Inge Morath
Top to bottom: Femme portant un de ses masques, "Fotografien 1952-1992" p132; three Untitled (all works from the Mask Series with Saul Steinberg), 1962
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Women
Christian Skrein, Fashion, Boutique CM, Vienna, 1967
Louis Faurer, New York, NY, 1970
These two wonderful images are from the exhibition WOMEN on show at Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne until 1 Sep 2009. If you're like me and Germany is a long way from home you can still enjoy these and other equally amazing images of intriguing femmes by on the gallery's website.
Christian Skrein and Louis Faurer are new to me and I'm already enamoured. I can see further reading and future posts on both of these photographers.
Monday, June 8, 2009
John's Children
Sixties English mod band John's Children 1966 single Smashed Blocked from the album Orgasm (1967 / 1970).
Marc Bolan joined the band as lead guitarist for a brief four month period in 1967. During which the single Desdemona was recorded. The song featured the rather racy lyric "Lift up your skirt and fly" to which the BBC replied, "Err, no, d'rather not" and promptly banned it.
Fancy a drink at the Korova Milkbar, Droogs? (Marc Bolan at right)
The band's fetching all-white attire (rather like mod Droogs from A Clockwork Orange, sans bowler hats and combat boots - interestingly, the band went by the moniker The Clockwork Onion in 1963) was the idea of their manager, Simon Napier Bell (of Yardbirds fame).
While Bell has also been credited with devising the band's stage act, band sources suggests that such performances were developed prior to Bell. A John's Children "happening" involving mock fighting (complete with blood capsules for effect), instrument trashing, flower stomping, pillow shredding and feather dispersion with Bolan chain whipping his guitar, incited Ludwigshafen audiences to riot during a German tour with The Who in 1967. Beware violence against soft furnishings and vegetation whilst touring Deutschland, ya?
The drummer, Chris Townson, has a fleeting resemblance to Pete Doherty don't you think?
John's Children official website
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Performance anxiety
Sorry is probably something Mick Jagger should have said to Keith Richards after the shooting of the movie Performance. Magic Mick shagged Keith's girl Anita Pallenberg during filming (so rumour has it). Not that Anita wasn't an active participant. I guess she got the silver and the gold
Sorry
Sorry, did I sound bitchy in that last post? I promised myself when I started this blog that I would avoid being negative and nasty, based on that old adage "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all". Get's a bit boring but doesn't it?
Apologies aside, and hello Fantastic Planet... I just love the type on this vintage board game, The Great Game SORRY!
Pop Levi - 'Terrifying (for Kenneth Anger)'
For such a stylish man, whose taste in blouses can not be doubted, I hate the way Pop Levi's video clips always seem to feature girls in such a boring and perfunctory way. I take it the girl in this case is Bunny Hollywood with whom I see Pop Levi has recorded 'Mmm Yummy Yummy' the most moronic song / video I've witnessed in a long long time.
I'm actually in two minds about Pop Levi in any case and this collaboration is not helping. One hand weighs awesomeness, the other senses talent lost to the fetid winds of artifice. By all means paint your nails silver, make me envy your blouses, dance your Ian Curtis-James Brown-moonwalk-dance, live in LA if you must but don't forget yourself. Too many artists cease to being artists when they start believing their own myths.
I'm actually in two minds about Pop Levi in any case and this collaboration is not helping. One hand weighs awesomeness, the other senses talent lost to the fetid winds of artifice. By all means paint your nails silver, make me envy your blouses, dance your Ian Curtis-James Brown-moonwalk-dance, live in LA if you must but don't forget yourself. Too many artists cease to being artists when they start believing their own myths.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Bobby's tripper art
A grin in the void
AND
The dreamer
King Tut dream
Eye of the infinite
Flames of transformation
Jigglin' Jill
[there's a also male version called Jumpin Jack]
Green man
Mushroom people
Uni
Transformania
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Kenneth Anger exhibition!
Talk about synchronicity... Kenneth Anger exhibition in New York on now! Pity I don't live in New York. Exhibition press release below. Let me know if you get to see it & what you thought.
Kenneth Anger
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Feb 22, 2009 - Sep 14, 2009
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, Feb 22, 2009 - Sep 14, 2009
Kenneth Anger, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954-66)
'P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Kenneth Anger, the first major survey of the filmmaker’s body of work at a U.S. museum in over a decade. Making films since 1947, Anger is considered internationally as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema. His ground breaking films have inspired the likes of Martin Scorsese, Gus Van Sant, and Guy Maddin. The exhibition will focus primarily on Anger’s early iconic works including Fireworks (1947), Puce Moment (1949), Eaux D’Artifice (1953), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954 - 66), Scorpio Rising (1963), Kustom Kar Kommandos (1964 - 65), Invocation of my Demon Brother (1969) and Lucifer Rising (1970 – 81). The exhibition is presented in the 2nd floor Kunsthalle.
Kenneth Anger’s work constitutes a radical critique of Hollywood, often evoking and referencing pop icons within occult settings and depicting youth counterculture in the midst of violence and eroticism. Anger does not use a narrative-based style, but rather lyrically explores themes of ritualistic transformation and transfiguration. His films are imbued with a baroque splendor stemming from the heightened sensuality of his opulent colors and imagery. They are often accompanied by a haunting soundtrack, composed by renowned musicians such as Mick Jagger and Bobby Beausoleil.
The exhibition design, consisting primarily of red and silver vinyl partitions and wall and floor coverings, is evocative of the atmosphere of Anger’s films. It extends the sumptuous settings that are depicted on screen into the exhibition space, creating an immersive viewing experience..
Kenneth Anger (b. 1927, Santa Monica, California) has been creating films since the 1940s with his first being Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941). Anger’s six-decade-long oeuvre includes most notably Fireworks (1947), Puce Moment (1949), Eaux d'artifice (1953), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954-66), Scorpio Rising (1963), Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965), Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), Lucifer Rising (1970-81)), Rabbit's Moon (1950-79), Mouse Heaven (2004), Elliot’s Suicide (2004), and the recent Ich Will! (2008) and Foreplay (2008). He also performs as Technicolor Skull with Brian Butler.'
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Under the spell of Kenneth Anger
This weekend my mind has been blown wide open by the films of Kenneth Anger. It's been such a long time since I was taken unawares... Thank you Kenneth Anger, thank you for making this planet so fantastic, for giving me these beautiful, breathtaking mysterious wonders, for jabbing your creative dagger into my eyes, my ears, my heart, my mind and melting the ice of numb cynicism.
If you're interested in more about Anger there's a fantastic interview from 2004 which is comprehensive, well researched and also hilarious.
Meanwhile I'm off to order Anger's box set from Amazon.
If you're interested in more about Anger there's a fantastic interview from 2004 which is comprehensive, well researched and also hilarious.
Meanwhile I'm off to order Anger's box set from Amazon.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
'Invocation of My Demon Brother' - Kenneth Anger (1969)
Beausoleil continues to serve his life imprisonment sentence.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Call the Board of Shamans
Another offering full of wonder & mystery from the depths of Ebay. Though I believe it's the photography & styling that's pushing my buttons right now, not the turban per se. The Mighty Boosh / Naboo factor on this one is uncanny. So here's one for Naboo, freelance shaman & boutique owner extraordinaire. I say chaps, this blog is turning into a right Nabootique.
'Vintage ladies turban...' - fromj2u, $19
The Mighty Boosh's freelance Shaman & vintage boutique (Nabootique) owner extraordinaire, the one, the only, Naboo! (as played by Michael Fielding)
'Vintage ladies turban...' - fromj2u, $19
The Mighty Boosh's freelance Shaman & vintage boutique (Nabootique) owner extraordinaire, the one, the only, Naboo! (as played by Michael Fielding)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Dig it for the digs
We moved into a huge house (well even an empty fridge packing box seems huge after living in a inner city workers cottage for a decade) and even though I spent the past ten years packed to the gills I've somehow held off filling the new place with crap or even setting it up. Renting a house I just never feel ready to commit to the ultimate set up - plagued by the fear that the moment it's all in place I'll have to move and sell it all when I am forced to fit back in shoebox. Fairly irrational given the marathon length of my last tenancy, but that's fear for you, completely irrational. Don't get me started on my driving phobia. Later dude.
So here's a few things I've had my eye on without any level of commitment. Like I say, I just like to watch. Once again you'll see the eclectic reigns supreme. I couldn't stick to a theme if my life depended on it. It's that erratic Gemini mind, constantly distracted by the next flashy oddball curio to come my way. Noel Fielding, not surprisingly is one. A Gemini that is. Not a flashy oddball curio. Actually, technically he's both. Ah, bless 'im. Anyway on with the show... nothing too fancy...
So here's a few things I've had my eye on without any level of commitment. Like I say, I just like to watch. Once again you'll see the eclectic reigns supreme. I couldn't stick to a theme if my life depended on it. It's that erratic Gemini mind, constantly distracted by the next flashy oddball curio to come my way. Noel Fielding, not surprisingly is one. A Gemini that is. Not a flashy oddball curio. Actually, technically he's both. Ah, bless 'im. Anyway on with the show... nothing too fancy...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
A cape called Vince
Clearly channeling Vince Noir with this one... It even looks like him don't you think? Noel Fielding wildest wardrobe fantasy couldn't have imagined this one. Thanks for the ride Killervintage01
Splodge Creaper, Happy Bloat, Gloworb, Monglelump
They all look like some kind of anal blight don't they? But in fact they're little collectible cards that came in cereal packs in the 70s. Kustom-65 Comics was selling a whole collection of these guys a little while back along with a bunch of collectible cereal toys. But these outer space monster menagerie guys are the bomb aren't they? Large die-cut cards 11.4 x 7.6cm from 'Spoon-size Vita Brits' 1970, $13.75 per pair. Splodge Creaper's quite the man about town isn't he, and what a name (swoon). But if it came down to just one pair then Gloworb & Monglelump win it for me. Dear sweet Monglelump... he just looks so happy to see me!
Your watch list is full, No 002
Why hoard at home when you can hoard online? Can't buy it? Watch it! My watch list is full of all things i may or may not buy, things that inspire and intrigue me. I like to keep it all. I'd like to keep it forever. But now I've hit my 200 item limit. You didn't think that was possible did you? Well it is. Don't beat yourself up if you find yourself falling short of the mark. The night's still young. But let's forget about you. Back to me & my 200 watch items which I'll now have to delete if I want to watch some more stuff. And believe me I do. But why throw out, I mean delete, all that good stuff out when I can just hoard it somewhere else... like here?
Eventually I'll sort this into some workable cohesive sense... but frankly i like the magic carpet ride motion sick all in one mad loon dump approach. Enjoy. I like to imagine a world filled to the brim with this stuff...
Actually I've changed my mind, just gonna post it one at a time
Eventually I'll sort this into some workable cohesive sense... but frankly i like the magic carpet ride motion sick all in one mad loon dump approach. Enjoy. I like to imagine a world filled to the brim with this stuff...
Actually I've changed my mind, just gonna post it one at a time
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Your watch list is full, No 001
In no particular order...
ORANGE CROCHETED Chevron boho Mini Dress
Seller: LullieVintage, $83.35 USD
Vtg 80s PINK & Black secretary babydoll Mini Dress
Seller: LullieVintage, $46.78 USD+delivery
RETRO Vintage 70s Glory Box RED BEDSPREAD Throw NEW
Seller: UrbanRetro Vintage&Collectables, $10.90+delivery
RED ANODISED ALUMINIUM Vintage Heat Lamp Adjustable
Seller: Retrocollectable, $19.99+delivery
1905 VINTAGE POSTCARD GREETINGS FROM SYDNEY MULTI-VIEW
Seller: MrsFrogalina, $4.90+delivery
"FOX HEADS FOR FOX SKIN STOLES"
Seller: Walkingvirus, $20 starting price - passed
"FIRE BUTTON FROM DAYS GONE BY"
Seller: Walkingvirus, $60 starting price - passed
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