SALEM

I Love anything Witch house or witch style so i absolutely love salems darkness and gothicly electric sound.

Im going to do short review of they're album soon.

Art Fashion Aware at the RA

On at the RA is the Third season of
the GSK contemporary aware: art fashion identity at 6 Burlington gardens. It takes note of the way artists and fashion designers use clothing to communicate there cultural amd visceral identity. The exhibition displays works from well known international practitioners such as Alexander McQueen, yoko Ono, Grayson perry and Marina abromavic (more below) as well as newly commissioned pieces by yank shonibare and Hussein chalayan.

The exhibition is split into four parts.

STORYTELLING which looks into the Personal and cultural roles of clothing.

BUILDING takes account of clothing as shelter or protection and goes into the concept of carrying ones own shelter.

BELONGING AND CONFRONTING  Examines ideas of nationality as well as political and social confrontation, understanding the tensions associated with the assimilation of new cultures and traditions. 

PERFORMANCE Highlights presentation of fashion and clothing in the role our daily lives. It features film footage of Yoko ono's performance of cut piece at carnage recital hall in new york, for which the artist invited the public to cut strips from her clothing.  Also in this section was a instillation from Hussein Chalayan which uses the form of traditional japanese puppet theatre to examine the manipulative elements within the fashion industry.  

MARINA ABROMAVIC 

One of the works by the self stated grandmother of performance art marina abromavic was a video entitled imponderabillia in which two performers stand completely naked in a doorway and the public must squeeze between them in order to pass. The crucial element in this performance was that the participants had to decide who to look at as they past through the small door frame. This performance looks at the audiences personal aesthetic with the protagonist's as the frame and the audience the performers it exposes the audience to the unfamiliar bodily Sensations between shame and awareness of their own bodies, and forces them into a situation of human contact not usually experienced between strangers.

I find abromavic's work intriguing and think this is because for me alot of her work is quite hard to watch yet displays emotions I can relate to in sex, anger and personal exploration and destruction.   I'm a fan of a lot of her performances but AAA AAA effects me the most. I found myself wincing at the sight of her and long time collaborator ulay screaming at each other as they get louder and louder, gradually drawing themselves closer together, I can't help but find a sexual element as well as one off anger and despair on display here.

PLASTICZOOMS

I love this band I think they define what post religion Is as an entity rather than a blog

The inspiration behind this blog (Although I dont always stick to it) is to explore the darker side of Fashion, Music and Art.

Holy Beast of Bethlehem

Tennis, Baltimore Ep Review

Something I haven't been able to stop listening to recently is the baltimore Ep from husband and wife duo Tennis. They wrote they're album (released later this year on fat possum records) while on a 8 month sailing trip which resulted in some beautifully crafted and dreamy pop songs.

There has been a lot of similar sounds in the last year but this has an edge of purity , although they draw similarities to bands like the drums the music sounds pure and less forced .

Im Happy to give it an 8/10

Download marathon if you haven't already and look forward to they're debut.

Happy Birthday Bowie

Today the Genius that is David Bowie is 64 Years old.

What an amazing career this man has had, he basically invented modern music and inspired and took inspiration from evolving fashion and artistic trends. I love his berlin trilogy works none of which i have posted because I personally believe the three albums (Low, Heroes and Lodger) Should be listened to in there entirety.

Also check out The man who fell to earth its an amazingly weird and surreal film.

Bowie has continued to push the boundaries of popular music throughout his career inventing characters such as major tom, ziggy stardust and the thin white duke.

In more recent years bowie has collaborated with critically acclaimed artistes such as arcade fire and placebo.

I only hope he will tour once more but Bowie has been in recluse for the last few years.

Happy birthday Bowie.

I'd never ask anyone to do something I wouldn't do myself

For Christmas I was lucky enough to open a gift from my best friend entitled TerryWorld, a book detailing the compelling work of Terry Richardson, a renowned fashion photographer who's vision is as controversial as it is genius.

Photos of his appear in the pages of Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and many more, yet models have been known to speak out about his methods, most notably Danish model Rie Rasmussen who stated his works to be exploitive of younger more naive models. Admittedly in TerryWorld the aesthetic tends to edge towards the sexual, themes are often younger looking girls who fit the profile of heroin chic. There are other themes he takes portraits of celebrity's, young and old men and women although the sexual content is never far away its not always as obvious. Terry himself states that "I don't like to exploit anybody. Thats not my bag. Everyone has fun at my shoots.

His style is often abrupt and striking while making the viewer intrigued yet wary of what they perceive. The TerryWorld aesthetic slips away from the artistic and into bold, beautiful, funny, often scary and unsettling images while retaining a sense of realism in the world of fashion.

I would not call what he does exploitive, I would however state that his work is amazing on so many levels and there's a reason he is one of the most sought after fashion photographers in the world and an international celebrity.

I feel like i can relate to his work and his personality as a free thinking individual who's not afraid to offend in the name of his creativeness.

Photos By Terry Richardson From the Book TerryWorld.

Cool Cam

Well The I Phone 4 is amazing. Just the other day I discovered an app called Hipstamatic, its a digital camera with changeable lenses flashes film and lots of other bits. It also recreates the effects of a lot of vintage and hard to find cameras. Its a must have app for any I Phone owner who likes to save and share their memories in the coolest

and cheapest (Apart from the actual phone) way.

Just Some photos I took on my way home from work and at my house, they are pretty rubbish but was just testing it.

5 Bands that should have made the list

I know its hard

35 hot bands for 2011

1. Salem
2. Anna Calvi
3. Japanese Voyeurs
4. Flats
5. Warpaint
6. Yuck
7. DOM
8. Funeral Party
9. The Vaccines
10. Oh Land
11. Is Tropical
12. Brother
13. MNDR
14. Cults
15. Mona
16. The Knocks
17. Fixers

18. Jessie J
19. Fiction
20. Alex Winston
21. The Naked Famous
22. Kurran & The Wolfnotes
23. Clare Maguire
24. J.J
25. Toro y Moi
26. Pure Ecstasy
27. Washed out
28. Small Black
30. James Blake
31. The Middle East
32. Chapel Club
33. Mazes
34. Foster The People
35. Tribes



Some are newer than others, over the next month I will review some of these bands live or on
record.


Photos From http://www.stereogum.com/, http://www.clashmusic.com/, http://www.musicrooms.net/
http://www.redhotvelvet.com/ and http://www.thefourohfive.com/