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John Picton is a 29-year-old photographer from Liverpool. He got into photography a couple years back, when he moved back home to Liverpool after a long time in London. “Taking pictures is a great way to (re)connect with a place, so at first I used to go to places I remembered from childhood, armed with a camera,” John says. “Then I grew to love photography. I could happily go out and shoot every day.”
The photo above was taken while camping with friends in the Severn Valley in England. John is from the city, so taking rural shots are far and few between. “The horse came right up to me and stared me in the eyes; he probably thought that I was going to feed him!”
John’s camera’s of preference are the DLSR Olympus E620, SLR Olympus OM1 and a Yashica T5. His favorite though is the little Yashica, which John says, “might be cliche, but that camera is a compact wonder.”
To see more of John’s work, please take a look at John’s Flickr and his blog.
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Making cab cars split into two, having football players protect her from gun shots, breast feeding a fake doll and working with both Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., Madonna is obviously still doing her thing
Madonna, the reigning queen of pop, (yes still to this day) knows how to keep herself relevant. If it’s not making out with Britney Spears, it’s collaborating with two of the hottest MC chicks around–Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. on her new single “Give Me All Your Luvin’.” Instead of trash talking or competing with the ladies that came after her, she works with them–it’s a smart tactic and it works. Girl power.
The trio (Madonna, Nicki and M.I.A.) will be performing the halftime show for this year’s Superbowl, which will air Sunday February 5. It’s not confirmed if they will be performing this song, but, duh. Did we also just get you psyched for football?
Watch the video for “Give Me All Your Luvin’” Madonna featuring Nicki MInaj and M.I.A. below.
M.I.A.’s new video for “Bad Girls” from Director Romain Gavras
M.I.A.’s new video for “Bad Girls” premiered this morning and was created with French Director Romain Gavras, the creative visionary responsible for MIA’s iconic “Born Free” video that infamously emblazoned ginger genocide into the mainstream public eye. After watching this video it’s clear that something big happens when M.I.A. and Gavras get together.
Shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco–the same place Lawrence of Arabia was shot in the ’60′s–these “Bad Girls” are the female vanguard of Saudi drag racing gangs wreaking havoc in their fleet of 90′s BMWs. Watching M.I.A. file her nails, decked out in crazy fashion, perched on top of a white M3 as it skis (drives on two wheels) across the Moroccan desert, it’s hard to find another word than “epic” to describe it.
Bad girl armies in the Middle Eastern desert? This video has all the stylistic success that Beyonce’s “Who Run The World” didn’t have. Though that may have more to do with the perceived authenticity ascribed to M.I.A. by virtue of her political voice and activism about her Saudi identity or to the superior production of Gavras’ team than anything that came directly from MIA. Regardless, “Bad Girls” has an irony that Beyonce’s foray into Middle Eastern military imagery couldn’t achieve.
As far as the music, M.I.A.’s producer Danja reworked the first version of the track that was released on her Vicki Leekx mixtape and we have a feeling this might be her biggest banger in a while. Radio and club audiences love M.I.A.’s one-liners and it seems safe to say that “My chain hits my chest” is something that will be hollered by many-a-fan in the same way as “I fly like paper, get high like planes.”
Watch the video for M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” below and tell us what you think.
Two french brands have teamed up to have you hopping in the water all summer long. A.P.C. and Tooshie have put together an 11 piece line of bikinis, onesies and even trunks for men. Simple in design, with psychedelic prints balanced by neutral colors, these suits will be seen on bums everywhere all summer long.
See more form the A.P.C. X Tooshie bathing suit collection below.
Frances Bean Cobain tells the world that her mother Courtney Love killed her childhood pets with her prescription pills and messy house. She also calls out Love for existing on a diet of “Xanax, Adderall, Sonata and Abilify, sugar and cigarettes.” [The Georgia Straight]
Getting weak in the knees over this deep house/90′s r&b collision
There’s a soft place in our hearts for music that makes us feel like little girls. We’ve been twirling around to this deep house remix all week–hands above head, belting along to the words. DJ K Millz injected SWV’s 90′s hit “Weak” with some soulful house and then released the tracks 5 days ago to a ton of love. Something is carried through SWV’s vocals from the days when they started as a gospel group–it came through in the original, and the remix keeps it crystallized. Not to mention the returning images of the fashion from the original video is out of control in the best way.
Listen to K Millz’s SWV “Weak” remix here and watch the video for SWV’s original below.
05.02.12
