tuesday, october 31
Happy Halloween from the Snorri Bros.:
HAPPY HALLOWEEN AT THE SNORRI BROS GALLERY WITH CHARLES CORS
The second artist to grace the pages of the Snorri Bros gallery is a longtime friend named Charles Cors. His work is ethereal and beautiful in its minimalism. Enjoy.
monday, october 30
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wednesday, october 24
The latest Hair Wars schedule has been release, theme: “Dream To The Extreme” ... that's right!
Hair Wars in Detroit
Date: Sunday, January 20, 2008
Location: Northfield Hilton in Troy (Detroit)
I-75 at Crooks Rd., just 12 minutes north of 8 Mile Rd.
Luxury Rooms Available
tuesday, october 23
Autographed caricatures of the 2007 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Honorees:
These autographed caricatures of the 2007 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Honorees were drawn by artists at the legendary Palm Restaurant. For more than 80 years, The Palm has been world famous for its steak and lobster dishes as well as its caricature-adorned wall featuring the A List clientele of celebrities, political leaders, business icons and socialites that make up the restaurant‚s impressive customer base. VH1 presented the Honorees with their caricatures during a special celebratory dinner at the Palm on October 3, 2007.
monday, october 22 Brooklyn Bold- Fromat magazine features The Brooklynits- get it here.
friday, october 19
Help your friends-
You know those ACC Kids ? They all got caught for Graff and they dont have sponsors with big money for lawyers and stuff. So we're throwing a FREE party / Fundraiser for him FREE to get in and alot of art and rare stuff for sale. We're also just want to invite anyone who would want to come attend and support, purchase art, any media that might want to come or photographers, or if you know any sponsors that might want to get involved.
It's this Monday Oct 22nd , at Graffiti Research Lab - 540 WEST 21ST & 10TH AVE, NY, New York 11018 Cost : FREE . Party is From 6pm till 9pm.
Djaying will be LARGE PROFFESSOR (Main Source), live performances by COLD HEAT, SR NBK, and other special guests. its gonna be a fun event so anyone you know who might wants to go and support, or cover it.
wednesday, october 17
Nike and Vault put together an exhibition by Boogie. Up now through DECEMBER 20, 2007
VAULT
2498 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BLVD
(BETWEEN 133RD & 134TH), HARLEM
tuesday, october 16 powerHouse Books wins 2007 Lucie Award!
The Lucie's went as follows
Elliott Erwitt: Lifetime Achievement
Ralph Gibson: Achievement in Fine Art
Philip Jones Griffiths: Achievement in Photojournalism
Kenro Izu: Visionary Award
Heinz Kluetmeier: Achievement in Sports
Eugene Richards: Achievement in Documentary
Lord Snowdon: Achievement in Portraiture
Deborah Turbeville: Achievement in Fashion
Howard Zieff: Achievement in Advertising
Aperture as photography magazine of the year.
James Colton of Sports Illustrated as photo editor of the year.
Ogilvy & Mather Chicago's Dove campaign as advertising layout of the year. powerHouse Books as photography book publisher of the year for Darfur: Twenty Years of War and Genocide.
Brett Abbott, curator, and the exhibition "Edward Weston: Enduring Vision" as curator/exhibition of the year.
Harper's Bazaar's story "Metallic Moments", photographed by Peter Lindbergh, as fashion layout of the year.
“Hair Wars is a different idea of fashion and glamour than what is shown in the world of runway shows and magazines. That world ends up looking bland and anemic in comparison. The Fantasy Hairstyles in this book are proudly loud and outrageous. They express a desire to surpass the ordinary, to make something better, bigger, more extreme and more shockingly different than everybody else. To me, it’s just as serious and creative as, for example, an Haute Couture show by John Galliano, with the exception that these designers constructed their creations in their kitchens, on shoestring budgets.”
— Johanna Lenander
After attending a first Hair Wars show at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem in 2004, photographer David Yellen and fashion writer Johanna Lenander decided to document, through portraits and interviews, the creative power of the most acclaimed Fantasy Hair stylists nationally. Hair Wars, the first photography book to document this phenomenal art form, presents a series of 74 four-color photographs that were taken in several Hair Wars shows around the country between 2004 and 2006.
Remote controlled Hairy-copter, spinning ponytail, hairdos that include a gigantic bowl with live Japanese fighting fish or built-in device that blows soap bubbles are just a few of the short-lived and fragile Fantasy Hair pieces, entirely made of human hair and completed by make up and custom-made outfits that evoke fairytales or the real-life events they were inspired by: from 9/11 and the Olympic Games to The Matrix and the classic Sunday barbeque. The humor at play never overwhelms the intent to make the models (most are stylists’ friends and family members) look sexy and beautiful.
Hair Wars also features portraits and interviews of the stylists themselves: larger-than-life characters, big personalities with head-to-toe looks who take hair and fashion as a means of personal expression. “It takes ambition and drive as well as a fearless attitude to create strange and complicated hairdos that have no real reason to exist,” Lenander explains in the foreword. “There are strong feelings behind much of the work. Most stylists will tell you that their work is fueled by passion.”
wednesday, october 10
Preview the New York Photo Festival advertisement by famed Sprint commercial directors the Snorri Bros.! YouTube
tuesday, october 9 Check out the slide show from The VH1 Hip Hop Honors Weekend
monday, october 8 The BBC reports
Fab Five Freddy and Charlie Ahern were also lauded for the groundbreaking movie Wild Style, which was based on break-dancing graffiti rap.... read on.
thursday, october 4
The Brooklynites on Z100- Listen Up
Documentary photographer Cooper's exquisite and eclectic portraits of New York City in 1975 create a world at once removed from and inextricably tied to the soaring crime rates and crumbling neighborhoods of the 1970s. Without captions or titles, Cooper's crisp black and white photos document everything from a mother and child in Central Park to an unself-conscious naked man being interviewed on the street by a television reporter. Despite a conspicuous lack of street signs, Cooper's photographs are unquestionably “New York”: her relaxed, candid subjects reveal more about their city in their smiles and sideways glances than any map could. Her most affecting work involves children: at play among the ruins of their neighborhoods, leaping from abandoned rooftop to rooftop and running through hydrant geysers. Cooper's eye for everyday rituals in her adopted city is as sharp as her eye for the outrageous: the men calmly walking their llama down the street have the same intensity as the elderly man reading alongside a baby carriage in a park. Readers will delight at the opportunity to pore over each image, creating their own stories as they go along. (Nov.) ... read more PW reviews.
monday, october 1 just in...
Carolina Herrera said she was inspired by the watercolors of Jeremiah Goodman, the interiors illustrator to the smart set, whose book, Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision, was published earlier this year. Diana Vreeland, Elsa Peretti, and Pauline de Rothschild were hi clients, so you can imagine how lavish Herrera' fabrics were today. And she wasn't content to leave her floral sil failles be; she'd decorated them with artful swaths of jet beads. STYLE.COM
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