OFFICIAL VIDEO: Die Antwoord - "Cookie Thumper"

Every time Yo-Landi Vi$er and Ninja release a video, I expect some pretty bizarre, off-guard, disturbing, unique, and totally confusing antics (think vagina prawns, albino rats and beating up Lady Gaga) - so it's no surprise that the band's latest video is bursting with freakiness and more.

“Cookie Thumper,” is taken from their forthcoming album, "Donker Mag" (due for release in Feb 2014), and is directed by Ninja himself, portraying Yo-Landi as a little orphan girl, who falls for a gang member called Anies, fresh out of jail for gun crime.

The two eventually meet up in a semi-NSFW viewing moment and as the lyrics to the song go:

THERE ONCE WAS A LITTLE GIRL
WHO HAD A CRUSH ON A BAD, BAD BOY
BUT WHEN THAT BAD BOY GOT OUT OF PRISON
THAT LITTLE GIRL'S ASS WAS IN BIG, BIG TROUBLE!

Oh Die Antwoord, we can always count on you to make us feel slightly awkward.
Watch the video below.

 

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Tanika - "Thoughts of Love" ft. Zebra Katz #OnetoWatch

Image © Purple PR Music

I know it's all about the boys right now with London Collections: Men currently taking place in town, but let's take a break and get back to the girls for a short while, with the latest release from emerging UK R&B singer Tanika.

"Thoughts Of Love" is taken from her new EP of the same title which is available to download HERE, and the official video features Brooklyn's Zebra Katz in a dark and brooding tale which merges Tanika’s soulful ballads with Katz's signature sinister verse.

I'm addicted already, check it out below.

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Boy George, i-D and the 80s for V&A Magazine

Image © Terry Jones

Ahead of the V&A's From Club To Catwalk exhibition - which I previewed for The Huffington Post UK HERE - the V&A has commissioned i-D founder Terry Jones to design the cover of their official magazine.

Paying homage to the 80s, the cover is a mash-up of the i-D archives, which Jones explains below:

“I wanted to make a cover with found images from the i-D archive pasted down pre-computer style, while introducing amorphic distortion with the slice of Boy George running onto the spine. I found the 35mm slide [slide on green background] attached to hand written answers from a Q+A with Hiroshi Fujiwara and his friend; it was published in a story from Tokyo in i-D in the late 80s, before he was well known. George was styled by the legendary Judy Blame and photographed by Johnny Rozsa for The Plain English Issue in 1987. The contact sheet [green] was from queen of green, Katharine Hamnett’s 1985 show; I used a still from this for her DPS ad. Just switched the colour mark-up to clash with our favourite fluro-pink [right strip], where I used the Not Another Punk Book cover as a background for the DIY slide. The ‘D-i-Y’ graphic [bottom] was taken from The Inside Out Issue, 1984. Hand made reconstructed/ deconstructed.”

I don't know about you, but when I look at his cover design above, I just go all 'Culture Club' and get the urge to watch what is quite possibly one of the worst videos of all time - "Victims", which sees Boy George dressed like he's channelling the evil child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang mixed with someone who just fell into a fancy dress shop bargain bucket. Enjoy!

The V&A's 'Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s' runs from 10th July 2013 – 16th February 2014.

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And The Award For Clever Cover Art of the Day Goes To.... Justin Timberlake

Stopped staring yet? Figured out it's Justin's face in an art-meets-the-human-form optical illusion which merges the singer's physical gaze with a naked female silhouette?

Of course you have.

The official cover art for Justin Timberlake's upcoming track “Tunnel Vision” is all kinds of clever and provocative, but to be honest, the more I stare, the more I see less of Justin's nose and more of a really lopsided boob.

You can listen to "Tunnel Vision" below.

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Flooding The Streets With Art - The "Art Everywhere" Project

'Pardaxin' - Damien Hirst, 2004

Flooding the streets with art is so hot right now.
Globetrotting French street artist JR's "Inside Out" project invited people from all over the world to paste portrait posters of themselves in a public space in their home cities; and Australian street artist James Reka is decorating buildings and walls across the world with his mix of bold, colourful, abstracted surrealist urban graffiti.
So it's about time the UK joined the movement, with a new initiative from Richard Reed, co-founder of the Innocent Drinks brand, and the brainchild behind 'Art Everywhere' - a nationwide exhibition which will run from August 10th to 25th, and will see super-sized reproductions from 50 of the UK's most prominent artists on display throughout the country.

Artists involved in the project include Damien Hirst, who said: “Art is for everyone, and everyone who has access to it will benefit from it. This project is amazing and gives the public a voice and an opportunity to choose what they want to see on their streets.“

'Art Everywhere' will turn billboards and other public spaces into giant outdoor galleries, giving everyone a chance to see (and instagram no doubt) iconic works.
You can visit the official website to 'Like' and vote for your favourite piece of artwork from June 21st, with the most popular entries being chosen for the final 50. For more info, head HERE.

Be part of the movement, heart art! 

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OFFICIAL VIDEO: Poliça - 'Tiff' (NSFW)

You may recall back in April I wrote a post about synth-rock collective Poliça, and their upcoming single "Tiff" featuring Bon Iver's Justin Vernon - well now comes the official video for the track, which the band describes as "a portrait of a woman as her own worst enemy".

Directed by Nabil & Mike Piscitelli, the vid features front lady Channy Leaneagh in a dual role as both the torturer and victim, with quite shocking scenes of extreme violence, which is why it's probably best you don't watch this at work. 
Tiff appears on Poliça's upcoming album "Shulamith".

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Iris van Herpen x SHOWcabinet

"Iris van Herpen's SHOWcabinet presents a world where time dissolves and disciplines intertwine. Van Herpen's collaborative approach to her couture has resulted in collections that defy categorisation. In her work, fashion, science, art and technology are not separate subjects, but flow from a single source." - SHOWstudio

Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen is a pioneer in fusing the traditional craft of couture with a curiosity for revolutionary technologies and the world beyond fashion, boundary pushing the relationship between science and art.
As part of SHOWstudio's 'SHOWcabinet', the designer is now the catalyst for a thematic installation of work inspired by the collision of science and art, along with van Herpen's passion for the body in motion. The display will include a one-off piece created by throwing black water at muse and style icon Daphne Guinness, shot by Nick Knight using high-speed cameras, which is an homage to the design van Herpen created in 2010 for her 'Crystallisation' show at Amsterdam Fashion Week - the design explored the secrets and invisibility of water.

Alongside van Herpen's work will be pieces by artists who have also explored the clash of science, style and art forms, including Geoffrey Lillemon, Salvador Breed, Kris Kuksi, Tobias Klein, Michael Hansmeyer, Kate MccGwire, Philip Treacy, Jordan Askill, Isaie Bloch, Heaven Tanudiredja and Irene Bussemaker.

The Iris van Herpen SHOWcabinet is on display now at 19 Motcomb Street, London SW1X 8LB until 19th July 2013. For more info, head HERE.

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