Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

AFTERSHOCK MAGAZINE

www.aftershockmagazine.com

My apologies for the missing posts and on the bright side Snoopy dancing to Paninaro by the Pet SHop Boys and styled by Katie Grand on Show Studio

Dear Shaded VIewers,

Typepad has been having problems. All should be back up and running any time now. All the best, DIane

WHen I finally got home last night much poorer, exhausted and in a rotten mood after a very long train ride that stopped on the tracks for the famous suspicious package, my train mate, Robin Schulie,  sent me the link for Katie Grand's dancing Snoopy and it did the trick. I think I'll watch it a few more times this morning until I find myself happy and smiling again.

http://www.showstudio.com/projects/movingfashion/movies/large.php/2005/12/16/2769

Thanks Katie and Show Studio.

Latear, Diane

Vellemagazine.com

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I enjoy reading the thoughts for the day as well as looking at the intriguing images on Vellemagazine.com. Here are a few from Velle's principal photographer, Leonard Rocco Greco. You might imagine, I have always loved Madonna's and today being  the anniversary of my Dad's death ... I know that I've said it before but I really believe it, people only die when you forget them.

photographs by Leonard Rocco Greco

For the new year Velle will be strengthening its fashion features with the introduction of their new fashion production team, Blood Daggers. Also, this spring they are opening a fashion exhibition  in Boston where they are based at Studio Soto.

Later,

Diane

Moving Fashion on Show Studio with Gareth Pugh and your photographic submissions for Nick Knight's shoot with Antony and the Johnsons photo shoot tomorrow

Dear Shaded Viewers,

As you probably already know, Showstudio.com is one of my favorite sites. Current projects include MOVING FASHION and at the moment they are preparing for Nick Knights shoot with Antony and the Johnsons where they have an open call for photographs to be incorporated into the shoot.

a few stills from Gareth Pugh's MOVING FASHION where he has a copy of Vogue running around the roof top of the WOWWOW squat. It is very energetic and a good way to wake up.http://www.showstudio.com/projects/movingfashion/movies/index.php/2005/11/30.

Penny Martin explains the Open Submissions project: "The concept for the portrait shoot is that the best images we receive will actually be projected onto Antony. So by contributing, not only will you have the chance to show your work to Nick and Antony and the Johnsons, you might just have some presence in the final printed story. Now, don't say we're not good to you, readers! The only condition is, of course, that the artwork must be your own."

these funereal curtains from Peter Bannan in Christchurch, New Zealand. I like the fact that I just posted an image from my Campbell Live experience in New Zealand and these great funeral curtains come from NZ as well.

Gareth's film is up till midnight today and Nick's shoot is tomorrow.

Take care,

Diane

P.S. This was posted by Gareth Pugh on SHOWstudio's Forum today:  London Fashion Week February 2006!
Hi! So I need some help... i've got a show at london fashion week in February 2006, and really need some hands to make it all come together! If youre looking for some experience, and would be up for giving me a hand, then please e-mail me through www.garethpugh.net (think its mail@garethpugh.net). I need some sculpture people, aswell! so spread the word!!!!! Hope to hear from some of you soon!!!

Thanks,

Gareth xxx

DINO DINCO : PUBERTY IS FASHION

http://www.thebsquad.com/movies/9%5EPuberty-Pals.swf

Thanks to Tracey Landon, RSA Films

Dino Dinco
Los Angeles

You're about to watch a future history of the media by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson,

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Click on the link for an interesting look into the future and new media.

http://www.lightover.com/epic/

Take care,

Diane

Chocolate Cake Productions in Cape Town with Ben Skye

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I thought that you might want to know about a hybrid new media company dealing with fashion photography-motion graphics-film-music (DJ+ sound design) and book publishing. Mr. Chocolate Cake aka Ben Skye has spent most of his life in L.A. and London and is now based in Cape Town with links with the worlds leading visual effects company's in Hollywood and Europe, including very lovely indie music labels and fun time spaces in the Japanese world.

Ben Skye of Chocolate Cake Productions is now working on the Vanity Project

In production:
The Icon project (1993-2005)
developed and researched in L.A. London and Cape Town

new genre: esoteric meets Tokyo-cowboy flick meets anime meets romeo and Juliet on speed.

Imagine: Fight Club meets Le Grand Bleu meets House of Flying Daggers

mind mandala: a code linked to an ancient lost science, is out imaged via the Icon Visionaire, the 24 month media cycle creates the first ever 21st century hero-glyph, the sound harmonic takes One into the future -wave

Ben Skye - out of work model turned actor turned director

Coming soon and live to a mobile and cinema screen its all within cellular reach.

2nd in production:

the launch of our publication , called , www.dinky-bloc.com
launching shortly
the first of 5 books
with a french-Japanese holographic twist- ooh la la !!
le roman du moment - coming soon avec art-design-photo-musings and la chanson
karma? oui + le emergeance d'leau

Ben Skye is going to be  our new Shaded correspondent from Cape Town.

Later, Diane