Hot Images

Hot wallpapers can make it an exciting day ahead for you. When you sit before your computer in the morning and start the day's work, the wallpaper of you computer can very well take control of your mood. As psychologists aver, if you can set your mood in a positive vein at the outset itself, you may be in a happy and positive frame of mind throughout the day. And in order to set you mind positive, hot wallpapers have unique significance. This is because, as poet John Milton said "the mind in its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven", our mind can very well turn positive or negative depending on the immediate experience. Thus, if your day starts with the view of some hot wallpapers of Hollywood or Bollywood celebrities at your desktop, you can expect for an exciting day ahead.

Hot wallpapers of Hollywood celebrities can very well give you an exciting day ahead. A well chosen wallpaper of Angelina Jolie with her bad ass attitude, big juicy lips, and sexy body makes her one of the most favourite wallpapers ever chosen anywhere. Equally engaging is Scarlett Johansson. Jennifer Lopez or J-Lo at 37 is another hot image in the Hollywood stardom as she continues to make movies and headlines for her hot relationships. Jessica Alba is another hot image who has no bar for showing it off. Keira Knightley from Britain is another hot image for your desk top. Jennifer Aniston is a very preferred hot actress who can very well enliven your day through her wallpapers. Equally inspiring are Carmen Electra, Pamela Anderson and Lindsay Lohan.

If you are a woman, hot wallpapers of Hollywood actors could make your day exciting. Wallpapers of Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Matt Demon, Orlando Bloom, George Clooney, etc. could provide inspiring moments for those who have infatuation for them. You can arrange your computer desktop in such a away that the picture of your favourite star in your preferred theme and pose would appear before you at the click of the mouse to inspire you during the opening moments of your day. On the other hand, if your celebrity is a regional movie star, you can very well arrange a few of his/his wallpapers to lighten up your murky moments. If you are interested in Bollywood stars, you can use the pictures of Salman Khan, Hruthik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Kareena Kapoor, Asin, Aiswarya Rai or Madhuri Dixit as your favourite wallpapers.

Lana Del Rey GQ

The gamification of music has been a topic that has lingered in the back of my mind since late last year. In my opinion, this will be the next revolution in music technology following social and mobile.

How cool would it be to create a social-mobile music game that encourages music discovery and fan influence? Meet TasteMakerX, a San Francisco based start-up led by Co-Founder and CEO Marc Ruxin that has one of the most unique approaches to music discovery I have ever seen. Period...

TastemakerX combines social, mobile and gaming to create a virtual stock market for bands that allows users (TasteMakers) to influence the pricing of their favorite band in an open market system similar to Wall Street. Yes, we know Lana Del Rey is hot right now but she may not be worth as much as you think on the "streets." Here is a brief interview I had last week with Marc about his companies unique approach to gaming and music discovery.

It's an individual taste graph for personal music preferences. In short, you download the app, we give you 25,000 notes which is the currency of the game and then you use the currency to build a portfolio of the artists that you love. The game acts a virtual stock market for bands. We take all of the bands and put them through an algorithm were we look at likes, fans, plays, albums and other elements to determine a price for each band. Every bands starts at a least .25 and the most expensive band right now is which is worth about $48.00. We price the bands and then we rate the players. So, the idea of the game is to discover the trending bands and the trending TasteMakers.

We are trying to visualize whats trending in realtime; so people can listen to more music, go to more shows, and share more information about their favorite bands. If you are a band that has a lot of likes on Facebook it's almost impossible to tell if these are active likes or passive likes.

In TasteMakerX, you will be able to easily see who are your biggest shareholders. If you are on tour in Portland, and your biggest shareholder lives there you can reward them with free tickets to your show. If you wanted reward your top 100 shareholders with a free song you could also do that as well. As a fan, whats cooler than getting free tickets to a show or a personal thank you note from your favorite band?

Yeah, I think the more people that are buying and selling you will be able to see who charting from an artists perspective and who's charting from a TasteMaker's perspective. So, if you have a lot of juice in the music ecosystem and you find the next big thing you will be able to share that with your friends on Facebook and as the price goes up you will be able to see your influence.

Lana Del Rey

OK indie music fans. Write this name down. Lana del Rey. You will be hearing this name dropped all over the place in the next few months for sure. If you can't remember her name, you will undoubtedly remember her lush hair and plump perfect lips. She is the epitome of a 50's pin up beauty queen and she is damn sexy.

Formerly known as Elizabeth "Lizzy" Grant, the 24 year old New Yorker admits that her new name has been" made up by lawyers and managers". This, is in addition to go with her new look. Lizzy tried to make it as a main stream artist in 2009 with little success. She slipped off the radar and came back sexier than ever. But this move has earned her some negative feedback amongst music blogs questioning her authenticity. Some have even referred to her as the "Frankenstein of Indie".

Really? Here's the bottom line. Who cares? The girl can sing! There are numerous artists that change their image from time to time or have taken on stage names. Some embellish to the point that they are beyond recognition at times. An amazing artist that comes to mind and has embraced both of these business strategies is Lady Gaga. There is more to Lana del Rey than just her sexpot image. However, she just proved that image plays a huge roll in getting people to pay attention, now didn't she?

Lana del Rey recently released "Video Games" and it was featured on the The CW TV-Series Ringer. It has had more than 2 million views on YouTube. She made her official U.S. debut in New York City at The Box on September 21, 2011. "Blue Jeans" was released by Stranger Records on vinyl on October 10, 2011 and October 11, 2011 digitally. Tickets for Lana del Rey's show in London were sold out within a half an hour. Both EP's are climbing the ladder on iTunes top downloads. They are robust with hooks and she is has admitted being a fan of sound bytes that you hear in both tracks.

Recently on Twitter she announced that she has recorded a track with Blur/Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn, XL Recordings owner Richard Russell, and acclaimed artist Bobby Womack.