It’s as if something you are trying to grasp is slipping away and you have no control of it. Hearing lead singer Hayden Thorpe’s voice vibrates throughout the song escalating emotions and feelings only a he can do. With accompaniment of his band, and a diverse array of sounds, Wild Beasts new album Smother shows the new development and strength
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Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian interdisciplinary artist currently based in Paris, France. Situated broadly in the field of new media, his work explores technologies and their political, cultural and conceptual potential. Baden Pailthorpe holds masters degrees from the Université Paris VIII, Vincennes—Saint Denis, France, and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Pailthorpe has recently received funding from the Australia Council for
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Maurizio Cattelan – one of the most influential art pranksters and agent provocateurs today – has turned the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a floating labyrinth with his hanging exhibition featuring effigies, surrogates and taxidermy animals. Nancy Spector, the chief curator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, worked with Cattelan in putting the show All together. She is reassuring that all animals in the
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Luca Mantovanelli is not your usual new artsy kid on the blog. He’s not obsessed with himself; he didn’t invest in an old Polaroid camera and hoped to get rich and famous overnight; and most of all – he’s got real, raw talent. Luca is born June 11 1984 somewhere around Brescia. He lived there until the end of high school,
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This is a little disturbing. No, this is big time disturbing. I hope Josh Keyes doesn’t have the crazy ability of seeing the future and painting it (Heroes reference, anyone?) As a kid I always collected different types of encyclopedia but always loved and preferred those with pictures in them in stead of those with photographic images. Somehow it gave
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You can put many labels on AA Bronson: art veteran, shaman, General Idea’s survivor, gay role model. But in fact I am not really interested in all the cliches spinning around his persona. Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t tell you about General Idea or mention that AA is all about rituals – everything from ceremonial magic, witches covens, group
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This is way beyond ridiculous. I thought twice, no gazillion times before even starting to write this post. Should I acknowledge kitsch and lack of taste and creativity? Of course not, but having a good laugh over ridiculous fashion collections is always in. So here is our guy, James Long with his latest Spring/Summer collection for 2012. Welcome to the
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Overcooked vegetables are a common horror. Just as bad as overcooked meat, if not worse. Most people overcook, even restaurants do it often. While you won’t get sick from soggy green beans, they are just not worth eating. Except… in this dish. Broccoli with pasta. Not “pasta with broccoli”, mind you, though it is inspired by my mother in law
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Iris Van Herpen can either talk to aliens or see the future. Either way, her collections are unearthly beautiful and technologically creative and inspiring. Her Autumn/Winter 2011/2012 collection is just another proof for the Dutch fashion innovator’s genius. Of course, at Paris Haute Couture she didn’t present something basic you could wear when you throw the trash or go to
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[8tracks width=”250″ height=”250″ playops=”” url=”http://8tracks.com/mixes/420374″] The fall brings upon a new change, dying life/hibernation, darkness, and something a little more moody I’d say. With that I’ve put together something that reflects this change in our worlds, maybe becoming a little more introverted, private, and emotionally sensitive. Fenech-Solar – Stop and Stare Mohini Geisweiller – Milk Teeth Florence + The Machine
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Grateful Grapefruit is not a fashion blog. I guess that sentence just ate the potential fashion ad and product placement budget. But anyway – if fashion ad placers are smart enough would start filling up my inbox with mails for potential cooperations right this moment. At the end of the day surprise has always been the key to successful advertisement
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Nicola Formichetti is a visionary and a multi-talent: Dazed’s former creative director, Lady Gaga’s stylist, designer for Mügler and Vogue Hommes Japan inspiration. He is constantly pushing the boundaries of fashion and reaching new frontiers. Nowhere else is that as obvious as in the documentary below, screened exclusively on Dazed Digital, where we get to follow Formichetti through the process of
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