Dress the part, men’s style movie poster!

These posters, designed by Moxy Creative and illustrated by James Alexander Mathers and Andrew Lau, highlight a classic fashion item ( especially from men’s wardrobe) referring to ten different movies. Really fun and stylish, I’d hire them for my next (imaginary) film! My favourite is the Waal Street one, what’s yours? ( you can find the complete series here)

via Black Eiffel

 

Love is in the air!

Claire is a French street artist and she’s invading Paris street corners with her lovers!

First pics of Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe

This is one of the first pictures of Michelle Williams playing the Hollywood legend in “My week with Marilyn” the Simon Curtis-directed film that tells the story and the behind-the-scenes of what happened during the making of  The Prince And The Showgirl, which starred Marilyn and Laurence Olivier.

I approve the choice and I like the style of this first images. I’ll wait for  the movie!

The Pallets-Office

Over in Amsterdam, MOST Architecture has taken pallets and packed them into a completely customized office space for the Dutch branding agency BrandBase.

Design and creativity meet sustainability: Euro-pallets seem to be a highly available resource “in nature” and plenty of architects are trying to re-use them in architecture. Only a few can use the well. This is a vry good example!

Via DomusWeb

Bollywood Rules – Robot the film

Robot is a Bollywood production with Rajnikanth (?) and Aishwarya Rai directed by Shankar that came out last week end in India.

It looks like the Indian version of I Robot with Will Smith (2004)…but with crazy dancing-and-singing robots!

P.S. Crazy Bollywood website here!

Kristamas Klousch (and David Sylvian’s Sleepwalkers)

Some of the selfportarits  by Kristamas Klousch have been used for David Sylvian’s new album “Sleepwalkers”.

Kristamas is a young Canadian artist, whose work focuses mainly in self introspection and representation, through selfportraits. Her extreme, dark and provocking images, that remind sometime to  Francesca Woodman’s ones, perfectly fit with the scenery described by David Sylvian in his latest issue. (in fact one of the best thing he does is choosing great collaborations….)

This video can speak for me:

More on her website

Gilda meets architecture: my visit to the Venice Architecture Biennale

I have to say I’m not such a great expert about architecture, but … I had the chance to visit the preview of the Architecture Biennale – open until November, 21st.

The exhibition, People meet in Architecture (http://www.labiennale.org), is directed by the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima ( she’s the first woman curating the architecture Biennale), has really excited me.

Usually an architecture exhibition is quite boring, you find a lot of projects, videos, models etc..refering to real buildings or projects to be realized in the future.

Instead, Sejima’s exhibition presents mainly concepts, ideas, installations that reflects about the future and the sense of architecture nowadays, without stating anything, only suggesting.

Here is the top ten of the projects I’ve seen…

Balancing Act by Anton Garcìa Abril

Your split second house by Olafur Eliasson

Wim Wender’s video for SANAA’s Rolex Learning Centre

“The Cloud” by Transsolar

Forty Part Mottet by Janet Cardiff

Kazuyo Sejima’s project

Atelier Bow Wow

Andrés Jaque

A part of the Chinese Pavillion

Me, going around with the Serbian Pavillion ( a sort of mobile garden that meets people…)

http://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/

Me, going around with the

GANT by Michael Bastian SS11 – A Love Story

Maybe this video is not so original, but the 50s inspired images and outfits are one of my favourites!

This is the video made to present the GANT collection for SS 2011, before the NY Fashion Week. A love story that makes you dream to turn back the clock…….

The website is cool too!

My personal coverage for the 67th Venice Film Festival

I’m sorry for not having written m0re daily posts about the Venice Film Festival, but..I was too busy!

And busy doesn’t mean only work!

Working for the digital influence of the Festival I had the chance to meet, first on Twitter but  later also in the real world, a lot of nice people working on the Internet PR and blogs, writing from Venice about the Festival.

Below you can find a proof that behind twitter accounts there are real people ( and sooooo niceee!): Daniela ( http://www.twitter.com/daniela_elle ), who also writes for the Italian blog of Grazia  magazine, has published also a picture of me and some of the other people tweeting from the Lancia cafè (  http://www.twitter.com/lancia_exp )

http://blog.graziamagazine.it/blog/2010/09/10/festival-del-cinema-di-venezia-dietro-le-quinte-gli-addetti-ai-lavori/

Stay tuned, I have more backstage of the Festival!

Working…..Day #2 at Venice Film Festival

Helooo!!

Finally I have a little time to write on my blog…

So the first thigs aI have to telle you are the opening night of yesterday…

Actually I had to go to th”normal-people screening at PalaBiennale” of Black Swan, but…I managed – I don’t know how – to enter in the VIP screening of the film…

The most exciting moments were:

the speech by Isabella Ragonese, she seemed to be so scared at the beginning…quite commovent

than, the standing ovation for il Presidente della Repubblica, Giorgio Napolitano..

than, Quentin Tarantino, presenting the jury and saying ” AMORE CINEMA!”

In this kind of super-excited situation, I also saw this great movie by Arnofosky, “Black Swan”! Such an involving movie: great interpretation by Natalie Portman, and great suggestions from a visual and meaning point of view.  I’d say the main theme it’s not life in ballet, lesbo-thriller or..about all the things that have been said about it…to me it’s a visionary reflection on  the fight we do in our life against our limits…Surely I think it’s one of the most interesting film I saw in the last period..! You’ll tell me what you think when you’ll see it…:-)

Than…(I still don’t know how again), I went to the cocktail given by la Biennale at the Excelsior Hotel, at Salone degli Stucch, where a scene of C’era una volta in America was shot.

There were a lot of famous people, Italian and not…but it wasn’t so exciting how you’d expect! I saw Violante Placido, Danny Trejo, Giorgio Napolitano,  Simona Ventura ( so trash and old), Eleonora Giorgi, Barbara Bouchet, Natalie Portman, Jasmine Trince, Valerio Mastandrea and many others.

For some pics look here:

http://bit.ly/bYXMGu

Today, it was a quiet day…maybe because I was really tired. Tonight I’m going to see Miral by Schnabel and to an exclusive party by Pigna at the Excelsior again.

I’ll take my own pictures, I promise!

Speak tomorrow!!!