fabulous fashionistas

Fabulous Fashionistas is a documentary about six British women (average age: 80) who dress and act just as they please. Their sense of style, and lust for life, is fantastic. The movie is refreshing and inspiring, but sadly no longer available in the US. I saw it via the Channel 4 site some months ago. It has been taken down since.

All you European lucky people should look it up. The rest of us will have to wait, I guess.

Slideshow from The Guardian, here. Review from the Guardian, here.

yes, a lovely time sponge

I seriously challenge you to get anything done after you’ve tried geoguessr. This super addictive game gives you images from somewhere in the world using google street views, and it’s your job to guess where it is. You deliver your guess by placing a pin somewhere on a map of the world. Obviously you are limited by where google has had their cameras work, and after a while you learn the blind spots. But other than that it’s completely addictive to try to guess locations based on vegetation, the color of the lines in the middle of roads, street signs, years and models of cars, and the presence or absence of over sized pieces of communist art.