Himizu Format: Cinema Release date: 1 June 2012 Distributor: Third Window Films Director: Sion Sono, Japan Writer: Sion Sono Based on the manga by: Minoru Furuya Cast: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe Directed by Sion Sono, who brought us Suicide Club (2001), and more recently Cold Fish (2010), Himizu is an urgent and topical film. […]
Read More Sion Sono InterviewAndy Warhol: Andy Warhol’s sphere of influence defined 60’s subculture in New York. Though most remember Andy as an artist, he should be coined as a collector, collecting characters at The Factory who he manufactured and preserved as icons. His taste was impeccable; his instincts dead on. “Anybody who Andy discovered and found and ‘named’ […]
Read More 60’s ParaphernaliaAbsolutely, Definitely RAW! The Stooges are my all time favorite group so I really felt I had to hook you guys up on this article written by James Marshall in pleasekillme.com that is really complete and interesting. I also included a few clips that I thought you might enjoy as well. It is really important to me […]
Read More The Stooges by James MarshallA FAILED 1960’S ATTEMPT AT UFO LIVING The UFO-shaped house in Royse City, Texas, sits alone in an overgrown field, a vision of some solitary failed retrofuture dream. The Futuro House was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the late 1960s. Made of new materials like plastic and manufactured to be portable and adaptable to diverse terrain with its raised legs, […]
Read More FUTURO HOUSESWeird but Awesome Those that are drawn to the more creepy side of life will be thrilled to find out that 1920s Paris was obsessed with all things macabre. And that goes for nightclubs, too. During the 20th century, a number of different cabarets opened across the city, complete with gargoyle ceilings, bone chandeliers and […]
Read More Creepy NightclubsBeing on Earth! By ANDREW DOMINIK Photography CRAIG MCDEAN Nick Cave’s mind is a deep spring of dark beauty and improbable inspirations. He is a restless creator, skipping blithely across genres and forms, from music and literature to screenwriting, acting, and even theater. After cutting his teeth in the late ’70s and early ’80s with […]
Read More Nick Cave/InterviewLand of Retinal Delights Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Sylvia Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny. Above all else, it is perhaps beauty that emerges as her defining characteristic, and her art reflects this: an extension of herself; a passionate appreciation of simple […]
Read More Sylvia JIJapanese Skateboarder and Self-Taught Sculptor Turns Old Skateboards Into Art Japanese skateboarder and self-taught sculptor Haroshi has creatively combined his two passions by creating striking and stylish pop-culture images out of the wood of trashed skateboards. The unique appearance of his sculptures is all thanks to the composition of the skateboards he uses, which are created from multiple […]
Read More HaroshiThe Death of Hunter S. Thompson ”Shortly after Thompson’s death, I read Hey Rube, a collection of his columns for ESPN.com. His most chilling column was the one he wrote just hours after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” Last Words: A Testament to Hunter Thompson Washington Post Staff Writer By Henry Allen Friday, September 9, 2005 They found […]
Read More Was Football Season Really Over ?A Way of Life and a Philosophy/The Accessories and Jewellery As promised here are some nice piece of jewellery or accessories that are considered to be Art Nouveau. […]
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