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Article by SB contributor and globe-trotting friend Clément Delépine

From The Box gallery in Los Angeles to the Whitney Museum in New York, which both hosted exhibitions related to the work of filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1984), it seems that the Spring 2009 aspired to question the birth of experimental video.

Made up with series of drawings and collages, Vanderbeek’s films took him into a much-heralded new creative dimension, and legitimately  became a source of inspiration for directors like Terry Gilliam. Practically entirely handmade (which is fairly impressive for those who like me are the clumsiness incarnate) truly mesmerizing and a bit melancolic, Vanderbeek’s visionary works challenged the very idea of filmmaking and production. His countless collaborations (notably with the artist Claes Oldenburg or the choreographer Merce Cunningham) command respect. Touched by grace, he initiated a turning point in the history of visual arts as he was also among the firsts to team up with engineers in order to produce computer-generated images.

As an artist, Vanderbeek was persuaded that his function was to invent a universal language as “It is imperative that we quickly find some way for the entire level of world human understanding to rise to a new human scale. The scale is the world”.

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By Rene La Chatte. Another photograph featured in next Wednesday’s show

Rene was born in Heidleberg in 1984 and describes Fatty as ‘a true gentleman, who has worked as a roadie for decades for some of the most successful artists in the world. A gentle caring debauched beast whose life is coloured with tales that excite, amaze, scare and surprise’. Fatty’s tattoo was started by someone and finished by someone else. When I know who, I’ll tell

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The Maxitalented Regina is at FM (London)

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amazingly beautiful jewelry.
thank you Camille
(I would wear that!)

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your friends look flipping great

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Despite the demeanor of a drummer with 8 hours off in a liberal foreign town, Jan Schjetne is one industrious dude. Co-founder of Phiary, Porn&Beauty blogger, & committed lover are just a few of the roles that keep this man out of more trouble than he already inherits.

‘I’m not afraid to admit that the base for this tattoo is quite influenced by a tattoo design I saw in a book about Russian prison tattoos. A bit of a risky admission, as my tattoo artist friend made sure to inform me that undeserved Russian prison tattoos can result in a death sentence in certain environments. But I changed it around and made it my own. The “Death Boogie” is a philosophy I’ve lived by for years. Without getting too much into it I’ll say that it reminds me that life is fragile and I should make the best of it while I can’.

Tattoo artist: Bjørn Egil Ragnarsen, Lillehammer, Norway

The colossal print below featuring 100s of images from his online diary is part of the Are You The One That I’ve Been Waiting For? show next week.

His friend Danielle will be back here by herself very soon..

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(bernhard willhelm show)
no comment needed

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viktor vautier’s blog is worth checking

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I love it when the frontier between fetish and fashion is so thin, you don’t really know anymore…
I found this on some fetish website and it could very well be a fashion show backstage picture.
I think it’s truly beautiful…

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on a drunken parisian night i decided to stupidly walk all my way back from the palais de tokyo to rue st maur. i made some delightful acquaintances on the way

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Driven by a bit too much sake and the nostalgic melancholy that followed, I spent the evening listening to Soft Cell singles. Driven by even more sake I decided to scan all the covers. It’s the first time I’ve seen the front & backs simultaneously so although I managed to listen to all of Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing and side 1 of The Art Of Falling Apart before I was done, it was worth the effort.

The 80’s weren’t all bad you know. When I was a boy this was the man I wanted to be.

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the models, and the models looking at themselves on a screen at the after party. I love these types of mises en abîme…

(do I really need to add that the show was amazing?)

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I met Madame Michèle Lamy at the Rick Owens headquarter on a ridiculously hot day. Models were running in and out of the place as the show was 28 hours ahead and the casting was taking place on that same day. In this chaos, there still seemed to exist a few cube meters of peace and reason located in the little backyard/terrace of the HQ. We discussed about the time when she got her fingers tattooed, the same time back when tattooing hands was still illegal in certain american states. We also chatted about publishing during recession times and the quest of Substance. Then I left, inspired and serene.

I can hardly resist posting everything I have tonight, right awayI But I won’t. Hehe.

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last week was amazing
once again thanks to our amazing friends and to the fantastic designers and individuals who make it what it is.
i will be posting about this quite a bit in the next few days, just the time to upload all the videos, retouch the pix, etc
but once again I need to send shouts out:
JSR<3
Mauricio & crew
Kris, KvA & Dior crews
Michèle Lamy
Marcelo Burlon, Riccardo Tisci & Crew
Lotta & Alban
Bruno Staub
Dimitri
Jason Farrer
Théo Mercier
Babette Pauthier
Diane Pernet
Laurence Desarzens & Guillaume Sorge
John Skelton & Oki-Ni crew
Yorgo Tloupas
Zilba & wife
Damien Blottière
Edward Brachfeld
Nicolas & Olivier of Tribal Act
Sophie Welsh Durand @ Givenchy
Angelo Cirimele
Absinthe & Tonic at the Palais de Tokyo
Jean-François Carly

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