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Posted in Culture, Design, Technology
Tagged album covers, blogging, cats, communication, cool, creative, digital, entertainment, fun, funny, Gene Simmons, internet, Kiss, kittens, language, Leonie Cumiskey, meaning, music, puss, rock 'n' roll, Swedish, technology, website, weird facts
These are some photographs I took at Kinetica Art Fair back in March. I wanted an excuse to play around with the GIF Maker on 15 Folds using my own photographs; these images were perfect because I could easily align the spheres to be the same size on Photoshop.
Posted in Art, Design, Events, Photography, Social Media, Technology, Writing
Tagged 15 Folds, Ambika P3, animation, art, arts, blogging, cool, creative, creativity, design, digital, digital art, experimenting, fun, GIF, GIF Maker, graphic design, internet, Kinetica Art Fair 2013, Leonie Cumiskey, light art, lights, London, media, moving image, photography, Photoshop, playing around, psychedelic, skills, technology, writing
Posted in Art, Design, Events, Music, PR, Writing
Tagged 2013, advertising, arts, band posters, blogging, branding, colours, cool, creative, creativity, design, drawings, entertainment, Facebook, Facebook timeline, fun, gig posters, graphic design, ideas, illustration, Leonie Cumiskey, Matt Cliff, promotional posters, psychedelic, social media, surreal, The Black Angels, The Black Angels posters, The Black Angels tour, USA
Today I headed up to Walthamstow to visit Chris Bracey’s huge studio on Vallentin Road – God’s Own Junkyard. Peeking through the locked iron gates, it really does look just like a junkyard, but once inside it’s like an Aladdin’s cave of neon treasures.
I don’t know whether it’s because of the junkyard’s location, or if it’s because not that many people know about it, but when my friend and I showed up at around 2pm on a Saturday – a peak time for visitors in most places – we were lucky enough to be the only people there.
The man who works there, John, is really friendly and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of pretty much everything stored in the studio. He was happy to show us round, pointing out props and signs that had been in various films, like Tombraider, Eyes Wide Shut, and the newest installment of the Iron Man films – a huge ‘STARK’ sign. I really can’t recommend this place enough; I’ve never been anywhere else like it!
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Tagged 2013, art, artist, artist studio, blogging, Chris Bracey, contemporary art, cool, cool locations, creative, creativity, days out, east London, fashion shoot, film, film industry, film props, friendly London, fun, God's Own Junkyard, junkyard, Leonie Cumiskey, light art, lightbulbs, London, neon art, neon lights, nostalgia, old signs, photography, places to visit, props, set design, signage, slogans, something different, surreal, Walthamstow, writer, writing
Posted in Culture, Film, Music, Photography, PR, Writing
Tagged 2013, anti-religion, beautiful, Black Dog Films, blogging, blood, Catholicism, celebrities, cinematography, cool, creative, David Bowie, demons, drama, dramatic, entertainment, Floria Sigismondi, Gary Oldman, gore, gothic, iconography, Leonie Cumiskey, lighting, Marion Cotillard, media, money, music, music video, prostitute, religion, sex, shocking, stigmata, surreal, The Daily Mail, The Next Day, video
Posted in Art, Brands, Culture, Design, Events, Film, Technology
Tagged 2013, animation, art, blogging, cool, creative, creativity, design, digital, film, film credits, Flash animation, fun, Google, Google Doodle, graphic design, iconic, illustration, internet, Leonie Cumiskey, media, Saul Bass, style, tribute, video
Posted in Advertising, Art, Brands, Design, Lifestyle, Photography, Technology, Writing
Tagged 2013, advertising, advertising to children, arrangement, blogging, brand, children's toys, comparison, components, composition, creative, creativity, deconstruction, design, destruction, disassembly, dismantled things, fun, gadgets, graphic design, hardware, household appliances, ideas, inspiration, J and L, LEGO, Leonie Cumiskey, opinion, organisation, photography, rearrange, similarities, technology, things organised neatly, Todd McLellan, toys, trends
Woahh! For Milan Design Week, Carnovsky worked with Missoni on this amazing installation, inspired by the brand’s signature zigzag pattern.
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Tagged 2013, art and fashion, brand, brand partnerships, Carnovsky, cool, creative, creativity, design, events, fashion, fun, geometric patterns, graphic, ideas, installation, light, Milan, Milan Design Week, Missoni, neon, pattern, PR, psychedelic, zigzag
Wow. This song appears to be over a year old, but I’ve only just heard it and it’s brilliant. I was looking for the original Bauhaus version when I discovered this one and – without wanting to sound disdainful towards MGMT – I was pretty surprised at what a good job they’d done of covering it. Don’t get me wrong, I really like MGMT, but they’re not exactly the kind of band that you listen to and then think: “Yeah, I can tell they’re big fans of Bauhaus.”
Better still, this exquisite video by Ned Wenlock really complements the track and conveys the song’s melancholy lyrics.
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Tagged 2D, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Andrew VanWyngarden, animation, Bauhaus, Ben Goldwasser, bleak, blogging, cityscape, cool, cover, cover version, creative, creativity, cute, design, digital arts, factory, factory town, goth, illustration, indie, industrial, Leonie Cumiskey, media, MGMT, motion graphics, music, music and art, music video, Peter Murphy, SAD, snow, song, sweet, typography, UK, urban landscape, video, Vimeo
AleXsandro Palombo’s blog, Humor Chic, documents the happenings in the fashion world and beyond. Palombo’s take on the fashion news is both bitchy and funny – think Perez Hilton, but without the irritating omnipresence and with added talent and relevance. His shockingly hilarious pop culture illustrations both celebrate and ridicule fashion’s major players; Hedi Slimane is portrayed digging his own grave as he takes over at Saint Laurent, Anna Wintour cosies up to Barack Obama, along with whole host of far more ludicrous scenarios too.
Donatella Versace, and John Galliano shortly after he drunkenly proclaimed his love for Hitler.
Creatives, musicians and celebrities feature heavily, with the occasional politician or member of the monarchy making sporadic appearances as well. It really seems like when it comes to mockery, Palombo is a man after my own heart – he likes to turn his attention to a bit of everything. Below, he has portrayed Kate Middleton as some kind of power-hungry femme fatale who beats her husband and wants to kill the Queen! I think I kind of prefer her to the real Kate Middleton, who is pretty much the definition of passive, well-behaved marriage material. So blaaah.
However, not all of his portraits are derisive or mean – here is quite a sweet drawing of the late Amy Winehouse that he posted the day after her death.
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Tagged 2013, AleXsandro Palombo, Amy Winehouse, Andy Warhol, Anna Wintour, anorexia, art, bitchy, blogging, cartoon, celebrity, Chanel, cocaine, comedy, cool, creative, death, design, Donatella Versace, fashion, fashion news, Fendi, fun, funny, Hedi Slimane, hilarious, Hitler, Humor Chic, illustration, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Middleton, Leonie Cumiskey, Madonna, media, news, opinion, parody, Perez Hilton, pop culture, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth, relevance, Saint Laurent, style, surreal, talent, Victoria Beckham, writing, Yves Saint Laurent
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