I am reading Instagram today. Totally obsessing with Rihanna‘s style of image, tweet selections. Looking for, creating, selecting and sharing meaning is what Riri excels in on social media. I love this one:
“If you never try, you’ll never know.” –So true! Just try good things more so, than not so good ones. :)
The Horiwood Top Ten today are eclectic as per usual. The List:
Alright: For the rest of the day, I’ll be more sobre minded with news selections (eg: I’ll do an “Around The World News” hard news selection). Have a great day!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.9.12~
Young Kiwis who’ve found a bit more independence by jetting to the red southland are loving the Aussie life.
Yet now that China is hauling back a tad on investing in the Aussie boom, with a view on investing in the Islands of the South Pacific instead, one TV show asks what’s next.
Teenager, Ye Shewin, 16, of China has taken the world by storm. Ye outswam her nearest competitors to the point where the swimmer’s performance in the 400m individual medley had some commentators describing her blitz as “disturbing”.
The Chinese teen swam the 400m individual medley seconds faster than she ever had before and – on the last 50m – faster than the winner of the men’s event. There is no evidence against her and all medal winners are drug-tested.
On Monday, Ye Shiwen took at least five seconds off her personal best to break the world record by more than a second and win the gold medal in the individual medley. In the last 50m she swam faster than US star Ryan Lochte in the men’s event. Commentators were stunned.
Yahoo Sports question whether China is sports doping athletes for Olympics glory. Commentary here. New Zealand’s Simon Dallow reporting live from London, informs NZ news watchers: “Ye’s coach has denied the rumors saying China’s hands are clean.”
Congratulations to an outstanding effort for a young star of the sporting world. Go kid!
[Music - Retro Rihanna 's Disturbia pop hits medley - live at Hackney Festival 2012].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 31.7.12~
My goal this year is to stay at the top of the field in the single sculls and bring home the elusive Olympic Gold from London in August 2012.– Mahé Drysdale.
87 nations are reading today. Readers include:Colombia, Estonia, Dominican Republic, Bosnia, Armenia, Trinidad & Tobago, Paruguay, Albania, El Salvador, Maldives, Ghana, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Nigeria and Senegal.
Reading too are:
Cyprus, Luxemborg, Bangladesh, Latvia, Slovenia, Nepal, Denmark, Myanmar, Syria, Jamaica, Tunisia, Peru and Mauritius.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 17.7.12~
“Exocoetidae” (flying fish) are a wonder of the world.
In New Zealand our variety is called Cypselurus lineatus and is found from the East Coast waters of the Bay of Plenty towards the north of Aotearoa New Zealand. Other names in New Zealand include: Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Bennett 1831) and Exocoetus lineatus japonicus.
[News source: Arthur William Baden Powell- although this is not a BP oil ad - Te Ara Net. Photo: Barbados]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 10.6.12~
One with her fans worldwide, here’s the artist, Rihanna, with Da One.
Shades of Jeese J vocal inclusion nods – with the unique off beats of her beloved Caribbean.
No. 22 on Billboard Hot 100, No 24 on BBC Radion Charts, UK. No 24 on the NZ Top 40, New Zealand. No 39 on Aria Charts Top 50, Australia. In Brazil, No. 35 with Talk That Talk.
She’s not bad!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.1.12~
A man has a dream that he walks into a pub. He sees a Tom Jensen Bullocks team cap. A photo of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and early pioneer’s bullock tributes set in wood around a billiards pool table. In the pub dream, the bullocks were called fictitious names like Lofty, N*gger, Rambler, Piper and Redman.
According to the UK Daily Telegraph, pop star RihannaTweeted on Tuesday in response to a racial slur from a fashion magazine editor in Brussells.
Eva Hoeke the editor of Dutch magazine, Jackie, reportedly called Riri a “N*gga bitch in an article she wrote… “She’s got street cred, a ghetto ass and a golden throat… No to the big sunglasses and the porn heels, and yes to the tiger print, pink shizzle and everything that glitters. Now let’s hope she won’t beat anybody up at day care.”
If Eva had been a hip hop magazine editor, that perhaps would have been all fine and dandy to drop it like it’s hot with the N*gga Bitch commnts about Rihanna. But Eva isn’t.
Riri’s twitter response was, “I find you disrespectful, and rather desperate!!,” before adding, “Well with all respect, on behalf of my race, here are my two words for you …—- you.”
I don’t know why I’m laughing as I read all of that – that’s terrible! I guess I’m smiling because you just know that Riri’s LA themed Christmas Eve party with her PR team is going to be a N*gga B*tch themed Hollywood Hills soiree.. complete with Jackson 5 70′s afro wigs and big Dutch clogs… milky colored or in bright loud orange… with entourages of poodles in toe too. Multiply that thought with the millions of creative twenty-somethings doing the same all across Los Angeles, before hitting up Hollywood Clubs at New Years.
All dark, Young Hollywood humored jesting aside, hasn’t Rihanna had a stellar last 4 years as an entertainer. Her song above, is the no.1 song in New Zealand at years end. That’s not bad at all for the Queen of Barbados.
Let’s spin the fame factory today from New Zealand. Ten People you voted as news right now @ 9.45am KiwiTime are:
She’s a girl from Barbados whose life could be reminiscent of any girl born on Islands of the South Pacific. As an ‘Island girl’ Rihanna had a dream to sing and be a global star. She’s also managed to take the 41st spot of most voted stars this year as voted by you.
Today, there is no other female artist in the USA, who has as many hits in the top ten American charts, over the last ten years as Riri. When you are not US born, or a US citizen either that’s a phenomenal feat to achieve in the USA. You have to doff your hat to Riri on her chart soaring achievements.
Perhaps because she was raised an Island girl, Rihanna does have a sound that people of Auckland City in the South Pacific, (the largest Polynesian populated city in the world) tend to love.
Almost three years ago, I started this blog a few days after Rihanna encountered a domestic battery ordeal. I wanted to speak out against that. Rihanna was a catalyst that began a journey on this blog. Her publicist, like Rihanna is also very clever.
She is perhaps the artist that most people in L.A say “best defines our sound at “Da Club.” Her sound definitely goes with sunny California weather. Riri’s last performance was on The X Factor reality TV Show, where she was also seen giving back and mentoring America’s up and coming artists.
In this performance you can see her get up and go style. She’s both sweet and salty, like peanut butter and jelly for the grown up kids! When I lived in L.A her song with EminemLove the Way You Lie was the California anthem that defined the political and economic times a generation of young people were encountering. That feeling is still being felt in the Eurozone nations and also as reflected so visually in the Occupy Movement, with students (America’s future) being peppersprayed by the Police in the US this week.
Press play to view. No matter what, Riri always keeps the mood up and happy! What a girl.
“Turn up the lights in here baby. Extra bright. I want y’all to see this…. ” – lyrics. Music by Kanye West, Rihanna et Kid Cudi.
Sometimes in life, we need to hold people up to the light to see exactly what they’re made of, and what’s in there. I’d like to think empathy still is as a humane and normal trait of community minded folks.
Peace!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.6.11~
At this second in the USA, an Island dwelling peoples’ pop princess, Rihanna continues to entertain from America as a music artist.
Here’s the lady of the Bardados with her jingle California King Bed.
When I look at Rihanna’s career (and I know her publicist) from living in Hollywood, I think of Pacific Island girls Polynesian potential and talents in music and entertainment. Girls like Rihanna who stem from beautiful Island dwelling, palm-tree swept Island peoples too.
I also think of music’s potential in Auckland – The Super City and the largest Polynesian city in the world. Rihanna’s music and career inspires. Thanks Club Riri. :)
Press play to listen to her nod to California, her American home when she’s based in the USA.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 9.6.11~
Rihanna goes on tap for ensuring that water gets in the hands of the 1 in 6 people who don’t yet have access to clean drinking water. She’s a Commonwealth star we love. The beauty queen and pop diva of Barbados’ good moves on the humanitarian chess board can be read below.
Pop star Rihanna is spearheading a new campaign for international charity UNICEF.
The Umbrella singer is one of four celebrities who are taking part in the Tap Project – offering fans the chance to win a collection of bottled TAP water.
Other stars joining the 23-year-old are Disney queen Selena Gomez, country superstar Taylor Swift and Entourage actor Adrian Grenier.
The project encourages fans to sign onto the UNICEF Tap website and donate $5 towards the cause.
Once fans donate they will be entered into a competition to win ‘The Ultimate Deluxe Platinum Celebrity Tap Pack.
The Pack features four limited edition bottles of water from Gomez, Rihanna, Swift and Grenier.
Each celebrity has their face etched on their own bottle with the word Tap printed on it.
The website markets the water with the slogan, ‘Rihanna, now collaborating with her kitchen sink.’
It also makes a tongue in cheek statement about the price.
‘Only $5 to win some ridiculously famous water,’ it says.
‘The Ultimate Deluxe Platinum Celebrity Tap Pack (Limited Edition) includes bottles of real tap water from celebrities more famous than you,’
‘Contribute to the UNICEF Tap Project for a chance to win this luxurious and desire collection of water from the most famous celebrities in world history.
‘History. Yes, the history of the world.’
Every dollar from fans entry helps UNICEF provide clean, safe water to a child in need to 40 days.
Fans wanting to donate and have a chance to win the celebrity water can log on to www.uniceftapproject.org
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.19.11~
This pic just in via Cover Awards website NYC, show Barbados reigning pop Queen Rihanna stepping out with brighter shades of red hair color for April Vogue.
She be bringin it!
Here’s Cali based RiRi’s performance while in her teens at Fashion Rocks, paying her dues to Madonna with a performance credited to Madonna of a Madonna song, called Vogue.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~
When we honor women’s equality, a nation honors women’s true democracy by making them our celebrities.
New Zealand is the best country in the Commonwealth to be born a girl, research released today has found.
The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) study showed there was a greater level of gender equality in New Zealand than any other country in the Commonwealth – which has 54 member countries with a total population of nearly two billion.
Rihanna‘s nation of Barbados clocked in at the no.2 spot in the survey.
New Zealand received an “A” in five out of eight indicators and was the “star performer” in terms of pay equality, with women earning 72 per cent of what men earn. Australia ranked 6th equal with Canada.
Ironically there are more women in New Zealand than men. Slightly more.
[Photograph, 15 year-old Yasmin Bidois is a Maori girl of French descent, growing up and pursuing a dream of modeling in Aotearoa New Zealand. As yet she has not decided what she wants to study in college].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.13.11~
At only 23, beauty of Barbados, Rihanna, has sold 10 million albums in the UK, after only six years. Amazing! A UK record. Always savvy, Ri Ri shares her moment by giving Donald Trump & Jennifer Hudson an air kiss each.
Country music stars are a little bit entrepreneurial. Better than Facebook profiling, I must say!
Charlie Sheen can’t seem to do without his Brooke Muellerfeuds, as well as whatever else Charlie does.
Gabrielle Aubrey is like Brooke Mueller. He too will work with Halle Berry‘s work schedule.
Justin Bieber continues to shine, growing his mogul-teen media empire via good music sales. Quite the story.
Should Oprah even bother with Rosie O’Donell on OWN network. Rosie sort of needs her own network already. Lol!
Momma Aretha does Donald Trump press for Fantasia. Cute.
Cher news – does she really care she never got an Oscars nod? She is the Oscars new Bollywood direction with music & song. Nods or not.
President Obama calls the Defense of Marriage act unconstitutional.
The death toll in Christchurch has climbed to 76 to date. Mega sad news. Go here to make a difference in a city’s devastated grief.
One of my favorite charities is The City Mission. Working in Los Angeles communities 24-7 is what they do. California is the Homeless capitol of the USA. City Mission are the bombiest in making a difference in and around Hollywood as The Entertainment Capitol of The World. If living in West Hollywood and Hollywood, go here to make a difference too if you would like to. Thanks people.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.22.11~
Performing their no.1 hit from the UK and USA, What’s My Name? Rihanna and Drake perform at half-time during the 2011 NBA All-Star game at Staples Center. Hot mid game sports entertainment.
[Photo by Kevork Djansezian]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.21.11~
Set to an Australian accent, Canada’s Drake & Rihanna of Barbados Isles are rehearsing for the Grammys in this news footage video clip, right here in L.A. How exciting! This will provide a nice diverse interlude from all of those Grammys Stefani GermanoTTa is going to get this year, no doubt. :)
Here’s ten things you voted as a pop cultural snap shot, we’re sharing via social media in this minute from Hollywood. Gosh, we’re just like Egypt’s young. “Sharing via Twitter, Facebook and Blogs, is Democracy!!!” Love it.
A man has a dream that he walks into a pub. He sees a Tom Jensen Bullocks team cap. A photo of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and early pioneer’s bullock tributes set in wood around a billiards pool table. In the pub dream, the bullocks were called fictitious names like Lofty, N*gger, Rambler, Piper and Redman.
“ALWAYS TRY” – THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 12.9.12
I am reading Instagram today. Totally obsessing with Rihanna‘s style of image, tweet selections. Looking for, creating, selecting and sharing meaning is what Riri excels in on social media. I love this one:
“If you never try, you’ll never know.” –So true! Just try good things more so, than not so good ones. :)
The Horiwood Top Ten today are eclectic as per usual. The List:
1. Rihanna Fenty – Red Carpet Staples - Los Angeles 2012
2. Movie buzz – The Impossible - Tsunami survivors are hot in Toronto
3. Nicole Kidman - Pussy Riot tribute nod – Mario Testino art fashion portraiture
4. Manufacturing Growth – When Mexico’s economy overtook Brazil’s
5. Keanu Reeves in the age of digital filmmaking
6.Rachel Hunter news
7. Prince Harry
8. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Lisa Carrington & Sarah Walker‘s latest fashion shoot
9. Renee Stewart model photos
10. Tie A: World News
10. Tie B: Stephen Moyer & Sir Peter Jackson‘s Memphis Three film
No.12: Young Farmer’s Club movie themes: Ramina Bahrani & Zac Efron‘s new movie
Bonus:
Humor: Ten things about Adam Frankel - Obama‘s writer
USA Humor: Nashville Parenting: Never Again Grace Elizabeth! Never again!!!
Aussie Humor: Keeping Up With Leonie Hemsworth‘s Ausie clan
My pick: The Crown & Ngai Tuhoe’s historic day. What it means for the activist & ‘conserve-ative’ now? Maori tribe, watch clip below:
Rachel Hunter remembered 9-11 for Kiwis with her tweet: “Etched in our hearts forever 9/11. Love & Prayers.”
Fashion: Sonia Greenslade fashion stylist photos.
On Twitter who am I reading? Rihanna‘s twitter feed? Above pic on ‘individuality’ – Fenty‘s blend of RistAGram pictures.
Favorite creative Aussies today: Hamish & Andy Lee‘s website.
Alright: For the rest of the day, I’ll be more sobre minded with news selections (eg: I’ll do an “Around The World News” hard news selection). Have a great day!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 12.9.12~
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