GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT

Dec

2011

FUR_9: Damon

photographed by: Adrian Lourie Adrian Lourie online

Dec

2011

First the hype, and now the fashion film. In this case, the hype was worth it. Dior invited director James Cameron Mitchell to direct Marion Cotillard in this video which captures the L.A. culture in a funny and ironic way. A comedy drama with a cinematic feel that has embedded the clothes organically – without putting them in the main

Dec

2011

Slava Mogutin: ULTRAVIOLETS

Photography: Slava Mogutin You’d say that I’m over-obsessing with the mint green color placement on the new Grateful Grapefruit. In my defense I can say, that it’s all a lucky coincidence. Just like the fact that the opening image of Slava Mogutin‘s Ultraviolets fashion editorial for Flaunt Magazine (US) is deep-died in mint green. The Men’s Fall Fashion Issue

Dec

2011

The New Grateful Grapefruit

“The house of horny nerds is a home to creative ideas, art inspirations and arousing aesthetics.” Well hello there. It’s been a while. Change needed a bit more time than expected But let me first give you a little background and tell you how we got here. And besides, of course I am nervous – it’s hard not to

Dec

2011

Jason Peters

Jason Peters has a way of making you reconsider reality and space. Mr. Peters studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art and acquires his BA in Fine Arts in Sculpture and a Minor in Asian Art History. Since then he has 11 solo shows (last one Reversed Polarities in 2011) and is part of an average of 2-3 group

Dec

2011

Printed Matters #1: meat

Guess what – print still does matter. You can make an awesome online publication, but you won’t get further with it. Print has definitely not the same value it had at its peak. Thus, it has a different position now. Buying print magazines is luxury; owning and collecting them has turned to a lifestyle not everyone can afford. I remember

Dec

2011

Paris for horny nerds

This is going to be my first post on Grateful Grapefruit and I’m truly excited. Christo and I shortly discussed the topics I could cover here and we agreed on something travel related. My greatest passion. Although I wanted to travel the world from day 1, my adventures started a bit later, when I visited Paris for the first time.

Dec

2011

Fur & Gold – Not Your Typical Gay Party

What is Fur & Gold? Well, I’d first start off by saying that it’s an amazing Bat for Lashes Album (2006), but it’s also the name of a party that I started to host back in 2010. I know that doesn’t sound too long ago, but we are rapidly approaching our two year anniversary of our night. Many things have

Dec

2011

Jaakko Pallasvuo

Jaakko Pallasvuo is maybe the first artist who I am featuring, who is the exact same age as me. Born in 1987 in Helsinki, Finnland, Jaakko is a digital native, just like everyone born after 1982 in developed countries is considered to be one. As such, he has based his work on net art and fully embraces new media as

Dec

2011

Reinvent Beards With WAD

You know that we at Grateful Grapefruit easily get excited by facial hair. We on the other side know that right now the whole fashion and style world is going bananas over beards. And they know it works. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t write up this post presenting interpretations on facial hair. To promote their partnership with Braun, WAD Magazine created this

Dec

2011

Michael Reedy

Mike Reedy’s art makes me uncomfortable. Big time. In his drawings and paintings he addresses issues of privacy, intimacy and exposure which are over-occupying my thoughts recently. Looking at his works isn’t really helping me get my mind off those topics but definitely gives me a way to try to resolve them. Mr. Reedy got his Master of Fine Arts in Painting

Dec

2011

Erwin Olaf in Technicolor

If you’ve landed on Grateful Grapefruit, I assume you have heard the name or seen the work of visual agent provocateur Erwin Olaf on multiple occasions. Having made that clear, we can move to the actual part of this post that doesn’t require many words. I have a very close connection to Mr. Olaf’s art since my childhood. You can