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Boy & Bear – Part Time Believer
Ladies and Gentlemen, the perfect summer hangout song. Designed for lazy days, afternoons at the beach and road trips!
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Boy & Bear – Part Time Believer
Ladies and Gentlemen, the perfect summer hangout song. Designed for lazy days, afternoons at the beach and road trips!
Frank Ocean – Swim Good
Duran Duran’s new single “Girl Panic”, the second from their 2010 album ‘All You Need Is Now’ is the hottest music video we’ve seen all year. Casting five of the world’s most famous super models to play the band members themselves; Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen and Yasmin LeBon turn the dial up on sexy.
The 9 minute masterpiece is shot in “mockumentary” style, with each of the women speaking in character of their respective roles. “We all have histories together; we came up at the same time. The careers of the girls ran very much parallel to ours, so there wasn’t a great deal of education that had to happen” says the drummer Roger Taylor.
Duran Duran hand picked Mark Ronson for the production of the video, who felt ‘Girl Panic’ was the song that most captured the band in the early ’80s, and for direction Swedish director Jonas Akerlund, whose recent credits include another stunning story through music Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s 2010 viral epic, ‘Telephone.’
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Young The Giant – My Body
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I Met A Girl – Wheat
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Bad Karma – Ida Maria
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Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
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All Saints – Pure Shores
(Gosh, this takes us back!)
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“The best fashion show is definitely on the street” – Bill Cunningham
On Saturday night we stayed in and watched Bill Cunningham New York. And far out, what a fantastic documentary!
For those of you unaware of Bill Cunningham/ the man on the bicycle, I’ll bring you up to speed. Bill Cunningham photographs people and the passing scene on the streets of Manhattan daily. Through watching this documentary you will see he only photographs people who are wearing extraordinary things. Bill Cunningham has a keen eye for fashion and likes to see people steering clear of “cookie cutter” sameness. And I for one have that same outlook. Why would you want to look like 10 million other people when it is so easy to be an individual?
Bombay Bicycle Club – Dust on the Ground (by watchlistentell)
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Our friend Ben Abraham – Songbird.
You’ll see/hear/love lots more from Ben coming up… stay tuned.
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
So Haunting, so beautiful, so beautifully produced is Spike Jonze’s new short film with Olympia Le-Tan.
Designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). On a shelf in famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company, the star-crossed love story of a klutzy skeleton and his flame-haired amour plays out amidst Le-Tan’s illustrations of iconic first-edition book covers. “It’s such a beautiful and romantic place,â€� offers Le-Tan of the antiquarian bookstore. “The perfect setting for our story!â€� The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had cut by hand. “I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,â€� said Jonze of working with Le-Tan’s characters. After spending five years adapting Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze’s recent shorts include robot love story I’m Here and an inspired G.I. Joe-starring video for The Beastie Boys. “A short is like a sketch,â€� he says. “You can have an idea or a feeling and just go and do it.â€� Here the iconic director reveals his creative process to writer Maryam L’Ange.
Via Nowness
Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance