CANNIBAL MOVIE MAKEOVER

TUESDAY 8TH DECEMBER

I am extremely extremely excited to introduce the next installment of our rapidly expanding club night CANNIBAL. Over the course of the last 3 events, we've put on a lot of different things in very different ways.

We've had giant metal skirts, theatrical transformation displays, clothes disintegrating live on a catwalk, exciting bands and the best DJs, and this time we're taking on something familiar in an extremely unusual manner.

The theme is Movie Makeover, and the show this time is going to be spectacular. We've got the special effects make-up artist Michelle Webb putting on a completely new type of performance/installation piece. Expect something extremely dark and beautiful.

Also, you need to dress up, a lot. You can come without of course, but to get the £3 unlimited guestlist on the Facebook, dress up as someone interesting.

Jasper Chadprajong x Cannibal

This is the fashion film we made for Jasper Chadprajong (the multi award-winning designer from our second CANNIBAL night). The soundtrack is by the amazing new group Visions of Trees, who soundtracked the live fashion show at the event, and all models are courtesy of D1 Management (See the Events page at the top for photos etc). Here is what Jasper had to say about the collection/video:

“Here it is. One more, one less another wasted love story”.

This is the journey of my past- present- future of love. Ideas come from relationships,
The first feeling of love and the colours associated with it, blue for man, yellow for woman,
Mix the two you get purple, but then what happens after love when a relationship breaks down?
There is a moment in life when you cannot recover from another break up. Is love really that simple?

CANNIBAL TRASH EXTRAVAGANZA!

TUESDAY 24TH NOVEMBER

So this is the third of our brand new club nights featuring live fashion shows, bands, the best DJs, art installations etc.

Our previous designers put on some pretty amazing stuff, but this time we're really pulling out all the stops and offering you something spectacular. Brand new designer Neil Ingall is launching a brand new Cannibal design range, right there in the club... the show is certainly not to be missed, we're not giving you many details, just make sure you're there by 10pm, dressed right up in whatever trash you can muster.

We've been regularly updating the pages for the previous shows as well, you can see the exclusive films we made, photos from the event etc etc.

There are loads of deals on this one to fit with the theme, get over to the Facebook Page to see what they are and get on the cheaplist. See you there!

Gemma Slack x Cannibal

So finally, here is the video we made for Gemma Slack that played at the opening of our brand new Cannibal club night (click events at the top). We wanted to make a short horror film that summed up the feel of her body of work; a fashion film of sorts, but almost without any of the pieces.

After the night, the video moved to a window installation we did at the amazing London shop Digitaria on Berwick Street, where you can catch it for a couple more weeks.

The video has been added to both the Cannibal night review page, and the projects page.

Pushing Paper

Some paper works by Toronto based artist Niall McClelland.

Gentlemen Prefer Blonde Fire

It seems about time to get back on the blog updates... I've been too busy with the club night to get on it recently, but with the launch of the new site (isn't it pretty; Offworld's illustrator pin-up Ryan Brown did a standup job on that) it's right back sharing the more disgustingly beautiful things around.

No better way to kick (back) off than with this incredible, disturbing video made by Joe Vanhoutteghem for the Belgian group Hickey Underground. It's always exciting to come across this aesthetic, it's got a real UNKLE feel to it colour-wise/visually, and has all the creativity of the Warp favourites like Cunningham and even a touch of Gondry...

Second CANNIBAL night; White Edition

So the first of our new club nights 'CANNIBAL' went down a storm... everyone dressed up and made it a really good night.

We've been super busy getting ready for the next one; a White Edition.

Use the nav at the top and go to 'events/output' for a full night review with videos/photos etc, and soon interviews with all the artists, including the short horror film we made for Gemma Slack (which is on display in the Digitaria window for a month...)

Also, get yourself over to the Facebook Page for more photos and the event page for the next one this Tuesday!

We've got an incredible menswear designer this time, Jasper Chadprajong, who's been hard at work with us and D1 Models to make it something really special.

Make sure you come down, this one should definitely not be missed, it will be even better than the first. A promise.

New Offworld Project Night 'CANNIBAL' And Other News...

CANNIBAL:

Offworld Project has a new night launching at The Last Days of Decadence in Shoreditch, every other Tuesday. All details can be found on the Facebook Page... I am very, very excited. The first event is also the full Offworld Project launch night.

NEW SITE:

The first version of the full Offworld Project site I have been promising is nearing completion, and will be launched in a few days to help promote the new night etc.

Talking of Facebook, remember you can join the Offworld Page to give feedback, get involved with future projects etc.

PUBLICATION/BLOG:

Also, remember the Offworld Projection (our very own arts publication) is very much in the works, get in touch if you have ideas etc. Regular blog updates from now on.

Photography: Marianne Engel

A selection of work by Swiss photographer Marianne Engel.

Films: Avatar/Legion

Well. These two films come out soon, and I'm not excited about either. A good way to start a post then. It's taken James Cameron a full four years of production to come out with 'The Wet Dream of JaJaBinks' (Avatar), developing a 3D epic that blurs the boundaries between real life and proposing marriage to the World of Warcraft girlfriend you've been hoping technology will materialise before you can no longer leave the chair. However, the sound editing in the trailer is pretty intense; a wall of noise with barely any diagetic sound... definitely worth watching.

Legion however, has no redeeming features. Many trailers don't breed anticipation for a single redeeming feature in the end product, but it's been a while since I've come across something this category of silly. The kind that actually makes you laugh and despair at the things talented people will do together. Paul Bettany used to carefully remove suits before torturing people, now he's being butchered like silly putty after making silly faces in studios. Silly.

Publication/Facebook Page

A quick note. Offworld Project will be producing a publication/manifesto (called The Offworld Projection) in the not too distant future, the first one will be free and include a poster and some original content. Anyone familiar with the aesthetic/concept of the site who would be interested to contribute get in touch with ideas...

Also, there is now a facebook page for offworld, which will be useful for feedback/promotion/contribution, so join if you want to participate etc...

Daily Image: True Blood

'The Light That Burns Twice As Bright' - Offworld Sculpture

Recently, whilst staying in a little French village (Pontlevoy), I talked my way into using a disused warehouse of a slowly deteriorating abbey; the neglected gold rolex of an American businessman.

I wanted to build an internally floodlit sculpture that commented on this, my current living situation, offworld project, and a nod to religion.

Every element of the installation was sourced from an abandoned part of the abbey.
I only ever intended it to be a photo series, ending in its eventual destruction, but the villagers took an interest, and on the final night turned up in a sort of impromptu gallery opening, and demanded it be left there.
The somewhat bewildered village vicar asked where the hope was.
I pointed out it was mostly white.

Full story and proper photos coming later on the main site, as soon as I can get back to rephotograph.

What is Skuro is Skuro?

All I can really gather from Skuro's skitzophrenic Myspace is that they're an Italian fashion brand with a penchant for vintage horror, doomsday cults and layers.

When I had their old page on my myspace (before it was banned), I would recieve multiple daily images of mutilation, symmetry and destruction; and to find the clothes you had to brave the page, not that it yeilds much information whatsoever.

(The black hood is a collaboration with scenesters' staple cotton manipulators 5Preview)

Fuck Buttons Solar Surfing Tarot Sports

Here's the thing about Fuck Buttons; the first album was pretty amazing; just a wall of noise that managed to somehow have melody, and even a hook... it filled a gap between the shoegaze revival and the electronic/lo-fi thing going on, and it did it well. But for all its virtues I couldn't help wondering where they would go after (other than around the world with Mogwai)...

It was definitely an album that could sit on its own and never need a follow up, and there was the worry that they might not strike that balance again that made the first work so well. However, the new album Tarot Sports is out in October, (here's the artwork) and over at Pitchfork you can hear the new track Surf Solar which shows no sign of them having burnt the sound out.
Fuck Forever then...

Zink/Distill: No Man's Land

Apparently macro photography doesn't have to be first year students taking pictures of each others eyes... it can be a team of professionals turning them into amazing abstract volcanic landscapes.

Photography: Thibault Breton
Make-up: Jacques Uzzardi

Despite originally starting life in Zink US, you can see it in Distill magazine, which is up to something interesting with its concept; they take what they think are the best editorials (not that I always agreed), and err, distill it into a magazine. There are also interviews with the people that worked on the shoots, going through the inspiration etc, and in cases like this it's definitely interesting, but I'll confess to not having my hair blown back by the inspiration behind a shoot of boys standing around on rocks.

Moon Running

So Moon, a film made by David Bowie's son and critically mentioned in the same breath as Blade Runner, is in (some) cinemas... Initially I was put off by Sam Rockwell... I never liked his name (it sounds like a 70s porn star), and he had a fist in Choke's pie (a rubbish Chuck Palahniuk adaptation)... but then what about that comparison?

Although it's not clear from the trailer what exactly it is, the Blade Runner connection is definitely there... along with slightly more unexpected ones like The Prestige. Without giving anything away that the trailer doesn't, it also poses a fundamental question; if you met yourself, would you get along? Definitely one to see at the cinema.

The Swinging 1760s

Back in 1766 this was scandalous. Painted by Jean-Honore Fragonard as a commission from a French nobleman, it depicts a girl on a swing, allowing a man in the bushes a look up her skirt. At the same time, she is throwing off a shoe to symbolise the loss of virginity, whilst a priest provides the inertia. Cheeky little madam then.

Like many of the best works, it was both vilified for its shocking subject matter, and praised for its technical brilliance... the use of light is cinematic, even by todays finely tuned standards of gloss and finish.

To transpose the technicality and social relevance to a more contemporary setting, it could be said both Gregory Crewdson and David Lachapelle reference aspects of the work... There are definitely echoes of the atmosphere Fragonard created in Crewdson's widescreen work, and both the colour and playfullness/
shock-factor Lachapelle has forged a career from seem to be evident in early form here...

Furthermore, there are even early elements of kitsch; by todays benchmarks at least... not only the shade of pink, but by the cherubs and the overall tone. In fact, Yinka Shonibare worked off this very notion in 2004, with his Turner Prize entry; reinventing the painting sculpturally...

So then, is the painting a pebble that's been creating ripples ever since, or simply an early example of pop-culture defining the boundaries of social taste?

We Covered It In Plastic Like Dexter

An
Out-take
From a shoot we did the other day.
In collaboration
With
Nick George.