Monday, September 14, 2015

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Watch This Adorable Baby Nail a Fake Cry to Prank Her Dad

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 09:21 AM PDT

Marcelinha Dos Santos Iwama from São Bernardo do Campo in São Paulo, Brazil, uploaded a video to Facebook that appears to show her baby pretending to cry — before dissolving into giggles — whenever her husband tries to clip the youngster’s nails. The dad jumps every time the adorable baby pulls this “prank” (as it’s being called on the Internet), but then even he starts laughing hysterically.

The video has racked up more than 25.3 million views since it was posted on September 5 and nearly two million views on YouTube since it was posted on September 7.

These Are Playboy’s Top 10 Party Schools

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 08:44 AM PDT

Playboy has released its annual ranking of the top party schools for 2015. While Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, has been on the list four times, it finally cinched the top spot this year.

That may not be a surprise to current students and alums, given the block parties, which take place during the college music festival #Fest and Halloween (aka “HallOUeen”) and throughout the spring semester. Some block parties have ended with burning couches. Revelers have also been known to hang out on a hilltop nicknamed “Bong Hill” and go bar-hopping in the Appalachian college town.

Here’s the full list:

1. Ohio University

2. University of Iowa

3. Florida State University

4. Tulane University

5. University of Illinois

6. University of Texas

7. Syracuse University

8. University of Wisconsin

9. University of Mississippi

10. University of Michigan

Playboy magazine editors chose the schools on this list based on “access to nightlife and musical events, and creativity when planning social gatherings,” and a reader’s poll. Last year, the University of Pennsylvania topped the ranking.

Several of the educational institutions on Playboy‘s list also appear on Princeton Review‘s list of the top party schools released last month, including Syracuse University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Iowa.

Watch Ronda Rousey Explain Why She Gets So Emotional Before a Fight

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 08:36 AM PDT

Ronda Rousey can check another thing off her bucket list: the UFC Champion stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday for the very first time.

Rousey opened up about her pre-fame check list, which included winning the UFC championship, becoming BFFs with Serena Williams, and appearing on DeGeneres’ show.

“How come I’m not your best friend?” DeGeneres says. “Why is Serena your best friend?”

The highest-paid fighter in the UFC chatted with the host about the Olympics, her book My Fight / Your Fight, and how she definitely isn’t afraid to tap into her emotional side – especially the week before a fight.

“You’re so amped up and it’s like every emotion that you could possibly have it happens during that week,” Rousey says. “It’s like the most stress, most anxiety, most pressure possible and then it’s the happiest you could possibly be. It’s all these things and it’s just sometimes you cant hold it in. It’s gotta leak out of somewhere why not your eyes?”

The MMA champ is set to star in the Road House reboot, with more on that project available here. Check out the clip above.

This article originally appeared on EW.com

Watch Justin Bieber Struggle to Shotgun a Beer in Las Vegas

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 08:07 AM PDT

At a Las Vegas party before the Floyd Mayweather/Andre Berto fight on Saturday, Justin Bieber took part in a showdown of his own when he competed in a beer-shotgunning challenge.

I lost but I didn't go to college @sammy

A video posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on

The 21-year-old singer posted the evidence of his poor beer-chugging skills on Instagram. The short video features Bieber going up against friend Sam Shahidi, who quickly downs his can of Corona to win the head-to-head.

“I lost but I didn’t go to college,” Bieber captioned the post.

It’s clear from the caption and the pained expression on his face that Bieber hasn’t had a ton of practice with the classic frat game.

The singer graciously accepted the loss, throwing his hands up in the air even after the epic defeat. This good-natured attitude seems like another step on Bieber’s journey to show the world that he has recently matured.

Cats Are Evil and This Video Compilation Proves It

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 08:04 AM PDT

Science has proven that your cat doesn’t need you. This new video compilation may prove that your cat doesn’t even like you that much — and not in that adorably cute Grumpy Cat sort of way.

This supercut of super evil cats, posted by YouTube user Ignoramusky, shows that cats are an international threat to ankles, toes and anything else they can sink their little claws into. The video is filled with kittens of every make and model going into attack mode and assaulting everything from their devoted owners to innocent puppies to brooms and, naturally, video cameras.

 

Watch This Corgi Panic Whenever It Sees Household Products

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 07:33 AM PDT

Every dog has its day — on the Internet, at least. This week, it’s a corgi in a video that has racked up more than 10.2 million views since it was uploaded to Facebook by Cody Viselli of Council Bluffs, Iowa.

In the 30-second clip, the dog runs away from a human whenever it is chased around the house with a roll of paper towels, a jar of mayonnaise, a canister of air freshener or a bare hand.

Wouldn’t we all do the same? That’s pretty weird. Whatever happened to fetch?

Tom Hardy Shuts Down Reporter’s Question About His Sexuality

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:16 AM PDT

Reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival learned what irks Tom Hardy on Saturday: questions about his sexuality.

During a press conference for Hardy’s film Legend, where the British actor plays the London gangsters Ronnie Kray and Reggie Kray (yes, both of them), a journalist from the Daily Xtra, a Toronto LGBT site, asked the actor if he thought it was difficult for celebrities to publicly discuss their sexuality.

“In the film, your character Ronnie is very open about his sexuality,” asked the reporter Graeme Coleman. “But given interviews you’ve done in the past, your own sexuality seems a bit more ambiguous. Do you find it hard for celebrities to talk to media about their sexuality?”

Hardy then asked Coleman, “What on earth are you on about?” When Coleman repeated the last part of his question, Hardy seemed to grow even more hostile: “I don’t find it difficult for celebrities to talk about their sexuality. Are you asking me about my sexuality?”

When Coleman confirmed that he was, indeed, asking about Hardy’s sexuality, the actor asked, “Why?” before shutting the whole thing down with a frosty, “Thank you.”

[The Hollywood Reporter]

Matt Damon Thinks Jason Bourne Would ‘Absolutely’ Win in a Fight Against Batman

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 04:21 AM PDT

Forget Batman v Superman. How about Batman v Bourne? According to Matt Damon, the Caped Crusader can’t hold a candle to Jason Bourne.

During the Toronto International Film Festival, E! News asked the actor if his action hero persona could take on Batman, played by his pal Ben Affleck in the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

“Jason Bourne would kick the s–t out of Batman — absolutely!” Damon said. “Batman’s gotta take on Superman first. If he could beat him then maybe he could take on Jason Bourne.”

Damon is in the middle of filming the fifth Bourne movie, directed by Paul Greengrass and co-starring Julia Stiles and The Danish Girl’s Alicia Vikander. According to him, he doesn’t need to portray a comic book character when Bourne is his superhero.

“I think they’re kind of out of superheroes,” he said. “Ben’s going to be like the sixth or seventh Batman, so I don’t think there’s really any left. So I’m good. Jason Bourne is my superhero.”

Damon will be seen next in The Martian, opening in theaters Oct. 2.

This article originally appeared on EW.com

How Runway Fashion Photography Has Changed Over the Decades

Posted: 14 Sep 2015 01:00 AM PDT

New York Fashion Week is back and Dan and Corina Lecca are ready: the husband and wife team are 30-plus-year veteran runway photographers, but no amount of experience could numb you to a schedule like the one fashion demands.

Take today, for example: If all goes according to plan, there’ll be at least one show to shoot every hour on the hour, with one brief break for dinner. In some cases, when the Leccas are shooting for the house—when they’ve been directly hired by a designer to record a show—they need to turn around the photos immediately, so they can go up online right away. The last show won’t end until more than 12 hours after the first one began. Then, rather than going to a party or going to sleep, the Leccas and their team must return to their home in Jackson Heights, Queens, to process, back up and file the day’s work. By the time they finish, it will be after midnight. Then it starts all over again. And, when New York is done, it’s off to London and Milan and Paris.

And this year could be particularly trying: for the first time since the early 1990s, New York Fashion Week will have multiple main venues in multiple neighborhoods.

“It’s going to be a little bit of hell,” Dan Lecca tells TIME with a laugh. But if it’s a grueling lifestyle, it’s also been a rewarding one for the couple. The American fashion industry has evolved dramatically in the last few decades—the Leccas recall the days of taking tiny elevators to tiny showrooms throughout the fashion district, and the more chaotic early days of Fashion Week—so it’s no surprise that the business of being a runway photographer has changed too. The Leccas have not only had first-row seats to those changes, they’ve also helped define what their results would be.

It’s a role that neither of them would have predicted. “We had no idea when we started that this would be our career,” says the Romania-born Dan. “I would say [it was] eight to ten years and then we realized we were stuck.” (His wife, who grew up in Italy, objects to that word choice. “Stuck is the wrong word,” he corrects himself. “We are needed, we are wanted, we’re providing a great service.”)

“Corina and I started shooting in this business without having an extraordinary preparation for it,” he adds, “but we succeeded immediately because we have very good eyes and a smart way of focusing.”

One example of their influence during the pre-digital era, Dan Lecca says, came when they realized that hiring a changer—someone to hand them a fresh camera when a roll of film ran out—would mean they could avoid missing a single look. Hiring changers eventually led to hiring an editor, who could look at their film while they continued to work, and then hiring other photographers who work in the Lecca-approved style.

But not every change has made things easier. As digital has replaced film, they explain, the idea that photography should be less expensive has forced the industry to contract. Meanwhile, the influx of Asian designers and buyers into the global fashion market has meant that Europe- and North America-based photographers are competing with Asian photographers, as well as with untested young photographers who hope to use digital photography or the Internet to skip straight to the top.

Runway photographers can be wary of new faces, not because they’re unfriendly but because the tightly packed photographers’ podium at a runway show means that one misplaced movement can throw off the whole group. They’ve seen—and been involved in, Dan admits—fights over space, and someone who takes up too much of it is a liability. But Corina says she tries to help those new people find somewhere to stand, somewhere they can learn the ropes without getting in the way. After all, they were newbies too, once—and they credit their one-time innocence about the fashion world with a large portion of their success.

“The point is we [took] one step and then another step and we never sat down and said, ‘Oh, what should we plan?’” says Corina.

“We cannot plan anything,” jokes her husband. “Except the schedule for Fashion Week.”

Lily Rothman is TIME’s Archives Editor. Follow her on Twitter @lilyrothman.

Photo of Soldiers Breastfeeding in Uniform Goes Viral

Posted: 13 Sep 2015 01:06 PM PDT

Tara Ruby, a former Air Force servicemember who served between 1997 and 2001, remembers a time when lactation rooms dedicated to breastfeeding mothers was practically non-existent in the military. As an active duty mother herself, she remembers having to sneak into bathrooms and empty offices to feed her newborn son.

So when the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas, opened a lactation room, Ruby—now a photographer—sought to offer wall decor that was inspiring and inviting.

Her project became a now-viral photograph of ten mothers breastfeeding in uniform.

“I thought it was be nice to offer some photographs as an additional show of support,” she told CNN. “Seeing a picture like that helps mothers understand they can be an active soldier and provide support to their children.”

The photo was originally posted on Thursday evening but removed for unknown reasons on Friday morning, at which time Ruby posted it again with the hashtag #normalizebreastfeeding. The photo went viral, being shared more than 4,000 times within 23 hours.

Ruby said her goal was to show that “even our mommies in uniform can provide for their babies.”

“Breastfeeding their babies doesn’t make them less of a soldier,” she said. “I believe it makes them a better one. Juggling the tasks and expectations of a soldier, plus providing for their own in the best way they possibly can, makes (these) ladies even stronger for it.”

 
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