A gem of a tune that landed in my inbox today. This guy's from Canada and has put out a few releases. His older stuff is kinda like a cross between Girls and Panda Bear. He's putting out a full length in March, and if this hypnotic tune is anything to go by, I'd pay some attention.
Little Jungles - Nothing Will Grow from MKN on Vimeo.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
'OBLITERATION ROOM'
From the same lady who brought you 'BIG ROOM WITH MULTIPLE COLOURED DOTS' (see here and here) comes another installation of....BIG ROOM WITH MULTIPLE COLOURED DOTS. Although not plush ones, just 2D dots this time. I've had a strange penchant for stickers since I was a kid. I still have a box with my 'well done' stars lying in a box in my room with all my old stuff (life of a hoarder). Saw photos from this installation below today and did get a little excited though. I guess it's only natural to ask, WHY WASN'T I A PART OF THIS?!!
The installation was completed for the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane during December. Yayoi Kusama invited kids visiting the museum to cover the large white space in coloured dot stickers. The installation, entitled The Obliteration Room, is part of Kusama’s Look Now, See Forever exhibition that runs until March 12.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
H E C T I C running around yesterday doing a shoot with the gorgeous Amaya Laucirica for a little project of mine. Which will be out eventually...if everyone sends in their submissions on time.
Forgot to take any snaps of the clothes before we did the shoot - but I did remember to take a snap of some very cool custom made shoes Owen Holloway lent us. Here's me taking a photo of Jack taking a photo.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
VIDEO GAMES
There’s the rise and fall chords, the nostalgic orchestral upsurge (with a bit of harp thrown in for good measure) and the bedroom rasp. Then there’s the vintage montage with all your favourite snippets of italian scooters, papparazo, slow-mo floral innuendo and enough collagen to make Priscilla Presley to barf up on her mink throw rug collection. I think I forgot the preying horse in the Blue Jeans vid at 1:51 (WHERE IS MICHAEL BOLTON ?!).
Lana Del Ray is probably as original as the carnation offcuts all the chicks are donning on their heads these days (music festival, not Machevellian wedding).
You don’t need to be some cultural critic to point out that every carefully constructed element of melancholy here is slowly, but surely unleashing it’s film grain fury and latching its lomo filter unto your soul. Macbooth pout overkill, and here’s me trying to stick my fingers down my throat.
You don’t need to be some cultural critic to point out that every carefully constructed element of melancholy here is slowly, but surely unleashing it’s film grain fury and latching its lomo filter unto your soul. Macbooth pout overkill, and here’s me trying to stick my fingers down my throat.
So after listening to all this most of it with my eyes closed...I’ve come to the conclusion that her music is bearable. In fact, I think I like it. Not because there’s enough stock footage to put Metro Goldwyn Mayer into administration, or because I have a niggling penchant for text-book pop but probably because somewhere, deep down in my temporal lobes...I’ve heard this shit before. It also happens to be a real good pop song...but more about that later.
Video Games might be her one hit wonder (1.6 mil views can't be wrong) but take Yayo which is essentially Cat Power, Blue Jeans which could have been a Britney ballad 9 years ago and Diet Mountain Dew which is strangely Jewel - and you have a four tune rundown of LDR's versatile repertoire. I might be doing lazy pigeonhole labelling, but she's the one who's described herself as a 'modern day, gangsta Nancy Sinatra'. However, these comparisons do add some kind of credibility to the lookatmoi banner most hype artists flail about. I guess you could call it deja vu.
Call Steph Germanotta the first of her kind, but like every other muso, Gaga's spent a lot of time borrowing, preening, crafting and perfecting ‘her’ art. (And for the record, bovine garnments aren’t original...they’re just gross and rather unhygienic).
Like anything, inspiration is imitation. And although it builds and evolves and plucks pieces from the ether until it subsides into one big melting pot, perhaps all these ideas don't go anywhere at all.
We're stuck in a continuum of trying to move forward in our ideas, but most of the people I know are still fiddling with their Diana cams. I went to a gig last week for a band that was launching their record on tape. As in that double-sided-10x4 rectangular-thing you spent your childhood recording radio shows on.
It's not to doubt the people out there who are doing other fantastic things in the world though. It just seems that all this gen is latching onto is a bunch of regurgitated ideas. Call it an appreciation for history, but to be frank, we're all just a bunch of nostalgic wimps.
People are ready to feed off something ‘new’, but usually what we’re reciprocated with is a montage of recycled junk anyway (sort of like Lana Del Ray’s clips). Original doesn’t exist. It’s not to say the success of disposable hype-stars only thrives off the idols they’re priding themselves against, but comparisons certainly help.
Maybe I’m pointing out the obvious....but what I’m trying to say is that whether LDR’s trying to make a Nancy Sinatra of herself, contend her place as a semi-serious songwriter... or just wants to plaster her DIY vid aesthetic across the interwebs to plug her 5 minutes of fame, people ‘get' it. Why? Because we’ve seen it all before. While she’s borrowing and stealing, but she’s certainly not begging.
Video Games might be her one hit wonder (1.6 mil views can't be wrong) but take Yayo which is essentially Cat Power, Blue Jeans which could have been a Britney ballad 9 years ago and Diet Mountain Dew which is strangely Jewel - and you have a four tune rundown of LDR's versatile repertoire. I might be doing lazy pigeonhole labelling, but she's the one who's described herself as a 'modern day, gangsta Nancy Sinatra'. However, these comparisons do add some kind of credibility to the lookatmoi banner most hype artists flail about. I guess you could call it deja vu.
Call Steph Germanotta the first of her kind, but like every other muso, Gaga's spent a lot of time borrowing, preening, crafting and perfecting ‘her’ art. (And for the record, bovine garnments aren’t original...they’re just gross and rather unhygienic).
Like anything, inspiration is imitation. And although it builds and evolves and plucks pieces from the ether until it subsides into one big melting pot, perhaps all these ideas don't go anywhere at all.
We're stuck in a continuum of trying to move forward in our ideas, but most of the people I know are still fiddling with their Diana cams. I went to a gig last week for a band that was launching their record on tape. As in that double-sided-10x4 rectangular-thing you spent your childhood recording radio shows on.
It's not to doubt the people out there who are doing other fantastic things in the world though. It just seems that all this gen is latching onto is a bunch of regurgitated ideas. Call it an appreciation for history, but to be frank, we're all just a bunch of nostalgic wimps.
People are ready to feed off something ‘new’, but usually what we’re reciprocated with is a montage of recycled junk anyway (sort of like Lana Del Ray’s clips). Original doesn’t exist. It’s not to say the success of disposable hype-stars only thrives off the idols they’re priding themselves against, but comparisons certainly help.
Maybe I’m pointing out the obvious....but what I’m trying to say is that whether LDR’s trying to make a Nancy Sinatra of herself, contend her place as a semi-serious songwriter... or just wants to plaster her DIY vid aesthetic across the interwebs to plug her 5 minutes of fame, people ‘get' it. Why? Because we’ve seen it all before. While she’s borrowing and stealing, but she’s certainly not begging.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
WITHIN / WITHOUT
A few photos from monday's shoot. Prepped with multiple suitcases of make-up, props and junk....until our stylist realises he's left the clothes (an hour away). Blessed with the emergence of the Melbourne S-U-N deciding to show itself for the first time this year. We all left in good spirits, although I'm still picking out thistleweeds from my stockings.
Stylist: Iyan Difuntorum
Hair/Makeup: Rhiannon Rogers
Model: Kahrynn
Real Estate - It's Real
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