Rai Robledo, the successful photographer based in the underground heart of Madrid, is a living example of how to highlight yourself as an artist in the today’s over saturated digital era.
One of my favorite magazines is PURPLE FASHION MAGAZINE. This magazine is more than just a fashion magazine, at least more than what people think that a fashion magazine should be. To me this mag is exclusively about fashion because to me fashion are artists, photographers, musicians, writers and people living in this world, mainly people living in this world.
That should be the reason of why to me the prettiest things are always the most underground, no shinning, no sparkly, no nice, no perfect.
I've loved this Purple Winter fashion editorial from the fall/winter 2011 issue of this magazine. It's about two real sisters (not exactly the Olsens) and their real intereses in their real lifes showing their own style wich they adapt to their actual day a day.
I can find here more beauty than what I could find in a Kardasians show (I saw once 10 minuts of one).
For the Winter collections RICHARD KERN photographed the sisters SARAH and BRITNEY, indoors and outdoors, revealing the litany of teenage obsessions: cell phones, breast measurements, holding each other’s hand, acting coy, playing in the woods, piercing the same eyebrow, taking pills, abusing drugs, sneaking smokes, running naked, and just being young.
photography by RICHARD KERN
style by MASHA ORLOV
Sarah wears a black vinyl trench coat by IRIE, patent leather and gabardine pants by PAULE KA, a pink bra by PASSION BAIT, and gold and black rhodium and onyx rings by MADE HER THINK. Britney wears a navy shearling jacket by RICHARD NICOLL FOR FRED PERRY, a silk chiffon t-shirt by OBESITY AND SPEED, a striped knit skirt by JEREMY SCOTT, and rings by made her think for MANDY CHOON and MANIAMANIA
Denim motorcycle jacket DIESEL BLACK GOLD
White fishnet mohair sweater VANESSA BRUNO
Britney wears a leather and knit zip jacket by SANDRO, navy shorts by AMERICAN APPAREL, and black bison leather lace-up wedge booties by MARSELL. Sarah wears a quilted wool sweater by DIOR HOMME, an opal, silver, and gold necklace by JUDY GEIB, and black calf leather wedge booties by MARSELL
Blue striped shirt PIOMBO
White cotton t-shirt BLK DNM and blue marine cotton fleece shorts LE COQ SPORTIF
White cotton t-shirt JEREMY SCOTT, denim Torino shorts G-STAR, and yellow gold ring MADE HER THINK
Wool felt and stretch jersey sweater TER ET BANTINE and pearl and brass necklace AESA
Argyle cardigan FRED PERRY
Cotton jersey bodysuit LE COQ SPORTIF and silver and diamond Fallen Star necklace MADE HER THINK
Sarah wears a plaid shirt by OBESITY AND SPEED, knit shorts by G-STAR RAW, a wide-brimmed hat by DIOR HOMME, earrings by MANIAMANIA, and bangles by IOSSELIANI and ANNDRA NEEN. Britney wears a plaid shirt by LEVI’S, shorts by SANDRO, a wide-brimmed hat by PIOMBO, fringe earrings with Swarovski crystals and a brass bangle by IOSSELIANI, and bracelets by ANNDRA NEEN and JENSEN CONROY
I inmediatly thought about what would I answer to that hard question. I normally don't agree with the ''masses'' choice (Yesterday, Let it be, Strawberries fields forever...).
Here they are, from the fifth to the one (and one more)
5
Come together, Abbey Road, 1969
I forgot about this song but some years ago I heard this song live in a concert of a local Madrid band (I don't remember the name) in a Malasaña's Madrid club. I fell in love again and I collected all the covers of the song.
4
Get back, Let it be, 1970
I think it has the funniest lyrics and it's my dad's fav.
3
Because, Abbey Road, 1969
The great unknown! Everyone forgets about this song that is just magic.
2
She said she said, Revolver, 1966
because when I think about the Beathes I hear this song into my head. I'm 5 years old and I'm laying over the cold floor listening to the jukebox while playing my mom's old Revolver vinyl.
1
I am the warlus, Magical Mystery Tour, 1967
When you hear this song live in an Oasis concert you realize it's over your top.
''I Am the Walrus is also one of my favorite songs in the album Magical Mystery Tour, not only because I wrote it, of course, but it is one of those songs in such detail that even in a hundred years could continue being interesting.'' John Lennon, 1974.
Only John can make you come into ectasy with only a song.
And one more...
What you're doing, Beatles for sale, 1964
I feel like if you could take all the 60's mods essence and condense it into a sound this would be the sound.
I just felt like discovering a new music world with this retro-electronic band, Summer camp.
If you tipe the band name in Google you'll probably find a lot of actual summer camps websites, pics and adresses; that's why is so surprising when you finally find their remarkable website wearesummercamp.com.
This extraordinary place is a ride through the 1984's summer in a California town called Conlade. The site is a little bit sinister, like traveling to the dimension of a 80's bad horror movie elapsed in a little town.
This digital ride is addictive, each nonsense phrase you click over takes you to a different Conlade's 1984's summer scene. Each scene has it's own soundtrack, little Summer Camp's songs pieces, and that's the true addictive part.
I recommend a tour over the site, and then a tour through their vintage-electronic sound, and then a look to their fanzine (down here) and then just fall in love!
Wanting 80's B-Horror movies? No problem, click here!
This is mainly about Amy Winehouse. I felt so happy when I saw this advertisement on TV, they (don't know exactly who) made a compilation of some 'hidden treasures', some hidden Winehouse's records never heard for the big crowd before. Yes, I'm terrible, I know when my fav singers have a new album because I see it on TV, maybe I should be closest to the music news when I say music is my passion.
This album is called 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures', a perfect name to me when has in it the amazing Valerie song, my fav from Amy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g)
I still can't believe the whole bunch of voice comming out from her body in this video seeming like it's costing any efford to her. And the cover of the always magical Will you still love me tomorrow? song.
The record has too a cover of The girl from Ipanema (to me, not the best), the original (not the regular) versions of Tears dry on their own and of Wake up alone and seven sweet unpublished songs wich seem to have been recorded from 2002 to the date of her death (some of them were suposed to make part of her next album).
When I where at the store I felt atracted (as always) to some albums that I already had. But I really couldn't resist to getting another compilation from another muse: Janis Joplin Superhits. I thought: Why is this treasure on sale?, so I got it too...
Then the casher told me: 'So you are getting one from Amy Winehouse and another one from Janis Joplin'. That's when I realized I could be a little way mythomaniac, Amy and Janis, two divas belonging to the ''27 Club'', the group of big musicians who died beying 27, as well as Kurt Cobain or Jimi Hendrix.
Maybe I shouldn't, but I keep giving too much importance to people I love and I don't even know. I can't help it, I adore my idols!
