“ALICE DELLAL, PUNK SEXY POUR ARAKI”
Here’s the Slide Show
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XOYO is a unique events space that is more than just another venue. At XOYO you can enjoy the best in live music, cultural happenings and art exhibitions.
Grimes was amazing last night at xoyo!
Watch her new video
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Author Lizzie Garrett Mettler discusses her forthcoming book Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion, on shelves April 3, 2012.
Music: Kisses - “People Can Do The Most Amazing Things”
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Have you ever heard of “Burning Man”?
Either way, you might be interested in knowing a bit more about this unique experience.
People say you cannot really explain this event, you must actually experience it yourself in order to understand it…
Well, at least, let’s try to get an idea.
First, let’s go back to the very beginning. It all started in 1986 in San Francisco, when a group of friends decided to gather and build a wooden man before burning it down - a spontaneous act of “radical self-expression” they said.
Years after years that community of people extended to a certain point where they had to change location and they decided to move to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada (1990).
Today the average number of participants at the event is around 50,000 people (see pic).
So what is actually happening there? - Pretty much all the things you can imagine as they are no actual rules…
Nevertheless, during this one week event, it is in everyone interest to participate and share things - You don’t go there to be a spectator but to fully take part in the activities and discover a new experience among that community.
One main purpose of the event is about expressing your artistic and creative mind without any limit. Also, it is about stepping out of your life and going back to the roots.
The last night of the event, a giant wooden man (reaching up to 32m) will be burned down with all other artistic representations - the idea is that the day after, when everyone finally lives, there should be no trace of anything that happened.
A spiritual experience NOT for everyone…
Check out website for more: http://www.burningman.com/
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“David LaChapelle is known internationally for his exceptional talent in combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with profound social messages.
LaChapelle’s photography career began in the 1980’s when he began showing his artwork in New York City galleries. His work caught the eye of Andy Warhol, who offered him his first job as a photographer at Interview Magazine. His photographs of celebrities in Interview garnered positive attention, and before long he was shooting for a variety of top editorial publications and creating some of the most memorable advertising campaigns of his generation.”
Check out his website for more contemporary photographs and coming exhibitions: http://www.davidlachapelle.com/
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“There is a photograph of Joseph Beuys watching Star Trek on TV with his family. We recognize his silhouette, his head turned toward the hanging screen in the corner of the room. The Close-up on the screen shows Captain Kirk who seems to be returning his gaze in a suspicious way. My work is illustrated here, between those two poles, between High and Low Brow. This photograph is a lesson of iconoclasm. In order to break the idols, you must turn them over, misplace them. This is what I reckon to be my mission.”
With Pierre Budet, it is a sharp line that guides us and delights us among the blacks and whites, where sometimes, rarely, arises few bursts of color. Those drawings offered to our gaze both reveal and conceal the equilibristic position of the author. Flashes of humor and spirit, as much as they are ink, build this practice elegantly distanced.
http://www.galeriedespetitscarreaux.com/
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“Tristesse Contemporaine” is a Parisian trio composed by Narumi (Tokyo), Léo Hellden (Stockholm) and Maik (East London).
Genre: Psychedelic / Punk / Tango
“Through friendship and compatibility, Narumi, Léo and Maik decided to start a band in 2009. They soon needed to record in order to back up their spontaneous ideas, their imagination and their powerful drafts. The demos resulting from their recording sessions were like nothing before although they were clearly inspired by the Talking Heads (Fear of Music), Young Marble Giant (Collossal Youth) and The Cure (17 seconds). Then they had to find a name. Whilst looking through an old bookshop, Léo came across a book called La tristesse contemporaine by Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert – a book on the main moral and intellectual movements of the 19th century. Tristesse Contemporaine was a French band of foreigners, a group of “back seat drivers” as they called themselves. Tristesse Contemporaine was a band of migrants, modern drifters.”
Check out the New Album: http://www.myspace.com/tristessecontemporaine
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VOGUING, part 5.
Where is voguing these days? Maybe with them.
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VOGUING, part 4
If you want to learn more, get that book :
Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1989-92, by Chantal Regnault .
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