Posts tagged with 1990s
October 21, 2010 | New Art | by Gerry Mak |
I was just talking to someone the other day about how in the ’90s, people moshed at every show, no matter what kind of music it was, but these days people don’t do that anymore. These hyper-realistic paintings by Dan Witz have a weird retro feel to them, sort of like Social Realist murals glorifying the heroism of the common man, and the subject matter — crowds at nightclubs mingling, masses of people at a rock show moshing, hundreds of rushing commuters — make them odes of a sort to Generation X. Read more
September 2, 2010 | Cool Websites | by Lamia Larkin |
TV is full of fashion icons. From The Mary Tyler Moor Show to Gossip Girl, viewers have watched in awe of the amazing outfits worn by the leading ladies and gentlemen of the screen. But no one was quite as glamorous as Fran Fine from The Nanny. Luckily, someone else out there agrees with me because there is a blog dedicated to Mrs. Fine and what she would look like in today’s hottest trends. From Stella McCartney to Dolce and Gabbana, Nanny Fine has never looked so, well, fine.
August 13, 2010 | Video | 
by Zolton |
At the risk of sounding like a broken (vinyl) record, they just don’t make em’ like they used to. Rhiannon, Britney and co, the superstars (for better or for worse, with a strong lean towards the latter) of today, couldn’t hold a torch to the dancing divas of yesteryear, as this funkadelic clip from New York group Dee Lite proves.
December 22, 2008 | New Film | by Xavier Toby |
Set in New York in 1994, when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was cleaning up the city, it focuses on Luke Shapiro [Joshua Peck], a recently graduated but mostly friendless dope dealer. It]s a coming of age film with a twist, featuring an analytical and enlightened outsider in the tradition of Holden Caulfield. Although all the characters are weighed down by a barrage of faults, refreshingly, no judgment is passed. The textured characters of this moving and frequently hilarious film with textured characters instead showing that life is complicated enough without taking it too seriously. Peck shines with his deadpan humour and the unlikely relationship with a psychiatrist, played by Ben Kingsley, is one of the most memorable pairings in recent memory. For anyone disillusioned with the state of the world, this film might not offer any answers, but it does remind us that there are plenty of us struggling against a normal, regulated life.
November 11, 2008 | New Music | 
by Zolton 
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Oh boy, this song reminds me of the misspent years of my early-twenties, living large within the cloistered, sweltering surrounds of Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Marvin The Album was a typical Saturday morning soundtrack, a bouncy kickstart to the weekend ahead, as I dusted off the mental cobwebs from the night before and looked out over my balcony onto this vast beckoning expanse of sun-kissed sand. Yes, beam me back Scotty! To those days of relative innocence, where the subtle swing of a feel-good song was only ever a couple of hotsteps away. Frente! were like the icing on a lush chocolate cupcake: a little sweet, kind of gooey, but always concealing something a little darker just beneath the surface.
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Graffiti artist Andreas von Chrzanowski uses spray paint to create amazingly realistic but surreal paintings on walls as well as on canvases. Read more
‘Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love, some people call me Maurice, cause I speak with the pompetus of love’. The pompetus of love?! Really. I don’t know what the heck Steve Miller was on the day he wrote that, but I could sure do with some now. Read more
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a reminder of why the medium of film is so special. It features first rate visuals, performances, direction and acting, all of which fits together into one of the most insightful, powerful and touching pieces of cinema ever. Read more
This water theatre by the British architect, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw of Grimshaw Architects, takes the form of a vertical seawater greenhouse, with the evaporators and condensers stacked vertically to maximise yield. The structure is not only a visible engine of sustainability but is also a large theatre auditorium. Read more
Bringing statistics to life is not particularly easy, but this website does so with a creative brilliance. Using interactive animation and videos, you can look at a wide ranging set of sustainable global development data as the numbers change across space and and time. It promotes a statistically-founded world view, and somehow makes that fun.
The Los Angeles musician, Ariana Delawari — aka Lion of Panjshir — is half Afghan and half Sicilian and makes wonderfully enlightened weirdo folk rock. I hope she takes that as a compliment! Her music is delicate and powerful and she is a pure artist. Everything she does has that magic light in it. She made her new album partially in Afghanistan, and many of the lyrics deal with the continued oppression of people’s liberties by the Taliban.
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These rings are handmade in Italy by Ashanti Raffaele Cinzio and come in a set of three, shaped flat and polished in a brushed finish. One sterling silver, one yellow bronze and one rose bronze. The rings individually measure 2mm height on the thin side and raise gradually around the ring to a height of 50mm to the feature side. As a set, the total band width consistently measures 7mm.
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Some friendly advice for the neighbours, who simply don’t get it, or street art? You decide which one it is.
Benjamin Edminston’s psychedelic heads seem to have some fearful wisdom behind their blissed-out eyes. Read more
Pitched as ‘Ulterior Motives in Contemporary Art’, Disorder Disorder is running until November 14 at Penrith Regional Gallery. It’ll be well worth the trip out west of Sydney: the Australian, Japanese, American and European cast reads like a warriors of street art roundup and includes Mike Giant, Ed Templeton, Anthony Lister [artwork above], Ozzie Wright, and Jonathan Zawada. Read more
How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
Communication prosthesis by Sascha Nordmeyer
This ‘communication prosthesis’ by designer Sascha Nordmeyer is hilarious and awesome. I want to wear one to a job interview.
This Powder Necklace features a pearlized Turbo Cinereus shell with tiny holes drilled into the bottom, filled with a sparkling silver-colored powder that when gently tapped, sprinkles a light dusting on the wearer’s chest. Designed by Stephanie Simek. Read more
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