Am I the only person who never heard about Philippe Petit before? The only person who’d not seen Man On Wire? Why don’t people tell me about these things? Incredible. INCREDIBLE!!! (Annie Allix narrates).

I wont play the “edgier-than-you” guy, I love W magazine. I really do. The question “why” requires a long answer I will not even try to get into here… The subject here is the last issue of the magazine in question in which one could see Bruce Willis’s tattoos (an actor for whom I must admit having some sympathy), and, in a rathernice Steven Klein-photographed series, see him in the middle of some proto-kinky plays.

Just thought it was worth sharing.

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.

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”.

Where should a history of the body in art begin? Asks Nicholas Blincoe, in the framework of the Turner Prize’s Retrospective at Tate Britain. (2 October 2007 – 6 January 2008)
Check out his essay on Tate etc.

One day I received a mysterious package with nothing inside but a CD with “the black heart” hand-written on it and a little note saying that it had been sent upon recommendation of Diane Pernet, and the signature of the writer: Ada Bligaard Soby. I watched the movie and was completely captivated. It was a mixture of things that made it captivating, from the anachronistic grain of the images to the abstract narration, all this adding to the unusual context.
I owe this event to Diane, I wish to thank Her. And thank you Ada for providing the world with more dark beauty.

Ada Bligaard Soby left her native Denmark a month after her 20th birthday to study filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She got a French boyfriend and was inspired to photograph him all of the time while shooting random Super 8 films of her life. The first film that she shot and edited was a piece on Black Heart’s subject, Marina, and her wedding in the Hamptons.

Diane

it’s beautiful and romantic