Butoh Parade

Enjoy!

Sharela

Mixing Media

Lady Gaga's song is now a children's book. You can view the rest of it here.

-Sarah

ummm....

via

Anna Obikane

OH-MY-GAWD!

Thom Browne at Paris Men's Week

As part of Thom Brown's show at Paris Men's Week, he staged a Franco-American feast to show of his collection.

for more, visit the New York Times article. - Valeska

From the Dior Couture Spring 2011 Show. I just like it :)

-Molly

Animation

I feel as though I post silly things a lot, but I think I'm in love with this cupcake.



-Sarah

Luba Memory boards

While I was looking around for various things to draw inspiration from, I came across these really amazing Luba memory boards that are used as mnemonic devices to remember the history of the tribe.

here's a web site that explains them in more detail:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1977.467.3

Mika

Science, what?!

Scientists are trying to clone a Woolly Mammoth!
CNN News Blog:

A team of scientists from Japan, Russia and the United States hopes to clone a mammoth, a symbol of Earth’s ice age that ended 12,000 years ago, according to a report in Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun. The researchers say they hope to produce a baby mammoth within six years.

The scientists say they will extract DNA from a mammoth carcass that has been preserved in a Russian laboratory and insert it into the egg cells of an African elephant in hopes of producing a mammoth embryo.

The team is being led by Akira Iritani, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University in Japan. He has built upon research from Teruhiko Wakayama of Kobe's Riken Center for Developmental Biology, who successfully cloned a mouse from cells that had been frozen for 16 years, to devise a technique to extract egg nuclei without damaging them, according to the Yomiuri report.

The U.S. researchers are in vitro fertilization experts. They, along with Kinki University professor Minoru Miyashita, will be responsible for implanting the mammoth embryo into an African elephant, the report said.

"If a cloned embryo can be created, we need to discuss, before transplanting it into the womb, how to breed [the mammoth] and whether to display it to the public," Iritani told Yomiuri. "After the mammoth is born, we'll examine its ecology and genes to study why the species became extinct and other factors."

-Sarah

An Na Kim's 2009 Senior Thesis Show

Hello Folks - Some of you may know An Na Kim. She presented her work in Brouhaha, the Multi Media Event in 2009. She then refined her line and presented it in her own fashion show at the Black Box the following fall as her Senior Thesis. I thought you might enjoy this video - the documentation is also very good. http://vimeo.com/8197067

Chanel - Haute Couture Spring Summer 2010 - Focus on Acessories/Details

Enjoy!!!




Sharela

EVERYONE SHOULD TRY AND GO TO THIS IT SOUNDS PRETTY AWESOME!!!!!
Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists
February 12, 2011 to October 16, 2011 at Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Curated by Dr. Michelle Joan Wilkinson, the museum’s director of collections and exhibitions, Material Girls celebrates accomplished women artists whose sculptures, installations and mixed-media assemblages incorporate both traditional and unexpected art-making materials. Using hair, beads, tissue paper, rubber tires, plastic and other materials, the artists craft provocative forms and intricate surfaces that play on unique cultural meanings, personal memories and social agendas.

http://www.africanamericanculture.org/exhibit_special.html

also...

This sounds like fun! Kind of pricey but there should be cocktails!

BIG Body Painting Improv Party! Sat Jan 22, 8pm show, 7pm bodypainting & cocktails. We are turning up the heat at The Patterson as BIG invites body painters Ursula Esser, Toby Verhines, and Patricia Tamariz to show off their human canvases. As part of BIG's improv adventures! BIG troupe 'Gus' uses painted works as puppets in a stunning visual display, and BIG troupe 'Lekker' works with volunteer models (maybe you!) in "The Wall" as painted bodies become props and environment. Come at 7 for a bodypainting demonstration in the gallery for the cocktail hour $15, $10 mbrs. For Tix and More Info!

Sharela Bonfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOf3kYtwASo&feature=&p=3C48338EFE6F20E3&index=0&playnext=1

The First Lady in McQueen

Michelle Obama wore a modified Alexander McQueen gown to the State Dinner last night. She is definitely not your average first lady.

Sarah

Also, Thea Curley told me about this designer--Laura Flook. Her clothes are pretty cute and all but I think the most interesting thing about her is that she's a model turned mortician turned designer. You can definitely see all of those influences in her work!

--Molly

Someone showed me this artist, Kimiko Yoshida, in class the other day. She has like, a million self portraits with different types of hats/headdresses made from found objects I guess and other stuff. They're amazing!

I thought Kyle and Jacob might be interested!

--Molly

Last year's show and press

I encourage you to look through some of the folders on Google Docs and Picasa from last year (Panoptic), to get a glimpse of how the show developed over time.

Click here and here for the MICA Communications Office's website for the event.

For images and a write up of last year's show (Panoptic), visit:
Gutter Magazine Part 1
Gutter Magazine Part 2 

Look through Joel Bobeck's vimeo channel for clips from Panoptic ('10) and Brouhaha ('09)

See student Aaron Barlow's videos for the show.

Important Reminders/Next Week

Please have the following completed by the beginning of class next week:

- bio and statement (post to Google Docs)

- headshot (post to Picasa)

- at least two professional quality images of your work for this class (post to Picasa)

Please make sure to clearly label your documents and caption your pictures with your name, ie: June Carter_Bio or June Carter_Headshot.

- Read "The Greatest Show on Earth", on Google Docs (if you are new to the class/have not read it)

- Generate at least three ideas for the event name

- Consider which teams you would like to work on and be prepared to share this next week.

- Let me know whether you will be participating in the workshop with Bread and Puppet.

The Annihilation Point

Here is a review of Philly's Berserker Residents' production Annihilation Point, an interactive, lo-fi, sci-fi spoof. Thought some of you might be interested.Please note the similarities with Cardin's 1970s menswear designs (and Couregge's knits)!

Valeska

Workshop with Bread & Puppet Theater

Bread and Puppet Theater from Vermont will performing at the Creative Alliance on Sunday, February 13th. To take advantage of their time in town, I asked if they would do a performance workshop with students at MICA. Molly Ross (who teaches Puppets and Prosthetics) and I thought that our respective classes would benefit from the experience. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, February 11th from 3-6pm, with an optional potluck dinner to follow. There are a limited number of slots for the workshop and I want to make sure that they are all filled up. I will pass around a sign up sheet on the first day of class. Please let me know if you can participate. It should be a great experience regardless of which direction you end up going with your work!

Valeska

Romeo on the Runway

The new production of Romeo and Juliet by the Philadelphia Opera Company sets the Capulets and the Montagues as major contemporary fashion houses. The company partnered with several of the premier design schools in the region to develop a runway fashion show that will unfold during the opera.

For a peek at the students that were selected, click here.

Liza! Fashion! Sputnik! Take that France!

Liza Minnelli and American runway models belt out "Bonjour, Paris!" at the Grand Divertissement à Versailles in 1973. The event put American fashion on the international map.

An article in the New York Times recently described the landmark fashion event that put American fashion 'on the map.'

Among the African-American models on the runway at Versailles in 1973 were Pat Cleveland (with Sterling St. Jacques in a 1977 show).

Here is an excerpt from the article: Naturally the models and designers remember things in their own way, recalling mainly the mishaps (all the sets had to be scrapped because the designer Joe Eula had made measurements in inches and not centimeters), the flaming egos and a pointed absence of hospitality on the part of the French. “The French had started to snub us before we even got there,” Ms. Hardison said. “They laughed and said, ‘These are not designers, these are sportswear people.’ We were going into French territory unwelcome and so, of course, when we got there, the Americans all decided to fight.”

Rose Hartman/WireImage

American model Billie Blair

The American show was “bound for disaster,” Mr. de la Renta said. “Yves Saint Laurent had converted a white Cadillac and he had Zizi Jeanmaire singing “Je Cherche un Millionaire,” and every French star was working on the French segments, and Cardin had some kind of Sputnik thing with models ready to take off into space. All we had was one tiny image of the Eiffel Tower hanging against a black curtain in the back.”

Yet it came off, Mr. Burrows said, “because the bare stage with no props made it look so modern.”

To see the whole article, click here .

-Hasta la vista, Valeska

Muti-Media clogging vantriloquist event

Gareth Pugh Fall 2011

I thought Jacob, Kyle, and Rachel might take particular interest in this...

From Style.com January 13:

Today in Florence, Gareth Pugh shows his new Fall ‘11 women’s collection as part of Pitti W. SHOWstudio alumna Ruth Hogben (who created the film Pugh screened with his collection last season, and also lensed the video with Mariacarla Boscono for Barneys.com and Givenchy) created a short to play alongside, inspired by “religious iconography and Florentine opulence.” Check it out below; we’ll be posting our coverage of the collection shortly.



It seems the video was shown along side the clothes which were presented on mannequins. I'm only half sold on both the clothes and the video, but I love the scale-like dress below!


Sarah

Japanese Game Show

This is pretty cool show. Makes me wonder about the possibility of dressing models on stage and that conversation we had in Nolla's crit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyU0pe6EFBQ

Maria

Tokyo!

This is a Movie of three part films called "Interior Design", "Merde", and "Shaking Tokyo." It's really amazing, and I think its relevant to experimental fashion

-Maria

It's Steotch (Beotch)

Hey Sharela! You've probs already seen this but:Steotch.com

Hope everyone had a festive holiday

xoxo, Matt