Lovefest: Heart to Mouth

Lovefest: Heart to Mouth An Erotic Subversion of the Ultimate Amorous Icon from Creative Wunderkind Bart Hess

Lovefest: Heart to Mouth Sheath your arrows: the voluptuous red heart, international symbol of love, is reimagined in this a visceral new short by genre-defying Dutch artist Bart Hess. With echoes of high-tech fetish fashion and Jeff Koons’ contemporary pop art classic “Hanging Heart,” Hess’ latest video stages a Sapphic encounter from within crimson latex balloons. “I want to create a tension between the body and material—almost as though they become one,” says the multidisciplinary creative NOWNESS - READ MORE

Erin Wasson in L’Intruse

Sauntering down a desolate highway in opaline pasties and pink latex knickers, an otherworldly Erin Wasson enacts an unexpected domesticity in this short by filmmaker Columbine Goldsmith, shot in California’s Mojave Desert. Wearing spring/summer 2013 looks from the likes of Fendi, Bottega Veneta, Chanel and Alexander Wang, Wasson walks the line between the real and the extraterrestrial as an apathetic housewife tending to a fantastical plot of land. READ MORE

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Tim Marsella: The Ballroom Cape Town's Young Dancers Waltz Through the Photographer's Vibrant New Short

Tim Marsella: The Ballroom Cape Town's Young Dancers Waltz Through the Photographer's Vibrant New Short The gliding figures and twirling colors at a junior ballroom dancing contest in the Cape Town suburb of Athlone are captured by photographer Tim Marsella in today’s film. While shooting a commercial in the South African city, Marsella heard a radio announcement about the competition and went to check it out as soon as there was a break on set. “The contest was taking place in a sports hall of the local Muslim community and the young dancers were all dressed up—it was gorgeous,” he explains. thanx nowness

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Damien Hirst “On the Spot” Video

Damien Hirst: On the Spotfrom Matt Black on Nowness.com.

The Industrious Art Star Occupies Gagosian Galleries Worldwide with His Complete Spot Paintings A rhinestone-wearing Damien Hirst explains the theory and thought behind his infamous spot paintings in the latest short from filmmaker Matt Black. The legendary British artist, made famous by submerging mammals in formaldehyde and creating jaw-droppingly expensive jewel-encrusted skulls, has become one of the most prolific and lucrative names in contemporary art.

Video: Spike Jonze - Mourir Aupres de Toi

NOWNESS.com premiered a new short film from the celebrated filmmaker Spike Jonze. Made in collaboration with Olympia Le-Tan, the short sees her embroidered clutch bags (made in the design of famous books) spring to life during the after hours of a parisian bookstore. "It's such a beautiful and romantic place," said Le-Tan. "The perfect setting for our story!"

The project apparently began when Jonze asked Le-Tan for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall. Le-Tan replied saying that she would make it, but only in return for a film. The result took over six months and 3,000 pieces of hand-cut felt to create.

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Rainbow Warrior: Delfine Bafort

The Belgian Model Turns Chameleon Under the Tropical Palette of Francelle Daly

KT Auleta conjures equatorial extremes in her latest beauty film for NOWNESS, transforming model Delfine Bafort from dewy jungle innocent to fierce tribal warrior with the aid of celebrated NARS makeup artist Francelle Daly. Auleta’s vision was for the cosmetics to mimic the differing qualities of light in a day: soft and misty morning sunshine turning to hyper-real bright colors at noon, and a fade out to black when night falls. “I wanted it to feel organic, but with a fantastical edge,” explains the photographer and filmmaker, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Elle and The New York Times’ T Magazine. Referencing real-life body-painting traditions, Daly turned to Phyllis Galembo's Maske, a book on African and Caribbean carnival costumes, as well as to the work of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock for their color blocking and brush strokes.

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Nicholas Kirkwood collaboration with 80s artist Keith Haring

Nicholas Kirkwood has unveiled his much-anticipated collaboration with 80s artist Keith Haring at his new Mount Street store. The sketches have been circling around the Internet ever since the project had been  unveiled in the Selfridges Shoespaper.

Nicholas Kirkwood x Keith Haring

The Shoe Designer Launches His New Boutique With a Collection Dedicated To The Pop Artist watch video

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