Donnerstag, 19. November 2009
Sonntag, 8. November 2009
The Tyde
The Tyde are an American indie rock group. Tracing their roots to early 90’s LA indie band Further, formed by Darren Rademaker and brother Brent, The Tyde cite Felt, The Beach Boys and The Byrds as major influences.
The initial line-up featured Darren Rademaker (vocals, guitars), Darren's ex-wife Anh Do Rademaker (keyboards) and brother Brent Rademaker (bass, vocals) as well as Ben Knight (guitar), Christopher Gunst, Brent's partner in Beachwood Sparks, (drums) and Dave Scher (guitars). Gunst was replaced by Rick Menck of Velvet Crush after debut album Once while Scher became simply an 'additional musician' for second album Twice.
Both 2001s Once and its follow-up, 2003s Twice, showcase the band's love of surfing. The former featuring the song "North Country Times", about time spent in surfers' paradise Encinitas, while the latter features a cartoon of a surfer heading out to the waves as well as the track "New D" featuring the lyrics "ain’t gonna fight 'em anymore, leave those bastard people on the shore, surf a wave on a single-fin board"
Brent Rademaker also played bass in Beachwood Sparks with former Further and Tyde member Christopher Gunst. He now shares his time between The Tyde and his new group Frausdots. Gunst's new group, Mystic Chords Of Memory, also features Ben Knight on guitar.
Three's Co., The Tyde's third album, was released in 2006 (April/UK; July/Japan; August/USA) and features guest appearances from Mickey Madden of Maroon 5 and Conor Deasy of The Thrills. wikipedia.org
The Tyde - 'Brock Landers' - youtube.com
Sheefun Chan for Ann-Sofie Back AW 09
dreamcatcher earrings
multi dreamcatcher earrings
large dreamcatcher necklace
small dreamcatcher necklace
Samstag, 7. November 2009
Beachwood Sparks
last.fmLos Angeles-based cosmic country-pop combo the Beachwood Sparks was formed in mid-1998 by onetime Strictly Ballroom singer/guitarist Chris Gunst, slide guitarist/keyboardist Dave Scher, ex-Further bassist Brent Rademaker, and Lilys drummer Aaron Sperske. Inspired by the pioneering country-rock efforts of West Coast legends like The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Buffalo Springfield, the group issued acclaimed singles for Bomp! (“Desert Skies”) and Sub Pop (“Midsummer Daydream”) prior to the spring 2000 release of their superb self-titled debut LP. Their polished sophomore effort, Once We Were Trees, followed in fall 2001. last.fm
Beachwood Sparks - 'By Your Side' youtube.com
Beachwood Sparks - Canyon Ride (live acoustic) taken from youtube.com
Sonntag, 1. November 2009
Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy is an upcoming film about John Lennon's childhood and adolescence and the feature film directorial debut of director Sam Taylor-Wood. The film, which is based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Lennon's half sister Julia Baird, is about Lennon's teenage years and his first steps to stardom and will focus on the influence his Aunt Mimi and his mother Julia had on his early life, and his friendship with future fellow Beatle Paul McCartney. Wikipedia.com
Samstag, 31. Oktober 2009
An Education
Based on a true story by Lynn Barber, one of the best films i've seen this year.
Observer writer and interviewer Lynn Barber was an innocent 16-year-old schoolgirl when she met an older man and began a relationship that lasted two years. By day she was a diligent student; by night 'Simon' charmed her with dazzling stories, expensive restaurants and foreign films. And then came a rude awakening. In this exclusive extract from her memoir - now made into a film starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike - she describes her introduction to an adult world of sexuality and betrayal and how she was damaged by her suitor's lessons in life. Read on.
extract taken from guardian.co.uk
extract taken from guardian.co.uk
Samstag, 10. Oktober 2009
Anita Pallenberg
bilderquelle: photobucket.comAnita Pallenberg (born 25 January 1944) is a model, actress and fashion designer. Pallenberg is known for her romantic involvement with Rolling Stones band members Brian Jones, whom she met in 1965 in Munich where she was working on a modelling assignment, and Keith Richards, for whom she left Jones in 1967 while on holiday in Morocco. There were rumours that she also had a brief affair with Mick Jagger during the filming of Performance, although Pallenberg denied the affair in March 2007 when Performance was released on DVD.
Author A. E. Hotchner mentions Pallenberg's influence on the development and presentation of the Rolling Stones from the late 1960s and through the 1970s. She played an unusual role in the male-dominated world of rock music in the late 1960s, acting as much more than just a groupie or partner of a band member. Jagger respected her opinion enough that tracks on Beggars Banquet were remixed when Pallenberg criticised them. In the 2002 compilation release of Forty Licks, Pallenberg is credited as singing background vocals on "Sympathy for the Devil".
Nite Jewel
bildquelle: myspace.comNite Jewel video for the song "Lover". Directed by Travis Peterson
quelle: youtube.com
quelle: youtube.com
Nite Jewel is the performing moniker of Ramona Gonzalez. She is a composer, songwriter, and multimedia artist from Los Angeles, California, where she has exhibited a number of video and sound installation pieces. A recent sound installation entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” has been transcribed to traditional notation by Human Ear Music founder, Jason Grier. She has collaborated with Julia Holter and Cole M.G.N. of Haunted Graffiti, curated an two exhibitions at the Tiny Creatures gallery, and performed the work of Michael Pisaro. She is currently a philosophy student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles.
The Nite Jewel project is a remarkable combination of revisionist Bronx pop and hazy musical impressionism. Like her ex-pop peers, Ariel Rosenberg and Geneva Jacuzzi, she records solely on portable 8-track cassette deck, often composing her songs by layered tape edits. In Nite Jewel’s case, however, the quality of her chosen medium seems to be neither a means nor an end, but rather a device to lend an ethereal kind of efficacy to the golden age of alternative disco. As influences, she has cited dance floor greats Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam and Debbie Deb, 90’s R&B, as well as Experimental, New Age, and Shoe Gaze. (humanearmusic.com)
Tom Wood - Looking For Love
bilderquelle: elysee.chTom Wood and (born west of Ireland, 14 January 1951) is a notable contemporary street photographer working in the north of England, particularly Merseyside (1978-2001). He has had numerous solo shows and his work has been collected in five books. Together with Martin Parr and Paul Graham, Wood represents the first generation of British fine art colour photography and is often named as an influence in published interviews with young British photographers. He has worked with colour negative film continuously since 1976, while often using both black and white and colour in different locations.
The pictures in his first book, Looking For Love (1989) were made between 1982 and 1985, and features the infamous Chelsea Reach nightclub.
The pictures in his first book, Looking For Love (1989) were made between 1982 and 1985, and features the infamous Chelsea Reach nightclub.
Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense (1984) is a concert movie featuring Talking Heads live on stage. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The movie is notable for being the first made entirely utilizing digital audio techniques. The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "Girlfriend is Better": "As we get older and stop making sense...". The film is hailed by many as being "one of the greatest rock movies ever made" (Leonard Maltin). (wikipedia.org)
'Psycho Killer' first song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
'Heaven' second song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
'Thank You for Sending me an Angel' third song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
'Psycho Killer' first song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
'Heaven' second song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
'Thank You for Sending me an Angel' third song of Stop Making Sense (youtube.com)
Sonntag, 4. Oktober 2009
Kings of Convenience - Boat Behind
bildquelle: cdn.pitchfork.comArtist: Kings of Convenience
Album: Declaration of Dependence
Release Date: October 20
Label: Virgin
Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009
Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009
Ann-Sofie Back Hostage Store
Ann-Sofie Back is held hostage by We Are Group. After countless crimes over the years, we demand Ann-Sofie Back to stop her crimes against fashion. Watch Ann-Sofie Back's latest crime against fashion. Visit the Hostage store from October 15. Sturegallerian, Grev Turegatan9, Stockholm.
youtube.com
Mittwoch, 30. September 2009
Dienstag, 29. September 2009
Dienstag, 15. September 2009
Rare bird of Fashion - The Irreverent Iris Apfel
bildquelle: amazon.com
A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and patterns without regard to period, provenance or, ultimately, aesthetic convention, she is one of the few style icons of our time. Here, in over ninety sumptuous colour plates, Eric Boman shows off a selection of her extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins.
all images taken from 'Rare bird of Fashion - The Irreverent Iris Apfel'
Sonntag, 13. September 2009
Grey Gardens.
bildquelle: www.southdacola.com
original trailer (1976); youtube.com
remake 2009 with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, youtube.com
Little Edie explaining her 'Costume of the Day', youtube.com
Grey Gardens before and after, youtube.com
Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles, with Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of the two Edith Beales, a reclusive socialite mother and daughter of the same name who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.
Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale were the aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The two women lived together at Grey Gardens for decades with limited funds, resulting in squalor and almost total isolation.
The house was designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe in 1897, and purchased in 1923 by Phelan Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale. After Phelan left his wife, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale lived there for decades more, over 50 years in total for each woman. The house was called Grey Gardens because of the color of the dunes, the cement garden walls, and the sea mist.
In the fall of 1971 and throughout 1972, their living conditions—their house was flea-infested, inhabited by innumerable cats and raccoons, lacked running water, and was full of garbage and decay—were exposed as the result of an article in the National Enquirer and a cover story in New York Magazine after a series of inspections (which the Beales called "raids") by the Suffolk County Health Department. With the Beale women facing eviction and the razing of their home, in the summer of 1972 Jacqueline Onassis and her sister Lee Radziwill provided the necessary funds to stabilize and repair the dilapidated house so that it would meet Village codes.
Albert and David Maysles became interested in their story and received permission to film a documentary about the women, which was released in 1976 to wide critical acclaim. Their cinema vérité technique left the women to tell their own stories. (textquelle: wikipedia.org)
Dienstag, 8. September 2009
The Pastels // Tenniscoats - Vivid Youth
The Pastels and Tenniscoats
cover of the new album, out Sept.7th 2009
quelle: youtube
Mittwoch, 2. September 2009
Betty Broadbent.
Betty Broadbent was born in 1909, and worked as a mother's helper in Atlantic City, New Jersey, at the young age of fourteen. She spent her days on the beach and boardwalk, which was where she met Jack Redcloud, a tattooist. Later on, she was tattooed by Charlie Wagner, a tattooist from New York, who was one of the first to use the electric tattoo machine.
Betty had more than 350 tattoos all over her body, many which were of famous people of the time. A likeness of Queen Victoria was nestled in her decolletage. Her tattooed body landed her a job with the Ringling Brothers, as well as Barnum and Bailey Circus, which were two major shows of the era. Betty performed for over 40 years with every significant American circus, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. She was very popular, for a woman with tattoos was a very unusual spectacle. Another reason for her appeal was the contrast between her tattooed body, and the freshness of her face, which she kept tattoo-free.
Betty eventually became a tattoo artist herself. She was often found tattooing at one of the many arcades in San Francisco. In 1967, she retired from the circus world, and settled in central Florida, near Tampa.
Dienstag, 1. September 2009
Feathers up my Arse.
Had this email from the amazing Julie Verhoeven in my inbox today:
Dear All,
I am pleased to inform you all about my forthcoming solo show at ZINGERpresents (Amsterdam)........just in caseyou may be in Amsterdam or have frorends who might fancy coming long?
Julie Verhoeven
'Feathers up my Arse'
11 September - 17 October'
OPENING 5 SEPTEMBER 2009 17.30 - 20.30h.
ZINGERpresents
Gerard Doustraat 154
1073 VX Amsterdam
info@zingerpresents.net
www.zingerpresents.net
Hope to see you all,
Julie x
Dear All,
I am pleased to inform you all about my forthcoming solo show at ZINGERpresents (Amsterdam)........just in caseyou may be in Amsterdam or have frorends who might fancy coming long?
Julie Verhoeven
'Feathers up my Arse'
11 September - 17 October'
OPENING 5 SEPTEMBER 2009 17.30 - 20.30h.
ZINGERpresents
Gerard Doustraat 154
1073 VX Amsterdam
info@zingerpresents.net
www.zingerpresents.net
Hope to see you all,
Julie x
BLESS.
Montag, 31. August 2009
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