The Daily Delicious for August 1, 2008

#16 - H.S.H. Prince Heinrich von und zu Fürstenberg

Paper Creations
Crack open a .pdf and warm up the printer to make your own chocolate truck. Graphic designer, author and illustrator Marilyn Scott-Waters offers us an "odd, little world of paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxes, baskets and bags, origami and ephemera."
(tags: toys paper design art)

Hi Ellen, I'm Brown
"I had to decide which card to play – I am a fan, I know who you are but brush shoulders with your type regularly so will just ignore you, or I’m brown, foreign and don’t know you." Dezigal on her celebrity restroom encounter with Juno's Ellen Page.
(tags: blogs desi celebrities)

The International Best-Dressed List
My grandfather wore basically the same outfit every day, sans Panama hat and mocs. German royalty digs it too, like #16 on Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List. —Pavani
(tags: fashion media vanity_fair clothing)

Lakshmi Menon for Givenchy

Menon stands front and center in ads for Givenchy F/W08.

Despite the ongoing discussion over the lack of models of color on catwalks and campaigns, it’s nice to see that Lakshmi Menon is getting some attention. After last Spring’s Hermès campaign, Lakshmi can soon be seen in ads this fall for Givenchy aside models Lara Stone, Natasha Poly, Kristen Owen and Maria Carla Boscono. In a statement released by Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci, he says, “I chose these five women that represent elegance, femininity and masculinity with character. It is a family portrait.”

Love that she’s so versatile. She can go from super feminine in editorials for Biba Magazine to this stark no-nonsense look for Givenchy. I can’t wait to see what is next for her. What do you think?

The Daily Delicious for July 31, 2008

Two Female Leads
“Quick, name a few recent popular movies where the two top-billed stars are female.” xckd’s creator tallies up the movies by gender of the top billed and second billed star. The findings of his sample? “Hollywood is not creating female heroes.” —Pavani
(tags: women sexism media hollywood gender film feminism)

“Flexitarians” can have their meat and eat it, too
Clinical dietitian Anila Nijhawan has been “totally” flexitarian since she was 5 years old in India. She began eating fish for health reasons. “If someone said red meat would keep my arteries open, maybe I’d add that too, but for now, it’s just fish.”
(tags: health food diet nutrition vegetarian flexitarian fish meat)

NES coffee table
Student makes scaled-up functional retro-Nintendo controller that stores his game collection and serves as a coffee table. —Pavani
(tags: design NES furniture storage retro)

Volunteer Bloggers: Stop Subsidizing the Entire Internet
“It’s easy and idealistic to say, but seriously: stop writing for free…There are some times in a young writer’s career where you have to make the decision to write for free. I’ve done it; you’ve done it. The trick is knowing when to stop.”
(tags: blogs)

The Daily Delicious for July 29, 2008

Singh Is Kinng: Snoop Dogg Named America’s Musical Ambassador To India
Snoop takes a trip to sticky Indo! (Waka-waka.) And wow, Clapton still makes bank there. Not surprised. When I onslaughted the subcontinent in 2006 it was still all about Pantera and Ace of Base’s “The Sign.” —Nalini
(tags: music bollywood India(n))

The Daily Delicious for July 24, 2008

Menon for BR.

Lakshmi Menon for Banana Republic
Just noticed that model Lakshmi Menon is all over the BR web site. Wish the clothes were cooler but excited she’s being used by a mainstream brand. —Priya
(tags: design fashion shopping)

Natalie Portman Stars in a Bollywood-themed music video for Devendra Banhart’s “Carmensita”
Love it or leave it? I’m on the fence… —Priya
(tags: music hollywood)

The Daily Delicious for July 23, 2008

Vijender models for a men’s mag.
(Photo: Soutik Biswas/BBC)

Against the Odds: Vijender Kumar
Olympian boxer Vijender Kumar hails from Bhiwani District in Haryana, which is called India’s “Little Cuba” if the BBC is to be believed. (That last clause was sponsored by the letter B.) —Nalini
(tags: handsomes sports india(n) boxing olympics)
Bhiwani to Beijing
Four of the five boxers qualifying for the Beijing Olympics hail from Haryana’s Bhiwani Boxing Club. The state’s boxing clubs offer opportunities for unemployed youth and free meals and lodging at year-round coaching camps. —Pavani

The Daily Delicious for July 22, 2008

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Obama’s In-box: The Talk of the Town
E-mailing barackobama@gmail.com doesn’t exactly put you in touch with the senator: Guru Raj from Norcross, Ga. (What up, same neighborhood as my Carnatic music teacher!) registered the address in 2004 as a gag. — Nalini
(tags: jokesies politics barack_obama desi)

The Daily Delicious for July 15, 2008

“Aren’t Christianity and Islam just sequels to Judaism?”
Preview a clip from Hari Kondabolu’s set for the Comedy Central series “Live at Gotham.” Each week, a new host introduces six up-and-coming comics for an hour of original comedy from NYC. Over the past year, Kondabolu has been studying human rights in London. —Pavani
(tags: comedy television stand-up comedy_central hari_kondabolu)

“Two Sides to the Story”
For the halfway mark in his 52 weeks photo project, Aussie-born mulletgod, who spent six years of his childhood in Sri Lanka, captures a self-portrait. —Pavani
(tags: australia(n) sri_lanka(n) photography soccer football cricket beer tea)

“Western Magazines Find a Receptive Audience in India”
Indian Vogue, Rolling Stone, OK!, Maxim, Golf Digest, People and other mags hit stands this year in India. More to follow. Most “are not really Western at all” but almost entirely created and produced in India. Over half of Indian mag sales are made by young boys standing in traffic “holding up the latest copy of a glossy, and yelling ‘Vogue, madam? Indian Vogue! Golf Digest?’ into the windows of stopped cars.”
(tags: media magazines india(n) publishing children)

Midnight’s Children wins Best of the Booker
The prize, in celebration of the Booker’s 40th anniversary, was shortlisted by a panel of judges and then went to an public poll with over 7800 votes. Rushdie sons Zafar & Milan with the youngest stealing the show. MC also won the 25th anniversary prize - the Booker of Bookers. —Pavani
(tags: literature booker awards salman_rushdie midnight’s_children)

So You Think You Can Dance: Bollywood Edition

Katee and Joshua performed the first ever Bollywood number on “So You Think You Can Dance” to “Dhoom Taana” from “Om Shanti Om” last night and KILLED it. I absolutely loved this number and the choreographer, Nakul Dev Mahajan, did an amazing job teaching these two the specifics of proper bhangra and classical dance technique.

The Daily Delicious for July 8, 2008

Balle Balle D-O-Double-G?

Bolly-Dogg … Snoop to Shoot a Bollywood Video
“The hip-hop legend has teamed up with Indian superstar Akshay Kumar to make a music video for the theme song of a new movie, “Singh Is Kinng.” Dear God, please let this be true. —Priya
(tags: gossip bollywood hiphop)