CLASSIC JOINT
Not only do we miss good hip hop, but we miss the dope videos, too. *sigh*
PINA. THANK YOU, WIM WENDERS
Wim Wenders does it again — and better than ever — with his breathless and exalting 3-D hommage to late dance maestro and innovator, Pina Bausch. Bausch proved dance to be a powerfully evocative language of its own…and thus, this film should be watched and felt, rather than described by words, which would surely lose the essence in translation. PINA is a MUST-SEE! And, of course, as is always the case with Wenders, the soundtrack is absolutely perfect and brilliant. This is a masterpiece.
(via theeconomist)
Diamonds aren’t forever. They chip, shatter, burn and fade. But with the help of the U.S.’s oldest ad agency and a female copywriter, diamond sellers managed to convince a generation that the relatively common gem was a rite of passage, a status symbol, and an everlasting token of love.
By 1948, the ad agency decided that images of glittering gems were no longer enough. It needed a tagline. So Ayer turned to Mary Frances Gerety, a high school graduate who had been on the job four years. She was one of the agency’s few female copywriters, and that spring, she struggled to distill the symbolic meaning of the gemstone into a single sentence. As Tom Zoellner describes it in “The Heartless Stone,” his 2006 book exploring the global diamond empire, the words finally came to Gerety one night after working almost until dawn. She asked a higher power to send her a line, and before falling asleep, she scribbled a few ideas on a pad and left it on her nightstand. When she woke up and reread what she’d written, she knew she had it: “A Diamond is Forever.”
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
PAUSE…FOR EFFECT…KLYMAXX
((M)) NYE BLACK & WHITE MASQUERADE BALL
DJs Justin Strauss and Lloydski, complimentary midnight champagne toast, masks and more…GALORE — Ooh, j’adore!! Dress in your best blacks & whites…and masks!
For ticket and reservation inquiries, please email: nye@submercer.com
(via thedailyfeed)
AZARI & III…WICKED.
It is seldom that I am physically moved by a film but when I am I like to tell everyone about it. City of Life and Death or Nánjīng! Nánjīng! is a Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan. It is about the Japanese Invasion of the formal capitol of Nanjing during WW2. There was some brutal raping and killing of the Chinese and this film shows it. This film is gorgeous but brutal in the same breath. This was made a few years ago and went thru a lot of scrutiny by the Chinese government to get finished. You don’t see many films about the Chinese vs Japanese during this time but there is another one of the same battle coming out soon directed by Zhang Yimou starring Christian Bale as a priest called “Flowers of War” which will be as graphic or more since its a bigger budget.
Black and white magic with unseen images from legendary photographer Herb Ritts’s unearthed...
Bosco Verticale (Milan)
The world’s first vertical forest, with each apartment having a balcony...
