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GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA STYLE WEBLOG
FRESH TAKES
ON MOVIES, MUSIC,
PEOPLE & MORE
CONSUMING CULTURE, SPITTIN' HYPE
ON OUR STEREO
The Top 10 discs that get us through the night...
1. Deerhoof - "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
2. El Perro Del Mar - "El Perro Del Mar" (EMI)
3. Lily Allen - "Alright, Still" (Regal/Parlophone)
4. Cat Power - "The Greatest" (Matador)
5. Kanye West - "Late Registration" (Roc-A-Fella)
6. Gorillaz - "Demon Days" (Virgin)
7. M.I.A. - "Arular" (XL)
8. Kaiser Chiefs - "Employment" (B-Unique)
9. Bright Eyes - "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning" (Saddle Creek)
10. Mos Def - "The New Danger" (Geffen)
Kickin' It Ol' Skool on Our Stereo...
1. Bob Marley and the Wailers - "Exodus"
(Island)
Favorite Kicks ...
Adidas "Adi Color Winner"
-- Fresh high-top sneaker design from the German tennis shoe maker.
Favorite Video Game on Our PlayStation...
Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas
(Rockstar Games) -- The greatest GTA eva'! It's been out for over two years and we're still freakin' playing it!
Overheard...
Guy talking into cellphone on West Broadway in Soho, NYC:
"Hey man, can you hear me? Got a new cell phone -- it's a Treo, man! That's right, a Treo. Yeah, the Palm Treo 650 and it's aaaawesome ... uh ... hello, can you hear me? Hello? Hello ... Shit!"
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Supercore:
Ivan Corsa
Princess Lower
East Side:
Reiko Oishi
OK Computer:
Typhoon
Lost in Translation:
Ken Taniguchi
Sources Direct:
Rob Samra
D. Carter Witt
Damon Smith
Adrian
Tharani
Jess Eddy
Gravy to Potatoes,
Luke to Darth Vader:
Lao Tzu
Hardware:
Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 + G3 Computers w/ OS X
Toshiba Satellite Laptop w/ Windows XP
Krups Il Caffe Duomo Espresso Machine
Resources Directory [Beta]:
TECH GEAR
Mobile Devices We Like:
T-Mobile Sidekick and Sidekick II
Easy to use, unbusinesslike and not too techy-looking, we like the Sidekick 'cause it's easy on the thumbs for typing and is probably the most comfortable cell phone and text-messaging device in terms of keyboard size and design.
Palm Treo 650
The treo 650 is to the Sidekick what Prada dress shoes are to Adidas sneakers. Despite that analogy, the Treo will not win points for style compared to many cell phones, though the Treo is well-designed and nice on the eyes. The Treo is a so-called Smartphone and runs an OS for its Palm PDA functionality. Part phone, part PDA and part e-mail and Internet-enabled handheld computer, the 650 comes in slightly different versions for Cingular, Verizon, and Sprint. The best part of the 650 is its keyboard and high-resolution color screen.
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HOME | NEW YORK CITY | GLOBAL POP CULTURE MEDIA WEBLOG
January 31, 2005
New York's Village Voice Picks Best Fashion and Style Magazine Photography of 2004
The Village Voice recognizes fashion photog with an excellent look back at the best images to grace the covers and pages of style mags in 2004. It's rare that this area of publishing and photography gets ranked and called out outside of the cliquesh insidery worlds of fashion, design and advertising and their associated media.
The Voice's selection is impressive and is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the body amazing photomaking that gets churned out annualy. One of favorite images is a cover for the hugely influential and now defunct British monthly The Face. Its cover of hip-hop super-producer Pharrell blowing bubblegum on a model's breast gets special love from writer Vince Aletti, who gives a short, well-written and insightful article acompanying the best images (some of which are shown above).
Aletti makes an important point about context, writing "A good photograph tends to get lost in a bad magazine; a great magazine can make even a so-so shot look brilliant."
One serious flaw with the selection, however, is that the chosen images/publications here are limited to a sampling of well-known and hugely commercial American and European fashion books--Vanity Fair, Paris Vogue, W, Elle, GQ, etc.
That there is nothing from the vast universe of photography produced by Japan's fashion press really casts serious doubt as to the diversity of mag titles and output considered. Japanese publications like H, Commons and Sense, Composite and Gap produce plenty of worthy images each year. The dozens of smaller independent lifestyle-culture and fashion mags like Tokion and Trace get no attention here either.
Still, seeing serious attention given to this photographic work made in the name of style is a beautiful thing. More, please!
RELATED LINKS
Do Not Recycle: The Most Stylish Magazine Photoography of 2004 [Village Voice]
Posted by typhoon at January 31, 2005 10:05 PM
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