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February 2011 - IV: Musicians; motorcycles...

Musician Singer and fashion icon Micky Green for Mango Web/Mobile
Micky Green in front of the camera of Barcelona based photographer Nico whose name is mentioned online in relation to glam-glossy...


Motorcycle Biker Style Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice collected some pieces for a men's style that is inspired by music and various times and places like the leather jacket by Diesel, the new motorcycle by Horex...


Motorcycle A sunny, rainy day on a scooter Web/Mobile
A collection of items for a ride on a scooter to the coast for a barefoot run in the sand; with fashion by Peak Performance...

Old books and sport? Web/Mobile
The coincidence of two themes that appear very rarely together: old books and sport, seen at FW2011/12 by Andrew Majetnyi...


Musicians Re-listen: 'Baby I love you!' by the US punk rock band Ramones Web/Mobile
...while searching for more information about the musicians and a new t-shirt collection with signature prints...


The eyes of journalists Web/Mobile
Is it possible for wide-spreading publishers to identify for example a 'Kill Switch' or partly shut-offs of internet functionalities?


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

18 Feb 2011 - New music video for the song 'Victory' by the US band Trampled by Turtles
The video's stop-motion photography by director Justin Gustavison evoked an unexpected result, tells Erik Berry (mandolin, vocals) Spinner.com.

18 Feb 2011 - Do YOU understand all the artists?
...is the question that is answered by Charles Esche (director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and researcher on the relationship between artistic and curatorial production) in the video. Esche distinguishes between understanding the language of art and experiencing its meaning. Now, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London launches the art historical research program 'MRes (Masters of Research) Art: Exhibition Studies' (Sept 2011), which will be led by Charles Esche csm.arts.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/mresart-exhibition-studies.htm.

18 Feb 2011 - Installations of a library and a sport stadium in a gallery?
Seen at the exhibition 'Rumba Muerta' with sketches and three installations by the art group 'Los Carpinteros' from Cuba at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York (unitl 19 March). One of the installations is inspired by the PanAmerican game stadium in Havana, especially its lights as reminder of observation in totalitarian regimes, another one is the prison alike readingroom 'Sala de Lectura Ovalada', which is about the control of individuals and information; the third installation shows musical instruments melting on the ground...

18 Feb 2011 - In contemporary art, the material object is the manifestation of an idea
...nothing more, according to the video that introduces into today's art from the market view. Now, Sotheby's Institute of Art presents online courses that provide insights into 'the 50 Billion USD Art World' with experts like bankers, gallerists to international art lawyers sothebysinstitute.com.

17 Feb 2011 - Power Has a Fragrance
...is the title of the exhibition of the Norwegian, in New York and Tokyo living Gardar Eide Einarsson at the Bonniers Konsthall (16 Feb - 12 June) in Stockholm (SE). His installations, images, sculptures center on the often invisible (like fragrance) structures of 'authority' in our world of mediated images and the possible evocation of paranoia. The artist uses historical as well as contemporary sources like graffiti, skateboard culture, or the internet and uses their signs as mediators for messages in the art space. bonnierskonsthall.se/en/Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Gardar-Eide-Einarsson/.

17 Feb 2011 - 'Out Of Our Minds' by Katie Costello
...who is compared to musicians like Fine Frenzy, Adele, Regina Spektor. 'Out Of Our Minds' is from the singer/songwriter's new 12 tracks album 'Lamplight' (Tiny Tiny Records, release on 22 Feb). Fashionoffice received the info with the words: "Upon third and fourth and fifth listen, the record comes together in the same way every great album does, in the moments when you find yourself on an empty street, iPod blasting as you dance recklessly along in the rain doing bell kicks over puddles, happily sheltered under a big black umbrella or when you find yourself on the subway, alone, singing along, out loud."

17 Feb 2011 - 'Mary Jane' by the German blues-rock-punk band Secret Basement
The music by the three members band is a mix of John Lee Hooker, Nirvana, The White Stripes. Secret Basement will perform today at the Sage Club in Berlin.

16 Feb 2011 - Sports fashion product manager talks about his work
Andrea Moro is the head of product at Stone Island. The video by the Italian brand provides an insight into the work of the product manager.

16 Feb 2011 - Artist explores the female body
The video portrays New York based artist Mika Rottenberg and shows sequences from her video installation 'Squeeze', which is about women as objects of desire. Now, the De Appel Boys' School (Amsterdam, NL) exhibits from 12 March to 8 May 'Mika Rottenberg - Dough cheese squeeze and tropical breeze. Video works 2003-2010'. "Exceptional women, such as the powerful Heather Foster, the sizeable Queen Raqui ('Her body Utterly Amazing, Her agility astounding'), and the super-tall erotic model 'Bunny Glamazone', become absurd characters who use their bodies as production machines in the colourful films by the New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg." www.deappel.nl

16 Feb 2011 - A film director's view on a scenery on occasion of a Vogue Italia photo shooting
John Christopher Pina is the director of the Vogue Italia movie with views on the location and scenery on occasion of an editorial shooting for the photo story 'Coterie' (means 'clique' or a small group of persons) from Sept 2009. Pina has worked already for brands like Pepsi, Nike, Red Bull or musicians such as Kanye West, John Legend. Now, his new video for the song 'OMFG' by the Brooklyn-native Birmingham electronic-pop band Deluka is published online youtube.com/watch?v=3jPDZms4jts.

16 Feb 2011 - Trailer for the new album 'Speak Through the White Noise' by The New Regime
...directed by Los Angeles based John David Moffat who has mashed old black/white film and TV news material with scenes that show 22 year old musician Ilan Rubin singing about reality. Rubin has founded The New Regime in 2007 as a One-Man band - he plays all instruments by himself. Even the new album is entirely written, sung and played by Ilan Rubin (release date digitally 5 April, physically 26 April).

15 Feb 2010 - Industrial designer speaks about his profession
The video portrays German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic - recently awarded in Miami with the 'Designer of the Year 2010'. Fashionoffice just received the announcement that Konstantin Grcic will create the tote bag for the Pavilion of Turkey at La Biennale di Venezia (4 June – 27 Nov, Italy).

15 Feb 2011 - Trends in 2011 for women
The video by H&M gives an insight into the trends that had been elaborated for the coming season with additional statements from fashion editors. The men's wear trend guide is published on youtube.com/watch?v=XScf0If6HPE.

15 Feb 2011 - Artist about producing experiences
In Bangkok (Thailand) living artist Surasi Kusolwong speaks in the video about his intention of making art what lies not primarily in producing objects but in the production of experiences. Now, he is announced to be one of the artists of the exhibition 'Play Van Abbe Part 4: The Pilgrim, the Tourist, the Flaneur (and the Worker)' from 26 Feb - 20 August at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL), which invites in this show visitors to change their roles and get this way new perspectives on the art works during their journey through the museum. "Roles are never fixed and visitors can change them during their visit, or revisit rooms in a new character." vanabbemuseum.nl

14 Feb 2011 - 'Call Me' feat. Skye by Paris based Nouvelle Vague
...from the album 'Hollywood Mon Amour'. Nouvelle Vague producer Marc Collin has rearranged on the album songs from '80s movies with vocals by Juliette Lewis, Cibelle, Yael Naim...

14 Feb 2011 - Rock 'n' Roll inspired fashion visuals
Two time Grammy Award winner Dave Matthews appears as a One-Man band with Coco the monkey on his shoulders in the new SS2011 campaign of men's wear designer John Varvatos (received already three times the American Fashion Award by the CFDA). John Varvatos is known for his Rock 'n' Roll inspired visuals since he has founded the own label in 2000. In fall 2010, the 10 years anniversary campaign featured 39 musicians like Franz Ferdinand, Perry Farrell, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop...

14 Feb 2011 - Romance as an interplay between 'hard' and 'soft'
...is announced to be presented at the fashion show by the fetish inspired fashion label Tiberius on 14 March at the Vienna Awards. The catwalk video was produced by Spykeheels.com (fashion, art, music) accompanied by an interview with Tiberius designer Marcos Valenzuela-Abril, who answers to the question what he wanted to express with his last collection: "Romanticism and sexiness belong together."

13 Feb 2011- 'Parachute' by US singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson
The video shows the singer/writer flying into space and landing somewhere on a planet with a green plant. Fashionoffice got the invitation to "grab a box of chocolates and spend this Valentine’s day with Ingrid Michaelson" at the online chat and performance live from New York livestream.com/ingridmichaelson.

13 Feb 2011 - Moebius' line dances to electronic music and creates the futuristic-vintage space-aviator Lady Malvina
The French comic strip artist Jean Giraud alias Moebius publishes this and other videos on occasion of the exhibition 'Transe-Forme' at the Fondation Cartier (until 13 March). The exhibition is focusing on the theme metamorphosis and the environment. On 28 Feb, evolutionary biologist Hervé Le Guyader will meet Moebius to speak about "observe and comment upon - from your scientific perspective (rationality necessarily being put to the test) - the fantastic wildlife of the animals on Mars."

13 Feb 2011 - 'Tron: Legacy' actress about privacy in the new technological age
Just received the hyperlink to Flaunt Magazine's interview with Olivia Wilde who starred recently in the movie 'Tron: Legacy'. The interview was held on occasion of a photo-video shoot for Diesel in an art installation in Los Angeles that tells the story of a psychoanalyst who experimented with drugs. The video with Olivia Wilde in the trippy house (The Buck House by architect Schindler) is published on flaunt.com/flaunt/olivia-wilde-photoshoot.

12 Feb 2011 - T-shirt invention shown on a man with a lion and a woman as the laughing dompteur (?)
...seen at the new SS2011 campaign video of the UK urban sportswear brand Bench.

12 Feb 2011 - "People are natural hackers"
...says Jane and shows how old things can be improved by creative users. The video is posted on the blog of the new Masters of Fine Arts program 'Collaborative Design' at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA, Oregon, US), which is starting the first lectures in Fall 2011. On the blog, the faculty and its guests are publishing material about collaborative design, design ecologies, systems thinking and cultural entrepreneurship from around the web like information about 'food-design-culture', a Pecha Kucha presentation about what public design is, a video about a bicycle re-cycling project...

11 Feb 2011 - 'Digital Love' by Bronze Radio Return
...from the album 'Old Time Speaker' (2009). Now, the US band announces the release of the new album 'Shake! Shake! Shake!' (29 March) with a video that gives insight into their work youtube.com/watch?v=YJ7N5_H-2ss.