In 1998 Peter and Jennifer Kane started a shoes collection with the name Sky.
It didn’t take long for Sky to be converted to a full clothing line with sexy, chic and luxurious designs. When they opened a store on Robertson Boulevard, L.A., well know for the hip stores and frequently visited by Hollywood stars, they soon became well known for their trendy designs, and carried at stores through out the country. Sanitystyle.com is an authorized seller of Sky and says it has almost a cult following to the brand
Celebrities like Paris Hilton, Brooke Burke, Vanessa Minnillo, Christina Milian, Jessica Alba, and Ashanti have been spotted in Sky clothing.
Local brand
Sky clothing is a rather local brand. The only outlet is still the original store in L.A. and some web shops featuring Sky clothing.
Also in items, the brand is limited to dresses and tops. The designs are sexy and luxurious and the materials used are comfortable and of the highest quality.
Your best bet getting Sky clothing is via the internet, check some of the items below to order them. Even if you are a local L.A. resident, it might be advisable to order through an online retailer, the store in Robertson Boulevard hasn’t got client service high on its priority list.
Sky dresses
This white mini dress is one of the best selling items in the Sky collection.
Understandable! It’s a simple, yet sexy design, and will make you the center of attention
Celebrity status
Besides the fans among Hollywood celebrities, Sky clothing made a name through appearances in over 25 movies and several TV shows.
Sky tops
All the dresses aside, it’s not what made Sky famous. The Sky tops did that.
The tops designed by Sky feature an extravagant design, popular among Hollywood stars on and off the Red Carpet.
I know that the facebook team is saying what they need to say probably after having a frightening meeting with their lawyers. You have put your behind on the line now and everyone knows what your intentions are. You mess up one time, your’e out. You sell one persons personal artwork. You’re done. That person owns their own. That’s why their name is own it.“This message is just one to try to calm us down so you don’t have lawsuits up the ying yang! I want to see Facebook give a press release or press conference on CNN announcing publicly what you are doing. That way you have no way out of it.“Facebook wouldn’t exist without it’s users. Your ads wouldn’t be clicked on without your users. Shady business will always bite you on your ass. Let’s ’see’ if you keep your end of the deal??“Remember in no time there will be yet another bigger and better social network taking over the net.”That’s Bree in response to advertising company Facebook’s embarrassingly blatant effort to sneak modified Terms of Service past the people who keep it in business.In pure, unadulterated PR-babble, “Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users,” says chief advertising exec Mark Zuckerman, failing to point out he had zero choice in the matter.Since then, “I’ve been excited to see how much people care about Facebook and how willing they are to contribute to the process of governing the site.”“Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent,” he says which, translated, reads, “Our main goal at Facebook is to make users believe we’re open and transparent so we can secretly get on with our main business of selling their data to make as rich.”
Most of the time, such small choices have little consequence.
But on the morning of Feb. 3, 2009 when a blinding snowstorm triggered one of the biggest highway crashes Indiana has ever seen, small choices were the difference between life and death.
Snow and speed were blamed for the massive pileup on I-69, which involved 34 vehicles and took two lives. But what dictated who lived and who died often was much, much more mundane.
The choice between driving your wife’s car with the good tires or taking yours with the bald ones.
Sticking to your usual route to the interstate, or a short, unplanned detour.
Crawling back into bed with your wife.
Or getting on the road . . . toward mile marker 8.
Eager for work
Ivy Phillips asked her husband, Ryan, to come back to bed that morning.
It was cold in Anderson. Snow was in the forecast. And it wasn’t clear there would be any work for Ryan anyway. Just the day before, his boss had sent him home. With construction sluggish, the demand for people who lay fiber optic cable has been spotty.
But Ryan, 28, and Ivy, 23, needed the money. Married a little more than a year, they had four kids. They’d been dreaming of saving up to buy a home. And they needed a bigger car to haul their newly blended family. If there was work to be had, Ryan wanted it.
So Ryan made his choice. He leaned over the bassinette and kissed 5-month-old Charlee. Then he kissed Ivy and turned for the door. He turned back — more than once — for another kiss and another goodbye. Ryan was a guy who needed reassurance.
Just the night before, as they lay in bed, Ryan had grown nervous that the happiness might end. He had asked: “Are you sure you want to be with me for the rest of my life?”
“Yeah,” Ivy replied, she would love him the rest of his life.
A web chat involving the band Bloc Party on August 18 led to the shock announcement that the band’s new album would be “rush-released” within three days as a legal music download on the band’s official website. After freaking out their fans, Bloc Party came good on their promise and, sure enough, on August 21, the album Intimacy was available for music download for the princely sum of a fiver.
The band made the decision to offer the quickly released music download because the boys are apparently bored and “dispirited” by the way most albums are released today. The album was finished about six months ago and Kele Okereke and co saw no reason to wait any longer before fans could legally get themselves a copy of the nw material.
Critics have been all over the album, mostly praising Bloc Party’s solid offering of 10 brand-new tracks. Bloc Party follow in the footsteps of bands such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails who have all played with the model of releasing albums as legal music downloads.
The filesharing community in the UK is rocked. It was recently announced that entertainment companies are going after thousands of people suspected of using filesharing services to share music, games and videos. One London-based law firm is set to seek permission for ISPs to release the details of 7,000 filesharing offenders.
These users could then be taken to court and face hefty fines if convicted. Davenport Lyons, the firm in question, is the same firm behind the landmark ruling that a UK woman must pay the equivalent of $32,000 for uploading the game Dream Pinball 3D to filesharing networks. This is a major step up in the battle against illegal filesharing and it should have a lot of Internet users in the UK extremely worried.
Britain is getting tough on filesharing and there is very little anybody can do to stop it. The ISPs have already given in and the government supports the new measures, so all that is left is for the entertainment industry to wield its axe and wreak havoc.
There’s an interesting article on Guardian website at the moment that looks into how filesharing really does know no boundaries. As soon as a program is first aired, be it in the UK, the US or elsewhere, the filesharing networks can get hold of it and make it available for people to download. This infuriates the TV industry as when the show eventually airs around the world, people have already seen it, leading to lower audience figures and lower DVD sales.
Why is it, then, that major movies can be simultaneously released all over the world, but TV bosses can’t do the same for their shows? Would it be so hard to have the BBC linking up with ABC and linking up with a US network? The TV industry seems even further behind the times than the music industry. You can’t blame the people because they just want to watch the shows, but when they’re made to wait several months, why wouldn’t they download and use filesharing networks? There’s no other way to watch the show.
Comcast has revealed that it is going to slow down the Internet speeds of certain users in a bid to free up some of the bandwidth that some subscribers are hogging. Comcast has come under fire a lot recently over allegations that the ISP has been tampering with traffic to filesharing protocol BitTorrent. Comcast has now been ordered to release information about all its practises, especially related to filesharing traffic.
By targeting certain Internet users, who could see their connections slow for between 10 and 20 minutes at a time, Comcast is trying to avoid legal trouble. Comcast did vow to leave all BitTorrent traffic alone, but it was never made clear if the same would be true of regular filesharing traffic. Vague statements have done nothing to clear up the mess.
There is also no news on exactly when Comcast is going to start slowing down people’s connections, but if your download speed suddenly drops off for 20 minutes, now you’ll know why.
A woman in the UK has been ordered to pay 16,000 pounds for sharing a videogame over filesharing networks. While most of the stories with regards to filesharing in the UK are related to illegal music downloads, this is a case of videogame downloads being thrust into the spotlight.
The danger for filesharing advocates is that this could open up the posibiilty of thuosands more lawsuit for people accused of using filesharing services to share videogames, movies and other copyrighted material.
The woman has to pay 6,000 pounds to the owner of the game Dream Pinball 3D. The other six grand is for court costs. There is something of a filesharing crackdown going on in the UK at the moment as the UK’s top-six ISPs have pledged to restrict the Internet speeds of people who persitently violate copyright laws by using filesharing programs such as Limewire and Ares.
We like to be ahead of the times now and then. This week, it’s emerged that Nintendo is feeling the pinch because of a little device known as the R4 Revolution. In Thailand, we’ve had the R4 available in malls and shops for a long time. It’s old news, but apparently people in the US are just picking up on it.
Basically, it’s a device that means you never have to buy another Nintendo DS game again. It works – with every game. You use filesharing services to get your games and then you download them. Slap them on a tiny memory stick and you can have as many games on a cart as your memory device can handle. Not that we do this, of course, but this is what we’ve heard.
Filesharing sites have been full of Nintendo DS roms for ages. We’re surprised it’s taken this long for the global media to pick up on this little filesharing snippet. Nintendo hasn’t gone after the filesharing services, but rather, the people marketing and exporting the R4. Good luck with that one.
It seems as if everyone is cashing in – or not – on the whole free music download thing. Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay have all experimented with the idea, but it took Keane to come along and just do the exact same thing without really giving any reason for doing so. Much in the same way as band’s music is just plain dull, so came the announcement that the band’s new single, “Spiralling”, would be released as a free music download.
About 500,000 happy Keane fans got their digital hands on the track, leading to high expectations for the band’s new album, Perfect Symmetery. Who knows, perhaps Keane will come with such innovative ideas as using holographic images of the lads on the album’s artwork.
We’re not really keen on Keane, but it is a positive thing to see more bands giving away free music. We can’t wait for some more good bands to take up the initiative, though.
