Month: December 2018

Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli just released its 2019 Pirelli Calendar, featuring sensual poses from four iconic figures: model Gigi Hadid, ballerina Misty Copeland, old-school supermodel Laetitia Casta, and actress Julia Garner.

Shot by famed photographer Albert Watson, this year’s calendar is a stunning collection of pictures titled “Dreaming,” which Watson says capture successful women “pursuing her own dreams and passions,” and tells the “tale of the aspirations of four women and their determination to achieve their goals.”

“The common denominator is that these people are all active: they’re thinking of their future and they’re dreaming of where they might be in five, ten, twenty years,” Watson explained.

With that said, this edition of the beloved calendar is much less explicit than previous years, particularly because we’re a year into the #MeToo era. The toned-down 2018 version is a far cry from the notably NSFW 2010 calendar shot by Terry Richardson, for example, which probably wouldn’t be received too well these days…though there is some nudity this year.

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Check out some of the (semi) NSFW shots from this year’s calendar in the gallery above.

“It seemed to me the wrong time to be getting a bunch of supermodels to a beach and have them take their tops off. So I moved the nudity away from a Playboy pin-up,” said Watson.

“My idea was always that women were trying to do something with their life. I much preferred that to women taking their tops off.”

If you’re a Netflix subscriber, chances are you’ve binged—or at least watched—one or more of their original shows. 

As the Observer notes, the streaming giant doesn’t release viewership data, which means third-party metrics are the best tools we have to understand how different Netflix series are performing. 

One such metric is called “demand expressions” from Parrot Analytics. Per the software company’s website, here’s what they are and how they work:

Demand Expressions (DEX) represent the total audience demand being expressed for a title, within a country, on any platform. The audience demand is a weighted, country-specific measure of demand.

All demand expressions, such as social media comments or P2P file downloads, are captured with no panels or extrapolation involved. And they are country-specific as they incorporate the country’s population and enable comparison of titles within a single market.

Based on the number of DEXs that five Netflix originals generated from November 25 to December 1, the most popular show is currently Narcos (presumably including the first season of the excellent Narcos: Mexico), followed by Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Stranger Things. 

Here are the top five titles and their correlating DEXs: 

1. Narcos (36,493,678)
2. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (34,342,653)
3. Stranger Things (31,396,719)
4. Daredevil (29,965,918)
5. The Last Kingdom (22,682,182)

Even though Daredevil took the no. 4 spot, it was recently announced that the hit superhero show is ending after its third season, fueling concern that the two remaining original Marvel titles in Netflix’s library—Jessica Jones and The Punisher—might be axed next. 

House of Cards (19,615,266), Orange Is the New Black (19,161,628), 13 Reasons Why (19,159,801) and The Haunting of Hill House (17,922,287) also received high marks from Parrot Analytics. 

Meanwhile, here’s a look at what’s coming and going from Netflix in December.