Tuesday, March 22, 2011

CHRIS BROWN FLIPS ON REPORTER!!

Chris Brown Loses Temper on Good Morning America

By Stephen M. Silverman

Update Tuesday March 22, 2011 01:45 PM EDT Originally posted Tuesday March 22, 2011 11:35 AM EDT

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A raging and shirtless Chris Brown stormed out of Good Morning America's Times Square studio Tuesday, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

"He was visibly upset and appeared livid after the interview," the source said, of Brown's being asked about his 2009 felony assault case involving his then-girlfriend Rihanna.

During an interview pegged to the release of his new album F.A.M.E., Brown, 21, told GMA anchor Robin Roberts, "It's not really a big deal to me now, as far as that situation. I think I'm past that in my life. Today's the album day, so that's what I'm focused on."

Yet when Roberts inquired of the legal issues still stemming from the case, Brown said, "This album is what I want people to hear and people to really get into, so definitely this album is what I want them to talk about and not stuff that happened two years ago."

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After the interview, Brown performed a number, then, according to local affiliate WABC, went into his dressing room, and reportedly screamed and started to tear apart the room. Security reportedly was summoned.

Brown did not perform a second song, as had been scheduled. Instead, he ripped off his shirt – New York temperatures are in the mid-40s Tuesday – and left the building, says WABC.

Reps for Brown did not immediately return calls for comment.

A few hours after the incident, Roberts took to Twitter to comment: "Sure has been an interesting AM @GMA. Still sorting thru everything myself. Just my 2nd day on twitter, wonder what tomorrow will bring?”

Next week, Brown is slated to perform on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

In December, Brown completed a year-long domestic violence program for his role in the case. He was previously sentenced to five years probation and 180 days of community service.

Soon after Tuesday's GMA incident, TMZ reported, Brown Tweeted (before later removing the message): "I'm so over people bringing this past s**t up!!! Yet we praise Charlie sheen and other celebs for there bulls**t."

He then added two other messages within one minute of each other. They were: "Thank you to everyone who supports my music!!! Key Word (music) !!! Love y'all," as well as, "All my fans!!! This album is for you and only you!!! I'm so tired of everyone else!! Honestly!! I love team breezy!!"

ABC News, in a statement, said of Tuesday's turn of events: "As always, we ask questions that are relevant and newsworthy, and that's what we did in this interview with Mr. Brown."

• Reporting by CHARLOTTE TRIGGS

Monday, March 21, 2011

Great rip the runway show!

Selita Ebanks To Host Rip The Runway!

January 17th, 2011

The model will hold down the stage at this year’s fashion and music extravaganza
Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks has been named host of BET’s 2011 Rip The Runway, scheduled to air on Monday, March 21 at 8/7C.
Rip The Runway is BET’s annual fashion meets hip-hop and R&B show, featuring the most popular music performers and new designers’ spring and summer lines. Last year’s show was co-hosted by rap superstar Nicki Minaj and The Game’s Pooch Hall. It included performances by Ludacris, Minaj, Soulja Boy, Janelle Monae and Estelle.
You can expect this year’s show to be even hotter. See you on the runway!
Check out Selita Ebank’s “Style File” on BET.com now.

GAY CONVERTER APP. ON THE IPHONE?!!! WTF?!

Apple has come under fire for approving an "app" that offers guidance on how homosexual people can be "cured" and convert to heterosexuality.

Apple under fire for 'gay conversion' app

The app is offered free on Apple's iTunes online shop Photo: GETTY

By Alex Spillius, Washington 6:51PM GMT 20 Mar 2011

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The "gay cure" application, designed to be used on Apple's hand-held devices, was created by and named after Exodus International, a religious organisation which believes in teaching "freedom from homosexuality through prayer and practicing conversion therapy".

The app is offered free on Apple's iTunes online shop and was given a "4+" rating by the company, meaning it is not considered to contain objectionable content.

A description of the app on the online shop said: "With over 35 years of ministry experience, Exodus is committed to encouraging, educating and equipping the Body of Christ to address the issue of homosexuality with grace and truth."

Gay activists quickly gathered more than 37,000 signatures for an online petition persuading Apple to drop the software.

The petition on the website change.org said the Christian group was using "scare tactics, misinformation, stereotypes and distortions" of gay life, and promoting "the use of so-called 'reparative therapy' to 'change' the sexual orientation of their clients, despite the fact that this form of 'therapy' has been rejected by every major professional medical organisation".

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Exodus recommends techniques such as abstinence, lessening of homosexual temptations, and strengthening homosexuals' sense of masculine or feminine identity.
Its most prominent founders were gay men who claimed to have changed their "lifestyle". It has however been beset by high profile scandals and defections. In April last year, Michael Bussee apologised for his role in starting Exodus and said he had never seen a leader or member permanently become heterosexual.
In the late 1990s John Paulk, then chairman, appeared on Oprah Winfrey's television show and made other high profile appearances to publicise the campaign, but was soon photographed in a gay bar in Washington and was forced to resign.
Last year Apple initially approved but then removed software from the Manhattan Declaration which encouraged users to take a stand against gay marriage.
It has removed thousands of apps, which are a major source of income, deemed offensive. The company has taken a hard line against mockery of political leaders. It banned an app that allowed users to simulate hurling cartoon shoes at caricatures of former president George W Bush, in reference to a real incident involving an Iraqi journalist.
It also banned the "Me So Holy" app which allowed users to paste photographs of themselves over the heads of various religious figures.

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The Independent Art Fair

by Johnny Misheff
on March 4, 2011 - 8:55 PM

Photo: Guys Playing Football, 2011 by Christopher Knowles/courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

It’s safe to say The Independent, which kicked off its 2nd incarnation last week to a packed crowd, takes the lead as The Next Big Art Fair in New York. A prominent swell of military jacket-wearing artists and young style-conscious collectors crammed all the way up to the roof of the DIA building on 22nd Street.
The galleries presenting work at The Independent are of the young and vibrant, international sort. Istanbul’s Rodeo Gallery showed James Richards’ twin display of books published with various images of fire on their cover, with the titles and author’s name blacked out with electrical tape. The smartly positioned books create a playful gradient of fire in dramatic and quieter forms. Around the corner at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the whimsical works of Christopher Knowles are on view. Every Knowles piece starts with his initials in the bottom right corner and is made from painting markers. He crafts his images around photographs or newspaper clippings placed next to his work space so a true stream of conscious forms the image; perspectives are warped and twisted slightly. The over all effect is playful and pleasantly naive.
Elizabeth Dee Gallery went with a group show and featured the work of Lizzie Fitch, whose piece titled ‘At’ evokes an Ikea-like architecture, utilizing pull-out windows and generic venetian blinds that forms an unconventional table-like structure. Fitch takes this already surreal sculpture to deeper dimensions by adhering prints of the same windows and blinds onto every surface area available, so the effect is both dreamy and disorienting.

Bortolami Gallery invited Michel Francois to create a new iteration of his massive room-filling installation, ‘Pièce détachée.’ The work is terrifyingly precarious, made of heavy steel beams held together by carefully placed magnets; if just one magnet is removed, the entire thing would fall apart. This piece is supported by two additional works; ‘Bleu Ciel,’ a large piece of light blue paper, delicately crumpled; and ‘Crash,’ a zoomed in and detailed photograph of a fairly drastic fender bender.
One of the newer galleries to show work this year is the brilliant Balice Hertling. It’s French and new, and offers Nikolas Gambaroff’s newspaper pieces (they have a slight socio-political bent to them). By gluing and tearing away newspaper in a cursive scrawl, images and text are revealed and hidden simultaneously, a fortuitous nod to the way we read our news. It certainly doesn’t hurt that they’re aesthetically pleasing as well.
Over at the Wallspace booth you can see works by Walead Beshty and Martha Friedman. Beshty’s massive photograms are created through an elaborate and rigorous process and the results are gorgeous, vivid and textural. Friedman’s ‘Chairs and Bottles’ is exactly that, but it’s not as simple as it sounds. Friedman has constructed a tower of a dozen or so pristine white chairs, the top half of which are placed at random, and trickily so. Even more chancy is the fact that this tower rests atop four large glass bottles.
We strongly recommend you head over to The Independent post-haste and enjoy free access to a seriously fantastic fair.

FASHION WEEK!

Fashion Week: Fall 2011 Trend Report

The strongest trends—from polka patterns to sixties swing— seen on fall's runways

By ELLE | March 17, 2011

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Children’s Collection Spring Summer 2011

Gucci Unveils Advertising Campaign Featuring Jennifer Lopez for Launch of New Children's Collection

Gucci Announces Donation to UNICEF's ‘Schools for Africa’ Initiative

Gucci is pleased to make a one million dollar donation to UNICEF’s "‘Schools for Africa" initiative in Malawi and Mozambique to mark the company’s long-term commitment to UNICEF’s work for children and celebrate the launch of Gucci’s children’s collection.

The new children’s collection – represented by the iconic Gucci teddy bear – is divided into two age ranges from 0 to 2 years and 2 to 8 years, and will launch with the Spring Summer 2011 collection. Recording artist and actress Jennifer Lopez will star in a special advertising campaign dedicated to the launch of Gucci’s new children’s collection and highlighting Gucci’s donation to UNICEF’s "Schools for Africa" initiative.

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Gucci is proud to make one million dollar donation to UNICEF's "Schools for Africa" initiative to celebrate six years of partnership and the launch of Gucci Children's Collection, because education is a gift forever

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