GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY: TERESA CANNATA’

From left to right

1 H&M flared, high-waisted jeans

2 Black Havaianas

3 Books: one I love (IT by Stephen King) and one I haven’t read yet (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer)

4 NARS velvet matte lip pencil in Dragon Girl

5 Diptyque Tam Dao

6 My iPod (I would actually bring my iPhone with me, but I used it to take this picture)

7 Necklace with Agadez silver cross

8 Trusty (and faded) Converse All Star hi-tops in red

9 H&M basic tee in heather grey (my favourite colour for t-shirts)

10 H&M floral bed jacket (which stands for my collection of haoris, houmongi kimonos and bed jackets)

Author : Teresa Cannatà

04/05/2012
Category: GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY

EASTER

EASTER

Listen Ur A Great Babe on Soundcloud  or watch the video on You Tube

Author : Maxim Deluxe

04/02/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

THE TAIWAN OYSTER

Director Mark Jarrett spent three years in Taiwan as an English teacher and this life time experience has been crucial to him.  He said that since he experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake there in 1999, Taiwan has been tattooed on his psyche. For years the island has served as his band camp, boot camp, and romantic Neverland. Mark started thinking about setting a script in Taiwan for a long time but it wasn’t until the summer of 2007, as he began reading the novel As I Lay Dying by Faulkner, that he actually started incubating an idea about a road trip set there that touched the ideas of land, blood, place and disappointment. Directing The Taiwan Oyster, Mark has seen his dreams come true.

Filmed with a low budget, and co-written by Mark, his brother Mitchell  and longtime friend Jordan Heimer, the movie tells the story of Darin and Simon, two American  kindergarten teachers  who steal the corpse of a fallen countryman and embark on a quixotic road trip through the Taiwanese countryside in search of a suitable burial place for a person they barely knew.  Masquerading as a bender road-movie, the darkly comic film explores deep existentialist questions as the protagonists journey deeper and deeper into the Taiwanese countryside. Darin and Simon’s quest for the perfect burial spot becomes a strange trip down Taiwan’s picturesque East Coast Highway as they encounter the unique cultures of Taiwan, welcoming families, violent gangsters, and Nikita, another lost soul who joins their odyssey. Along the way, they explore the Southeast Asian ex-patriot experience, their own personal demons, and the universal questions that arise when one is confronted with an untimely death. Referring to the director’s words, The Taiwan Oyster reflects a punk rock attitude of filmmaking. It’s raw, soulful, passionate and sincere. And this is the way we like it.

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Author : Federica Mascagni

04/01/2012
Category: / THE SECRET SCREEN

WOLFPACK HUSTLE MARATHON CRASH RACE

Los Angeles. 3 a.m. 26.2 miles.

Zero cars on the streets thanks to the civic planning of the annual L.A. Marathon course  which  closed off to vehicle traffic during the early hours of the morning in preparation for the foot race. Four race categories: Women’s Fixed, Women’s Geared, Men’s Fixed, Men’s Geared. More than 2000 people. Welcome to the Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race! A special race dedicated to fixed gear, track and road bike culture in Los Angeles, a city currently dominated by the lowly automobile. They aren’t Olympians or roided-out weekend warrior types… not even close. They simply love to ride stronger, faster and to assert their rights to these gritty streets.

http://wolfpackhustle.com/

Author : Valentina Matelli

04/01/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

CHOICES, JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

John Chamberlain was born in 1927 in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and, after serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculptures influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, including Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By 1957, he began to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together. Chamberlain’s first major solo show was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, in 1960. Chamberlain’s work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. His sculpture was included in The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961, the same year he participated in the São Paulo Biennial. From 1962, Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from auto parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965, he made geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, the same year he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain’s work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971.

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Author : Redazione

03/30/2012
Category: / GENERAL

THE RUN, ETRO GOMMA

In this frantic time where speed (of thought too) is a lifestyle, in which the reach of a far target calls to take up the challenge with a restless spur, the need is to find a moment to remember the reason of our trips. The run must be not only a step on the accelerator but maximum dynamism toward our future. The competition smells of citrus, of  the masculine sourness of the artemisia, of the vitality proper of Egyptian jasmin. Of leather and amber that remember our parent’s luxury vintage jackets and sporting auto’s seats. Snappy and romantic, Etro Gomma is the fragrance to steer in style, to change route before the run becomes routine.

http://www.etro.com/en/fragrances/collection/perfumes/

 

Author : Arianna Pistorello

03/30/2012
Category: / GENERAL

oOoOO

oOoOO Sounds
Listen on Soundcloud

Author : Maxim Deluxe

03/26/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC

BALENCIAGA’S NICOLAS GHESQUIERE LOOKS INTO THE EYES OF THE NIGHT

I’ve been a supporter of Balenciaga for a long time, but I must admit the technical/sporty vibe of the latest collections designed by Nicolas Ghesquière has left me quite cold. Things are getting a bit too conceptual for my liking, but I still admire his fearless take on fashion and culture. The fall/winter 2012 collection, for example, is based on a quite complex idea, which re-works the codes of power and business dressing. Amidst an array of boxy jackets and A-line skirts, a sweater was the item of clothing which caught my attention. Well, it did more than attracting my attention: I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it. It was one of those metaphorical bells that ring in my head whenever I see something whose pattern of cultural references I’m immediately able to grasp.
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Author : Teresa Cannatà

03/25/2012
Category: / SCHOOL OF FASHION

JAMES FRANCO: THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS

James  Franco is adding a further step to his career of multitalented actor, writer, filmmaker and visual artist with a new book. James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys has just been published by Skira Rizzoli. The book is a collection of material drawn from Franco’s first solo exhibition of the same name curated by Alanna Heiss and organized by the Clocktower Gallery in New York in 2010.

 James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores themes of childhood, nostalgia, games, and destruction in multiple media including sculpture, video, photography, and drawing. Each experimental film, suite of drawings, and raw, childlike construction is presented as a window into the artist’s mind. This dense and often diaristic survey reflects Franco’s interest in the contemporary American landscape of male adolescence, young adulthood, sexuality, and the nature of masculinity itself. Franco has defaced nearly every page of  the book with funny scribbles and sometimes little pictures in black marker, like something out of a school notebook, as a means of explaining the contents further. The volume includes essays by Klaus Biesenbach, Diana Picasso, and the shows own curator, Alanna Heiss.  Release date is set for April 2012.

Image: © JAMES FRANCO: THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOUR BOYS, edited by Alanna Heiss, Skira Rizzoli, 2012.

Author : Federica Mascagni

03/25/2012
Category: / GENERAL

GALLUS CYCLES

 

This is the perfect combination between a cycling lover and an architect: Jeremy Shlachter is Gallus. Born  in Texas, he moved to Scotland in 2002 to attend the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art and there he discovered his passion for bicycles. At the beginning he thought that ride a bike was the cheapest way to move in his new city.. but when he started to work as a bicycle courrier, he became a real fellow . During his “messenger period”, his love for bikes continues to grow:  he suddenly  found that sitting in front of a computer all day was unhealthy, so he made the decision to combine passion for cycling, love of making things and  knowledge about design process, to start his new life and building bicycle frames from A to Z. This is the real story of Gallus Cycles..enjoy.

http://www.galluscycles.com

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Author : Valentina Matelli

03/25/2012
Category: / RIDE HERE RIDE NOW

PALEOZOIC DREAMS, ESTELLE DE’VE’

French-born designer Estelle Dévé is quickly becoming one of Australia’s best and brightest jewellery talents. Since her debut collection, the designer has included an impressive profile of editorial support to a growing list of national and international stockists. Now calling Australia home, Estelle’s work is regularly featured in some of the country’s more forward-thinking fashion magazines, Russh, Fallen and Oyster have been quick to notice her artisanal approach, while Florence Welsh and Susie Bubble, some of fashions’most progressive public figures, are also staunch supporters of her designs. From delicate, pewter-cast chains of gold to statement pieces of leather and resin, Estelle’s vision is both innovative and in interesting. Her work a reflection of personality and circumstance. Though completely self-taught when it comes to design, Estelle is following a familiar pattern of purpose. Both her father and aunt were at some point jewellery designers; the latter working as a fine jewellery to fashion house, Chanel, under the authority of Mr. Lagerfeld himself.

Estelle latest collection called Paleozoic Dreams drive back in time and bring to the state of precius some symbols and objects that has never been considered like that. Gold teeth, bars, irregular shapes, everything is made to give a primitive touch to the sleekest of the looks. Check out Dévè’s webpage for more details, she has talent. Really.

http://estelledeve.com/

 

Photo, Triassic Ring Set – gold pleated pewter

Author : Redazione

03/23/2012
Category: / GENERAL

WHEN SEAFOAM GREEN IS IN FASHION: THE SAVOY

The Savoy I’m going to tell you about is not the luxurious hotel in London nor the priceless sparkling-art- déco cocktail book (that I now see lying on my bookshelf as I’m writing). I’m willing to bet that you never heard of this kind of Savoy before. The Savoy by Imperial Camera Chicago was a typical of cheap 1960′s cameras. Futuristic, available in several colors and sporting an “outer space” symbol it was a main camera brand of the Herbert George Co. Chicago – Illinois, a company founded by Herbert Weil and George Israel around 1945.  Imperial box cameras were marketed under the brand name Herco as Herco Imperial. Imperial lasted as brand name for these cameras. In 1961 company ownership changed and the whole company was renamed to Imperial Camera Corp. It was made  of solid bakelite and plastic cameras, were one of the very first colorful series out in the market. I couldn’t resist picking up the mint green Savoy Mark II, in a thrift shop the other day, since it was only 7 euro and 50 cents! This camera takes 620 film, and I’ve read a little on the respooling of 120 or 35 onto the rolls. The appeal being the cool space-age design and the seafoam green color makes it more just for goofing off with it during a car ride o a short holiday.

So cheers, let’s drink a cocktail and praise my new and  beloved mint green Savoy! Hurray!

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Author : Isabella Cecconi

03/22/2012
Category: / THE THIRD EYE

GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY: VALENTINA MATELLI

From left to right

1 My surf

2 Nike Tempo short

3 Nike grey v-neck hoodie

4 Ray Ban classic Wayfarer

5 Polaroid 1000 green button

6 Madonna MDNA Tour ticket

7 Beats by Dr. Dre solo HD Headphones

8 Classic v-neck t-shirt by H&M

9 Ash val black

10 Old-rose Zara dress

Author : Valentina Matelli

03/21/2012
Category: GROW UP AND BLOW AWAY

SUGGESTED BY OLIVIA: YAHIA LABABIDI

WORDS

Words are like days:

coloring books or pickpockets,

signposts or scratching posts,

fakirs over hot coals.

Certain words must be earned

just as emotions are suffered

before they can be uttered

- clean as a kept promise.

Words as witnesses

testifying their truths

squalid or rarefied

inevitable, irrefutable.

But, words must not carry

more than they can

it’s not good for their backs

or their reputations.

 For, whether they dance alone

or with an invisible partner,

every word is a cosmos

dissolving the inarticulate

Author : Olivia Lewit

03/21/2012
Category: / POETRY BENCH

XIU XIU

Go to   XIU XIU.org or watch ‘ Beauty Towne ‘and  ’Hi’ Videos  on You Tube

Author : Maxim Deluxe

03/19/2012
Category: / LOST IN MUSIC