Do You VYOU?!

             Let’s be honest, we never get tired of finding the new, big social media website. So naturally, we were over the moon when all of our favorite Youtubers started using VYou.com, a website that aims to start a more personal form of online social interaction. On VYou, fans pose questions to users who answer them in the form of video messages.

It’s a little confusing at first to figure out how VYou works, where the questions go, and how to set up your own messages. A few minutes of playing around assured us though,that VYou is easy and fun to use (when webcams aren’t giving you a hard time). Since all users use webcams to record video messages, everyone is on a level playing field in terms of video quality, which is awesome for beginning Vloggers. With VYou, you can hold a conversation with people from all over the world. And it’s also fun to answer questions of your own. So sign up! Tell your friends! And don’t forget that you can, of course, anonymously ask yourself questions. Shhhhh…

Youtuber Alex Day’s VYou page

Youtuber Hank Green explaining VYou

—Jenna Grunfeld

John Galliano gets temporarily booted from Dior

 

I love following Cathy Horyn on Twitter so much that I even have her tweets sent to my cell phone as texts. Every morning the reoccurring beeps sounding from my cell wake me up to a quick Fashion Week update, and then I'll go back to sleep grudgingly.

However, this morning a look of horror appeared on my face as I read these two consecutive messages:

"CathyHorynNYT: French news agencies report that John Galliano was briefly detained last night by Paris police alleged anti-semetic remarks to a couple."

"CathyHorynNYT: Dior has suspended Galliano pending the conclusion of an investigation."

According to both The Cut and Daily News, Galliano was sitting outside in a cafe in the Marais district in Paris when the altercation occurred, and his blood alcohol level was just above the limit. 

What incredibly surprising is how quickly Dior suspended the designer, especially since Paris Fashion Week starts next Monday. 

"Dior affirms with the utmost conviction its policy of zero tolerance towards any antisemitic or racist words or behaviour," Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said in a statement to Reuters."Pending the results of the inquiry, Christian Dior has suspended John Galliano from his responsibilities," the statement added.
However, sources say that the 50-year old designer was arrested and then escorted back to his home, and no charges were pressed against him.
What do you think? Did Dior do the right thing a mere week before Fashion Week?

–Stacy Douek

P.S.- If you'd like to read Cathy Horyn's take on things, you can read the article here or follow her on twitter @CathyHorynNYT

OSCAR SWANS – Then and Now

Historic icon Coco Chanel once claimed, “Fashion changes. Style remains.” But we can only imagine what Ms. Chanel would have thought of the annual Academy Award trends when she said this. With that in mind, Oscar season is here and once again, swan dress is the new Oscar black. A decade following singer Bjork's famous “swan dress,” the bird is a hot topic now thanks to much hype around the nominated Black Swan. Yes, we admire the originality of Lady Gaga's meat dress, but we cannot forget all of the fashion hype that Bjork's ballerina inspired ensemble—swan tutu, pointe shoe pink heels and all—sparked back in 2001. Now the idea of the swan plays a big role in the form of film and dance in 2011. Anticipating the pre-show red carpet event, who knows what looks we will see, but viewers may not be as shocked as they used to be thanks to previous outlandish efforts.

—Olivia Kinter

BENT!

The age-old activity of playing with you food never ceases to be entertaining. Whether you’re chilling in the dining hall making funny faces out of your uneaten remnants or throwing a hardboiled egg at your best friend, there’s always some enjoyment in it. Here, we’ve found some quirky art that mixes food with normal, everyday objects to create something incredibly comical. These whimsical works of art, titled “Bent Object(s),” are all clever. Our personal favorite is “Sylvia Muffin Put Her Head In The Oven”—it’s a funny parody on famous American Poet Sylvia Plath. Another notable Bent Object favorite is “Zombies Are Nuts About Brains.” dead peanuts walking around eating the contents of a lively peanut shell? Hilarious.

—Emily Gabriele

MUSIC SCENE: Boo Hoo, Bonnaroo

The announcement of this year’s Bonnaroo lineup has made us sorely upset. It’s a reminder that while people in Tennessee, Seattle and Indio, California get to enjoy this year’s biggest names in music, we are stuck with nothing in the East this summer except for Bamboozle, whose headliner promise of Lil Wayne hardly makes up for their poor selection of artists in many years passed. Whatever happened to All Points West? Time to plan a trip down South… who’s with us?

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VG ZONE: Champions Online goes Free-to-Play

 

Recently, Cryptic’s superhero MMO Champions Online went free-to-play, allowing any player to download and play the game.  Current subscribers have now become Gold Members, which gives them access to special costumes and mission packs among other things.  For the free player, the game is pretty much the same as the Gold version, except for the fact that free players cannot create a totally original character with any powers they want.  Instead, free players choose an “Archetype” such as The Grimoire (a sorcerer) and The Inferno (basically a Human Torch rip-off).  While gameplay can seem repetitive at times, overall Champions Online is worth the free download. 

-Jason Pearl