tinopanama presents stuff: 7/17/11

Yoga Journal - Bridge Pose

(SET-too BAHN-dah)
setu = dam, dike, or bridge
bandha = lock

Step by Step

Lie supine on the floor, and if necessary, place a thickly folded blanket under your shoulders to protect your neck. Bend your knees and set your feet on the floor, heels as close to the sitting bones as possible.

Exhale and, pressing your inner feet and arms actively into the floor, push your tailbone upward toward the pubis, firming (but not hardening) the buttocks, and lift the buttocks off the floor. Keep your thighs and inner feet parallel. Clasp the hands below your pelvis and extend through the arms to help you stay on the tops of your shoulders.

Lift your buttocks until the thighs are about parallel to the floor. Keep your knees directly over the heels, but push them forward, away from the hips, and lengthen the tailbone toward the backs of the knees. Lift the pubis toward the navel.

Lift your chin slightly away from the sternum and, firming the shoulder blades against your back, press the top of the sternum toward the chin. Firm the outer arms, broaden the shoulder blades, and try to lift the space between them at the base of the neck (where it's resting on the blanket) up into the torso.

Stay in the pose anywhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute. Release with an exhalation, rolling the spine slowly down onto the floor.

Setu Bandha Sarvangasana

When the top brass at Ferrari like your car design, you’re onto something.

Kim Cheon Ju, Ahn Dre, and Lee Sahngseok took first place in the Ferrari World Design Contest in Maranello, Italy. The three budding designers, students at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, were personally congratulated by none other than Paolo Pininfarina, chairman of Ferrari’s styling counsel and non plus ultra of Italian automotive aesthetics. That’s almost as cool as the three-month internships they’ll serve at Ferrari HQ in Maranello.

They were among more than 50 teams from design schools around the world who submitted their designs for the “Ferrari of the Third Millennium,” a vehicle extreme enough to wear the cavallino rampante. The design brief was simple: the car must be fast, it must be light and it must be packed with leading-edge tech. Fuel efficiency was a top concern, so many teams spec’d hybrid drivetrains.

The seven finalists’ submissions included a 3-D rendering and a 1:4 scale model, complete with a full interior. The cars were designed using Autodeck Alias.

The winning design is called Eternità (above), painted, of course, rosso corsa. It’s got microscopic ground clearance, sleek lines and styling decades beyond anything Enzo Ferrari could have imagined.

These are concepts, and they’ll probably never see production, but that’s not the point. Ferrari says the contest is meant to foster “the creative energy of the next generation.”

“I saw at first hand the many genuinely innovative ideas that these talented youngsters sent us and could feel the enormous passion and commitment that had gone into them,” Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo said in a statement. “I am certain that some of these suggestions will come to light in the Ferraris of the future.”

Big shoes to fill, indeed.

Photos: Ferrari

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