She's a formerGo Girland stars in the upcomingOutrageous Fortuneprequel Westside. But actress Esther Stephens is now a bona fide rocker, releasing her debut album with her band Esther Stephens and the Means. To celebrate, the Herald is proud to present the premiere ofLight in You- the first video from the new record, directed by Tim Dee.
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Becky Black and Maya Miller's dynamic duothe Pack A.D.delivered their latest LPDo Not Engagelast year, and they're keeping the momentum rolling with a new video for album track "Animal." The clip opens on a shot of a peaceful meadow, but it quickly descends into a squad of dancing doctors chasing down Black with a menacing looking syringe. Her animalistic side comes out, as she bears her fangs and tries to ward off her captors. The clip was directed by Jimi Cuell, and Exclaim! is pleased to present the video premiere. Check it out in the player below. Do Not Engageis out now throughNettwerk.
They're already working on theirthird album, butRun the Jewels (a.k.a. El-P and Killer Mike) continue to find new gems in their excellent 2014 release Run the Jewels 2.Today, they've treated the Boots collaboration "Early" to a new video.
The black, white and red animation is almost a lyric video, with half of the song's words appearing onscreen in real time. More than that, however, it offers a poignant look at living in a police state.
*THE SYNDICATE DOES NOT EXIST* Wiz Kiloused to be in the Canadian boy band 2Much, but these days, he's a solo hip-hop and synth-pop artist based out on Montreal. Following last year's indie albumJungle Disco, he has released a video for the track "Warmbody."
The song is an icy, seductive electro-pop thumper in which Wiz declares, "The only way to cure that fever is a warm body." The accompanying clip is similarly steamy, as we see a slightly risqué modern dance routine involving some folks in their skivvies. Meanwhile, the singer appears sans-shirt to deliver his vocals passionately for the camera.
The clip was directed by Jean-Fred Bédard, and the dancers come from Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Watch it below.
The music video for "High Off My Love" is an S&M party inspired by Madonna and 50 Shades of Grey.
Leave it toParis Hiltonto bring a whole new meaning to "underground" dance music. The music video for her new single withBirdman, "High Off My Love," premieredFriday (May 15)on Vevo and follows her around a downtown Los Angeles warehouse packed with male models, motorcycles and scantily clad women in flirty masks. It's racy and awesomely retro -- like "I'm a Slave 4 U" meets "Dirrty" –-- with BDSM costumes, bare midriffs and lots and lots of heavy breathing.
Directed by Hannah Lux Davis (who was also behind the video for Miley Cyrus andMike Will Made It's "23") the concept was inspired byMadonna's notoriously NSFW video for "Justify My Love," which was so racy that MTV banned it from circulation in 1990.
"High Off My Love" is Hilton's third single from Cash Money and was produced by Mr. Beatz and co-written by Charles Anderson, Corte Ellis and Frederick Allen IV. It's out nowon iTunes.
In addition to Wifi, free breakfast and parking, amenities at the newest breed of short-term vacation rental site include cages, whips, swings and leather restraints.
Introducing Kinkbnb, the entrepreneurial lovechild of Airbnb and "Fifty Shades of Grey," a “sex positive homesharing marketplace” where users can book ‘adult play rooms.’
That’s right. Sensing a void in the sharing economy for kinky, erotic, bondage and submission-themed vacation rentals, San Francisco-based entrepreneurs Darren McKeeman and Ryan Galiotto launched the new service this month, allowing freewheeling couples to indulge in their BDSM fantasies at specialized apartments around the world.
Couples who like to keep it real — really real — for instance, can book a night at a prison cell near Leipzig, Germany for $200 a night.
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The Decameron L.A. is a more luxurious listing on Kinkbnb.
For couples who need to get in the mood in more sumptuous surroundings, however, there’s the luxurious Decameron, LA’s new private playground for adults where the specially designed rooms come with an impressive list of BDSM-friendly amenities: bondage beds, cages, padded bondage walls, fetish swings, built-in restraint systems, body bags, hoods and masks, chastity devices and cleaning supplies.
Kinkbnb is the latest niche service to emerge from the sharing economy. In addition to vacation rentals, consumers can also borrow a car, hitch a ride, or rent a houseboat, designer handbag or dress.
When people talk about the need fordiversity in tech, they aren't usually talking about Asian Americans. Though they make up less than 6 percent of the overall workforce, Asians account for a whopping 17 percent of all tech-sector workers and a far higher percentage of engineers. (At Twitter, for instance, people of Asian descent hold 34 percent of the technical positions.) By focusing exclusively on the obvious need for more blacks, Latinos, and women in Silicon Valley, however, diversity advocates have missed a key point: Asian workers are far less likely than whites to end up in the leadership ranks.
White workers were 2.5 times more likely than Asian workers to end up in leadership roles, the study found.
According to astudythat the nonprofit Ascend Foundation released last week, white workers are two and a half times more likely then their Asian counterparts to serve as executives at major tech companies. The study, which examined the workforce demographics at Google, HP, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo, found that the "Asian effect" was nearly four times greater than gender as a glass-ceiling factor. (The authors also pointed to leadership gaps for blacks and Latinos, but dismissed those results as less statistically significant, given how few blacks and Latinos are employed by the industry overall.)
The finding for Asians is notable, among other reasons, for what it says about thecase of Ellen Pao, whose unsuccessful sex discrimination case against her former employer, the VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, obsessed the technology press. Though the particulars of her case are unique, the study suggests that Pao, as an Asian American, was 40 percent as likely as a white woman and 28 percent as likely as a white man to land in a leadership role.
"Asians are generally stereotyped as being nonconfrontational or timid," says Pandora's Lisa Lee, "so they may be overlooked."
The "bamboo ceiling,"as author Jane Hyun terms it, is hardly limited to technology, but its existence in a sector where Asians are thriving illustrates the intractability of the problem. Hyun blames the workers for the promotion gap, arguing that they need to take a page from Sheryl Sandberg and "lean in." But other observers, such as Lisa Lee, a senior diversity manager for Pandora, point to the need for companies to curb their preconceptions about who will make a good leader.
"Asians and Asian Americans are generally stereotyped as being nonconfrontational or timid," says Lee, the former publisher ofHyphen, a magazine about the Asian-American experience. "So they may be overlooked for leadership roles because they're not thought of as leadership material. This has nothing to do with their actual skills or abilities. Part of the solution is companies making a concerted effort to address bias in the promotion process to ensure it's more fair for everyone."
There may be additional factors at play. Mario Lugay, a program officer at the Kapor Center for Social Impact, which advocates for diversity in tech, makes the point that non-Asians are quick to lump Asians into one category, whereas Silicon Valley, for example, includes economically disadvantaged Southeast Asians and foreign-born workers from a variety of cultures. "My hope is that we strive to research and address the nuances of underrepresentation," says Lugay, who is Filipino. "That includes the diversity within the category of Asian, as well as Asian Americans."
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Midwives in Argentina have bared their breasts to protest government plans to restrict home births.
About 50 women joined Thursday's demonstration against a health ministry proposal to cap home births that was organized by Argentina'sMidwives Association.
Some protesters had their backs painted with a sign reading: "I'm free and I choose to give birth at home," while carrying toddlers in their arms.
Traffic in some areas of the iconic 9 de Julio avenue in Buenos Aires came to a halt as surprised drivers watched marchers who bared their breasts painted in colors and shook their hips to the beat of a drum.
Midwives, pregnant women and doctors joined the demonstration in favor of home births, a practice that has been increasing in Argentina and the rest of the world.
Reddit said Thursday it was changing its practices to prohibit attacks and harassment against users on its site, two months after its interim Chief Executive Ellen Pao lost her own gender discrimination lawsuit in Silicon Valley.
The San Francisco-based company has long been known for its open policies on freedom of expression but said in a blog post that it is "unhappy with harassing behavior" on the popular online forum.
"Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression," the company said. "People avoid participating for fear of their personal and family safety."
This is not the first move Reddit has made to curtail user practices. In March, the company banned revenge porn from its site.
Last month, the company said it conducted a survey of more than 15,000 users that showed "negative responses to comments have made people uncomfortable contributing or even recommending Reddit to others."
The changes have occurred under the leadership of Pao, who lost a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit in March against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Pao's lawyers said in court that she was fired from the VC firm because she spoke up about her ill treatment.
Kleiner Perkins contended that Pao had been an underperforming employee and was a disgruntled former worker.
In its blog post, Reddit defined harassment as "systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone" in a way that would make them feel unsafe on the site or fear for their safety or that of others around them.
Users can report offensive messages or email the company directly.
