The ‘Second Sight’ photographic series by German Artist, Illustrator Enrico Nagel, looks like a mistake gone right. With water baths, burning + coloring, the image takes on new meaning, as what was there has transformed into another photograph with a different context, especially when you find what appears to be a coffee ring on it. I love […]
The late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe once said, ‘I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before.’ This is the exact notion anyone will have when opening ‘Enlightened Blooms: Solarized Floral Diptych Photographs By Brad Oliphant, published by Glitterati Incorporated. This is the photographer’s first published book of photography. Oliphant, an accomplished former fashion photographer, decided […]
Regarding Coco Chanel,photographer Douglas Kirkland once said, ‘ Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion,she changed culture, + she changed how people dress,’ + he should know, afterspending three weeks with her during 1962 + documenting those tokens of memory in ‘Coco Chanel: Three Weeks/ 1962’, by Douglas Kirkland, published by Glitterati Incorporated. Now Chanel […]
Lance Loud is described by friend Christopher Makos assomeone that felt life, not looking too far into the past + not staring too far into the future, but loving the moment. ‘That was Lance.’ In ‘Lance Out Loud’, by Pat Loud, Edited by Christopher Makos, published by Glitterati Incorporated, you get to know Lance as […]
For Valentine’s Day, it’s customary to give your paramour a bouquet of real flowers, albeit all in their favorite color + or, their favorite flower. Now, the one true advantage here, depending on the type of flower, is the lingering fragrance until its inevitable date of termination. But what about breaking with tradition this year […]
I couldn’t stop laughing + smiling after seeing ‘The Book Of Mormon Missionary Positions’ by photographer Neil Dacosta . The cover design, made to look like ‘the good book’, full of photos of those guys that knock on your door uninvited, in missionary positions is hilarious, especially while still wearing their geeky uniforms, which could only mean […]
‘Dark Matter’, Jonathan Turner‘ digital film homage to painter Pierre Soulages, you get to experience how the famous artist’s all black paintings play with light. By using only black paint (below), according to NOWNESS, the oft-namedropped nonagenarian artist manipulates the spectrum of light bouncing off the surfaces of his works, in turn conceiving a new shade of his own, […]
(photo: Joakim Palm Karlsson) When two 7ft disco goblins got together to create Duo RAW (aka RAWboys), they filled a huge void in Sweden’s club scene with high drama + avant-garde haute couture finesse, that I wish spilled into New York. (Maybe I’m just not going to the right parties?!) When Andreas Kiss Nilsson + Ronny Willberg […]