Case Study House 22 photographed by Julius Shulman.

On October 9th, the film,” Visual Acoustics”,  about the iceberg in Photography’s world connecting to Modern Architect, Julius Shulman has been released. The film starrs Dustin Hoffman who practically narrates the entire film, and the photographer himself, Shulman who died on July, 17 2009.

Shulman had brought fame to number of mid-20th century modern architects and made him a household name.  Since the 30’s , Shulman had worked for many clients like Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, Pierre Koenig, Harwell Harris who were all pioneers of contemporary architecture.

Ahhh, I absolutely love all of styling, staging and photography (Tim Walker) done by Bazar for this October issue around  Tim Burton’s classics to anticipate another great retrospective at MOMA this Fall. ( November 22, 2009- April 26,  2010)

Grande Gautier, Comme, Rodarte, Ferregamo, Margiela and more. It’s a one big heaven of fantasy dress up time!

Burton’s films : Vincent (1982), Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure(1985), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Edward Scissorhands(1990), Batman Returns (1992), The Nightmare Before Christmas(as creator and producer) (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Mars Attacks!(1996), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005),Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and Sweeney Todd(2007); writing and Web projects include The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997) and Stainboy (2000).

Of course Gael has this book. Maurice Sendak’s timeless medieval-ish beautifully illustrated million lines of pure wonder and adventure. Gael already had had heart aching moments balling his eyes out watching never ending stories( all of them).  I only mention “Never ending story” because I think the film version of “Where the wild things are” would be somewhat like it. Or I may say this too early.  We are just about to take Gael to the theater. I am quite excite about this. It seems like perfect for the timing wise with beautiful autumn crosses with Halloween coming up.

MOMA has been always the one of the best sources of the best movies for classics and  independents. And I love their savviness about knowing and connecting themselves with what’s going on out there. MOMa will be running their first-ever Spike Jonze retrospective celebrating his work as a director, producer, cinematographer, writer, actor  and choreographer. What is so cool about Jonze is that he’s somewhat beloved by people of all areas like down town band as “Yeah Yeah Yeah’s” or the children’s book author like Sendak for this movie or the legendary skate boarders or beauty like Michelle Williams.

MOMa will be kicking off the first day, the 8th with a few short films about Maurice Sendak, the author of the book, Where the wild thing are including 5 minute of clips from the Movie. Then there will be Adaptation ( remember?), Jonze’s award winning Music Videos and short films, Being John Malkovich, Heavy metal in Baghdad and more.  So check it out!  www.moma.org

NY based, the hardest working designer in the industry Lauren Kovin’s 9 piece capsule for Spring 10 is artfully mystique and wonderfully Avant-Garde. My personal favorite, the sheer body suite is absolutely to die for. Beautiful mix of buttery cream and purist white with shot of soft pink is just enough to bring an urge for the dreamy warm spring sun light.

Here Miss. Kovin talks about her design process,” It’s very organic and free. Usually, one thing leads to another and they all start forming together. I get inspired by each process and the each process brings me to the next new thing. I buy this grey fabric and love it, but I may bleach it down to the softest pink and the pink brings me to the next different idea. It’s an endless creative process…”

The most of pieces in this capsule are freely formed dresses with patch works and rushing ideas.  Open basket weave, playful stripes and ever so subtle color block ideas are well executed through interesting shapes and the volume. I highly credit how Miss. Kovin broke the usual hard edged Avant-Gadre attitude into one soft Spring fling.

Natural light filled Miss. Kovin and her partner and an animation artist Jesse McGowan’s art directed Spring 10 look book is a great success. Juxtapose of outdoor Nature and minimal indoor geometric lines around the each piece all work together fantastically.

Now, check out “Lauren Kovin SS10 Banned Commercials” directed by partner McGowan on YouTube. There are total 8 pieces.

Part 4:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPrPDVjbpk

Part 5:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IviqJa9dnU

Nathalie Djuberg represents Germany. ( Garden)

Check out a footage of her films of this installation , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZaLNNYjOzk

There are 2 parts in this installation. One part is the moving short films that are made with clay characters. And the other part is the actual space filled with over sized botanical porcelain flowers to run the films. I would think the viewers experience and the total visual effect would be quire different if the films were showing in the empty minimal room with a few chairs.( like many do)  This is our number 1 pick out of the entire show. The films are excellent!

The Passenger(1975), La Notte( 1962), Red Desert(1964) , The Adventure(1960), Blow-Up(1966) and so many more …  Michelangelo Antonioni’s most stylish, cutting edge and sharpest vision and control in his movie making definitely made a huge mark in the world of Cinema.  His complex obscurity reminds me of Fellini, but his incredible ability to edit and control each cut, flow of emotion, speed of time frame, magnificent cinema photography sets himself to be the one of kind.  

Watch ” The Beginning and the End”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOU0vyUxBi4

So Gael likes to stop by at the Gap Kid and we see a cool t shirt for him. Pink Floyd.  We come home and get on the You Tube because he needs a little lesson about who the Pink Floyd is. It comes all back for the 3 hour long lesson starting with “Wish you were here”, “Another brick in the wall”, “Mother” and it goes on and we are just moving on to the animations. Yes it could be not so easy for a 6 year old but it’s way way Way better than empty Jona’s brothers.

Now myself  see some animations for the first time and  I’m totally getting into them. How amazing is the animation of “ Good bye Blue sky”!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJYpVwb7aE 

Gael slips away from the Pink Floyd and plays with wooden blocks stacking them up to some sort of home or garage he says but we keep going on browsing through more of Pink Floyd’s animations. ” The Trial”, ” Empty spaces”, ” Waiting for the worms” and there are so many more.  

I see huge influence of Surrealism on Pink Floyd’s animation work. Last year around this time, MoMa had done a very interesting exhibition on Salvador Dali.  MoMa had brought more than 130 paintings, drawings and films by Salvador Dali. Collaborations between Dali’ and legendary filmmakers were displayed alongside his paintings and other works. Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney were the few of the many. I see obvious synergy between Pink Floyd’s animations and music videos and  works of Dali’ or other Surrealists like Giorgio de Chirico or Marc Earnest.  Their works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and also expose psychological truth by stripping ordinary objects of their normal significance. I find it fascinating and somehow challenging in a bit of mental way making me feel like I just had gone through some sort of dream.  

From  the “Good Bye Blue Sky”, Pink Floyd

Watch the only short animation collaboration of Dali and Disney, “Destino”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO1ghQFSXro

Singer-Song-Writer and my dear friend Beppe sent me an “Urgent” e-mail for the last minute help on his up-coming music video.  6:00 pm near the Union square.  And I also got to meet the director of the video, Bruno Levy.  After the quick yet efficient discussion on what fabric Beppe should use for the dress for the model in the video, we all sat down for one quick drink. Somehow it’s a very Italian way I must say. One bonding drink. We chat about the video and about each others. And I also got to learn that Bruno was the winner of NY Photo Awards 09 Best Short Film and Video.

Beppe already raved about his work and I watched his actual piece that he won the award for. And here I like to share the video with you because I think it’s a beautiful piece. And also the Man is a Tee shirt designer.  He cuts the screen and does the squeeze work himself. Somehow whole action around the designing tee shirts himself seems a natural thing to do. Making films, photos, images, prints, visions, messages. There is strong synergy in all of these.   

Bruno Levy wearing his shirt, Drink the Stars.  You can purchase his tees in his website www.brunolevy.com

I find the messages on the tees are quite poetic and almost an anecdote of a story that will go on and on…

Finally here’s his award winning video, WORD’S END in

http://www.youtube.com/user/bnovideo

Maybe the fastest way to get to Calder’s work would be talking about gigantic scale of metal and wire Mobile hanging in JFK airport.  I’m sure we all have seen it. I believe it is the exactly same one used to be at NY Port Authority bus terminal.

Before all of his famous big scaled metal sculpture creations through 40’s, Calder was always an Amante for Circus. In 1923, Calder moved to NY and enrolled himself to Art Students League and got a job illustrating for National Police Gazette. The Job would send him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus for two weeks for him to sketch circus scenes. This was in 1925. Since then, the circus became his life long interest and after moving to Paris in 1926, he created his Cirque Calder, a miniature complex and unique body of art. The assemblage included diminutive performers, animals, and props.  Calder used wire, leather, cloth and other found materials.

The Parisian Avant-garde would gather in Calder’s studio to watch the mini circus in operation.  We had bought this film, ” Calders Circus” by Roland films on art at Whitney Museum.  This film celebrates his ingeniously articulated tiny wire performers from the female dancer to the roaring lion.  And you can’t deny the intimate vibe of small production and Calder’s witty and wonderful personality lying under every character’s performances.

Calder’s masterfully calm and intricate details in every aspects of miniature circus really make me re think about today’s main stream of commercial art.  Desperately shocking but sadly empty.

Here I’m attaching 4 mt clip from You Tube.

watch?v=b3lJJRrB74c

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