HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SOFIA & MAURO

Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello are an Argentinian duo (once a married couple) who create sharp, quirky and sexy fashion stories for many magazines. Numero in particular. They explore many different themes and ideas of female sexuality in their work, managing to explore fetishes and fantasies that are provocative without ever being crass.

Working as a team is always complicated- sometimes one will style and have the ideas whilst the other concentrates more on the technical side. Sofia and Mauro prefer to take it in turns to shoot, Mauro starting and shooting for 2-3 minutes, then stepping back whilst Sofia starts working with her camera. Later, they’ll edit the images together.

DAYS OF BEING WILD

WINTER

NUNU’S HOUSE

‘C’est la miniature que Tanaka Tomo a fait’

There are so many miniaturists in the world (we have no idea how they do it!) but we liked ‘Nunu’ the best. Her work is so innocent and adorable. The little candy suitcases, tiny cupcakes and other objects that you wouldn’t even think they’re small because they are just perfectly done with every single detail, pretending to be the actual thing. It just brings a smile to our faces!

CHRISTMAS

Merry christmas everyone!!

To download some christmas music, click here

LOVELY CONFUSION

Finally the 50s and the 90s together! Call it sweet; call it grungy; this emerging quirky trend can not be put in any category. Pink is back, that’s for sure. Everyone is referring to Clueless (1995, the American comedy by Amy Heckerling, starring Alicia Silverstone.) and diner-, skater girls of the 50s. With her catchy pop hooks and striking cinematic image, Lana Del Rey is the perfect example of this trend. The fusion of nostalgic glamour and hip-hop emerges through both her image and music. Love it or hate it this is what summer is going to look like.

Most of the photos from: betweenpeaceandhappiness

TOUCHING FLOWERS

‘The film portrays a girl being aroused by a man in the room next door touching flowers. The house seems to shake as if she has some kind of telekinetic powers that are only activated at times of stress,” the artist and director Calum Macdiarmid  explains, before  adding “The end of the film is about the awkward moment after sex; its all good fun when the music is playing and everything reaches a climax. But then there’s that moment straight after, where you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror and you think ‘what on earth was all that about?’

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN

From lipstick application to shimmering backstage solitude, Michelle Williams’s transformation into the world’s most sexiest woman is documented in this personal project by Brigitte Lacombe, French photographer. ‘Michelle was as close as you can get to becoming Marilyn; aware of my presence, but really in Marilyn ‘s world,’ she said. Lacombe flew to London at Williams’s invitation, for a dressing room portraiture session and these photographs are the amazing results.

Williams must surely be nominated again for an Academy Award as Best Actress (the real Marilyn, of course, never won an Oscar).

MCQUEEN

It’s incredible how much undersea action there’s been on the catwalks this season: from Donatella Versace’s sorbet colored shells to Giorgio Armani’s classic silhouettes and fabrics in deep aqua, and right up to Karl Lagerfeld’s full-throttle ocean-floor Grand Palais spectacular for Chanel with pearls. It’s like we’re  escaping into an underwater universe.

But Sarah Burton tapped into something far more sinister – almost primeval. Her collection is  melancholic, modest and majestic, honouring Alexander McQueen’s theatricality in a poetic way.

“I was thinking about a woman as an object of desire. We go to such lengths to adorn ourselves that we almost become our clothes or are taken over by them. This is a collection about excess – an exploration of ideals of beauty at their most extreme,” – Sarah Burton, Creative Director of Alexander McQueen.

This backstage film is really cool, created by young filmmaker Sean Frank, featuring exclusive footage.

EMPTINESS

BUON COMPLEANNO P !

I AM…

GRANDMOTHER TIPS

‘Just a few tips that my grandmother should have given me, but unfortunately never did’  by Chacho Puebla 

MAGMI

Here are a few final projects from MA Graphic Moving Image students at London College of Communication. To view all of them ( + description of videos ) please click here.

Alex Holstein – Shadowscope

Maria Rocha – Performing Words – King of Gap

Martim Monica – The Veil of time

Roman Kim – Ritual

Exhibition

Picture 1+3 from LCC staff, picture 2 by Scarlett Fu

SLOW CLUB

An ample dose of feelgood for what is a morning full of freezing here in London. Slow Club’s new video is nothing groundbreaking, but as Alex Bec says ‘I love seeing a well executed tour diary, confirming that not only is their music better than yours, also their lives are way cooler’

To those who don’t know much about this band, Slow club, is a folk-rock duo from Sheffield, England. The band formed in 2006, after the break-up of Sheffield band The Lonely Hearts.The effect is rockabilly and somewhat folksy but thankfully their songs are fairly jolly affairs without a bit of teenage angst in sight.

Other songs we like :

INNOCENCE

Every child is an artist.

School Portrait ( reality check!)

Oh, The Temptation! (2 hidden cameras, a bunch of kids, one marshmallow each)

High Stakes – Kids talking about parents ( by the way, the little boy who says ‘I like to read a book’ why aren’t you older..WHY?)