PHOTOGRAPHY by {JACQUELINE RIVERA} SHES JACK
Posted by Karin | Filed under Photography
I can not begin to tell you how excited I am to see such a talented artist up and on the rise like this young photographer. Only 17 years old … Jacqueline has demonstrated a strong ability to capture moments – her moments as a young adult. I love her self portraits… A complete inspiration! She is my inspiration! Jacqueline Rivera has gained a new fan!!!
Tags: Creative Photography, Jacqueline Rivera, self portrait photographer, Young Artist, Young Photographer
GIORGIA ARMANI’S AQUA di GIOIA feat. EMILY DIDONATO
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Lifestyle
Emily is amazing.
Check out the behind the scenes look.
Tags: Aqua di Gioia, Emily Didonato, Giorgia Armani
SNAKES PHOTOGRAPHED by {JEAN-FRANCOIS CARLY}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Photography
Photography by Jean-Francois Carly
Tags: Jean-Francois Carly, Snakes
NUIT BLANCHE DIRECTED by {AREV MANOUKIAN}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Art + Design, Film + Video
Arev Manoukian directs a dramatic and visual short film.
Nuit Blanche explores an experience many of us have lived before – a fleeting yet powerful connection with a perfect stranger. Set in a dark cobblestone street in the 1950’s, a man catches the gaze of a woman in a cafe across the street. This split-second moment becomes suspended in time, as the two gravitate towards each other in a hyper real fantasy where nothing can hold them back.
Check out the making of Nuit Blanche here
Tags: Arev Manoukian, Nuit Blanche, Short Films, Stellar Scene Pictures
SALLY GOLAN ROCKING A KARIN + RAOUL SIGNATURE TEE IN BKLYN
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Lifestyle
Social Exposure Media, founder/producer Sally Golan hanging out on a brooklyn stoop rocking a Karin + Raoul Signature Tee-Shirt. Be on the look out for Sally’s exclusive interview/pictorial coming out in our next online magazine issue BLURR in September 2010. You don’t want to miss it.
Tags: Sally Golan, Signature Tee-shirt
BLAKROC: AINT NOTHING LIKE YOU (HOOCHIE COO) feat. MOS DEF + JIM JONES DIRECTED by {JONAH SCHWARTZ}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Film + Video
This is one of my favorite songs on my photoshoot playlist. When this song comes on it just feels so good to me. It reminds me of brooklyn where I was born and raised and at the same time it reminds me of when my dad use to take me to Harlem to see his family. It’s funny, when I hear this song I think of pitching quarters and playing skelly in Harlem and playing coco-levy-O and running the courts in EAST NY BKLYN. For those you know, much love!
Love this song and Jonah, the director of the video is super nice with his. Check out his work here.
Learn more about Blakroc
Tags: Blacroc, Jim Jones, Jonah Schwartz, Mos Def
HELMUT NEWTON – AWKARDLY TWISTED AND STRETCHED, MANIPULATED AND RAW AND SEXY – WRITTEN by {HEIDI SHAPIRO}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review
Heidi Shapiro - Photographed by Hassan Kinley
Defeat is never a wise opening for a writer, although I begrudgingly begin from this cornered position. If it helps, think of me as the six-foot-tall -model that I am, naked and tense and faced – as many a model has been – with the gaze of Helmut Newton’s authority, overshadowed and unable to assert myself except through his lens.
This… this is supposed to be tribute to Helmut Newton, in words. The laughable quandary is that such icons have already surpassed this stage of reportage. A cacophony of language – awkwardly twisted and stretched, manipulated and raw and sexy – might be the only path left to honestly travel. Yet it would make for an odd piece indeed, and one in which you’d only see Helmut through the fetishized spaces if you knew to keep a keen eye out for him.
The fact is, tributes to Helmut Newton are already rank. Ask any established or aspiring photographer of women to list his/her influences, and you’re bound to hear Helmut’s name gurgled out in wave after wave of husky admiration. If you resist this urge to inquire and rely instead on your eyes, you’ll see the etched outlines of Helmut far, far more. Newton’s must be one of the most prolifically imitated styles in photography, and glimpses of his iconography ooze from nearly every corner of the fashion industry. The man’s mark is a meme, replicating rabidly throughout the generations of artists who have come after him and have been unable to escape the insidious weight of his influence. When it’s not a clear case of compliment through imitation – and certainly those abound – Helmut’s presence is often still felt in his absence. If you are not acquainted with the breadth of his work, you risk replicating it. And when you have diligently done your homework in an attempt to seek a niche of originality, Helmut’s shadow hounds you yet, concentrated as you must be on ensuring non-Helmutian styles or ideas. In this way, the postmodernists had it right; Newton is the unspoken absence who permeates our presence, that which is inescapably linked, if only subconsciously, to the whole symbolic system. We can no longer extricate him from the photographic discourse even if we wanted to.
Tags: Heidi Shapiro, Helmut Newton
GUATEMALA: A PHOTO ESSAY by {RONIN + COODIE + CHIKE}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Film + Video, Lifestyle
Full photo essay on the way. Stay tuned for Guatemala Day 2 and Day 3 episodes on Creative Control. Day 1 is here if you missed it.
Tags: Coodie + Chike, Guatemala, Ronin/SS
GUATEMAYA: INTRODUCING CONTROL CREATIVO from CREATIVE CONTROL
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Film + Video, Lifestyle
Karin + Raoul’s creative director Ronin/SS + Coodie and Chike from Creative Control sets up shop in Guatemala establishing its hub to Latin America. The piece is supported by the music of Primmo the song is “Mi Guatemaya” hear more at primmoshow.com
Tags: Control Creativo, Coodie + Chike, Creative Control, Guatemala, Ronin/SS
THE JOIE DE VIVRE feat. RAQUEL ZIMMERMANN DIRECTED by {RUTH HOGBEN}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Art + Design, Fashion, Film + Video
A film by Ruth Hogben Click on image above to view film.
Encapsulating all the dark glamour, divine decadence and hedonistic joy of the roaring Twenties, Gareth Pugh’s A/W 2010 collection is a stylised, silver and black Art Deco fantasy projected at breakneck speed into the twenty-first century.
Tags: Gareth Pugh, Raquel Zimmermann, Ruth Hogben
