Placebo | Alternate Director Videos
For the release of their seventh studio album Loud Like Love last year, teen-angst rockers Placebo brought out an internet show titled ‘LLLTV’ streamed live from the YouTube Studios in London. It was the first YouTube live stream of its kind, featuring the band performing new and old audience favourites, interviews and guest appearances by...
Barneys New York | Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters
The luxury retailer Barneys New York has dared to do something different for its new campaign Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters and cast transgender models for a fashion shoot by Bruce Weber. According to Dennis Freedman, the creative director of Barneys, the transgender community has been neglected in recent history. I was exquisitely aware that...
WIN: CAPE TOWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The third edition of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival kicks off on 4 February 2014 and will run through until 9 February 2014. Headliners are deep house don Dixon (Germany), drum ‘n bass trio Noisia (Netherlands) and hip hop pioneer DJ The Original Jazzy Jay (US). What’s more, before the main festival (7 –...
ISSUE 01: CULT OF SELF MAGAZINE
Cult of Self – in collaboration with Levi’s® – celebrates individuality and authenticity through focusing on specific subcultures. Through featuring content around tattoos, customized bikes (fixies etc.), café racers and skateboarding the aim is to cultivate a visual conversation around the individuals, groups and initiatives that encourage self-awareness. To make it as interactive as possible,...
MERCEDES-BENZ | Shaping Air: The CLA as a Sculpture
The 2013 CLA by Mercedes-Benz — with a record Cd value of 0.23 and a drag area Cd x A of 0.51 m² — is the aerodynamics champion within the Mercedes-Benz model range and among all production vehicles. What is more, the sleekly designed car goes into the record books as the most streamlined production...
Ying Gao’s Moving Couture
Designer Ying Gao brings together science and fashion to create a spectacularly original design, like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
Interview | Field Report
After a five year disappearance from the music world, Christopher Porterfield has set music reviewers ablaze with his re-emergence as Field Report. The folk band was founded by Porterfield, with the name being anagram of the singer/songwriter’s last name. Porterfield found his feet on music stages playing alongside former bandmate Justin Vernon — otherwise known...
Saint Laurent | Pre-Fall 2013 Campaign
For the Saint Laurent pre-fall 2013 ad campaign Hedi Slimane called upon Freja Beha Erichsen to bring the clothes to life. The Danish supermodel brought her rocker attitude to the collection of slim-fit smoking jackets, leather pieces, and easy blouses for a final product that comes across as equal parts refined and edgy. Shot in...
Between Music and Painting | Brian Eno | 77 Million Paintings
Praised as one of the pioneers of ambient music, Brian Eno is an unshakeable legacy within the music industry. With musician, composer, record producer, and singer tacked to his name, Eno is showing his true skills as a multitalented elite with a kaleidoscopic audiovisual installation. First released as a software and DVD set in 2006...
| INTERVIEW | David Lewandowski: The Director’s Notes
The recently released video to Flying Lotus’ Tiny Tortures shows actor Elijah Wood dealing with the plight of a missing arm — it combines technical and emotional insight with creativity and has been praised as well as rejected by amputees’ commenting on YouTube. The mastermind behind the project and friend of Steven Ellison (aka Flying Lotus)...
Vivienne Westwood: Modelling Domestic Violence
Violence against women has been one of the resounding themes of 2013’s storybook with riots breaking out in India and South African communities taking to the streets in protest against gender-based atrocities. British fashion designer extraordinaire Vivienne Westwood has tailored the fashion industry with her daring designs and fearless opinions. While advertising in fashion has...
Brett Willliams | Chalking the Colour in Vulnerability | Part II
Capetonian artist Brett Williams has a knack for exploring rawness and vulnerability in the human form through his daring art pieces. In part one of our discussion, he talked to one small seed about his craft and his process of creation. In part two Williams tells us about his discovery of his colour-blindness, his art...
Brett Willliams | Chalking the Colour in Vulnerability | Part I
Colour-blindness and art may seem like an unlikely combination, but Brett Williams is chalking the colour in emotional rawness and vulnerability through art. The Cape Town-based artist is diversely talented with a penchant for acting and an ability to re-create and re-interpret the human form in his striking artworks. His subjects are people of all...
