High art it is not, but his extensive range of micro-emotion stickers made him a delightful and expressive alternative to emojis.
And as the pro-democracy movement heated up, so did the proliferation of Pepe stickers – he became a frontline protester, an intrepid reporter, an anti-riot police officer, even Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.
It wasn’t long before he was emblazoned on fliers inviting citizens to reclaim the district of Yuen Long, was being roughly sketched onto Post-its decorating the city’s many “Lennon Walls”, and was stuck onto the backpacks of peaceful airport protesters, inviting tourists to scan a QR code that led to details of the movement’s five demands. Read More...
La modelo Kate Moss ha echado mano de una tendencia que ella puso de moda a inicios de los 90. En concreto en 1993 y casi 30 años después lo ha vuelto a hacer. Un vestido con todas las transparencias posibles. Y lo ha hecho. El llamado 'vestido desnudo'.
Pues la modelo ha desfilado por la alfombra roja de los premios a la innovación organizados por la revista de tendencias del 'Wall Street Journal' en Nueva York y ha elegido un vestido transparente de Saint Laurent. Read More...
While movies are littered with predictions of consumer androids and robots, the one that lingered in my memory was Surrogates from 2009. It starred a youthful, CGI-enhanced Bruce Willis and a genuinely youthful Rosamund Pike, both of whom lived their characters’ lives through robotic avatars.
The difference between the robotic avatars in Surrogates and, for example, the androids that are made in Hong Kong by Hanson Robotics who brought us Sophia – the world’s first robot citizen – is that they are piloted from an all-immersive cockpit-chair, whereas Sophia is on her own. Read More...
