Image: © Nick Knight

Appearing in the pages of W Magazine, Haute Death is a whimsical homage to the shadowy, sinister illustrations of children’s literature. Using his trademark exploration into contrasts, Knight juxtaposes the delicate beauty of model Karlie Kloss into the eerie sketch of a Brothers Grimm fairytale. The result is an avante garde photo-shoot that mixes fashion and children’s fantasy. Kloss was styled by Edward Enninful into the couture designs of Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, and Iris Van Herpen to name a few. Haute Death is another example of Knight’s continuing challenge against the conventions of beauty and the re-imagining of fashion.

It is very tricky now to really, honestly call yourself a photographer because a lot of what I do doesn’t adhere to the rules of photography. For example, with the introduction of digital technology and the more frequent use of that in the creation of the image, you are really not following the rules of photography any more.

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Image: © Nick Knight

Images: © Nick Knight

LOVE INKS: “Generation-Club”

2011’s debut LP E.S.P. received praise from NME, Dazed & Confused, The Stool Pigeon, Grazia and many more for it’s sparse yet sweet hazy summer anthems. Now LOVE INKS – comprised of couple Sherry LeBlanc and Kevin Dehan, and accompanied by Derek Brown on bass – present the fuller yet equally mesmerizing Generation Club.

Blending dreamlike synths, Sherry’s distinctive caramel vocals and a brooding undertone, LOVE INKS invite you into a woozy realm of contemplation that, whilst still paying homage to the beauty of a simple melody, digs to a slightly more unsettled place.

There’s a lot of loneliness and isolation… and time is mentioned a lot. Time passing slowly is a theme for some reason. Austin is a lazy town and time goes very slowly, we love it here but people don’t really hop to it so to speak.(Sherry LeBlanc)

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To get the record done, Kevin didn’t talk to anyone for a long time and just focused on recording,’ says Sherry. ‘Isolating himself really angered all of his friends, who thought he was being weird, which furthered the level of isolation… Overall it’s a positive album, but it is very reflective.

With the record’s conception pointed at their first European tour & time spent in Berlin, it makes sense that Generation Club was created with their live show in mind, this time with a focus on creating a slightly fuller sound.

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‘E.S.P. was so short and minimal, our live performances felt like we were reading poetry at a music venue,’ Sherry recounts. She continues: ‘This time we wanted to add some mid-frequency tones to help balance out the quiet on stage. The album is still minimal and sticks with what we do best. We’re always going to love drum machines more than live drums for this band, it just fits better.’

As with all of their recordings, Generation Club was then recorded on a half-inch tape machine, by the band in their hometown of Austin, but this time mixed in an analogue studio by Matt Oliver at Big Orange Studios, using methods inspired by Kraftwerk and Brian Eno.

‘It’s a labor of love when someone does that,’ Sherry muses.

It’s about their rhythm and timing and even muscle memory. It leaves very little room for error on the musicians part and adds very distinct fingerprints from the person mixing – there’s no auto tune or cutting and pasting within the tracks. (Sherry)

LOVE INKS look forward to a US tour this fall, followed by a string of European dates at the end of 2013. Details to be announced shortly. Watch a teaser video for Generation Club:

Generation Club track list:

1. ‘Solar Diary’
2. ‘Hearts Up’
3. ‘Outta Sight’
4. ‘Night Lunch’
5. ‘Time’
6. ‘Secret Tattoo’
7. ‘I’m Gone’
8. ‘Magazine Street’
9. ‘Hold Out’
10. ‘Waiting on a Plane’

LOVE INKS Links:

Facebook
Site
Blog
Twitter

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source: Stereo Sanctity, images: LOVE INKS Facebook

Image: © Viviane Sassen

In And Out Of Fashion is the summation of 17 years worth of work for some of fashion’s most honoured brands. Sassen’s images brush through the shelves of powerhouses like Stella McCartney, Adidas and Levi’s and onto the pages of Pop, AnOther Magazine, Purple, and Dazed & Confused. The book illustrates the visual aesthetic of Sassen’s photography as her models transform into fine art sculptures and their fashions become the threads of colour covering an artwork. Sassen portraits her subjects in unusual poses that simultaneously induce movement and the statuesque ambience of moulded sculptural art. Landscapes play as much a role in Sassen’s photography as her models, as she juxtaposes the colours and motion of her models against the shapes and hues of the backdrop. Ultimately Sassen’s work is an invigorating peek into the way in which art can re-envision fashion. Although she claims that fashion and art belong to different ends of the creative world, Sassen has seamlessly pieced together the parts of her fantastical puzzle:

Art photography doesn’t have to serve any purpose, fashion photography does, and that makes a difference. It’s a kind of puzzle that has to be solved

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Image: © Viviane Sassen

Images: ©Viviane Sassen

Almost Famous – ‘Tiny Dancer’ – Elton John

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William Miller: I have to go home.
Penny Lane: You are home.

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Reservoir Dogs – ‘Stuck in the Middle with You’ – Stealers Wheel

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Mr. Blonde: Listen kid, I’m not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don’t give a good fuck what you know, or don’t know, but I’m gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It’s amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain’t gonna get.
[He removes his razor]
Mr. Blonde: You ever listen to K-Billy’s ‘Super Sounds of the Seventies’ weekend? It’s my personal favorite.

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Romeo + Juliet – ‘Kissing You’ – Des’ree

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Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers, too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: Well, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
Romeo: [They kiss] Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took?
Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
Juliet: [they kiss again] You kiss by the book.
 
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The Graduate – ‘Mrs.Robinson’ – Simon and Garfunkel

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Mr. Braddock: Ben, what are you doing?
Benjamin: Well, I would say that I’m just drifting. Here in the pool.
Mr. Braddock: Why?
Benjamin: Well, it’s very comfortable just to drift here.
Mr. Braddock: Have you thought about graduate school?
Benjamin: No.
Mr. Braddock: Would you mind telling me then what those four years of college were for? What was the point of all that hard work?
Benjamin: You got me.
 
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Four Rooms – ‘Vertigogo’ – Combustible Edison

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[Leo is timing Chester for the 60 seconds he has to explain to Ted about the whole situation]
Leo: Begin.
Chester: Okay, Ted, pay attention here. I’m going to make two piles on the bar. One pile which is yours. And another pile which *could* be yours. And what you have to realize is we’re gonna do this thing one way… or the other. Whether it’s *you* who holds the axe or a Mexican maid or some bum we yank off the street.
Norman: [about the money on the bar] You could buy a whole lot of soup with that pile.
Chester: Shh! I’m the closer here. All right, I’m a little me – um, I’ve lost count. How much is on the bar here?
Group: Six hundred.
Chester: Okay, Ted, do you know how long it takes the average American to count to 600?
Ted the Bellhop: [Thinks for a bit]
Angela: It’s a rhetorical question, Ted.
Ted the Bellhop: No, sir.
Chester: About one minute less than it takes to count to 700. Now Ted, a person’s life is filled with a zillion little experiences. Some which are insignificant, have no meaning, and, you know, you forget them. Others which you remember for the rest of your natural life. Now, since what we’re proposing here is so unusual, so outside the norm, this is a good bet that is going to be one of those incidents that sticks. So, since you’re gonna be stuck remembering this for the rest of your life, you have to decide what that memory will be. So, Ted, are you going to remember for the next 40 years, give or take a decade, that you *refused* a $1000 for one second’s worth of work? Or that you *made* $1000 for one second’s worth of work?
Leo: Time!
Chester: So, Ted, what’s it gonna be?
Ted the Bellhop: Okay
 
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Desperado – ‘El Mariachi’ – Los Lobos

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El Mariachi: You know, it’s easier to pull the trigger than play guitar. Easier to destroy than to create.

 
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Trainspotting – ‘Perfect Day’ – Lou Reed

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Mark ‘Rent-boy’ Renton: I don’t feel the sickness yet, but it’s in the post. That’s for sure. I’m in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I’ve ever known will soon take hold of me. It’s on its way.

 
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Donnie Darko – ‘Killing Moon’ – Echo & the Bunnymen

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Donnie: [matter-of-factly] First of all, Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel’s evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario — It just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s the point of living… if you don’t have a dick?
 
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Mullholland Drive – ‘Llorando’ – Rebekah del Rio

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[At the club Silencio]

Bondar: No hay banda! There is no band! Il n’est pas de orquestra! This is all… a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet we hear a band. If we want to hear a clarinette… listen.
Bondar: [the sounds responding to his every hand motion] Un trombon ‘à coulisse’. Un trombon ‘con sordina’. Sient le son du trombon in sourdine. Hear le son… and mute it… drop it. It’s all recorded. No hay banda! It’s all a tape. Il n’est pas de orquestra. It is… an illusion!

 
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Pulp Fiction – ‘Flowers on the Wall’ – The Statler Brothers

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Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It’s a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: Zed’s.
Fabienne: Who’s Zed?
Butch: Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
 
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Stand by Me – ‘Stand by Me’ – Ben E. King

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Gordie: Alright, alright, Mickey’s a mouse, Donald’s a duck, Pluto’s a dog. What’s Goofy?
Vern: If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That’s easy-Pez. Cherry-flavored Pez. No question about it.
Teddy: Goofy’s a dog. He’s definitely a dog.
Gordie: I knew the $64,000 question was fixed. There’s no way anybody could know that much about opera!
Chris: He can’t be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat.
Gordie: Wagon Train’s a really cool show, but did you notice they never get anywhere? They just keep wagon training.
Vern: Oh, God. That’s weird. What the hell is Goofy?
 
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Dazed and Confused – ‘School’s Out’ – Alice Cooper

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Mrs. Kramer, Mitch’s Mother: Have you been drinking?
Mitch: No
[falls on bed and can’t even take off both boots]
Mrs. Kramer, Mitch’s Mother: Are you drunk?
Mitch: [clearly drunk] Psshh

 
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Words by Christine Hogg

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