One of the most memorable fashion editorials in recent years, Elevation, a 2008 collaboration between Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh, published in Dazed & Confused, gets reframed by Kanye.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Mixr for iPad
Gizmodo report on a promising looking professional DJ App for iPad called Mixr. It does look like a very fun App for playing around with music, mixing tunes and making bootlegs. Guaranteed to be a huge hit at parties. But remember folks, it’s fun to do that shit in the privacy of your own home. [...]
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The Venus Project
We featured Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project in PILOT issue 3. Jacque is currently on a global lecture tour and he will be speaking in Auckland and Wellington in April. The idea that, “Design can save the world” is an old cliche amongst the design community. But really, if design can save the world, [...]
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Bondi Style
Summer is just starting to slip up away here in Auckland, but over in Bondi, style never sleeps, it just swaps sunglasses and goes out for drinks… Bondi Style is a celebration of the spirit within Bondi’s tight knit creative community. Photos of the beach and street scenes are mixed with street-fashion portraits and interviews [...]
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Upper The Hutt
The always on point Mr Vintage posse rustle up a tribute to Welli’s Hutt Valley. Click to see the Lower Hutt version….
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Crane Brothers / Black Sheep
Murray Crane hosted a media evening last week to launch his new collection Black Sheep. The collection is being promoted by the first ever Crane Brothers print campaign, shot by Karen Inderbitzen-Waller. You can see it in the new issue of NO Magazine. I don’t know Murray especially well, certainly not as well as I’d [...]
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It’s Hip to be Square
This is the new Servilles Winter 2010 campaign. Art direction & execution by PILOT for Servilles. It was super-fun to work with the team at Servilles on their new campaign. We shot this in early February and we pulled together a dream team of models. With Georgia, Nicole and Zippora on the same shoot, it’s [...]
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Askew
Insightful interview with local legend Askew, talking about style, technique, and development as an artist.
For more, check out Urban Development Project website.
BONUS: He’s rocking the T-Shirt I designed for Frontline so many moons ago. Joy.
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Gaga / Fierce
Since Lady Gaga’s music video for ‘Telephone’ with Beyonce was released yesterday it has clocked millions of Internet views. If you haven’t already watched it, you must. It’s a 9 minute Tarantino-esque tour-de-force of a music video. In the same way that Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill riff on endless pop culture and film references to [...]
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Act Like They Forgot About Dre…
We have this running joke at our house. Whenever someone is missing, under the radar or generally keeping their steez on the downlow, we joke that they are hiding out in the basement with Dr Dre. Generally speaking, Dr Dre, the legendary hip-hop producer, keeps things on the serious downlow. He doesn’t do a lot [...]
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We Love Pacific Fibre
The digital divide between New Zealand/Australia and the rest of the world is widening at an alarming rate. Video and applications such as Flickr and YouTube require more bandwidth than current capability enables, resulting in a poor user experience – we have hit the bandwidth wall. Next generation, high-tech, companies cannot sell, and build partnerships [...]
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Georgia Fowler & Vinnie rock the Dogs
PILOT cover-girl Georgia Fowler totally rocks Kate Sylvester’s Diamond Dogs campaign and lookbook. You can see the full lookbook here.
Creative Direction: Wayne Conway / Photography & Styling: Karen Inderbitzen-Waller
Georgia Fowler @ Clyne / Vincent Paunovic @ 62
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Mercy Mercer by Derek Henderson
Michael Lett has just published Mercy Mercer, the second monograph from Derek Henderson following the critically acclaimed The Terrible Boredom of Paradise in 2005.
“Mercy Mercer’s 128 colour photographs of the Waikato river, its neighbours, travelers – typically ‘New Zealand’ in flavour – are punctuated by unexpected moments that tell unofficial stories of New Zealand; tales of colonial [...]
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Stolen Girlfriend’s Club Sale
Stolen Girlfriend’s Club sale yo…
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Currently Reading / You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget has a very intriguing introduction.
“It’s early in the twenty-first century, and that means that these words will mostly be read by nonpersons-automatons or numb mobs composed of people who are no longer acting as individuals. The words will be minced into atomised search-engine keywords within industrial cloud computing [...]
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Is This The World’s Gaudiest Apartment?
Gawker reports that extreme-right-wing-nut-job-shock-jock Rush Limbaugh is selling his New York apartment. They have all the photos. Dear God. Have you ever seen anything more heinous? Well, I mean the study is kinda cool, sure. No? Probably not. That bedroom though? Wow. Speechless. Yours for a cool $13.95 million…
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David Bowie Vs Alexander McQueen
Dazed Digital have just posted a fantastic feature that covers all the collaborations between Lee McQueen and Dazed & Confused. The highlight has to be a conversation between David Bowie and McQueen from 1996. It’s a very frank and very revealing interview from two very legendary Brits. You know it’s going to be fascinating to [...]
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