Scott Campbell: Adoptive Ink on Nowness.com Get ready to be inspired + moved by this morning’s film based on the power of mentorship + the positive lasting power of a tattoo. Presented by NOWNESS, Free Arts NYC, a non-profit organization providing arts education for the city’s underprivileged youth + artist Scott Campbell, famous for […]
Les Fleurs on Nowness.com To have or to have not, has been the only question when it comes to women + body hair, which brings us to this morning’s short ‘Les Fleurs’. Part one of the weekly NOWNESS ‘#DefineBeauty’ series, filmmaker Saam Farahmand interprets this debate in the most beautiful way. Saam’s approach was simple: address what’s commonly […]
The Thing About Kate on Nowness.com Kate Moss is usually the driving force behind too many things to count on one hand + now, days away from her Topshop collection dropping in stores + online, NOWNESS rounds up some of her close friends to discuss what makes her ‘that Kate’! In the following short ‘The Thing […]
A New York Flex on Nowness.com Wake up to some serious dance moves in film ‘Flex Is Kings’. Featuring dancers Bones the Machine + DJ Aaron, the kings of Brooklyn’s bone-popping street dance, co-director Michael Beach Nichols tells NOWNESS how the storytelling is dancing, adding ‘You’re not watching different dancers doing the same moves. Each performer summons his background […]
Tavi Gevinson x Minna Gilligan on Nowness.com Wake up with the visual one on one between ROOKIE‘s Tavi Gevinson + Illustrator Minna Gilligan‘s, for the fifth printed issue of ‘Printed Pages’, from the totes amaze online platform, ‘It’s Nice That’. In 2010, Tavi herself created ROOKIE, the teen-focused online zine, now with a second issue of it’s […]
Eternal Beauty on Nowness.com Filmmaker George Harvey + London-based makeup artist Thomas de Kluyver step up the make-up tutorial with plenty of style + graphic detail in fashion film ‘Eternal Beauty’. Featuring four looks from the 1960s to the 1990s, starring Li Wei, winner of China’s NSR Model Look Competition, if you haven’t mastered the eyeliner flick from the Sixties, […]
The Square Circle on Nowness.com Sit back + enjoy filmmaker Chelsea Moynehen’s directorial debut of documentary short, ‘The Square Circle’, which follows the boxing lives of trainer father Pete Brodsky + fighter brother Jake. Filmed at the Trinity Boxing Club in Lower Manhattan, as well as the Westbury Club that her father founded in 1979 in […]
For #FlashbackFriday, if you can’t get enough of the flawless Kate Moss, here’s fashion film ‘Everglade’, shot by Inez van Lamsweerde + Vinoodh Matadin (Inez + Vinoodh), starring Moss + a few animated friends. What’s special about this flick is it’s interesting approach to shooting behind-the-scenes, in this case, the set of the Fall 2010 Balmain campaign. […]