The June issue of Glamour Magazine features an article on “The 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2009. It may or may not shock you to know that I was not among those pictured. Didn’t even get honorable mention. Which really hurts because even Paris Hilton’s dog was mentioned as being a “glam pet”.

The panel who chose this group of 50 glamorous people had 10 people on it. The only panelist I heard of was Isaac Mizrahi. I’m sure he’s never heard of me even though I’ve heard of him, so it’s no wonder I wasn’t on his list of 50 finalists.

I’m going to reveal the names of a few people who made the top 50, so if this would be a spoiler for you, stop reading now.

The Number 3 position on The 50 Most Glamorous Women of 2009 is… drum roll please… Michelle Obamarx. I know this should not have surprised me because ever since the coronation there is simply no getting away from photos of either the Mr or the Mrs Obamarx, but Number 3???? REALLY???? The blurb that goes with her photo says:

“She’s intelligent, self-assured, and chic. The arms, the sheaths, the cardigans, the belts… the confidence.” (This is according to photographer Norman Jean Roy)

Okay, except for maybe the “chic” part, this could be a description of Ayn Rand who was glamorous by no one’s stretch of the imagination. In the photo the mag used for her blurb, Michelle has got either a nasty case of bed-head or else her head is very very lumpy and misshapen. As I remember it, Michelle wore a rug on election night, she wore a bedspread to the inauguration, and she wore a sheet covered with lint to the inaugural balls. I don’t know who her favorite designer is, but whomever really needs to stop shopping in the bedroom and bathroom accessories departments at K-Mart. Apparently she’s very proud of the muscle definition in her arms, but her back reminds me of Mickey Rourke’s after he got stapled in The Wrestler. If I were dressing Mrs Obamarx, and given the size of her caboose, I’d recommend no more sheaths.

Number 19 on the list is Nicole Kidman. She has done some serious damage to her face — one of those Botox freaks I can’t stand to look at, so I really don’t get where glamorous comes in anymore. She USED to be glamorous, but not now. Likewise for Number 20, Sarah Jessica Parker. The picture they printed of her looked as though someone had cut her hair with a weed whacker while she was sleeping. Or maybe she was awake, but I can’t imagine allowing anyone to do that to my hair while I was conscious.

Number 36 is America Ferrera. All I can say to that is there must have been a real dearth (love that word, and I don’t get to use it much) of talent for that slot. Giving it to America Ferrera is like giving a glamour award to Bette Davis when she was in her declining years and she had all those wrinkles and her eyes REALLY bugged out.

Gisele Bundchen came in at Number 9. Her photo was terrible too. Her mouth looked big enough to drive an 18 wheeler through sideways, and the dress she’s wearing is terribly unflattering. She’s got seriously saggy floobies.

Last, but not least, the Number 1 spot went to Kate Winslet. When Kate keeps her clothes on, and when she’s all decked out like she was for the Oscars, I’d say she is pretty darn glamorous, so at least the panel bozos got one right.

Still, the bottom line… does anyone really care who Glamour Magazine thinks is among the top 50 most glamorous women in America? To my way of thinking an unnecessarily large number of trees got killed for absolutely no good reason no matter what Isaac Mizrahi thinks of glamour.

The word ‘animation‘ comes from the French word ‘animation’ that means enlivening, animation. The synonyms of the ‘animation’ is animated cartoons as a technology and animated cartoons as an art. The main point of the animation is providing ability to move or to bring life into objects, works of art, dead bodies in the invented worlds, etc.

Usually animation is used as a synonym for animated cartoons. But the origins of the terms “animated cartoons” and “animation” are different. For the first time something like animated cartoons appeared in 1977 in France and was called “pracsinoscope”.

The first animations were implemented differently from the cinema that appeared later. But there already was some musical soundtrack synchronized with the appropriate animation. The first popular animated hero was Felix the cat that ten years later was replaced by Micky Mouse. But the main hero of the very best animation ever created was the hedgehog in the animated cartoon “The hedgehog in the Mist”.

Animation creation is a process similar to cinematography. But they use lifeless figures as actors, for example drawn characters, plasticine figures, rag dolls, etc. Although the animation history has examples of combined characters, for example in a feature film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” living actors and absolutely artificial animated drawn characters exist together. However, the barriers between cinema and animation have been disappearing since the computer technologies development started, because the figures created with a computer can be similar to real people and the number of the abilities to create cinema with animation keeps growing on.

Since the bandwidth of communication channels increased, animation appeared on the Internet and became its integral part adding dynamics to the Internet pages. At first there were animated advertising banners and animated avatars on forums, and later full-length online animation appeared. The first abilities for animation embedding into web pages appeared in 1989 when GIF format was extended to GIF89a. This type of animation is supported by the majority of browsers, thus the animated banners and avatars of this format became wide-spread. It is easy enough to create, represent and store such animation, so GIF animation remains one of the most popular animation formats on the Internet. You can create an animation of this format with special programs or load your photos to create an animated avatar online.

Since Flash technology appeared, animation possibilities on the Internet stepped on a new level. The technology uses vector graphics for conversion (unlike GIF89a which holds animation as raster data), that beyond all bounds extends the possibilities of the created animation but considerably raises requirements to the hardware possibilities of the computer. Using flash animation you can create not only banners, but full-grown sites, since the flash technology provides rich interactive possibilities. As creating flash animation is too difficult for the ordinary user, flash animation isn’t used to create avatars.

Also by means of the flash technology video and games (files with extensions.flv and.swf) are being distributed on the Internet. Such video services as www.youtube.com do not require any recommendations.

The alternative way of gif and flash animation can be programming on JavaScript, SVG. JavaScript allows operating the content of a web page directly in the user browser, and SVG adds support of vector graphics, these together provide rich interactive and animating possibilities for web developers. For example, before the New Year holidays there are falling snowflakes appear on many sites. These snowflakes are the animation created by means of JavaScript.

P.S. If you need an animated avatar you can create it online in gif maker online.

Whenever I’m alone I think of you, whenever I call you its because I miss your voice. You are my everything that I ever wished for. You are the only one who loves me for me. But when you never answer I miss you deeply, so please just know, whenever I want to hear your voice or see your face, just remember that you have my heart and I have yours. Dont be sad that you miss me too, ’cause deep down I’m only alive for you. It hurts to know you live far away, but baby I will drive one thousand miles to be in your arms. Its been since April and almost a year together. Baby I love you always and forever, I’m waiting for our last day alive, so I know that love is not a fairy tale.

Toutes les fois qu’I’ ; seul m que je pense à vous, toutes les fois que je vous appelle son parce que je manque votre voix. Vous êtes mon tout lequel j’ai jamais souhaité. Vous êtes la seule personne qui m’aime pour moi. Mais quand vous ne répondez jamais que je vous manque profondément, satisfais ainsi connais juste, toutes les fois que je veux entendre votre voix ou voir votre visage, me rappelle juste que vous avez mon coeur et j’ai le vôtre. Ne soyez pas triste que vous manquiez le m3 aussi, ‘ ; causez le bas profond I’ ; m seulement vivant pour vous. Il blesse pour vous connaître lointain de phase, mais bébé que je conduirai mille milles pour être dans des vos bras. Son eu lieu depuis avril et presque une année ensemble. Bébé je t’aime toujours et pour toujours, I’ ; m attendant notre dernier jour vivant, ainsi moi savent que l’amour n’est pas un conte de fées.

Wann immer I’ m, alleine, das ich an Sie denke, wann immer ich Sie seine anrufe, weil ich Ihre Stimme verfehle. Sie sind mein alles, das ich überhaupt für wünschte. Sie sind die einzige Person, die mich für mich liebt. Aber, wenn Sie nie antworten, dass ich Sie tief verfehle, so weiß gerade, wann immer ich Ihre Stimme hören oder Ihr Gesicht sehen möchte, mich daran erinnere gerade gefalle, dass Sie mein Herz haben und ich habe Ihr. Seien Sie nicht, dass Sie m3 auch verfehlen, ‘ traurig; verursachen Sie tiefen Abstieg I’ m nur lebendig für Sie. Es verletzt, um Sie zu kennen lebhaftweit entferntes, aber Baby, die ich tausend Meilen fahre, um in Ihren Armen zu sein. Sein gewesen seit April und fast einem Jahr zusammen. Baby ich liebe dich immer und für immer, I’ m, das unseren letzten Tag lebendig, also warten, ich wissen, dass Liebe nicht Märchen ist.