Tim Walker is London photographer. His earlier features documentary and portrait photography. Walker photographs for W, Vanity Fair, as well as the British and Italian Vogue.

“Everything from the gigantic rabbit head hat to the boat hairpiece makes us feel like we fell down a rabbit hole and ended up in a magical (though slightly desolate) version of Versailles.” – Kristen Pisaturo

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Artist Marina Abramovic (L) performs during the 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present' exhibition opening night party at The Museum of Modern Art on March 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

“This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)…the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting….All performances, one of which involves viewer participation, will take place throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, starting before the Museum opens each day and continuing until after it closes, to allow visitors to experience the timelessness of the works.”    – Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Q&A with Performance Artist Marina Abramovic in New York Magazine

Also, I came across a slide show in which she opened up her homes to The New York Times. Her modern eye inspires me. Click here to check it out.

Ebony Bones.

Diesel Fashion Show “Be Stupid” // ARENA BERLIN 2010 Fashion Week

Jean Charles De Castelajac is hands down one most innovative designers creating today. Each season I can expect to be entertained and inspired from viewing his collections. I can’t wait for the day to be able to attend one of his shows. It would be a dream.  Keep reading, I also posted another video from his Spring 2010 show and IQONS.com magazine interviewed him about designing a collection from the Pope and his priests.

IQONS.com “The most amazing adventure of JC/DC’s life so far was when he was asked to dress 5,000 priests, 500 bishops and the Pope for their visit in Paris. The theme of the collection was the rainbow based on the story of Noah and the arc. God spoke to Noah and told him that “if you see the rainbow in the sky there will be peace between me and the human race”. The idea went over well but JC/DC thought it best to inform the Bishop that the rainbow was also the symbol of the gay community. The Bishop’s reaction was not one of shock rather he said that nobody owned the copyright on the rainbow and that was that. Once the work was completed the Pope spoke to JC/DC: “Young man, you have used colour as a cement of faith.” Read more about the article here.

Here is the second part of the show.

The band playing at the fashion is called Ebony Bones. The band is comprised for musicians and dancers from around the world.

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of dining at AXE. The restaurant name AXE is pronounced  (ă • shay) and it is a salutation borrowed from Yoruba, where Nigeria is today. AXE means “go with the power of the Gods and Goddesses.”

Accompanied by a friend, we dined on braised brussels sprouts, shrimp and squid pancakes, and ginger ice cream. Yum. I can’t wait to go back.

AXE supports local farmers.

AXE Restaurant

Read the description write up and click on the link to view the videos.

“The Bridegroom Stripped Bare shows Alexander McQueen at his exuberant best as he transforms a bridegroom into a bride in a frenzy of cutting, ripping, painting and gaffer-taping. McQueen is famous for his cutting and draping skills, often working directly on a garment while a model is wearing it. This film offers a rare glimpse of the designer at work, in what is usually an unseen, intense and private act. It is just one of sixteen performances in the Transformer series, filmed and broadcast live over a two-day period. Fascinated by the idea of transformation and the power of the transformative act, Nick Knight extended an invitation to friends and colleagues including Erin O’Connor, Juergen Teller, Katy England and Bobby Gillespie to devise and be filmed in an act of transformation that held personal significancefor them. While some performances were lighthearted, others provided meaningful insight into the different creative processes at play. This was the first fashion shoot to be broadcast live via webcam, revealing the working methodologies that underpin contemporary fashion image-making in real time. SHOWstudio.com’s viewers were invited to e-mail live questions to ‘interview’ the team of creatives on set about their ideas, motivations and progress, creating a two-way dialogue between the event and its audience. Each performance was recorded in Polaroid stills, video footage and via webcam, allowing every aspect to be witnessed, during and after the event.” – ShowStudio

I couldn’t embed the film. Please click here to view the film.

“Everything that’s built crumbles in time: buildings, cultures, fortunes, and lives,” says Lipman. “The detritus of civilization tells us no less about our current epoch than an archeological dig speaks to history. The urban ruin is particularly compelling because it speaks of the recent past, and reminds us that our own lives and creations will also soon pass into dust. These film, video, and performance works explore decay in a myriad of forms—architectural, cultural, and personal.”

- Filmmaker Ross Lipman

Ross Lipman is a filmmaker, writer, and performer. Lipman will be in person to answer audience questions and showcase his the films 10-17-88 (1989, 11 min.) and Rhythm 06 (1994/2008, 9 min.), selections from the video cycle The Perfect Heart of Flux, and the performance essay The Cropping of the Spectacle.

Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Tickets are available for purchase at the RedCat.

Left: Benoit Jalion and Umberto Napolitano of LAN [Local Architecture Network] (Photo by: Benoit Linero)

I guess….

More after the jump.Benoit Jalion and Umberto Napolitano of LAN (Local Architecture Network) says so. And they published two books to prove it, “You Can Be Young and an Architect” (how-to for and about young firms, 2008) and “Welcome to Saint Memes” (a monograph on LAN’s creation of the Marchesini French headquarters, 2009).

Read their entire article here.

LAN Architecture

1. Any music by composer Alexandre Desplast. He is the composer behind films like Birth.

2. Any music by composer Nino Rota. He is the composer behind films like La Dolce Vita.

For some soul check out:

1. Windmills of Your Mind by Dorothy Asby

2. Misdemeanor by Foster

3. Mur by Alva Noto & Ryuchi Sakamoto

4. Amarain by Amr Diab