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!! OMG, concrete [within] jungle: Tilda Swinton in 'Stranger than Paradise' !!
Edward James was an English eccentric, poet, and surrealist collector who on inheriting a fortune from his railroad and mining mogul father fled England to grow orchids in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains of the Mexican Jungle in the 50s. In the early 60s a freak snowstorm [described by the locals as "white ashes"] destroyed his orchadian nursery.
Following this, James dedicated the following 20 years to creating a series of concrete sculptures inspired by the surrealist artists work that he had previously collected, set within his rainforest estate of Las Pozas.
"I have seen such beauty as one man has seldom seen."_James Edwards
These sculptures included totem poles, hidden rooms, towers, and staircases to nowhere which were often deliberately left unfinished like ruins amongst the trees
After James's death, in 1984, the ruinous effect took hold, as lack of funding meant cultivated plants died, and the animals in the menagerie had to be released as the sculptures soon became engulfed by the surrounding rainforest.
In 2007, the estate was acquired by a charitable foundation who set to restoring Edward's sculptures.
Photographer Tim Walker and Tilda Swinton -herself no stranger to surrealism [see 1992's 'Orlando' or any of the work between Swinton and her late friend Derek Jarman]- set out to explore James' restored jungle estate and those surrealist muses which inspired it's creation, in [my emaciated opinion] the most incredible editorial I myself can recall seeing in W Magazine, for their May 2013 Issue:
"I hadn't realized...how incredibly ambitious it had been of James to create another world somewhere so remote...where nature can be so destructive. It's the power of the dreamer."_Photographer, Tim Walker
Follow the jump to explore the remainder of their fantastical collaborative mountainous concrete [within] jungle editorial.
[[OMG there's more! JUMP IN and read the rest]]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Friday, April 19, 2013
comments: 0 | category: Fashionistic
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!! OMG, sounding good in a Buffalo Stance: Neneh Cherry & Afrika Baby Bam's 'Nina' !!
Neneh Cherry is communing with all kinds of motherland in this techy spoken word track with Jungle Brother Afrika Baby Bam.
Produced by Kieran 'Four tet' Hebden, the lyrics speak of freedom from social constraints and geographical placement. Hebden and Cherry are set to collaborate on a more substantial project which we can hopefully Buffalo Prance to in the not-so-distant future.
"she's sounding good today...she sounding good in every way"
[via discobelle]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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!! OMG, The Face [wrinkles edition]: Columbus Park's Lok Tun Kun ladies !!
Filmed by Berliner Alexa Karolinski, fashion house Eckhaus Latta film the ladies of Columbus Park's daily Lok Tun Kun "party".
Donning pastel green and pink crop tops from Eckhaus Latta's AW2012 collection, the ladies [and Mr Au, just 'one of the girls' at 01.55 in his cardi-crop-top] partake in their daily routine of dynamic synchronicity.
I'd love to see these ladies on the runway, all lined up in their off-white old lady corrective sneakers and elasticated poly-pantaloons, giving some seriously wrinkly FASHION FORWARD FACE!
[via nowness]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
comments: 0 | category: Cute
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!! OMG, MATANGI IN ACTION: New M.I.A. mixtape for KENZO !!
Late last week we took you on a safari to Kenzo's jungley wungley...well she was Missing In Action, but we found Maya hiding in a jungle-berry bush, trying to make her delayed new album sound "less positive" or some Interscope bullshite like that.
Named after her birth-name and the Hindu Tantric Goddess who governs speech, music, knowledge and the arts, Matangi the mixtape is all BANGRA-MAZING and offers a preview of what's on offer for her album -of the same name- now due out in April.
Is that an extinct lady-Mammoth tooting her trunk at 2.40? I can't wait to see what other animals she sampled whilst hiding in that Interscope berry-bush...a dodo...a hephalump...a CRUMPasaurus ?!
[thanks Burrr!]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Monday, March 4, 2013
comments: 0 | category: Musical
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!! OMG, HEART-FELT: Siba Sahabi's بلاد الرافدين !!
Siba Sahabi's felt vessel collection 'Between Two Rivers', refers to the Ancient Greek word Mesopotamia [Μεσοποταμία], or "the cradle of western civilisation", specifically the city-state Ur located in modern-day Iraq: the birthplace of the pottery turntable.
Sahabi collaborated with Lisa Klappe and Niels van Den to produce the ritualistically beautiful short film ^above^, entitled 'Pallas Athena'; in dedication of the wise but short-tempered Greek Goddess of inspiration, crafts, art and war.
[via dezeen]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Monday, February 18, 2013
comments: 2 | category: Artumnal
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!! OMG, how racist? Most Dutch people don't think so !!
Meet Zwarte Piet (translated "Black Pete" from Dutch), a character created around 1850 who assists Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa) with the delivery of toys, etc. It is traditional in the Netherlands for people to don black face, afro wigs, and big red lips around Christmastime to commemorate his existence.
According to a recent article in the Toronto Star, most Dutch people, including a prominent left-wing politician, see no problem with the tradition. This, coming from one of the most legislatively progressive countries in the world, doesn't do much to negate the "racist European" stereotype.
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posted by Frank on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
comments: 15 | category: Dangerous
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!! OMG, Fox News gets BURNED live on air !!
Erm, OOPS!
Fox News host quite literally got BURNED live on air, when political author Tom Ricks was interviewed about the Benghazi U.S Consulate fires, that happened in September of this year.
Ricks shut those mothermuffers up. I can only imagine the producer down the host's earpiece;
"oh gees, end this interview now, turn to camera 3, just blooming smile, smile, SMILE!.
Next segment.
Cut."
Oh deary, Foxywoxy !
[source: America Blog]
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posted by Duncan Alexander on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
comments: 9 | category: Politicious
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!! OMG, she's off the hook: Russians drop charges against Madonna !!
Bet I know what Madonna was most thankful for this year: that she won't be spending out her years in a Russian prison. St Petersburg officials have dropped charges against the pop star for violating the city's homophobic censorship ban during an August tour performance. And the Madonna effect has apparently been wide-reaching -- lawmakers in Moscow have also vetoed a proposed anti-gay bill in their city. Johnny Weir, for one, should certainly be pleased.
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posted by Phillip on Friday, November 23, 2012
comments: 0 | category: Worldly
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!! OMG, about those topless photos of Duchess Kate: The Palace speaks out !!
"Their Royal Highnesses have been hugely saddened to learn that a French publication and a photographer have invaded their privacy in such a grotesque and totally unjustifiable manner. Their Royal Highnesses had every expectation of privacy in the remote house. It is unthinkable that anyone should take such photographs, let alone publish them."
-- A statement from St. James Palace about Closer Magazine's choice to publish shots of Kate Middleton's nipples, prompting the royals to file a lawsuit that will be heard in France on Monday
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posted by Phillip on Friday, September 14, 2012
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!! OMG, no, not from IKEA: Two Swedes reinvent the helmet !!
This is one of those moments when you realize you're looking at the future. Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin are the two Swedish design students who invited Hovding (the Swedish word for chiefdom), which is an inflatable helmet worn around the neck. And while it's only in development as a bike helmet now, the implications for this kind of technology are exponential. Not bad news for Haupt and Alstin's bank accounts. Or as their professor put it, "You're going to be millionaires." Check out the video below for more.
(Thanks, Kevin!)
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posted by Phillip on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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