Sun FeiFei Ad Campaign for Shanghai Tang, Fall 2009/Winter 2010

Model: Sun FeiFei (Elite London)
Ad Campaign: Shanghai Tang, Fall 2009/Winter 2010
Photographer: Richard Ramos
Makeup: Candy Law
Hair: Dicky Chiu

Source: Shanghai Tang

Liu Wen Editorial for (US) Allure Magazine, November 2009

Model: Liu Wen (Marilyn)
Editorial: Guiding Light
Magazine: (US) Allure, November 2009
Photographer: Michael Thompson
Fashion Editor: Paul Cavaco
Makeup: Dick Page
Hair: Serge Normant

Source: JedRootInc via Fiercification @ tFs

Compositional Conversation 12 (and a really great bag)

Kathy Loomis added her bold and distinctive voice to our Conversation. Go check it out at Terry's blog!

Also, while in Vegas we saw another Cirque du Soleil show at the Bellagio called "O" (last year we saw "Ka" and totally fell in love). It was eye-popping... a circus in water! While there, I grabbed a fab new purse in their shop.

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Gorgeous, right?

السجن مدى الحياة لقاتل مروة الشربيني

أصدرت محكمة دريسدن اليوم حكمها بالسجن المؤبد لقاتل شهيدة الحجاب مروة الشربيني المدعو اليكس فينس 23 عاما وذلك يعتبر حكما مشددا وتوقيع اقصى العقوبة كما طالب الادعاء..

ومن المتوقع ان يقضي الكس ما تبقى من عمره خلف القضبان ولن يتم الافراج عنه بعد 15 عاما حيث رأت المحكمة انه قام بجرم جسيم يستحق العقوبة المشددة.

وكان اليكس قد قام بقتل الصيدلانية المصرية مروة الشربيني بقاعة محكمة درسدن (مجاورة للقاعة التي تشهد محاكمته ) وقتلها بطعنها 16 طعنة وهي حامل في 3 اشهر وذلك امام طفلها البالغ من العمر 3 سنوات بالاضافة لمحاولة قتل زوجها حين حاول الدفاع عنها.

يذكر ان المحكمة قد طلبا بيانا عن صحة المتهم النفسية من روسيا وقد ردت ادارة التجنيد في روسيا بان المتهم كان يعاني من اضرابات نفسية تم تسريحه من التجنيد بسببها في نوفمبر 2000، في حين اكد الطبيب النفسي الالماني سلامة عقل المتهم في الفترة الحالية وهو ما اعتبرته المحكمة في عين الاعتبار.

The Desert Also Blooms

And I have proof!

We're back from Las Vegas, exhausted, broke and happy.

The gaming was fun (though not too profitable, despite two separate straight flushes in the last 24 hours before we left), the people were incredibly friendly and the meals? Holy cow... I think we ate our way through the city. It was true fine dining every night, starting with Circo, an impeccable Italian restaurant in the Bellagio Hotel, overlooking their fountains. We had tenderloin accompanied by risotto with white truffles (only available in November and December). Heavenly!

On another night, we ate at one of our favorite LV restaurants, Shibuya in the MGM Grand. This restaurant puts all other hibachi restaurants to shame and can even make Benihana, one of our favorite places to eat, seem stogy and unappetizing. Of course, it doesn't hurt that their Sake selection is huge. Here are our dinner companions...

First-time sake drinkers, before...

First-time sake drinkers, after. 

What a hoot they were. (Sorry for the blurry image- I'd had a little sake myself!)

 

Being at the MGM also allowed me to photograph the lions in their enclosure. 

 

Our last meal was truly special: a seven-course, chef's choice tasting menu at The Mix, which sits high atop THE Hotel. Scroll down the page and you'll find a link to the menu that says "Click to view prix fixe Menu (PDF file)". We tried the "Grand Tasting"... oh, my lord, was it amazing! The view from up there is a full 360 degrees of the Las Vegas cityscape. Spectacular.

It wasn't all hedonistic pleasures while we were there, however. We rented a car one day and escaped the city into the desert beyond. We saw the Hoover Dam...

...and took a tour of the huge turbines that generate power for six states (of particular interest to my engineer hubby).

You can still drive across the Dam for now, but by the end of next year, a newly-constructed overpass will redirect motorized traffic across the gorge. On one side of the Dam, you're in Nevada...

And on the other, Arizona...

We also drove the thirteen-mile loop through Lake Mead National Park. The lake is down about 150 feet due to a lengthy drought, but it was still quite stunning.

  

After the Dam and Lake Mead, we headed in the opposite direction, shot past Las Vegas to the west, and visited Red Rock Canyon, a truly rugged playground for hikers, sky-divers and nature lovers.

The sky was mostly overcast by that time, but when the sun would break through the clouds and shine on the mesas, it was breathtaking.

 

A few brave souls left the relative safety of the trails to rock climb.

This park is also home to ancient petroglyphs (images chipped into the stone cliff edifices) ...

 

...and pictographs (images painted onto the rock).

 

Being back in the real world feels a little odd, and we're still a bit jet-lagged (we lost two hours coming back), but both of us feel refreshed after this much-needed vacation.

This week I will be preparing fifteen yards of fabric in preparation for dyeing. Mom bought a small rag-rug loom at the International Quilt Festival and now needs chartreuse/lime green yardage to make her first rug.

Also, I will be (re-)starting work on my commission piece, so a resupply trip to the Dharma Trading site will be necessary. What a strain, eh?

And finally, I have completed the stitching on my most recent quilt and will be adding a binding, and I will also be finishing the binding of a smaller piece I completed a couple of weeks ago. Will post photos when they're available.

To see more (hi-res) photos of the desert and Red Rock Canyon, you can visit my photo blog, Approachable Photos. I should have a post up in another hour.

In the meantime, happy creating!

Introducing Ping Hue Cheung from Major Model Management

I have received a few e-mails about this new girl at Major Model Management. She is Chinese but based on the way she spells her name, she's not from China. She's probably either Taiwanese or from Hong Kong. Does anyone have more information on her?

Model: Ping Hue Cheung (Major)
Editorial: Escape from Fire Island
Magazine: Unknown
Photographer: Sharone Poole
Stylist: Nicole Reda
Makeup: Merrell Hollis @ Ken Barboza

Source: Major Model

تقرير روسي : قاتل مروة الشربيني كان مصابا بالشيزوفرنيا

في تقرير جديد قد يغير مسار قضية شهيدة الحجاب مروة الشربيني، اعلنت ادارة التجنيد في روسيا ان القاتل اليكس فينس يعانى من خلل نفسى ومرض الشيزوفرنيا وذلك في تقرير صدر عام 2001.

ومن المتوقع انه اذا اعتبرت المحكمة هذا التقرير في عين الاعتبار قد لا يصدر حكم جنائي على المتهم بل سيوضع في مصحة عقلية، ولكن اشار خالد أبوبكر محامى هيئة الدفاع المصرى الى ان التقرير يعد قديم وانه من المفروض وضع في عين الاعتبار تقرير الطبيب الالماني الذي افاد ان المتهم لا يعاني مرضا نفسيا مزمنا.

كما أكدت رئيسة المحكمة القاضية بيرجيت فيجاند إحتمال تأجيل النطق بالحكم فى القضية ثلاثة اسابيع اخرى بعد ان كان مقررا أن يصدر الأربعاء القادم، مرجعة السبب إلى تلقى إجابة الادعاء العام الروسى على الطلب المقدم من ألمانيا بالإفادة عما إذا كان للجانى اليكس فينس سابقة مرض نفسى .. مشيرة إلى أنه لهذا السبب لابد من فحص الأدلة من جديد.