Tourism and Beyond

If you didn’t know any better, you’d think that Oli Lemieux was using some sort of Matrix-like special effects.

Really, this is real…and it’s amazing…

Oli Lemieux is one of the members of the Cirque du Soleil, Initially named Les Échassiers, they toured Quebec in 1980 as a performing troupe and encountered financial hardship that was relieved by a government grant in 1983 as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartier’s discovery of Canada.^[2] Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil was a success in 1984, and after securing a second year of funding, Laliberté hired Guy Caron from the National Circus School to re-create it as a “proper circus”. No ring and no animals helped make Cirque du Soleil the contemporary circus (“cirque nouveau“) that it is today.^[3]

Each show is a synthesis of circus styles from around the world, with its own central theme and storyline. They draw the audience into the performance through continuous live music, with performers rather than stagehands changing the props. After critical and financial successes (Los Angeles Arts Festival) and failures in the late 1980s, Nouvelle Expérience was created – with the direction of Franco Dragone – which not only made Cirque profitable by 1990, but allowed it to create new shows.^[4]

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Funny

Adobe Photoshop for iPhone

A new, free-of-charge Adobe Photoshop. com app for iPhone users has recently been made available by Abode Systems. Offering tools like cropping, color controls, image rotation, and one- touch filter effects, the new app helps theiPhone users in editing photos from their phone as well as their online library on Photoshop. com.

While the tools of the Friday-released Photoshop for the Apple iPhone allow theusers to instantly alter the ‘look’ and ‘feel’ of the pictures, features like ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ help users to either correct a mistake or revert back to the original picture.

In addition, the Adobe app also boasts a limited number of effects that are applicable to both new pictures and those already stored on the smartphone. These effects include vibrant, pop, border, rainbow, warm vintage, white glow, soft black and white and vignette blur.

Most of the changes to the photos on the iPhone’s Adobe Photoshop. com appcan be done merely by applying the sketch filter to the photos, and then sliding a finger in left or right direction across the touch screen.

Available from the Apple App Store, the Photoshop. com app, which also allows photos to be uploaded directly from an iPhone to an Adobe account, comes with a 2 GB of storage space which is further expandable through an annual paid storage plan.

Tech

Absolutely the coolest way to make people take the stairs rather than the escalator that you’ll see today:

http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/

Funny, Gadgets, real ecology escalators, Funny, health, stairs

The new Ferrari 2010 for Fernando Alonso

Nick Tombazis and Aldo Costa, in charge of the new project, have established the main concepts. This year Ferrari has enough time since the F60 is finished. In fact, the aerodinamics test made by Fisichella in Variano, besides helping him to get in touch with the car, had come in useful to test the changes to make in 2010, which we can get as a clue of how further they are.

Red Bull: the role mode

Maranello technical experts took the basis of the Red Bull RB5, developed by Adrian Newey, as role mode due to its potential to adapt to the new regulations: thinner forward wheels, (2,5 cm less than last year) and the prohibition of fuelling (tanks are 3 times bigger).

Main points of the project:

The project 661 will be a radical car more than a polish like past years. The front side will be singnificantly raised, flattered and with a central groove and low nose which will support the new designed spoiler.

It probably will be longer than its antecessor, in this way the body will generate more downforce (will work a a very big spoiler). The rear will also be very low and extremely compact. The chassis will be lifted so they gain space at the end to put the grooves for feeding the diffuser.

When taking out the KERS they will gain empty space for the ballast, adjusting it to every race.

The flaw: tests indicate that the engine is greedy.

Free translation from: PERIODISTA DIGITAL (in Spanish)

Cars, Celebrities, Sports

CBlackberry Amosu Curve

Synonymous to most expensive accesories, Amosu has once again lived up to its reputation and rolled out the world’s most expensive Blackberry. Though their previous bespoken Blackberry Pearl Limited Diamond Edition suported a heavy price tag of $90,000, this latest diamond encrusted Blackberry grabs the honor of being the most expensive till date

The Latest Blackberry by Amosu is made of out 18 carat yellow gold and is studded and bejeweled with 4.459 brilliant cut diamonds with a net weight of 28.43 carats. It is the most expensive Blackberry till date with a stunning price tag of £125,000 ($200,000).

Only 3 such exclusive Blackberry will ever be made and the price at which it comes; the buyer can personalize the Berry with his/her name or company’s logo. It also comes with a 24 hour global concierge service focused on ‘accessing the inaccessible’.

While the masses wonder when these expensive Blackberry will fetch a price, to their surprise one of the three pieces have already been sold to a buyer from Middle East.

Here you are the technical data (maybe you decide to buy):

Front & Back Diamonds: 4459 Diamonds
18 Carat gold: Approx 62gsm
Cut: Brilliant cut
Colour: F-G
Clarity: VS1
Carat: Approx 28.42

But, best of all, YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE THE BATTERY COVER!! (at an extra cost, I bet)

You can find Amosu dealers in:

Hong Kong
Monaco
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom

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