The VOCAL Times: Everyone is a DJ
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
— Lady Gaga
Alix Brown
If you spend any time in Manhattan’s Lower East Side you’ve most likely heard Alix Brown slinging the best punk and rock ‘n’ roll music in town. With the stunning looks of a 60’s dream girl (think Nico meets Brigitte Bardot) and a wardrobe to turn the head of any avid vintage collector, Alix’s overall vibe is nostalgic and re ective of the music she plays. Originally from Atlanta, Alix grew up working in record shops and eventually moved to NYC where she played bass in the band Golden Triangle. Aside from music, Alix has made her mark on the fashion world as a stylist and muse. She did visuals and merchandising for What Goes Around Comes Around, and has been eye candy for brands like Sugar High Lovestoned, Samantha Pleet, and Gant Rugger.
Lindsey Jack
Lindsey Caldwell, aka Lindsey Jack, has an intergenre naturalism, effortlessly blending styles and eras to create a ow of songs that is beholden not strictly to one area of the musical spectrum, but that bind smartly by mood and una rontable goodness. Her long running Negroclash night at APT was the foundation for this logical mix, emerging in the sad wake of electroclash and coming to life alongside early residencies of Metro Area and James Murphy. “The night evolved into a celebration of the African-American contribution to electronic music,” informs Lindsey. She can be found playing at Von Kellner and subMercer, and over the years has played most of NYC’s hottest underground spots.
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans
The composer duo Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are in the midst of a highly successful year in show business after setting the tone for lms such as Franny, The Wolfpack, and Last Days in the Desert. After their takeoff in 2011 following their success for the movie Martha Marcy May Marlene, Bensi and Jurriaans have been exploring the world through their creations, traveling and integrating themselves in new experiences as they work.
Kawehi
Hawaiian singer-songwriter Kawehi is a one-man band controlling a multi-instrumental orchestra. Kawehi creates beatbox music supported by her guitar, ukulele and Boss RC-30 looping station. Now situated in LA, she’s the proud owner of multiple music awards and is further growing as a DIY artist creating music that is both tangible and relative. With over 200 shows nationally under her belt, Kawehi is looking forward to her upcoming show at Davey’s Uptown in Missouri.
Too many Zooz
Over the last handful of years Too Many Zooz have been bringing the Union Square Subway station alive, turning up the energy of everyday commuters. Trumpet player Matt Doe, baritone saxophonist Leo P. and drummer David Parks roar all the way to the low corners of the NQR trains, while their street performances form crowds of viewers before their brass house’ tunes even start playing. In uences to their acoustic instrumentals include rock, jazz, EDM and African drumming.
Introducing: WannaGo
Today is the global release of WannaGo, an app available on both iPhone and Android that becomes your personal lifestyle concierge through categorized shortlists from a curatorial community. Within this, each curator’s personal insight can give you the information and access needed to get the most out of any experience, be it the password to enter that underground speakeasy in Chinatown that gives hands-on mixology classes, or that hidden spot in Big Sur you don’t want to miss.
KNOW WHERE TO GO, WHEREVER YOU ARE
WannaGo Puts The World’s Local Insight Right In Your Hands.
Today is the global release of WannaGo, an app available on both iPhone and Android that becomes your personal lifestyle concierge through categorized shortlists from a curatorial community. Within this, each curator’s personal insight can give you the information and access needed to get the most out of any experience, be it the password to enter that underground speakeasy in Chinatown that gives hands-on mixology classes, or that hidden spot in Big Sur you don’t want to miss.
Advancing beyond the assortment of impersonal rating and review platforms that simply sway decision, WannaGo allows members to follow evolving themed GoLists from curators that they revere and discover another version of the world in which they live. Members can then create their own collections of noteworthy locations, whether to save places they would like to experience, share recommendations with friends and family, or inspire others to step off the beaten path.
“Today we live in a very on-demand world, whether that be where we want to eat, shop or travel. The result is a nearly limitless set of options and a dauntingly cluttered mess when trying to save your favorite places or finding places from people you trust. WannaGo provides both a location on your phone to organize places you want to remember with personalized notes and photos, as well as a way to discover those hidden gems – be it a new local restaurant or a private beach for your next trip to France.”
To establish a quality content foundation upon which to launch their innovative platform, WannaGo has initially partnered with a host of exclusive curators from across the social spectrum to provide tastemaker insight from all walks of life. Within the app members can easily keep a finger on the pulse through the home-screen ticker, which highlights recently posted places from curators and members they follow within the community. Digging deeper, members can click into the Discover section to find exciting new locations, whether within their area or from around the world curated by a host of exclusive tastemakers.
WannaGo makes it simple to keep track of your favorite places, evolving your personal tastes and experiences through a community you choose to create. It also allows you to share your insight with others, not only within the app, but also via email, SMS and across the social media landscape.
Now available for download on both iPhone and Android.
For more information visit WannaGo.com. For all media inquiries contact VOCAL.
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The VOCAL Times – Everyone is a Photographer
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
— Ansel Adams
The VOCAL Times: Pallete of Flavors
While the psychological linking of foods to colors may not be revolutionary, such a pairing of brand and concept could not be more suited. Their long and intimate history with the emotions associated with mood and taste has allowed the Pantone Café to create a menu that paints the perfect picture of the foods it presents.
The name Pantone has become synonymous with color, and is today the worldwide standard language for color communication. From the Color Matching System developed in 1963, to the Pantone Universe creative licensing arm and recent Pantone Colorwear apparel launch, their consistency in inventing and maintaining relevance as a color authority has led to a new endeavor to spice up their mix: the Pantone Café. Designed by the architect Michel Penneman – also creator of the acclaimed Pantone Hotel in Brussels, Belgium – the Pantone Cube that houses the seasonal pop-up café was creatively constructed from a shipping container to resemble a giant Pantone color reference card.
While the psychological linking of foods to colors may not be revolutionary, such a pairing of brand and concept could not be more suited. Their long and intimate history with the emotions associated with mood and taste has allowed the Pantone Café to create a menu that paints the perfect picture of the foods it presents.
Pantone Café, Grimaldi Forum, 10 Av. Princesse Grace, 98000 Monaco
The VOCAL Times: Collaborative Creativity
A Pepsi lifestyle initiative, Project Cobalt is a new way of bringing creative people together through the power of collaboration. Its mission is to enable the next generation of creators by providing them with the tools, resources and platforms that they may not otherwise have, in order to help bring their vision to life.
Project Cobalt is a uniquely networked platform that accelerates the potential of young cre- ators to impact the world through the disciplines of fashion, art, music, lm, technology, and craft. The goal is to maintain an ongoing conversation with future generations who embody creative culture.
To launch the program, the strategic consul- tancy All Beuys Club oversaw the Cobalt Style initiative that fosters the best of young, visionary fashion assisted by the expert guidance and un- common insight of industry veterans. Known as the “Craft Class”, the rst young designer team was mentored under Jeff Staple, Liza Demeyrijan and Parke & Ronen to produce the Project Cobalt SS15 Collection. The success of the collection nods to the innovative approach of the initiative, as well as creativity and dedication of the young design team: Olu Alege and Edgar Garrido of Street Level Culture; Alexandra Kennedy, Samantha Giordano of Dolores Haze; and Drew Villani of Dreu.
Photos shot by William Yan, a photographer born and raised in New York City whose work extends to household names such as Heineken, Intel, Levi’s, Nike, New Era, New Balance, Oscar de la Renta, Supra, Timberland, and Vince among others. Look Book video shot by Everyday Won- ders, a full-service production company o ering a creative and collaborative approach to producing innovative content.
As part of their ongoing commitment to support young designers, Project Cobalt partnered with the three biggest fashion fairs: Capsule, Agenda and Liberty.
For the first-ever Men’s New York Fashion Week, Project Cobalt partnered with Capsule to present brands from around the globe in an event titled “A Snapshot of Modern Menswear”. The show at the Skylight Clarkson Square featured the brands Baartmans & Siegel of the UK, Black st of the U.S., CAMO of Italy, CMMN SWDN of Sweden, Matthew Miller of the UK, as well as Maiden Noir and Second Layer, both of the U.S. Each brand presented a sneak peek of five looks with highlight pieces from their Spring/Summer 2016 collections. The dream team behind the presentations consisted of talent caster Kevin Amato and Complex magazine’s fashion editor Mathew Henson as stylist.
Hosting the first all-day sponsored Agenda Emerge workshop, Project Cobalt provides both an interactive and educational experience for all aspiring youths looking to succeed in fashion. These unique series of presentations and panels host some of the most inspiring newcomer and veteran designers to inform and inspire the genius of tomorrow’s fashion leaders.
In partnership with Liberty fashion and life- style fairs, Project Cobalt provide resources to emerging brands and creatives showcased at for the rst time during Men’s Market Week. Founded in 2014 by menswear designer Jonathan Taylor, Moment Homme navigates directly to the spirit of the modern day consumer to demonstrate a global aesthetic that mixes classic American tailored pieces with denim with a strong Japanese influence.
ListaPost Unites Getty Images & Instagram
Continuing their innovations to supercharge social media, ListaPost today announced a partnership with Getty Images, the company behind the world’s largest digital library of professional imagery. Under this new partnership, all Getty Images wholly owned content will be made available through the ListaPost app for both iPhone and Android devices.
A Strategic Partnership with Getty Images Positions ListaPost as the Medium Between the World’s Two Largest Image Libraries
Continuing their innovations to supercharge social media, ListaPost today announced a partnership with Getty Images, the company behind the world’s largest digital library of professional imagery. Under this new partnership, all Getty Images wholly owned content will be made available through the ListaPost app for both iPhone and Android devices.
“At Getty Images we continually pay attention to start-ups that are innovating around content distribution,” stated Peter Orlowsky, Getty Images VP of Business Development. “As the leader in providing the world’s best photography we are excited to see how the market responds to ListaPost’s unique offering to Instagram users.”
As a prime content partner for Instagram, ListaPost allows users to search, save and organize the world of photo content into customized lists for easy reference and slideshow publishing back into the social media landscape. Already the most powerful productivity tool for individuals speaking to an audience, ListaPost now brings together the two greatest global libraries of imagery as the ultimate engine to nurture inspiration and further drive follower interest.
This most recent app enhancement also allows users to include images from the photo library on your mobile device. Already an incredibly powerful tool in itself, the ListaPost integration of Getty Images’ 30+ million editorial images creates a new level of potential for social media productivity that can as yet only be speculated upon.
“Combining the two worlds of today’s most popular social media network with the best professional photography across sports, news and entertainment is a huge opportunity for our growing user base,” informs ListaPost co-founder Matthew Murray. “The ability to bridge today’s top professional photography from Getty Images with the world’s largest user-generated content allows for endless options of storytelling for the daily Instagram user as well as for agencies, brands and social media influencers.”
Through the ListaPost app users can freely access the immense collection of Instagram content, either independently or through multiple seamlessly integrated Instagram accounts. Having searched, saved and organized this content into reference lists that are sharable within Instagram as their own powerful mini feed, users also have the option to share these slideshows externally via text, email, embeddable HTML pages and through a range of popular social media platforms. With the recent incorporation of Getty Images content, users can now tell their stories to even greater depth by utilizing the Getty Images extensive and ever-updated photo coverage of sports, news and entertainment events from around the world.
Save easily and share creatively with ListaPost. Download now on iPhone or Android.
For more information visit Lista-Post.com. For all media inquiries contact VOCAL.
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The VOCAL Times: Displeased to Meat You
Nimrod Shapira is a director of rare talent at the forefront of interactive video, as well as a satirical vegan activist with a passion for pushing the human-versus-animal comfort zone. His latest work “Love Inside Your Tummy” is an animated interactive video experience that takes a darkly humorous approach to en- courage veganism. Along with animal cruelty, this interactive video addresses health and global warming issues linked to consumption of meat, dairy and eggs.
Nimrod Shapira is a director of rare talent at the forefront of interactive video, as well as a satirical vegan activist with a passion for pushing the human-versus-animal comfort zone. His latest work “Love Inside Your Tummy” is an animated interactive video experience that takes a darkly humorous approach to encourage veganism. Along with animal cruelty, this interactive video addresses health and global warming issues linked to consumption of meat, dairy and eggs.
As a hearty farmer sings you through preparing, lleting, cooking, frying, and sautéing your choice of dish, the interactivity invites you to click buttons that “uncover the truth”. Revealing the less savory course of the animal-food process, this content is compiled from undercover investigations by PETA, Humane Society Of The United States, Mercy For Animals and other animal rights organizations.
Check out the video below, or jump into the full experience here.
SPOILER ALERT: You may just rethink your dietary choices, but you’ll definitely be impressed.
This animated interactive video experience called "LOVE INSIDE YOUR TUMMY", takes a darkly humorous approach to encourage Veganism. The video features a jovial farmer, who reveals some not-so-palatable realities.
- Writer & Director: Nimrod Shapira
- Designer: Eliran Bichman
- Animation Director: Roy Kafri
- Instruments and Recording: Ann Streichman
- Vocals: Omri Anghel
- Technology: Interlude
The VOCAL Times: Ethical Aesthetics
The style of Stella Jean re ects and evokes her métissage and Creole heritage, blending old-continent cultures with the verve of the new world and marrying the opposites in a femininity well aware of its precious uniqueness. Through the lines of Italian haute couture craftsmanship beats a sensual elegance, proud and aware but never ostentatious.
The style of Stella Jean reflects and evokes her métissage and Creole heritage, blending old-continent cultures with the verve of the new world and marrying the opposites in a femininity well aware of its precious uniqueness. Through the lines of Italian haute couture craftsmanship beats a sensual elegance, proud and aware but never ostentatious.
In 2013 Stella Jean travelled to Burkina Faso to meet with weaving artisans as a development component of her SS14 womenswear collection, beginning an official partnership with the Ethical Fashion Initiative — a program of the International Trade Centre, a joint agency of the United Nation and World Trade Organization. As a global net- work to support marginalized craftspeople in rural and remote areas, this partnership reinforced Stella Jean’s own dedication to the creation of fashion that embraces far- ung creativity and fosters a responsible, and accountable, fashion industry.
- Photographer: Stefano Moro Van Wyk
- Stylist: Giacomo Simoni
- Hair Make up: Mimmo di Maggio
- Model: Asia Piwka
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