Posts by Thea Aguiar

A couple weeks ago, we told you that we would be collaborating with Brown’s new fashion magazine Unhemmed. In case you forgot, this means that we’ll be posting a preview of the Street Style photos that will be featured in Unhemmed’s upcoming issue (which, in this case, will be released today at noon). So now, presenting, our BlogDailyHerald + Unhemmed Street Style preview.

We know it’s finals and many of you are probably forgoing your most stylish apparel and opting for Brown sweatpants, but some of your peers are still out and about looking fashionable on campus, and Unhemmed was there to take their photos.

Chairs for Ai Weiwei on the Main Green

If you’ve been on the Main Green at all today, you probably noticed the 20 white chairs lined up in the middle section of the green. And no, the University didn’t decide to put these out to encourage us to take time out from studying to hang out on the Main Green and relax.

In fact, the chairs are part of a worldwide ‘peaceful protest’ promoting the release of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The text next to the chairs reads,

“On April 3, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport while en route to Hong Kong, and his papers and computers were seized from his studio compound. Ai’s whereabouts remain unknown and he has been denied due process under Chinese law.   [Read more →]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of months, you know that today was the Royal Wedding. But chances are you weren’t up at 6am to catch the actual live coverage of the wedding. Luckily for you, it’s 2011, and you can pretty much get everything you need to see to be up on your water-cooler talk online.

For the official stuff, Gawker is offering footage of the ceremony, in addition to some great quality photos. And for everything else, Buzzfeed has you covered: a photo of the dress, another of the pretty awesome train of the dress, and finally the ever important and also entertaining ‘best 18 hats’ of the wedding.

Image via buzzfeed.com.

Ratty Date: [RAH-TEE DAYTE]  (n.) A pre-arranged social appointment set for a particular time in the Sharpe Refectory with a person of salacious interest.

It’s the end of the year, and whether or not you’re a senior, you still have have the urge to get scrambling. Plus, chances are, you’ve got some leftover meal credits that you may as well use up. So what better way to combine the two than the Ratty Date?

Ah, the Ratty Date — it has a lot of potential to be casual, comfortable, and/or confusing, and at some point during your Brown career, at the end of the year or not, you just might encounter it. If it sounds confusing, scary, or even strange, fear not. BlogDailyHerald is here with some helpful tips for how to face this prospect.

1. Clarify that it is, in fact, a date. It’s the Ratty, not Al Forno, so it’s entirely possible that when that cutie in your Bio class asks you if you wanna hit the Ratty after class for lunch, it’s just friendly. But don’t be too discouraged; just because it’s at the Ratty, it doesn’t mean that it’s not necessarily a date. [Read more →]

Just a few weeks ago, Brown’s first full-fledged, online, student-run fashion magazine, entitled ‘Unhemmed,’ was launched. The magazine’s content includes profiles on stylish students, artwork and design features by students, style columns, and trend reports. And, of course, the magazine prominently features a section on Street Style, which could perhaps also be called Campus Style, as it largely features Brown students looking good around campus.

Street style fashion photography blogs like The Sartorialist and Jak & Jil have risen to quick fame throughout both the blogosphere and fashion worlds over the past several years. This reality, combined with the facts that Unhemmed is pretty freakin’ awesome and that Brown’s campus has no lack of stylish students walking around, leaves no doubt that the Street Style section of Unhemmed will soon be a campus staple.

So, we here at BlogDailyHerald along with the Unhemmed editors thought it would be a great idea to get together and form a regular collaborative series. It will feature selected preview images of what’s going on behind the lenses of Unhemmed’s Street Style and on campus in terms of style and fashion.

Luckily for us all, Unhemmed will be hosting a Street Style event this Friday afternoon on the Main Green where they’ll be looking for people to photograph for their series. (Ehem–something to keep in mind when getting dressed on Friday morning.) Who knows, maybe you’ll be getting photographed, in which case you had better check back here or on the Unehmmed website to see if you’ve made it into their Street Style selects.

The computer: helping college students procrastinate since 1990.

Attention Brown Students: It’s about to be finals period, and chances are, you’re looking for a new way to put off writing those 10-15 page final papers and contributing to group Google Doc exam study guides. As if they knew it was crunch time on college campuses, according to recent articles from the New York Times’ Bits blog and The Wrap, YouTube and Facebook —probably some of the most frequented procrastination sites–are both about to expand their services by launching new ventures that may look somewhat familiar.

According to the The Wrap, YouTube has plans to offer instant movie streaming services, much like Netflix Instant or Apple movies. Depending on how it goes, our Netflix Files may be turning into YouTube Files.   [Read more →]

Eat free or dine trying.

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Earth Week Archaeology Lecture
RI Hall, Room 108
12 pm

Join senior Archaeology and the Ancient World concentrators Harrison Stark and Jonathan Migliori for an Earth Week talk today on “Hot Rocks: Archaeology, Climate Change, and Protecting the Past for the Future” as you dig in (ha) to some free pizza and soda!

Compost Event
Main Green
4 – 7 pm

Okay, so it’s actually the reverse of consuming free food, but this Earth Week event asks you to bring your leftovers and food waste to be composted.

Feeling stressed by upcoming finals? Head on over to the Main Green today between 11:30 am and 1 pm.  Lucky for us, ‘Heavy Petting, A Stress Relief Event’ sponsored by the Health Education center is back. And no, it’s not what you’re thinking. Brown faculty and their dogs will be on the green for you to play with in hopes of reducing your stress level. And from past experiences, it (for the moment, at least) works!

Don’t let the name of today’s time-waster get you fooled: Cute Roulette is completely different from Chatroulette. In fact, they’re sort of the polar opposites of each other. Cute Roulette is like stumbleupon, but for cute videos of cute animals doing cute things. Need we say more? Perfect for when you’re in a funk, hungover from this weekend’s festivities, or need a little study break, Cute Roulette has a plethora of adorable videos of adorable animals that will having you aww-ing and giggling and copy-and-pasting all day long.

Doubtlessly, your entire Facebook newsfeed has been taken over by your friends’ photos of them on spring break. There are photos of them posing on the beach, dancing at a club, eating breakfast, and posing in “silly” and “ironic” ways with things they encountered on their trips. Want to one-up them next time and make fun of their touristy pictures?  Posing With Friends gives you the perfect solution. This tumblr account is all about, as the website says, “taking pictures next to tourists taking pictures.” All you have to do is spot some tourists taking a photo and pose just as they are, with your friends capturing a picture of both you and the tourists doing the same pose.