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"Brave" by Jennifer Lopez Available on USB Flash Drive

GeekSugar — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:01:41 -0800

It looks like Jennifer Lopez is going to be one of the first major recording artists to test drive a new way of purchasing music - on a USB drive. According to Luxist, luxury phone experts Gresso have teamed up with various music companies to offer full albums on flash drives. The first of the 'wooden' USB drives includes JLo's new album Brave, which costs a whopping $70. Wondering why so much? The "Adam and Eve" drive is made from African Mahogany or African Blackwood, includes 1GB of memory and is presented in an exclusive gift box. Let's just hope the mini rhinestones are real diamonds!

Why Does the Camera Add 10 Pounds?

GeekSugar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:00:10 -0800

If you've ever seen my lookbook, you know I don't have my America's Next Top Model poses down. I don't know what it is, but I'm just not one of those women that can jump right into a camera-ready angle in two seconds and it's not like I'm the hunchback of Notre Dame or anything. When considering this I got to thinking, what are the best camera angles and why is it that the camera adds 10 pounds?

According to Slate Magazine's Michelle Tsai the answer is mostly bad lighting. She says:

The flat, even illumination on the red carpet makes it hard for the camera to capture dimension, unlike in a photo shoot with flattering soft lights. Cast from an angle, light creates shadows that sculpt the face and body by hiding unwanted flesh. Softer lights can hide wrinkles and smooth out the skin for women, while harsher lights on male faces exaggerate lines for a chiseled look. Without the aid of shadows, however, light exposes the imperfections of the face and body and makes the resulting image bigger and flatter. That's why everyone avoids white dresses-which cast fewer shadows under even lighting-except the thinnest actresses, like Nicole Kidman.

For tips on flattering camera lighting, just read more

High front light (sunlight)
We are trained early on that high front light is the best type of light, and often it is. The pro of high front light is the fact that the scene will be well lit and that the colors of the scene will be extra bright. The negative aspect of lots of sunlight in a picture is that your subject may squint and very high sunlight (seen at noon) will create deep shadows under eyes and chins, unless you use fill flash.

Front light
Front lighting illuminates the portion of the subject facing the photographer. Your camera's flash is the most common type of front lighting. It's great because it provides the most information to the camera by lighting the entire scene. It's also the easiest type of light to deal with photographically because there are fewer shadows to confuse the camera's light meter. The trouble is textures and details are minimized and scenes appear flat with few shadows.

Check out my guide to lighting: Photo Tips: Check Light Source, Strike Pose

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Should Celebrities Be Given Seniority to Online Usernames?

GeekSugar — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:02:26 -0700

One word of advice, don't register any Jennifer Lopez URLs in the near future. The entertainer and mother of two just won her cybersquatting (must add this one to the geek dictionary) case against a man who registered jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org to send users to a pay-per-click ad site.

And speaking of celebrities and names, Twitter is now taking celebrity usernames and giving them back to the real celebrity. That's right, say you register your Twitter username under the alias Lindsay Lohan (probably already taken) but say you did secure that name, Twitter would probably take it from you later and tell you to pick a different name.

What is going on here? Is Twitter realizing that their popularity is increasing due to celebrity participation and therefore is striving to give them preferential treatment over other users? And how do they determine who a real "celeb" is? Is every A, B, C, and even D list celeb going to be knocking on Twitter's door begging for their name back?

What are your thoughts on this? Should celebs be given any preferential URL and/or username treatment when it comes to the web? In the meantime, this non-celeb geek will keep using Namechk to see what sites I can and can't use my real name for.

Microsoft's 'J.Lo 3' On Its Way?

GeekSugar — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:00:18 -0700

I didn't even know that Jenny from the block knew anything about video games, but Boing Boing Gadgets is wondering if Microsoft is set to announce a J.Lo 3 game after finding the image below online. A Google search for "J.Lo, Microsoft" and "J.Lo, video game" turns up nada, but this low budget J.Lo game is very real. Is mass marketing in the works? You be the judge. Nonetheless a Jennifer Lopez game would be kinda fun if it included fashion, music and oh yes-dancing! Source