Kudos for Simply Be for hiring online models with disabilities that might make less enlightened fashion retailers balk.
Take this woman showing an Anna Scholz Kimono Sleeve Dress, for example. Nice smile, inviting eyes, lovely figure, and, upon closer inspection – hideous multi-pronged rake hand.
Her finger diet seems to be working.
Fortunately, her deformity was not the result of a tragic garbage disposal accident but rather a major Photoshop fail. We’re happy to report that the model has since been healed, or repixelated anyway, back to normalcy.
Alex Morgan was honored to be body-painted by Sports Illustrated. (PRNewsFoto/GNC Holdings, Inc., Victor Wang Studios)
You might not recognize her without her cleats on, but one of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition beauties is none other than U.S. women’s soccer star and former Cal Bear Alex Morgan.
Morgan says she was nervous at first to be photographed with nothing on but pigment, but her jitters disappeared with the excitement of shooting.
“It was a completely new experience and definitely took some getting used to before I felt comfortable in bodypaint,” she told SI.com.
While Sports Illustrated apparently has no plans to run photos of male athletes in Swimsuit, SI.com asked Morgan whom she would pick for such a feature.
“I’d say some athletes like Rafael Nadal, Blake Griffin, or C.J. Wilson would be great candidates for Swimsuit. But I also have to add Ryan Gosling after seeing all the movies he was in this past year.”
Alex leaps after scoring the game winner in extra time in the U.S.' 2-1 victory Saturday over New Zealand. She scored the first goal with time running out in regulation.
February 9, 2012 at 12:05 pm by wkane@sfchronicle.com (Will Kane)
Crews filming a commercial for Scion in Northern California had a near miss early this month with a deer who just wanted a little screen time.
A professional driver was cruising along winding roads in the new car when a deer jumped out in front of him.
“As I come across this left hand turn, over a crest and onto a straight, I’m minding my own business driving, trying to navigate through these unknown roads and all of a sudden I see this black figure just prancing around … at that moment I knew, ‘Oh sh*t, something’s wrong,’” said Ken Gushi, a professional driver.
“As I got on the brakes, I see this deer pop out of the mountain, run in front of the car, probably as close as two-to-three feet,” Gushi continued.
The deer scampered off, the shoot continued. The video was posted early this month, but hasn’t attracted much attention until now.
Rob Gronkowski, hobbled by an aching ankle, didn’t have a very good Super Bowl. But great athlete that he is, he sucked it up and faced defeat like a man – a man on a mission to dance the night away.
And by “dance,” we mean, bouncing up and down, waving his arms violently and helping guys take off their shirts at the Patriots’ invite-only post-game party.
With all the butt slapping and males prancing around, a casual viewer might think the Patriots actually won.
In other NFL dancing news, Tim Tebow reportedly was considering joining “Dancing with the Stars.”
What about Gronk, DWTS?! Just think how graceful he would be with a good ankle.
Giorgio Fareira set out to make the Sonic employee taking his order smile.
In doing so, he’s put a grin on the face of hundreds of thousands around the country who have watched the video of him singing his food order.
Fareira, 23, an aspiring musician who graduated from Bassick High School and now lives in Fairfield, starts his order by singing his name, and then, as a guitar plays along, he belts out his order at the Wallingford Sonic.
In his description of the video on Youtube, Fareira wrote, “I’m kinda strange and like to do random stuff to make people smile! Mission accomplished. They got everything on the order absolutely right and were super nice!”
A Barista at Starbucks who has attended Norwalk Community College, Fareira recently released an EP with his band, The Interstate Life.
He told Fox CT he didn’t intend to make the video. Fareira was on a trip to Hartford with his friends and brought his guitar along to entertain them, because their car radio was broken.
Fariera will be performing with his band Feb. 4 in New Haven at the Taco Hut and then at the Acoustic Cafe in Black Rock on March 10.
January 31, 2012 at 12:46 am by phockaday@sfgate.com (Peter Hockaday)
The Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin has already gained a reputation for being a big dunker in his young career, but he topped himself Monday night with a far-out jam over the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Kendrick Perkins. See the dunk that sent the announcers and Twitter into a frenzy:
The dunk came only one night after LeBron James had an alley-oop that was an early favorite for Dunk of the Year. But even King James had to cede the floor to Griffin, tweeting “@blakegriffin just dunked on Kendrick Perkins so hard!! Wow!! I guess I’m #2 now”
January 27, 2012 at 12:28 pm by tneff@timesunion.com (Tim Neff, timesunion.com)
Matthew Broderick’s Ferris Bueller tease is just one of the Super Bowl ad promos hitting YouTube. Here’s a selection of them, including one from Volkswagen that looks something like an Alpo ad for the Empire.
January 26, 2012 at 7:27 pm by phockaday@sfgate.com (Peter Hockaday)
Bueller? Bueller? The web is abuzz that Ferris himself may return during the Super Bowl, or maybe even to theaters, after a cryptic video was posted on YouTube today.
The video shows Matthew Broderick throwing open some curtains and asking, “How can I handle work on a day like today?” The very Bueller “Oh Yeah” song by Yello plays as the date of the Super Bowl is flashed. Is the tease for a big-budget ad or maybe even a much-belated sequel? The former is more likely than the latter, but we’ll just have to see. A note posted with the video says, “We hate to be such a tease, but on a day like today, we just have to. Stick it out until the Super Bowl, or take a ‘day off’ on Monday and catch the big reveal.”
