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- Would You Spend $60 on a Pair of Underwear That Has Been Hung in Hawaiian Air for Two Days?
- Hip-Hop Meets Classical Ballet in Awesome “Hiplet” Dance Style
- Chinese Loan Sharks Are Asking Young Women for Nude Selfies as Collateral for Online Loans
| Would You Spend $60 on a Pair of Underwear That Has Been Hung in Hawaiian Air for Two Days? Posted: 17 Jun 2016 12:26 PM PDT It’s a dumb question, I know, but that’s exactly what Japanese company Seiren is trying to find out with its limited-edition of Deoest cotton underwear called Hawaiian Breeze. Apparently, each pair of boxer briefs were hung on a clothesline in the U.S. island state for 48 hours before being packaged in a sealed glass container. To promote its Deoest line of anti-odor men’s underwear, Japanese company Seiren has taken the effort of hanging 100 pairs of the new boxer briefs on a giant clothesline in Hawaii, where they were caressed by the gentle tropical breeze for two full days before being taken down and stuffed into individual glass containers. I get the idea – fresh air and anti-odor underwear kind of make sense together, so I guess it works for promotional purposes. What I can’t wrap my head around is why they thought selling these 100 pairs of Deoest Hawaiian Breeze for $60 was a good idea. Designers briefs from established brands like Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren usually cost around $30, so why would anyone pay double that? Because they were exposed to Hawaiian air, or because they come in glass jar?
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| Hip-Hop Meets Classical Ballet in Awesome “Hiplet” Dance Style Posted: 17 Jun 2016 10:13 AM PDT Classical ballet and hip hop don’t exactly seem like a match made in heaven, but a new dance form aptly called “hiplet” is proving otherwise. A video of a group of young ballerinas performing hiplet to Jason Derulo’s “If It Ain’t Love” went viral at the end of last month and has since then gotten tens of millions of views on various social media platforms. Looking at how these young ladies are able to put a modern twist on classical ballet, it’s no wonder the world can’t seem to get enough of them. Frankly, neither can we! Hiplet is the creation of Homer Hans Bryant, a famous dance teacher who has previously worked with celebrities like Lady Gaga and first daughters first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama. The talented dancers in that viral hiplet video are his young students at the Chicago Multicultural dance Center. Bryant said he came up with this strange yet intriguing combination in an attempt to keep up with the times and stay relevant with young people. In an older video, Bryant says he got the idea for hiplet back in 2007, as a way to get his young students interested in ballet. When he was young, and the only boy in a ballet class, his teacher told him that classical ballet was the best foundation for a dancer, and as he matured, Bryant relaized that his teacher had been right. Now a dance teacher himself, Homer has his girls start with ballet as well, and then lets them decide what dance form they want to progress to later on. But he had to find a way to get them interested in ballet, and since most of them liked hip-hop, he decided hip hop on pointes was worth a try.
The recent online exposure, earned Homer Hans Bryant and his talented hiplet dancers an appearance on Good Morning America, where they performed their sick routines for a national audience. The legendary dance teacher and founder of the Chicago Multicultural dance Center said they girls love doing hiplet, and he loves teaching them, but he does have one cardinal rule – "They have to train in classical ballet discipline."
If you’re digging this hiplet style, wait until you her about Bryant’s other crazy idea – tap dancing on pointes. I’m intrigued.  |
| Chinese Loan Sharks Are Asking Young Women for Nude Selfies as Collateral for Online Loans Posted: 17 Jun 2016 12:07 AM PDT Loans are notoriously hard to get for Chinese college students, and some of them will agree to almost anything for some much needed funds, even providing nude photos of themselves as collateral to unscrupulous loan sharks. The disgusting practice was brought to national attention when a victim – a university student going by the pseudonym of Li Li – desperately sought help from the police after loan sharks requested that she send them a photo of herself in the nude, holding her ID card. The online loan shark group had granted her a 500 yuan ($76) loan in February with a weekly interest rate of 30%. Unable to pay it back in time, the debt inflated beyond 10,000 yuan in a very short while, and at one point the loan sharks threaten not to renew her loan unless she also provided a nude photo of herself holding her ID, which Li reluctantly agreed to. However, after four months, her debt had inflated to 55,000 yuan, at which point she went to the police asking for help.
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