Some of my favorite types of blogs are those dedicated wholly to imagery without any need for accompanying words. Sometimes called "image bookmarking," these websites are hotbeds for inspiration as each random image provokes and stimulates the viewer. Today, I want to push the act of image bookmarking one step further. I find that combining random, found images to have an even more profound result than just posting one image at a time. By culling through the vast landscape of imagery found on the web and selecting two random images to be thoughtfully presented together, I'm manipulating the visual story and creating a new experience for the viewer.
Some of my favorite types of blogs are those dedicated wholly to imagery without any need for accompanying words. Sometimes called "image bookmarking," these websites are hotbeds for inspiration as each random image provokes and stimulates the viewer. Today, I want to push the act of image bookmarking one step further. I find that combining random, found images to have an even more profound result than just posting one image at a time. By culling through the vast landscape of imagery found on the web and selecting two random images to be thoughtfully presented together, I'm manipulating the visual story and creating a new experience for the viewer.
She's the pop singer seen jogging in Central Park. Madonna captured the style and fashion sense of generation. Especially teenage girls in the 1980s. Madonna is among the most influential people of the 1980s.
Madonna has always had a special relationship with the media. While many stars try desperately to avoid the paparazzi, Madonna has the power to manipulate the media to her advantage.
In 1985 Madonna ruled the airwaves and MTV too. Madonna at her peak was making music, videos and even movies at a fevered pace. Madonna had the media all sewn up by the mid 1980s. Madonna never had too much trouble from the paparazzi. She, in fact, seemed to embrace the photographers throughout her early career.
From her wildly teased and colored hair to the return of lace and fishnet stockings, her accessories were outrageous, and girls around the world wanted to be like Madonna even going so far as to add her trademark mole to their cheeks.
Paris Fashion Week as always was a major destination for the designer crowd recently. Boasting some of the hottest names in the industry and an A grade guest list, Paris is the home of Haute Courture.
Naturally plenty of press were on hand to give a blow by blow description of each days high and low lights. Now that the closing ceremony has come and gone the critics have given their overview of proceedings and as always it has involved an over use of adjectives and overstating the obvious.
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Leave it to me to be inspired by such a moody piece of music on the first summer-like day we've had in L.A. for a while. I can taste life most when I'm amongst juxtapositions, and the music video for Kendal Johansson's cover of Big Star’s "Blue Moon" is just the atmospheric piece to accompany this backdrop of sunshine and blue skies I can see from my bedroom window. For those of you aren't familiar with my sporadic House Music selections, the music videos I post from time-to-time are suggestions for creating a visual playlist for entertaining or just lounging in your home. I find that my party guests really enjoy music videos playing in the background (as opposed to just playing a playlist,) so my selections offer visuals that could work perfectly on your flatscreen, complimenting your home's decor with another layer of style... For me, motion picture is just as important as fresh cut flowers by the powder room sink. I've often thought that music videos, as an artistic medium, haven't received the respect that they deserve. Of course, MTV did pioneer the genre at first, but they gave that up years ago. To me, the cross section of music and film is a form of art deserving of equal status in the art world. And when I say 'art world,' I mean fine art world. Just saying.
In case you need the info: the video was directed by Philippe Tempelman and Christian Kian Zubicky, and styled by Heidi Nilausen, all students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm.
Leave it to me to be inspired by such a moody piece of music on the first summer-like day we've had in L.A. for a while. I can taste life most when I'm amongst juxtapositions, and the music video for Kendal Johansson's cover of Big Star’s "Blue Moon" is just the atmospheric piece to accompany this backdrop of sunshine and blue skies I can see from my bedroom window. For those of you aren't familiar with my sporadic House Music selections, the music videos I post from time-to-time are suggestions for creating a visual playlist for entertaining or just lounging in your home. I find that my party guests really enjoy music videos playing in the background (as opposed to just playing a playlist,) so my selections offer visuals that could work perfectly on your flatscreen, complimenting your home's decor with another layer of style... For me, motion picture is just as important as fresh cut flowers by the powder room sink. I've often thought that music videos, as an artistic medium, haven't received the respect that they deserve. Of course, MTV did pioneer the genre at first, but they gave that up years ago. To me, the cross section of music and film is a form of art deserving of equal status in the art world. And when I say 'art world,' I mean fine art world. Just saying.
In case you need the info: the video was directed by Philippe Tempelman and Christian Kian Zubicky, and styled by Heidi Nilausen, all students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm.
Anne Keothavong has claimed she would have done broken into the world's top 50 years ago were it not for “unprofessional people” at the Lawn Tennis Association. The 25-year-old rose four places to 48th in the rankings, following her run to the semi-finals in the Cellular South Cup in Memphis last week. She is the first British woman since Jo Durie 16 years ago to make it into the top 50, and it continues the relatively late blossoming of a player who was ranked 134th 12 months ago. But, although Keothavong is now content with the support provided to her by the LTA, she has criticised the sport's governing body in Britain for hampering her progress earlier in her career. The Londoner, who turned professional in 2001, said she was now reaping the benefits of working with coaches she could trust.
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