Category Archives: Photography

God I love editorial/fashion photography. And the stylists, and hair people, and makeup people who conceive of a notion and execute it. They are all essential to an artistic vision. A photographer’s skills are nothing if the hair/stylists/makeup people haven’t prepped someone in the right way. I look forward to magazine editorials like nothing else. I just LOVE seeing how creative people are and the concepts they come up with for shoots and campaigns and covers, like doing a ’50′s housewife/pinup girl-inspired shoot starring Camilla Belle, or a safari/jungle-themed shoot with someone very un-jungly, like January Jones. I just like seeing the photographic representation’s of someone’s vision and I like transformations. I think this editorial is phenomenal. I love the vintage quality of the shots, and the ’70′s/American Apparel vibe, with the red knee socks, the lights, the colors, her headband, the UNBELIEVABLE pair of wedges she’s got on, and the white uni. I am seriously obsessed with these photographs beyond words. I love the expression on her face (in the first two) that the photographer was either able to capture by accident, or coaxed out of her because it was the look he was going for. And the fact that she is mid-hamburger-bite. It looks like an editorial STRAIGHT off the set of Boogie Nights. I specifically posted this though because I really don’t like Lindsay Lohan’s look, since she started doing drugs, tanning, losing weight, dying her hair bleach blonde, and getting lip injections. This version of Lindsay, (which I fear is the permanent version of her since she’s forever, permanently, changed the look of her face with her lip surgery or whatever it was that she did), is one that I can’t stand seeing and that I generally, 99% of the time hate in editorials. But because of the photography, I adored these shots. It’s truly amazing what photographers can do. These shots are officially new FAVORITES. Scroll to see the rest of the editorial. Oddly enough, the rest of the editorial is far less ’70′s-inspired except for the lighting…and I like the top 3 shots significantly better than the bottom 3. Matter of fact, I don’t like the bottom 3 at all; only the top 3.

Info on the shoot:

Magazine: Blank
Published: May 2011
Cover Star: Lindsay Lohan
Photography by Steven Gomillion and Dennis Leupold
Production: Anna Toemp |Creative Sting & Co|
Hair: Aaron Light |Celestine|
Styling by Angelo De Santo
Website: grupoblank.com

Via: www.designscene.net

This is super old but it always makes me laugh.
TheCobraSnake a.k.a Mark Hunter, backstage at Diesel, FW 2008. He is so good at what he does and yet I’m sure 80 percent of the people he works with who don’t know who he is think he’s a total joke because of how he acts/dresses. He never changes who he is no matter how high-fashion or fancy the event he’s at is.  He’s just always himself. He goes backstage at Chanel shows in neon adidas, chest hair hanging out of a hawaiin shirt, and sunglasses. But it’s not an act either; he’s not trying to make some statement about fashion by purposely under-dressing. He is just himself, through and through, no matter what the setting. Big style/artist crush on this guy. I met him in NY last September during fashion week, and he literally could not have been chiller. It’s almost like a 24/7 permanent stoner effect, where nothing– no matter how exciting or unexpected– phases him or induces any kind of jubliation or awestruckness or excitedness. Basically the opposite of a hyperbalist (me- excitable, squealing, hyperbolizing me). Celebrity has absolutely no bearing on him. Like, you could be the most famous person in the world– like a hybrid of….Obama with Angelina Jolie with Gisele with Steven Spielberg with Giorgio Armani (I don’t know, just throwing some super famous peeps out there), and Mark Hunter is so CHILL it’s almost as if he wouldn’t register that you were that person. Everyone else would be oohing and ahhing and turning to their best friend to whisper about who had just walked into the room, and he’d be like “oh hey man what’s up”, the same way he would if you were a super-hot leggy model or a random homeless man from the street. The people around him do not alter his persona, and it’s a really attractive and intriguing and rare quality. I was watching how he acted around all the famous people on Fashion’s Night Out and, and I talked to him for awhile (kindofabigdealforme), and he just doesn’t give a fuck. It comes through in his interviews and any video he’s ever done, like this one. He just. doesn’t. care.