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William Rast - Is This The Fate Of The Fashion Video

Asked before about the fate of fashion video - thought this was interesting. Please suggest links if you find the videos that hover in between film, fashion, beauty, music, art and drama.
 

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Dennis Hopper Retrospective by Anders Bramsen

Few actors have been in as many amazing movies as Dennis Hopper. Independent filmmaker and editor Anders Bramsen got the amazing assignment to create a collage of all of his work for the Cannes Film Festival. Great Work.
 

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Flip Through A Magazine Online

When you have been online long enough it gets time to go back and experience the feel of a real magazine - if you are not fully ready to leave your screen - here is an excellent opportunity to convince you.
enjoy “AMAGAZINEcuratedbyHAIDERACKERMANN”

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Visual Explorations - Then And Now

Above top: Homemade pinhole camera image of bedroom window. Gothenburg, Sweden, ca 1976. 
Above: Video mashup compressing 30 years of photography, film and video to a few minutes. New York City,  2008

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So What Do I Do Now?

When you get stuck in a creative project you can turn to Oblique Strategies. Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt originally conceived it as a deck of cards. Somebody gave me one of these decks a long time ago - don’t know where it is.  Gaining new popularity it has now appeared many places online the [...]

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Kiss & Kaleidoscope

First album I ever bought was Rock And Roll Over by Kiss - did Anders Kornestedt of Happy know this when he suggested the design to me and Tore for my retrospective book Kaleidoscope.

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Major Preparation

Major has his own style, gotta love him. Here’s how I found him preparing for the role as a blacksmith with a dark side. Not gonna use the mask for the film, but it sure had to be photographed.

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Syd Barrett Pink Floyd

Just realized it is Syd Barrett’s Birthday today.
The video is called “Syd Barrett’s first trip”  Here is an excerpt from the comments to the youtube video
“I think the real potency of this vid lies in the fact that syd barret completely destroyed himself on acid. If this is in fact footage of his first acid [...]

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What is a Fashion Video?

Was wondering what is going to happen to fashion videos as the web is becoming more and more important.
Style.com and all those places do the runway reportage really well, but what is the artistic expression going to look like. Where and how are the videos that take the place of creative editorials going to be [...]

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Late night call for Meridian

Late one night I sat with Axel at a diner and he got a call to help Rod out with a cinematography gig. Axel was unable to make it, so I took his place and cabbed down to the Rivington Hotel Penthouse. We did an allnighter filming beauty scenes, Rod had already done all the [...]

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