A for ART pt7

TUNE TO HEAR pt 8

http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter 

Halcyon Digest was just released on September 28th 2010 from American indie-rock band Deerhunter. This being their fourth studio album, it is interesting to look back; as a group they have progressed a lot from their very first album "Turn it up Faggot" released in 2005. An album, that to say the least was little more than noise. In 2008, they released Microcastle, a surreal collection of dream like melodies and angry post- punk instruments. Since then they have developed a sound categorized under several genres from punk-rock to ambient. This new album proves a little more sustainability with easy going tracks like "Revival" and "Desire Lines". About the title, vocalist Bradford Cox stated "The album's title is a reference to a collection of fond memories and even invented ones, like my friendship with Ricky Wilson or the fact that I live in an abandoned victorian autoharp factory. The way that we write and rewrite and edit our memories to be a digest version of what we want to remember, and how that's kind of sad."

Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter; Key Tracks: Revival, Helicopter, Desire lines

Colour and Miranda

TUNE TO HEAR pt 7

http://www.myspace.com/wewerepromisedjetpacks

Indie rock band We Were Promised Jetpacks hails from Edinburgh, Scotland where they formed in 2003 and played their first show together, winning their school's battle of the bands competition. Since then, this young band has moved to Glasgow, been discovered and signed by label Fat Cat Records, and have released one studio album called These Four Walls. The band has cited label- mates Frightened Rabbit as an influence, but their sound consists of a fast paced drum beat similar to that of band Joy Division, and a lead singer hollering with a thick Scottish accent. The band is currently on tour with Jimmy Eat World around North America. For more information check out the band's myspace page, link posted above.

Scottish band "We Were Promised Jetpacks" first studio album These Four Walls; Key Tracks: Roll Up Your Sleeves, It's Thunder and Lightening

 

GETTING GRAPHIC WITH IT

This season designer's like Christopher Kane are getting visual with a cool new way to wear your leathers, with a graphic t-shirt. From apes to space, they look edgy. Wear them with jeans or leather pants, booties, and relaxed hair.

Christopher Kane

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Christopher Kane

Acne

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Christopher Kane

CIGARETTE BURNS

SAVING CREATIVITY

THE FIGHT FOR ART

As per usual, the government is seriously considering cutting necessary funding from the arts. That means less funding for local galleries, art exhibitions, seminars, classes, schools, organizations, etc. Despite the fact that the arts are a major part of culture and entertainment, it is also a major industry that supplies vast employment and pumps money into our economy.
Below is a link to a clever and informative video by illustrator David Shrigley about the significance of art in the U.K. and why it funding is imminent to it's survival.

http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/09/15/save-art-in-the-uk/

RUPERT MEATS (RUDE)

tiff. 2010

TAXI DRIVER

For those of you who don't know what tiff. is, it's the Toronto International Film Festival, and it's happening as we speak. 
tiff. began as a ten day film festival, and has since grown into a year round organization that supplies Toronto with screenings, lectures, discussions, workshops and more for all of Canada's film appreciators. The organization is currently celebrating it's 35th active year bringing the best of international and Canadian film to Toronto.

In the spring of 2009, they polled film critics, Festival-goers, TIFF programmers and TIFF supporters, asking which films they considered essential cinema. After arduous poll taking, the Essential 100 was born.

the essential 100

1 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
3 L'AVENTURRA (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
4 THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
5 PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
6 SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
7 PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray)
8 CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
9 MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
10 BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio De Sica)
11 ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
12 8 1/2 (Frederico Fellini)
13 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
14 RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa – 2)
15 TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
17 UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi)
18 BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 L'ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)
20 CINEMA PARADISO (Giuseppe Tornatore)
21LA GRANDE ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
22 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean)
23 PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
24 GONE WITH THE WIND (Victor Fleming)
25 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
26 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
27 VOYAGE IN ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
28 AMELIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
29 CITY LIGHT (Charlie Chaplin)
30 STAR WARS (George Lucas)
31 SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
32 RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir – 2)
33 THE LEOPARD (Luchino Visconti)
34 LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini - 2)
35 L'ARRIVEE D'UN TRAIN A LA CIOTAT (Frères LumiereLouis Lumière and Auguste Lumière)
36 THE WIZARD OF OZ(Victor Fleming – 2)
37 LA JETEE (Chris Marker)
38 VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
39 NIGHT AND FOG(Alain Resnais)
40 PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
41 THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
42 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle)
43 THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
44 CITY OF GOD(Fernando Meirelles)
45 TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
46 APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola – 2)
47 SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
48 THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman - 2)
49 LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE (Georges Méliès)
50 METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
51 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS Gillo Pontecorvo)
52 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar Wai)
53 VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
54 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Roberto Benigni)
55 THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophüls)
56 PAN'S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro)
57 THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE.. (Max Ophuls)
58 BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
59 THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Abbas Kiarostami)
60 LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (Marcel Carné)
61 BRINGING UP BABY (Howard Hawks)
62 SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen)
63 JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray)
64 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick – 2)
65 MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPEMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
66 M (Fritz Lang – 2)
67 SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger)
68 PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock – 2)
69 DUST IN THE WIND (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
70 SCHINDLER'S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
71 NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
72 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
73 WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
74 JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut – 2)
75 CHRONIQUE D'UN ETE (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
76 THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
77 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
78 SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder)
79 JAWS (Steven Spielberg - 2)
80 ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
81 THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)
82 CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar Wai - 2)
83 LA NOIRE DE... (Ousmane Sembene)
84 RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese - 2)
85 THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
86 CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
87 ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
88 WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
89 VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
90 WRITTEN ON THE WIND (Douglas Sirk)
91 THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
92 BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
93 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
94 BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
95 A NOS AMOURS (Maurice Pialat)
96 CLEO DE 5 A 7 (Agnès Varda)
97 ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER Pedro Almodóvar)
98 EARTH (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
99 OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
100 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)

A for ART pt 6

DINNICK & HOWELLS 

JUXTAPOSED CARDS

Creative design team Dinnick & Howells put together these clever cards from pictures collected from two of Toronto's visual reference libraries back in 2004. This idea came in an effort to help the visually literate express themselves when the right words are difficult to find, too cliche, or just not enough. The backs of these hilarious cards simply read "just read the pictures and the meanings will appear before your very eyes.

Sweet Heart

Miss You

Tanks (Thanks) A lot

Ho Ho Ho (Christmas Card)

 Say hello to the "tache". This odd looking fellow is actually a new character type merged of "t" and "h" ; inspired by the "thorn", a similar looking character from the middle ages . The Obama administration is proposing its addition to our modern, latin (English) alphabet as a part of their commitment to environmental responsibility. Carnegie Mellon University has found conclusive research that the combination "th" occurs more than any other in the latin alphabet. The combination of the two letters into one could save an unbelievable 1.21 billion newspaper pages per year in the US alone; translated to a 3% decrease in the cutting of domestic forests.

The idea has not yet been accepted or confirmed due to hesitation of the "tache's" affect on computer keyboards, spell checkers & dictionaries, and general training of the eye would be drastic.

I would personally be thrilled to see this sustainable little wonder reach our mainstream.

OUT - fitted

Fur: Etro, Pumps: Laboutin, Hat: Vintage, Leggings: Splendid, T-Shirt: Bassike, Bag: Alexander Wang, Necklace: Donna Karan, Claw Ring: Pamela Love, Geode Ring: Lady Grey, Rat Jaw Ring: Emilie Morris

Jean Leggings: J Brand, T-Shirt: Christopher Kane, Boots: Sam Edelman, Suede Fringe Jacket: Acne, Bag: Chanel, Spider Swarovski crystal ring: Roberto Cavalli, Talon Ring: Pamela Love, Bird skull ring: Pamela Love

 

Leather Jacket: Bess, T-shirt: Rick Owens, Shorts: Current & Elliott, Bag: Balenciaga, Boots: All Saints, Jewelry: Alex & Chloe