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WINTER 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TOMORROWLAND: Letter from the editors
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WOODSTOCK + TECHNOLOGY = EDM FESTIVALS? PRINCE VINCE: THE GREATEST ARTIST THAT EVER LIVED Virginia Film Festival Review VERONICA ROTH’S DIVERGENT street style
WHAT TO DO IN YOUR 20S TO LOOK AND FEEL GREAT IN YOUR 40S + A CLOSER LOOK: JUICE CLEANSES
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A VALENCIA IMAGE IS WORTH A THOUSAND CHARACTERS Editors’ Winter Picks From This Day Forward
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Nabilah Jiwani Chanel Parks FASHION EDITORS Amanda Lim Christian Paxton PHOTOGRAPHERS Amanda Henry Brendan Rijke Brittany Snyder LAYOUT ARTISTS Sandra Epling nabilah Jiwani Ariel kao Brittney Lumpkin sara neel Chanel Parks STAFF WRITERS Hannah Brock Dilsher Dhillon Kelsey Field Amanda Lim Tulip MAjumdar Elise White
Lily (front & back cover): vintage gold swing coat. Charlotte (to the right): Maska silver tube dress, earrings and jewelry model’s own.
LETTERS FROM
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t the beginning of the semester, I came back from my (unpaid) internship, which supposedly gave me the experience I needed to begin this horrific quest for the j-o-b, feeling quite ready and confident. Now as I head into November, still jobless, drowning in papers and a thesis that has yet to be outlined, there’s this feeling of just “drifting.” The “Fourth Year, Don’t Care” notion set in early and has yet to be expelled, mainly because the college system has become fairly predictable. By now, I know which classes will require either my attendance or my full attention. I know a CIO’s relative importance in the grand scheme of 10,000+ undergraduates. I know I will likely not do anything that different this weekend than hope for the best as I walk diwn the stairs at Trinity. I recently rewatched The Graduate. When Dustin Hoffman’s father asked him why he spent his days lazing in the pool, he responds “well, it’s very comfortable to just drift here.” And it is. What would be a better place to drift than Charlottesville? The beauty is breathtaking, as evidenced by the hundreds of Instagrammed photos of our radiant fall leaves and dreamy sunsets. The restaurants are sublime, also evidenced by the #foodporn instagrammers. The culture of Film Festivals, Cider Weeks, wine-tastings and Trick-or-Treat on the Lawn forms an idyllic community. The Sullygate scandal has simmered to a low boil, and Pat Lampkin’s emails are back to being about our safety. But drifting can’t really be better than moving forward to something new, right? For the sake of not being so morose, let’s say “right” really emphatically. College is kind of a four-year fantasy world--like summer camp on steroids, or in my case, a liberal arts haven with substandard liquor. I might have spent my time here analyzing Iranian film and social movements, but when it comes down to it, I’m still stuck on the same question my 10th grade teacher asked me from one of Mary Oliver’s poems: “What will you do with your one wild and precious life?” Tomorrow breeds an obvious sense of uncertainty, but also a comfort of something borrowed to make something new. Tomorrow is full of yesterday’s creations rearranged to inspire a new trend or a new form of technology. Some of the greatest artists who have ever lived will influence the way we can envision our future. Instead of being stagnant in a pool of endless options. it’s time to jump off of the proverbial inflatable pool chair or a high chair in Scholar’s Lab to the next place--to a new tomorrow. Ironically, our theme of “Tomorrowland” for this issue did not come from my musings, but from that sick promo from Tomorrowland 2012. If I had to make this issue’s inception a bit more meaningful, there’s a beauty in knowing that though the music may be a bit more synthesized, but the people for the most part stay the same--satisfied, drug-induced or not.
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What will you do with your one wild and precious life?
- Nabilah Jiwani
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Oh the sky’s not the limit and you’re never gonna guess what is...
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nce, I heard that college acts as the time in your life when you find your place and purpose in the world. I have one word in response to that: bullshit. I might be rummaging through papers and classes to find my intellectual inclinations. I could be unearthing a niche in my ridiculous nostalgia for my childhood. But nothing, and I mean nothing, has propelled me into a stagnant stake in the big and scary place we call the “real world.” For me, tomorrow evokes the notion that I’ll never truly stay in one place at one time—in my daily cups of coffee there will always be the remnants of yesterday’s bearings and the shining hope of what will come next. Despite my festering anxiety regarding the future, the idea that I don’t have to depend on a single path, comes as a huge relief. Yes, I might be in a bedbug/roach infested apartment (the size of a bathroom) in a Brooklyn alley or I could fall in love with a young billionaire bachelor who likes a lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed (highly unlikely). But. What matters is that I’m eagerly awaiting what tomorrow may bring. Tomorrowland. That’s one of those compound words you don’t hear everyday. So many images came to my mind when we decided on this issue’s concept. Peter Pan. Michael Jackson. Annie, the musical. And of course, the most basic of them all, tomorrow. For the sake of the influential music festival, Tomorrowland, read this issue with a sense of displacement (the good kind)—fuck the finals and papers that give you migraines beyond compare and trip through these pages with your burnt out brain, because you never know what tomorrow will bring you. So, I leave you, ladies and gentlemen, with two quotes that have stuck with me and will probably stay with me in the future. You might find them in conflict with each other, but that’s what makes them, and life in general, perfect...right? “It was hard work—a hard life—but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.” -Eveline, from The Dubliners by James Joyce “Oh the sky’s not the limit and you’re never gonna guess what is...” - “Red Light”, by The Strokes
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Woodstock + Technology = The EDM festival? By Hannah Brock
The music, the crowds, the legend- Woodstock is and forever will be known as one of the greatest music festivals of all time. Woodstock saw a crowd of half-a-million music enthusiasts eat, sleep, and breath the festival for three days. Their dedication was unprecedented, their numbers unfathomable, their influence on the future of the music industry undeniable. 43 years have passed since Woodstock and the music industry has seen dramatic changes. Having been through the synthesized 80’s, the grunge of the 90’s and the pop of the early 2000’s, modern music has now found itself in the era of the electronic. Electric Dance Music, more commonly known as EDM, has taken the world by storm. Reaching from Europe, to South America, India and America, the EDM festivals have become reproductions of Woodstock - a community where like-minded individuals are looking to enjoy the each other’s company in the presence of popular music (and maybe some befitting substances). EDM has allowed
the listeners to escape the troubles of today and find bliss in the beats. They can go to DreamVille, quite literally, if they attend Tomorrowland- one of the Biggest EDM festivals in the world held every year in DreamVille, Belgium. Another escape could be to Mysteryland in the Netherlands (actually, there’s no mystery there... it’s in Amsterdam) and Creamfields in The UK. America was once considered uncharted territory for EDM pioneers, but the EDM craze has finally infiltrated the American music industry. It is evident in the line up for Lollapalooza this past year, which displayed more electronic artists than in the past, featuring acts from Nero and SBTRKT. For nearly a decade now, Electric Music Festivals have been popping up all over the nation- Electric Zoo in NYC, Ultra in Miami and the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas . Even the Grammy’s have indicated a shift in the American music scene: EDM was included in the show for the first time ever, and Dubstep artist,
Skrillex, took home three awards. No longer is America behind on the EDM trend. With the influence EDM festivals on today’s society and the resurgence of the music festival phenomenon as a whole, one cannot help but compare it to Woodstock. Festival attendees are so dedicated they travel across the globe and camp out early to get close to the stage. They are so obsessed with the music that they form blogs and magazines,; some fans have become so infatuated with the art that many have imitated their favorite DJ’s style. For example, Skrillex’s hair cutwhere half of the his hair is shaved while the other is kept long- though not invented by the artist, it has become a recent popular trend, appearing on the heads of Rihanna, Ke$ha, Avril and that girl in my Art History class, just to name a few. Though these music festivals may not go down as a momentous event in music history like Woodstock, their influence will be evident in the decades to come.
“The greatest artist that ever lived” By Dilsher Dhillon Vincent Gallo is a 90’s burnout. Vincent Gallo is a blind visionary. Vincent Gallo is a legend. Vincent Gallo may just be the greatest artist that ever lived. And the only people who probably admire him as much as I do are probably the wacko wallflowers next door with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than check out the new mumblecore at a rundown cinema. Maybe that’s my way of convincing myself that I’m his biggest fan. Whatever works. He occupies every shade and frame of the word ‘artist’- actor, director, photographer, writer, musician, painter, poet, fashion model and casual motorcycle racer. Being a fan of his should be a cult in itself. Also, do add high-class gigolo to his sprawling wall of achievements. As per the merchandise section on his website, he’s offering himself up to any woman willing to pay him $50,000. To all you ladies out there holding that cheap change, that’s an offer you can’t refuse. He doesn’t fit the Hollywood mould. At all. Vincent Gallo is not a very likeable guy. He’s brash, outspoken and harshly critical. This is a man so narcissistic and self-absorbed that his e-mail address is vincentgallo@vincentgallo. com. Yet the surreal enigma he consistently exudes in everything he every does makes up for all his traits. Born in Buffalo, New York in 1961, Gallo was the son of Sicilian emigrants. At age 17, he moved to New York City to study acting and immediately started a musical collaboration with artist Jean Michel Basquiat while also working as a painter. In 1981, he appeared in the cult classic New York Beat Movie In addition to playing a small role, Gallo also appeared on the soundtrack. And so started a remarkable career that should be model for anyone out there aspiring to transcend their normal dead-end lives and actually reach their creative potential. I was first introduced to the world of Prince Vince when I discovered his beautiful directorial debut, Buffalo ’66 (1998). This semi-autobiographical tale of about an ex-con who kidnaps a young tap dancer to take home to his parents and pose as his fiancee and eventually falls in love with her plays like a King Crimson song or Sunday jazz. It’s a gritty, darkly comic and heart-wrenching tale about of love, loneliness , redemption and letting go of the past regrets.
PRINCE VINCE
“He’s brash, outspoken and harshly critical... Yet the surreal enigma he exudes makes up for all of his traits.”
Gallo, in virtuoso mode, directs like his heart is attached to the camera, using split screen imaging, stills, insets for flashbacks, and a rotating freeze frame during the film’s climatic scene. The film’s success at Sundance helped Gallo gained popularity in the film world past the independent circles. He passed up a lot of lucrative offers for big-name projects and decided to write, edit, direct and star in his own film again, The Brown Bunny (2003). And what a fiasco that was. The Brown Bunny premiered at Cannes in 2003 to almost universal derision. Notorious for its climactic scene of unsimulated fellatio, it also received criticism for its meandering narrative. A painstaking exercise in self-indulgence, but with arguably the greatest ‘sad American road trip’ soundtrack ever, the film charts the cross-country travails of a motorcycle racer, who’s pining for his former lover. With minimal dialogue, long tracking shots and no real structure, it really did test my patience as a viewer. But the film haunted me and stayed with me for months after. The themes of love, isolation and misery were once again handled beautifully. This film plays like a dreary, dreamlike evocation to the road films of the 70’s and is destined to be a lost classic. This is an art film in every sense of the term. Despite the critical and commercial failure of The Brown Bunny, his career has still chugged along fine, cropping up in lead roles for the like Francis Ford Coppola in Tetro and Jerzy Skolimowski in Essential Killing, both great films. In envisioning the cultural zeitgeist for the future, I urge all artists to be more ‘Gallo-esque’. Follow your creative vision no matter where it leads you. It might not get you mainstream recognition and moolah, but you’ve got to create what you love. The rest is just noise. In a sea of tinsel town trash and wannabes who kiss ass day in and day out so they can climb the ladder of fame, he’s something of an iconoclast. He’s always done what he wants his way, without sparing the least bit of consideration for his detractors. And he’s all the better for it, I think. Give him a chance. Seriously. Watch one of his films. Read one of his interviews. Look at one of his photo shoots. Listen to one of his original compositions if you can get a hold of it. You’ll hate how much you fall in love with him.
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VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
BY AMANDA LIM
IN FIVE FILMS
Largely based in San Francisco, California, About Cherry takes us on a journey through troubled eighteen year old Angelina’s struggle for independence and her subsequent trajectory into the golden city’s pornography industry. While the film initially offers a lot of potential for an insightful, offbeat perception on a troubled teen’s search for purpose and validation, it fails to deliver very much depth at all and instead spends its time romanticizing San Francisco’s young, urban life of drag, sex, drugs and popularized art. However, the film succeeds in staying faithful to its title in that it eventually ends focusing on the same person with which it began: Angelina. Ultimately, this film is about a journey through Angelina’s life as she uses the pseudonym Cherry to gain the independence that she has always wanted.
Director: Stephen Elliot Leads: Ashley Hinshaw, Dev Patel, James Franco, Heather Graham
ABOUT CHERRY Jacques Audiard’s Belgian film opened early in May to sweeping critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival. Now gracing Charlottesville’s Virginia Film Festival with its presence, Rust and Bone shows how more often than not, life brings the unexpected together. Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard plays a young, beautiful whale trainer named Stephanie whose wild and independent spirit is put to the test when she loses her legs in a fatal accident on the job. By coincidence, Stephanie meets Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) a man struggling to get his life together while also balancing caring for his son, Sam, who was recently left in his care after the death of his mother. Although the romance between them is slow to begin, Audiard demonstrates how real love and strength is always found in places where you expect to find it least. This film is a true testimon of love, trust, loyalty and strength that is well worth watching.
Director: Jacques Audiard Leads: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
RUST AND BONE
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Probably the most comedic film of the festival, Silver Linings Playbook, follows the mental and spiritual recovery of former high school teacher, Pat, who has just been released from a mental institution. As the plot slowly reveals Pat’s dark past, we also meet Tiffany, an eccentric and slightly unstable young widow mourning the death of her husband and expressing it in the strangest ways. As the film evolves, so does the relationship between Pat and Tiffany. With the love and support from their imperfect and flawed friends and family, Pat and Tiffany both learn how to find the strength to start fresh and continue living. This film demonstrates that humor can be found in every situation no matter how dark. The unexpected bond that forms between Pat and Tiffany is an example of this and also of how love can truly conquer all.
Director: David O. Russell Leads: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK The Hollywood Reporter describes this film as a “modern outlaw Western that brings Southern Gothic flavor to the wintry north.” Indeed if Deadfall lacks anything, it is certainly not suspense, violence and lots of tension (mainly sexual). It follows the journey of a brother and sister duo (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) who have just narrowly pulled off a dangerous heist, stealing thousands from an Indian reservation casino during an unforgiving winter in Michigan. Forced to split up, Addison and Liza flee separately for the Canadian border to avoid the law and end up having struggles of their own on the way. A sick twist of coincidence brings them back together in one innocent family’s household on the evening of Thanksgiving and all hell breaks loose. While this is certainly not the best script ever written for the silver screen, it is worth seeing if you love a good old fashioned thriller set in modern times.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitsky Leads: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Kate Mara, Sissy Spacek
DEADFALL
The Taiwan Oyster was perhaps the most surprisingly refreshing film of the entire festival. It explores the abstract ideas of the human condition and the ability to trust and love in a very musical and literary way. Embodying the spirit of William Faulkner’s masterpiece novel, As I Lay Dying, this film chronicles a few days in the life of Americans, Simon and Darren, living in Taiwan as they try to decide how they are going to bury a fellow colleague, Jed, whose accidental death leaves them contemplating the state of their own lives. As these two young men are trying to recover the body, they meet Nikkita, a young half-Taiwanese, half British girl who teaches them a lot about friendship, honor and ritual. The three band together to bring Jed’s body to its proper resting place and meanwhile establish a bond that will last a lifetime.
Director: Mark Jarrett Cast: Billy Harvey, Jeff Palmiotti, Leonora Lim
THE TAIWAN OYSTER
Veronica Roth’s
DIVERGENT
By Elise White
Apocalypse, now! At least, that is what the shelves of American bookstores have us believe. As The Hunger Games swelled in theaters and libraries across the nation, we are reminded of dystopian genre, emanating from societal fears at the turn of the 20th century. In 1932, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World warned us against the sacrifice of individualistic thought in the face of authoritarian rule. Likewise, about a decade later, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four raised similar concerns. Now, in the age of Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games trilogy, the public seems to crave the same type of commentary that aims at the heart of sociopolitical discourse. Veronica Roth’s Divergent arises as the “warning incarnate,” in a time of economic and political uncertainty. The young heroine of the novel, Beatrice “Tris” Prior was raised in Abnegation, one of the five factions that make up her futuristic society. Her faction, over Amity, Candor, Erudite,
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and Dauntless, prizes selflessness as the key to world peace. However, as she comes of age, she must take an aptitude test that will determine the course of her life, and heavily influence her inevitable choice of a faction. Her irregular and inconclusive results lead her past the metaphorical fork in the road, toward Dauntless, the brave faction. Roth nods to Huxley and Orwell’s concern with totalitarian state and the danger of ignorant conformity through Tris’ struggle to survive in a hostile world that shuns her multifaceted mind. Not only does the novel offer us a chance to live vicariously through Tris in a universe different from our own, but it also facilitates self-reflection as we enter a charging and changing political atmosphere. The night before her momentous decision, she thinks “maybe just choosing one [faction] over the other will prove that I belong. Tomorrow, those two qualities will struggle within me, and only one can win.”
Becoming a member of the bravest faction qualifies you for life-altering injuries, perpetual unemployment, and a closet full of black garb. Nevertheless, a daily adrenaline rush and bonds of friendship, threatened only by death, all accompany a Dauntless status. As an added bonus, your future husband will likely be tall, dark, and dangerously handsome—it all depends on whether you want to take the plunge. From the moment we enter the University to the moment we leave, we are faced with the daunting decision of choosing a “real life” faction, one that gives us a sense of purpose and belonging. Tris chose the one faction that challenged her to overcome fear itself, and maximize her life’s purpose as a world leader. If you take the plunge and read this novel, you will join hundreds of thousands of readers participating in a nation-wide revolution of thought who are transcending norms of society, thus becoming. inevitably, divergent.
S T R E E T Who?
Donia Attia
Year?
2nd year
Where does she shop?
Urban Outfitters and H&M
Future plans?
Work in Global Public Health, ideally in the Middle East or South Asia
Who? Shannon Long Year? 3rd year Style Inspiration? Grunge, comfy, layers, influenced by her job at Low Future plans? Teach History
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Who? John York Year? Graduate Student Style Inspiration? JFK From where? Upperville, VA
Who? Taylor Gaines Year? 4th year
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Style Inspiration? Annie Hall, 70’s masculinity, bohemian
Future Plans? A Drama and French major, Taylor wants to have some sort of translation career in theater business
20s Your TO 40s What To
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In Your By Kelsey Field
This year, U.Va. ranked as the number two public school in the nation by the Princeton Review and the number one party school by Playboy. While the University might’ve found the perfect balance between work and play, it seems that Wahoos just make it look easy. The truth is, between studying and recreation, it’s hard to find time to focus on our bodies. Yet, being in our early 20’s, it’s integral that we develop and manage a healthy lifestyle, because with age comes slower metabolism, wrinkles, and kids… so when is a better time to get on track than now?
Habits of a Lifetime Sometimes the hardest part is getting excited for the first step! If you’re not accustomed with eating healthily, working out, or giving your body what it needs, incorporate a few major changes to your lifestyle. “I think a lot of times there is so much information out there that people forget what’s really important,” said the Office of Health Promotion’s nutritionist Melanie Brede, “Eating regular meals and snacks throughout the day with plenty of fruits and vegetables, getting around seven to nine hours of sleep, and regular exercise make all the difference.” With students’ busy schedules, workouts hardly fit into daily activity. But “exercise is about moving fast enough to get your heart and breathing rates up, so quickly walking to class can be your physical activity for the day,” said Brede. The bottom line—we must understand that our health is more important than our never-ending schedules. “College is famously a transition from living at home to making your own decisions. It’s a process, but healthy habits now will serve well for the future,” said Brede. Get Physical Exercising is a crucial element for your 20’s in order to be physically active in your 40’s. Whether it’s the issue of having the time or even the desire, exercising can be easier with these simple tips:
• Make it a group effort: If you want to lose a few extra pounds or build some muscle, tell friends about your goal and workout together. Outside motivation can help hold you accountable. • Take a study break: If you find yourself getting tired at the library, walk around Grounds or the lawn a few times to get rejuvenated and drink plenty of water. • Multi-task: If you’re super busy, take some reading material to the gym and read on the elliptical. Any physical activity is better than skipping the gym altogether. • Go green: Make an effort to walk to every class and avoid the bus. • Mix it up: Change up your exercise routine to work different muscles, while making it fun. Diet Pills Are diet pills just a fad or do they actually provide the benefits they promise? The first thing to know about diet pills is that they can’t work magic. While it seems obvious to mention, some people truly think that only taking diet aids will give them the results they want. In reality, most supplements must be paired with exercise and good nutrition, since they typically act as catalysts toward significant weight loss. However, these enhancements mostly result in temporary weight loss. The Mayo Clinic lists a couple warnings to consider before taking diet pills: 1. Over-the-counter, “all natural,” and “herbal” diet pills or weight loss pills do not mean they are automatically safe 2. Most dietary supplements and weight-loss pills are not held to the same standards as prescription pills are by the FDA Diet pills also affect bowel movements and could cause liver problems. Contact your doctor or pharmacist before taking any supplement to discuss harmful medicinal mixtures. Common drugs like pain killers, caffeine, and birth control can have nasty reactions to the mixture with weight loss pills. Both birth control and diet pills run the risk of blood clots. “A lot of times diet pills raise your heart rate really high and when people are trying to adopt
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Biggest crisis for 20somethings? good, healthy habits like exercise, your heart rate will go even higher and this is risky,” added Brede. Diet pills may have more risks and side effects than advantages. “I haven’t seen any diet pills that I would endorse. There are always trends and fads, but none of them have stood the test of time in terms of being safe and effective. Some have been outright claimed as unsafe, but the ones left have not been found effective. Generally, the difference is basically a pound and a risk fact of safety negates the marginal benefits,” said Brede. “I think a little pre-planning goes a long way for busy college students. Pack a banana, a cereal bar, and yogurt with you before heading on-grounds. These are portable and then you have breakfast or a snack to-go.”
When it comes to certain nutrients, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. “Iron is a good example. I don’t recommend taking an iron supplement unless blood tests confirm your iron is low. Too much iron is not good for your health,” explained Brede. While some vitamins claim to provide beauty effects, such as nail and hair growth, it is advised to discuss any vitamin, regimen, or supplement with your doctor. See if you already obtain enough of that nutrient and find out if there are any bad effects to avoid. What not to do… As college students, we are constantly being told things we should be doing. Whether it’s study more, exercise, get a job, volunteer, or enjoy life, sometimes we need to be told what not to do. Brede advises that “being overcommitted is a huge issue among college students.” She goes on to say “there are more than enough great and interesting opportunities that we want to make time for, so it’s understandable. But it’s a real strength for someone to be able to recognize their limits and learn to prioritize rest, meals, and exercising.”
“Being overcommitted is a huge issue among college students...”
Vitamins, Regimens, and Supplements – Can you overdose? Vitamins are commonly overlooked among 20 something’s, but before taking any vitamins, regimens, or supplements it is important to first try to get the necessary nutrients through food. “A balanced diet is always the better route because you’ll get more than one individual nutrient from your foods,” said Brede. Yet college students, specifically women, “tend to miss calcium and iron in their diets. Focus on dairy. Try 3 servings of milk, yogurt, soy, orange juice, nuts, leafy veggies, or cheese a day. If none of these options work for you, then I would recommend a supplement.”
The art of balance.
A Closer Look:
Juice Cleanses
From BluePrint to Ritual to Organic Avenue, we’re hearing all about the “juice cleanse,” but what is it? And does it work?
By Kelsey Field
What is juice cleansing? Lasting anywhere from a few days to even several weeks, only pure fruit and vegetable juice is consumed and whole foods are omitted. This fasting process is commonly used for dieting and detoxing. How does it work? Most juice cleanses are delivered to your home. The diet must be started immediately because they begin to expire within a few days—since they are raw, juiced fruits andveggies with no added sugar or preservatives. No whole foods, gum, mints, or any other liquid drinks are allowed, except for herbal tea and water. The juice bottles should be finished every two hours with a glass of water in between. From testimonials, most juices have been described as unpleasant, but soon taste better once the starvation kicks in. On average the cost of cleanses is $75 a day. Does it provide any benefits? “Fasting is not a deprivation but exactly the opposite: a very rich thing you do for your Self. Just as savasana on the mat; this is where the magic happens.” – Mary McGuire-Wien This is the quote on the homepage of juicecleanse.com, but many researchers and dietitians disagree. “The idea of detoxifying your system, well, your liver is champion of that job. Fueling your body with foods and nutrients is helping your liver do its job; starving it is not,” warned the Office of Health Promotion’s nutritionist Melanie Brede. If juice cleanses are not the best option for detoxing, do they at least provide weight loss? “With juice cleanses you’re essentially starving yourself which means any weight loss is very easy to gain back once whole foods are incorporated into your diet again. Initially, it’s a major calorie reduction. Some of the way we store fuel holds water and when we burn through that fuel, we lose a lot of water weight. Therefore, the weight loss is temporary and not lasting,” advised Brede. Juice cleanses contain little protein and fat where only 800-1200 calories are consumed per day. This does not provide enough energy for active people. Is it safe? Do juice cleanses have more downfalls than advantages? “Juice cleanses lasting beyond a few days sets you up for failure. When you go on a drastic diet, your metabolism crashes and your body very quickly adapts by running slower and burning less calories. Once you diet for more than a few days, you’re not going to get any protein in pure juice. Your body needs protein or it will break down its own tissue muscles in order to rebuild other proteins. This means you can’t produce anti-bodies for protection against sickness and you’re losing muscle,” Brede informed. Juice cleanses cause weight loss in all the wrong ways for non-lasting effects, but there is an essential pitfall that isnecessary for managing weight loss. “The crash in energy leads to the inability to workout. We know exercise is key, especially for those who have lost weight and want to keep it off. Something that keeps you from exercising is not good in the long run,” said Brede.
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A VALENCIA IMAGE IS WORTH A THOUSAND CHARARACTERS
Step aside Facebook posts about every piece of food your BFF from first grade eats each day. Get out of the way #hashtags #thatideallymakeme #soundreally #witty. A new form of social sharing is taking over the world, and its name is Instagram. By: Tulip Majumdar
Created by Stanford graduates Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram is a free app that allows people to take pictures and immediately run their images through a filter to give their photos an artsy look. Users are able to link their Instagram accounts to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr in order to share their photos with their friends as soon as they’re taken. According to their website, Systrom and Krieger “imagine a world more connected through photos,” and they appear to have achieved their goal, since studies from May 2012 show that over 50 million people now use Instagram since its first release in October 2010. As someone who worked as a fashion and publicity intern over the summer in New York City, I can personally say that Instagram has irreversibly changed social networking and sharing. I am not a professional photographer and do not have a $600 camera to capture all of life’s little moments, so having an app to take professional and beautiful photos was not only efficient, it was necessary for my position as an intern. My boss wanted me to take high-quality photos of vintage clothing items to put up on the website, so what better way was there than running my work through a Lord Kelvin filter to get that retro-look conveyed in just one picture? Instagram made my life a lot easier this summer, and given the more than 50 million people using Instagram today, I’d say the app has resonated with users as a means to achieve efficiency and quality all in one click. On the other hand, people with a vested interest in and dedication to traditional photography see Instagram in a very different light. Aaron Stiles, a fifth-year student in the Curry School of Education, has been working for a long time as a freelance photographer and is unable to detach Instagram from cell phone camera use, which for him, is not a way to be creative. “Creating to me is an action. It is a process. It is deliberate,” Stiles says, “and in my mind, Instagram takes the human agency out of creativity.” Regardless of anybody’s individual opinion of the app, no one can deny Instagram’s firm grasp on modern social networking. According to Digital Buzz Blog, Instagram gains one new user per second, and you can definitely see these users in action whenever you log on to Facebook or Twitter. In particular, one can see a very interesting evolution of emotive sharing that has happened since the release of Instagram. Facebook has its status updates, Twitter has its 140-character limits, and now Instagram allows users to convey their emotions through specifically chosen filters. Filtered images seem to trump words as a means of communication these days, and I cannot determine whether this is a good or bad thing. As someone who is slightly wary of the oversharing that now goes on in social networking, I see Instagram’s beautiful images as the next way for people to share the mundane moments in their lives. We can now see our BFF from first grade share an image of his morning bagel with a border and sharpened magenta hues of the Nashville filter. Whether capturing moments that are mundane or miraculous, Instagram is going to be around for a long time.
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Editors’ Winter Picks
Chanel’s Most Recently Played:
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1. Topshop, $24; 2. Gucci, $760; 3. Mango, $55; 4. Christian Louboutin, $1,165; 5. Chanel. price by request
1. Foreign Fields - Elton John vs. Pnau 2. Creepers - Kid Cudi 3. The Woman I Love - Jason Mraz 4. Bandz A Make Her Dance - Juicy J 5. Closer - Tegan and Sara 6. Forrest Gump - Frank Ocean 7. Human - The Human League 8. Body Games - Doe Paoro 9. Dilettante - St. Vincent 10. 10th Ave. - K.Flay
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see the night in shades of black and “ Iwhite...so why not wear them? This COCO NOIR by Chanel ($130); Hair Smoothie ($20); Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar ($16)
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Nabilah’s Most Recently Played: 1. Sing about me, I’m Dying of Thirst - Kendrick Lamar 2. Lullabies (Jim-E Stack Remix) - Yuna 3. Bliss - John Legend & Teyana Taylor 4. Decisions - Borgore (Feat. Miley Cyrus) 5. Summertime Sadness (Hannes FIscher Edit) - Lana Del Ray 6. Anything Could Happen (Henry Fong Mix) - Ellie Goulding 7. You’ve Got The Love (Egon Elliut Rework) - Candi Station 8. Rolling Stone (Mendez Moombahsoul Rework) - The Weeknd 9. Latch (Jamie Jones Remix) - Disclosure (Feat. Sam Smith) 10. Claire de Lune - Flight Facilities (Feat. Christine Hoberg) 11. Diamonds (Remii’s Flashback Remix) - Rihanna 12. Counting - Autre Ne Veut
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Nars ‘Autumn Leaves’ ($24); Chloé by Chloé ($90)
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Arm Candy by Alexander McQueen ($295) and Moschino ($85) 3 1. Juicy Couture, $88; 2. Alexander Wang. $495; 3. Jeffrey Campbell, $215; 4. Rick Owens, $1,390; 5. Stella McCartney, $955
From This Day Forward “Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.� Coco Chanel As we look forward to what the future holds, these young women inspire us by paying tribute to the beatuy and elegance of our current age. Fashion Editors: Amanda Lim and Christian Paxton Makeup Artist: Emily Mora Photography: Brendan Rijke Clothes courtesy of Vintage Vixen
Lily: Christian Dior velvet jumpsuit and belt.
Charlotte: shirt by Olive & Oak Outfitters, skirt by Lovely Day, necklace by Something Silver, earrings and bracelet model's own.
Tracy: Thierry Mugler blazer, shorts and earrings model’s own.
Lily: Solemio Black Romper. Charlotte: Miss Selfridge top, 100% white wool vintage skirt and necklace stylist’s own.
Tracy: shirt by Lost April, skirt by Nasty Gal, necklace by Vintage Vixen stylist’s own.
Nilla: black leather vintage dress.