Nothing much has changed since last year. I didn’t watch the Oscar-nominated bunch of movies for 2008, and I didn’t hear of 96% of them either (though for honesty’s sake, I did watch and love Ratatouille). I also do not watch the Oscars in my life, as I cannot think of anything more boring to kill a few hours of my year on [Oscar surprise face].

While I might not care for who grabbed an Oscar, I do love to see what the happy, shiny people wore to the red carpet. It always proves the same old something; if you don’t have taste, you really can’t work it together, no matter how many stylists style you, how much money you have, if its Gucci or Chanel, or how many Oscars line up your shelf at home.

And now for Hollywood’s plastic wonder people…

The Went-to-the-Oscars-Drunk Group:

I’m afraid I have no idea who this is, but it doesn’t matter, because she’s trying to look like a MERMAID. I hope she keeps this dress for next year’s Halloween party, because I haven’t seen anyone dressed as Little Mermaid in a while.
Check out the green lady behind her too, who’s dressed out like a little teacup. I know Disney had some limelight yesterday with they’re brilliant Ratatouille, but that is not a good enough excuse to have a communal Disney-themed Oscar night.

This is definitely the worst outfit I have ever seen. She looks like Paris Hilton’s pocket-pooch dressed up.  The shoes too. What the hell was she thinking.

This marks my ultimate Oscar upset. The usually well-dressed Penelope Cruz absolutely looks witchy in this frumpy outfit. It looks more like an abaya with cut-off shoulders and the scarf wrapped around her waist belly-dancer style. Eww.

A cross between a garbage-bag and bride of death is never a good idea, Tilda Swinton, whoever you are.

I’m sort of getting depressed at how ugly this year’s dresses are. What’s up with the gloves lady?!

Arabian-nights meets Elizabeth Taylor. Haha. Check out her shoes too. They have BUCKLES on them.

The fabric guy at Soo2 IlTelyan downtown called. Now that you’re done with his fabric, he wants it back.

Wow, I’m HYPNOTIZED.

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The Fire-Your-Stylist Group:

What are my grandmother’s curtains doing in the Oscars?

What. The. Hell. Is. Jessica. Alba. Wearing.

That’s just a worse version of Jessica Alba’s dress. It reminds me of
the display mannequins of Indian tailors in Riyadh, especially with the
rest of the fabric trailing down like that.


The Cruella Deville look was never cool.

Is she pregnant? If she is, then this dress isn’t that bad. If she’s
not, then it is. Regardless, I totally hate the jewelery-thingy-collar.


Not hideous, but it is frumpy. Is frumpiness fashionable this year or what..?

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The Wow-You-Look-Good-Tonight Group:

And no, not because it’s red, although that might give it some points. It drapes her body gorgeously.

I put this here because I think Cate Blanchett worked great with her pregnancy. She looks elegant and comfortable. I like that.

I can’t figure out if this is “Could have done better” or “You look gorgeous”, but it’s certainly pretty. Especially when compared to the rest.

I don’t know why Renee Zellweger always looks the same. But this is a nice dress on her anyway.

It’s orange, but it’s pretty. I think it’s my favorite Oscar dress.

Keisha Whitaker obviously changed her stylist. She actually looks very good this year- very elegant in an understated way.

Who do you think looks the best and who looks the worst?

I always thought of Beat FM as a Play 99.6 knock off, complete with a hideous brand and terrible music. Looking back now, I don’t think I ever gave their music much interest because I could never get my mind off one of the worst billboards in the history of Amman’s advertisements, which was displayed on Safeway Shmesani for a very long time a few years ago.

I guess the dudes at Beat realized that their brand was bad and gave it a pretty cool makeover. I personally love it, it instantly transformed the radio channel into hip, young, energetic and experimental as far as I’m concerned. Does anyone know who rebranded it? Let’s hope Mood is next!

The old brand:

The new brand:

This wall was made from 7,200 bananas. I love the texture and curvature, it’s just so cool. It’s part of artist Stefan Sagmeister’s exhibition
“Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far.” [link via BB]

Designer (aka Assaf): “Booma shoes are cool, they’re gorgeous.”
Reef: “It’s Puma you idiot.”
Designer (aka Assaf): “I’m not the idiot you loser, English is the idiot. It’s such a stupid language. WHY THE HELL WOULD THEY HAVE TWO LETTERS THAT ARE EXACTLY THE SAME?! It’s sooo stupid. It’s like having light red and slightly lighter red in the same brand. That’s shitty branding. It’s confusing. What the hell.”

I’m not sure why I find this extremely interesting, but I’m very inspired by an autistic girl called Carly Fleischmann, who is unable to speak a word due to her autism. Two years ago, working with pictures and symbols on a computer keyboard, she started typing and spelling out words, and the computer became her voice.

“It feels like my legs are on first and a million ants are crawling up my arms,” Carly said through the computer. “It is hard  tobe autistic because no one understands me. People look at me and assume I am dumb because I can’t talk or I  actdifferently than them. I think people get scared with things that look or seem different than them. Autism is hard because you want to act one way, but you can’t always do that. It’s sad that sometimes people don’t know that sometimes I can’t stop myself and they get mad at me. If I could tell people one thing about autism it would be that I don’t want to be this way. But I am, so don’t be mad. Be understanding.”

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Quite honestly, I’d take a pair of laceless sneakers any day over laces, yet when I came upon this guide, I grinned anyway. Shoe Lacing, the website of Ian Fieggen (aka Professor Shoelace), is probably the best shoelace website in the universe. [via, hat-tip Tarik]

Some lacing ideas:

And my favorites:

Wow. Gorgeous. Fore more, check out the website.