Daily Archives July 20, 2013

Many of us thought it was completely over for the video app Vine after the popular photo app Instagram announced that it would be adding a 15 second video option to the app.

However many skeptics over whether or not Vine was still going to be successful are now eating their words after recent popular videos on Vine have no gone viral!

Many emerging internet celebrities are being born through Vine, and the only way to see them firsthand are to have the video app installed on your phone, and to check it regularly……so maybe Vine isn’y so bad after all.

Here are 5 Reason s why Vine is still bett...

One week after the jury returned a not guilty verdict in George Zimmerman’s murder of 17 year old unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, has resulted in supporters for Trayvon holding vigils from New York to Miami, and in 98 additional cities across the nation. Rallying to put pressure on the Justice Department’s civil rights investigation and calling for a repeal of “Stand Your Ground” laws.

Two cornerstone events were held in New York City and Miami on Saturday. In New York, Rev. Al Sharpton was joined by the deceased teen’s mother Sybrina Fulton and his brother Jahvaris Fulton...

Via Washington Post

President Barack Obama has largely shied away from talking publicly about his life as a black man in American society. Until today.

“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” President Obama said in remarks in the White House briefing room aimed at addressing the case of a young black man shot under controversial circumstances in Sanford, Florida.

He continued in very personal terms, adding that he, like many African American young men, had been followed in department stores, seen people lock their cars when he crossed the streets and watched as women clutched ...

In an exclusive article in the July issue of Marie Claire Magazine they made mention of a new advertising phenomenon going on in Japan that would make anyone’s jaw drop.

Young women in Japan are literally becoming walking advertisements in every sense of the word. a Tokyo-based company has recruited miniskirt wearing teens and women in their 20s to rent out (yes we said rent) their bare thighs as advertising space!

Absolute Territoy PR is paying girls up to $100 a day to wear sticker tattoos promoting their clients, who include hair removal salons, books, and even rock albums.

“It makes sens...