Vogue’s Godfather
Notorious Steven Meisel has been the only monthly cover photographer that Vogue Italia has known for more than 20 years. He’s a master of style, perfection and reinvention.
Haute Mess Gifs by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia March 2012
Vogue patterns photographed by Meisel for Vogue Italia December 2007
This post is made possible thanks to Janneke Verhoeven.
This entry was written by , posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:30 am, filed under Fashion, Photography. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
GO Bunny App
Turn yourself into the bunny in Diplo & Oliver Twizt’s video and share it with your friends.
Download GO Bunny App here.
And there, an article written about it on XOXO magazine.
This entry was written by , posted on February 22, 2012 at 5:24 pm, filed under Digitalization, Ecstatic Surface Design, Friends, Internet, Photography, Pinar&Viola. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Denizli, where the ESD013 will be manufactured
We were in Denizli yesterday. Currently we are working on our Ecstatic Surface Design 2013, after The Credit Card Collection and Diva Opaque: Anonymous Guardians of Intimacy. The collection will be launched in May, in the new exhibition space of Murat Pilevneli, in Istanbul. A completely different city than Istanbul, but we again managed to be magnetized by utterly chinese fake flowers and decapitated male models.
This entry was written by , posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:17 pm, filed under Ecstatic Surface Design, Folk, Photography, Pinar&Viola. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
P&V&Istanbul Prelude 4 Project runway
This entry was written by , posted on February 6, 2012 at 5:21 pm, filed under Folk, Ghetto gold, Photography, Pinar&Viola. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Anna’s hyper zone
“The form of the Ensemble is my offer of interaction. It appears to some to be subjectivist, autistic, monomaniacal. And yet I would like to be a mediator between the different disciplines, between reason and sensual perception, between art and science, between ordinary citizen and outsider.” Anna Oppermann
Ensembles is the title that German artist Anna Oppermann (1940-1993) gave to her large-scale installations, they are a special mix of conceptual, processual, graphical, and spatial art.
Oppermann saw the world and human relations as “Ensembles,” as mutable constellations of perception and reflection, of norms, stories, emotions, and theories. Observing her private and social everyday life in detail, she sought to find objects, images, and concepts that seemed to her to encapsulate its abysses, absurdities, and areas of conflict. She made drawings, photographs, paintings, described what she found, she collected texts and quotations, and arranged all these components in Ensembles. These installations were photographed from various perspectives and in changing constellations and the photographs were then in turn integrated in new stagings, lending her works their unique openness.
This post is made possible by Jana Aylin.
This entry was written by , posted on January 20, 2012 at 4:37 pm, filed under Art, Other ecstatics, Photography, Visual ecstasy. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Celebrities attacking paparazzis
This post is taken from an article on supersuper. You can see the elaborate post here.
This entry was written by , posted on January 17, 2012 at 7:46 pm, filed under Photography, Various. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Babylonic. P&V in Istanbul. Prelude 3
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Simulating Iraq
These photographs were made on military bases within the U.S., in fabricated spaces designed to mimic Iraq and Afghanistan. The simulations include the use of specific architecture, objects and costumes, and Americans (both soldiers and civilians) who role-play as Iraqis and Afghans.
In some respects, a visit to these places can be confusing. One wonders, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? Who is a real Iraqi and who is a fake insurgent? What does it feel like for a soldier to play the role of her or his enemy? What does it mean to a young soldier who has his or her first encounter with difference in this environment? These spaces are meant as imitations of reality, but they take on their own realities for soldiers on their way to a real war zone.
Claire Beckett is a Boston-based artist. Originally from Chicago, she earned a BA in anthropology at Kenyon College. She worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, before going on to earn an MFA in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Represented by Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, her solo exhibitions have included Carroll and Sons, Bernard Toale Gallery, the University of Rhode Island, and the Wadsworth Atheneum (opening November 2011). Group exhibitions have included Mass MoCA, the Chelsea Museum of Art, the Haggerty Museum, and others. Beckett is the recipient of an Artadia Award and a Mass Cultural Council Grant.
Via Guernicamag
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Pinar&Viola in Istanbul. Prelude 2
Following our former Istanbul post
This entry was written by , posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:35 pm, filed under Folk, Ghetto gold, Photography, Pinar&Viola, Subculture. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Asgarda amazons
Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men. Approximately 150 women live together under the leadership of 30-something Katerina Tarnousk. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. French photographer Guillaume Herbaut met the Asgarda and documented their daily life and studies.
Via Teenage
This entry was written by , posted on January 2, 2012 at 8:37 pm, filed under Photography, Political glam, Subculture. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Ковер
Kover ( Ковер ) is a Russian meme which began being circulated in early 2007 and took shape on LiveJournal, a popular blog community in Russia. The meme consists of one or more persons photographed with a carpet as backdrop, either on the floor or – more typically – hung on the wall.
The memes are like gateways to Russian sub-culture and cultural history. The domestic amateur-photography reveal the life and vices of the subjects: stuffed squalid interiors, satanic rituals, frontal flash, acne, teenage angst, guns, booze, track suits, baseball bats, gangsigns and sex are recurring motifs.
The carpets were originally bought for insulation and to make up for the paper thin walls, through which you could hear everything going on next-door, and have been inherited through several generations. In the pictures you typically see carpets hanging in rooms furnished with Ikea furniture and plasma TVs bought on credit.
In the more wealthy families carpets cover all four walls, floor, couches and chairs, making the apartment look like the dwelling of Mongolian nomads. But there is also a significant percentage of office workers, living in cheap rental housing, who have carpets on their walls.
This post is made possible by Timur Akhmetov, Asger Behncke Jacobsen, Chi-Long Trieu and Jozef Ondrik as part of The Trending Topic magazine. Please read about the magazine and see another relating entry by clicking here.
This entry was written by , posted on December 16, 2011 at 1:35 pm, filed under Folk, Graphic design, Internet, Photography, Various and tagged Folk. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Call it Tuesday in Cancun
The Trending Topic is an online magazine about Post Internet behavior. You can’t think away The Internet anymore. You cannot create something contemporary without taking its effects into account. The Internet is no longer just a promise, it’s a fact. The first issue, #OPTIMZE., is made by the 2nd year graphic design students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as an assignment posed by Jonathan Puckey and Pinar Demirdag.
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