Acts Of God

Some images taken from the latest fury of nature. Via The Guardian & Spectre Group.

Health & Cheer To All Gingers

Ummm... so a couple of shock-tactic new music videos that both happen to be pretty amazing.
First is for HEALTH's We Are Water by Eric Wareheim (via City Slang), and second is another slice of teenage apocalyptica by Romain Gavras (remember Stress?) for M.I.A's new song Born Free (great song as well)...
I like them, if that's the right word....

New Butterfly Wheels Shoot & Fundraiser

Here is the poster and a couple of extra shots I did (with the help of Nick George) for the new theatre/performance arts company Butterfly Wheels. They are an extremely exciting new arts project, and this should be the first of many collaborations.

The poster is for a fundraising event at Punk club in soho, which we're helping run. Come down and support something worthwhile, it will be an interesting night.

Mer Girl

Via Models.com, shot by Solve Sundsbo for Vogue Nippon.

One Amazing & Two Very Good Songs. One Amazing & Two Very Good Videos.

Chiharu Shiota

Some amazing installation work by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (F), who recently put on a surreal exhibition at Haunch of Venison.

Enter The Void Trailers & Stills

Is anyone ready for this? Apparently not the distributors anyway... Gaspar Noe, director of such sensory-overload nightmares as Irreversible is set to release his new troubling 'psychedelic melodrama' Enter The Void. The story follows a brother and sister who get lost in the drugs underworld of Tokyo, he dies and continues to watch over her dark past as a ghost...

As of yet there are no full trailers, just some graded stills and some epileptic mini teasers. Oh, and the music is done by Thomas Banglater of Daft Punk...

Daily Image - Ladies From The Sea

From the NOWNESS report Ladies From The Sea.

Business Of Fashion: Top Ten Fashion Films Of The Season

Who knew that the founder of PayPal has a space program called Space X?

There's a lot to say about fashion films (by someone else); it's a medium still very much finding its feet... but it is, rapidly. Typical of the recurrent downsides of the industry, there is a lot of The Emperor's New Clothes syndrome, but through this we are seeing the genuinely interesting and innovative work rise to the top.

Luckily the website The Business of Fashion has compiled their Top Ten Fashion Films Of The Season to save you some all-important time you never get back. This one for Rodarte is a standout, all filmed in the above mentioned Space X grounds, others include ShowStudio, Fred Butler and umm...

Books - Geek Love

Just finished an incredible book by Katherine Dunn (1989), the story is of a travelling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil. When the business begins to fail, Lil gobbles pesticides, experiments with drugs and douses herself with radiation to ensure that she prodcues infants grotesque enough to keep the turnstiles clicking... the result is a dark pre-Chuck Palahniuk masterpiece that is both shocking and heartfelt...

Many died. Many burned.
Babes snuffed to grease smears in the blacked arms of their charcoaled mothers.
Sudden switches, lean and brittle, had started as dancing children only seconds before.
All the dark, gaping corpses, in their fire-frenzy ballet, flexed and danced in the dreams of the finders.
The fire-fighters and ambulance shriekers who had worked arson-struck tenements
and the crashes of jumbo jets puked and retreated, or quit their jobs to grow lettuce, but still dreamed,
after wading the ashes of Binewski's Carnival Fabulon.