Jennifer Lopez starring in 'The Back-Up Plan' | In Theatres April 2010

I LOVE JENNIFER LOPEZ!  I'm a HUGE Jennifer Lopez fan!  My sisters can vouch for my JLO obsession.  I can't wait for her seventh studio album, Love? to drop and her new movie to come out this Spring 2010!

Jennifer Lopez | Louboutins

About the movie | The Back-Up Plan

"The Back-Up Plan" is a comedy that explores courtship, love, marriage and family "in reverse."  After years of dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has decided waiting for the right one is taking too long.  Determined to become a mother, she commits to a plan, makes an appointment and decides to go it alone.  On the day of her artificial insemination, Zoe meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) - a man with real possibilities.  Trying to nurture a budding relationship and hide the early signs of pregnancy becomes a comedy of errors for Zoe and creates confusing signals for Stan.  When Zoe nervously reveals the reason for her unpredictable behaviour, Stan commits fully and says he's in.

Never before has love seen a courtship where a wild night of sex involves three in a bed - Stan, Zoe and the ever-present pregnancy pillow.  Or, where "date night" consists of being the "focal point" at a near-stranger's water birth which does for kiddie pools what "Jaws" did for swimming in the ocean.  The real pregnancy test comes when both of them realize they really don't know eachother outside of hormonal chaos and birth preparations.  With the nine month clock ticking, both begin to experience cold feet.  Anyone call fall in love, get married, and have a baby but doing it backwards in hyper-drive could be proof positive that they were made for each other. 

Check out the trailer! | The Back-Up Plan | SPRING 2010

Source(s): http://www.theback-upplan.com/, http://www.jenniferlopez.com/, http://www.youtube.com/, http://www.imdb.com/

Z Palette

I know I haven't blogged in awhile but...I'M BACK!  It's a new year, a new laptop and a new year of blogging. 

I'm going to kick start the new year by introducing my new favourite thing...the Z Palette!  Nowadays you can buy make-up minus all the fancy packaging whereas before make-up stores such as MAC only sold their products minus the fancy packaging and pro palettes to make-up artists, hair stylists and theatrical performers through their Mac Pro Program (or so I've been told).

With Z Palette you can simply pop all your eye shadows, blushes, bronzers, powders right out of the packaging, affix a magnetic sticker onto the back of it and organize them into these super cute and functional palettes.  No need to rummage through all your palettes to search for the brown eye shadow or peach blush, you can simply spot whatever you're looking for with Z Palette.

I don't know why MAC hasn't redesigned their MAC Pro palettes like this, they totally should!  I hate having to open up my palettes one by one just to look for my eye shadows, blushes or bronzers.  Anyway I don't know if Z Palette is available through Sephora but I know these awesome palettes can be purchased online at http://www.zpalette.com/.  Palettes come in 2 sizes and 3 colours: the standard black, fabulous pink and my personal favourite...zebra!  They're about $20 - $21 for the full size palettes and $14 - $15 for the small palette.  A great tip...I hate having to bring my bulky make-up bag with me whenever I go out or travel so I personalize my own palette with my essential eye shadows, favourite blushes, bronzers, powders, lip glosses all into the same palette - it saves a lot of space and a lot of time.

Source: http://www.zpalette.com/

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wishing you all the best for 2010!

Mindful|Consumption

I'm in VANCOUVER trick!

I found these awesome panoramic photos of Downtown, Vancouver.  I wish I could acknowledge the person who took them but I honestly don't know who did.  Despite the rainy weather, this city is truly the most beautiful place to live!

The Aqua Tower | Studio Gang Architects

This is by far the neatest looking building! 
Located at 430 East Waterside Drive in Chicago.

Totaling over 1.9 million sf, Aqua Tower is an 82-story mixed-use high-rise that includes a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices. Unlike a tower in an open field, new towers in urban environments must negotiate small view corridors between existing buildings. In response to this, the Aqua Tower is designed to capture particular views that would otherwise be unattainable. Among the building’s notable features is the green roof terrace atop its plinth—which at 80,000 sf is one of Chicago’s largest—that contains an outdoor pool, running track, gardens, fire pits and yoga terrace.

A series of contours defined by outdoor terraces extends away from the face of the tower structure to provide views between neighboring buildings. These outdoor terraces, cantilevered up to twelve feet, differ in shape from floor to floor. The terraces inflect based on criteria such as the view, solar shading and size and type of dwelling. When viewed together, these unique terraces make the building appear to undulate, presenting a highly sculptural appearance that is rooted in function. Aqua creates a strong identity through its architecture and has become a landmark addition to the Chicago skyline.

Early and close collaboration between architect and builder, as well as the use of contemporary digital tools, allowed the variation in the shape of the floor slabs to be achieved without increasing the building’s construction timetable. The result is a high-rise tower particular to its site that allows residents to inhabit the facade of the building and the city at the same time.

“Aqua Tower was shaped by an organic, site-specific design process. Rather than starting out with the goal of creating an icon, we let the climate and views shape the building, weaving it into its surroundings and treating the building and its environment as interconnected not separate. Even though it may appear to be formally expressive, it is equal parts data and imagination.” – Jeanne Gang, Design Principal Architect

Source(s): www.contemporist.com, www.studiogang.net, Photography by Steve Hall for www.hedrichblessing.com 

Jay-Z | The Blueprint 3 | Empire State of Mind

I'm a HUGE Jay-Z fan!  I can't get enough of his new album, The Blueprint 3.  I currently have 'Empire State of Mind' featuring Alicia Keys on repeat.

Check out Jay-Z's latest single, 'Empire State of Mind' featuring Alicia Keys on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8

Brothers starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal & Natalie Portman

A remake of Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen's Danish film, 'Brødre'.  I thought this film was pretty good.  The chosen cast was perfect and Natalie Portman was amazing as usual.

About the Movie | Brothers

Thirty-something Captain Sam Cahill and his younger brother Tommy Cahill, are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace, with whom he has two young daughters. Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who's always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam's farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie and Hank Cahill, a retired Marine. Shipped out to Afghanistan, Sam is presumed dead when his Black Hawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains. At home in suburbia, the Cahill family suddenly faces a shocking void, and Tommy tries to fill in for his brother by assuming newfound responsibility for himself, Grace, and the children. 

Source(s): www.apple.com/trailers, www.imdb.com,