Photographer Rodney Smith will be releasing his new book entitled The End this Fall. New York- Bloomingdales will host the launch party for the release. In the Theory shop in Bloomingdales on September 30th from 6:00-8:00 pm. Rodney will be on hand to sign books and greet guests. Rodney Smith studied under Walker Evans at Yale, after traveling around the world on trains, bikes and foot he returned to Yale to earn a degree in Divinity. He is a master photographer who manages to saturate his photos with quiet magic. In honor of his book release he discusses All the magic behind photos on his BLOG, updated every Monday.
Paul Rowland made his descent into the dark and fabled World of Women Supreme to bring his inspirations to life.”Joel-Peter Witkin, paganism, mysticism, vampires, witches—all the things I love,” explained Rowland are the catalyst to these photos. The September issue has 19 different cover girls and an inside fashion story all shot by Rowland. His hauntingly-provocative photos capture his raw emotions and bring his fantasies to life.
V Magazine Special Edition: The World of Women/Supreme is available in select cities as a supplement to V61, on newsstands September 1, 2009.
Beijing artist Song Dong brings his mother’s possessions to life at New York’s MOMA. In his first solo museum show: Waste Not an exhibit running until September 7, Song personifies frugality and a more earth-friendly thought to would- be trash. Objects that would have normally been discarded, are saved for the chance of new usefulness. For five decades Song’s mother had amassed ropes, toothpaste tubes, shopping bags, plastic containers, broken dolls and anything else she deemed salvageable. After the death of her husband the thoughts of her meer thriftiness crossed the fine line into hoarding, and Song convined his mother to let him help her out of her small house brimming with chaos.
French Designer Vanessa Bruno alongside her muse Lou Doillon has created a 4 minute film to replace her fall catalog. It is directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto and shot in one day in Paris. It will debut September 9 on her site.
Di Giusto released a few stills from their visual poem:
Illustrator Sophie Blackall brings the missed connections of the New York City Craigslist to life. She selects certain posts and illustrates them on her blog. If you’ve ever spent time on the missed connections section you know that this is some of the most brilliant writing on Craigslist. 
Saturday, June 6, 2009
- m4w - 27 (42nd St and 5th Ave)
So yea…um, looking for the girl who I was dancing with last night, she bit me twice. I forget her name.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
-m4m (East Village)
Phoenix w/crutches
I would love to carry you around piggy back until you can walk again…
Sophie’s statement:
Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I’m trying to pin a few of them down.
Continuing in the wake of the 574 magazines that have folded since last year, Vibe magazine announced its closure Tuesday June 30. After almost 16 years being one of the top Urban Music magazines they are closing their publishing doors. This is a huge blow for music, hip hop, writers, journalists, photographers, and the whole Vibe readership. Quincy Jones, the founder of Vibe is ready to take back the magazine and give it the second chance it deserves. He’s bringing it back to life. ” I’m trying to buy my magazine back now, They just messed my magazine all up, but I’m gonna get it back. You better believe it, I’m'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over.” He told Ebonyjet. Hopefully they can get it right, because Vibe magazine is a huge leader in the hip hop culture and it shouldn’t be stopped.
Today Disney released a few stills from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Slated to be released March 5, 2010 this movie will be more like a sequel to the Alice in Wonderland we are used to. After she is proposed to, Alice runs away and follows the white rabbit down the rabbit hole and ends up back in Wonderland. She doesn’t remember her previous trip 10 years prior. This film has an all star cast and if we can tell anything by these promotional photos it will have the creepy and bizarre look, Tim Burton douses into all his films.
