Where Angels Fear To Tread

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Opening sequence of Kenneth Anger's 1964 short film Scorpio Rising, which we projected on the wall this past weekend during a big party in the studio.

I picked up the current issue of Purple Magazine yesterday and it features a great interview with Kenneth Anger – worth checking out if you get a chance.

The Dune Sea

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I just ran across images from this shoot by photographer Marlene Marino in Purple Fashion no.15, featuring Sarah Heller and Valerie Gold in Givenchy SS2011.






Marino has a truly unique point of view – click here to see more of her work.

Meanwhile in the Boom Boom Room

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There's a big backlog of stuff I have meant to post but never got around to writing about – so just a heads-up that I'm gonna add all this semi-old stuff into the mix as we make our merry way forward at ye olde Pacific Standard.

First up, in case you missed it, an interesting interview with Olivier Zahm, the founder of Purple Magazine, at style.com. Say what you will of Zahm (that he's kind of a dirtbag, or that he thinks he's Serge Gainsbourg, for example) but Purple has been around for a long time and has broken ground in so many directions – the dude is living his dream and his magazines are always worth a look. Here Zahm discusses the future of print, and I have to say that I agree with him on many levels and find his thoughts on the matter quite inspiring. For example:

So you don’t think the Internet will replace magazines?

The commercial magazines may be replaced, because the Internet is a better place for commerce and immediate information. The Internet is a chance for magazines because it forces the magazines to be more creative and to really explore what they are, what is the essence of a magazine and what a magazine is meant for. And it’s not meant for commerce…Magazines are also made for instruction, for energy, for voyeurism, for sexiness, for pleasure, for a lot of things. Not only a place to sell products. This is why you don’t have any good magazines now in Japan. It’s a disaster because they just consider magazines like an extension of advertising…This kind of magazine, strictly commercial, will certainly disappear because you have more information, more contact, more possibility of buying on the Internet. But a true creative fashion magazine can’t be replaced by a true creative fashion site because it doesn’t exist and it won’t exist. You don’t want to look at a fashion shoot on your screen, do you?

Well? Do you? Read the rest at style.com and see more Purple here.

But This Got Made In The Day, It Was Bright

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Brendan Fowler, aka BARR, in a short film by Dash Snow and Jade Berreau for Purple.

Brendan Fowler had a good show at Rivington Arms last year which I briefly mentioned (it's fun to look back at those old posts...), but never elaborated on. On which I never elaborated. Take your pick, U.S. Americans, such as.

Here's probably the best known and my favorite BARR song, "The Song Is The Single," from Kill Rock Stars:



Purple Fashion no.12 is on newstands now, scoop it up and save it forever. More on BARR here.

Time Passages

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Olivier Zahm says the next issue of Purple Fashion magazine will feature a fold out poster of a Dash Snow collage.

Also, in case you missed it, there was a really interesting full-page piece on Dash in last Sunday's New York Times.

Benjamin Godsill, a curatorial associate at the New Museum, said Mr. Snow’s work “captures this period bracketed by the fall of the World Trade Center and the fall of the financial system.”

I would agree with that, and I guess it might have something to do with my interest in Dash Snow, since those were roughly the years we were in New York. Who knows. Anyway, it's a good article – the rest is here.

Work It

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I know this has been out there for a while, but I just saw it and had to share. It's video of model Natasa Vojnovic being shot by Terry Richardson for Purple. It's a pretty funny clip and an entertaining reminder that modeling at this kind of level takes more than a pretty face.

Purple #11 from Purple Magazine on Vimeo.

Purple Reign

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Another thing I got Emily for Christmas is the Purple Magazine Anthology. Purple was one of the first magazines to interweave contemporary art and fashion, and while that mix can easily go horribly wrong in either direction, the various incarnations of Purple have been consistently smart, albeit in kind of a dirtbag way, since they started in 1992. Here are some spreads, click to enlarge:













More info at purple.fr