Alex Smith video "Self Machine" for I Blame Coco

Here is the making of the amazing video "Self Machine" directed by Alex Smith for singer I Blame Coco

final edit

vincent urbani

Chromeo - Business Casual

Don't Turn The Lights On from Chromeo1 on Vimeo.

Three years after their remarkable album 'Fancy Footwork', several singles released and a DJ-Kicks compilation, Chromeo is back with their new album 'Business Casual'.

It was released on September 14, 2010 in the US and it will be released on September 27, 2010 in the UK.

The album includes songs 'Night By Night' and great new single 'Don't Turn The Lights On'.

You can watch the video directed by Keith Schofield above.

Chromeo - Business Casual

01. Hot Mess

02. I’m Not Contagious

03. Night by Night

04. Don’t Turn the Lights On

05 You Make It Rough

06. When the Night Falls

07. Don’t Walk Away

08. J’ai claqué la porte

09. The Right Type

10. Grow Up

http://www.myspace.com/chromeo

http://www.chromeo.net/

Angelo Svart

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

Via Jonas et la Baleine

What is beauty? (Who knows me, knows I love definitions)According to Wikipedia, beauty is the characteristic of a person,animal,place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. The experience of "beauty" often involves interpretation and people's own sensibility.

Crucial in defining beauty is the role of fashion. Fashion and trends have changed through the decades people's parameters of beauty, moulding the face of our society. Each segment of our past coincides with a signature feature that was considered part of being beautiful (and being beautiful was like being part of the aristocracy). Fashion is for the masses now, and it needs to redifine (again) its rules, giving a broader definition of BEAUTY:which is now closer to charme, uniqueness and edginess than to objective perfection.

A perfect example of this phenomenon is this Bronx, New York born teen. SHAUN ROSS. He’s an albino, which means he is affected by a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of an enzyme involved in the production of melanin. Shaun is also African American, this means he has full lips, wide nose and kinky hair, and does this makes him weird? YES. And does this makes him look beautiful? YES.

Article by Paolo Maurizio Talanti via Jonas et la Baleine

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Sam Scott Schiavo: This is CLIENT - exclusive interview

1 - CLIENT presents itself as an avant-guarde and sophisticated magazine, how can you achieve it?

Honestly there are many new independent magazines catering to the young , we try to be different by choosing photographers that have an original vision of today's fashion and male beauty that capture the moment.
Our all Black & White format printed on recycled paper lends to a striking, retro almost scrapbook like intimacy.

2 - What makes CLIENT interesting to the reader?

Casting is important, be it a new face or supermodel, we want every editorial feature to tell a story and choosing the right model is like a director choosing an actor for his film, it's a kip all working together to make CLIENT stand apart. As CLIENT grows we will be doing more and more interviews with personalities in the arts, fashion and cinema that we feel our readers would find interesting, CLIENT is not just a mass of photos but also content. The Issue #1 of Client was very well received, this gave both the Editor-in-Chief Ian Cole and I great encouragement to push even harder to development Issue #2 with stronger imagery and content.


3 - What kind of man is the one presented by CLIENT, and how do you think that modern men can relate to him?

CLIENT has a wider range than many of the other magazines, yes ... there are the younger street toughs, skaters and dandies mixed with beefcake and in future issues there are also many icons of the modeling industry featured , I can not name names as we want to keep the surprises a surprise! We are truly covering a variety of age groups but all united in that they are modern , have distinct presence and have something to say as we hope our readership both male and female are enthused as we are about our project.

4 - Is CLIENT meant to be a sectorial magazine, or are you planning to make it more commercial?

CLIENT will remain independent, following our own individual path, Ian Cole is of a different generation than me, so often we see things from two completely different directions, which makes for some very interesting discussions yet in the end we tend to agree. Client will have it's niche and hopefully be commercially successful at the same time remaining true to our original ideas.

5 - Real beauty is so difficult to be portraited. Do you think that CLIENT is reaching the goal?

There are so many opinions to what male beauty comprises, in CLIENT we have many various attributes of these but our definition like our magazine will always be focused on the real, the natural, the spontaneous not relying on post production. True beauty that speak for itself.

6 - How fashion influences CLIENT photoshoots?

We are modern with an appreciation for the past, all our photographic contributors have their individual style. I think the photographer and the model are perhaps what influence fashion. There is nothing worse then someone who does something or wears something only because they believe it is fashionable.


7 - What are the ispirations behind your photoshoots? Are they connected to art?

I am influenced very much by cinema of the past, Neo Realismo and Film Noir, but also my growing up in the early 60's and 70's have influenced often how I see a scene or image, how I want it styled or shot, I recall from my childhood memories.
I have my favorite artists also, Francis Bacon and Basquiat but I think the most influential to my work have been the directors Visconti , Rossellini, Pasolini and Godard. I thank them each day for their great body of works.

8 - Is the black and white printing a choice of tradition or is it due to something else?

I have always preferred B&W, I only recently started to shoot digital, so my true love is analogue film. When Ian invited me to collaborate first as a photographer than as an editor, knowing that the whole issue would be only in black and white, I was more than thrilled at the thought. Ian is also a fan of B&W and the retro, so we found this common bond.

9 - Do you think that the peculiarity of CLIENT could make it an alternative to the male fashion magazine as "L'UOMO"?

Certainly, before I ever came to Europe I knew men's fashion through the pages of L'UOMO VOGUE before I could even pronounce it's title correctly, back in the 80's it was like a Bible, huge, full of fantastic advertising, the best models, the best locations, the best styling, the best photographers, it was AMAZING! Now ... I don't even know anyone who buys it, it's thin, little advertising, and consider it of little interest to young or old. I hope someday, their format changes and it once again obtains the glory that it once held. Besides the beautiful Vogue Hommes International, Fantastic Man and Arena Homme + there are many newer magazines that I consider very good men's fashion magazines, many are newer independent publications and firmly believe that print magazines are NOT dead!






interview by Elisa Sedoni

"The Outsiders" by Sharif Hamza on Dazed and Confused

"The Outsiders" directed by Sharif Hamza
Published in Dazed and Confused.

Cut and graded by SWELL
swellny.com

Fashion Editor Robbie Spencer
Makeup Asami Taguchi
Hair Tomo Jidai
Casting Direction Alina Zakaita

Rufus Wainwright | All Days Are Nights: Songs For LuLu by Gary Nadeau

EPK made by Gary Nadeau for Rufus Wainwright's album ALL DAYS ARE NIGHTS: SONGS FOR LULU

http://vimeo.com/channels/rufus

Vogue/ September issues

Vogue Us September 2010 : On the Town by Steven Meisel


Vogue Us September 2010 : Va-Va-Boom by Peter Lindbergh


Vogue Italia September 2010 : Miranda Kerr by Steven Meisel


Vogue Paris September 2010 beauty editorial - Behind the scenes

Let's get lost/ Mikael Jansson - Interview May 2010

Let's Get Lost photographed by Mikael Jansson and styled by Karl Templer from the May 2010 issue of Interview magazine featuring Daria Werbowy.


Vincent Urbani

Goodbye Corinne

Corinne Day, the ambassadress of Grunge photography, died yesterday after suffering a brain tumor for years.
Corinne will always be remembered for her underground and honest photographs as well as for the wonderful portraits she did of Kate Moss at the age of 15.

Röyksopp - Senior

Norwegian duo Röyksopp will release their new album 'Senior' on 13 September 2010.
After the energetic album 'Junior', the new album has a downtempo, autumn-mood style.
'The Drug' was released as a promo single via Dog Triumph label on 9 August 2010.


Röyksopp - Senior

1....And The Forest Began To Sing
2.Tricky Two
3.The Alcoholic
4.Senior Living
5.The Drug
6.Forsaken Cowboy
7.The Fear
8.Coming Home
9.A Long, Long Way


http://royksopp.com/
http://www.myspace.com/royksopp



Angelo Svart

OLEG DOU and the new russian art

The new face of russian photographers. Obsessed with religion, death and the iconic worlds.
His graphic retouch is a direct question to human nature, but with no answers and no judges.
He's only 26, and his production so far leave us wishing for more so...we've been waiting and supporting

http://www.douart.ru/

Goodbye Suso Cecchi D'Amico - 1914/2010

ROME – Screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, who emerged from the male-dominated post-war Italian cinema to become a celebrated artist and contribute to such milestones as "Bicycle Thieves" and "The Leopard," died Saturday at age 96.

Cecchi D'Amico died in her hometown, Rome, the ANSA news agency said, citing her family. No cause of death was given.

Cecchi D'Amico worked with some of the most renowned Italian directors, including Franco Zeffirelli, Michelangelo Antonioni and Mario Monicelli, whose movie "Casanova 70" earned her an Oscar nomination.

She was equally successful at writing scripts for neo-realistic movies, art-house films and comedies such as "Big Deal on Madonna Street." Her work helped make the Italian post-war movie scene a vibrant and innovative one.

"It was an extraordinary generation, not just for cinema," said longtime friend Monicelli, himself in his 90s.

"That generation grew out of dramatic events such as Fascism and war," he said, but "those minds put Italy back on its feet, finding a new way to do things, to produce."

A long partnership with Luchino Visconti became a defining element in Cecchi D'Amico's career, spanning more than two decades and several movies. Among other titles, she contributed to "The Leopard," the sumptuous depiction of the decline of a Sicilian aristocratic family based on the book by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and starring Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon.

President Giorgio Napolitano said Cecchi D'Amico was a "great protagonist of one of the best seasons of Italian cinema."

Claudia Cardinale, who starred in "The Leopard," praised her deep culture and generosity. Zeffirelli called her "an extraordinary screenwriter" but also a good-hearted woman who was "a mom and a sister to all of us."

Born Giovanna Cecchi in 1914 to a family of writers and intellectuals, she began working in cinema soon after the war. She quickly landed a high-profile job helping write the script for Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves," which was released in 1948 and became a manifesto for neo-realism.

She went on to a long career during which she often adapted literary works, including "The Stranger," "The Taming of the Shrew" and books by Dostoevsky and Pirandello.

Cecchi D'Amico won several Italian awards and in 1994 the Venice Film Festival gave her a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
ANSA said she is survived by her three children. A funeral is scheduled for Monday in Rome.

(By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press Writer )



italian text:

E' morta a Roma Suso Cecchi D'amico: aveva 96 anni.
Nata nella capitale nel 1914 dallo scrittore Emilio Cecchi e dalla pittrice Leonetta Pieraccini, fu collaboratrice prediletta di Luchino Visconti. Oltre a 'Bellissima' (del 1951), lavora con il grande regista per 'Senso', 'Gattopardo', 'Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa', 'Lo straniero', 'Ludwig', 'Gruppo di famiglia in un interno' e 'L'innocente'.

Raffinata sceneggiatrice e autrice tra le più feconde e di successo del cinema italiano, fa il suo esordio con il film di Renato Castellani 'Mio figlio professore' nel 1946.

Durante la sua stagione neorealista collabora con maestri come Luigi Zampa, Ennio Flaiano, Cesare Zavattini. Lavora con Antonioni, Rosi, Blasetti. E ancora con Eduardo de Filippo, Franco Zeffirelli (per 'Fratello sole e sorella luna' e 'Gesu' di Nazareth'), Lugi Comencini, Festa Campanile, Michelangelo Antonioni e Vittorio De Sica.

Nel 1994 la mostra di Venezia le ha conferito il Leone d'Oro alla carriera.

I funerali si svolgeranno lunedì alle 11 nella chiesa di Santa Maria del Popolo a Roma.

''Appresa con sincera commozione la triste notizia della scomparsa di Suso Cecchi D'Amico, grande protagonista delle stagioni più alte della storia del cinema italiano, nel ricordo delle numerose occasioni d'incontro che gli hanno permesso di apprezzare la sua cultura e finezza umana'', il presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano ha espresso in un messaggio ''i suoi sentimenti di profonda partecipazione al grande dolore della famiglia''.