Ai Tominaga Magazine Cover for Harper's Bazaar Malaysia, January 2010

Model: Ai Tominaga (Marilyn)
Magazine: Harper's Bazaar Malaysia, January 2010
Photographer: Aaron Lee
Stylist: Kenneth Goh

Source: Scanned by Aggie

Han Jin Editorial for Nordstrom Catalog, February 2010

Model: Han Jin (Marilyn)
Catalog: Nordstrom, February 2010
Photographer: Unknown

Source: Nordstrom.com

إيقاف جميع برامج شوبير على قناة الحياة

قررت المحكمة الادارية ايقاف جميع برامج الاعلامي احمد شوبير على اثر بلاغ من مرتضى منصور الذي اتهم فيه احمد شوبير بالهجوم عليه اثناء فترة ترشحه للانتخابات لدرجة وصلت الى السب والقذف.

وبموجب هذا القرار فسوف يتم ايقاف كل من برنامج الكورة مع شوبير وبرنامج الملاعب اليوم وبرنامج الوجه الأخر الذين كان يقدمهما شوبير على الحياة 1 والحياة 2، ويتم منعه ايضا من عمل اي برامج اخرى مستقبلا.

وتعليقا على الحكم علق احمد شوبير ان القرار لم يصل له، وعلق ساخرا باننا سنتوجه لبرامج الاسرة والطفل التي لا توجد عليها خلافات.

بينما علق مرتضى منصور على القرار بانه قرار اسعد كثير من المصريين، وبموجبه يمنع شوبير من الظهور على أى من القنوات الفضائية أو الارضية المصرية، كما قال :"الحكم ينص أيضا على قطع إشارة البث عن القناة نفسها في حال قيامها بعرض أي برنامج من هذه البرامج سواء بث مباشر أو مسجل، أو في حال تقديم شوبير لأي برنامج أخر على شاشتها، وهو حكم واجب تنفيذه من جانب اتحاد الإذاعة والتليفزيون".

عودة عرض الـ 1500 رسالة من فودافون

هذه الرسالة تصل لمشتركينا فقط عبر الايميلات :

ابعت كلمني لاي موبايل فودافون وهتلاقي نفسك تلقائي اشتركت فالعرض
وبعدها ابعت اي رسالة عادية لاي شخص
ولو عايز تتأكد أطلب *103#
هيقولك انك استهلكت 1 من 1500
يعنى عرض الرسائل 1500 رسالة من فودافون رجع تانى وماعليك سوى تجديد الاشتراك مرة اخرى

Gwen Lu Editorial for Harper's Bazaar Japan, February 2010

Model: Gwen Lu (Major)
Editorial: Makeup Must-Haves & Skin Essentials
Magazine: Harper's Bazaar Japan, February 2010
Photographer: Hiroshi Kutomi/No.2

Source: The Goddess Says

The afterthought experience

Do you know Tino Sehgal? You know, the artist that doesn't allow any pictures taken of his works? And doesn't write any introduction, or artist statement? Or make written agreements with museums? That wants no material artifacts in his works?
Does it matter what the works are?
They are performative. More: they are performances. They are people doing things in exhibition spaces. They are things happening with people within an exhibition framework.
They could be happening to others (say, someone kissing). Or to you (say, someone talking with you).
You might never discover which part was the work. Yet somehow, you often do.

Once again: Does it matter what the works are? Once you experience something, what good is the analysis?
But we are pretty smart animals. We may experience, and still want to think about it. We may want to decide what we think, and if we will go to see this thing again or not. We may rework this experience in our mind until we decide, say, that this is just not enough. That a good ice-cream would have done the job. Or a meeting with a friend. Or both combined. Maybe in a museum. Maybe accompanied by a stranger, having a conversation about progress. The luxury of conversational art. Now isn't that progressive.

Then again, what is wrong with living a series of perfectly good conversations put into a gentle, clean formal frame? Can't we just accept this? What is it that makes one (me) so voracious?
Is it the fact I've never actually seen a Sehgal, done a Sehgal?
Isn't the picture enough?
Or the reviews that seem to make a huge effort in taking the mimetic weight off the image and putting some of it on words?
Paradoxically, all the effort put into keeping it live seem to make us focus not on the thing, but on this very effort. Would Tino Sehgal be at the Guggenheim had he allowed taking pictures? So what exactly is the work, here? How come I feel it so clearly, if it's all about presence? Or am I just feeling its double, its fake, the afterthought? But isn't that crucial in experience? Doesn't that re-constitute the experience once it is over? Can one re-construct something one did not experience in the first place?
You would have to have been there. The most dreaded sentence in the world. What are we supposed to do with it? Take a hidden snapshot?

Tino Sehgal is on at the New York Guggenheim until March 10.

Ai Tominaga Editorial for Nordstrom Catalog, January 2010

Model: Ai Tominaga (Marilyn)
Catalog: Nordstrom, January 2010
Photographer: Unknown

Source: Nordstrom.com

Du Juan & Shu Pei Editorial for Vogue China, March 2010

Models: Shu Pei (Next) & Du Juan (IMG)
Editorial: Karl's China Fantasy
Magazine: Vogue China, March 2010
Photographer: Karl Lagerfeld
Stylist: Ling Wu

Source: Scanned by Keica @ tFs

بعد هجومه على الزمالك : إقالة علاء صادق ومنعه من دخول التلفزيون

بعد وصول 34 بلاغ ضد الاعلامي علاء صادق قرر رئيس اتحاد الاذاعة والتليفزيون المصري تقديم علاء صادق للشؤون القانونية للتحقيق معه وذلك على اثر هجومه على فريق الزمالك.

وقد تم تقديم كافة ملفات هجومه على الزمالك وعلى التحكيم التي قام بها علاء صادق في الفترة الاخيرة تمهيدا لاقالته.

وقد وجه اتحاد الاذاعة والتلفزيون انذار شديد اللهجة له كما قرر حرمانه من دخول التلفزيون في حال اثبات هذه الهجومات الاخيرة.
يذكر ان علاء صادق كان يقدم برنامج "ظلال وأضواء" على قناة النايل سبورت نظير راتب شهري قدره 80 الف جنيه تقريبا.

تحديث هام :
نفى د.علاء صادق مقدم برنامج "ظلال و اضواء" الذى يعرض على قناة النيل للرياضة بالتليفزيون المصرى أن يكون قد تم طرده و تحويله للتحقيق من قبل الأستاذ أسامة الشيخ رئيس اتحاد الاذاعة و التليفزيون.

و أكد د.علاء صادق بأنه يوجد بند فى عقده يمنع أى شخص متواجد بالتليفزيون المصرى بالتحقيق معه!

و صرح د.علاء صادق بأن من أدعى طرده هو شخص كاذب يقدم برنامجا وضيعا يبث فيه سمومه الموجهة للمشاهدين! "مشيرا للاعلامى المحترم محمود معروف" و قال صادق كيف أطرد و انا جالس الان أمامكم على شاشة التليفزيون!

و أضاف صادق: "بأن في مجال الاعلام الرياضي أصبح الصادق واضحاً.. والكاذب معروف".!!

Lakshmi Menon Editorial for Vogue India, October 2010

Model: Lakshmi Menon (Ford)
Editorial: Painting It Pink
Magazine: Vogue India, October 2009
Photographer: Bharat Sikka
Stylist: Anaita Shroff Adajania

Source: awake-smile

The End Is Never Nigh (A few sentences that never made it elsewhere)

Bloodshedding pieces of black-and-white happiness.
The unfair balance of the picture.

The wider picture. The bloody wider picture always giving it the color that wasn't there in the first place.
Notice: the wider picture is never the first place. It comes as we back up, until we are nowhere to be found, impressed by the relation of the Thing with that wide horizon, that swift encompassing of the Other into the Thing.

The unfair balance of the picture. Nothing should ever be framed. Frames should be prohibited, forcing us into oblivion, into focusing on the End nearest us. Who knows how many Santa Clauses are necessary?

The unfair balance of the picture.

The pictures are by, in order of appearance, Diane Arbus, Mikołaj Chylak, Diane Arbus, Fischli & Weiss.

Fee Fi Faux Fun

Had lots of fun today making a faux butterfly specimen box

with watercolor, paper, bookboard and a couple of pins.

A perfect addition to our school/studio shelves :)
The beautiful paper-mache bird is by my friend Gustavo Aimar

Cosmic CS Collage

 

CS. NO.7, 2.23.10, 16" x 18"

Are the stars out tonight? Can you tell if it's cloudy or bright?

 

(detail)

These papers lend themselves to thoughts of the cosmos, and that's where I went this week. Yes, in my universe, some planets are oval-shaped.   

As usual, this collage was created using NatGeo magazine pages "melted" with CitraSolv Concentrate. If you'd like to know how it was done, you can check the most recent issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors, or go to this post of mine and scroll down about halfway.

Ming Xi Making A Spash at London Fashion Week, Fall 2010

I was alerted to another new Asian model who is making a huge splash at London Fashion Week this season and she is Ming Xi, the 1st runner-up of 2009 Elite Look competition. It would be interesting to see how she does in Milan and Paris in the upcoming weeks.

It is also interesting that London Fashion Week is the place where these new Asian girls are creating a name for themselves. First off, London Fashion Week has always been the distant stepsister of Paris, Milan and New York, and the magazines there have rarely used Asian models. But suddenly, London is beginning to look like a major players.

Model: Ming Xi (Elite London

Source: Models.com

Du Juan & Liu Wen Magazine Cover for Vogue China, March 2010

Liu Wen finally gets a Vogue China cover. But she deserves a SOLO cover, damn it!

Models: (left to right) Du Juan (IMG), Lily Donaldson (IMG), Anna Jagodzinska (Next), Constance Jablonski (Marilyn), Karlie Kloss (Next) & Liu Wen (Marilyn)
Magazine: Vogue China, March 2010
Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier
Stylist: Nicoletta Santoro??

Source: Scanned by keica @ tFs

Still life

Pretty little things that inspire me on the shelves.
~Watercolor mosquito by Golly Bard
~Vintage glass bottle with dune sand from my friend Toddy's ranch in Texas.
~Crow bookplate by Diana Sudyka
~Three little wood painted eggs & crochet covered stone by Resurrection Fern
~A specimen jar with natural treasures.
~And a cloth covered box with a stone Hanko seal I had made of the word "bird" that must show you one of these days.
Hope you are having a really nice Monday!

Sun FeiFei Making A Splash at London Fashion Week

The new Asian face to watch out for in Europe this season is Sun FeiFei from Elite London. She just walked for Christopher Kane at the London Fashion Week and according to Laila Lu of Rock the Trend, there is a possibility that she may walk for Prada next week because both designers use the same casting director.

Model: Sun FeiFei (Elite London)

Source:Models.com

More Gentle Uncertainty

Video directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya (TAKCOM).

Sonia Dara Editorial for Sports Illustrated 2010

Sonia Dara is the first Indian model to appear in the Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit issue. These photos are just some of the amazing photo from the 2o10 edition.

Model: Sonia Dara (Elite)
Editorial: Unknown
Magazine: Sports Illustrated 2010
Photographer: Riccardo Tinelli

Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

The Dyed Silk Blahs

Well, sometimes when you goof, you do it on such a grand scale that it takes your breath away for days. That's what happened to me this week. But since it's a little depressing, we'll get to that last.

Last week, I saw a program on Ovation TV called Art Or Not? and in it, they covered an artist who worked with Shiva sticks on large canvases. He made tiny marks all over the canvas with the paints, using them like crayons and adding layer after layer of colors until the whole canvas was covered. (I wish I could tell you the name of the artist, but I don't see it anywhere on their site.)

I was inspired and thought it would be a neat technique to try with fabric, so I wacked off a large hunk of white muslin, pinned it to my wall, and drew on it.

 

36" x 52"

(detail)

It was an awful lot of fun and while I don't know what I'll do with it, yet, I'm sure I'll be able to find something neat it can go into. 

I did another kind of crazy thing this week- I used a piece of breakdown printed fabric and one of my "melted" papers from my CitraSolv/NatGeo collection (to find links to this technique, please see the left sidebar for the link labeled "CitraSolv Concentrate") to create a quilt.

 

 12" x 24"

I adhered the paper to the fabric with a very thin coating of gloss medium applied to the back of the paper and then, when dry, ironed to the fabric. It has a nice, soft hand, despite using gloss medium. 

I was really pleased with the "tunnel" stitching I did on the top of the piece. 

 

(detail)

It gave it a great texture, I think.

Also, this weekend, I negotiated a solo show for the month of May at a Houston business, a restaurant called Mo Mong. I've done these shows before- in fact, I spent three years curating such collections for several different businesses- and quite frankly, I swore I'd never do it again. However, this is a very high-profile and busy restaurant, and the owner asked for my work sight-unseen, which was flattering. I'll let you know how it goes; hopefully I can sell some of my pieces!

So, onto my silk blahs...

A very expensive batch of veils arrived last week, along with twelve pots of acid dyes. The idea was to parfait-dye them in a large vat (bucket) with all twelve dye colors thrown into the mix. For those of you not familiar with parfait dyeing, it basically means to LWI dye by scrunching a piece of fabric into a tall, narrow jar, pouring in one dye color (I always start with the lightest color, usually in the yellow family), scrunching another piece of fabric into the jar on top of the first piece, pour in another color of dye and so on until the jar is full. Batch and rinse as usual.

I had it in my head that I would do this with large silk veils, but first did several different experiments until I was happy with the results.

Unfortunately, those experiments didn't really help with the mess that was to follow when I did it on a grand scale. My dyes clotted before they could be poured onto the silk, the silk refused to scrunch enough to get even the slightest patterning, and the dye, rather than blending on each piece in a nice melange of colors, refused to blend at all, so I got several red veils, several blue, several green, etc. I didn't even take photos. They're not unattractive, just boring as hell.

This week I will try to spruce them up with some screen printing and fabric painting and if that is successful, I'll be sending them to Lynn Krawczyk, who has generously chosen Art Now For Autism as her designated recipient of her annual Breaking Traditions fund-raiser this year. My scarves, if they turn out well, will be given to participants of the auction fund raiser as thank you gifts (and if they don't, I'll be donating some of my hand-dyed muslin, instead).

Look for this week's CitraSolv/NatGeo collage in the next couple of days. In the meantime, happy creating!

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