giovedì 26 aprile 2012

JUST "SEND A CLOUD"

When you were a little child you must have been lying in the grass staring at the sky and watching the clouds go by. You must have felt that you would like to touch the cotton-candy-like clouds, you wanted to squeeze them and you wanted to shape them into different forms. You wanted to fly and you wanted to jump on them or maybe you just wanted to lay on them and float.   
The clouds making us think, bringing peace, disturbing, inspiring and sending messages.
The idea comes from a brilliant young mind, the founder is Istvàn Szucs.
"Send a cloud" is a project born from the need to communicate in a special and unique way.
It is out of the crowd and proposing new horizons. Stop you, take a break for a second and listen what you feeling. Express it!! 
Surprising someone with a present is not an easy thing to do. These unique and sewn little clouds are custom made and you can easily send a message with your own words.
From dream to reality, from reality to dream...the clouds are the best way to share feelings and moods.

For more info visit the website sendacloud.com




lunedì 9 aprile 2012

CRAZY CLOWN TIME-DAVID LYNCH

Composed, performed and directed by David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time is the last musical production of this visionary genius. Love it.



domenica 22 gennaio 2012

MEATYARD AND HIS GOTHIC AROMA


Dolls, children, abandoned houses, suburbs and masks, a lot. Heavy, realistic, grotesque scenery. Humorous, at times. The images are totally or partially blurred, highly emotional, sweating humanity.



Enigma and paradox of human behavior. Charming, comic and repulsive. Sometimes troubling
In the very process of destroying anonymity by denying particularity, the masks refuse to let us dismiss these figures as anonymous “other people.” They become instead effigies of ourselves.


 

 
It's a continuous celebration of paradox, an excursion into the metaphysical human territory with an ironic taste. Meatyard is a visionary, realist.

martedì 10 gennaio 2012

IT'S ALL ABOUT BIRDS: KOBI LEVI

"When I design a shoe I think about it as a sculpture to wear, an art piece you live with. You and your  body affect its look and it affects yours. Footwear should have its life with and without being on the feet, on the contrary to cloths that exist only when being worn". Kobi Levi




'bird series' uses well-known iconic appearance of some feathered friends, such as a mallard duck and swan, incorporating into footwear. the colors and shapes represent the color types of feathers, while the beaks become the heel.


Kobi Levi is not your average shoe maker; and his shoes are not your average shoe. Choosing to blur the lines between art and fashion, Bezalel academy of art & design graduate Kobi creates handmade “wearable sculptures” that entertain, challenge and perplex their audience. With the shoe as his canvas, Kobi uses humour and social satire to fashion absurdly original footwear that has been exhibited around the world. Having designed commercial footwear in Italy, China and Brazil, Kobi is currently collaborating with both Israeli and international companies to develop his own women’s shoe line.

mercoledì 14 dicembre 2011

YOKO ONO "EYE BLINK" FILM


Enchanted by this silent minute...


Camera: Peter Moore. Entry by George Maciunas: “High speed camera, 200fr./sec. view of one eyeblink.”

lunedì 12 dicembre 2011

GAGA'S WORLD(S) AT BARNEYS

There’s always something special happening in NYC and no visit could ever be the same. This year alone there were several exhibits, including the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the MET which I had to miss due to timing, unfortunately.
I was in Ny last week, and for this Christmas the Barneys windows (and the store’s entire 5th floor) are designed by Lady Gaga and her team, which includes her Mom!
A take on Santa's iconic workshop, the project has been realized through the eyes of renowned creative talents: Lady Gaga, Nicola Formichetti, and Eli Sudbrack and avaf, in collaboration with Barneys' creative director Dennis Freedman.

Gaga's Budoir


Created in collaboration with renowned hairstylist Bob Recine, this window is a surrealist take on Lady Gaga’s own personal boudoir. Constructed entirely out of hair, the room is filled with iconic references to hair styles and fashions from Gaga’s past.

Gaga Crystal cave


This mysterious ice world is a light installation featuring a mermaid sculpture reminiscent of Gaga.


Gaga Machine


This window plays with the idea of Lady Gaga physically morphing into a gilded motorcycle.


Gaga Constellation


Q4, an NYC-based experiential digital agency, collaborated on this window, which features a film by director Tim Richardson and Nicola Formichetti. The interactive short film portrays Gaga as a series of evolving constellations.


giovedì 24 novembre 2011

BE AMAZED. 20 YEARS OF DAZED&CONFUSED EXHIBITION



Preservation Vamp, 1995, photography by Donna Trope, styling Katie Grand

Celebrating 20 years of their controversial magazine content, the Dazed and Confused exhibition at Somerset House brings together a host of various photo shoots, cover shots and artwork. Having used a variety of different ways to tell visual stories, the magazine commissioned work from many influential photographers, designers and artists over the years, all of whom left their mark on the publication and it's reputation for being a cutting edge voice of the new media.
 
 
 
Within the exhibition, two smaller courtyard rooms are dedicated to the late Alexander McQueen’s involvement with Dazed & Confused. There is a room solely devoted to the 1996 ‘Fashion-Able’ shoot which represented disability in a way that no other magazine had ever attempted, both then and now. The images in this room highlight McQueen’s ability in powerful social commentary and also his passion for seeking innovative ways to get a message across.