Monday, January 31, 2011
Banski drops yet another bomb in L.A.
via laist.com
With Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka the Banksy movie) getting a Best Documentary Oscar nomination in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, in the wee hours one morning a few days later this large piece of street art showed up on La Brea at San Vicente, in the oft-used Mr. Brainwash space. There is, indeed, a Mr Brainwash signature next to the giant hoodie-shrouded Oscar statuette (at the end of a sidewalk red carpet, no less) and some showbiz-y busied Storm Troopers hanging around--err...hovering around from above, too.
This new work raises a few questions: Is this Mr. Brainwash's way of getting ready for the media frenzy of the Academy Awards? If Gift Shop wins, who will go onstage to accept? And...is Mr. Brainwash really Banksy?
With Exit Through the Gift Shop (aka the Banksy movie) getting a Best Documentary Oscar nomination in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, in the wee hours one morning a few days later this large piece of street art showed up on La Brea at San Vicente, in the oft-used Mr. Brainwash space. There is, indeed, a Mr Brainwash signature next to the giant hoodie-shrouded Oscar statuette (at the end of a sidewalk red carpet, no less) and some showbiz-y busied Storm Troopers hanging around--err...hovering around from above, too.
This new work raises a few questions: Is this Mr. Brainwash's way of getting ready for the media frenzy of the Academy Awards? If Gift Shop wins, who will go onstage to accept? And...is Mr. Brainwash really Banksy?
Friday, January 28, 2011
Haunting Images Of Detroit's Decline
A new book called Ruins of Detroit displays Detroit's downtown landmarks in decay: Abandoned hotels, houses and schools line the streets as a reminder of the city's economic downfall over the past century. The devastation takes on an eerie beauty, as captured by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
The photographs show once-lively structures of an American city, now remembered by its remains.
While Detroit's official unemployment rate has rebounded to 12 percent from a high of 15.7 percent in October of 2009, the state's economy is nowhere near healed. As the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, the state's jobless rate is falling at the fastest pace in the nation -- but that doesn't equate to job growth. A state agency told the WSJ the decline "primarily reflected a reduction in the number of unemployed individuals seeking jobs."
The entire collection of photos can be found in the Ruins of Detroit book, or at Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre Photography
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie - Official Trailer
VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE is a true rags-to-riches tale, tracing Sassoon's path from a London orphanage to international success and celebrity. Producer Michael Gordon, founder of hair care company Bumble and bumble, first set out to document Vidal's life in a richly visual book about icons in the world of hairdressing. What started as an 80th birthday tribute to Sassoon became a movie when Gordon brought on director Craig Teper. While chronicling the fashion, style and social revolutions of the 1960s, VIDAL SASSOON THE MOVIE shows how Sassoon revolutionized the world of hair with his pioneering, geometric, Bauhaus-inspired styles and "wash and wear" philosophy, literally changing the way women look and cut their hair today.
Tom Ford Covers Interview, Says "Gay Men Make Better Designers"...Hmmm I guess there is some truth to that
Tom Ford has never been one to mince words, so please don't be shocked to read his latest revelations, as told to artist John Currin in the February '11 issue of Interview. We're amped that Ford has scored his second cover this year (the first being the equally revealing "Love Issue," of Out), and needless to say, the designer/director is still s-s-smoking hot, as captured by photo Craig McDean (Ford has to be a contender for the male version of Demi Moore). We've highlighted some of the choice tidbits La Ford shares with the painter below...
"I'm an equal-opportunity objectifier. Because I make the detachment I'm capable of objectifying a beautiful woman but that doesn't demean her in any way."
"My expression of beauty is something I do naturally. I love the human body—the female body, the male body...I'm very comfortable with naked bodies."
"Gay men make better designers."
"When I come home...I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked."
"My expression of beauty is something I do naturally. I love the human body—the female body, the male body...I'm very comfortable with naked bodies."
"Gay men make better designers."
"When I come home...I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked."
Read the whole salacious interview here!
J. CREW goes to Italy
What does “made in Italy” actually mean? We traveled to an old Italian mill to find out (plus, it was a good excuse to gorge on gelato). Watch our designs take shape in “About a Shoe,” part one of a three-part series by award-winning filmmaker Douglas Keeve.
Missionaries of Hate
Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to Uganda, where many question whether the growing influence of American religious groups has led to a movement to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death. As an anti-gay movement spreads across the continent, gay Africans and their families face an increasingly uncertain future of isolation, imprisonment or even execution.
Diddy Sued Sued For 9/11, $1 Trillion: Woman Claims Date Rape, Terrorism
via The Huffington Post
This law suit may not make it very far up the courts.
Radar Online reports that rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs was sued for $1 trillion by a woman named Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks, who alleges that he date raped her 24 years ago... and then conspired with Rodney King to bring down the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
In part, the suit alleges:
"[Diddy] went through Kim Porter and Rodney King and knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down... He date raped me 24 years ago and knocked me down him and Kim Porter and Wallace Wright, then Sean Combs and Kim and Wallace Wright came back 18 years later and raped and sexually abused my children and knocked my children down and crushed me and my children daily."
Turks wants $900 billion for child support -- quite the expensive child -- and $100 billion in damages.
For more, click over to Radar Online.
Radar Online reports that rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs was sued for $1 trillion by a woman named Valerie Joyce Wilson Turks, who alleges that he date raped her 24 years ago... and then conspired with Rodney King to bring down the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
In part, the suit alleges:
"[Diddy] went through Kim Porter and Rodney King and knocked down the WTC and then they all came and knocked my children down... He date raped me 24 years ago and knocked me down him and Kim Porter and Wallace Wright, then Sean Combs and Kim and Wallace Wright came back 18 years later and raped and sexually abused my children and knocked my children down and crushed me and my children daily."
Turks wants $900 billion for child support -- quite the expensive child -- and $100 billion in damages.
For more, click over to Radar Online.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Elie Saab
Pardon my ignorance but It's only been recent that I have become familiar with the work of Elie Saab. His collections are nothing short than beautiful and leave one speechless with awe. For more information about Elie Saab and his work log onto www.eliesaab.com And for all you ladies, if you're man is ever in the dog house and is begging for forgiveness for whatever unfathomable act he placed up thee, make him reach deep into his pocket book and purchase you an Elie Saab.
Junya Watanabe Fall 2011 Mens Paris
via thesartorialist.blogspot.com
The following photographs are detail shots of the Mens Fall 2011 Junya Watanabe Paris collection by Scott Schuman. What I love most about this collection are the coats and the, as one GQ writer puts it, Urban Woodsman feel of the looks.
The following photographs are detail shots of the Mens Fall 2011 Junya Watanabe Paris collection by Scott Schuman. What I love most about this collection are the coats and the, as one GQ writer puts it, Urban Woodsman feel of the looks.
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