A bicycle plated with 24-carat gold and covered with some 600 artificial gemstones, costing 80,000 Euros ($100,714) is displayed at the “LUXURY, please.” fair in Vienna
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A former Sunday school teacher was arrested on charges of distributing harmful material to a minor after the parents of a 14-year-old boy found a topless photo of her on his cell phone. Victoria Ann Chacon, 27, also a former middle school teacher, allegedly met the boy at their church, where she was teaching Sunday school.
The boy’s parents called police March 27 after finding racy letters in which Chacon professed her love. The boy initially refused to give a statement about the relationship, the arrest warrant says.
Several months later, the parents found a cell phone with a topless photo of Chacon. The phone was owned by Chacon and the two had been calling one another, according to court documents.
The woman was arrested Tuesday. Jail records had no attorney listed for her.
Chacon resigned from Somerset Junior High School on March 14. The boy did not attend that school. Officials of the Somerset Independent School District said they found no evidence that she had any inappropriate relationships with students.
Quick everyone, hide your cellphones. Naomi Campbell is coming to town.
Campbell and her posse of famous pals and photographers will descend upon Miami to present a collection of photographs of the supermodel.
Organizers from Art Photo Expo Miami say it is rare that top photographers such as Arthur Elgort, Albert Watson and Steven Meisel exhibit their work together. The show — running from Dec. 2-7 — will feature more than 50 photographs and several illustrations of Campbell, which will be for sale. The show coincides with the international art fair Art Basel Miami, but is not connected to it. The retrospective is part of a larger exhibit called In Fashion Photo, which will display an additional 250 photographs.
“I love my job,” Campbell said in an interview from Moscow, where she was doing a photo shoot. “I have had a great, great career. I am not doing this retrospective because I am over.”
Does she have a favorite picture? Not really. “It’s my life basically,” she said. “For me, each picture tells a different moment in my career and just for me its a timeline really.”
Organizer Francois Trabelsi said he picked Campbell because “she’s the biggest top model of the world.”
“All big photographers of the world make some photographs or did something with her,” he said.
Elgort said the first time he met Campbell was in the mid-1980s. He has photographed her many times, including with designer Azzedine Alaia, and one of those photos is included in the show.
“She was very outward, very fun. A nice, crazy girl,” he said. “She had an amazing runway presence.”
Although Elgort applauds Campbell’s longevity, he said she isn’t the easiest person to work with.
“She surely made history,” he said. “She had her mind on making history and every once in a while if it wasn’t history it was almost, oh dear … she lost interest.”
Watson, who has photographed everyone from David Bowie to Mick Jagger, said that having these photographers in a group show featuring a model as the subject is an original idea.
“I think that its fairly unique,” Watson said. “Maybe just because it’s Naomi.”
In a photo by Watson, Campbell is seen in profile wearing a dress cut low with her shoulders exposed. It was taken for Italian Vogue. “I think what’s nice of this photo is that it is more a photograph of Naomi … of course, its more photographic,” Watson said.
Watson said he has known Campbell since she was 15 and said she has always treated him with respect. “She was always on her best behavior,” he said. “Naomi is volatile.”
Campbell’s bad behavior is legendary. She was sentenced to community service and a fine after she pleaded guilty to kicking, spitting and swearing at the airline officers aboard a plane at Heathrow Airport in April. Last year, she was sentenced to a week of community service in New York City after admitting “reckless assault” for throwing a mobile phone at her housekeeper. In 2000, she pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant.
For those looking to feed their idle photo printers, one of the most magnificent photo archives of the past century is now available on Google.
It’s the Life magazine collection, some 10 million images all together, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Following the deal between Google and the keepers of the Life archive, a vast chunk is now up on line at Google Image Search.
“Only a small percentage of these images have ever been published” said a statement from Google. “The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings and prints.” A spokeswoman for Time Inc. said that the archives in their entirety would be available in the first quarter of next year.
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Epson’s Stylus Photo RX680 is a six-color multifunction inkjet printer that is ideally suited for people who want basic printing and scanning features and great photo printing capabilities. Reasonably priced at $199, the RX680 is fast and easy to use, and includes some nice touches that are often found only in more expensive models.
The RX680 sets up in a snap. The six ink cartridges fit easily into place, and the USB cable (not included) snakes around snugly inside the printer. A duplexing unit slides into the back of the printer, adding a few extra inches of depth, but you can remove it if you don’t need it.
The included CD has the print driver, Epson Scan scanning software, Epson Print CD, and ArcSoft’s PhotoImpression 5. The latter two programs seem more like checklist items than real productivity enhancers: they’ll do in a pinch, but they’re not terribly strong. PhotoImpression in particular feels like it was quickly ported from Microsoft Windows, with little care for the outcome. And, while we understand that the RX680’s primary focus is photo printing and copying, it would be nice to have a simple OCR package for translating scanned documents into text.
The printer has two paper trays, which make it easy to load one with photo paper and the other with plain paper. When you’re printing from your Mac or using the RX680’s standalone copying features, you can quickly and easily select the tray from which you want to print.
A 90-year-old who says she is the nurse being kissed in Times Square in one of World War II’s most famous photos is to lead the New York Veterans Day Parade.
Edith Shain, from Los Angeles, will return to the scene of the kiss at the head of a group of WWII veterans.
The photo of an American sailor kissing a nurse in 1945 as people marked the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II became an iconic image.
Over the years, several people have claimed to be depicted in the picture.
Ms Shain said it was thrilling to be back in New York and “see the street where we had been when World War II was over, when that marvellous feeling was flooding the nation”.
She added: “The end of the war was a wonderful experience, and that photo represents all those feelings.” Read more
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