(click to enlarge)Line 1 - June 18, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Big Art Group
© Katya Valentini
Caden Manson/Big Art Group
As far as I am concerned, I ran into a performance of "Cinema Fury: The Imitation" by chance during the EXIT08 festival at the Créteil Art Center in April 2008. I had never witnessed anything like that. An incredible mix of musical, theatrical and video performances. A hardly intelligible storylilne on 4 screens facing each others, dismanteled and almost osbcene bodies (swollen lips, dangling tongues, outrageous dubbing), the use of sadistic carnival-inspired props (wigs, liquids), 2 dancers on crack in dresses that could have be stolen from Cher, a platinum-blonde singer in black lace whose body was 95 per covered in tatoos, a guitar player who wouldn't leave his Manson Halloween costume... In a nutshell: a true UFO hovering on Créteil for an hour of visual and sonic delirium perfectly masterized with inventive, sensitive, crazy and subversive artists. Leading them, Justin Bond, the extraordinarily facinating androgyne actor from the duet Kiki & Herb, also seen in Shortbus. We're torn between the crafty universe of Michel Gondry and the gorey burlesque art of Paul McCarthy... When the underground New York scence settles in France!
Big Art Group's MySpace: click here
Website: click here
Justin Bond's MySpace: click here
Nordic Pop!!
Perez Hilton is not only an expert in trash tabloid news, he's also a talent discovere! I totally agree with his latest infatuation: the Swedish singer Lykke Li (here is her single). She was noticed last year with the excellent "Little Bit". This time, she's back with an album everyone talks about.
Lykke Li - "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
Her website: click here
Her MySpace: click here
Annie, is back with a very anticipated album. "Anniemals", her debut album in 2004 was very promising (extracts down here) and heralded a cool pop career. Already nicknamed the Scandinavian Kylie, Annie can pull different tricks, she mixes, a cd's even already been released!
Annie - "Chewing Gum"
Annie - "Heartbeat"
Her MySpace : click here
Her website (work in progress) : click here
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Colin Christian
Dolls again! Even more vicious ones!
Colin Christian was born in London in 1964 and several experiences lead him to sculpting. He gets familiar with latex and, influenced by erotism and sadism, he works with that fabric in order to express his creativity through the portraits of young girls. He then moves to the US and initiates new project with his wife Sas Christian, a painter as well. In the 2000s, Colin Christian tackles a new matter: silicone. His themes: good & evil, sci-fi, H.P. Lovecraft or Asia.
The site he shares with his wife: here. His MySpace : here.
Madonna: "on a cover of *all* magazines"
As usual, Madonna doesn't go halfway and when she promotes her new album, the press goes along with her. She was on the cover of the British music magazines Q. More surprisingly, she's also on the cover of a special ecology issue of Vanity Fair, the US magazine founded in 1913.
She's also on the covers of 3 international editions of Elle: US, UK and... France of course!
Interview (created in 1969 by Andy Warhol) was the first this year to talk about the diva's new album and introduced a new picture from the Steven Klein photoshoot (also used for the cover of Hard Candy, to be released on April 29, 2008).
Finally, in France, Madonna can also be seen on the cover Figaro Madame for their fashion issue.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Painted Wagons
Some more graphic mutilations of the Paris subway (line 3).
I'm more and more seduced by the ephemeral state of this works. Also, I love their growing complexity.
I promise I'll try to know more about the artists nex time.
Below, one of my favorite...
Pictures taken between March and April 2008.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Cocoon
A wonderfully naive video, a perfect male-female vocal harmony, effective cute guitars, two little French guys, an Internet buzz, the French music magazine "Les Inrocks" catches that sound, a few summer festivals and there we are! Almost a consecration for Cocoon.
"On My Way"
Mark Daumail (22, vocals and guitars) and Morgane Imbeaux (19, vocals and keyboards) embark us to their colorful universe with genious compositions. The band almost reinvents French folk music with a perfectly balanced album: between optimism and melancholy (with all their tracks from 2006).
"Vultures"
Their label's site "Sober & Gentle", their MySpace.
PS: thanks to Pascal for helping me discover Cocoon. Too bad I didn't follow you to the Lieu FMR, I would've loved to see them live... hopefully next time?
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Dead in jail, aged 19
An article (in French) with a terrible realization: overpopulation in French jails. Can a young 19 year-old boy, whatever the crimes he committed, die this way in prison...?
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Micky Green
I know, we've talked about her for a while now... But I only discovered her this week! Micky Green! Her hit "Oh" is this Spring's good surprise: fresh and subtle. The hot 23 year-old Australian recently settled in Paris. She's a former model turned singer with a rather experienced producer: the French-Lebanese Renaud Letang (who's already worked with Manu Chao, Feist, Gonzales, Alain Souchon or Mathieu Boogaerts). French daily newspaper Libération says Micky Green rocks our craddle with "a voice surrounded of purity, mediums and a few high pitches, a sweet melancholy and busting energy".
The album "White T-shirt" is not to be missed. Her website is here, her MySpace over here.
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