Justin Bieber is an unlikely candidate to be heading up a flashy new haute couture campaign. The 27-year-old musical superstar’s personal style is decidedly quite casual: baggy tracksuits and Crocs; oversized loud shirts and cargo pants… He wore Jordans to his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, for crying out loud.
So it was pretty surprising when just hours ago, famed luxury fashion label Balenciaga unveiled its latest unisex fashion campaign starring the sometimes-slovenly Canadian on Instagram… With Bieber rocking an austere and startling look that’s had fans both in awe and scratching their heads all at once.
Check out Justin Bieber’s new Balenciaga campaign below.
Bieber looks every part the fashion model in this outfit, with his crew-cut, steely gaze, and of course, in a Balenciaga ‘Engineered Coat‘ and clutching an ‘Essential Small Wallet‘. For a man who’s normally a fan of bright colours and contrasting textures, Bieber seems at home in all-black.
The highlight of the outfit? His ostentatious ‘Trooper Boots’, which retail for AU$875. Chunky and minimalist, they’re worlds apart from the intentionally over-engineered Track and Triple S sneakers Balenciaga has become famous for in recent years – yet they’re just as eye-catching and severe. There’s truly no mistaking Balenciaga’s aesthetic.
Reactions have been mixed. Some fans have said he looks like a priest (one choice comment: “finally a priest we want to touch”), while others have compared him less favourably to Swedish rapper Yung Lean, or to Hagrid from Harry Potter.
Speaking of priests, we’ve got a confession: we reckon Bieber looks pretty good in this outfit. We’re just keen to see what other garments and celebrities will appear next in a Balenciaga campaign…
Are you getting bored of performing the same workouts over and over again, and seeing little in the way of results? Have you ever tried EMOM workouts? Because, if you haven’t, this 25-minute workout from Juan Leija, Director of Fitness Programming at Onnit (the company endorsed by Joe Rogan that produces brain-boosting nootropic pills) is one you seriously need to try.
EMOM stands for ‘Every Minute on the Minute’ and these workouts are commonly utilised by fitness professionals and athletes to help build muscle, strength and aerobic fitness – whilst also burning a decent chunk of calories at the same.
During EMOM workouts, you perform a movement for the required number of reps, or seconds, and use the remaining time of the minute to rest. For example, you may need to perform 10 lunges in a minute. If you complete them in 20 seconds, then you have 40 seconds left to rest before performing the next exercise.
Juan’s 25-minute workout comprises five movements, some of which you’ll need to enlist the use of a kettlebell to perform.
Check out Juan Leija’s 25-minute EMOM workout in the video below.
The five movements include:
Kettlebell swings x 20 reps: Hold the kettlebell with both hands using an overhand grip. Hinge at the hips and bend the knees slightly, and drive your hips forward to swing the kettlebell up and out in front of you to shoulder height. Make sure you’re not using your arms too much to swing the kettlebell up, as the exerting force should come from your lower body and core.
Shuffle x 30 seconds: A bodyweight exercise, keep your upperbody upright and facing forwards, whilst jumping twisting your hips in an alternating fashion. Swing your arms to help generate momentum.
Snatch x 5L/5R: Grab the kettlebell with one hand using an overhand grip. In a similar vein to the kettlebell swings, hinge at your hips and drive them forward to swing the kettlebell up, and then use your upper body to continue lifting the kettlebell up above your head. You should aim to get your arm straight with the kettlebell above you. Slowly bring the kettlebell back down to the starting position. Perform five snatches on each side.
Lateral Jumps x 20 reps: Jump from side to side, using just one leg to push yourself over to the other side. Make sure to just land on the single opposite leg, hold for a moment, and launch yourself back to the other side.
Clean & Press x 5L/5R: This move is similar to the snatch, but instead of lifting the kettlebell straight above your head, you want to first swing it to your shoulder, before pressing it above your head.
You need to allocate one minute of time to each movement, with the only rest periods coming if you complete the reps before that minute is up. Juan says you should “pick a kettlebell weight that you can effectively execute the reps with good form.”
Essentially, leave your ego out of it. You’re going to get fatigued, and quickly, so you’re unlikely to be able to complete the full 25-minute workout using a 24kg kettlebell, for example.
What makes EMOM workouts so effective? As BarBendrelates, they are “one of the most efficient ways to add quality training volume into a session, as the work and rest periods are systematically programmed to force lifters to stay moving and not lose time in-between sets.”
Once you’ve completed this 25-minute EMOM workout once through, you can come back to it a few days, or a week later, and see if you can improve on the time it takes you to complete the reps.
Jordan Belford, the man who pleaded guilty to fraud for the pump and dump schemes which may have cost his investors as much as $200 million back in his heydays on Wall Street (and served 22 months in prison for his troubles), reckons “shitcoin” creators should be jailed.
Belford, who is known as The Wolf Of Wall Street, and who was played by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2014 movie Wolf Of Wall Street, is now a motivational speaker and author, who talks openly about the mistakes he made in that time of his life.
He is also a proponent of shining light on dark places, and regulating them, which he says eventually makes them better and bigger markets.
This brings us to his (in some people’s view) recent, hypocritical claim. Though you could argue he has now turned over a new leaf and so it is not hypocritical at all, it could also be said: “you can’t bullshit a bullshitter” (or someone that used to be a bullshitter).
In any case, Belford’s recent comments about crypto pump and dumps certainly sound a bit ironic, if not hypocritical. Unfortunately for many meme coin advocates, they also sound quite accurate and sensible.
Belford recently spoke to The Sun Online and told them cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu “have no value and no use.”
This comes somewhat in contradiction to claims Elon Musk and Mark Cuban have made regarding Dogecoin’s potential uses.
Watch Elon Musk and Mark Cuban discuss potential real-world applications for Dogecoin
Belford told The SunOnline he was a fan of the blockchain – the technology which underpins many cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and makes them almost impossible to hack.
But he cautioned people against putting large sums of cash into “meme coins” – meme coins being digital currencies created as jokes or self-aware (or in some people’s cases not self-aware) pyramid schemes and which have made some people very rich, and lost other people a lot of money.
Notably, the recent Squid Game token, turned out to be a scam, with the developers profiting off the name of a trending Netflix series then disappearing with investors money, with bugs in the system stopping people from cashing out when they realised something was fishy.
Belford warned that some the newer meme coins are full-on fugazis (in an ironically similar fashion to how Hollywood described Wall Street stocks in the movie named after him: “It’s a wazi, it’s a woozi”).
He told The Sun Online: “I’m a fan of blockchain but there’s a lot of nonsense out there, a lot of s**t coins which serve no purpose and are only there to separate people from their money.”
“You hear crazy stories of people making millions and billions but for every person like that there are 10,000 or a 100,000 people getting their a** handed to them in Shiba Inu,” Belford told The Sun Online.
“It’s not a proper investment. People are taking advantage of an unregulated market and creating s**t coins which have no value and have no use.”
He added: “unscrupulous people start the coins and get into a chat room and saying stuff that’s blatantly illegal.”
“People should go to jail seriously – they are not legitimate. There is no way they are ever going to work.”
“My guess is that someone will end up getting indicted for this stuff. The wheels of justice grind slowly but they do grind forward, despite no one getting in trouble yet I have to believe the government is looking at this and saying ‘wait a second, there’s all these people scamming.’ What I hate about it the most is that legitimate stuff – it gives those digital coins a bad name.”
“The sooner governments step in the better it is for crypto because when authorities start to regulate a dark market, it gets bigger and better.”
If you want to get your hands on a bit of Australian V8 muscle, there’s never been a worse time. While the car market is pretty hot across the board, the Land Down Under’s most-beloved bogan chariots have seen particularly ridiculous speculation over the last two years – a combination of COVID as well as the dearth of affordable new V8 options on the market.
Now, ‘bogan’ is not an insult, but paying six figures for a high-mileage Holden Commodore is. So what’s an Aussie car lover to do if they want a piece of Australian motoring excellence for a reasonable price?
Increasingly, the solution is to look abroad. Many Australian performance cars were sold in overseas markets, but few were appreciated in the same way that they were back home. That means they can be picked up for bargain-basement prices, even after factoring in the cost of shipping them home.
The car in question was actually a Vauxhall Monaro VXR 500, a special UK-only variant. Powered by a 6.0L V8, the VXR 500s also received an aftermarket, dealer-installed but factory-endorsed Harrop supercharger for additional pep. This arguably makes it even better buying. Image: Drive
For example, third-generation Holden Monaros, HSV Clubsports and HSV GTSes were all sold in the UK as Vauxhalls – and there’s still plenty around. Drive reported earlier this year on how an Australian buyer snapped up a limited-edition, supercharged 2005 Vauxhall Monaro with only 34,000 miles on the clock (~54,717kms) at auction in the UK for £38,000 (~$AU70,000).
Considering that an equivalent Holden or HSV (Holdens were rebadged as Vauxhalls in the UK) would cost well over $100,000, that’s really not that bad – the only risk, of course, with buying a UK-delivered Holden is that they salt the roads in the UK during winter, which makes cars rust much quicker than they do in Australia.
Third-generation Monaros and VF Commodores were sold in North America as the Pontiac GTO and Chevrolet SS respectively, but unlike Holdens sold domestically and in other markets, they’re left-hand-drive, making them less than ideal candidates for prospective ‘reverse importers’.
The other country Aussies are increasingly looking for Aussie cars in is Thailand. Thailand, a right-hand drive, metric country, has plenty of cheap old Fords, Chryslers and Holdens kicking around in remarkably good nick. Shoppers will find there’s plenty of expats in Facebook groups like Aussie Cars Overseas eager to help them out, too.
There’s also a bizarre number of Aussie cars kicking around Bali – perhaps because of the large Australian expat community over there. More and more of those Bali cars are heading back home these days as well.
An old Ford Falcon with a big hood scoop in Pattaya, Thailand. While it looks a little worse for wear, a rare Aussie sedan like this is probably worth its weight in gold. Image: Facebook
While we applaud the canny Aussies who are saving money by buying cars this way – as well as the fact that they’re playing a part in preserving Australian motoring history – it does seem perverse that things have got so bad that this has become a viable alternative to the local market.
That said, not everyone’s convinced that the outrageous demand for bogan cars will continue forever. DMARGE spoke with Carsales Editor-in-Chief Mike Sinclair earlier this year, who suggested that “the speculative buying on HSVs, other V8 Holdens and Australian-made cars in general is crazy… it’s just not sustainable; it won’t last forever… people will get their fingers burned.”
Move over roaching and ghosting; there’s a new dating trend in town: chumming. Despite its chummy new name it isn’t getting a friendly reception though. In fact, a lot of people are sick of it.
Enter: a recent tweet by journalist Amelia Dimoldenberg. She wrote: “Does anyone have a name for the illness where a guy can’t answer any direct questions you ask him but can reply ‘Fire’ to your stories?”
I’ve heard this is affecting a lot of men and the sooner we can find the cure the better
A lot of Twitter users and followers weighed in on Dimoldenberg’s statement. One called it “Stiffilius,” while another enterprising soul called it: “justwantsexitis.”
Another wrote: “I suspect the prime minister has a particularly acute case.”
Here at DMARGE we reckon a good name for it is chumming – basically where certain singles aren’t going after anyone in particular with a hook and bait, but are instead ’chumming the waters.’
Samantha Jayne, an Australian relationship expert and dating coach, told DMARGE that “chumming” is “just another word for avoidant…he has one foot in one foot out, exploring his options…keeping her guessing just enough to keep her distracted and living in hope.. kind of like breadcrumbing really.”
“It’s a sign he is not overly invested. He is window shopping. It could be that he is innocent and doesn’t know [what chumming is].”
This type of behaviour has arguably been around forever. But its modern iteration typically comes down to two factors, Samantha told DMARGE: “1. He has one foot in one foot out, exploring his options…keeping her guessing just enough to keep her distracted and living in hope for one day he will miraculously step up and ask her out.”
“He might even be doing this to get her emotionally invested and then get to the end game quicker without the need for taking her out to dinner, drinks and dates. Instead, he uses social media to kind of stay connected and build rapport, kind of like teasing her which if she is attracted to him builds the tension and attraction.”
“2. He just has no idea and low confidence. Some men do it innocently, they genuinely don’t know what to say and because people talk less in this tech era many people have lost the ability to communicate. Due to their lack of confidence, they just stay in touch with emoji in the hope that she will ask him out.”
Samantha added: “Chumming can also be in the form of being a penpal, endless texting, talking, communicating with no actual face to face dates, or very few. It’s kind of being tied without the ties. It feels very unstable there is no certainty and you just don’t know where you stand.”
“Chumming may be innocent for some, for others, it’s all about stringing her along. At the end of the day only you can decide where you are ok with it or not but what’s important is that you don’t try to make someone [into] someone they are not.”
This came with a warning for Australian singles that are sick of being chummed: “If someone is a chummer, they are a chummer – avoidant, non-committal they keep their toes dipped. It is what it is and that’s that. If you are ok with it, then great, but if you want an action taker that’s intense then go find one!”
“It’s like getting frustrated when you eat too much cake and expect to stay slim. It won’t happen..so instead of getting frustrated use the approach of sandwich feedback and communicate. He is not a mind reader or a psychic tell him what you want in a nice [lighthearted] way… then ask him out and see what happens.”
“If he goes for it then you know…he was just shy. If he plays games and withdraws further then run for the hills.”
Fyuckkkbwoie. It’s common in you local road man/self interested men. Best form of treatments, death by fire. Long Island Ice tea. Cheese strings. Cat cafes. Untreated = self loathing depressed adult male. pic.twitter.com/OMoh8wr3gY
For those doing the chumming, Samantha said you should consider being a bit more direct, or at least not using such cringe emojis.
“Women love a direct man, it shows confidence and it’s incredibly sexy so if you want her go get her. You do this by building rapport, the best way to do this is to structure the conversation with a compliment followed by a question.”
Finally, when commenting on someone’s Instagram post, Samantha advises “a cringe emoji is the face with the tongue, the poop and the thumbs up.”
“Also avoid the sad face, crying – anything negative it’s unattractive. Instead, use positive emojis: laughing, wine, pow, clap, nerd, anything funny is great.”
“The best way to respond to a crush is to occasionally comment with a short comment or emoji to get attention and then use that as an opportunity to send a private message. That is the perfect opening. Also, remember to post on your Instagram so you can match them. Give them something to think about!”
There’s perhaps only one brand on the planet more desirable than Supreme, and that’s Rolex. But what about a collaboration between the pair? Shut up and take my money.
As it happens, this is no mere hypebeast’s pipe dream. There is indeed such a thing as a Supreme Rolex. Now, in 2021, one New Yorker has got his hands on one and has put it up for sale – and it’s one rude piece of wrist candy.
Justin Reed, a creative who’s quickly gained a reputation for his ability to source rare and desirable streetwear and other ‘hyped’ collabs, caused a stir earlier this week when he listed one of these rare and desirable watches for sale on his e-commerce platform. He’s also shed some light on the history of these watches, which were once considered nothing but a rumour.
“[In 2013], Supreme decided to customize a small handful of Rolex watches and gift them to a select group of friends and family members of the company.. it is believed that only 20 of these exclusive watches were ever produced,” he explains.
The caseback of the watch is engraved with Supreme’s famous ‘box’ logo. Image: @justinreed
Specifically, the Submariner ref. 114060 ‘No Date’ was the model chosen for the family and friends release, with well-known British watch customiser Bamford Watch Department tapped for the commission. In this sense, it wasn’t a collaboration between Rolex and Supreme per se – although the watches can be considered ‘official’ Supreme goods, if you catch our drift.
“The extent of the customization work was overall rather subtle and minimal,” Reed continues. “Supreme’s ‘FUCK EM’ slogan appears in bold, red text above the Submariner name on the dial (more than slightly reminiscent of a red-line Submariner or Sea-Dweller), and the case-back is engraved with Supreme’s signature ‘box’ logo.”
Imagine being bold enough to walk around with that on your watch’s dial… Let alone wear such a rare Rollie.
Mounted on an Oyster bracelet, the watch Reed has for sale is far from mint condition – chipped and worn, it was a watch that saw action (which we actually respect). That said, it comes with its original box, wallet, manual/chronometer certification and Rolex warranty card, as well as a unique Supreme ‘warranty card’ which adds further credence to its official status.
Speaking of rare Rolexes, check out our round-up of the five most expensive Rolexes of all time below.
The price? Reed’s asking US$100,000… Or almost 10 times the retail price of a normal Submariner. Bloody hell. Undoubtedly, this is a rare and desirable watch, but we’re not quite sure who the target market for it is.
The average Supreme fan is probably too young and not wealthy enough to spend $100,000 on a watch. Those who would have that sort of money would probably baulk at the fact it’s pretty pre-worn, as well as the fact that you’re paying a huge premium just to say ‘fuck’ to the world.
But maybe that’s the appeal. Supreme has built its reputation on in-your-face branding and being provocative. They’re a status symbol and counter-cultural force all rolled into one. Rolexes, too, are unmistakable status symbols; they’re hardly subtle watches.
Elon Musk has the Twitter community pulling their hair out with curiosity over what could either be much ado about nothing (a rich dude mucking around on his phone while on the porcelain throne) or a series of cryptic clues which could lead to the next small-cap crypto to skyrocket. It could also be both (due to the bizarre fact so many people hang off of his every word and try to reverse engineer popular projects off the back of his statements).
Anyway, here’s what he just tweeted.
After one hour ago writing: “Just dropped some friends off at the pool” and “Splish splash,” Elon Musk then followed up with a tweet of an angel emoji.
Musk then, 24 minutes later, wrote: “I love a great whine.”
His tweets were met by various crypto Twitter accounts trying to spruik themselves in the comments section, presumably in the hope people might think Musk was referring to them, as opposed to describing the process of taking a number two on the toilet, or actually dropping his friends off at a pool.
Another expressed concern for Musk’s circulation, having potentially sat on the toilet for so long (Musk recently claimed 50% of his tweets were written on the toilet).
dang that was like 13 minutes since the last tweet i hope your legs still have good circulation
Others saw the chance for some shameless self-promotion, likely realising Musk was joking around but figuring they may as well, as they had nothing to lose. Baby Doge was one of them.
The “Splash” Twitter account was created in November 2021. Perhaps they were laying in wait for Elon to tweet about toilet activity? Their first ever tweet was on November the 11th, it appears, and Elon Musk’s admission that he tweets on the toilet was on November the 22nd.
According to The Bit Times a token called Splish Splash on ETH was deployed today and is being exchanged on uniwswap.
At the time of writing, it is not, at the time of writing, coming up in BSC Scan’s BEP-20 Tokens by volume list, however. So maybe people are getting wise to random tokens being made off the back of Musk’s statements?
Or maybe most people actually got the toilet reference?
Either way, this is still a great demonstration of how Musk is able to influence crypto shitcoin markets, and the absurd world many people shake their heads at, and which many other people love to gamble around in. Musk has previously cryptically tweeted about existing small cryptos like CumRocket, sending their prices, for a time, soaring.
As DMARGE found out the hard way, playing around in this pool can get you some serious acid burns.
An Elon Musk lookalike account has also spammed Musk’s various recent tweets with what looks like a crypto competition scam, and Twitter user Patrick Parish commented on the absurdity of the whole situation, writing: “Somehow these tweets while you were laying rope will turn into a 12-1 stock split tweet tomorrow.”
Others are simply tearing their brains out (or posting memes to that effect), wondering if there is a deeper meaning to it all.
Although this series of tweets showcases quite well the absurdity of one aspect of crypto markets (shitcoins), the broader crypto industry has achieved some milestones in institutional acceptance lately.
DMARGE spoke to James Whelan – Investment Manager at VFS Group in Sydney – on Thursday the 14th of October. Mr Whelan told DMARGE: “I think that the investment community is now seeing that there needs to be an allocation to a certain amount of crypto because people are seeing it as an alternative asset and potentially, touch wood, god forbid, a store of wealth.”
“Look at the Bitcoin price vs the Gold price – annoyingly – inflation is absolutely pumping [so] why is gold not performing? Look at the Bitcoin price – potentially people are buying Bitcoin instead of Gold as that store of wealth against inflation… Maybe.”
Mr Whelan added: “Right now all eyes are on the SEC in the United States on their approval of the first crypto ETF (or the first bitcoin ETF), which will then mean that people will have a place [to invest]. Once it’s done and accredited by the SEC it falls under all of their rules about financial stability and it has all these boxes it needs to tick and it comes under the coverage of one of the largest markets in the world and one of the better regulators in one of the largest markets in the world.”
“If the SEC lets this [happen] it means the ETF will be approved, which then means people like me actually have somewhere to invest safely on the market on the same platform where everyone else can see all this stuff.”
“The investment community will have a more safe and secure place to actually have that area where I can say to a client on their portfolio report: ‘Look at this, as discussed, here is your 5% allocation to a Bitcoin ETF. It’s run by a reputable ETF provider, it’s on a market which is where all your other stuff is as well.’ That’s so important for a client to see.”
As DMARGE has reported previously, a lot of the rest of crypto still remains a bit of a Wild West. So when it comes to ‘meme coins’ (or even legit-looking coins that claim to have a use case but which you really don’t know anything solid about) however, be warned you are playing with fire.
On that note: DMARGE sought comment from Vanguard Australia earlier this year (around May/June) about the world of crypto and recieved the following statement in response. “We do urge caution against speculating in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, which are largely unregulated and accompanied by a number of considerable risks including the potential loss of investment entirely in some instances.”
We were also pointed to an article in the Australian Financial review, featuring a quote from Vanguard Australia’s Balaji Gopal. “A long-term portfolio should be comprised of stocks, bonds and cash,” Balaji Gopal, head of Vanguard Australia’s Personal Investor platform, told The Australian Financial Review.
“We are quite happy to sit this one [cryptocurrency ETF] out, and we urge investors to be very wary of the risks of cryptocurrencies.”
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fall short of Vanguard’s house definition for an asset class, commodity or even currency, Mr Gopal said, because they do not generate income or cash flow. Nor are they a store of wealth, unit of account or medium of exchange, he added, rejecting popular conceptions.
“Cryptocurrencies defy any kind of categorisation,” he said. “Their characteristics are more similar to collectables like fine art, exotic cars or baseball cards.”
Regardless of your ethical perspective on bloated American game shooters prancing off to Africa to collect ‘trophies,’ what practically no one can deny is the benefits old school living – including hunting and gathering – has (or would have) on your anatomy if you were to be able to do it in modern society.
Why? Hunting and gathering forces you to do healthy things like waking up early, connecting with nature, eating non processed foods and exercising. Not rocket science, but effective.
One of the most ripped men in America, Liver King, who very much promotes the benefits of a barefoot lifestyle (not to mention eating some of the less commonly consumed parts of animals) recently took to Instagram with some thoughts that may be of use to the man who feels a bit disassociated from his ancestors, and is feeling in need of a kick up the bum.
The man who needs to eat when the metaphorical supermarket is closed. Who needs to hunt but is a vegetarian. Who needs to run for the hills and get savage, but lives in a city and has responsibilities to uphold. Who needs to ‘catch dinner’ without really catching dinner…
“How many men out there are doing what we were hard-wired to do?” Liver King asks. “Are you fighting, hunting, providing, protecting, persevering?”
Watch Liver King demonstrate fake hunting in the video below
“You don’t have to go all in and start throwing spears… You can fight by looking for opportunities that scare you… You can practice fasting to simulate a failed hunt… You can do an intense workout, like assault bike intervals to simulate a successful hunt… Give it a try and see how alive you start to feel!”
In other words: you don’t need to move to Texas and buy a rifle to start living healthier.
You can start by envisioning your workouts as more than workouts.
Liver King also dropped the following piece of advice in another Instagram post two weeks ago, which relates to this.
“You see Liver King running with a sandbag,” he wrote. “What I see is Liver King bolstering a fallen comrade. Trekking through natural terrain. Returning my tribe safely from battle.”
“Turn your movement into something meaningful. An ode to our ancestors. And you’ll never miss a workout again.”
He also recently said: “If it started raining before a hunt, guess what? Our ancestors had no choice but to endure the rain… Hard-wearing resilience is already encoded in our DNA. Our daily habits decide whether we express it… How are you getting cold today, primals?”
Whether or not you, personally, need such aggrandizement to get yourself to work out, Liver King’s message clearly resonates with his followers.
One wrote: “Your killing it your speeches on your stories are inspiring thanks brotha for getting me up off my a$$ I just need a good workout routine / eating routine too.”
Another wrote: “I’m glad someone else understands this. I do most of my runs with my plate carrier on as a means to simulate war conditions.”
Though this might seem a little extreme, perhaps if we hadn’t got quite so soft as a society then war analogies wouldn’t grab people’s attention quite so hard?
In any case, the debate continued in the comments. One user wrote: “Life expectancy for our ancestors was like 30 years old. Why tf would I want to live like them.”
Liver King responded to this: “Don’t knock it till you try it… What if there is actually a better way to be healthy… what if it’s accessible to everyone… what if the key to unlocking a robust and long (quality) life lies in our evolutionary past… that the things that our DNA evolved with (sleep, diet, movement, sun, soil, cold, fight, bong, etc) over the past 2.5 million years are the things that our DNA still expects in the modern world to heal and be healthy.”
“About life expectancy, if our early ancestors survived childbirth and made it into adolescence, they lived a quality of life that we would envy… free of depression, free of anxiety, free of autoimmune, free of infertility, free of low energy, free of low ambition, free of low manhood. Look no further than modern-day hunter-gatherers to glean some insight.”
Over on his ‘fake hunting’ video another user wrote: “Even though I can’t bring myself to eat like you yet. Your videos along with finding out I am prediabetic, inspired me to get back in shape and to get back to being healthy.”
Another said: “And even though my legs feel like jello after pushing them to failure last night, your story where you said to take the hard route sunk and made me take the stairs all day at work. You inspire people even amongst the haters. Keep being an inspiration!”
As for where he gets his own meat, when questioned “Do you hunt and slaughter your own meat, or do you buy it from someone or somewhere?” Liver King responded: “First and foremost, I get my Liver and Bone Marrow from the wild animals that my boys and I ethically hunt (we call it a sacred hunt).”
“If I need supplemental Liver and Bone Marrow, my go-to is my local butcher and/or local farmer, then White Oak Pasture. If you can, go to your local butcher or local farmers market, and get the real McCoy… if you can’t (or won’t), or if you’re looking for other nutrient-dense organs like Heart, Spleen, Kidney, Thymus or Brain, then yes, get yourself some high-quality desiccated liver capsules.”
Cyril Abiteboul that if he managed to get on the podium,
Abiteboul would have to get a tattoo. As it happens, Ricciardo got two podiums during his time with the French team, managing third places at both the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix and 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Ricciardo has since left Renault for McLaren – much to
Abiteboul’s disappointment – but a bet’s a bet. After much speculation that Cyril wasn’t going to honour his agreement with Danny Ric, the fiesty Frenchman has finally put his money where his mouth is.
Just hours ago, Ricciardo shared a photo to his Instagram showing
Abiteboul at a London tattoo parlour getting inked by well-known traditional style tattoo artist Jelle Soos. While they haven’t shown us what the tattoo is yet (teasing that a video will come out later this week), it’s great to see
Abiteboul deliver on the bet.
The terms of the bet were that Ricciardo could choose the design of the tattoo, but Abiteboul could choose the size and location. Seems as if he’s elected to get it on his leg, but we wonder what Ricciardo’s picked for the design. A honey badger motif? A Renault badge? Perhaps Danny’s own face and iconic smile? We’ll just have to wait and see…
Ricciardo and
Abiteboul together during the former’s short stint at Renault. Ricciardo jumped ship to McLaren after only two years with the French team. Image: Yahoo France
Ricciardo himself has plenty of tattoos, as do fellow F1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Räikkönen. Ricciardo actually got his very first tattoo, a ship sailing around the world and a lighthouse representing home, back in 2013, when he was on the verge of getting his drive with Red Bull.
Seems as if tattoo challenges are the new big thing in F1. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff challenged Ricciardo’s current boss, McLaren’s Zak Brown, to get a tattoo – a result of an Industry Leaders’ Challenge begun by the Grand Prix Trust, a charity that helps support anyone who has worked in F1 and who has fallen on hard times.
Brown followed through on Wolff’s wager (much quicker than
Abiteboul, it must be said) with a tattoo that honours Ricciardo’s win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix: his first since the 2018 Monaco Grand Prix and the first for McLaren since the 2012 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Brown also made a bet with Ricciardo that if he got a podium, he’d let Ricciardo drive Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s 1984 No. 3 Wrangler Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR (one of many rare cars in Brown’s collection) – which the Aussie got to do ahead of the 2021 United States Grand Prix after his triumph in Monza.
If you’re someone who can’t sleep at night, or worse, you suffer from insomnia, which Healthline defines as some who “finds it difficult to fall asleep, stay asleep, or both,” then you may be inclined to reach for some sleeping pills.
But, there may be something else you can try that is just as, if not more effective and doesn’t require you to put drugs into your body. Benzodiazepines – a common drug prescribed to those who suffer from insomnia – were found to be the “most common substance found in male overdose deaths in the past 20 years in Australia.”
As CNN Health reports, a new study, published Wednesday, November 24 in the JAMA Psychiatry journal, has found that “undergoing cognitive behavioural sleep training may help prevent depression in older adults with insomnia.”
Cognitive behavioural sleep training can be likened to therapy, since it teaches you, and gives you the tools to help break any bad habits you might have in order for your mind and body to get into a state where good sleep is made possible.
The study’s author, Dr Michael Irwin, says “some 30% to 50% of older adults complain of insomnia,” a condition that has been proven time and time again can be a major contributor towards suffering from depression.
In order to obtain his findings, Dr Irwin took 291 adult participants all over the age of 60 and all of whom had insomnia. Importantly, all of the participants “had no major depression or major health events in past year.”
The group was then split into two, with one group undergoing CBT-I (cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia) while the other was given SET (sleep education therapy).
SET taught participants about sleep hygiene, characteristics of healthy sleep, sleep biology and how stress can impact sleep. CBT-I, meanwhile, is more in-depth and comprises five components: “cognitive therapy, stimulus control, sleep restriction, sleep hygiene, and relaxation.”
Sleep Foundation says CBT-I “focuses on exploring the connection between the way we think, the things we do, and how we sleep.” It theorises that insomnia can be a vicious cycle. Sleep Foundation gives an example of this, saying “prior experiences of insomnia may lead to worry about falling asleep. This worry may lead to spending excessive time in bed to try to force sleep.”
“Both worry and excessive time in bed can make falling and staying asleep more challenging. This can become a frustrating, nightly cycle that can be difficult to break.”
A woman trying to sleep. Image: Head Topics
CBT-I works to break these habits. Stimulus control, for example, involves “getting people to get out of bed when they’re not able to sleep. Most people stay in bed, fretting about not falling asleep, which then turns the bed into a negative space,” Dr Irwin told CNN Health.
“Instead, people are taught to get up after 10 minutes of tossing and turning, do quiet, non-stimulating activities and not come back to bed until they are sleepy.”
The key difference in how the two therapy programs were delivered, is that the CBT-I group received in-person training with a trained therapist for the eight-week duration. The SET group simply had to take the information they were given and, according to Dr Irwin, “figure out how to use it without our help.”
With the CBT-I group, for example, a therapist worked with them to disrupt their “dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs about sleep.”
CNN Health cites Wendy Troxel, a senior behavioural scientist at RAND Corporation, but who was not involved in the study, as saying: “The benefit of this treatment approach is that it used the most evidence-based behavioural treatment for insomnia, CBT-I, which has been proven to be as effective, longer-lasting, and (have) fewer side effects than sleep medications – which can be particularly problematic in older adults.”
Following the eight week treatment period, participants were then monitored for a further three years (only 81 from the CBT-I group and 77 of the SET group agreed to the full 36 months of follow-up) and were asked every month about symptoms of depression.
The study concluded, “Those in the CBT-I group with sustained remission of insomnia disorder had an 82.6% decreased likelihood of depression compared with those in the SET group without sustained remission of insomnia disorder.”
As for the SET group, the study found “modest effects in improving and treating insomnia but they were not durable. They didn’t last.”
Wendy Troxel also added, “What is exciting about these findings is that they are among the first to demonstrate that treating insomnia with a behavioural strategy, not a pill, can prevent the development of depression in older adults.”
Another strategy people have found useful (separate from this study) for getting a better night’s sleep, is to sleep in the same room, but in a different bed to their partner. Watch health hacker Dave Asprey explain this technique below.
Back to the study, however, it should be noted, that it doesn’t necessarily hold value for adults not considered to be part of the ‘older’ category, i.e. over the age of 60. However, Dr Irwin deliberately chose this demographic because: “Older adults with insomnia have a high risk of incident and recurrent depression. Depression prevention is urgently needed, and such efforts have been neglected for older adults.”
This means the results can’t necessarily deliver the same for adults under 60, although the study certainly does show that CBT-I can be an incredibly effective form of treatment for insomnia.
You may think you’ve endured some rough flights, what with the tray tables, death stares, cramped seats and window shade battles, but this story should take all of your grievances and shove them into an overhead locker.
A man has been found in Miami airport having unbelievably hitched a ride in the landing gear of an American Airlines plane from Guatemala. Flights from Guatemala to Miami normally take about two and a half hours. The man remarkably survived the trip.
Video footage posted on Instagram and Twitter by local news outlet @onlyindade shows a lot of cars and ground marshalls and a Miami Dade Fire Rescue official offering the man water with a stretcher nearby. The man looked dazed. The person filming can be heard saying in Spanish: “Look where he was, look where he was,” while showing the interior of the landing gear. “Poor guy.”
Another video by @onlyindade is captioned: “This man arrived to MIA in the landing gear of a plane from a Guatemlala flight. The flight about about two hours and thirty minutes and witness says he was unharmed.” The man was turned over to US immigration officials and taken to a hospital for evaluation.
A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said: “Persons are taking extreme risks when they try to conceal themselves in confined spaces such as an aircraft. This incident remains under investigation.” American Airlines has said in a statement. “We are working with law enforcement in their investigation.”
The Guardian reports: “Guatemala has accounted for a large portion of some 1.7 million migrants apprehended or expelled by US border agents over the past year, many of them Central Americans fleeing violent gangs and grinding poverty.”
According to The Guardian, “An immigration attorney, Angel Leal, told WTVJ the Guatemalan stowaway would be detained by CBP while facing an expedited removal order.”
Comments beneath the videos on social media show some people believe the man should be allowed to stay in America.
One Instagram user wrote: “The horrible things they have to endure in their country to even consider doing something like this. Poor guy, glad he’s okay. Let him stay!” Another commented: “This is a miracle. Crazy how he is still alive. Desperate ppl do desperate things He deserves to stay after that.”
“That’s one way to skip TSA lines,” wrote another.
“It’s nothing short of a miracle to have survived in the wheel well of an airplane, let alone a 737 if this is one. Give the man his papers.”
Another wasn’t so sure, writing, “I’m leaning towards letting him in and stay since he survived. Of course, that may lead to many others trying and failing.”
Sydney’s famous Pitt Street has always been a luxury shopping destination, but in recent years, it’s become somewhat of a watch lover’s nirvana. That’s in no small part thanks to the number of high-profile boutiques that have opened up in the iconic Westfield Sydney CBD department store, including brands like Grand Seiko, Gucci and TAG Heuer.
Now another influential brand calls Westfield Sydney CBD home: Piaget. The 147-year-old Maison, best known for making some of the thinnest and most luxurious watches on the planet, has stunned the Sydney horological landscape by opening an exciting new Piaget Salon in collaboration with Ascentier that sets a new benchmark for savoir-faire and sumptuousness in the Harbour City.
Why ‘salon’? Well, it’s demonstrative of Piaget’s status as both a watchmaker and a jeweller. It’s also demonstrative of their intention to be more than just a traditional watch and jewellery boutique, and become a destination.
That mission in of itself is a reflection of the brand’s history. In 1959, Piaget opened its first Salon at the Rue du Rhône in Geneva – a unique store that became a must-visit social hub of the day. Now, nearly 60 years later, Piaget’s trying to replicate that old-school, customer-focused offering, just by Sydney harbour rather than Lake Geneva.
Inside the Piaget Salon.
Bathed in light and swathes of the iconic Piaget Blue, the Sydney Salon is an inviting, inspiring place to be. Piaget’s famous haute horlogerie et joaillerie take pride of place here: the store crafted like a jewel itself. Different parts of the store showcase Piaget’s myriad collections, including Piaget Polo, Limelight Gala, Possession, Altiplano, and Piaget Rose.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Ascentier on this new Piaget Salon that will play a major role in the expansion of our brand identity in the Australian market. This execution of the interior and exterior design pays homage to the Maison’s foundation of generous and festive values that we know will be welcomed with open arms by Sydney residents,” Gaspard Barthelemy, Piaget Australia’s brand manager relates.
Open seven days a week, you can find the Piaget Salon on Google Maps here.
Just hours ago, we received the heartbreaking news that Virgil Abloh, famed American fashion designer and creative icon, passed away at the age of 41. According to a press release put out by his family, Abloh had been privately battling a rare, aggressive form of cancer – cardiac angiosarcoma – for over two years, “undergoing numerous challenging treatments, all while helming several significant institutions that span fashion, art, and culture.”
The news has devastated the world and triggered an outpouring of condolences, including those celebrities like Drake, Pharrell Williams, Marc Jacobs, Daniel Arsham and Takashi Murakami, just to name a few. The hidden nature of his illness – combined with the fact that just weeks ago, Abloh was in Qatar hosting cultural events and a museum exhibit dedicated to his works – has left fans in total shock.
It would be an understatement to call Virgil Abloh one of the pre-eminent cultural tastemakers of the 21st century. Perhaps best known as the creative director of Louis Vuitton and the founder of luxury label Off-White, Abloh was a true multidisciplinary: an entrepreneur, DJ, industrial designer and philosopher.
His deconstructed style and highly industrial aesthetic – one of the most deceptively simple yet recognisable design languages ever devised – has manifested in clothing, accessories, cars, planes furniture, artwork, music, food and drinks.
The first African-American to be artistic director at a French luxury fashion house, Abloh arguably invented modern streetwear and has been single-handedly responsible for sparking a renewed interest in design among a whole generation of young people. His passing is truly a loss.
As his family has related, Abloh often said that “everything I do is for the 17-year-old version of myself,” believing deeply in the power of art to inspire future generations. In that spirit, we’d like to share some of Abloh’s most iconic and inspiring moments to celebrate a life well-lived.
2012: Abloh founds Pyrex Vision
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After completing an internship with Italian luxury house Fendi and working as rapper/cultural heavyweight Kanye West’s creative right-hand man, Abloh founded his first clothing brand, Pyrex Vision, in 2012. Graphic-heavy and influenced by street culture, Pyrex Vision was the public’s first introduction to Abloh’s iconic signature aesthetic.
Notoriously, Abloh (allegedly) purchased deadstock Ralph Lauren flannels for $40 each, screen printed them with ‘Pyrex 23’ and sold them for $550 each. True or not, it’s a moment that speaks to Abloh’s uncanny understanding of modern fashion, ‘hype’ culture and streetwear.
Abloh told Complex back in 2013 that Pyrex Vision was “a representation of the importance of youth culture. The now. It’s basically my manifesto on my upbringing. Putting my idea in a unique way so that kids can participate. I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth. The internet generation, these kids that you see here today. It is all for them.”
2013: Off-White makes its debut
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In 2013, Abloh rebranded Pyrex Vision as Off-White, which is now one of the most in-demand brands on the planet. A cultural tour de force, Off-White is treated with the same sort of reverence as names like Supreme, Gucci, BAPE, Prada, Rolex or Louis Vuitton (who Abloh would eventually end up at). It’s an inextricable part of the modern fashion pantheon.
Blurring the lines between luxury fashion and streetwear, Off-White’s signature use of Helvetica font, stylised quotation marks, zip ties and barricade tape has spawned countless imitators.
Adding further fuel to the hypebeast fire, Abloh (through Off-White) penned dozens of collaborations with big-name brands and designers such as Rimowa, IKEA, Moncler, Champion, Byredo and Nike, just to name a few. On that note…
2017: Nike ‘The Ten’ collaboration
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In 2017, Abloh kicked off his most successful and recognisable collaboration: that between Off-White and sportswear giant Nike. The result was ‘The Ten’, a reimagining of ten of the most iconic sneakers of the 20th Century.
Deconstructed and visually distinct, ‘The Ten’ was immediately successful, with shoes selling out immediately and resold for more than ten times the original price in some cases. ‘The Ten’ catapulted Abloh into the public consciousness and sparked a renewed interest in limited-edition sneakers.
The collaboration between Nike and Abloh quickly moved beyond those ten sneakers, with Abloh adding activewear, additional sneakers and a variety of different colourways to the mix over the years. While Abloh would go on to produce his own Off-White sneakers (as well as revisit sportswear during his time at Louis Vuitton), ‘The Ten’ remains his best-known work and perhaps the most iconic sneaker capsule of all time.
2018: Abloh’s first Louis Vuitton show
Kid Cudi walks the runway for Virgil Abloh’s first Louis Vuitton menswear collection in 2018. Image: Getty
In 2018, Abloh became the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear line – the first person of African descent to lead the brand’s menswear line, as well as one of the few Black designers at the helm of a major French fashion house.
While his tenure at the maison has many high points to choose from – such as Louis Vuitton penning its first athlete endorsement in skateboarder Lucien Clarke or the multimedia blitz that was his Zoooom with Friends AR concept – Abloh’s first show for LV, a sumptuous affair at the Palais-Royal gardens in Paris, stands out as a particular triumph and is easily one of the most iconic fashion shows of the 21st century.
Star-studded both on and off the runway, it was a potent celebration of Black excellence and a changing of the guard in haute couture. Abloh’s close connections to the music world were a crucial part of the show: not only did rappers like Kid Cudi,
Playboi Carti and A$AP Nast walk the runway as models, but BADBADNOTGOOD performed live, playing Kanye covers. The event cemented Abloh’s status as one of the most dynamic creatives on the planet.
2020 saw Abloh collaborate with renowned German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz on ‘Project Geländewagen’: a unique art/concept car based on the marque’s famous G-Series SUV, also known as the G-Wagen. True to form, Abloh applied his signature deconstructed aesthetic to the boxy 4×4, turning it into a sort of weathered race car.
At the time, it was a rather controversial collaboration. Esquire Middle East called it “a hot mess”, and HYPEBEAST posed the pointed rhetorical question: “who is it for?” But as Ted Gushue, founder of Type7 of Ted Gushue, adroitly put it at the time, “what it is for is to act as a ‘Trojan horse’ to get an entire generation of kids who live in cities who never ever ever think about cars or car design interested and engaged.”
Abloh’s G-Wagen epitomises the man’s influence. Regardless of what people thought about his artistic process, Abloh always knew how to spark a conversation. He had a unique and singular vision that few other designers before or perhaps since have ever had.
We’d say his 17-year-old self would be very proud.
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your speeches on your stories are inspiring thanks brotha for getting me up off my a$$ I just need a good workout routine / eating routine too.”
