Soliloquy 88

SOLILOQUY 88 from JASON LAST on Vimeo.
Found via Twisted Lamb
"SOLILOQUY 88 is a fashion film collaboration between Jason Last & art director Jaime Rubiano.
Commissioned for Hintmag, the film features Rodarte's spring 2010 collection, with shoes by Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte.
Radium, a white radioactive metal with the atomic number 88, turns black when exposed to oxygen. The film explores themes of decay, metamorphosis, transformation, etc, all through the lens of a dystopian and sci-fi vision, with a soundtrack by David Madden."

The fashion world have lately (in the past few years), started to fully embrace technology as a medium of presentation. Fashion films are starting to go viral. Why not? They are attractive, interesting, and a really fast way of 'spreading the word' so to speak. In the past two years or so, with the financial 'crisis', many of the less wealthy designers have used this medium as a way to present their fashion shows. It is much, much cheaper than the traditional runway show. (Only one model is required, and thus probably only one makeup artist, stylist, etc, and the location is probably fall cheaper to rent too). It's probably not as 'grand' as a traditional show, and all that stuff. But, it is the new age.

And I'm liking this =)

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BD: Nicole Kidman
DD: Carl Friedrich Abel
World Refugee Day
Father's Day 2010.

Red Moon

It is just beautiful, things you can observe so late at night.

Right now, sitting outside my window, lies a sliver of the red moon.

It looks something like this:

Photo by Chris Harvey

http://www.flitemedia.com/index.php

Except, my moon, is a waxings one (the one show in this image is waning), and it is larger, yellower/whiter along the outer edge, and its craters are much more visible. It is much better to be looking at it, photographs does it no justice.

It is visions like this, that are the driving forces behind artistic creation, behind inspirations, the romanticism in ourselves.

And I just love how, if someone in my general geographical area looks up in the right direction, they will see the exact same thing, and perhaps ponder the exact same thoughts.

So pretty...... But alas, like all beauty, it will not last. It will return again, perhaps in the same setting, perhaps in a different one. But for now, it is fading.

Back in December, was the first time I saw this red moon in a long while. It was in the early hours of the morning, not quite dawn yet. The moon was full that day, and in the exact same location, I sat there, watching as the red disk slowly sank to the ground, disappearing into the horizon.

It was quite amazing. Because in the summer, I always watch the sun set, just a little west of where that moon was. They sank, the exact same way, the moon being slightly larger, and the setting of it signalled the beginning of light, instead of the end.

So this is where philosophies and ancient tales, stories passed down through generations came from...