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Believe It or Not, the Last Audio Cassette Factory in the US Is Doing Better Than Ever.
I haven’t seen audio cassettes in use in over a decade, so it’s pretty shocking that a company is still making a profit manufacturing them. In fact, National Audio Company (NAC) – the last audio cassette maker in America – has had its best year since it opened in 1969!
The tapes are apparently high on nostalgic value, and that’s why they’re still flying off the shelves. And NAC’s stubbornness in not quitting when the other manufacturers did has finally payed off. “You can characterise our operating business model as stubbornness and stupidity,” NAC president Steve Stepp said. “We were too stubborn to quit.”
“Probably the thing that really enlarged our business at a faster pace than anything is the retro movement,” he added. “There’s the nostalgia of holding the audio cassette in your hand.”
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59-Year-Old Fashion Model Is Still Giving Young Girls a Run for Their Money.
At age 59, the lovely Yasmina Rossi is breaking all the rules of the fashion world. Despite her age, she is a highly sought-after model, working for several international brands.
French-born Yasmina had an unusual start to her career – she began modelling in her late twenties, which is when most professional models retire. She got her big break at age 45, when she relocated to New York. That’s when she starred in ad campaigns for Macy’s, AT&T, and Mastercard. Eventually, she landed a job modelling for Marks & Spencers in Europe.
Everyone is naturally curious to know the secret behind her everlasting beauty, but Yasmina says there is none. “All I have ever done is eat organic food – long before it became trendy,” she told the Sunday Times’ Style Magazine. She also gets a bit of exercise, a healthy diet, and plenty of rapeseed oil for her hair and skin.
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Arab Family Spends $75 Million on World’s Most Expensive Cake.
Flour, butter, eggs, and sugar were apparently too boring for this super wealthy Arab family, so they decided to throw a few diamonds into their cake mix. They recently splurged an eye-watering $75 million on a bejweled cake for their daughter’s birthday-cum-engagement party.
British designer Debbie Wingham, who turned to baking after previously creating the world’s most expensive dress, was commissioned to make the cake. The identity of the family – living in the UAE – has not been revealed, but there are plenty of pictures online of Debbie and the extravagant dessert.
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Twentyfourseven \ Aaron Rositzka - Julius Krenz \ Germany
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
Twentyfourseven - time-lapse-like wrap up of a typical day at the office. Twentyfourseven's main objective is to shed a light on the ever recurring cycle of boredom and anesthesia in modern urban life. By doing so with a winking eye, it also ridicules all mankind efforts to overcome that cycle.
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Temp Mort (dead time) \ Manas Bhattacharya - Madhuban Mitra \ India
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
The film explores the ruins of India’s first and only still camera factory – National Instruments Ltd, Kolkata. Shut down years ago, the factory produced the National 35 camera, the only 35 mm still camera ever made in the country.
Based in Kolkata, India, Manas Bhattacharya studied Comparative Literature and Film in Jadavpur University, and went on to study Cinematography in the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute. He works with and in a range of media including still photography, digital imaging, film, video and electronic music. Madhuban Mitra studied literature and classical dance, and holds a Ph.D in Cultural Studies. She worked as Programme Executive at the India Foundation for the Arts, India’s foremost arts funding organisation, from 2000 to 2007.For the last two years, Manas and Madhuban have been collaborating regularly on work involving various media. Their current collaboration explores the ruins of India’s only still camera factory towards a book and exhibition of photographs, and a series of installations and films. This film is made with support from the India Foundation for the Arts and the Media Lab, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University.
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Parallel Spaces \ Georgi Krastev \ Bulgaria
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
A boy and a girl have an appointment on the coast. They both arrive on the right place and on the right time but they don’t meet each other. It turned out that they fall into different parallel spaces.
Born in 1986 in Varna, Bulgaria.Currently studying Film & TV Cinematography and Photography at the National academy for theatre and film arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. I work in sphere of film, video and contemporary art.
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Until, After \ Emre Özerden \ Turkey
#shortfilm it's just seconds!
"They both didn’t know the way, the time takes about untouched feelings. Until their bodies crashed. After everything spreads. Now the way is the same but everything changes."
Emre Ozerden was born in Eskisehir in 1988. He is still an undergraduate student at University of Kocaeli at department of Visual Communication Design. At the same time he’s studying on acting at Izmit Art Academy.
http://artbychance.org/selections/2nd-edition/until-after.htm
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