you can chase your dreams, as long as you're dealing with your reality.
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Friday, 23 May 2014
Crème Caramel
Sexual impulse is put under a retro-filtered microscope in Canada’s short, Crème Caramel. Giving the popular pudding top billing, the Barcelona director collective depict a portrait of desire for the latest in NOWNESS’ weekly series #DefineBeauty. Having shot music videos for Scissor Sisters and Phoenix, Canada’s Nicolás Méndez, Lope Serrano, Oscar Romagosa and Alba Barneda deconstructed the sensual yet somehow irreverent features of the female form. “When you are obsessed with someone, it’s not just with that someone—it’s with the shape of the hips, the color of the nipples, or the shade of her hair when she comes out of the shower,” says Serrano of their inspiration. “We were thinking of a metaphor that represents the heterosexual male view of the female body: something sweet, tender and beautiful—a crème caramel.” The directors captured the trembling dessert—which they insist is an aphrodisiac—alongside hyper-stylized visual motifs that include kaleidoscopic illustrations and 1970s records. While Serrano crafted the drawings featured in the short, a chance encounter with French band La Femme as he listened to the studio stereo resulted in the climactic soundtrack, “La Femme Ressort.” “When you’re making work based on visions of a woman’s body, you cannot lose your own desire, which is instinctively sexual,” says Serrano, who also cites Godard’s chapter for the 1969 multi-director feature Love and Anger as a reference. “But we’re not insisting on the simply erotic notion, it’s also anatomical: a wonderful succession of details.”
Sunday, 6 April 2014
"I don't even know how to apply for a job any more!"
If its been a while let me give you the benefit of my experience.
You'll
have to pander to inexperienced or under qualified 'Recruitment
Consultants' who are basically shiny suited sales guys more suited to
Estate Agency or working in mobile phone shops. They'll call themselves
specialists in your field but its because there is no regulation, they
can call themselves whatever they want.
You'll find jobs you
think you're perfect for on job boards but you won't get call backs,
possibly because the job doesn't exist and the agency is just pulling in
CVs for the future, possibly because the 'specialist' doesn't think you
are correct for the role because they haven't actually talked to you
and your missing a key word they are searching for from your CV.
If
you're lucky enough to get an interview, you won't get the job because
the company thinks 'we interviewed someone better' although they won't
or can't say why.
And then you'll never hear from the 'recruitment consultant' again.
If you can, start your own company. - LeaderOfTheFree
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
'Fantastic Man' - A Film About William Onyeabor
Easily one of the best 30mins I've ever experienced on the internet. Great documentary investigating the Nigerian ogah - William Onyeabor. The original Nigerian dance music pioneer, a man who has been a shrouded in mystery and myth for over 40 years. Big props to the people over at Noisey/ Vice, always going that extra mile with their video content.
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Forbes - America's Most Promising Companies: The Top 10
Forbes counts down the top ten most promising American companies on this year's list.
January 2014.
The Hollywood Reporter - The Actors: Full Uncensored Interview
Alan Arkin, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, John Hawkes, Matt Damon, and Richard Gere join THR's news director Matt Belloni and executive editor Stephen Galloway for our actors roundtable.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Child of the 90s | Internet Explorer
Microsoft has released a new advert for Internet Explorer which might
just make you cry - if you were born between 1984 and 1988, have a
taste for nostalgia and turn the music up really loud.
The 'Child Of The 90s' ad takes a trip back through everything that
was popular back in the land before iPods, including Pogs, bad haircuts
and, well, Internet Explorer.
The point is that you grew up, and so did they. So switch from Chrome already.
But the effect for the right audience - including yours truly - is
just to make you a bit weepy for a lost time when the internet made
weird noises when connecting and Rage Against The Machine were still
making albums.
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
My Philosophy: Dame Dash
The Internets went wild when a photo of Jay Z and Dame Dash together surfaced back in August. Reunited and it felt so good. Though the relationship between the former Roc-A-Fella partners went sour after years of rumored personal differences, Dame assures his bank account is what kept him from beefing.
"Because people part ways in business doesn't mean they should be considered enemies. That's just some hype that the press sold," he tells VIBE. "Anytime I ran into Jay, it was what it was going to be. I made too much money to be mad at him."
For the final installment of My Philosophy, Dame Dash also speaks on his loyalty to Cam'ron and Jim Jones and his strong belief in karma.
"My thing is to make everyone around me rich, not to say be responsible for that, [but] because I'm always secure with the friends that I love are alright," Dame adds. "We used to live by that code called the Circle of Success."
Watch him discuss the happiness of success and why he pays the bad press no mind above.
Monster looks to rebuild brand after loss of Beats
Monster looks to rebuild on its own after losing Beats by Dre
The audio cable company was in a coveted position as the decade began after launching what became the hottest headphones on the market, Beats by Dre. The audio devices had hip-hop/production legend Dr. Dre as a namesake and soon became synonymous with headphone chic. Celebrities like LeBron James, Diddy, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber launched their own signature Beats by Dre lines, and a host of other performers, athletes and entertainers became unofficial representatives as the most famous faces on the planet sported Beats on their ears.
But Beats Electronics ended its partnership with Monster last year. Even though Beats is still superhot, Monster CEO Noel Lee believes his San Francisco-based company has the proper pieces in place to regain its mojo.
The audio cable company was in a coveted position as the decade began after launching what became the hottest headphones on the market, Beats by Dre. The audio devices had hip-hop/production legend Dr. Dre as a namesake and soon became synonymous with headphone chic. Celebrities like LeBron James, Diddy, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber launched their own signature Beats by Dre lines, and a host of other performers, athletes and entertainers became unofficial representatives as the most famous faces on the planet sported Beats on their ears.
But Beats Electronics ended its partnership with Monster last year. Even though Beats is still superhot, Monster CEO Noel Lee believes his San Francisco-based company has the proper pieces in place to regain its mojo.
Friday, 6 December 2013
KANYE WEST INTERVIEW SHORT VERSION
These are selected clips from an interview with Kanye West conducted by
Tomas Koolhaas in October 2013 for his film 'REM' -a documentary about
his father, the architect Rem Koolhaas.
CONTEXT:In May 2012 OMA (Rem Koolhaas's architecture firm) designed a temporary
pavillion for Kanye West at the Cannes film festival. The purpose of the
pavilion was to screen a film purpose-made by Kanye West that was shot
using seven cameras recording simultaneously from different angles. The
pavilion housed seven separate screens, each one showing a separate
camera angle. Despite the innovative nature of the film and the pavilion
itself the entire endeavor received only a limited amount of coverage
in the mainstream media.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
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