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on Kate Moss, and "taking one for the team"

flex — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:10:29 -0800

On Kate Moss, and Taking One for the Team: "So, earlier this week Vanity Fair published a rare interview with Moss, in which the model, who is well-known for her circumspection, is unusually frank about the early years of her career. Moss was still a skinny, gangly teenager when she was plucked from mediocrity in Croydon and catapulted to superstardom. She was barely an adult, almost still a child, when she did her first topless photo shoot, with Corinne Day for The Face. In the interview, she talks about how uncomfortable this made her... This isn't the only the only revelation Moss made during the interview. It also turns out that the famous Calvin Klein campaign she did in 1992 with Mark Wahlberg gave her a nervous breakdown... Conveniently ignoring the fact that when the pictures were taken, Moss wasn't 'the face of the '90s', but a skinny teenage girl who cried because she was made to take her clothes off, Needham continues by saying that Moss' skinny frame 'seemed to encapsulate the euphoria of those long-distant times.'" *summary of the Vanity Fair interview at Vanity Fair *Alex Needham - How a 16-year-old nude Kate Moss ushered in the 90s: "Moss may regret that early shoot, but it took beauty out of the realm of fantasy glamour into something more wonky and fallible" *Kate Moss: the style icon who suffered in silence: "This week, a new coffee-table art book dedicated to Kate Moss is published... it will no doubt be a thing of great beauty, but it won't attract half the fuss that last week's Vanity Fair interview with Moss has." *Was Kate Moss exploited as a young model?: "In 1990 she was just 16 when a nude photoshoot launched her career. But it wasn't a happy time, says the supermodel" photos (may be NSFW for some): *her first topless photo shoot, with Corinne Day for The Face, 1990 *the famous Calvin Klein campaign with Mark Wahlberg, 1992 *Vogue UK shoot by photographer Corinne Day, 1993

Visionaries

Artw — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:57:17 -0800

Revisiting Cinefex - a nostalgia wormhole into the golden age of model work and practical effects and the odd piece of early CG via backissues of the quarterly magazine of motion picture visual effects. The latest issues covered touches on Young Sherlock Holmes's Stained glass knight - mainstream cinema’s first fully-rendered CG character created by Industrial Light & Magic's Pixar group.

Let's Pretend We're Marionettes

BoringPostcards — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:14:37 -0800

When artist Troy Gua wanted a new project to cheer himself up with, he hit on the idea of making a tribute to his favorite musician. Le Petit Prince, a 1/6 scale doll of The Purple One, was born.

Ana Lee

Trurl — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:51:27 -0800

Ana Lee's fashion blog is in Russian but with its insane number of HQ photographs [don't forget to click the "далее"], you won't care. For example, her two posts about Carol Alt almost certainly comprise the greatest documentation of that model's career to be found anywhere in the world.

Awesome Japanese Retro Sci-Fi Art Collection

Monkeymoo — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:48:14 -0800

An A W E S O M E collection of sci-fi illustrations by the prolific Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001), whose fantastic work appeared on plastic model kit boxes and in magazines and picture books in the 1960s to 1970s. via I really wanted to provide a link to a site with more info about Komatsuzaki but it's proved very difficult to find one.... I thought there would at least be a Wikipedia page...

Animata

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:46:02 -0800

Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.