Saturday Night

I am a sucker for red. Clothes, shoes or accessories. If you are wearing red, you have my attention. Especially in a sea of black on a Saturday night. There is nothing unusual about the accessories, but I love the color. It just made her stand out.

Gangsta Rap!

You would think that teaching is a boring profession. Now, most days, I would admit that you are not very far away from the truth. But then, this happens. College students have the wackiest sartorial sense. And these pictures prove my point. Enough said about trying to be the crowd. I wouldn’t usually approve of thus attired Gangstas in my class, but heck, it does a day or two good to have a spot of that yellow snoring in the back seat.





The Bling is not to be missed. No wonder he wasn’t taking notes. Not with those gloves on!

Nicola Bockelmann | Porn Chic

Nicola Bockelmann's art currently deals with the phenomenon of “Porn Chic” which is omnipresent in the society. “Porn Chic evolved in the 90s when the media contributed to the sexualisation of culture. As a result the boundaries between pornography and culture became blurred and permeable and elements of pornography trickled into the mainstream."

Boho Chic

Today seems like a good day to start. So a couple of pictures off the street. I see this girl pretty often and she is always dressed well. Here, I like the fact that she has kept the bling minimal, with just a beaded bag and pretty earrings. The black sleeveless tee, worn inside the green dress teams well with the tights. Also, I like the shredded scarf. It sort of balances the different colours. She was wearing a metal coin belt for added effect. Not many people carry boho chic so well.

Harma Heikens

"The recent work produced by sculptress Harma Heikens shows life-size orphaned children, smeared with dirt and scantily clad in rags. They are busily engaged with money, food and clothing. Their cartoon-like clothing and expressive glances make them appear like a cross between porcelain Hummel figurines and personages from the Manga comic strips. Heikens uses culturally determined symbols wherein the representation of the child can be seen as a metaphor for the near future. Working within the playful idiom of popular culture and making use of techniques of temptation derived from the advertising world, she calls forth visions of a befouled world terrorised by economic and sexual exploitation." (via)

Chris Devera

Bruno Dayan

Jeff Bark

Jimmy Turrell

Antonella Arismendi

Couture Shots Off The Street

I have been a follower of the indigenous sartorial style for quite some time now. It is in our country that many newly-weds show off a red and white bridal chudaa teamed with a well-fitted pair of jeans and a flattering tee. Tribal accessories complement western attires, and I once saw a bride, lehenga and all, with a Fifty Cent locket on a gold chain around her neck! I have come across Satya Paul saris teamed with a silver vest from fashion street, and a Versace blouse adding style to a patchwork skirt from Janpath.

I am not necessarily addicted to fashion. In fact, anything but. What I do love is observing it, especially on the streets. I love the influence fashion has on our daily lives. I love the way a well-worn chiffon kurti and the right perfume can wipe away the Monday morning blues. I like men and women dressed beautifully for the runway of life. I love the unique form fashion takes off the ramp. I love individual interpretations of designer lines which in turn are quixotic enough to end up as inspirations for a new design.

So I have decided to capture this face of fashion. This distinctive style of our fashionista on the street. This style that gives our fashion color, energy and an inimitable vitality that can only come from an everyday individual’s version of high fashion.

Shotcouture will take you on a journey through the streets of different cities across India. It will capture individual sense of style in all its quirky glory. It will bring a smile to your face, and will make you look around a little more to see what the people around you are wearing. It will, I hope, help you rediscover fashion as a personal statement of individuality and creativity.

Juergen Grewe

H099 | Richard Hogg

Richard Hogg is a designer, illustrator and art director, sometimes working on films too.

via cosmonova

Scanner @ Avion07

Scanner (UK) - AV projects + screening + Q&A
AVmotional @ Orange Concept Store / 12 dec / 19:00

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Kelly Haigh | Doll in the family

Ric Stultz

Zuzamade

Zuzamade is a place for things made by Zuzanna Krzysik, freelancer illustrator and filmmaker.

irlo | neaparat!

Chris Anthony

Brian M. Viveros

"Mysterious sexy women, with their remarkable sensual eyes, and a cigarette in the corner of their mouths, became his trademark. These characters play their lustful roles, sprouted from the brain of the American artist Brian Viveros. His art is a unique mixture of different visual and artistic concepts, surrealism, role playing and some quite heavy pain fantasies. Like the ones where the women are hooked, tortured and bound, but somehow, even in these morbid scenes, he is capable of maintaining a decent dose of humor." (Art of Love)