Alex Turvey
Alex Turvey is on a never-ending quest to save the world from bad design and black-and-whiteness. His passion for unusual forms, craving for couture and awesome directing skills turn folklore into futuristic style. Alex is not your usual artist who concentrates on only one technique or means of expression – every time he surprises with new mixes of illustration, design, painting, crafts, sewing, gluing and patching. The most powerful weapon in Mr. Turvey’s armory is undoubtedly his rich and flourishing imagination – a beast only he knows best to obtain and channel. The videos and the gallery at the bottom of the article speak volumes.
One of the latest works of the London based artist is Percival – a fashion film featuring Daisy Lowe, for the Autumn/Winter 2010/11 collection of Menswear label Percival – on percivalclo.com. This is not the first time when Alex chooses fashion over music videos. Frankenfashion is a video exclusively commissioned by Dazed & Confused and featured as part of onedotzero and Dazed’s Fashion in Film program at the BFI, Frankenfashion is being screened alongside the works of Chris Cunningham, Solve Sundsbo & Saam Farahmand. In his contribution, Turvey takes inspiration from the mythical Dr Frankenstein and combines it with Wigs and Hair by the Sensational Charlie Le Mindu, Props by MADE and clothes by Nathan Jenden, Rupert Sanderson, Hannah Marshall, Louise Goldin & Manjit Deu. Before he turned to fashion, Turvey directed a series of music videos for MSTRKRFT, Grizzly Bear and Bright Eyes. His most popular ads were made for (weiterlesen…)
Headmaster Mag
We are your new Headmasters and we are here to teach you a lesson. Lots of lessons, actually: social studies lessons, language arts lessons, phys ed lessons, science lessons and art lessons. If you’re lucky there may even be spelling and handwriting lessons. And we are not afraid to assign homework.
Sounds kinky doesn’t it? The headmasters will be a mind-blowing combination of science projects, studies, smart and sexy men (you can get that?!) who will demonstrate their witty writing skills and their nifty art projects. Quasi a print version of GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT. But bossier.
You wanna get educated too, don’t you bitch? Well then go and back Headmaster’s cause on kickstart.com and get the first issue. But that’s not all you get as their sponsor. Here are the different stages of matriculation: (weiterlesen…)
I Own You
Seriously, I owe you one. I’ve been missing for a while – first it was Easter, then it was something else, and then it was re:publica 2010. A nerd’s work is never done!
But since my motto is “never explain, never complain” and since you shouldn’t take yourself very seriously, I will just tell you that the video that is following is the only reason I said I owe you one (cuz I actually confused owe and own, actually). Charlie Winston – the man with the sexy voice and looks, the Gavrosh alike outfits and the guitar features in the new video of Wax Tailor called “I Own You”. The magnificent stop-motion cut-out papier mache work by Romain Chassaing is produced by the creative SoLab crew.
If the video caught your eye and I am sure it did, take a look at the “making-of” video as well: (weiterlesen…)
Hungry Nerds
I actually have never written anything about cooking and kitchen gear here, have I? Since I watched lately the Julie & Julia movie and got truly inspired to resurrect my cooking skills, I went on a gear hunt. There is no nerd who cooks with usual pots and pans and some sort of cutlery. So here is what is on my radar recently:
The Finger Guard
If you haven’t been in the kitchen for long time – just like me – you might be a little sloppy when cutting some veggies. Or you are so slowly cutting them that you need a whole day off to cook a dinner. The Finger Guard is a literally handy tool that protects your fingers from getting cut and not being able to type for months – protecting you by that from a social media suicide.
Cupmen
Nerds don’t eat regularly and when they do it’s because of the genius Asian creation of the noodle cup. But there are those tricky 3 minutes you wait for the genetically manipulated noodles to absorb the water when you have to either hold the cup and risk to burn your fingers or you have to stir. But seriously, we have better things to do than stir noodles in a cup. Cupmen keep the lid closed while the noodles are heating up. One problem less. (weiterlesen…)
WE ARE NERDS AND… VOL. 6
… we undress to impress.
… were traveling last 2 weeks. Yes, that’s why.
