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April 2011 - IV: Happy Easter; documentary about a fashion chronicler; Alpine style...

Happy Easter; Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
The days from 18 to 26 April 2011 are used by many for traveling...

Fashion documentary Web/Mobile
...about the life and work of street/event-photographer Bill Cunningham. Vogue editor Anna Wintour says: "We all get dressed for Bill"...

Alpine style on a bikini? Web/Mobile
Alongside to flower power 60s/70s inspired pieces, Skiny presents one model that evokes an elegant 'Alpine Style'-impression...

Awarded design of a backpack for mountain bikers Web/Mobile
by Vaude will be exhibited from 5 July until 1 August 2011 at one of the world largest permanent exhibition spaces...

Shirt prints: graffiti-digital, playful, simplified Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice has picked some examples of t-shirts that were sent most recently like one with the 'Repeat Offender' print by Tes One...

Re-design of a 1950s boot Web/Mobile
Los Angeles based shop Mister Freedom creates own designs of vintage products that look contemporary stylish. Now, Palladium...

Secrets of nature for beautiful skin Web/Mobile
According to researchers, the secrets of beautifiers from nature are the chemical processes that are...


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

17 April 2011 - Programmer of light about the construction of society
The video shows words (extracts of the fundamental rights inhabitants of the European Union have) on the Grande Palais in Paris. Scottish born (1969) in Finland living Charles Sandison says in a portrait that he is playing too much with computers; the artist directs with an own written computer program the words that are running on the walls of the virtual reading rooms. They are telling the story about human communication and how society is structured today. At this time, Charles Sandison's 'Reading Glass' is part of the exhibition 'Paradise Lost' (until 24 July) at Istanbul Modern (Turkey), where digital media and videos by 21 artists about the relationship between humans, nature, technology and the environment are on show istanbulmodern.org.

16 April 2011 - Computer art in a gallery
...presented by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York; the faculty focuses on experimentation in arts and art-related fields. On 22 and 23 April, the SVA invites to the MFA Computer Art Open Studios 2011 where multidisciplinary projects (video, animation, audio, interactive installations, physical computing) will be on show. "As digital art evolves, the line between it and contemporary art is disappearing. We see it simply as art, using digital techniques to enable creativity," states department chair Bruce Wands.

15 April 2011 - Photo shooting with Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher
...with Swiss photographer Michel Comte. Now, Navyboot will present on occasion of the Formula 1 weekend in Shanghai (15-17 April) the limited sneaker collection 'MSone' on 16 April at the Modern Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA). The collection was created in collaboration between Michael Schumacher and Creative Director Adrian J. Margelist; exclusively available on navyboot.com from 17 April on.

15 April 2011 - Eco-drink that is made in a beer brewery in Germany
The video (directed by Tim Gorbauch; unfortunately published without English subtitles - but the pictures give a quite good impression of the work style of the family owned business) provides insights into the old brewery in Germany which has changed from beer to a non-alcoholic organically production company for refreshment drinks in 1995. Now, Bionade's cooperation with fashion is announced by the Modepalast (fair with focus on green fashion) in Vienna at the party on 30 April modepalast.com/2011/programm/sideevents/.

15 April 2011 - A sewing machine and a bicycle in an environmental friendly production romance
...seen at the movie that was sent by the Madrid (Spain) based design label Peseta. The limited edition of bicycle caps are packed into a wooden cheese box which is loaded with the story of the romance between a sewing- and a pedal machine (movie on DVD included); the overall concept of a city biker lifestyle is exclusively available at the New Museum in New York.

15 April 2011 - Art works by Yoko Ono, Nara Yoshitomo...
...for sale at the 'The Great East Japan Earthquake Charity' on 16 and 17 April, organised by the Mori Art Museum. The proceeds will be donated to disaster victims through the Japanese Red Cross Society. "Bearing the question of what can be done through art today, artists, stakeholders in the world of art, and art enthusiasts ..." invites Nanjo Fumio, Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

15 April 2011 - Electronic Indian dance 'Moonlit Horizons-Desert Dwellers' by David Starfire (Remix)
The San Francisco (US) based producer/DJ David Starfire is one of the musicians who will perform at the Alchemeyez Visionary Art Congress (art, music, meditation, fashion... with focus on humanity and nature) in Hawaii (13-15 May). At this peaceful festival, it's probably hard to keep with the feet on earth; take a preview youtu.be/8r0l1UXkTkQ.

14 April 2011 - Italian photographer about the political impact of images
Martina Bacigalupo, winner of the Canon/AFJ Female Photojournalist Award 2010, speaks in an interview about her exploration of the life of wounded women and gay men in Africa. With the financial support of the Canon Female Photojournalist Award granted by the Association des Femmes Journalistes (AFJ), Martina Bacigalupo followed Fielda, a woman from Uganda. More about this project and the call for submission to this year's award (deadline 31 May - 8 000 Euros for a woman photographer with a photojournalistic project) on canonafjaward.com.

14 April 2011 - Behind the scenes of the new version of Janis Joplin's song "Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz" from 1971
...with vocals by Grammy award winning singer/songwriter Estelle and Daley (collaborated with Gorillaz for 'Doncamatic' 2010), music and production by David Banner (Grammy Award winning producer, rapper, actor) is now presented by the British style magazine Blag which has organised the cooperation between the musicians. The car in the video (directed by the publishers of Blag, Sally A. Edwards and Sarah J. Edwards) is a Mercedes-Benz 280 SE Convertible (Model W111, built in 1971). On 18th April, Blag releases the track with accompanying video ‘Benz’ via iTunes.

13 April 2011 - Provocative viral art
...by interdisciplinary artist/designer Lou Susi (US) is about social dynamics. Now, Lou Susi's work is announced to be presented this spring at the thesis show of the MFA Dynamic Media Institute (DMI) program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (since 1873, US). Lou Susi explores the space between the 'natural' and the 'virtual' world: "My work explores this ‘beweenSpace' by creating playful, performative, cyberSurreal experiences for the user-participant. Using both pretend and prototyped devices, I touch and tickle the subtle boundaries of our everShifting social conventions as increasingly influenced, stretched and blurred over time by the introduction of new inventions into our technoHumanic ecosystem." massart.edu/Galleries/Featured_Exhibitions/MFA_Thesis_Show_11/lou_suSi.html.

12 April 2011 - Trailer of a documentary about the similarities of different folk dance styles
The film shows similarities of European Alpine dance styles and tap dance, Irish dance, and flamenco (it's especially the stamping with the shoes). The documentary 'Bödälä - Dance the Rhythm' by Gitta Gsell will introduce into the world of dance on 18 May at the pre-event of the International dance festival ImPulsTanz in Vienna (14 July - 14 August impulstanz.com).

12 April 2011 - Celebrities from music, fashion, film...
...like Iggy Pop, Kanye West, Patti Smith, Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake, Johnny Depp, Sharon Stone... appear in the Grammy awarded video (directed by Tony Kaye) 'God's Gonna Cut You Down' by Johnny Cash. The video was released posthumous in 2006.

12 April 2011 - Water splash party on the streets
Between 13 and 15 April, the Songkran festival is celebrating the traditional New Year's Day in Thailand; Songkran (means 'change, move', an astrological passage) is also compareable to the Christian's awakening festival Easter. On these days, people are cleaning the Buddha statues with water which is later used to bless each other; the blessing on the video looks like a big water splash street party! Fashionoffice has just received a 'Greetings with a big SPLASH for Songkran Festival!'-card from the Bangkok International Fashion Fair BIFF and BIL 2011 (20-24 April 2011, thaitradefair.com/2011/BIFF/).

12 April 2011 - Text on t-shirts of football players
...represented as mannequins is an artwork with the title 'Maportaliche/It Has No Importance' by the Algerian writer and journalist Mustapha Benfodi. The outdoor installation has produced controversies at the Sharjah Biennial 10 (runs until 16 May), United Arab Emirates. The controversial text is not the theme in the media; but the dismissal of the foundation's director Jack Persekian who says according to artinfo.com that he has overlooked a detail.

12 April 2011 - 'Money and Run' by Unkle feat. Nick Cave
...sings "run little rabbit run - take the money and run" on the five track EP 'Only The Lonely' (released April) which provides new songs like 'The Dog Is Black' feat. Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit unkle.com/2011/04/04/only-the-lonley-ep-out-now/.

11 April 2011 - Country post-punk rock 'Airstream Driver' by Gomez
...from the album 'A New Tide'. Now, the UK/US band Gomez announces the new release 'Whatever's on your mind' (comes out in June) that the pre-order starts on 18 April on gomeztheband.com, where the band (members are from US-Los Angeles, Brooklyn and Brighton-UK) offers the album's first single 'Options' as free download to give a preview to the "summer soundtrack... fresh feeling of rebirth and awakening."