The VOCAL Times: Athleisure & the Age of Fitness
Inspired by the Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer and the representation of the human body as a medium of measure- ment, photographer Britt Kubat and creative director / stylist May Redding collaborated with set designer Nathaniel Wojtalik to reveal an innovative way to communicate physical exercise through athleisure that takes advantage of both still and moving mediums.
Inspired by the Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer and the representation of the human body as a medium of measurement, photographer Britt Kubat and creative director / stylist May Redding collaborated with set designer Nathaniel Wojtalik to reveal an innovative way to communicate physical exercise through athleisure that takes advantage of both still and moving mediums.
The duo worked closely with designer Victoria Bartlett and make-up artist Amanda Beczner, drawing upon visual works from Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky. The result is an alternative suggestion of the modern gym that is both surreal yet daringly simple.
Athleisure: VPL “fashion active” collections
Models: Jill Christmas from Major Models, and Micah Barnes of Wilhelmina Fitness
In an age when everything we do is recorded and processed as data, we wanted to demonstrate this “age of statistics” in a physical way.
– Britt and May
The VOCAL Times: Paint the Town
“There's no college for painting a five-story face or mixing a 25-color transition that covers 200 feet of building.” In today’s digitally mastered landscape of retouched perfection, traditional handcrafts can struggle to maintain relevance for the advertising world. Large-scale, hand-painted murals thankfully continue to assert appeal, although few companies still remain to keep this timeless art form alive.
In today’s digitally mastered landscape of retouched perfection, traditional handcrafts can struggle to maintain relevance for the advertising world. Large-scale, hand-painted murals thankfully continue to assert appeal, although few companies still remain to keep this timeless art form alive.
Tait Roelofs’ pursuit of artistic expression spans the range of available mediums, from oil on canvas to slip-cast ceramic bongs and sculptures using assorted household objects. As a walldog with his photorealistic mural company Acme Murals, his work now covers over one million square feet of the United States and can be seen in most major American cities.
“The majority of beautiful art, buildings, roads and elements of our world were build by the hands of skilled technicians. We want to keep that tradition alive.”
“There's no college for painting a five-story face or mixing a 25-color transition that covers 200 feet of building.”
The VOCAL Times: Uncommon Threads
Although a classically trained dancer, London Kaye has nurtured a deep passion for crochet since her early teens. After graduating NYU dance school, Kaye dove into the local street-art scene and started developing her unique style by crocheting on fences, trees and subway cars. She then made a public splash during the 2013 New York Fashion Week through a collaboration with that year’s Fashion Group International Rising Star Award in women’s wear…
Although a classically trained dancer, London Kaye has nurtured a deep passion for crochet since her early teens. After graduating NYU dance school, Kaye dove into the local street-art scene and started developing her unique style by crocheting on fences, trees and subway cars. She then made a public splash during the 2013 New York Fashion Week through a collaboration with that year’s Fashion Group International Rising Star Award in women’s wear, Tia Cibani.
Kaye has since adorned the windows of ABC Carpet and Home, and created pieces for Starbucks, Drake Hotel, and Isaac Mizrahi among many more. By now, most New Yorkers would have likely seen Kaye’s work decorate some part of the cityscape.
The VOCAL Times: Steps Ahead
Training in dance since she could walk and a professional dancer and choreographer since 2001, Tricia Miranda has forged a career that has seen her perform with the likes of Prince, JLo, The Black Eyed Peas and Britney Spears. Her specialty as a choreography can now be seen in work by Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Missy Elliott, Super Bowl XLIX, Will.I.Am, Snoop Dogg, The X Factor USA, Ellen, AGT, SYTYCD, upcoming artist Sharaya J, and national commercials including Sears, FabKids, Nair and UNIQLO.
Training in dance since she could walk and a professional dancer and choreographer since 2001, Tricia Miranda has forged a career that has seen her perform with the likes of Prince, JLo, The Black Eyed Peas and Britney Spears. Her specialty as a choreography can now be seen in work by Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Missy Elliott, Super Bowl XLIX, Will.I.Am, Snoop Dogg, The X Factor USA, Ellen, AGT, SYTYCD, upcoming artist Sharaya J, and national commercials including Sears, FabKids, Nair and UNIQLO.
Showcasing the burgeoning skills of her dance students at Hollywood’s Millennium Dance Complex, Miranda has released a series of perfectly choreographed videos that, if not completely outshining, de nitely hold a candle to the original music-video choreography. Shot on-site in the dance studio, the high production value is a result of Miranda’s favorite director Tim Milgram – “Simply because he is the best and I only want my choreography to be displayed in the right light, and he does an excellent job of capturing my movement and the best angles of the dancers.” Many of her students are now blowing up among today’s most popular YouTube stars, such as Kaycee Rice, Aidan Prince, Charlize Glass, Kaelynn “KK” Harris and Gabe De Guzman.
The VOCAL Times: Behind & Beyond the Lens
Over the decades in artistic partnership as photographers, Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell have re ned an effortless blending of the advertising and ne art worlds that has earned them longstanding international acclaim. As Montalbetti Campbell the married couple are masters of the studio and post-production, creating uniquely provocative imagery that arrests the viewer to ignite a confusion of interest and hope.
Over the decades in artistic partnership as photographers, Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell have re ned an effortless blending of the advertising and ne art worlds that has earned them longstanding international acclaim. As Montalbetti Campbell the married couple are masters of the studio and post-production, creating uniquely provocative imagery that arrests the viewer to ignite a confusion of interest and hope.
For the 20th Anniversary issue of Who – Australia’s best-selling celebrity magazine – Montalbetti & Campbell were engaged to create an elaborate double gatefold insert entitled Feast of the Stars, with twenty accompanying After Party portraits of the dream guest list. With the background options shot in New York and star-talent in Sydney under styling of Cassandra Scott-Finn, daily photo additions were sent to CREAM Studios for retouching and incorporation into the nal, glorious image.
Montalbetti & Campbell were commissioned to develop an advertising campaign re- ecting the elevated services of All Nippon Air- ways. Working closely with their producers at IS Production and Creative Director Jonathan Teo, this extensive shoot was broken into inde- pendent schedules with the airplane, tarmac and red carpet developed in 3D by CREAM Studios, while the cherry blossom petals were shot at Mount Fuji, Japan. Talent was photographed mid-air to create a feeling of lightness, then sent to CREAM for post-production and inclusion onto the background skies, having been selected from the Montalbetti & Campbell stock library.
The VOCAL Times: Pawel Swanski
You may know him as the painter Swanski, or perhaps under the design umbrella of Swanarts Studio, or even through his progressive streetwear brantd Turbokolor Co. No matter the outlet, Pawel Swanski is a rare artist whose work presents a con icting yet appealing unison of civilization and nature that draws from his upbringing during Poland’s emergence from the Soviet shadow.
You may know him as the painter Swanski, or perhaps under the design umbrella of Swanarts Studio, or even through his progressive streetwear brantd Turbokolor Co. No matter the outlet, Pawel Swanski is a rare artist whose work presents a con icting yet appealing unison of civilization and nature that draws from his upbringing during Poland’s emergence from the Soviet shadow.
From murals and canvases to installations through product design and custom helmets, Swanski has collaborated with some of today’s most iconic brands such as Nike, Girl, Lakai, Absolut, UXA, Hessenmob, FTC, Listen, Cliché, MTV, Casio...
The VOCAL Times: B is for Blog
A recent and disturbing trend on the internet. A blog lets people easily post comments onto a webpage. While blogs have many purposes, some of which can be useful, most people seem to use blogs as a way of having an online diary. These people have such massive egos and are so narcissistic that they believe…
bläg/ noun – contraction of “web log”, a type of online diary
A recent and disturbing trend on the internet. A blog lets people easily post comments onto a webpage. While blogs have many purposes, some of which can be useful, most people seem to use blogs as a way of having an online diary. These people have such massive egos and are so narcissistic that they believe that other people would be interested in reading their pointless ramblings. Even more disturbing is the fact that many people have such boring lives that they have nothing better to do than to read these stupid online diaries. They just feed the egos of the bloggers and encourage them to continue posting nonsense.
Taken from UrbanDictionary.com – where ironically users post de nitions that they assume are accurate and articulated well enough to empower the reader.
TVT2 CONTENTS:
- Forward
- B is for Blog
- Pawel Swanski
- Montalbetti Campbell
- Tricia Miranda
- London Kaye
- Tait Roelofs
- Athleisure & the Age of Fitness
- Stella Jean
- Nimrod Shapira
- Project Cobalt
- Pantone Cafe
- Everyone is a Photographer
- Everyone is a DJ
- Everyone is a Blogger
- Classifieds
The VOCAL Times: Issue No.2
This second issue of The VOCAL Times continues alphabetically on to B. With the sad realization that the inspirer has become an in uencer and the immense di erence that this presents as a reference for creativity, we embrace originality that achieves reach to spotlight those with integrity and true skill.
This second issue of The VOCAL Times continues alphabetically on to B. With the sad realization that the inspirer has become an in uencer and the immense di erence that this presents as a reference for creativity, we embrace originality that achieves reach to spotlight those with integrity and true skill.
In our brave new world where the brilliant few strive to be heard above the banal many, a nger can be pointed at the digital soapbox that thinks itself the vocal equal of genuine authority. Commentary dressed as insight fuels inspired delusion, contributing to an entitled mass lacking experience – a hustle that generates an appreciation of process over prize.
But B ain’t for beef, and so we steer clear of the blog to take a look at a range of creatives that truly inspire and in uence. We explore various art forms and learn how passion can engage and converse with an unknown audience. If B were for brilliance, it would allow the perfect introduction to the artistic collaborator for this issue: Swanski.
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The Petersen Automotive Museum announced today that its upcoming “Hollywood Dream Machines: Vehicles of Science Fiction and Fantasy” exhibit will spotlight a unique and immersive mixed-reality experience powered by Microsoft HoloLens. The display, named “Hollywood Dream Machines: Worlds Reimagined,” will be centered around the iconic Time Machine from “Back to the Future” and the famed Warthog from the “Halo” franchise. Opening May 4, 2019, the experience will offer guests an inside look at these legendary sci-fi machines.
Sister City, a new, meticulously designed hotel in NYC that embraces technology to offer guests a modern respite, debuts a first-of-its-kind lobby music score. Inherent to Sister City’s founding ethos was the question of its sonic landscape — Sister City asks what new shapes music can take as a site-specific, living extension of the hotel, and looked to Brian Eno’s Music For Airports and John Cage’s concept for “4’33”” as touch points for these conversations.
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