Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Six Scents : Series Two

Subliminal By Justin Edward John Smith & 3Deep Design (Six Scents: Series Two) from Six Scents Fragrance Initiative on Vimeo.

A video installation is being organized at the Standard Hotel Spa Miami for Art Basel and will be showcasing 'Subliminal' a video piece created by the artist Justin Edward John Smith for six Scents: Series Two perfumes. The video piece will be installed in the Hammam and consists of 3 projectors, smoke and a very intense score. It was originally created to capture the emotions behind each Six Scents: Series Two fragrance.

There has been a limited edition box set of fragrances produced exclusively for the Standard which includes an original print by the artist. December 1 - 6 The Standard Spa Miami Beach (in The Hammam) 40 Island Avenue Miami Beach, Fl 33139 Art Basel Miami Beach 2009

GRIFFIN`S SHOOT WITH STEVE OLSON

11.17.09

I spent the day shooting with Diane and mine, good friend artist, legendary pro skater, and over all madman Steve Olson. Olson was one of the subject of the portrait series book HARMONY that I produced last year for ARC JAPAN. Olson and I are shooting his pieces for a new site that we are creating to feature his work. It will be the first time that his work is available on line for purchase. Ernesto, a director of photography friend of mine, came and helped us with the shoot. Below find some off shots from the shoot as well as a the first video from the STEVE'S RANTS series that will be featured on the site. Check back here for more info on Olson's work and the launch of site soon. 

- GRIFFIN 

 

OFF SHOTS by FREDERICK GUERRERO

FASHION FILM - WHEN YOU'RE A STAR - by JAIME RUBIANO & JASON LAST

When You're A Star is the latest fashion film collaboration between Jaime Rubiano & Jason Last. 

Art directed & styled by Jaime Rubiano, the film was shot in the famous Pigalle red-light district of 

Paris and stars models Skye Stracke & Aminata Niaria. All clothing in the film is Emanuel Ungaro 

AW09; Esteban Cortazar's third collection with the brand.

Here are some of Jaime's images from the shoot that guided the direction of the piece. X

 

 

Nick Knight SHOWstudio - Fantasia

www.showstudio.com

CPH:DOX screening in Copenhagen of COMPLAINTS CHOIR by Ada Bligaard Søby

Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men

FASHION FILM FUTURE: "PORTENT" by NICK KNIGHT FOR YOOX/thecorner.com

Print magazines are slow to catch on to the medium of web video, and haven't yet started making fashion film editorials, so e-shopping sites are filling the gap:

Yoox.com's boutique daughter site thecorner.com is presenting Portent, a fashion film project created in collaboration with SHOWstudio and exclusively devised and directed by photographer Nick Knight, to celebrate the introduction of women's collections to thecorner.com.

Released in tandem with the collections' appearance online, the film showcases an allegorical love-story expressed through Autumn/Winter 2009-10 fashion including Maison Martin Margiela, Haider Ackermann, Rick Owens and Viktor & Rolf.

As the models sensuously pose on screen to the sophisticated but dramatic soundtrack of violins, the credits for the items appear underneath.

The only thing missing ? the link to put the items in our e-shopping cart.

Watch the film here.

Lunch with Bruce LaBruce in Paris by Glenn Belverio

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I caught up with my friend Bruce LaBruce on the rue Saint Opportune today. He's in Paris for a program he curated at the L'Etrange Festival at Forum des Images called "Carte Blanche A Bruce LaBruce." (His t-shirt, by the way, is from a series that combines the names of directors with punk rock or heavy metal band iconography--in this case, Hungarian director Bela Tarr & Black Flag). After lunch we went to his screening of Jean Genet's "Un Chant d'Amour" where Bruce told the audience, "I first saw this film 30 years ago and it's had a subconscious effect on all of my work." The film is not very long, but it's silent--so through the whole thing you could hear every little sound in the theater, including heavy breathing, grumbling irritated bowels, and a man right in front of me who fell fast asleep and started snoring loudly. (I shook his seat and woke him up).

I first saw Genet's film back in the mid-'80s, when I was but a tween, and it had a transformative effect on me. I think it was the 2nd explicitly gay film I had ever seen (the 1st was "Boys in the Band" which traumatized me at age 12) and every time I see it, I am always astonished by its provocativeness and its ability to cover the homosexual gamut of complex emotions and primal gestures of lust in such a short amount of time. Every still of the film is a vivid image that has left an indelible impression on my memory. The image of a bouquet of flowers being swung from one prison window to the next, with the receiver's hand trying in vain to catch it, summed up how I felt about the hopelessness of gay love when I was first coming out.

Here are the first 5 minutes of the film; I recommend turning off your sound as the film has no soundtrack:

Love,

Glenn Belverio

Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in 'The Fugitive Kind'

Blow Up - Michelangelo Antonioni

Some scenes featuring Jane Birkin and Gillian Hills from the 1966 Antonioni's film Blow UP.

Vanessa Redgrave

Later,

Diane