Some people are fasion zombie-slaves, sad or fun :]

[Breton]

I think it is all a part of getting people used to looking and dressing like slaves. See:

http://vodpod.com/watch/2779298-on-modern-servitude

Jaw Dropping.

It is good except the ending which average joe might understand as a call for anarchy.
Didnt like this especially in view of the fact that most peaceful protests end with extreme violence because of the provocateurs and agents.

Yes, the ending was disturbing. I couldn't figure out if they were advocating that sort of conflict or showing what happens when you engage in violence. But up to that point, the whole thing was so darn accurate, damning and even terrifying. A cold, objective look at our civilization - not much different from Atlantis, I'm afraid.

It lays things on the line so well in this packaged form that I am ready to recommend this to others with the caveat that I don't agree with the hints at violent revolution, but rather I wish to peacefully and incessantly give to the lies what they deserve: the truth. Or something like that.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

These have been brought up in the Learning to walk thread.
I'm really curious about how these must feel.

 

[Hildegarda]

someone on the face book announced they are buying these monkey feet
__http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/eng/ksotrek.aspx
apart from obvious medical and aesthetic reasons, imagine the time you need every time to put them on

fwiw, they are supercomfortable, easy to put on and promote foot fealth and healthy walk, as discussed in the already mentioned Learning to Walk thread.

I don't own a pair though, as it isn't exactly my style :)

 

[Z...]

Thanks for the thread you linked, interesting points - although I am still not 100% convinced. Maybe the only way is take them for trial run.

 

[luke wilson]

someone on the face book announced they are buying these monkey feet
__http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/eng/ksotrek.aspx
apart from obvious medical and aesthetic reasons, imagine the time you need every time to put them on

Haha, I like how you call it the face book.

 

[Stevie Argyl]

someone on the face book announced they are buying these monkey feet
__http://www.vibramfivefingers.it/eng/ksotrek.aspx
apart from obvious medical and aesthetic reasons, imagine the time you need every time to put them on

fwiw, they are supercomfortable, easy to put on and promote foot fealth and healthy walk, as discussed in the already mentioned Learning to Walk thread.

I don't own a pair though, as it isn't exactly my style :)

These look quite interesting.

Thoughts:
Feet au naturale , plantar reflexes stimulated, movement around gate points, different toes respond to different pressures, all this must have a knock on benefit to soleus muscle tensions, hip placement , spinal lenght and gait and posture in general as well as possible lymphatic pumping.

Shoes ; pressure on feet is now distorted, feet and toes don't flex with the same range as they would au naturale.

Compare if we were to put our hands in an less flexable protecting environment, like wearing leather mittens , mittens not 5 fingered gloves, single hand mittens for 8 hrs a day.

I am sold, get me some gorilla feet ;)

 

[Z...]

well It would be expansive experiment as they don't come cheap, plus I hate wearing things that attract attention
@luke it was probably my spell check :)

 

[Breton]

A couple of related videos to this topic of running in these "monkey feet" can be found in CBC news at:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/ID=1560285856

1)Barefoot running
More runners are ditching the traditional running shoe, the CBC's Ioanna Roumeliotis reports
August 6, 2010
7min 28 s

2)Running Backwards
August 6, 2010
More runners are ditching the traditional running shoe. Ioanna Roumeliotis reports.
1min 57sec


NOTE: nothing earth shattering in these reports, but some people might find it interesting to see it discussed on mainstream media.

 

[Keit]

Fashion industry has no limits.

_http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/fashion/vogue-courts-disaster-as-water-and-oil-shoot-shows-model-playing-dead-on-shoreline/story-e6frfn7i-1225902558312

VOGUE magazine's Italian edition is drawing criticism for its August photo shoot featuring models reclining on an oil-covered beach.

The spread, entitled "Water and Oil" and shot by American photographer Steven Meisel, shows 24-year-old model Kristen McMenamy dressed in black designer gear, coated in oil and apparently playing dead.

Other images show oil-covered feathered gloves designed to evoke images of real dead birds.

The reaction on the magazine's own website was mixed, with many disgusted by what they saw as a misguided attempt to draw attention to the major BP oil spill that devastated the Gulf of Mexico.

One reader wrote, "Sick! Ask what the people in New Orleans think, and then you'll have your answer."

Others, though, supported Vogue's controversial photo spread.

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"I think anything that reminds us of what has happened in the Gulf is important. I LOVE this spread ... It arouses emotion and thought and reminders of what we humans are doing to our earth ... Great Job by Vogue," wrote one.

Here are additional pictures:
_http://www.styleite.com/media/steven-meisel-water-oil-photos/

 

[EGVG]

That photoshot is insane!!!!! Its great to see fashion take the right direction. :D

Loved it!

EDU

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

That photoshoot just proves how far the fashion industry/Vogue is ready to go to have some coverage. It's really shameful and shocking.

"I think anything that reminds us of what has happened in the Gulf is important. I LOVE this spread ... It arouses emotion and thought and reminders of what we humans are doing to our earth ... Great Job by Vogue," wrote one.

This does nothing for the poor people facing the consequences of the oil spill! If anything, it is making a mockery of what is happening over there. The message they send is 'if you die because of the oil spill, at least die in style' or something cynical along these lines.

That photoshot is insane!!!!! Its great to see fashion take the right direction.

Loved it!

Maybe the pictures are beautifullu executed (Steven Meisel is talented), but the theme just shows how ponerized the fashion industry is, IMO.
I hope for Italian Vogue that Kindra Arnesen doesn't see these pics...

 

[Keit]

This does nothing for the poor people facing the consequences of the oil spill! If anything, it is making a mockery of what is happening over there. The message they send is 'if you die because of the oil spill, at least die in style' or something cynical along these lines.

The thought that crossed my mind when I saw the pictures was "catastrophe prostitution". Degrading and mocking human and animal suffering.

 

[EGVG]

This does nothing for the poor people facing the consequences of the oil spill! If anything, it is making a mockery of what is happening over there. The message they send is 'if you die because of the oil spill, at least die in style' or something cynical along these lines.

The thought that crossed my mind when I saw the pictures was "catastrophe prostitution". Degrading and mocking human and animal suffering.

Keit, how is this Photo spread, mocking human and animal suffering? On the contrary I think this is a way for fashion to bee more relevant! Its a way to inform people that maybe didn't even new about this oil spill, Its a valid way to inform some people.
Mrs.Tigersoap... I don't know what to say to you... (actually I do know but is inappropriate) One thing I can say is that this Vogue article does as much for helping victims as you do with your comments.

"That photoshoot just proves how far the fashion industry/Vogue is ready to go to have some coverage. It's really shameful and shocking."



Why would you say its shameful?

EDU

 

[Breton]

I would just like to say I find myself unable to comment on the fashion posts with the "dead due to oil" theme.
It left me with a curious mix of emotions: kind of glad that the issue is not forgotten, but somehow disgusted or something about the method. Something jarring. Maybe it is knowing the fashion industry, with its access to money and profits that I cannot possibly imagine, could really do something, but this is all that they can do? Create just another opportunity to make more money?

Or so it seems.

 

[EGVG]

Mrs.Tigersoap... I don't know what to say to you... (actually I do know but is inappropriate) One thing I can say is that this Vogue article does as much for helping victims as you do with your comments.

I meant the comments on this topic.