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Hurricane Chris - Eye Of The Storm
Sixshot.Com: You were just talking about performing overseas. Is there a big difference between performing over there and performing in the States?
Hurricane Chris: It’s a big difference. They don’t understand English. (Laughs) They don’t understand English so you better have a song that’s really hot. If they don’t remember it you’re going to be looking real dumb because the crowd is going to be upset. Another difference is that here in America you can be a big time star or a small time star. Over there, there is no such thing as a small time star. You’re movie star status and there’s no minimum to it. They look at everybody the same. Everybody is a superstar like Michael Jackson. You’re like Michael Jackson when you go overseas.
Full story http://www.sixshot.com/articles/12839/
Perfect beauty - according to a software program
Can we create the perfect face with a software program? A Canadian Web user has tried to find out.
With the use of "morphing" software, Pierre Tourigny fused the faces of around 30 girls rated 9.5 or 10 on Hot or Not (where attractiveness is rated on a 1-10 scale). By applying the same technique to various groups of girls, different archetypes emerged - the beauty, the "girl next door" and the beast - as well as a palette of go-betweens. But what about charm? It doesn't exist in the software.
Pierre Tourigny, 57, is the creator of the "morphs" and a statistical programming consultant from Gatineau, Canada.
I used morphing software which is found free on the internet and has often been used in cinema and music videos (for example Michael Jackson's 'Black or White'). Each time, I took around 30 people voted in the same category on Hot or Not and morphed them to create an average per category. Generally, morphs tend to be prettier than their sources because face asymmetries and skin blemishes average out.
Serious studies show that we find people with 'average' features beautiful. In other words, the most beautiful person's face would have proportions average to everyone else's. But it's not true. You can see on the images I published that with an average of the prettiest, you get a better looking person than with an average of the ugliest. So there must be a particular symmetry that beautiful people have, a symmetry that is nothing 'average'.
Full story http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20081007-beauty-software-cosmetic-surgery-hot-or-not
Hard-core fans ask: Has he moved?
Michael Jackson fans who have been waiting for days outside his residence at West Palomino Lane are wondering if he's beat it.
Fans have regularly been camping out in front of the home more than a month, since word leaked here that a long vigil by a group of British fans paid off when Jackson signed autographs at the home on Aug. 29, his birthday
The fans serenaded him that night and his security detail sent pizzas to the group.
Las Vegas attorney/food critic John Curtas, who lives nearby, said he drove by on Saturday morning and saw three young people with bed rolls.
About six weeks ago, Curtas saw a young woman carrying a wrapped gift wandering around the neighborhood.
"She said she was from Denmark and asked me if I knew what house was his," said Curtas. She was still there the next day, hoping for a glimpse of the pop icon, he said.
Two young men seated in lawn chairs were waiting across the street when I drove by shortly after noon Monday.
Both were from London, one of them said, and they had been there for five days, without a sign of any activity, other than two men who appeared to be working in the yard.
"I don't think he lives here anymore," said the Brit, who declined to give his name.
There have been rumors in the real estate community that Jackson was in escrow on another home.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/30557054.html
1996 - Michael Jackson began his first tour of Africa.
Hurricane Chris - Eye Of The Storm
Sixshot.Com: You were just talking about performing overseas. Is there a big difference between performing over there and performing in the States?
Hurricane Chris: It’s a big difference. They don’t understand English. (Laughs) They don’t understand English so you better have a song that’s really hot. If they don’t remember it you’re going to be looking real dumb because the crowd is going to be upset. Another difference is that here in America you can be a big time star or a small time star. Over there, there is no such thing as a small time star. You’re movie star status and there’s no minimum to it. They look at everybody the same. Everybody is a superstar like Michael Jackson. You’re like Michael Jackson when you go overseas.
Full story http://www.sixshot.com/articles/12839/
Perfect beauty - according to a software program
Can we create the perfect face with a software program? A Canadian Web user has tried to find out.
With the use of "morphing" software, Pierre Tourigny fused the faces of around 30 girls rated 9.5 or 10 on Hot or Not (where attractiveness is rated on a 1-10 scale). By applying the same technique to various groups of girls, different archetypes emerged - the beauty, the "girl next door" and the beast - as well as a palette of go-betweens. But what about charm? It doesn't exist in the software.
Pierre Tourigny, 57, is the creator of the "morphs" and a statistical programming consultant from Gatineau, Canada.
I used morphing software which is found free on the internet and has often been used in cinema and music videos (for example Michael Jackson's 'Black or White'). Each time, I took around 30 people voted in the same category on Hot or Not and morphed them to create an average per category. Generally, morphs tend to be prettier than their sources because face asymmetries and skin blemishes average out.
Serious studies show that we find people with 'average' features beautiful. In other words, the most beautiful person's face would have proportions average to everyone else's. But it's not true. You can see on the images I published that with an average of the prettiest, you get a better looking person than with an average of the ugliest. So there must be a particular symmetry that beautiful people have, a symmetry that is nothing 'average'.
Full story http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20081007-beauty-software-cosmetic-surgery-hot-or-not
Hard-core fans ask: Has he moved?
Michael Jackson fans who have been waiting for days outside his residence at West Palomino Lane are wondering if he's beat it.
Fans have regularly been camping out in front of the home more than a month, since word leaked here that a long vigil by a group of British fans paid off when Jackson signed autographs at the home on Aug. 29, his birthday
The fans serenaded him that night and his security detail sent pizzas to the group.
Las Vegas attorney/food critic John Curtas, who lives nearby, said he drove by on Saturday morning and saw three young people with bed rolls.
About six weeks ago, Curtas saw a young woman carrying a wrapped gift wandering around the neighborhood.
"She said she was from Denmark and asked me if I knew what house was his," said Curtas. She was still there the next day, hoping for a glimpse of the pop icon, he said.
Two young men seated in lawn chairs were waiting across the street when I drove by shortly after noon Monday.
Both were from London, one of them said, and they had been there for five days, without a sign of any activity, other than two men who appeared to be working in the yard.
"I don't think he lives here anymore," said the Brit, who declined to give his name.
There have been rumors in the real estate community that Jackson was in escrow on another home.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/30557054.html
Today in
Michael Jackson History
1996 - Michael Jackson began his first tour of Africa.
Aww-ness. 