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follow me

2011-04-10T10:18:00.004-05:00

I moved here

http://particularparticules.tumblr.com/

follow me

2011-04-10T10:18:00.001-05:00

I moved here

http://particularparticules.tumblr.com/

krakatoa

2011-01-17T20:06:00.001-06:00

krakatoa, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Ruven Afanador _ Colombian photographer

2011-01-01T19:11:00.001-06:00

torero3, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

The greatest photographer of the time!
Click on the image to be directed to my flickr collection

Banksy does the Simpsons

2010-10-12T12:16:00.000-05:00

Pretty twisted episode intro by Banksy....

Niiicely done Mr Banksy!

hair inspiration

2010-10-09T21:24:00.001-05:00

5, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Of information technology

2010-10-06T20:29:00.001-05:00

The Web Trend Map Interview from GaijinPot on Vimeo.

Claire de Lune by Tomita

2010-09-29T09:39:00.002-05:00

Vanessa Bruno

2010-09-22T19:44:00.002-05:00

Vanessa Bruno Day For Night from presse vanessabruno on Vimeo.

“I Feel Pretty” for The British Cryonics Institute

2010-09-21T13:20:00.000-05:00

Kristin Scott Thomas for Je Reviens
The award-winning British actor swirls in front of a fountain to the tune of West Side Story’s “I Feel Pretty” for The British Cryonics Institute. The campaign encourages the public to plan their afterlife as they bid you to wake up in 3015.

Incredible Beauty

"Katerina Jebb Concocts Seven Products You Cannot Live Without This Fall
For years artist Katerina Jebb has been collaborating with good friend Tilda Swinton in making satirical shorts. When gallery owner Gloria Maria Cappelletti happened upon one of these parody advertisments last year, she encouraged Jebb to expand on the series, and the result is Simulacrum and Hyperbole. Opening on Thursday at the Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan, the show features an installation that includes a television set playing Jebb's imaginary channel Lucid TV and seven cheeky films about consumerism and the beauty industry, with a little help from the artist’s famous friends. Here’s a rundown of the imaginary products they're selling."
Source: Nowness

Deborah Turbeville

2010-09-07T15:35:00.002-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

the most exquisite use of light and composition takes one back to the very feminine, classic art nuveau sensibility

2010-09-07T15:33:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-09-07T15:32:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

greynesssss

2010-08-20T09:59:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

hairy friends

2010-08-19T19:16:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by ezüst.

Kenneth Anger for MISSONI

2010-08-09T19:37:00.000-05:00

Marco Brambilla elevator ride

2010-08-06T19:29:00.002-05:00

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Civilization is a video installation we created with artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators Standard Hotel in NYC. It's comprised of over 400 video clips and it takes elevator passengers on a trip from hell to heaven as they go up or from heaven to hell as they go down. Pictures of the installation and Q&A with Brambilla and Crush is posted here glossyinc.com/civilization.html

Marco Brambilla GHOST

2010-08-06T11:49:00.001-05:00

GHOST is a study of model Natasha Poly. An investigation into the obsessive behavior of the public eye and it's lingering effects on those chased and caught by it. The piece utilizes multiple shots, all presented head-on, giving the audience an opportunity to experience the deconstruction of an icon as it strips the beauty out of fashion.

vogue paris

2010-08-05T22:39:00.001-05:00

vogueparisdariaviktorrolfcqc, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

begotten Susan Sontag called it "one of the 10 most important films of modern times"

2010-08-05T20:33:00.001-05:00

begotten03, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

The film opens with a robed, profusely bleeding "God" disemboweling himself, with the act ultimately ending in his death. A woman, Mother Earth, emerges from his remains, arouses the body, and impregnates herself with his semen. Becoming pregnant, she wanders off into a vast and barren landscape. The pregnancy manifests in a fully grown convulsing man whom she leaves to his own devices.

The "Son of Earth" meets a group of faceless nomads who seize him with what is either a very long umbilical cord or a rope. The Son of Earth vomits organic pieces, and the nomads excitedly accept these as gifts. The nomads finally bring the man to a fire and burn him.

"Mother Earth" encounters the resurrected man and comforts him. She seizes the man with a similar umbilical cord. The nomads appear and proceed to rape her. Son of Earth is left to mourn over the lifeless body. A group of characters appears, carry her off and dismember her, later returning for Son of Earth. After he, too, is dismembered, the group buries the remains, planting the parts into the crust of the earth. The burial site becomes lush with flowers. In a final coda, "Mother Earth" and "Son of Earth" are shown again, this time wandering away through a forest.

While the movie is not easily approached—lacking both dialogue and discernible cultural symbols—it does contain references to various religious and pagan myths. Christian elements are present in the impregnation of Mother Earth by God, akin to the impregnation of Mary by the Holy Spirit. The same myth is partly present in ancient Egyptian mythology, where Isis impregnates herself with the penis of the killed god Osiris and gives birth to Horus.
[edit] Critical Reception

The critical reception of Begotten was very positive. It holds a rating of 67% at Rotten Tomatoes[2] . Phil Hall of Wired.Com says: "Few motion pictures have the power to jolt an audience with the fury, imagination, and artistic violence of Begotten[3] Susan Sontag called it "one of the 10 most important films of modern times"

Flamenco Dance by Joaquín Cortés

2010-08-03T18:02:00.002-05:00

2010-07-30T15:37:00.002-05:00

“I often wonder, sometimes I think the people who buy our clothes live in a parallel universe. Hell, we can’t even afford our clothes.”

— Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler tells Grazia magazine what he thinks of their customers.

lanvin resort 2011

2010-07-27T20:23:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Pull and Bear awesomenessssss

2010-07-24T18:40:00.003-05:00

great great branding and art direction exercise here!

Brand collection

2010-07-22T19:42:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Cat-toon

2010-07-22T18:39:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

onur senturk animation

2010-07-16T21:29:00.001-05:00

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

echo | No1

2010-07-12T20:58:00.001-05:00

echo | No1, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

experimental image i took last week.

YSL Collection Homme Printemps/Eté 2011 - Ari Marcopoulos' short film

2010-06-24T19:21:00.002-05:00

3d ABC

2010-06-24T15:37:00.001-05:00

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2010-06-22T18:00:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Nomenus Quarterly and the absurd

2010-06-21T16:17:00.002-05:00

"Nomenus Quarterly, a limited-edition folio of original or previously unpublished images, typically costs more than your average It bag. (Each issue differs in price, but the rate, until now, was around $2,500.) So, given the current economic climate, it’s a little cheeky that Erik Madigan Heck, the publication’s founder and editor in chief, has slashed the print run to 10 copies from 50 and raised the price to $6,500. For the cost of an entry-level Birkin, the new, seventh issue includes work by the artists Anselm Kiefer and Lucian Freud, the photographers Adam Fuss and Roger Bollan, and a tribute to Ann Demeulemeester men’s wear (above) — shot, by Heck, in the style of the Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli’s studies of young priests. Bless.

To view the issue — and its impressively plentiful Web extras — free, go to nomenusquarterly.com."

SOURCE

L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

2010-06-21T15:58:00.000-05:00

americana trash glam

2010-06-20T18:21:00.003-05:00

PARKING LOT PONIES from V Magazine on Vimeo.

Lagerfeld short film

2010-06-16T18:57:00.001-05:00

Se dice ♪♫

2010-06-11T21:24:00.000-05:00

Pohl, Macondo

2010-06-05T13:46:00.001-05:00

Pohl, Macondo, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Macondo: -meaning:

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez' central location for the subsequent novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. He has since used Macondo as a setting for several other stories.

Given the town's association with magical realism, many Latin Americans would portray the everyday illogical or absurd news and situations they or their respective countries face as more aptly belonging to Macondo. As a result, some Latin Americans occasionally refer to their home towns or countries as Macondos.

2. Macondo Prospect is the name of an offshore drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico where a disastrous blowout occurred on 20 April 2010. See Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion.

On the ethical basis of Animal Rights

2010-06-04T20:10:00.000-05:00

Peter Singer: Equal consideration of interests
Peter Singer is a utilitarian, not a rights theorist.

Singer is an act utilitarian, or more specifically a preference utilitarian, meaning that he judges the rightness of an act by its consequences, and specifically by the extent to which it satisfies the preferences of those affected, maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. (There are other forms of utilitarianism, such as rule utilitarianism, which judges the rightness of an act according to the usual consequences of whichever moral rule the act is an instance of.)

Singer's position is that there are no moral grounds for failing to give equal consideration to the interests of human and non-humans. His principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment, but equal consideration of interests. A mouse and a man both have an interest in not being kicked down the street, because both would suffer if so kicked, and there are no moral or logical grounds, Singer argues, for failing to accord their interests in not being kicked equal weight.[93] Singer quotes the English philosopher Henry Sidgwick: "The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view ... of the Universe, than the good of any other."[77] This reflects Jeremy Bentham's position: "[E]ach to count for one, and none for more than one." Unlike the position of a man or a mouse, a stone would not suffer if kicked down the street, and therefore has no interest in avoiding it. Interests, Singer argues, are predicated on the ability to suffer, and nothing more, and once it is established that a being has interests, those interests must be given equal consideration. The issue of the extent to which animals can suffer is therefore key.
[edit] Animal suffering

Singer writes that commentators on all sides of the debate now accept that animals suffer and feel pain, although it was not always so. Bernard Rollin, a philosopher and professor of animal sciences, writes that Descartes' influence continued to be felt until the 1980s. Veterinarians trained in the U.S. before 1989 were taught to ignore pain, he writes, and at least one major veterinary hospital in the 1960s did not stock narcotic analgesics for animal pain control. In his interactions with scientists, he was often asked to "prove" that animals are conscious, and to provide "scientifically acceptable" evidence that they could feel pain.[94]

Singer writes that scientific publications have made it clear over the last two decades that the majority of researchers do believe animals suffer and feel pain, though it continues to be argued that their suffering may be reduced by an inability to experience the same dread of anticipation as humans, or to remember the suffering as vividly.[95] In the most recent edition of Animal Liberation, Singer cites research indicating that animal impulses, emotions, and feelings are located in the diencephalon, pointing out that this region is well developed in mammals and birds.[96] Singer also relies on the work of Richard Sarjeant to support his position. Sarjeant pointed out that non-human animals possess anatomical complexity of the cerebral cortex and neuroanatomy that is nearly identical to that of the human nervous system, arguing that, "[e]very particle of factual evidence supports the contention that the higher mammalian vertebrates experience pain sensations at least as acute as our own. To say that they feel less because they are lower animals is an absurdity; it can easily be shown that many of their senses are far more acute than ours."[97]

The problem of animal suffering, and animal consciousness in general, arises primarily because animals have no language, leading scientists to argue that it is impossible to know when an animal is suffering. This situation may change as increasing numbers of chimps are taught sign language, although skeptics question whether their use of it portrays real understanding. Singer writes that, following the argument that language is needed to communicate pain, it would often be impossible to know when humans are in pain. All we can do is observe pain behavior, he writes, and make a calculated guess based on it. As Ludwig Wittgenstein argued, if someone is screaming, clutching a part of their body, moaning quietly, or apparently unable to function, especially when followed by an event that we believe would cause pain in ourselves, that is in large measure what it means to be in pain.[98] Singer argues that there is no reason to suppose animal pain behavior would have a different meaning.

willy verginer wooden art

2010-06-03T19:27:00.001-05:00

willy-verginer-wooden-art, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-06-03T19:26:00.001-05:00

willy-verginer-wooden-art-3, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

back in the days - Centro Sportivo Italiano

2010-06-03T19:18:00.001-05:00

back in the days, originally uploaded by Stefano Pedrini.

urban abstract and the negative space

2010-06-03T16:29:00.004-05:00

Art Director Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd. (a multidisciplinary design agency based in Helsinki & Tokyo) has created together with Shun Kawakami (artless Inc) an artist and designer from Tokyo - a piece titled Urban Abstract. This digital art piece is being shown as the November break bumpers on one of the biggest commercial TV channels in Finland: TV Nelonen.

Urban Abstract -piece was born in Tokyo during 2009. It consists of 40 X five second clips or it can be viewed as a one 200 second journey.

Urban Abstract is a first piece created in collaboration with Ramu and Kawakami. The artists have plans for new pieces and are currently looking for interesting projects to work on and to continue this Helsinki - Tokyo collaboration.

The website http://www.urban-abstract.com works as a part of the piece and creates an extra dimension for the clips shown on TV.

Brain Farm Films

2010-06-03T16:20:00.003-05:00

Moores and Chistians celebration

2010-06-03T09:26:00.001-05:00

is a set of festival activities which are celebrated in many towns and cities of Spain, mainly in the southern Valencian Community; according to popular tradition the festivals commemorate the battles, combats and fights between Moors (or Muslims) and Christians during the period known as Reconquista (from the 8th century through the 15th century).

Parade of a Moors Ship in the beach of Villajoyosa, 2008.

The festivals represent the capture of the city by the Moors and the subsequent Christian reconquest. The people that take part in the festival are usually enlisted in filaes or comparsas (companies that represent the Christian or Moor legions), and for several days, they parade with bombastic costumes loosely inspired by Medieval fashion. Christians wear fur, metallic helmets, and armor, fire loud arquebuses, and ride horses. In contrast, Moors wear ancient Arab costumes, carry scimitars, and ride real camels or elephants. The festival develops among shots of gunpowder, medieval music, and fireworks, and ends with the Christians winning a simulated battle around a castle.

english info in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros_y_cristianos

Helen Korpak

2010-05-31T19:51:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by Helen Korpak.

poppy de villeneuve short

2010-05-31T18:40:00.003-05:00

Can you say style with such cinematic flare. Great fashion short.

Let's evolve! : Empathic Civilisation

2010-05-27T17:36:00.000-05:00

BP: guillotine!

2010-05-27T16:52:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

I would say guillotine!
The FKRS!
what scares me the most in all this evil reckless mess is how they are pouring thousands of hundreds of gallons of thinners/solvents into the sea!
Like making it invisible to the human eye is actually diminishing toxicity, while doing the exact opposite...so fkn retarded and so totally unethical!

The EPA has already condemn the use of such levels of solvents and BP keeps pouring more shit into the sea...

I see hell coming!

sweetness

2010-05-27T14:20:00.002-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

2010-05-27T13:56:00.000-05:00

foxes

2010-05-26T19:26:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Phytoplankton Bloom in the Bay of Biscay [detail]

2010-05-26T12:13:00.002-05:00

Phytoplankton Bloom in the Bay of Biscay [detail], originally uploaded by NASA Goddard Photo and Video.

Jessica Stam by Sølve Sundsbø for Vogue Italy 2008

2010-05-25T21:09:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-25T21:07:00.003-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-25T21:07:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-25T21:06:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Peaches Von Berlin

2010-05-24T12:33:00.003-05:00

picture.aspx

2010-05-23T14:21:00.003-05:00

picture.aspx, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-23T14:21:00.001-05:00

rene-radka-6, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

René & Radka

2010-05-23T14:17:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

The best children photos ever.

Burger King Fox

2010-05-21T19:49:00.001-05:00

Burger King Fox, originally uploaded by Dave A C.

This fox begs for food at a Burger King in Glasgow

human portrait

2010-05-20T21:39:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

textural

2010-05-19T11:20:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Muti Randolph

2010-05-18T09:16:00.003-05:00

Agua Sala' (salty water)

2010-05-16T14:45:00.003-05:00

Agua Salá by Bomba Estéreo

More Bomba Estéreo music on iLike

Stealing Clouds

2010-05-15T19:27:00.002-05:00

cloud nine from Margo Weathers on Vimeo.

Flora

2010-05-15T19:22:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Timeless

2010-05-14T10:59:00.002-05:00

5d, 5dmkII, Anamorphic 35mm

Beautiful motion piece, constructed as a technical exercise, but that uses as subject nature. It is impossible to ignore the power of our ecosystem cycles, its patterns and its constant rhythm. I find this piece extremely beautiful in a time where humans' efforts for profit ignore the system we belong to, the same system that gives us the gift of life.

Vogue Homme Japan / slimane

2010-05-06T09:33:00.003-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-06T09:33:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-06T09:32:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Portishead meets Joan of Arch

2010-05-05T14:21:00.001-05:00

"How do you update a classic silent film from the 1920s? By breaking the silence with a new score. That’s what Adrian Utley of Portishead and Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory are doing with The Passion of Joan of Arc, Prefix reports.

The film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and released in 1928, will get a 21st century update. At Colston Hall in Bristol, England, on May 7, the collaborative team will perform their score live at a screening of the film. There will also be a group of six electric guitarists performing alongside Utley and Gregory under the direction of conductor Charles Hazlewood."

SOURCE

Vogue Italy March 2010

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, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-04T18:38:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-05-04T18:37:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

the very succesful life of the olson twins

2010-05-01T16:02:00.002-05:00

I'm a fab of their Elizabeth and James and The row. They are not only an amazing business model, but somehow they have an undeniable fantastic style.

Here is my new favorite youtube soap opera : Very Mary Kate

Oliver People's propaganda

2010-04-29T15:10:00.003-05:00

2010-04-29T14:59:00.003-05:00

Curse of the Black Gold: Oil in the Niger Delta

2010-04-29T14:34:00.001-05:00

Curse of the Black Gold: Oil in the Niger Delta, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

"Trans Amadi Slaughter is the largest abattior in the delta. They kill thousands of animals a day, roast them, cut them up and prepare the meat for sale throughout Rivers State and the rest of the delta. Nearly all of the workers here, especially the meat handlers, are Hausa and Yoruba, mostly muslim too. In the delta fish was traditionally the main source of protein, but as fish stocks have dwindled due to pollution from oil and over fishing, meat is becoming more common in the delta."

2010-04-29T14:33:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Maxime Quoilin

2010-04-29T11:31:00.004-05:00

Maxime Quoilin, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Amazing designer!

Lima, coming back with good fights!

2010-04-29T09:57:00.000-05:00

"Fashion icon and supermodel Adriana Lima is BACK in front of the camera and partnering with acclaimed fashion photographer Russell James for her first ever Live Stream event. Lima and James will stream from the set of her photo shoot for James’ ongoing “Nomad Two Worlds” project, which is dedicated to preserving indigenous rights and creating awareness for child health research. Lima had been on hiatus from the modeling world for the birth of her first child."

Caetano Veloso (1969)- Alfaomega

2010-04-11T10:33:00.002-05:00

Brazilian beauty

2010-04-10T13:20:00.003-05:00

I'm taken by the beauty of this gorgeous woman.
She is one of the new "ethnic" looking women taking the lead in major campaigns: a sample here. Victoria Secret has featured her in many of her ads. Her type is having a big impact in markets, so I'm glad to find her face in so many places.

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, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

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, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

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, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

STUDY: extremes affect women's self steem

2010-04-03T11:44:00.003-05:00

Common Sense would tell you healthy is pretty.
But idealized commercial projections can challenge this common sense, specially in the field of fashion and cosmetics advertisement. How can you inspire consumers without manipulating healthy common sense is an ethical approach to this dilemma.

"Mandel and her colleagues performed a series of experiments based on the popular idea that looking at extremely thin models can negatively affect consumers’ self-esteem and possibly even lead to eating disorders in young girls. That belief is why fashion show organizers in Milan, Italy and Madrid, Spain, recently banned super waif models from their catwalks.
In the new study, researchers took the link between model size and self-esteem even further by factoring in the consumers’ own body size and self-esteem before looking at the ads. Although they did confirm that exposure to extremely thin models can be damaging to most women’s self-esteem, they also found some surprising effects.
“We show it is not just the size of the models in the ads, but also the relative distance between the consumer’s size and the model’s size that affects self-esteem,” Mandel said.
In the experiments, hundreds of female students were categorized as having low, normal or high body mass index (BMI) based on their heights and weights. They were then invited to a lab, but were not told the true nature of the study. They were shown a variety of ads and told to answer several questions, only some of which were truly related to the study. The questionnaires showed the participants’ self-esteem shifted based on the model sizes they saw in the ads and whether they considered themselves to be similar to or different from those sizes.
Low-BMI, thinner women tended to experience a boost in self-esteem when they viewed all models because they identified positively with the thinner models and saw themselves as different from the heavier models. Higher-BMI, heavier women dropped in self-esteem when looking at all models because they saw themselves as different from the thinner, idealized ones and similar to the overweight models.
Normal-BMI women had the most shifts in self-esteem, depending on what types of images they saw and could therefore be the most influenced by pictures in ads. For example, if they viewed a moderately thin model, they felt similar and good; if they saw a moderately heavy model, they worried they were similar and overweight.
These findings could be used to prompt changes in behavior. For example, if a normal-size woman sees moderately heavy images in ads for weight-loss products, she might feel overweight and be more inclined to buy a diet plan or gym membership. The same premise could apply to using heavy images in public service announcements aimed at fighting the obesity epidemic."

SOURCE

pure cumbia

2010-03-31T16:22:00.000-05:00

Gustav Klimt

2010-03-31T14:53:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

2010-03-31T11:54:00.000-05:00

Taryn Simon

2010-03-30T18:53:00.002-05:00

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia for W

2010-03-30T17:10:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

W

Creative Director Dennis Freedman

Design Director Edward Leida

Art Director Nathalie Kirsheh

Photographer Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

graphic movement

2010-03-24T18:00:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Being Terry Richardson

2010-03-19T13:29:00.008-05:00

So it seems that happy trigger dick hanging Richardson is getting opposition from some models about his whole "artistic" approach to photography.

"He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves.

"His 'look' is girls who appear underage, abused, look like heroin addicts . . . I don't understand how anyone works with him."

"Supermodel Rie Rasmussen gave a furious tongue-lashing to fashion photographer Terry Richardson at a Paris fashion event and accused him of exploiting young models."

Richardson has become famous by being controversial, similarly to Mr Olivier Zahm. This absurd over the top sexual flamboyancy is part of their "scripted" fame platform. Most of the girls are probably in it for the fame too. I bet there is more than one teenager model that has regretted the "sexual scenes" he encouraged her to preform yet won't say it publicly.

But come on!

The whole fashion industry is about selling products through sex as a lifestyle. Most consumers react to this element. Richardson and Zahm are simply freeloaders on such paradigm. Perhaps it 's all about misunderstood talent?! Nah, they are aware of the paradigm, they are only playing by the rules, when the rules is to break the rules.

SOURCE

balenciaga shoes

2010-03-18T17:49:00.002-05:00

, originally uploaded by parallel entity.

Love these shoes, supposedly inspired by constructivist furniture.
Borrowing from here and there is part of most creative work, teh line between "inspiration" and "copy" is just too fine. It is one of those practices that are IMPOSSIBLE to stop, but this time Editor In Chief is involved as an-abler of such practice: "Rumour has it that Carine Roitfeld, the Editor-in-Chief for French Vogue, was blacklisted from Balenciaga show during Paris fashion week. Apparently Roitfeld sent a Balenciaga jacket to Max Mara where it ended up in their design studio to be copied.:

via I Don't Give a Frock

Massive composition

2010-03-15T19:07:00.003-05:00

Gorgeous cinematography and the most beautiful video for the latest Massive Attack work.
The aesthetic direction was definitely inspired the work of Armenian director Parajanov in its compositions, colors and mysticism; exceptional work for a music video.

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm

we can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable

oh where the devil makes us sin

but we like it when we're spinning in his grip.

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm

we can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable

oh well the devil makes us sin

but we like it when we're spinning in his grip.