Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category

October 01 2009

Clotheshorse Malnutrition

posted by Ana Samways at 12:39 pm

June 26 2009

What’s with the staff at Air New Zealand? They just can’t keep their clothes on. First CEO Rob Fyfe stripped off for the national carrier’s latest ad campaign, now Air New Zealand’s in-flight safety spiel is being done in the buff — well in head to toe body paint. The airline’s “Bare Essentials of Safety” video will be shown ahead of domestic 737 flights as of Monday.

Careful with that lap belt , dude…

February 24 2009

Bikini Wax Faces

posted by Ana Samways at 6:15 pm

A compilation of women’s faces as they get the wax strips ripped off their bikini lines. I can’t believe some women take a friend along to literally hold their hands…

February 17 2009

Thanks to Madman films, we have four copies of the outstanding documentary Forbidden Lie$ to give away.

Forbidden Lie$ is about Norma Khouri, who wrote Forbidden Love, supposedly a non fiction book about the “honour killing” of her friend in Jordan.

The book was a bestseller — it was translated into multiple languages, and Khouri, who claimed she was still a virgin, became the toast of the literary world. That’s until Sydney Morning Herald journalist Malcolm Knox exposed her book as a work of fiction, revealing that Khouri was not in fact living in Jordan during the timeframe… [update: all gone now!]

February 17 2009

Shepard Fairey - Earth Hour 2009 Curious Film, a TV commercial production company with offices in Sydney, Auckland and Queenstown, has succeeded in convincing now legendary U.S. artist Shepard Fairey to design posters for Earth Hour 2009.

Shepard Fairey is the illustrator behind US President Barack Obama’s 2008 ‘Hope’, ‘Change’ and ‘Progress’ election posters, which have become iconic images…