Sunday, July 27, 2008

Broadway Baby #01 : Nick Adams, from Broadway to Boxers!

Nick Adams, full package. This young Broadway actor, seen in Chicago (picture above), The Pirate Queen and at the moment in the revival of A Chorus Line has just signed a contract with the underwear brand 2(x)ist.

This boy knows his assets, both vocally and physically... Let's hope he'll have a long and successful career in theaters and in magazines alike!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Obamart


The Democrat candidate to the US presidential election of November 2008 started a cultural and historical enthusiasm almost never seen before. Barack Obama revolutionize American politics with the hope he helped to revive and the incredible mobilization of a new generation. The Y generation.






Go Tell Mama!











Shepard Fairey

Here, you'll find a Flickr page entirely dedicated to Obama street art, not to be missed!

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Nova - Le Grand Mix


Young & Rubicam developped a very nice campaign for Radio Nova's "Le Grand Mix". Ten different visuals exist, by ten artists illustrating the music styles of the radio; funk, rap, rock, electronica but also Cuban music or blues...

Enlarge them with a click, you can also watch the 8 mini-clips by clicking here!

New Annie Album!!

It's not the first time I'm talking about fabulous Annie.

Here's a fantastic news about her, she has a new album coming out September 2008!

The video to "I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me", produced by Richard X is already on the air...



Forbidden goodie (don't tell anyone): the remix by the excelent British trio Soul Seekerz

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Bring Ya To The Brink!


Cyndi Lauper is back with a dance album! Yay! After vague folk and retro tentatives, Cyndi Lauper goes back to her first love with ol'fashioned well produced dance music. The crème of European electro producers accepted Miss Lauper's invitation: The Scumfrog, Basement Jaxx, Digital Dog, Axwell, but also Dragonette and New York based Richard Morel.


An upbeat album that seriously rejuvenate Lauper's sound, even if the singer still signs the lyrics. Perfect timing for the release during the Pride month. We know how Cyndi Lauper has been deeply connected to the gay community since the 1980s with her statements: her True Colors tour reunited many great gay and lesbian artists for charity concerts across the US.







"Into The Nightlife", the album's second single

Cyd Charisse (1922-2008)


The extraordinary dancer Gene Kelly had chosen for the legendary final ballet scene "Broadway Melody" of Singin' In The Rain died yesterday at age 86, in Los Angeles.
The 50 films Cyd Charisse leaves behind, many musicals from the MGM golden age, still remain a wonderful homage to the now deceased star.



So weird...

(click to enlarge)
Line 1 - June 18, 2008

Monday, May 19, 2008

Big Art Group

© Katya Valentini


Caden Manson/Big Art Group is a New-York company of performers created in 1999. They use the media language and mix their performances to create new culturally transgressive pieces. Since its beginning, the band has been touring in the US and internationally, they produced 5 main plays among which are "Real Time Film" with "Shelf Life", "Flicker" and "House of No More".


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