Going down…..

Skanky hoes in cheap knickers, fake gold and shiny shoes ?

We listed A$AP in our Ones to Watch 2012. We love being right.

Can’t wait for Summer. It’s gonna be a while.

Following up on their award winning Numbers In Action video the boys next-door, Us Design, hook up with Wiley again to get us all back in the gym with their Boom Blast video – if Wiley can do it so can we right? (especially when ur lifting air).

Wiley
Boom Blast (Big Dada)
Director: Us
Prod co: A+
DoP: Ben Magahy
Producer: Liz Kessler
Production Company: A+ (Academy Plus)
Editor: Ed Cheeseman @ Final Cut
Colourist: Ned Al-Astrabadi @ Smoke & Mirrors
Commissioner: Jamie Collinson
Watch: here

GIFS via promonews

This chick’s performing with Annie Mac at Koko on Saturday.

Great mouth.

Obviously the wardrobe will pay a key role in their story – Can’t wait!

Heard this track at the start of the festival season, straight into the playlist. Produced by the masked one SBTRKT, featuring one of our favorites Roses(headdress fan and drinker of tea) and also, we find out, art directed by our neighbor Tim Brown who’s also good at fixing locks.

The album artwork(above) grabbed my attention from the get go – it was all over East London billboards this Summer – so the video develops nicely on this theme. We also like dancing(taboo where we go out) – it’s natural, it’s what we wanted to do when we heard this track.

I really need to blog something about fashion week but I’m fashioned out of my brain at the moment – we start designing AW12 today.

Below are some of the story boards, behind the scenes shots and the video itself.

MOWGLI – SKYDIVER (***OFFICIAL VIDEO***) from mowgli mowgles on Vimeo.

Taster for Mowgli vid – LIKEE.

There comes a time when everyones yes man must learn to say no – much like R Kelly and the Hip Hopera this should have been one of those times for Pharrell.

Anyway who needs an egg timer, when you can have an OLE DB mouth. Download now and enjoy hours of endless fun for all the family. Tunes nae too bad neither.

Gareth Pugh debuted at Pitti Imagine #79 with a fashion film created with Ruth Hobgen and projected onto the ceiling of a 14th Century church.

The collection was inspired by religious iconography and Florentine opulence. It reminds me of Baroque and Renaissance frescoed ceilings and sculpture in the churches of Italy. Everything from the perspective and writhing physical forms to the gold and cornflower blue colour palettes directly reference artworks of the 16th and 17th century. The inflated billows and folds of undulating fabric are regularly found in images of female saints and madonnas of this era. Even the lighting nods towards the technique of using strong contrast of light and dark(chiaro scuro) by artists like Caravaggio

Contemporary inspiration is apparent in sequences of images reminiscent of digital prints. Gold shines in rays like the light of god shining through clouds as was often seen in paintings of this era. Altogether a very clever and considered work of art.

Much like the frescoed ceilings I imagine this is best viewed in situ, watching the projected film from below. We can more than make do with it projected on our Macs.

A detail of perspective from the Sistine Ceiling by the Renaissance painter Michelangelo

St Theresa in Ecstasy by Baroque Scultpor Bernini.

The Taking of Christ by Carvaggio – one of my favorite paintings of all time.

I could go on about all of this at great length but I won’t.

Ok art wanky over. Back to sticking studs on things.

Finishing off Nick Knight’s Fashion Body Film series is a 40 second focus on the hips featuring Quack, a dancer from New Orleans and the sissy bounce. I watched this initially and thought – another gratuitous bootie shake but there’s something distinctly mesmermesing about this film that compells you to watch over and over again, ultimately winning you over(I’m won, I am totally) and elements of the dance remind me of Josephine Baker clips I’ve been watching recently. Filmed witha tongue in cheek approach the clip nods to the scrappy home videos on which we usually see bootie bounce.

Once the bounce releases you from it’s mesmerising hold, you notice that Quack is actually dressed head to toe in designer gear namely Burberry, Mark Fast, Alexander MxQueen and John Galliano for Dior. Shorts cut to infinity just how we’d do them ourselves, we’ve said it before but it’s all about the under-but. Fun to see high-end fashion POP.