answer?
In this week of heightened awareness of violence against women (first with the win of A Girl in the River: The Price for Forgiveness at the Oscars and second thanks to the march against violence by...
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Beautiful Rebellion: When Media Breaks Down the Walls of Segregation
The media, especially advertising, is often criticized for our warped expectations of beauty. There is no doubt about it: photoshopping, highly sexualized portraits and impossibly thin models, create...
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Are We Hard-Wired to Be Attracted to the Beauty of Our Elders?
Is it me or are we finally looking at our elder beauties in a new light? Every where I look I feel like people are starting to pay attention to the beauty of the older women and men in our society in...
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Freckles, Tech & Mother’s Day: What Do They All Share?
What do Mother’s Day, freckles and tech have in common? I recently came across an interesting new beauty trend in JWT Intelligence Report’s 100 Trends to Watch for 2016. It isn’t the latest lipstick...
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Sexism, Searches & SEO: Time for a RESET
This is a screen grab from my good friend and creative partner, Rudi Anggono’s, phone. He sent it to me the same night I announced the relaunch of my site via last week’s post. His email message to...
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Can Technology Be Biased? This Beauty Contest Reveals How Much
Before I start, allow me to thank you all for your super interesting comments on last week’s post. I love hearing and learning from all of you! And now for our regularly scheduled program…:) For...
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Beauty, Judgements & Hypocrites: Enough is Enough
That’s a picture of me when I was about 6 months old. As you can tell I’m wearing a special shoe on my left foot. That shoe, along with a cast, straightened (well, for the most part) the crooked leg...
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Garbage Pick-Up, Gaming & Proust: The Ironic Beauty of Dystopia
I came across a fascinating article by Vice’s website about a rather strange video game: “Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor.” Unlike every other game that propels you into a fantasy world, “Diaries” is...
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Pant Suits & Misogyny: Don’t Let Election Ugliness Stop Our Daughters From...
In response to all the conversations about beauty, pant suits and femininity in this election, writer and producer, Alli Joseph, wrote a thought-provoking article about beauty and raising girls....
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Stand Beautiful on Feminism — For More Reasons Than You Think
Lots of wonderful buzz this week about female empowerment, especially amongst us nasty women ;). The election has certainly heightened our awareness, emotions and convictions around this topic. But...
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Can Images of War & Destruction be Beautiful?
RICHARD MOSSE-Of-Lilies-and-Remains Follow the news and there’s no shortage of imagery of war and it’s destructive side-effects. Can these images actually be considered beautiful? The Jack Shainman...
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Want to Take a Stand? Use the World of Beauty
Conversations around beauty have been a source of ugliness and racism this week thanks to the former West Virginia mayor and her disgusting post about our lovely and intelligent first lady. And we...
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Want to Fight Sexism? Don’t Eschew Beauty — Embrace It!
Nigerian feminist and author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, hits the nail on the head, again! This isn’t the first time I’ve brought her up. You may recall that I wrote about this in a recent post,...
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Podcast #4: Fashion Tech Rock Stars Show Their Amazing Wares and Share What...
I’m really excited about bringing to you all our fourth podcast in our fashion-tech series of conversations from the NRF Big Show. For this discussion I had the honor of co-hosting with my hilarious...
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Get a Glimpse into Future Fashion/Beauty Tech Trends From CES Veteran, Robin...
Welcome back to our series of wearable tech podcasts. Apologies for the slight respite these past few weeks, I was braving it at SXSW. But now I’m back and super excited to share the brilliant...
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