Thursday, December 31, 2009
In the grand retrospective tradition of closing out the year, beautycall would like to acknowledge the ad campaigns we loved in 2009. 1. Dos Equis – Most Interesting Man in the World Though this campaign launched back in April, 2007 in targeted markets, two new spots went national in 2009, airing during several popular primetime [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
When Hendrik Kerstens decided to dedicate himself entirely to photography in 1995, he turned to a model very near at hand – his daughter, Paula. He captured incidents throughout her development, such as her first day with braces or getting a bad sunburn, in an effort to immortalize those memories that make up life but [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Loving the multiple… – Images via MODELS and but does it float
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Last week, Rolling Stone named their top 100 albums of the decade. Here are the Top Ten (click through for video)… 1. Radiohead, Kid A 2. The Strokes, Is This It 3. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 4. Jay Z, The Blueprint 5. The White Stripes, Elephant 6. Arcade Fire, Funeral 7. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers [...]
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Questa is an artist based in Tokyo who conducts live performance paintings using fluorescent paint under blacklight. Excerpts from an interview with Questa earlier this year… Q: Is there a reason you prefer fluorescent paints? Energy is closely related to light, specifically the light that comes from the sun. I want people to get their [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
We met Karmela Lozina at the HBA trends conference where she was speaking on a panel. She’s cut and styled basically every kind of person you can imagine: celebrities, models, musicians, circus entertainers, designers, you name it. So, we sent her a list of some questions and asked if she could give us some feedback. [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
For the new prefall collection of Chanel: Paris-Shanghai, Karl Lagerfeld wrote & directed a short movie,”Paris-Shangai: A fantasy”, just as he did with last year’s Paris-Moscow collection. In the movie you can spot Freja Beha Erichsen, Heidi Mount & of course, Karl’s fave: Baptiste Giabiconi. – –
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It is rare to be able to follow the complete evolution of an artist’s ideas, but through the work of prolific sculptor Constantin Brancusi, it is possible to see the evolution of his thought in precise intervals, to follow his idea from its inception, through its intermediary phases into ultimate realization. From the 1920s to [...]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Maison Hermès in Tokyo commissioned Tokujin Yoshioka to recreate his 2004 installation for their December windows – a video of a woman alternatively blowing air through two scarves. Aside from its inherent aesthetic value, it’s interesting how the product is encapsulated within the performance without being subsumed by it. Often with such large, essentially two-dimensional [...]
Maurizio Anzeri is an Italian artist based in London who embroiders over found photographs. In the post-modern tradition, his work emphasizes the visual and tactile qualities of both the photograph and the thread, but exploits the banality of both materials – an unfamiliar photograph, thread made of synthetic hair – to create something meaningful. “I [...]