BOOK REVIEW: DIFFERENT by YOUNGME MOON
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review
Escaping the competitive herd.
Succeeding in a world where comformity reigns but EXCEPTION RULE!
If you own a business you have to read this book.
Tags: Different, Escaping the competitive herd, Youngme Moon
PUBSLUSH PRESS – THE PEOPLE’S PUBLISHER
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review, News + Events
PUBSLUSH Press, a youthful, innovative publishing platform for aspiring authors. PUBSLUSH allow new writing talent to emerge by connecting writers directly with their readers through social media.
The process is simple. First, authors submit ten pages and a summary of their book. Then, you browse the submissions based on your preferences. You read a brief overview, and if it strikes your fancy, you click through to read a more in depth description. If you’re still interested, you read an excerpt. And if that leaves you wanting more, you support it (which is essentially like preordering the book)! You don’t get charged unless the book is published, so there’s no risk. And for every book PUBSLUSH sells, they are adonating a book to a child in need.
PUBSLUSH’s forum introduces the power of social networking to the writing process. By creating an ongoing dialogue between the writer and reader, they plan to transform the publishing landscape to foster and enhance involvement from the onset. PUBSLUSH hopes to offer an exciting alternative for writers who are struggling to be heard, or for those who simply wish to publish via a more organic route. In utilizing community based technology, PUBSLUSH will inspire and involve the next generation of literary influencers.
You get bragging rights for discovering a published book. You get to read what you want. You support aspiring authors. And you support aspiring readers. We’d say it’s pretty much a win-win all around. PUBSLUSH’s goal is to create a sort of online global book club, marked by respect, raw creativity, and conscious consumerism. Join the PUBSLUSH revolution today!
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BOOKS: PHOTOGRAPHS from 1961 – 1967 by DENNIS HOPPER
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review, News + Events
Tags: Dennis Hopper, Focus Onto Film, Taschen
FEMALE EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY by REKA NYARI
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review
Reka’s self portrait
FEMALE EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY by REKA NYARI.
KARIN + RAOUL magazine showcased Reka’s photography in the PulchriTUDE issue a few months back. Since then Reka has been busy putting together her first photo coffee table book titled ‘FEMALE EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY’ by Reka Nyari. This might be this summer’s sexiest photo coffee table book. But don’t take my word for it, buy the book here and see for yourself. Enjoy!
Tags: Coffee Table Book, Female Erotic Photography, Photography, Reka Nyari
BOOK REVIEW: LATEX FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY – GOLIATH PUBLISHING
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review
Photographer Allan Amato – Designer Mother of London
Guess what I got in the mail yesterday? Goliath publishing was kind enough to send me a new book, “Latex Fashion Photography“. I have to admit I’m not the biggest latex fan BUT, put beautiful women in shiny tight latex and you have my attention. Plus some of the photography in this book is pretty cool too. To be honest, it would not be the first book I would look at but there were some cool moments throughout the book that kept me turning the pages. Here are some images I thought you should check out.
Thank you Goliath. Keep the books coming.
Tags: Book Review, Latex Fashion Photography, Slick Shiny Sexy
BOOK: POLAROID HOTEL by {PATRICK HOELCK}
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Literature | Book Review, News + Events
POLAROID HOTEL by PATRICK HOELCK
Book Release And Signing
Thursday, April 21, 2011
9-11pm
LEADAPRON
8445 Melrose Place
Los Angeles, CA 90069
LOS ANGELES – OHWOW and LEADAPRON are pleased to host the book release and book signing event for Patrick Hoelck’s POLAROID HOTEL.Press, flash, picture. Simple. Then wait. And wait. And wait some more. The anticipation to see what you have captured is a thrill that has been lost with modern technology. In a world full of instant there have been unfortunate casualties. Polaroid instant film was almost one of them. It’s not just the nostalgia that makes Polaroids alluring. It’s the unpredictability. You never know if you’re going to end up with a masterpiece or a disaster but it really doesn’t matter, it’s yours.
In POLAROID HOTEL, Hoelck pays tribute to the art of Polaroid photography with a book of images that capture intimate moments of his life and career throughout 17 years, showing that just because Polaroid has aged it hasn’t lost its appeal.
“Hoelck’s images seem at first to be random, thrown together, an accidental assemblage, but they provide a narrative of our cultural landscape, a series on contemporary urban life.” – Gisela Getty
Patrick Hoelck is an American contemporary photographer and director. This is Hoelck’s second publication following his first book Tar, that is now out of print and considered a classic. Hoelck has shot major editorial, fashion and advertising campaigns and recently made his feature film directorial debut with Mercy, winning Best Director and Best Film in the Savannah Film Festival amongst other honors.
Tags: Book Release and Signing, Leadapron, Patrick Hoelck, Polaroid Hotel
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
AMERICA NU MAGAZINE ISSUE #1
Posted by Hassan Kinley | Filed under Art + Design, Lifestyle, Literature | Book Review, Music, News + Events, Photography
Check out the second magazine out of Dash Publications, AMERICA NU magazine. As Creative Director, I wanted to push my refined aesthetic even further to come up with something that feels classic! Between the two magazines (this and Karin + Raoul), working with Art Director David Barnett, Editor-In-Chief Raquel Horn (America Nu) and Editor-In-Chief Hassan Kinley (Karin + Raoul) was indispensable to my development as an artist. In the past 6 months my eyes have been opened to totally new art forms, aesthetics, and mediums (I plan on tackling sculpture) and I’m excited for what’s to come next. Thank you Dame, McKenzie, Raquel, Hassan, and Cynthia for allowing me to work alongside you to create these pieces of work. Check out America Nu! -Ronin/SS
BTW, The Black Apple is featured in this issue of America Nu, don’t miss out on that story.
Tags: America NU, Damon Dash, Dash Publications, Raquel Horn, Ronin/SS
PLAYERS: PHOTOGRAPHY by {RICK DAY}
Posted by Karin | Filed under Literature | Book Review, Photography
Rick Day, photographer based in NYC, kicks it off with this HOT and exciting book: Players! I absolutely LOVE!!!
Tags: Fashion photgrapher, Rick Day, Rick Day NYC, Sexy male fashion photographer
BOOK by {ELLEN VON UNWERTH}
Posted by Karin | Filed under Literature | Book Review, Photography
One of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers,Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. As one of the most cutting edge photographers today, she pays homage to the world’s most delectable females in “Fräulein“.
Tags: Adriana lima, Art + Commerce, Britney Spears, Carla Bruni, Christina Aguilera, Claudia Schiffer, Dita Von Teese, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eva Green, Eva Mendes, Fashion photographer, Kate Moss, Lindsay Lohan, Monica Bellucci, Sexy Art, Sexy art photography, Sexy Fashion Photographer, Taschen, Taschen books, Vanessa Paradis
