Do you want to dress like a badass motherfu**er? Well, you have to check out this outfit from Alexander McQueen that our blogger put together. The theme is “Futuristic Dominatrix” ---the shoes and the bag say it all. Oh, and you know the famous skull scarf---this is a whole new edge to it. (I already hear the whip cracking!)
So...I've shown you the bag as a teaser............that's not even the beginning.........wait till you see the leather and studded chain belt.....grrrr!Do you want to dress like a badass motherfu**er? Well, you have to check out this... more
French high fashion is known not only for it's avant-garde designs, but the quality and exquisite nature of each garment. Unfortunately for the highly skilled artisans that create these garments, due to the shrinking luxury market their jobs are being outsourced outside of France into other European countries and North Africa. Now these artisans are meeting with the French Government to discuss their future as an industry and as a vital part of France's image.French high fashion is known not only for it's avant-garde designs, but the quality... more
Held in Alto Adige, the Transart festival of contemporary culture presents experimental projects, concerts, theatre-dance, video-conferences, literary performances and multi-media showsHeld in Alto Adige, the Transart festival of contemporary culture presents... more
If you think this shoes is badass, click on the site and you'll see some orange clothes that are jucier than any fashion ensemble this season. I have never seen an earring like the one on this site. DAMN!If you think this shoes is badass, click on the site and you'll see some orange... more
Take a journey with Indie band Mirror Pal as they complete their first album and plan their CD Release Party. As the album nears completion they partner up with the associates of B*X to implement interactive visuals. Relive live entertainment with 'We Are Mirror Pal'.Take a journey with Indie band Mirror Pal as they complete their first album and plan... more
Every Monday is the “Wish List,” a blog entry dedicated to one online shopping site where a dream outfit is compiled editorial style from the site. The blogger is a magazine editor so the page is like her dream editorial spread as if she had complete creative rights without any Editor cutting her off! She gives you a great history about the brand, a little story about the look she compiled and then picks the outfit based on the theme of the spread adding captions explaining each item she’s chosen. Really fun and unique. This week it’s the cutting edge label MARNI and she has chosen a to die for duster jacket that is a unique take on the trench (it almost looks hand painted), killer heels, 1950’s lingerie, and much, much more!
Really fun fashion page that shows off trends in a really eclectic way. Blogger has an amazingly eclectic site with everything from beauty, fashion, diary style entries, poetry, life in the magazine world----this girl has everything. Already winner of the prestigious “Blog Of The Day Award” (some people take years to earn this—she’s only had her blog up 6 weeks!) and on top level blog rolls of awesome bloggers, this girl is amazing. A+++++
.Every Monday is the “Wish List,” a blog entry dedicated to one online shopping... more
At Como's Villa Olmo, eighty works including oil paintings, watercolors, tempera paintings and drawings from major Russian museums and private collections chronicle the grand artistic season included between the beginning of the 20th century and the 1930s, with masterpieces by Vassilij Kandinskij, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevič and Pavel FilonovAt Como's Villa Olmo, eighty works including oil paintings, watercolors, tempera... more
On Wednesday, Prada premiered the short film "Fallen Shadows" at an event coinciding with the release of their fall 2008 collection.
The animated film, directed by James Lima, is soundtracked by Antony and the Johnsons' "Great White Ocean", a new song recorded specifically for this project and not expected to be on a forthcoming release.
I'm not sure about the video (De Chirico meets Second Life?) but the song is lovely.
In other Antony and the Johnsons news, the Mercury-winning band will release an EP called "Another World" on October 7th. A full-length is expected in 2009 and will be premiered at the Barbican on October 30th and 31st in a special performance with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Antony also appears on Björk's forthcoming single "The Dull Flame of Desire," due September 29th.
On Wednesday, Prada premiered the short film "Fallen Shadows" at an event coinciding... more
Antony & The Johnsons have mapped out dates for a forthcoming North American tour set for next year. The 14-date jaunt is set to kick off February 2nd in Glenside, PA. and will includes stops in Toronto, New York, and San Francisco.Antony & The Johnsons have mapped out dates for a forthcoming North American tour set... more
Antony And The Johnsons, Philip Glass, Matmos, and Fennesz are only a few of the artists set to play the forthcoming Big Ears Festival next year in Knoxville, TN. The three-day event will take place in multiple venues throughout the city on Feb. 6,7,8, 2009.Antony And The Johnsons, Philip Glass, Matmos, and Fennesz are only a few of the... more
The otherworldly chamber-pop singer Antony Hagerty has applied his flutey, haunting Nina Simone vocals to a number of covers, some more esoteric than others -- including Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti's "Mysteries of Love," and Leonard Cohen's "If It Be Your Will."
This August 4, he will officially see Beyonce and raise her one white-boy Sasha Fierce with the release of the split single "Aeon/Crazy in Love," featuring his stunning orchestral take on B's 2003 smash. This live video doesn't quite do it justice, but it's a decent hint of what you can expect.
--I'm really digging this cover!The otherworldly chamber-pop singer Antony Hagerty has applied his flutey, haunting... more
The Tournament of Rock continues. This week's match-up: trending avant-poppers Antony & the Johnsons vs. the roots-inflected rock of Rose Hill Drive. Listen and vote - reader's choice moves on.The Tournament of Rock continues. This week's match-up: trending avant-poppers Antony... more
Guests of the newly-opened Standard Hotel in New York will get a view of heaven when they ascend the elevator to their rooms and a glimpse of hell on the way back down to street level thanks to Marco Brambilla.
After seeing the director and video artist's work in a gallery last year, boutique hotelier Andre Balazs asked him to create a permanent installation to be displayed on high-definition monitors in the Standard's elevators.
Brambilla responded by creating Civilization, a video mural based on Dante's Divine Comedy that scrolls in synch with the movement of the 18-storey hotel's elevators. "The idea of doing a ‘video mural' had interested me for quite some time and the journey from hell to heaven depicted in this way seemed to be a good fit," he said in a statement about the work.
Produced by Toronto-based Crush, Civilization is comprised of 400 individual channels of looped clips: obscure film and stock footage, Hollywood movie moments and original CG imagery. Brambilla (who is repped for commercials by The Ebeling Group) spent three months researching and cataloguing footage before spending six weeks - working mostly at night - pasting together painterly collages in Flame and ordering them into a narrative journey: hell, lower purgatory, middle purgatory, upper purgatory, heaven, upper heaven and back to lower hell.Guests of the newly-opened Standard Hotel in New York will get a view of heaven when... more
"For nearly 50 years, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative has been one of the main guardians of American experimental cinema, championing the works of directors like Stan Brakhage and Maya Deren.
But a real estate dispute has imperiled the future of the financially troubled organization. Last month the Film-Makers’ Cooperative received an eviction notice that would force it out of its office and archive in a building in TriBeCa, space that is controlled by the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, another bulwark of the city’s avant-garde artistic establishment.
P.S. 1, which is based in Long Island City, Queens, and sponsors exhibitions and provides artists with studio space, intends to give up the 8,200 square feet on the 13th floor at 108 Leonard Street and turn it over to Alanna Heiss, who founded P.S. 1 in 1971 and until her departure at the end of last year was its executive director. Ms. Heiss, in turn, wants to use the location as a base for her latest project, an Internet radio station called Art International Radio.
“All we want is a corner,” said Jonas Mekas, the director and poet who is one of the patriarchs of American avant-garde cinema. “We can’t understand why they are giving her so much space for a project that is just being formed and has not proved itself of any service to the arts community, and at the same time throwing out the only organization that independent filmmakers have to distribute their work.”""For nearly 50 years, the Film-Makers’ Cooperative has been one of the main... more
As I touch the guy, my hand went through him as he turned into a mist that went through my skin, up my arm and disappeared within me.
I could feel him enter, it was an unsettling feeling, much like being drugged, it wasn't frightening, just weird.
Artwork is reversed painting on glass with acrylic.As I touch the guy, my hand went through him as he turned into a mist that went... more
"Fearless" the bunny with an attitude, is an art video by Avant-gardati artist Windwalker.
Fearless is a street art stencil & sticker character crossing over into fine art and animation.
Be FEARLESS!
Avant-gardati is the evolutionary extension of Avant-garde. http://www.myspace.com/windwalkerart"Fearless" the bunny with an attitude, is an art video by Avant-gardati artist... more
Azazel Jacobs, a filmmaker, was home visiting his parents, being doted on and cared for, when, he says, "One morning I found food and coffee waiting for me. And I thought, Hey, why did I leave this? I thought it was funny, and I started toying around with that idea."
Out of that experience came the film, "Momma's Man," which is now traveling the festival circuit, about a grown man who goes back home to live with his parents. The kicker is that it stars Azazel's real life mother and father (who happens to be a famous avante garde filmmaker in his own right), and was shot in the childhood apartment he grew up in.
In making this film and showing it to audiences, Azazel has tested the strength of his own relationship with his parents, and how it exemplifies unique traits that our generation has with our parents.
www.mommasman.comAzazel Jacobs, a filmmaker, was home visiting his parents, being doted on and cared... more
Yes indeed, it has become very, very dark in here. And looking back, home is far, far away.
This piece presents a number of stunning photographs, shown for you in high-resolution. In addition, it includes an original, remarkably dark and haunting avant-garde music video.Yes indeed, it has become very, very dark in here. And looking back, home is far, far... more
Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (A.G.A.S.T.)
Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19, 2008 1-6 PM
BROOKLYN, NY — August 1, 2008 — On Saturday and Sunday October 18-19, 2008, the artists of Gowanus, Brooklyn, will open their studios free to the public from 1-6 PM. Bounded by Fifth Avenue, 10th Street, Smith Street, and Baltic Street, Gowanus lies between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. This self-guided walking tour features over 150 artists in 28 locations.
What Better Place?
Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has a long and colorful history. Originally a tidal wetland famous for its oysters, the canal grew into the brick and steel heart of industrial New York. After a century of manufacturing toxic waste had penetrated deep into the ground, and the Gowanus Canal was once again famous as a place apocryphally polluted, desolate, perhaps even where underworld figures dispatched their enemies beneath the murky water. What better place to make art? By the 1980s there were disused old factory buildings with space to work, plenty of light, solitude and a sense of industriousness in the old brick and steel. An artists’ community was born.
Gowanus Now.
Today a huge variety of creative enterprise percolates behind the industrial façades of
Gowanus. There are painters and sculptors, designers, artists working in installation, fiber, film, video and photography, and ceramists and glass artists. None of this is visible from the quiet streets, so each year the artists organize the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour to open their enterprise to the public. On the weekend of the Tour, all of the participating studio buildings are open to the public free of charge, and the artists are present in their studios to meet visitors and speak with them about their work. For
visitors the Tour provides a unique opportunity to learn about art making directly from those who make it. Nothing in the gallery or museum world matches this intimate meeting with artists in their private studios.
Visiting the Tour –
The website www.AGASTBrooklyn.com provides complete visitor information and features a virtual gallery with images of each artist’s work. A.G.A.S.T. welcomes visitors of all ages, and Gowanus is easily accessible by public transportation. A.G.A.S.T. provides visitors with a color-coded map of the neighborhood. Participating artists are listed individually, and all studio locations and nearby subway stops are pinpointed on the map. Maps will be available at every participating studio location,
and can also be downloaded from the website. Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (A.G.A.S.T.)
Saturday, October 18 and Sunday,... more
Next month, Bay Area artist pc muñoz (whose musical career includes work with Jackson Browne, Dr. Fink of Prince and the Revolution, and longtime Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) will release his latest, and most diverse, collection of songs under the album title "Grab Bag" (Talking House Records). I was able to catch up with him in the studio during the album's final mastering session, with sound engineer Willie Samuels, and got an exclusive glimpse into the making of his most recent sonic adventure. Next month, Bay Area artist pc muñoz (whose musical career includes work with Jackson... more
