Poor China. No wonder they have such poor compliance with intellectual property laws! There was a Scottish man who posed as a Chinese high official (yeah, I don't know how, either), and learned the secret to growing and processing black and green tea.
He also learned that Chinese tea for export was treated with Prussian Blue and Gypsum, to give the leaves a nice green color (tea for domestic consumption was not so treated). Prussian Blue is a pigment made of iron ferrocyanide, and is toxic to humans. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-british-tea-heist-9866709/
It's funny. Recently, I've seen a number of videos showing people rooting roses, etc from cuttings by placing the stem in a potato. It seems to kinda-sorta make sense, except I have not yet seen a video showing actual ROOTS emerging from the cuttings. I suspect the cuttings last about as long as cut flowers.
I would love to send him information about the NM State University College of Agriculture, and a packet of seeds from the Chile Pepper Institute. I'd love for him to be inundated with semi-unsolicited information and artifacts from workplaces.
Clothing manufacturers should give their new clothes to day laborers and homeless people, with an agreement that they can exchange them for new clothes again after a certain amount of time. The streetlife-worn clothes will sell for a fortune!
For greater legitimacy, the wearer can be interviewed, and a unique story can be told about what the clothing went through. Or each wearer can be identified on the tag (e.g. "Dave from Toledo"). Particular wear patterns, associated with particular wearers may gain special status among buyers. Maybe, in one season, everyone will want to wear clothes destroyed by farm workers. Another year, roofers will be all the rage. Perhaps "Joe from Albuquerque" will become a superstar of clothing distress.
One fun story is when one of the astronauts was a graduate of CalTech. There, the 'dead week' tradition is to wake up to the "Ride of the Valkyries" played at full blast by all of the students (the week before finals, when everyone must cram). Someone at the Jet Propulsion Lab provided this music to greet the astronauts on that mission, causing the CalTech alum's vital signs to hit the roof, as he had a flashback to his college days.
Guy walking closer with his camera is just asking to be bitten, stomped, and then dragged into the water. Passions are running high in that scene. Best to consider distance your friend.
What is it about his voice? He's using the cheap, generic voice that came with the synthesizer program! Surely the British NHS can afford to buy him a more modern voice.
There are scenes in the movie "Funny Face" with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn that show some of the 'behind the scenes' or 'ridiculous ways' that any kind of advertising or fashion shoot are done.
This scene was in the beginning of the movie. When I first saw it, I was intrigued by the way that the drape and cling of the model's dress were managed by using a row of clothes pins down her back.
"Denim" and "Jeans" are covered, but the list omits "Dungarees" to complete the blue cotton set! ". . . a cheap, coarse, thick cotton cloth, often colored blue but sometimes white, worn by impoverished people in what was then a region of Bombay, India a dockside village called Dongri." (I am disappoint) http://www.historyofjeans.com/jeans-history/history-of-dungaree-fabric/
At a cat show, I'd think the cats would quickly reach sensory overload and become irate. All those people waving stuff around to get a reaction from the cats! I hope they have adequate time to de-stress between showings.
He also learned that Chinese tea for export was treated with Prussian Blue and Gypsum, to give the leaves a nice green color (tea for domestic consumption was not so treated). Prussian Blue is a pigment made of iron ferrocyanide, and is toxic to humans.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-british-tea-heist-9866709/
For greater legitimacy, the wearer can be interviewed, and a unique story can be told about what the clothing went through. Or each wearer can be identified on the tag (e.g. "Dave from Toledo"). Particular wear patterns, associated with particular wearers may gain special status among buyers. Maybe, in one season, everyone will want to wear clothes destroyed by farm workers. Another year, roofers will be all the rage. Perhaps "Joe from Albuquerque" will become a superstar of clothing distress.
One fun story is when one of the astronauts was a graduate of CalTech. There, the 'dead week' tradition is to wake up to the "Ride of the Valkyries" played at full blast by all of the students (the week before finals, when everyone must cram). Someone at the Jet Propulsion Lab provided this music to greet the astronauts on that mission, causing the CalTech alum's vital signs to hit the roof, as he had a flashback to his college days.
Passions are running high in that scene. Best to consider distance your friend.
This scene was in the beginning of the movie. When I first saw it, I was intrigued by the way that the drape and cling of the model's dress were managed by using a row of clothes pins down her back.
They keep their wings folded all the time in the video, making them look like a bunch of long-neck penguins.
". . . a cheap, coarse, thick cotton cloth, often colored blue but sometimes white, worn by impoverished people in what was then a region of Bombay, India a dockside village called Dongri."
(I am disappoint)
http://www.historyofjeans.com/jeans-history/history-of-dungaree-fabric/