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"Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there’s something they want to..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:16:02 +0200

“Those people who want to use a camera should have something in mind, there’s something they want to show, something they want to say.”

- Gordon Parks

Cara Delevingne wearing Burberry to The Great Gatsby Premiere at...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:40 +0200

Cara Delevingne wearing Burberry to The Great Gatsby Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

Nicolas Winding Refn interviewed by NYTimes

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:21 +0200

Nicolas Winding Refn interviewed by NYTimes:

Nicolas Winding Refn interviewed by NYTimes

After Dark 2 from the ever-brilliant Italians Do It Better is...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:07:49 +0200

After Dark 2 from the ever-brilliant Italians Do It Better is now available digitally on itunes (hardcopy around the corner apparently, test pressings not up to scratch).

Free download of the new Mirage song. And After Dark 2 (IDIB...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:13:11 +0200

Free download of the new Mirage song. And After Dark 2 (IDIB sampler) out this Friday!

“Let’s Kiss” was written the same week as “Under Your Spell” in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life. The next morning… Ida & I had to leave. We flew to France for a handful of sweaty club shows. On the train out of Paris, I realized my whole world had been permanently turned upside down. The rain was crashing against the windows… & I decided I wanted to make a record that felt like that moment frozen in time… “For Ever Ever”. That’s when After Dark 2 was born. The last five years have been a blur of art & parties. This record represents the people we’ve connected with along the way…in Moscow, in Mexico, in Barcelona, in London, in Portland, in Montreal, in Melbourne, in Houston, in Berlin, in Beijing, in Los Angeles, in Dublin, in Athens… I am so excited to finally be sharing it with you. In 20 minutes, Ida & I get on a plane to Warsaw for our first tour overseas with Chromatics. Even though she is on crutches thanks to a brutal Roller Derby pile up on Sunday… we can’t wait to see all of you again… it’s been way too long. After Dark 2 is out this Friday.

It’s 78 minutes & 16 seconds.

See you on the train!
xo
Johnny Jewel

Solange Cover Story on Complex magazine how GuyBourdinesque....

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:10:37 +0200

Solange Cover Story on Complex magazine

how GuyBourdinesque. Love it.

GLASS CANDY + CHROMATICS After Dark 2 Tour 2013 For the first...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:09:00 +0200

GLASS CANDY + CHROMATICS After Dark 2 Tour 2013

For the first time ever… Glass Candy & Chromatics will be touring Europe together this month to celebrate the release of “After Dark 2” on Italians Do It Better.

Cara Delevingne and Tom Hiddleston for Vogue US. Photographed by...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:38:00 +0200

Cara Delevingne and Tom Hiddleston for Vogue US. Photographed by Peter Lindbergh. Others pics here.

Murakami Translator Philip Gabriel: New Novel will be released in 2014

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:33:18 +0200

Murakami Translator Philip Gabriel: New Novel will be released in 2014:

murakamistuff: Exciting news: Haruki Murakami’s translator Philip Gabriel who has been working on the translation of the new novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimagefor quite some time now has said in an interview that he plans to finish his translation at the end of the year with a release date planned for an as of yet unknown date in 2014.

As an equally exciting side note, Murakami’s other translator Jay Rubin has acknowledged to be working on a translation of the non-fiction book I Talked With Mr. Seiji Ozawa About Music - release date unknown.

cinephilearchive: More awesomeness from everyday_i_show

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:03 +0200

cinephilearchive: More awesomeness from everyday_i_show

Giorgio Moroder & David Sylvian. Photo by Brad Elterman.

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:30:39 +0200

Giorgio Moroder & David Sylvian. Photo by Brad Elterman.

rollingstone: Random Access Memories is full of WTF moments:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:38:01 +0200

rollingstone: Random Access Memories is full of WTF moments: Julian Casablancas delivering maybe the most emotive vocals of his career through a vocoder-style haze; dance godfather Giorgio Moroder waxing nostalgic on an electro-jazz-funk epic; pop-schmaltz guru Paul Williams (“We’ve Only Just Begun”) playing a love-starved cyborg in a disco fantasia. Then there’s the full package – a 70-minute-plus, over-the-top concept LP of prog-rocking, reverse-engineered dance music orbiting somewhere between Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Earth, Wind and Fire’s That’s the Way of the World.

Read our full four ✭ review of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories.

Some Early Thoughts on RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES.

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:25:50 +0200

discopotential: First of all, the stream available from iTunes is only 192kbps. We’re not giving the record a full assessment until we can hear it loudly at 320kbps or directly from CD or vinyl. (We can tell because we are terrible people who are snobs about sound quality.)

Secondly, a lot of the commentary we’re seeing seems to be from people who expected Daft Punk to make an album that wasn’t this one, despite months of interviews and discussions where they specifically cited yacht rock and disco as the primary influences on Random Access Memories. Guys, they made the album they said they were going to make. If you expected Discovery II, you were going to be disappointed from the outset. We don’t really feel that badly for you, bro.

Finally (and related to the second item), we think the duo is more interested in songwriting and craft than making an entirely new sound. Maybe it’s because of the way dance culture works; as a “scene,” we’re always more responsive to something that’s a technical advancement versus a nicely-put-together example of the form.

Kristin Scott Thomas’ style as the bitchy heiress in...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:07:00 +0200

Kristin Scott Thomas’ style as the bitchy heiress in “Under The Cherry Moon” (Prince, 1986)

Looks like a young Carla Bruni isn’t it?

Gio Ponti, interior design, Villa Planchart, Caracas, 1955

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:13 +0200

Gio Ponti, interior design, Villa Planchart, Caracas, 1955

Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, The Way We Were, 1973

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:13 +0200

Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, The Way We Were, 1973

Kristin Scott Thomas and a dog

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:40:11 +0200

Kristin Scott Thomas and a dog

NBC Picks Up Michael J. Fox’s New Comedy Series

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:54:35 +0200

NBC Picks Up Michael J. Fox’s New Comedy Series:

starts next fall

Audrey Hepburn practicing yoga on the set of ‘Green Mansions’,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:51:31 +0200

Audrey Hepburn practicing yoga on the set of ‘Green Mansions’, 1958.

THE 7 BIGGEST CHANGES THAT BAZ LUHRMANN MADE TO THE GREAT GATSBY

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:40:00 +0200

THE 7 BIGGEST CHANGES THAT BAZ LUHRMANN MADE TO THE GREAT GATSBY