Love&DoWhatYouWill

...simply perfect!

2010-12-01T20:11:00.000-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lazyDlfaptM

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2010-11-01T02:24:00.001-05:00

2010-09-01T11:13:00.000-05:00

life is great!!

2010-08-23T23:23:00.002-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1ihIAZOk8A

...Raw and Unretouched

2010-07-09T02:23:00.000-05:00

...finished product!!

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2010-06-11T22:44:00.000-05:00

...KL genius

2010-05-19T04:28:00.002-05:00

“When I do a film, I see the movie before I’ve made it, I don’t make scripts because it’s written in my head. I like short one-liners.”-KL

©KL

R.I.P. Lee

2010-03-10T01:47:00.000-06:00

George Carlin - Saving the Planet

2010-03-10T01:42:00.002-06:00

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”—Socrates

2010-03-04T23:49:00.000-06:00

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets...

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District questioning our culture’s fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America’s best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.

www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife/

what's for dinner??????????

2010-02-11T02:05:00.000-06:00

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television - a documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic bio-tech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.

WATCH!

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2010-01-26T00:00:00.000-06:00

Lied des Tages...

2010-01-13T20:33:00.000-06:00

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2010-01-11T12:21:00.001-06:00

via: twitpic

who is...Simon Schubert

2010-01-10T13:29:00.000-06:00

http://www.simonschubert.de/

One Resolution You Must Keep....Don't be a STAR SUCKER in 2010

2010-01-01T07:07:00.000-06:00

When the media makes a star - they make you the sucker.

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it.

Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all – and especially our children. It shows how truth has become a distant memory in the modern news and climaxes with a shocking and startling revelation of just how bad things can get when we let entertainment reach out into politics and charity.

The first rule of working in the media is - do not critisise the media. Well, we've decided to break this golden rule, and if we ever work in this town again we won't have done our jobs properly. A film so controversial it will never be shown uncut on TV, and will pull the rug underneath a string of untouchables.

via: http://www.starsuckersmovie.com/

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2009-12-30T10:18:00.002-06:00

Unique Ways To Charge Your Batteries

2009-12-23T04:17:00.001-06:00

1. Dance Charger: an armband which contains the technology necessary to harness kinetic energy and use it to power gadgets. This basically means the owner can wear the armband whilst dancing all day at a festival, get back to the tent and plug a mobile phone into the now-charged unit.

2. The Powermat is a thing of beauty: a thin, sleek mat upon which you just need to place your gadget of choice for it to begin recharging. Apart from the mat itself, there’s no need to plug anything in, plus you can place multiple devices on the Powermat concurrently as long as there’s ample space. At present, the mat is compatible with ‘iPhones, BlackBerrys, MP3 players, cell phones, headsets, hand held electronic games, digital cameras, and GPS units’ and will set you back approximately $160, receiver included.

3. Why use a charging device when the battery itself has a USB connection? USBCELL batteries have exactly that. Simply flip open the end of the battery, plug it into a USB port and it’ll begin to charge. The major downside is the price – a pack of 2 AAs will currently set you back $18– but still, it’s a good start. At the moment only the AA batteries you see above are available to buy, but many more products are apparently in development.

more info via: www.gadgetswow.com/

Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera

2009-12-23T03:54:00.001-06:00

product details

http://www.polaroid.com/

what is...Palais de Tokyo

2009-12-22T16:08:00.000-06:00

“Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it... Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is” – Jean Dubuffet

This quote from the founder of Art Brut must surely be Ange Leccia’s motto. Leccia is an acclaimed artist and the director of the Palais de Tokyo’s residency programme, Le Pavillon, and each year he and his team handpick the ten most promising artists of tomorrow, often from unlikely backgrounds (this year’s selection includes an engineer, some curators, a bunch of architects, and an ex-inmate). “Being an artist, used to be a lot less transversal," explains Leccia. “Today, artists shift from one discipline to another. When coming from an unrelated background, art becomes a way of re-reading one’s past.” After all, who can discuss the relationship between police and state better than someone who was actually arrested and jailed (Russian artist David Ter-Oganian), and who better than an engineer who helped develop the GPS can talk of nature and technology (American artist Patrick Bock).

Challenging the frontiers between art and curation is another important aspect of this year’s selection. A couple of curators were chosen to be part of Leccia's gang of ten, and their presence at the Pavillon allows them to leave their role as a mediator and think of themselves as artists in their own right. For example, French, London-based curator Florence Ostende borrows mediatic techniques, from print magazine, to online format, to create a unique artistic dialogue between the two countries.

And what is the Pavillon’s artistic barometer predicting? There are definite shifts in the arts, for example, one can see an environmental consciousness, which didn’t exist before, and artists are increasingly aware of the footprint of their work and turn to alternative energy. "This never used to be much of an issue," says Leccia. An interest in architecture and urban planning also seems to be a recurring factor. For example Ramiro Guerreiro, who comes from an architecture background, now works on incorporating performances into existing monuments and highways. "The interest urban landscape makes sense," says Leccia. "In a world where art is often ephemeral, architecture is the only artwork that stays."

text/photo via: http://www.dazeddigital.com/

Palais De Tokyo, 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, France

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/

http://www...

2009-12-18T23:32:00.000-06:00

http://www.openingceremony.us/

dreams come true.....

2009-12-18T20:56:00.000-06:00

Here's a fairy tale that could only happen in the movies. Man makes YouTube video. Goes to Hollywood. Gets pots of money and a movie deal. Except this story is true.

An unknown producer from Uruguay, Fede Alvarez, shelled out about $300 to create a cool video of a robot invasion in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The four-minute short, "Ataque de Panico!" (Panic Attack) features ginormous (but slow-moving) weapon-wielding robots that blow stuff up.
We have to admit, it has pretty amazing production values. The Playlist gushed that the director may be the next Neill Blomkamp, who made the South African-based alien flick "District 9." With the blog abuzz, the South American short went viral, and has already been viewed on YouTube 1.5 million times.
Well, apparently nothing gets by Hollywood these days. The lucky duck told the BBC, "I uploaded 'Ataque de Panico!' on a Thursday and on Monday my inbox was totally full of emails from Hollywood studios." Long story short, a bidding war ensued. The offer he pocketed: A $30 million deal with Sam "Spiderman" Raimi's Ghost House Pictures. That's a nice return on investment.
The picture will be a sci-fi thriller set in Argentina and Uruguay. In case you're hoping to see the feature-length version of "Panic Attack!" in a movie theater, it won't be from this deal. The newly minted "it" guy says he will start from scratch.
-via :http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/buzzlog-uruguay-to-hollywood.html

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2009-12-17T02:40:00.000-06:00

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2009-12-16T18:46:00.001-06:00

latest issue online...

http://www.spreadartculture.com/

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2009-12-15T02:25:00.002-06:00

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2009-12-06T12:37:00.002-06:00

Living Magazine Cover & Spread

2009-12-05T23:10:00.000-06:00

Photographer Alexx Henry and his team show you how a magazine might look in the not-so-distant future with the October cover and spread for Outside Magazine. The living portrait of the triathlete Chris Lieto is photographed using the revolutionary Red One cinema camera and the 5d Mark II, for a moving magazine that looks right out of a Harry Potter movie.

http://www.vimeo.com/6861129

livingartmedia.com

alexxhenry.com

thankful for staying alive...

2009-12-05T16:43:00.000-06:00

who is...Douglas Kirkland

2009-12-03T23:56:00.000-06:00

"I can only say this: it was extremely intimate. It was just myself, the camera and Marilyn.... Frank Sinatra filled the room with his seductive beautiful ballads. That was the atmosphere of the evening: quiet, soft and enticing..."- Douglas Kirkland

A Conversation with Douglas Kirkland

http://www.douglaskirkland.com/

start the day positive...

2009-12-02T16:27:00.000-06:00

feeling good...

Scream My Name!!!

2009-11-26T23:35:00.002-06:00

Objectified.

2009-11-26T13:25:00.000-06:00

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/

Feel Good Instantly!

2009-11-20T15:13:00.000-06:00

FYI...earth2100

2009-11-18T11:14:00.000-06:00

The two-hour special explores what a worst-case future might look like if humans do not take action on current or impending problems that could threaten civilization. The problems addressed in the program include climate change, overpopulation, and misuse of energy resources.

"this program was developed to show the worst-case scenario for human civilization. Again, we are not saying that these events will happen — rather, that if we fail to seriously address the complex problems of climate change, resource depletion and overpopulation, they are much more likely to happen." -Executive Producer Michael Bicks

watch full program: http://www.zshare.net/video/683823229846b394/

other viewing options: http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/earth_2100/

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2009-11-17T13:36:00.000-06:00

http://store.dolcegabbana.com/

who is...Katja Kuhl

2009-11-16T03:47:00.005-06:00

http://katjakuhl.de/

http://www.myspace.com/katjakuhl

herzundseele.katjakuhl.de

http://www.mutterundvater.com/

http://www.palladium-tv.de/

http://www.vanit.de/

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

2009-11-06T06:01:00.000-06:00

BOTANY OF DESIRE tells the utterly original story of four everyday plants and the way they have domesticated humankind. In 1983 Michael Pollan and his wife left New York City to make a new home on an abandoned dairy farm. Pursuing a childhood fascination with gardening and an old-fashioned hubris about his ability to control nature, Pollan set about creating a garden. He had no way of knowing that it would eventually lead him to an original and provocative re-interpretation of the relationship between plants and people. This two-hour documentary, based on Pollan's best selling book The Botany of Desire, takes viewers from the potato fields of Peru and Idaho to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from the tulip markets of Amsterdam to the medical marijuana grow rooms of the United States. Along the way, the program will explore the natural history of the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato– and the human desires that link their destinies to our own

Full-Length Program:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1283872815/

http://www.michaelpollan.com/

317 & COUNTING...

2009-11-03T23:51:00.002-06:00

For over two decades, Steven Meisel has created every cover and lead editorial story for each issue of Vogue Italia. 317 & COUNTING gathers the 317 covers made by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia from 1988 to 2009. Published by Mallard/Javier the limited edition is still on sale!
http://www.mallard-janvier.com/

who is...Robert Bradford

2009-11-02T01:02:00.000-06:00

http://www.robertbradford.co.uk/

http://www...

2009-11-02T00:48:00.000-06:00

http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/

Stella McCartney for GAP Kids & Baby GAP

2009-10-28T03:16:00.001-05:00

The collection retails from $14 through to $128 and fits newborn to children up to age 12, and it hits stores on November 2nd in UK, France, Japan, the U.S. and Canada....for a full-time Uncle news like this are very useful....

via: http://thechicspot.blogspot.com/2009/10/stella-mccartney-for-gap-kids-baby-gap.html

never judge too soon...

2009-10-28T02:31:00.002-05:00

NICOLA FORMICHETTI'S BLOG!!: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MORE PICS...#links

this would work...I suppose

2009-10-26T00:31:00.001-05:00

"The Mansion"

http://www.harrisonvarma.co.uk/

069

2009-10-21T18:29:00.000-05:00

Es is kaa Stadt uff der weite Welt,
die so merr wie mei Frankfort gefällt,
un es will merr net in mein Kopp enei,
wie kann nor e Mensch net von Frankfort sei!

Un wär´sch e Engel un Sonnekalb,
e Fremder is immer von außerhalb!
Der beste Mensch is e Ärjerniß,
wann er net aach von Frankfort is.

Was is des Ofebach for e Stadt!
Die hawe´s ganz in der Näh gehat
un hawe´s verbaßt von Aabeginn,
daß se net aach von Frankfort sin.

Die Bockemer hawe weiter geblickt,
die hawe mit uns zusammegerickt;
die Bernemer awer warn aach net dumm,
die gawe sogar e Milljon dadrum!

E Mädche von hie, deß en Fremde nimmt,
deß hat en for was Höher´sch bestimmt;
es mecht en von Hie, un er waaß net wie,
e Eigeplackter is immer von hie.

E Mädche von drauß, wann noch so fei,
dut immer doch net von Frankfort sei!
Doch nimmt se en hiesige Berjerschsoh,
so hat se aach noch die Ehr derrvo.

Des Berjerrecht in den letzte Jahrn
is freilich ebbes billiger warn;
der Wohlstadt awwer erhält sich doch,
dann alles anner is deuer noch.

So steuern merr frehlich uff´s Tornerfest!
Bald komme se aa von Ost und West,
von Nord un Sid un iwwer die Meern:
Gut Heil! als ob se von Frankfort wärn.

Un wann se bei uns sich amesiern,
dann werrd se der Abschied doppelt rihrn
un gewe merr recht un stimme mit ei:
wie kann nor e Mensch net von Frankfort sei!

Friedrich Stoltze

what I do...

2009-10-21T17:14:00.000-05:00

who is...Erwin Wurm

2009-10-20T22:14:00.001-05:00

'In the end, art deals with the difficulty of coping with life - be it by means of a philosophy or a nutritional diet,' - Erwin Wurm

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2009-10-20T17:09:00.002-05:00

it's a sick sick world... i'll be your medicine

2009-10-16T13:26:00.001-05:00

www.samsparro.com/

Can we get more people to take the stairs over the escalator by making it fun to do so?

2009-10-11T13:01:00.001-05:00

http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/en/

"Das Hier" ist der song des tages...des monats...des jahres...

2009-10-01T17:42:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOCa7nDykis

http://imglashaus.de/

http://www.3-p.de/

http://www.katjakuhl.com/

Standing out from the crowd is not the word.

2009-09-28T19:20:00.000-05:00

Russian Vogue's Anna Dello Russo

http://www...

2009-09-26T02:26:00.001-05:00

The Imagist is a hydra. The Imagist is an omnivore. It travels the world's fashion weeks and art fairs, film festivals and award shows. It goes from hotel to nightclub to art gallery to boutique to bar to bookstore to beach to record shop devouring: hunting for a tremor or a twitch that could change things. Does that make The Imagist a whore? Its all about the ( visual ) orgasm no?

http://theimagist.com/

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the sexiest DJ of them all?

2009-09-25T00:53:00.000-05:00

T Sky is a globetrotting DJ that plays a wide range of music styles. With such a packed schedule, it's hard to believe she finds time for her other talents, such as photography, graphic design, modeling and drawing. With breathtaking beauty and sex appeal, and budding success in the Film, TV, Music, and modeling industries, it is no wonder that Tamara Sky is quickly becoming a world renowned superstar DJ.
http://www.myspace.com/tamarasky

before the devil wore Prada

2009-09-24T01:52:00.000-05:00

WATCH...THINK...DO

2009-09-23T09:05:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egqJctPZunw

In 1998, Jeremy Gilley began to make the Peace One Day documentary, eventually deciding to aim for a UN resolution formalising the idea. In 2001 this goal was reached, UN GA resolution (A/Res/55/282), put forward by the UK and Costa Rican Governments, was unanimously adopted to establish the first ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence fixed in the calendar as 21 September annually. Gilley organised two concerts at Brixton Academy, London, on 21 September 2002 and 2003. In 2004, the Peace One Day documentary premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, then the BBC aired the documentary in September of the same year. On the other side of the Atlantic in 2005, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller hosted the North American Film Premiere to highlight Peace Day. In May 2006, the Peace One Day Citizenship Resource Pack was launched after conversations with over 30,000 young people and teachers. In 2007, a second edition of the Citizenship Resource Pack was made available to every secondary school in the UK.Gilley produced and filmed a second documentary The Day After Peace, in association with the BBC. The film documents the first ever life-saving activity on the day – polio vaccinations on 21 September 2007 in insecure regions of south and east Afghanistan. In May 2008 Jeremy Gilley received the award Campaigner of the Year. In early September 2008 Gilley and Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to screen The Day After Peace there, meet Hamid Karzai, and document preparations for the polio vaccination on 21 September 2008 of 1.85 million children under 5 years old, in seven Afghan provinces where conflict has previously prevented access.

http://www.peaceoneday.org/en/welcome
http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/654-jeremy-gilley

Some quotes just get stuck in your head more than others

2009-09-22T19:20:00.000-05:00

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

"Always be the most authentic person you can be." - Pelayo Diaz

"Love never goes away...it just changes form."

"What are you waiting for nobody's going to show you how.....why work for someone else to do what you can do right now....got no boundaries and no limits....if there's excitement put me in it.....don't stop me now I can catch my breath I can go on and on and on " - Madonna

“The work is totally collaborative, and that’s why I’m drawn to it. I never wanted to be the center of attention in a social scene. I never wanted to create a ruckus.” - A. Phillips

"THE REASON PEOPLE DON’T ACHIEVE WHAT THEY WANT IS BECAUSE THEY DON’T DARE TO DREAM. TODAY, VISUALIZE YOUR GREATEST DREAMS COMING TRUE. DOING SO LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR THEM TO DO SO. DROWN YOURSELF IN COLORS, IMAGES, EMOTIONS, PASSIONS AND TRIUMPHS. IF YOU’RE DOING IT RIGHT, THE MOST FANTASTICAL HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION WON’T EVEN COME CLOSE TO THE SPLENDOR AND GRANDEUR OF THE THINGS YOU COME UP WITH." – Norb Peti

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." - Wayne Dyer

"I am attached to nothing." - K. Lagerfeld

"Elegance is something that needs to be whispered and not shouted."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "

"The core of man's spirit comes from new experiences."

"To forgive means to love."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

"It's all Body worship."

"Art is the imagination of play in the field of time."

"Wer später bremst, ist länger schnell."

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are." - E. Tolle

"Writing is after all, another way of getting naked." - Eve Babitz

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - P. Picasso

"I'm in the hall already, on the wall already, I'm a work of art already, I'm a Warhol already." - Jay Z

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

"You are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy."

A Great Conversationalist

2009-09-22T17:36:00.000-05:00

French Actress Juliette Binoche on her new film and her art book
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10601

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2009-09-22T03:37:00.000-05:00

What will this blog be about?.........Anything and everything I can't keep in my head...We live in a very interesting time...the only permanent thing is CHANGE!