I wish to warmly congratulate my young sister and her husband for winning the Alias-One competition with this stunning image!

About to launch his online editorial project MarceloBurlonBlog.com, our dear friend Marcelo recently produced his (great) first video! Pressure’s on boys!

MarceloBurlonBlog.com Coming Soon…. from Marcelo Burlon on Vimeo.

“In the night of Brahma, nature is inert, and cannot dance till Shiva wills it: He rises from his rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and matter also dances appearing as a glory round about him. Dancing, he sustains its manifold phenomena. In the fulness of time, still dancing, he destroys all forms and names by fire and gives new rest. This is poetry; but none the less, science.”

Coomaraswamy, Ananda, “The Dance of Shiva; fourteen Indian Essays”, 1970, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Dehli.

Invited by Vans for the launch of their new line “OTW”, I arrived around 2pm, got in a limo driven by a friendly russian man, waited for 2 hours in the restaurant of the Standard Hotel in Downtown LA (cause my room wasn’t ready), ate a very tasty tuna steak hamburger which didn’t taste like tuna, got the room which ended up being a suite (complimentary upgrade—yeah yeah, you mean you overbooked and now you cant find a room for me!), took a shower, tried to check my emails on the hotel’s 96k dial modem network, phoned up Sang Bleu friend & visual artists Scarlett Rouge, got a text message from Gary Warnett, went down to his room to pick him up, both of us went down to the parking to meet up with Scarlett.

The the three of us drove (not literally. Scarlett drove for us. Thanx by the way!) to Hollywood where Cerre Shop was celebrating its first birthday, looked at some beautifully designed & crafted, and uniformly black clothes, got to the back of the store where a little apéritif was taking place, got some drinks, went to grab a bite with G while S was going to a dinner, had endless conversation about the world of entertainment with a zoned out Gary, returned to Cerre where a tipsy Scarlett—back from her dinner—showed us around, introduced us to the neighbours, the Black Eyed Peas’ closet, took a 30$ cab ride to the hotel and fell asleep in 20 seconds.

Please find proofs displayed hereunder.

I am in the middle of a pretty massive editing work on all the images I shot in LA. Just another preview to keep you waiting! (Shot at the AS studios, one of Mr Cartoon’s Customized vans and Estevan Oriol’s 64 Impala.)

Really. no need for an introduction.

The photographic work of a dermatologist in Lyons in the Thirties presented by Gerard Levy and Serge Bramly. Published by Kehayoff in 1999.

Larger scans of the last few pages which detail the Autochrome process that was used to make these photographs as well as thumbnails & notes for each picture are here.

Well worth a look at.

Stefano Pilati’s exclusive YSL pieces for Atelier in NYC. The cashmere coverall in the window caught my attention. Perhaps it is because the Sang Bleu family has been designing black coveralls for an upcoming show in Japan. Perhaps because it is simply beautiful and working class.