Erwin Olaf is a Dutch photographer born in 1959.
Olaf lives in Amsterdam since 1980, his work got praised in 1988 with the "Chessmen" series, showing naked bodies (obese or pregnant women, young and vivid young men) enbodying the different pawns of a dusty chess game.
Through his work, the artist explores different themes like gender, sensuality, humor, despair and grace...
"Paradise", that I chose to represent here, is a series of photographs from 2001 focusing on a dark and baroque world inhabited by obscure clowns that express both happiness and sadness.
Erwin Olaf also got some attention in 1999 with the flamboyant and provocative visuals of a Diesel campaign that won the Lion d'Argent in Cannes. We also remember his beautiful white and red creations for Lavazza.
Olaf twork on video too, he directed some more or less disturbing shorts in the 2000s.
To close the series, the artist presented a series of portraits of the characters of the scenes. Important: click on the images to enlarge them, they're quite big, enabling you to observe the details of those peculiar faces.
Erwin Olaf's website: click here!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Erwin Olaf - Paradise
True Blood in September on HBO!
A VERY exciting news for "Six Feet Under" fans, like me! Alan Ball, the creator of the most upsetting show on tv ever, is back with "True Blood", the adaptation of Charlaine Harris's novels "Southern Vampires Mysteries" in September on American premium channel HBO.
The marketing campaign for the new show is like SFU's first episode in 2001, with fake ads. Here, it's about a synthetic blood that a Japanese lab developped in order to enable vampires to live among humans (promising, right?). Here's the fake site: trubeverage.com
Another video shows a poor little vampire kicked out of a regular dating website... (here: lovebitten.net). I love the double entendres on how difference is treated, I also love the double (even triple) sense to the word "suck"...
Here's a promo a little more classical that (I admit) reminds me a little of Buffy, but let's trust Mr. Ball and his irresistible cast (lead by Anna Paquin from "The Piano" and "X-Men") on this one. To be continued...
Friday, August 1, 2008
Olympics: Matthew Mitcham
On the cover of the American influential gay monthly The Advocate: Matthew Mitcham (born March 2, 1988 in Brisbane) who recently came out of the closet. One can understand why the (gay) blogosphere suddenly got super interested in this discipline and most particularly to this young talent ;)
The interview states that Mitcham does not want to be compared with Greg Louganis, an American diver born in 1960 who came out in the 90s. Which is a shame cause Louganis posed naked in Playgirl in 1987 before starting writing books...
Below, some nice dives during the 2008 Shenzhen competition.
Good luck for the games Matthew!!
Pete Burns, the Ultimate Queer Diva
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Iko's Tainted Glass
While I was reading Libération's blog "Les 400 Culs", I heard of this rather peculiar artist who works on tainted glass. This media, generally devoted to religious artwork, is "hijacked" for more modern pieces of art, often being very provocative.
Diego Tolomelli has created a whole series of erotic tainted glasses in his IKO studio. More information and more pictures on his website: click here.
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 FaireySaturday, July 5, 2008
Nova - Le Grand Mix
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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
