REN ROX PHOTOGRAPHY
Lately, I’ve been really digging London based photographer/artist Ren Rox. She has a serious CV under her belt, being featured in publications like The Face, Dazed & Confused, Dazed Digital, BlackBook, Oyster, Neo2, Fader, NME, Clash, Stella (The Telegraph), DAMn, Magnificent, Artrocker, Calle 20, LaMilk, Lamono, Dirrty Glam, Prim, Soko, etc. But what’s more impressive, her photos have this really recognizable cool dreamlike psychedelia to them that we love. While, Ren’s online portfolio is fashion minded, she also documents art, music, travel, and herself. And if she ever gets bored with photography, her self-portraits show she is just as good in front of the camera as behind it. A great mix of personal, high fashion and rock n’ roll and in her music collection, Ren has had the amazing fortune to work with a solid crop of some of Discosalt’s favorite musicians like: Crystal Castles, The Kills, Peaches, The XX, Art Brut, Von Bondies, Late of the Pier, Camera Obscura, Lightspeed Champion, Be Your Own pet, The Datsuns, and Vivian Girls, to name a few. You can check out the Complete list below. We are really looking to seeing more of what Ren has in store in the coming future.
So many great photos to choose from, but here are some of Discosalt’s favorites:
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JAMIE NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY
Jamie Nelson is a New York based fashion photographer with work shown in numerous international publications, ad campaigns and billboards. Her work is really remarkable, taking inspiration from textures, people, sounds and places. You may have come across some of her work in Cosmo, Elle (Russia), Harper’s Bazaar En Español, InStyle Germany, Lula, Nylon, Oyster, Plaza, Vanidad and Vanity Fair (Italy). Nelson recently participated in a New Museum/Chandalier art exhibit in New York as well as a collective exhibit in Rome. Take a peek at some of our favorites:
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EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Everybody knows this is nowhere, is the latest gallery exhibition from American photographer Ryan McGinley at Team Gallery in New York. The show runs only until April 17, 2010, so get over there before its gone. McGinley’s last exhibit featured a photo series of carefree teenagers playing in the American desert but for this new exhibit, he has taken an extensive series of nude black and white studio portraits of 150 hand selected subjects. While Neil Young’s album by the same name took 2 weeks to record, McGinley, has spent the last 2 years composing this exhibit. “The result is a surprisingly restrained, open-ended study of black and white portraiture. Here we see McGinley not as a chronicler of youthful adventure, but as an engine for an almost scientific cataloguing of a kind of emotional optimism.” They kind of remind us a little of Hedi Slimane’s photo diaries. Check out some of the images from the exhibit below:
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Team is open from Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm and located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.
“I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around, Everybody knows this is nowhere.”- n. young
MR. BRAINWASH: “ICONS” (EXTENDED)
The somewhat questionable Mr. Brainwash, whose “Icons” exhibit has been on displays in the Meatpacking since Valentine’s Day has been extended through the end of April. Regardless of your thoughts on Mr. Brainwash, the exhibit is worth checking out. Yes, it’s a lame version of Banksy and yes it subsists on the tired and played out icons such as Warhol’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe portraits, but the vinyl portraits alone are worth checking into and even the Banksy stuff shows that while the underlying ideas aren’t entirely novel, they are fun and display at a minimum the talent of replication and derivation.
The exhibit is taking place at 415 W 13th street New York, NY 10014 and is open (and Free) from noon until 9p (Mon-Thurs), 12a (Fri-Sat), or 7p (Sun). Admission is free & cameras and video are being allowed.
For more on MR. BRAINWASH, check out these links from Discosalt:
Banksy Documentary: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Some images from “Icons”
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CARINE BRANCOWITZ: ILLUSTRATION
Carine Brancowitz is a French illustrator who began her career as a junior art director in fashion. She uses simple lines and few colors (mostly blue, red and black) to create some really interesting compositions. Check out some of Discosalt’s favorite images from her portfolio:
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BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL 2010
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. The Festival hits New York City June-16-20 to celebrate its 10th Anniversary. The good folks behind the fest have been doing it for the past 9 years and are doing it and doing it and doing it well. The BFF hits 30 cities to celebrate the bicycle lifestyle through art, film and music, featuring all styles of bikes and biking from Tall Bike jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents. Bringing together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways, and ultimately the Fest is about having a good time. Past BFF’s have featured work from artists like Jorgen Leth, Mike Mills, Jonaas Mekas, Blonde Redhead and Michel Gondry. Its also where we first learned about “encuclopaedia”. Google it.
EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE 27/3/10
How do I submit my film? Download the submissions form here and send it to:
Bicycle Film Festival
70A Greenwich Ave. #307
NY NY 10011
along with your film on either DVD or miniDV, NTSC and PAL are accepted by March 27, 2010. There’s no submission fee.
Check out this pretty cool photo-stream shot by Lorenzo Fariello, featuring some action in front of BFF Headquarters in New York today. Austin Horse stopped by with a flat on the Samurai Messengers cargo bike. As well a BMW hit a cyclist out front. He looks to be alright.
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Tola! Presents: Bridging the Gap. V. 1
…or some of Discosalt’s favorite Bicycle Music Videos:
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Flaming Lips: Watching the Planets
Bat For Lashes: What’s a Girl to Do
ROGER WEISS PHOTOGRAPHY
Some stunning new work from Roger Weiss, a Swiss born photographer who studied in Milan at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Since an early age, Roger has always experimented with photography and his curiosity with the human form led him towards an artistic approach. He continues as an artist, as well as a fashion photographer. Check out the rest of Roger’s portfolio HERE or scroll through some of Discosalt’s favorite images from Roger’s photostream below:
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RAID71: MOVIE POSTER REMIX
Yesterday, we posted a series of classic Comic Book Covers re-imagined by UK graphic designer Chris Thornley, aka Raid71 that we thought were pretty sweet. If you are interested in Raid71’s work, he has also lent his artistic eye to a series of film posters which he remixed in his trademark simplistic style. Their simple design is both expressive, easier to understand, and yet still manages to keep the identity of the main movie. Check out some of the prints below:
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LOGAN WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Being inspired by everything from mystical nuances, the female psyche, and the southern gothic, to crumbling wealth, sexuality and death, Macon (GA) based Logan White creates fantastic photography that can’t be put into just one category. Her work ranges from lifestyle and fashion, to more artistic photography.
Check out the rest of her work here.
or scroll through the images below:
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RAID71: CLASSIC COMIC COVERS REMIX
Chris Thornley aka Raid71 , a graphic designer from the UK who has worked with Gola, NME, Levi, Threadless, MacUser, has redesigned a series of Amazing Adult Fantasy Comic covers for Warren Ellis’ cover challenge. This contest is art only. No pen-portraits, no photo-manipulation “art”. It’s up to the artist/designer what kind of company they’re at. What kind of comics they make. How they translate the comic cover. What era they’re in. Who they are, even.
If you like any of Raid 71’s work, Chris is available for commission at: chris@sourcecreative.co.uk
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SGT SALT: FOTO OCH FILOSOFI
Check out this really great photostream from Swedish photographer, SgtSalt. You can find more of SgtSalt’s photography and philosophy HERE, or you can view some of Discosalt’s favorite images in the gallery below:
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DISCOSALT IN “LOOK AT THIS F*CKING HIPSTER” BOOK
Check out Discosalt’s review photo from last summer’s unapplified accoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden in Brooklyn, in the book version of Look At This F*cking Hipster (LATFH.com), which hits stores on March 30. LATFH takes its hipsterati photo format from the web to your fingertips, providing a coffee table friendly slice of hipsterdom that will sit nicely next to your helf-empty PBR cans. Now you can ironically hate your coffee table book too. You can win free copies of the book by checking out The_Real_LATFH on Twitter on March 30.
Check out the rest of the Discosalt photoshoot here.
BAND OF HORSES: INFINITE ARMS
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Band of Horses: Infinite Arms
Label: Brown Records/Fat possum
Release date: May 18th, 2010
After nearly 2 years, virtual bankruptcy, five states and a dead falcon to get there, the Low Country’s premier rock n’ roll outfit, Band of Horses release their third full length LP, Infinite Arms. The album is very much a product of a band doing things on their own terms and finally learning to enjoy the results.
Recorded over a 16-month period, the songs on Infinite Arms project the essence of the different locales across America that became the setting for the recording and songwriting process behind the album. The rich musical heritage of Muscle Shoals, AL, the sublime beauty of Asheville’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the glamorous Hollywood Hills and the vast Mojave desert all influenced the sounds on Infinite Arms and helped yield the group’s most focused and dynamic recordings to date. The serene woods of Northern Minnesota and the band’s native Carolinas inspired the songwriting, lending the compositions an air of comfort and familiarity.
As a whole, Infinite Arms reflects a genuine spirit of creativity and freedom. A freedom that feels as big as the country and landscapes the songs are written about and the way this album was recorded. Those familiar with the bands strengths; twangy country-rock balladry, Beach Boy-esc choruses and Ben Birdwell’s twangy and achy croon, won’t be disappointed with Infinite Arms. In many ways, this album is a progression from 2007’s Cease to Begin even though lyrically, the band shows little maturity. Lines like “I was thinking it over by the snack machine/ I thought about you in a candy bar” and “if Bartles & Jaymes didn’t need no first names, we could live by our own laws and favor” had me scratching my head, wondering if I had heard the lines correctly. But after repeated listen, these moments are transcended by the album as a whole to reveal a collection of exceptionally well crafted and catchy country-rock tunes that you will be humming the next day. Standouts for me; “Dilly” and “Laredo” which not only steer the album away from the more luke warm territory of songs like “Compliments” but provide the perfect desert camping soundtrack or would comfortably sit on any wilderness road trip mix.
At its strongest moments, Infinite Arms seems to ponder whether true love exists out in the expansive country. Love, in whatever form… pain, forgiveness, survival,and explores desire and forgiveness, memory and home, decay and grief. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band’s inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, “in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record.”
KATHERINE SQUIRE: THINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL IF YOU LOVE THEM
Discosalt came across this flickr photo stream from Austin based photographer Katherine Squire via www.booooooom.com. Katherine says that her photos are “rushed attempts to capture something inspiring.” In an attempt to live with awareness, photography allows her to capture moments that inspire her as she lives them and share them with the world. She likes good hugs and the open road and we can’t argue with that. Check out some of our favorite photos in a sneak peak below:
ANTHONY AUSGANG: MGMT COVER ART REVEALED
BANKSY DOCUMENTARY: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
Keep on the look out in theaters this March, for the new Banksy film: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. Billed as “The World’s first street art disaster movie”, the film is narrated by Welsh film star Rhys fans of “Knotting Hill” fame and stars the anonymous international renowned artist Banksy, himself, who has never spoken on film before. The soundtrack features some pretty cool artists as well, like The Bristolians, Roni Size and Geoff Barrow.
Banksy has transcended cult status to become a legitimate icon in the art work, whose politically humorous, often anti-establishment street art installations have attracted a storm of media attention. The movie chronicles the guerrilla art movement but then takes a satirical look at celebrity, consumerism and the art and film making world. The film began as a project from Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash an eccentric French film-maker/graffiti artist, who videotapes everything in his life . Mr. Brainwash was an assistant of Banksy who began filming the artist, who according to Banksy is “maybe just someone with mental problems who happened to have a camera.” The footage was then re-cut by Banksy who took control of the film creating an interesting film within a film. While the film touches on a broad spectrum of conceptions/misconceptions about street art, the message is a bit ambiguous and towards the end of the film Banksy confides ” Maybe it means art is a bit of a joke”. Check out the trailer below:
WAD LUND PHOTOGRAPHY
Wad Lund is the Scandanavian love-child of two photographers, Bjørn Wad and Elisabeth Lund who have teamed up with makeup artist and fashion stylist Mari Nes. Together, the team specializes in music, fashion and advertising photography. Check out some of Discosalt’s favorite images from their portfolio below or check out their website to see all their work.
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PIERRE DAL CORSO PHOTOGRAPHY
Pierre Dal Corso loves you…or we love him…maybe both. The under-rated fashion photographer has channeled his kavorka to create a portfolio of incredibly striking photos with uncanny use of color that beautifully capture the sex appeal of the female form. We have no idea why his work isn’t more well known…but now you know and can spread the word. Check out some of his portfolio below or scroll through his full portfolio HERE.
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THROUGH THE PAST, DARKLY: 70’S NYC GRAFFITI WRITER TEAM
In this short featured interview from Upper Playground’s Walrus TV, Ricky Powell interviews his longtime friend, 70’s New York graffiti writer “Team”. Take a little nostalgic tour of Avenue C, hang at Team’s East Village apartment and learn the origin of his name and his attraction to painting and installation art.
ANDREW KUYKENDALL: SHE’S A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY, A LITTLE BIT ROCK N’ ROLL
New work from Andrew Kuykendall worth checking out. After getting kicked out of art school in LA, Andrew started working professionally and has been at it for a little over two years now. Based out of LA and New York City, his photos have a washed out, vintage american dessert feel, drawing inspiration from “Egon Schiele, David Lynch, Tom Waits, Eastern Europe, road tips, Sushi, , the California/Nevada desert, Milan Kundera, pugs, hot sauce, Devo Lucien Freud, Henry Miller, vintage clown paintings, Glen Luchford, Scandinavian Black Metal, etc.” Most recently, he has been getting into video projects working with New York stylist, Discosalt friend and secret/not-so-secret Discosalt t-shirt muse Julie Williams. You can also check out more of Julies really sweet fashion styling at Dripbook. Andrew has completed a photo-shoot for Spanish Moss which is entitled ” She’s a little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll” that you can check out at www.spanishmossvintage.com or peep some images from the shoot below:
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or explore some of Andrew’s other shoots:
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Video projects:
gothic americana from andrew kuykendall on Vimeo.
dramarama. from andrew kuykendall on Vimeo.
