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We all have them. We all dread them.  We wish — oh how we wish — we could for­get them.

Old pho­tos of ourselves…

The ‘80s big hair and glit­ter, the ‘90s belts and bright col­ours, etc.

It’s 2011, we’re mod­ern, with it and in fash­ion. Well, with the cur­rent trends at any rate.

I’m not just talk­ing about threads, but about our choice in any­thing. We evolve, we have fun and we innov­ate — some­times ret­ro­spect­ively — which may or may not be a good idea as it turns out ultimately.

Those pho­tos, scraps and mus­ings which we grow to rem­emeber, often with winced fer­vour, are test­a­ment to how we are sucked encom­passingly into the trends that move through our groups.

We may not be brand whores, but we are all taken by the move­ments the brands push.

On the face of it all, a minor group is respons­ible for the way we think, act, speak and act.

The Illu­minati? Gov­ern­ment? Lobby groups? Their agen­das may be dif­fer­ent, but they all wish their impact was as strong as that of fashion.

If you per­use your pho­tos going back atleast 15–20 years, I defy you to tell me you think you look good in them in com­par­ison to your pres­ence today. You can’t and you won’t. Not hon­estly any­ways. Fash­ion is a force.

What we think is import­ant by today’s stand­ards, will be out­dated, laugh­able and irrel­ev­ant in large in a time span that may be as short as 5–10 years.

Often we hear tales of how all the major things have been dis­covered or inven­ted, the lands explored and the mys­ter­ies explained. Today we have more poten­tial for dis­cov­ery or inven­tion, land, air & sea to explore and more mys­ter­ies to explain that can pos­sibly be explained in another 2011 years.

We can look upon our ancest­ors and mar­vel at their chal­lenges over­come amidst great dangers and under­stand their intrigue and ima­gine their think­ing, but we have massive trouble with reen­act­ing it. Why?

Yes, life is mov­ing at an ever faster rate and we are “advan­cing”, but are we still, by and large, lazy and blinded?

My opin­ion? Absolutely.

I could be vastly wrong though. I could look back on this art­icle in 5–10 years and won­der how closed-minded I was.

If we look at time cap­sules that have been opened in our time, we find a nice col­lec­tion of antiques for the dis­play cab­inet, but noth­ing of great import­ance. Makes you think, eh?

What are your thoughts? Have you been proven wrong?

These shots are from a con­dom fash­ion show in Beijing.

If you ever wondered why the Asian pop­u­la­tions were explod­ing…

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Ugly build­ers and sexy young women vs. old people and ultra-conservatives?

Appar­ently butt cracks are a big issue, atleast for Kim­berly Brewer they are.

Kim­berly has designed the Back­tacu­lar Glu­teal Cleft Shield — “an adhes­ive fab­ric patch that’s applied dir­ectly to the skin on the lower back”.

She came up with the idea while sport­ing her favour­ite jeans, which exposed too much of her ‘glu­teal cleft’ whenever she sat or bent over.

Made of hypo-allergenic denim and dec­or­ated with studs and rhinestones, the patches come in sev­eral col­ours and designs includ­ing but­ter­flies, flowers, hearts and peace signs.

The BGCS can be bought online from Ms Brewer’s Kim­ber­lily site at www.kimberlilyonline.com.