Katja Mayer

Long Time...

I haven't posted in a really long time. Over a month, actually. Some of you might be wondering if I have finally gone off blogging. I haven't. A lot has happened in the past one month. And it has given me a new perspective. Style for me is being redefined. New things are emerging on my personal landscape that demand attention. And the old SHOTCOUTURE seems to be asking for a change. So, I guess, this period of absence is what I needed to put things into place, and determine where I wanted this blog to go.

Currently, I am in London, discovering the various aspects of this beautiful city that will, no doubt, add more depth to the way I percieve fashion and style. It will, I believe, bring me closer to discovering my 'voice'.

Please wait for SHOTCOUTURE to emerge in its new Avatar. I hope I will be able to make it worth the long wait.

Kurt Stallaert

Kurt Stallaert creates impacting images often inspired by current-day social and cultural issues to which he adds a touch of humour and irony. Each series starts with a story board that serves as a base for the underlying message. He works with elaborate set-ups and themes taking his personal and art work beyond simple esthaetics. His advertising work is know all over the world - he is listed in the top 08 world ranking of advertising photographers selected by Lüerzers International Archive.

via FWAPhoto - One Photo a Day

Grégoire Alexandre

Samuel Green

Christopher Charlie Isoe

Walter Robinson

Walter Robinson: "I use my work to investigate the ways that we create identities out of the products we consume. Branding, corporate logos, mascots, cartoon characters, advertising text and signage are the semiotic sources I draw from. To undermine the power of product logos that surround us, I tweak their scale or context, or combine them in disjunctive pairs. Sometimes I restage contemporary geopolitical events, using childhood icons to provoke the shock of corrupted innocence." (via)

HOT PLUNGE

While addictively clicking my way through the archives of H magazine I found their feature on specialist underwater photographer Zena Holloway- fantastically floaty making everything look like a 70's Bill Gibb creation.

Julian Hibbard

Levi Wedal

Carl Kleiner

INTENSE WORKSHOPPING

Many a pedestrain came on down to the Milliners workshop during fashion week at Topshop Oxford Circus to jump on some headpiece creation on a Friday afternoon, it was one crazy fun experience. I think we showered many a customer with haberdashery debris while they ascended the escalator behind us but it was all in the name of collaborative creation yeah!

SS09 = THE SEASON OF THE BUTTON NOSE

Just to exemplifymy point about the button nose I have made a lunchtime montage de la NOSES OF SPRING/SUMMER, still time for us to pop down to the local surgeon of nose dreams before the beach season with this handy pocket size collage of aspirations.

CATWALK GENIUS

Im a big big fan of the Susan Eldridge all american button-nose on a girl- so Im loving these models used by Catwalk Genius. Actually- I have been noticing on the button-nose revival as being the dominator in fashion campains postered upon double-decker buses all round London... does this mean the steely scanadanavian squint has been melted down by the puppy dog eyes of the unusually hot girl-next door?

TOUR DE FORCE heapieces on Catwalk Genius

Alex Trochut

Eduardo Hernandez | Das.Graphiker

Sebastien Tellier Photoshoot by Das.Graphiker

Juan Miguel Entrelanas

V&A STEPHEN JONES HAT EXHIBITION

Ahhhhh belated blogging... so I was completely in shock really about having a piece included in the exhibition at all really, as I stored it in my mind as one of those things that couldn't possibly be happening until I could see it with my own eyes! I was so nervous I ended up bending the ear off a Swedish journalist who was waiting to interview Philip Treacy- in retrospect I think I tired her out with barrage of words! Anyway she was enlightening me about the state of Swedish headwear and how they are burdened with the necessity of wearing woolly bobble hats which are rarely innovative- Louise Goldin could perhaps branch out and make a killing???

I was super-honoured to be invited to the Milliners Lunch where I nervously kept piling my plate with ordurves but was so nervous i could eat them and started offering them out.

Well the exhibition itslef is a beautiful education- my faveorite bit being the re-creation of

Steven Jones's studio in the centre- a little hub of wonderings and treasures!

And the opening night... what can I say, truffles on sticks- lots of important people with head nests and floating echoes of heaving conversation- I think parties where the volume of conversation overpowers the music are the most exciting (everyone making their own atmosphere) I was endeared to the visual status of the KCTV entourage (Kenny etc...) who were wearing Piers Atkinson.

Stupidly I didn't make camera plans, so I have borrowed these pics from urbanjunkies.com



I Ended up chatting to a designer called Ben Hall, a British footwear designer who was wearing a tall paper hat creation which reminded me of one of my favorite DADA inspiration pictures- turns out his shoes are super-hot so I am going to investigate more of his workstuffs.

My Favorite was of course very literal and jovial;

Beata Boucht

Nicholas Routzen

Glynis Selina Arban

Frej Hedenberg

Rokolectiv ‘09

ROKOLECTIV ‘09
FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS

The fourth edition of Rokolectiv - festival for electronic music and related arts - kicks off between 10th and 12th of April 2009. Over 20 artists will participate with concerts, installations, and special events.

The first two days of the festival are hosted by a new spectacular venue - Bucharest’s creative commodities exchange The Ark, a neonesque industrial building reconverted into space for contemporary culture. As usual, MNAC supports the last day of the festival.

Rokolectiv presents outstanding live acts of the moment, most of them a Bucharest premiere, starting with the rare appearance of the Norwegian dizzying disco magician Lindstrom, followed by Canadian house experimentalist Frivolous and Berlin’s biggest deepologist Prosumer, in an obsessively dancing Saturday night.

On top of everything, to spice up the magic during the night program - some floral and animal interactivity, and a bit of playfulness with Lego sounds…

Friday is a dubstep goes techno night with special appearances from Shackleton, 2562 and Deadbeat, under the close supervision of the Romanian producer of the moment TRG with a mind-blowing DJ set.

Fennesz brings on Sunday some of the Black Sea’s waves to MNAC, following the recent release of his new album. An eclectic night completed by a display of Optical Machines, a grand finale combustion by the noisiest neo-metal funksters MoHa, and a spacecraft managed by half of Zombie Zombie - Etienne Jaumet - and the Romanian duo Minus si Ion, in a quest for a deeper sound.

Friday 10.04 / The Ark / 22h00
2562 (NL)
Larytta (CH)
Shackleton (UK)
Deadbeat (CA)
TRG (RO)

Saturday 11.04 / The Ark / 22h00
Legoloop(CH)
Bogdan (RO)
Lindstrom (NO)
Frivolous (CA)
Prosumer (DE)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)

Sunday 12.04 / MNAC / 19h30
Optical Machines (NL)
Fennesz presents ‘Black Sea'(AT)
Etienne Jaumet (FR)
Minus si Ion (RO)
MoHa (NL)
SKVJ (RO)
Videocote (RO)