bestival.com : At London, Must Check out! (11-13 September)
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On the Saturday night, the entire festival will transform into a massive fancy dress party and the nature beauty of the Robin Hill Country side Adventure Park will be memorably altered by the natural creativity of over 17000 people. And The Isle of Wight’s annual assortment of bands and bizarre and beautiful people will be telling exactly what to wear.
Massive Attack, Soulwax, DJ yoda, Lily Allen, Carl Cox, Mika and ton of more likes will provide soundtrack for you. Bollywood Tent, Hidden Disco and yurt and tipi camping, among the other boutique festival quirks will make sure the madness continues in comfort.
If you can’t be there then check out the website at least. It’s an awesome fantasy like Yellow Submarine! http://www.bestival.co.uk/
Voice of Authority: Grace Jones
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Grace Jones at Hammerstein Ballroom on July 31st. This amazing image feed was through gracejones.splinder.com/po ( Thank you!) Check this post out for more photos.
We ( Anna, Keith, Nancy, Carlos and Jaehee) were able to get in to the theater around 8:30 pm, and by the time Miss Jones was on the stage opening her show under this shimmery fluid yards and yards of jersey fabric standing underneath like 10 feet tall was maybe around way after 9:00. The show was supposed to start at 8:00, but hey it’s A-Very -DIVA-Thing to be late in her very much Fashionable way.
Miss Jones had magnificently put together outfits for each and every song she performed for and sang. How lucky we were! There were 80’s Thierry Mugler and Versace-ish moments with her hard and very shinny bake-lite like corsets. And of course every outfit had these hats. These sculptor-like greatness she put on her head.
Then she would be in this perfectly glittered top-hat and a pair of matching bedazzled jump suit in clear Swarovski crystals. This moment was a total juxtaposition of Bjork and Playboy. Then this is not enough. Now she is standing under her white and sharp laser beam showering and hammering on her crystallized top-hat making maximum of maximum effect of explosion of lights for all of us. It felt like a triumph. I felt like I won something. It felt awesome and somehow full filling with excitement and yet sense of relief.
I may have to write all night to describe all the outfits and all the gifts of beauty and emotions she gave us through her performances.
What a women, What a voice and what an Authority this woman has.
She liked engaging with audience. Her witty and snappy words. She made us laugh. She was adorable.
She made it clear we knew she was there.
I so wished I-phone had a Flash. These were the best I could do.
The last but not the least, Watch this!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgR3kzSp5Yw
Are you READY for her? Hammerstein Ballroom. 8:00pm. July 31st!!
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It’s not just a tee shirt: Pink Floyd
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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
Moby the Great.
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Click below to watch Moby’s new Music video, “Shot In The Back Of The Head”. It’s GREAT!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EI9caS6Lys
Mario Sironi
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