July 19, 2011
"The Dark Knight Rises" Trailer
"If you make yourself more than just a man. If you devout yourself to be ideal. You become something else entirely. A legend Mr. Wayne….A LEGEND!"
July 15, 2011
Behind The Scenes: The Making of "Watch the Throne"
Photos of Jay-Z & Kanye West working on their upcoming album "Watch the Throne".
July 11, 2011
iPhone SLR Mount
The iPhone SLR Mount ($190-$249) is here to give your iPhone access to Nikon or Canon lenses for supposedly awesome quality photos. The set includes an aluminum case, a fairly thick lens adapter, and a UV filter, all of which team up to let you attach your favorite zoom, macro, fisheye, or wide angle glass to your always connected shooter, making for nearly endless instant-upload photographic possibilities.
Facebook + Skype
Facebook announced a new partnership with Skype yesterday,enabling users to make free video calls to their friends through the social networking site.
Rolling out internationally in the next few weeks,the widely anticipated feature brings together two of the web’s most popular consumer services and is a sign of the way “social apps” will become more prevalent,Mark Zuckerberg,Facebook’s founder and chief executive said.
Zuckerberg introduced the new feature as one of a slate of new sharing and communication tools to be launched in the next few months. “This is symbolic of the way we’re going to do these things,building social apps on top of our social infrastructure … it’s only possible because that social infrastructure already exists.”
He also announced group chat and a redesigned,layout for Facebook chat. The next five years of consumer web,he said,would see companies across many sectors exploit the social infrastructure to make their businesses more social.
“The world generally believes that social software will be everywhere,and it will only be a matter of time before it reaches billions of people,whether through us or someone else,” Zuckerberg told journalists and technologists at the launch in California. “The driving narrative is not about wiring up the world because a lot of the interesting stuff has been done but about what cool social apps you can build now this social infrastructure is in place.”
Skype video calling with Facebook,which has been six months in development,comes just one week after Google launched its own social networking layer called Google+,which includes a video chat feature called Hangouts. Zuckerberg took the very public opportunity of playing down Google+.
“I’m not going to talk too much about Google. Lots of companies that have not traditionally looked at social networking apps – not just Google – will be trying apps. I view a lot of this as validation of how the next five years will play out – every app will be social,” he said. “We just have to stay focused on building the best service for that. If we don’t,someone else will.”
The partnership exploits Facebook’s connections with Microsoft,the technology giant which invested $240m (£117m) in the firm in 2007 and also acquired Skype in May this year for an estimated $80m. Skype’s chief executive Tony Bates said the company had put significant effort into ensuring its own infrastructure would be able to support Facebook’s vast userbase,which will help Skype meet its own ambition of reaching 1 billion users.
Confirming Facebook’s latest monthly user milestone of 750 million people,Zuckerberg quashed speculation that its growth is slowing. “We don’t measure the value the internet provides by how many people use the internet but the benefit people are getting,the apps they use and how it is driving the economy,” he said,describing the volume of shared content as the primary measure for user activity.
An average 4bn items,from videos to news stories and recommendations,are shared on Facebook every day. The amount of content being shared has doubled since this time last year and Zuckerberg predicts it will double again by this time next year.
Research firm eMarketer estimates Facebook’s global ad revenues will reach $4.05bn this year – more than double last year’s figure of $1.86bn. By 2012,worldwide ad spending on Facebook is expected to reach $5.74 bn,up 42% over 2011.
The Ferrari of the Skies – Piaggio Aero P180 Avanti II
Check out what is known as the “Ferrari of the Skies”,a luxurious private aircraft that is faster than every other vehicle in its class. The Piaggio Aero P180 Avanti II uses unconventional design and propulsion systems to fly faster,further and more efficiently than even some private jets. With three sets of wings and a pair of rear-mounted push propellers,the Avanti II can reach speeds of up to 466 mph while burning just 98 gallons of fuel per hour. That might seem steep in automobile standards,but it is strikingly low for airborne travel.
The new Piaggio Aero P180 Avanti II is as sexy as it is functional. The three-wing design presents a wild appearance,thanks to two nose-mounted canard wings,a pair of wide-and-thin central wings and the raised T-tail wings in the back. These wings give the Avanti II a significant advantage in lift,one that provides for plenty of savings in the fuel department.
The interior is classy and refined,providing its passengers with a first-class experience throughout their flight. The cabin can fit 7-9 passengers with a pair of pilots up front,providing comfort space for all 11 on board at maximum. If you’d like to secure one of your own,it’ll cost you. The best-in-class performance and first-class interior may justify the $7 million dollar price tag,but only if you’ve got that kind of money to play with. More images below.
The new Piaggio Aero P180 Avanti II is as sexy as it is functional. The three-wing design presents a wild appearance,thanks to two nose-mounted canard wings,a pair of wide-and-thin central wings and the raised T-tail wings in the back. These wings give the Avanti II a significant advantage in lift,one that provides for plenty of savings in the fuel department.
The interior is classy and refined,providing its passengers with a first-class experience throughout their flight. The cabin can fit 7-9 passengers with a pair of pilots up front,providing comfort space for all 11 on board at maximum. If you’d like to secure one of your own,it’ll cost you. The best-in-class performance and first-class interior may justify the $7 million dollar price tag,but only if you’ve got that kind of money to play with. More images below.
July 05, 2011
Tom Ford’s Five Easy Lessons to be a Modern Gentleman
1. You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
2. A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
3. Manners are very important and actually knowing when things are appropriate. I always open doors for women, I carry their coat, I make sure that they’re walking on the inside of the street. Stand up when people arrive at and leave the dinner table.
4. Don’t be pretentious or racist or sexist or judge people by their background.
5. A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Jay-Z & Kanye West “Watch The Throne” Album Cover
Designed by Riccardo Ticsi (creative director for Givenchy) | "Watch the Throne" will be available August 2nd :: pre-order here
June 13, 2011
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