BOBBIE AND KATIE COLLECTION

Posted on by
Reply

This article was previously published on Couturing 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bobbi Brown and Katie Holmes have joined forces to bring you a makeup line ideal for the busy, modern woman. Renowned for creating makeup that is ‘simple, flattering and wearable’, the new line includes the limited edition Bobbi & Katie Palette and the Mini Brush Set, which hit stores from September 15.

The brush set and cosmetic case are sized perfectly to fit your handbag and encapsulate the notion of ‘beauty on the go’.

The Bobbi & Katie Palette is the essential face palette with an interior mirror, eight eye shadows, two pot rouges and a mini eye pencil. Encased in a ‘journal’ that was inspired by Katie’s own journal, the palette is stylish and chic. The shades include neutrals, pinks, browns and shimmery pastels making the palette versatile enough to use for both day and night!

The eyeshadow shades include a shimmery pink chiffon, metallic brown sugar, metallic pink quartz, metallic black cocoa, ballet sparkle, stone, and antique rose eye shadow.

For blush, you can alternate between a lighter pretty pink color or a deep raspberry shade. To line eyes, look no further than a chocolate coloured eye pencil.

To complement the gorgeous shades in the face palette, meet the Mini Brush Set! Taking up minimal space and time you’ve got no excuse not to whip out a brush for a flawless makeup finish. The chic brown cosmetics bag includes four mini brushes you can use with the palette to complete your beauty look. Brushes include the Mini Face Blender Brush, Mini Eye Shadow Brush, Mini Eye Sweep Brush and Mini Smokey Eye Liner Brush.

The Bobbi & Katie Palette and Mini Brush Set retail at $115 each and are available for a limited time only. So get in quick to cut time on your makeup routine without compromising on its quality!

Bobbi Brown is available at Myer, David Jones and www.bobbibrown.com.au

07 READING: THE RICH GET RICHER RULE

Posted on by
Reply

The second reading for the week was again by Barabasi, on the “rich get richer” rule. To be perfectly honest, this week’s readings have (so far) failed to interest me. They seem to just drizzle on about nodes and hubs and linking and wind up getting a bit complicated.

Barabasi compares networks such as the Web to Hollywood to demonstrate his points. This is what I got from the reading:

– If networks as varied as the Web and Hollywood both display a power-law degree distribution then there must be some universal law responsible for it that could apply to ALL networks

– The rich get richer phenomenon could explain the power laws

– EVERYONE agrees that the Web is growing

– Despite the enormity and complexity of the web it continues to grow incrementally node by node

– If we consider Hollywood with the Web both start as small networks and then expand as time goes on.

– Most real networks share an essential feature: GROWTH

– We link to things based on our knowledge and experience of the world
– When deciding where to link on the web we follow preferential attachment: So while our individual choices are unpredictable as a group we follow strict patterns.

Hopefully next week’s readings are a little more interesting…

 

 

 

 

07 READING: THE 80/20 RULE

Posted on by
1

The Barabasi reading considered the idea of rules to explain the ‘network behind the web.’  Barabasi structured his article around Pareto’s Law known as the “80/20 rule.” That basically said that ‘four-fifths of our efforts are largely irrelevant’.

To explain this point, Barabasi used examples in management. So, 80% of profits are produced by only 20% of employees. Which to elaborate on in terms of the economy seems to say as the title of the 2nd reading does “The Rich get Richer”.

Anyway, the point of this reading wasn’t for us to examine the economy (well perhaps as a side note) but to see how the 80/20 rule can be applied to networked media. In terms of finding an exact science that has created the network, various studies have been conducted. It was hypothesized that ‘webpages are connected to each other randomly’.

Enter: The POWER Law. So basically, this power law doesn’t peak like a bell curve and implies that many small events coexist with a few large events. What they found, was that “millions of website creators work together” (perhaps inadvertently) “to generate a complex Web that defies a random universe”.

And in some way, I think this includes us as we are webpage creators of our own mediafactory sites. Together we create this network that operates the web.

 

KEVIN MURPHY COLOUR BUGS

Posted on by
Reply

This article previously appeared on Couturing.com

Sick of dull, lacklustre hair? Want wild crazy colour without having to completely commit to it? And, want to give yourself a mini makeover and only have minimal time to spare?

If you’re shouting yes, look no further than KEVIN.MURPHY‘s Colour.Bugs

Colour.Bugs are temporary hair colour highlights that are easy to apply and even easier to wash off. The bugs add a flash of colour plus some extra body to your hair! Kevin Murphy wanted to create a hair product that was just as easy to use and apply as makeup. After playing around with colour pigments, Colour.Bug was born.They’re designed to be “just for the night” and are all about having fun!

Couturing recommends the new Neon.Bug and the Shimmer.Bug to revamp your hair look this season!

Neon Bug

 

Neon.Bug is an electric yellow-green hue that lets you add a subtle flash or intense neon colour to your hair for the night! Kevin Murphy says, “This product pushes the boundaries”. To use, apply product (we suggest KEVIN.MURPHY Anti.Gravity.Spray) all over the hair, and then follow with the Neon.Bug wherever you want the colour. The pigment will stick to the product, ensuring that it will last for hours. To further lock in the colour, spritz over with hairspray. Be brave and bold with neon hair during the night and revert back to your natural colour in the morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shimmer Bug

Perfect for a glamorous night-tim

e party look or a day-time sun-kissed beach look,

Shimmer.Bug provides temporary instant bronze highlights to hair. This product is incredibly easy to apply as you wipe it on with sweeping strokes and wipe it off with warm water. As for the Neon.Bug, it is best to allow to prep the hair with some product to give the Shimmer.Bug something to stick to.  The metallic hues will give life to lacklustre hair and new energy to your dreary winter look. Shimmer Bug is ideal for brunettes and redheads to brighten up their hair!

Kevin Murphy Hair Bugs are $24.95 each and available from leading hair salons around Australia.

Visit www.kevinmurphy.com.au for more information.

INTERACTIVITY IN NARRATIVES….

Posted on by
Reply

The Marie-Laure Ryan reading this week was all about interactivity in narratives in the DIGITAL world.

Overall, it was really interesting and I found the reading engaging enough to gather several takeaway ideas.

The key word in this area seems to be IMMERSIVE.

Game designer Chris Crawford says digital narratives “mandate choice for the user”.

  • No choice= no interactivity
  • “This is an absolute, uncompromising principle “

SO, interactivity seems to be the BIGGEST difference between “old” and “new” media.

But there are a few problems with working out how to be interactive in a narrative as Ryan says because narratives rely on linearity and unidirectionality of time, logic and causality. But interactivity is all about a nonlinear structure!

The key is to give users a “sense of freedom” while disguising the narrative design as an “emergent story”.

It all sounds pretty complicated, but the results definitely seem worthwhile!

It includes:

– Literary hypertext fiction

– Text based adventure games

– Interactive drama

– Single-user video games

– Multiple user online role playing games

//0.5 Reconfiguring Narrative

Posted on by
Reply
This week’s reading was all about DIGITAL Narrative.
Remember those “Choose your own adventure” stories where you got to create the ending?
At the end of every few pages you had the choice to make a character do one of three actions…
“Pete runs to the basement…turn to page 56” etc
SO what does a choose your own adventure narrative look like in the digital age?
These are my KEY takeaway points from the reading:
  • Every digital narrative doesn’t take form of hypertext
  • Michale Joyce  was the first major author of hypertext fiction
  • Born out of desire to create multiple stories out of relatively small amount of text
  • It uses linking to grant the author even more power
  • Takes range of forms based on:
    Reader choice, intervention and empowerment
    Inclusion of extralinguistic texts (images, motion, sound)
    Complexity of network structure
    Degrees of multiplicity and variation in literary elements (plot, setting, characterisation)

AND finally this seems to sum it all up: “A fictional text must be stretched, skewered, and sliced if it is to exploit the freedoms and accept the responsibilities offered by hypertext technology and its new writing spaces” 

Image Credit:
(1)

VINT CERF RESEARCH

Posted on by
Reply

For my Niki this week, I’m working on an interview with Vint Cerf.

So who is he, what has he done and why is he important?

Who is he?

An American computer scientist regarded as one of the “fathers of the internet”.

What has he done?

-Was fundamental in producing the first commercial email system connected to the internet
– A founder of ICANN (IP)
– Vice-president + Chief Internet Evangelist of Google
– Helped developed IP
-Key role in development of the internet and related data packet and security technologies

How does this relate to the internet, digital media and networked media?
– Email is an important function of the internet
– Connects people
– Easy communication method
– Email forms part of our networked society

Significance of what he has done?
– Won the US Presidential Medal of Freedom that recognises his work on software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them “at the forefront of digital revolution that has transformed global commerce communication and entertainment”
– Large significance to the digital world

Ideas:
– Looks at the future world with every device being smart, connected to the network and location aware

WRITING AS TECHNOLOGY

Posted on by
Reply

The reading this week was about “Writing as a technology”.

Bolter argues that the role of writing is for “collective memory, for preserving and passing on human experience”.

I consider myself a writer and a thinker. I look at the world around me, listening and watching out for potential stories. I use things that happen in my life as inspiration for my writing. So this definition of writing makes perfect sense.

Writing enables us to ‘arrange verbal thoughts in a visual space’. It can definitely be therapeutic, let you rip open the bottle of your pent up emotions, and encourage you to think out your problems.

And hand in hand with writing comes reading. What makes some novels absolute classics? Celebrated and remembered hundreds of years after the death of their creators?

This reading would suggest that the power of writing and words is so vast it can transcend time. Great works of literature possibly stand the test of time because they deal with important elements of the human experience that remain the same forever.

It’s encouraging to think that even though our writing technologies and publication methods are changing our writing can have an everlasting impact…