DIY CAMERA

Posted on 2009-03-23

We love this DIY build your own working 35mm camera from Plamodel. Its a flash-less camera but you do get to have fun with an art project and a camera all rolled into one! Camera parts come separated, and it’s your job to snap them all together to create a sleek, functional 35mm camera.
Assembly takes a couple of hours and simple instructions are included. Modifications are easy (to create a completely unique camera!); wide angle 28 mm lens takes rich, perfectly imperfect photos. Takes 35mm film that can be developed just about anywhere!

www.urbanoutfitters.com

  

IN YOUR PLACE

Posted on 2009-03-23

The Selby is in your Place by Todd Selby started in June 2008 with this simple premise: exploring the ways one’s personal space reflects one’s personality, documenting creative people in their creative environment.

Todd set out to photograph and document his friends in their respective environment and began posting daily the recording of these sessions on a website, aptly named The Selby . Friends were soon followed by friends of friends —authors, actors, curators, directors, painters, performers and designers, filmed and photographed in their odd, fun, quirky, bohemian, clean, colorful, messy, irreverent, intimate, and always surprising spaces. By mid-summer, the site was garnering up to 30,000 hits a day, its subjects spanning New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mexico, London and Paris. Now showing at Colette until May 2nd, 2009

www.colette.fr

  

REVEALED

Posted on 2009-03-23

Every fashion lover on the planet waits anxiously for the airing of Morley Safer’s 60 Minutes piece on Anna Wintour. Due out sometime before May, the Wintour piece seems like a far-off dream, but rest assured, March has something big (and maybe even better!) in store! Starting March 18th CNN will air Revealed, a piece documenting French Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Carine Roitfeld on her epic journey through this season’s New York and Paris fashion weeks! Now we can all live vicariously through one of fashion’s favorite people!

  

COCO AVANT CHANEL

Posted on 2009-03-23

Audrey Tautou stars as Coco Chanel in a $15 million biopic about the legendary French fashion designer, helmed by Anne Fontaine. The film will focus on Chanel’s childhood and early womanhood and was specially conceived with Tautou in mind, said Haut et Court’s Caroline Benjo. “Anne said she would only make a film about Chanel if Audrey was in the lead. They met and both liked the idea.” Script, penned by Fontaine and Christopher Hampton, who is also creative consultant, was freely adapted from the Chanel biography “L’Irreguliere” by Edmonde Charles-Roux.

www.chanel.com

  

YEAH YEAH YEAHS – ZERO

Posted on 2009-03-23

This new single, “Zero,” puts Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ old stuff to shame with its effortless confidence and deadly melody. I can throw every adjective I know at you, but I’d just be complicating the simple fact that this song is really, really good. Crazy catchy. You’re gonna listen to it 100 times before you realize you’re not breathing. The video is just as gripping. A surreal nighttime Tokyo — or is it NYC? Hong Kong? Any city… The world is your stage! — adventure, it starts with kung-fu movie overdubs and escalates through grocery cart races, street dancing and car stomping to its explosive ticker tape finish. Step past the red curtain and know that you’re never coming back.

www.yeahyeahyeahs.com

  

A BLACK HEARTED LOVE

Posted on 2009-03-23

The first video from PJ Harvey and John Parish’s ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’ has been lensed by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. The single ‘Black Hearted Love’ will be released on April 13th through Island Records. “We were both very excited that Jake and Dinos Chapman wanted to make a video for ‘Black Hearted Love’. The result is beautiful, mysterious, surreal and enhances the song wonderfully,” said PJ Harvey and John Parish of the video.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003, The Chapman Brothers came to prominence as part of Charles Saatchi’s Young British Artists, they exhibited at White Cube in 2008. The Chapman Brothers presented a suitably surreal treatment for the song, “We decided ‘Black Hearted Love’ deserved something haunting and enigmatic – yet brazen and colourful. Hence, a collision between an ominous forest and a garish bouncy castle seemed entirely appropriate… Working with Polly and John was an absolute pleasure.”

pjharvey.lucidwebs.co.uk