Swedish House Mafia just dropped the official video for what we predict will be one of this summer’s huge floor bangers. Love the song but not quite sure about the video yet, though we are always suckers for a French Bulldog…
Electric Daisy Carnival moves from Los Angeles to Las Vegas this year for the first. With a lineup that features electronic dance music’s current heavyweight champions this three day event is expected to be one of the biggest music festivals in American history. Apparently more than 90,000 weekend passes have already been sold and we’re still a month away. Loving this video and looking forward to EDC Vegas.
So I’m peeping around the interweb the other day and came across this mix Jamie Jones and Seth Troxler did for Mixmag. The DE SIGNER track caught my ear. We posted something on them a while back. I remember the song (it was on their debut album, DESIGNERSRULETHEWORLD, a few years ago), but apparently there are some new remixes just coming out by Robin Porter, Subb-an and Crazy P. Thanks to Goggled I came across this nice write up Ibiza Voice gave the release. Perhaps De Signer will finally get some recognition across the pond. Even saw Pete Tong and Heidi giving it some love on BBC Radio. Plus, rumor has it (I heard it from a friend) the song is finding its way to a Get Physical comp.
DE SIGNER: Suicide Girl (Jamie Jones vs. Seth Troxler)
And check this stylish nightmare of a video below that the Le Branché crew (the band’s label) shot at Rolland Berry’s studio in downtown LA. It’s from their new album, Nous Nous.
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Sony introduces their PIIQ Premium headphones, which have everything a music lover would want: powerful sound, with fully adjustable comfort. The 40MM drivers in Marqii™ phones deliver powerful bass and supreme sound right to your ears and the padded headband keep it cush and comfy. The locking headband, inspired by ratchet bands on snowboard boots, is easy to adjust and will stay in position in order to keep the world out and the music in.
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As we stood in Tomorrowland on a 97 degree day in November, Disney Epic Mickey creative director Warren Spector casually mentioned that ”one of our boss battles takes place on top of [Space Mountain].” That point alone should surely get the most video game averse Disneyphiles to invest in a Nintendo Wii. Disney Epic Mickey features altered versions of some of the most hallowed Disneyland treasures. Set in “Wasteland”, the game’s inhabitants have done their best to create a theme park from discarded elements of the Disney archives.
It should be mentioned that I’ve probably been to Disneyland more times than I’ve been to the dentist… and I’ve spent plenty of time with doctors of dental surgery. The mere concept of bringing this magical location into a video game is very exciting. We were assured that The Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Main Streen USA, It’s a Small World and a Disney castle will be seen in some form or other within the game.
In addition to the theme park influences, Disney Epic Mickey also draws on classic Disney cartoons and reintroduces Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Oswald hasn’t been seen in a Disney title of any kind since 1928. The fact that the game’s designers have first crack at him is a statement of strong support for Disney Interactive as an integral part of the brand going into the future.
Disney Epic Mickey will be in stores on November 30th. Cruise by the official website for screenshots, video and to pre-order the game.
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is coming out on November 16th and they just dropped this new trailer featuring Chiddy Bang’s MGMT-inspired ”Opposite of Adults”.
Well, it should be embedded here but we’re having technical problems. For now, watch it on the Need For Speed pre-order site. http://ordernow.needforspeed.com/ I don’t think this video is anywhere else as of yet.
Chiddy Bang may only be music blog darlings over here in the States, but they’re bona fide stars across the pond. After hitting the UK festival circuit over the summer the hip hop duo from Philly headed out on a fall tour across England and Scotland. Those of us in Los Angeles get a chance to see the guys in action next Tuesday at EA’s Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit event at Avalon. It’s not open to the public… but if you do some clever searching you may find yourself on a list. The party will also feature Need For Speed commercial stars Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara.
After you sort that out I recommend dropping by http://chiddy-bang.com as their EP The Preview is available for your streaming pleasure. A recommended listen that’s not found on their site (probably for legal reasons) is “Because” which samples Radiohead’s song “Reckoner”.
Not that we want to make too long a list of things to do, but you really should drop by the Need For Speed site or YouTube Channel and see more videos, developer blogs and all the info you’ll ever need about how to evade cops driving Lamborghinis.
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As if a game centered on bare-knuckle boxing needs to increase its badassedness, Sony and developers XDEV decided to toss in some Danny Trejo just to be sure. The Fight: Lights Out launches today for the PS3 with the PlayStation Move.
Featuring a slew of unsanctioned fighting moves, combos and dirty tricks, The Fight uses PlayStation Move technology to translate your punches directly to the faces and breadbaskets of the world’s most dangerous brawlers. With the optional 3D stereoscopic display the fists will be flying right out of your screen.
When the competition gets too tough, send your fighter to the gym and train with Señor Trejo himself. Just don’t expect him to teach you how to strike fear into the hearts of men with a scowl.
Check out screenshots, videos and more info at Sony’s website for The Fight: Lights Out.
The Cut&Paste 2010 Digital Design Tournament is a competition where designers from all over the world participate in competitions in 2D, 3D and Motion design to claim their place in the Cut&Paste 2010 Global Digital Design Championships. The event features a live design competition of 16 designers competing in 2D, 3D and motion design, a Converse audience design contest, drink specials and more.
The US Tour will be followed by events within cities in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. At every tour stop a Grand Prize winner will be selected in each category to compete in the Global Championships in New York City in February 2011. A total of 30 winners will journey to New York City where the locally crowned champions will battle for top honors against the best the design world has to offer. One honor includes an opportunity to create a special short motion video for Converse awarded to the top Motion Designer.
The tournament makes it’s stop in Los Angeles this Saturday, October 9th at the Henry Fonda Theater at 7pm. The judges for the Los Angeles competition include: Bobby Hundreds (Co-Founder/Creative Director of the Hundreds), Eric Nakamura (Publisher/Co-Editor of Giant Robot), and Jean Aw (Editor-in-chief of NOTCOT). There will be an open bar courtesy of Media Temple from 7pm – 8pm and 11pm – 1am.
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Hollywood artist Renee Andriole has a line of severe jewelry designs that could literally cut your heart out. One particular beautifully harsh piece is called the Sickle Ring. It features a razor sharp blade shaped like a sickle that extends in either direction along the top of the wearer’s knuckles. You couldn’t wear it through airport security without getting detained, or even arrested. It’s intimidating, not to mention dangerous.
Andriole’s other signature pieces, in particular her edgy line of metal work she features on her website www.reneeandriole.com, include a Ball and Chain necklace that features silver spikes protruding from the sphere; a Knife Ring, which is worn on the index finger and has a four and half inch sterling silver blade that cuts across the hand; and a Spike Ring, which consists of a polished sterling silver spike that points at a simply perfect obtuse angle from the pinky or ring finger on which it’s worn back towards the inner wrist. Make the wrong move and impale your palm. Andriole’s inspiration behind these designs? Among several things, she sites “weapons.”
You’d expect the creator of something as deadly as a Sickle Ring to come off as a tad deranged, rather than a soft-spoken girl with a disarming smile. Without coming off as too smidgen about her, Andriole is one of the most gentle, engaging, and unassuming people you’ll ever meet. But her deep Mediterranean eyes and cheery temperament gives little indication to what she admits is her “dark side.”
“I think I shock some of the older women who meet me. And they ask me to send them links to my designs. I guess they’re expecting a lot of cutesy designs. Then the next time they see me they have a shocked expression on their face,” Andriole says, grinning as usual, from her studio off Hollywood Blvd.
It’s not a surprise some people look at her work and think “twisted” or even “kinky.” But Andriole stops me when I allude to the fetishy undertone emoted by her sadistic-cum-masochistic designs. She doesn’t actually interrupt me, mind you. She’s actually really polite about it. Rather, she hesitates with her breath until I ask her if she had thought about that.
“It’s just that I hate when people look at my work and see the edgy pieces specifically and think that this is just some S & M stuff. You don’t have to be head to toe in black leather and spikes to wear one of my pieces, cause I happen to think the Knife Ring goes best with a sweet floral dress,” Andriole says, recalling, “When people pigeon-hole some of the work I do it reminds me of the frat boys in my college art class who’d see my stuff and tell me sarcastically, ‘oh, what are you trying to say there?’ What I’m trying to express is not that superficial, not that simple.”
“I want my pieces to be more provocative than sexy. There is definitely a sexual element anytime metal touches skin. The way the metal feels on your skin alone awakens the senses. But sexy is the anticipation of something as well. With the more dangerous pieces, it is the anticipation of something hurting you,” Andriole explains. “The pieces interact with the wearer. You can hurt someone else or hurt yourself. It creates an awareness.”
She helps create that awareness by including instructions with her edgier pieces such as:
Be mindful when wearing this piece.
Don’t flail hands around innocent bystanders.
Use caution when going to the restroom.
And always… Remember you’re wearing a piece of art.
A person wearing these pieces feels empowered and brave, but anxious, even afraid of what they might do to themselves. Causing pain to your self as a consequence of causing pain to others is a theme found not only in Andriole’s jewelry but also in her fine art projects, such as a pair of bronzed brass knuckles with metal spikes on the interior of the piece. Punch someone with those and you’ll be puncturing through your own skin.
In that respect Andriole’s pieces trumpet her duality, not to mention yours and mine. Intimidating yet frightened, confident but worried, smooth and polished while sharp and deadly. Her designs are for people to wear after they have looked at themselves in the mirror.
“Life is a constant juxtaposition and we are always flowing back and forth. I think that my work illustrates its own juxtaposition,” she says.
While she enjoys designing dangerously, the reason various design blogs like thefrisky.com, publications like Juxtapoz, and the discerning taste of your truly, think Andriole is one of the next big things in fashion is that her lines combine sharp edginess with a subtle pop/glam quality. Her pieces are every bit as shiny and illustrious as they are avant garde, as much as a fashion statement as wearable art.
“That comes from my style. I dress kind of girly but then spice it up with a crazy piece of jewelry,” she says.
Some of her recent metal work involves more pieces that are totally about the stylo factor, such as the Corset Ring, which looks like a small corset with a zig zag cut down the middle bonded by wire, the uneven plates of her Asymmetrical Ring, and a similar but less orderly Stacked Ring made of two titanium and two silver plates.
The Stacked Ring’s plates have a differing finish, texture, and color. One silver plate has an oxidized gun metal finish and the other is reticulated. If you have no idea what that means, I don’t either. But Andriole does. “Reticulated is when you heat the metal so it buckles and creates little mountains and valleys. I think it looks kinda like when you fly across the country and you see the Desert Mountains below.”
Lastly, I ask the Andriole why she thinks people should like her stuff? It’s a common question I pose to designers of any kind. After a moment of mulling it over, she gives me an uncommon answer. “They don’t have to.” At the end of the day, being a artist who designs according to what she feels rather than trying to be a “marketing genius” is really what makes Andriole and her work dangerous.
- Humberto Guida
PF Flyers has your new staple shoe for this Fall. Originally launched in the 1940s as a tennis shoe, this style retains its PF Flyers DNA with chevron detail and logo heelpatch, but is updated using modern materials. The Vantage for Fall 2010 is now available for men in grey with naturecraft full grain leather, suede, and tricot mesh. Check www.shoppfflyers.com for a list of retailers or to purchase online.
