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VALENTINO PRE-FALL 2015

Holy stars! Valentino’s Pre-Fall 2015 is otherworldly. This collection, which takes inspiration straight from the cosmos, is just begging to be worn by space geeks ready to graduate from galaxy leggings.

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An interesting article about the “pop-punk voice”: “I made a linguistics professor listen to a Blink-182 song and analyze the accent”. The song is in the video above, and an excerpt from the article is below, although the whole thing’s worth reading: 

Penelope Eckert, a linguistics professor at Stanford, is one of the foremost scholars examining what’s known as the “California Shift.” The California Shift is a linguistic theory covering the particular changes in dialect that affect the Pacific coast of the United States. Eckert was nice enough to humor me and listen several times to a song I chose based on its particularly egregious “pop-punk voice,” Blink-182’s “First Date.” I love the song, but am aware others may find it horribly annoying. “It really does sound like someone’s messing around,” she told me. […]

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85 Films By And About Women Of Color

Indie Wire writes:

If you were on Twitter recently, you might have seen director Ava DuVernay’s clever call to social media to name films with “black, brown, native or Asian women leads” which were also directed by women.

Though it seems like common sense that these films exist, the question proved to be a serious challenge for Twitter, with many listing the same handful of titles.

The clear point is that there are too few films that fit the above criteria, and that those of us claiming to support diversity in entertainment should do our part to change that. All of this helps bolster the case for DuVernay’s AFFRM + Array Releasing, which distributes black films and is in the midst of an annual membership drive.

With efforts like AFFRM, the ACLU’s push for an investigation into Hollywood’s hiring practices and other recent initiatives for the inclusion of women and diverse voices in film, change appears to be on the horizon.

In the meantime, here’s a list of the films that Twitter came up with starring women of color and helmed by women directors. When cross-referenced with data sources from The Black List, Shadow & Act and others, there were about 85 titles that fit the bill.