Bowie + Picasso, interpreted by Stéphane Evezard
Short animated film produced in 2004 by Paris8 University masters student Stéphane Evezard. Based on Bowie’s Pablo Picasso; from the album Reality.
Visit Stéphane’s site here.
Found via Jeanne Mehallo
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Animated album covers
New blog animates some jackets. Gif style. Go here.
The Strokes: Take It Or Leave It
Found via Nina Stoessinger
Reckless
‘Listing their influences as Courtney Love, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin, The Pretty Reckless is completed by guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins’ –Social Butterflies
Stardom hits younger these days – and with the success of Gossip Girl, the kid sister on the show – 16-year-old badger-eyed Taylor Momsen – is fronting a new band, The Pretty Reckless. [Read more →]
Alexa’s back . . . sort of
Alexa Chung Stella cover, art by clara0502
If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll have noticed that I really enjoyed this British import that found her way to MTV last year.
Unfortunately, MTV didn’t know what the hell to do with Alexa Chung. (She recently, came clean with her take on what went wrong with her MTV show.) She’s smart, funny and today is still working on conquering the US – one way or another. [Read more →]
Ghosts of Gustov Klimt
Photoshoot by Derek Kettela for 25magazine, the new Austrian fashion pub created by Anja Rubik and Sasha Knezevic.
Valentine
‘The Valentine Notebook, shares the Olivetti Valentine’s red case, pullout keyboard form and functional beauty’
Design students Julia Kaisinger, Pia Weitgasser, Martin Zopf and Tony Weichselbraun of the University of Applied Arts Vienna have rethunk Olivetti‘s Valentine typewriter. More info here.
‘Stile Olivetti’
An Olivetti Manual typewriter at Urban Outfitters? Cool comeback.
Back in the 1950s, Italian business machine manufacturer Olivetti developed a super cool house style under the design leadership of Giovanni Pintori. The work of Paul Rand, Herbert Bayer, Walter Ballmer, Ettore Sottsass, Milton Glazer followed. [Read more →]
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