Look what I found, excellent guide to necklaces.

So I made my mum an Etsy Store:

I mean, I couldn’t let her gorgeous stuff just sit around between her one-a-year boutique stuff, right? 

Anyway, y’all have been super supportive of my shop (which will be getting new goodies very soon) and I love you to pieces for it. If you feel up to it, give my mum’s stuff a look-see. I’m adding new stuff today and pretty much every day from now on because she has a buttload of stuff stashed away.

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My favourite length is Matinee.

Homme

Home from NYC!  After all of that walking you’d think I want to lie down, no, I went to play hockey.  

Soooo beat!  Time to relax.  I will be sure to fill you in tomorrow.  So sorry, but it is 8:33 and I am hitting the hay!

Bullet Hole Artworks

 Walt Creel of Birmingham, Alabama uses a gun for a much different purpose than what it was made for. He artistically uses the deadly weapon to create ironically amazing wildlife art pieces. His project is called ‘De-Weaponizing The Gun’ and is an attempt to take away from the weapon’s destructive power. Walt Creel feels that society features guns all in the same manner, and states that his main goal is to “manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose, to deweaponize it.”

NYFCC's 2010 Wins: "The Social Kids That Are All Right Network"

The New York Film Critics Circle forms, together with LAFCA (Los Angeles Film Critics Association) and the NSFC* (National Society of Film Critics), the holy trinity** of critics awards. LA & NY combined can be a potent influential mix... not that they often agree. But this year they did, further underlining the dominance of The Social Network this awards season. The other big boost went to The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko's warmly funny family-at-crossroads film, which picked up three major wins (Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay)

Picture The Social Network
Director David Fincher for The Social Network
Actress Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Actor Colin Firth for The King's Speech

We already knew that Best Actress was shaping up to be a Bening vs. Portman showdown. But it was not confirmed in a neatly bi-coastal way since Portman did not take LAFCA yesterday. She wasn't even runner-up. Nevertheless, it's still firmly on track to turn out that way, a two-person battle, since they're the likely Globe winners in Comedy and Drama, respectively.


Supporting Actress Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Supporting Actor Mark Ruffalo for The Kids Are All Right
Screenplay Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg for The Kids Are All Right
Cinematography Matthew Libatique for Black Swan
Animated Film Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist
Documentary Inside Job
Foreign Film Carlos
First Feature David Michôd's Animal Kingdom
Special Prize is there one this year? I haven't seen one specified online and their site has not been updated.

Having been a big fan of Animal Kingdom all year, I am pleased for David Michôd's win, since the praise has usually reduced the film to the Jacki Weaver show. Weaver aside, the entire cast is strong and so is the film so good on NYFCC for noticing.

Animal Kingdom's cast: Frecheville, Stapleton, Ford, Weaver,
Joel Edgerton and Ben Mendelsohn

In other film critics org news today, The Southeastern Film Critics Association named The Social Network the years best and also hilariously named True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld the best "supporting" actress of the year. What she's supporting, other than her entire Coen Bros picture, we don't know. They used to call that "carrying" a film and that's only done by lead actors. What the Christ? She's even more of a lead than Frances McDormand was in Fargo! See also: BFCA Nominations for this year's most egregious Category Fraud party. Every year has one.

*in recent years it seems that the NSFC has been fading -- so perhaps the only powerful critics orgs are now LA & NY... at least in terms of media interest -- given NSFC's late voting and the ever expanding roster of film awards.

NYFCO (Prizes and Top Ten List)

Need one more critics group for the day? No? Well then don't open up this window.

The New York Film Critics Online, which is a fairly new organization as critics awards go, embraced most of the Oscar frontrunners with the exception of The King's Speech. Their awards went like so... I may have missed a few but I shall update again if I have.


Picture: The Social Network

• Their top ten list is (alpha order) 127 Hours, Another Year, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, The Ghost Writer, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Social Network. 
 

A couple mild surprises in that top ten but the awards themselves are very Oscar-predictiony.

Director: David Fincher, The Social Network
Actor: James Franco in 127 Hours
Actress: Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Ensemble Cast: The Kids Are All Right
Debut Performance: Noomi Rapace for The Millenium Trilogy.
Debut Director: John Wells, The Company of Men
Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique, Black Swan
Music or Score: Clint Mansell, Black Swan
Documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Foreign Film: I Am Love
Animated Film: Toy Story 3

Fleet Week 2010 : It’s Fleet Week 2010 in New York City

Does fleet week sound familiar to you? Well, for those who have no idea what fleet week is, let me tell you something about it. Fleet week (May 26-June 2) is the time when big ships and lots of sailors in uniform visit Manhattan, and it only happens on the heart of America – New York
City.

This is one of those times in a person’s life where you could thank them for all the great things that they did as an individual and for what they have contributed to keep this country peaceful. In every occasion, there are events, and when I mean events, it would be all week long. There would be ship tours, military demos, and a special Memorial Day ceremony. There’s even a free screening of Top Gun on the flight deck of the Intrepid.

Even bars all over New York City are trying their best to give thanks to the sailors that would visit them by offering limited “Fleet Week Drink Special”.


Source: http://recentissuetoday.com/headline/2165/its-fleet-week-2010-in-new-york-city/

AIDS Walk NYC 2010

AIDS Walk NYC 2010- The AIDS Walk NYC 2010 is on May 16, 2010. Registration for the event starts at 8:30am in the morning. Walk starts at 10am. The AIDS Walk NYC 2010 will celebrate its 25th year in advocacy to HIV-AIDS Awareness and to enhance the understanding that every individual can make a difference, marking the 25th anniversary of the walk.

The largest fundraising walk is to raise money for those living with AIDS and HIV and the money raised will go to 50 social service organizations in the New York City area.