This was a pleasant surprise in my regular Youtube subscription email. A very simple idea that with a lot of dedication and commitment on the part Takeuchi Taijin just looks great. Better known for the awesome Stop Motion with Pig & Wolf that Range Rover (or was it Land Rover) decided to “use” for their recent TV ad.
This weekend saw the Acedia photoshoot take place (scroll down for some backstage photos from the shoot). As I previously mentioned on here I’m doing some more video work for the fashion label Sample Remix. The project is called Acedia and everyone involved is very excited and really positive about the whole thing. It’s the largest show Sample Remix has done to date and it’s a pleasure to be a creative part of it. In case you’ve missed it this is the teaser trailer for the performance:
Sample Remix has been commissioned to produce a bespoke collection to be premiered at the Festival of Sins this October 10th in Camden, North London.
She has gone beyond the expected scope of the performance resulting in a multi media audiovisual spectacle. With a custom made prequel film to be screened alongside the performance in association with makemassair and deadman dj.
This is her interpretation of Sloth and the journey of one girl experiencing the depth and depravity of the Sin.
Acedia premiering at Festival of Sins . October 10th
more details www.festivalofsins.co.uk . www.sampleremix.co.uk
The photoshoot itself was pretty painless, with no problems. Both myself and Sample Remix headed down to Cheltenham Spa on Friday afternoon and as we were arriving at the hotel we met 3 of the 7 models. After some checking in, unpacking and a brew we headed out for a walk around the town before heading to a Pub where we spent the rest of the evening. Annoyingly I woke at about half 5 (quite hungover it should be said) but by the time we got to the photography studio and met up with the remaining 4 models, the makeup artist (MUA) and photographer it was clear noone else had had much sleep, with pretty much all of us being awake since 6.
(Acedia, the photoshoot on Flickr)
The MUA began her work and ran through until gone 5. Her work was quite impressive (even more so as she had had less than 2 hours sleep) and really made the garments shine. There weren’t any problems with the shoot and the shots we saw looked really good (we should hopefully have some by the end of the week). The custom metalwork jewellery headwear some of the models wore looked fantastic.
Although there was a bit of panic on the Friday when myself and Sample Remix were on the train heading down. She got a phonecall around half 12 from the MUA who having just returned from a month in America couldn’t find the make up sheets for the shoot. This basically being the design and makeup for each of the 7 models. Sample Remix took it well (both she and the MUA had spent time going through the designs prior to the shoot, enough that the MUA had a rough idea). At this point she borrowed my Macbook Pro and began to search for a WiFi network that although a long shot on the train, was worth a go. Sadly no joy. Although thankfully the hotel had free WiFi and Sample Remix was able to quickly and rather painlessly sort out the missing makeup sheets for the MUA who then could draw them up for the following day.
All in all a great, thou tiring experience. I hope you enjoy the pictures. (I also shot some video, which you might see prior to the performance, you might not)
Levi van Veluw is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in the Netherlands. I came across his work a good few months ago now and was struck by it’s ability to present a tactility to simple presentation. His work is afaik all self portrait based being both expressive and introspective. He is a one man process.
His works constitute elemental transfers – modifying the face as object – combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object with a large visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.
Vicente Sahuc made this slow motion video in New York. Using a Steadicam mounted Casio EX-F1, shooting at 300fps he skated around the City on roller blades. Post wise, he did some colour correction and slowed the piece down to 24fps resulting in a great captivating piece.
Music: U2 – Numb
Some really beautiful black and white art from G. Bènard. A captivating darkness and erotica to the choice of poses and framing.
Living and working in Spain, Portuguese born artist G. Bènard explores the power and influence of memory in his work.
Surreal, occasionally bizarre, provocative, conceptual, often ironic, G. Bènard mixes cultures, rites and rituals, life and death. Encompassing everything human his work speaks of faith, sex, spirit and what it is to be alive and trying to make sense of a world that cannot make sense of itself.
Inner Placenta, a Dance in the Dark
a self dance in the darkness of a placenta. a self embryo in a video art poem. please listen to it loud to get the inner dialogue.”A fake self we are, in real mirrors we have”
I recommend checking out the large amount of photography on gbenard.com as well as his Youtube channel
Shot on Rebel SLR.
Still photos. Color in AE. Edit & some smoothcam in FCP. Music by fennesz.
A promotional video for maptype.com. Using the tilt shift technique, this video has gone for minature faking. A technique which involves selectively blurring part of the image, to generate a very narrow depth of field similar to that found in macro photography. This can give the image of a miniature model
