We are pleased to once again present you with a great Sound Selection. This range of music will surely keep you on your feet.
Safetalk ‘Mimic’
The first song to enter our selection is ‘Mimic’ by the wonderful Safetalk. This single is the perfect song for those night time drives, a genuinely mysterious trip. This one is for the playlists for sure.
Alexx Mack ‘Your Car’ feat. EXES
Another great song to enter our selection is ‘Your Car’ by Alexx Mack featuring EXES. This single is driven by raw and emotional vocals, that will keep you awake for weeks to come with its authentic vibe.
Cale Hawkins ‘Don’t Let My Ink Fade’
Furthermore, we have the beautifully produced song ‘Don’t Let My Ink Fade’ by the eye-opening Cale Hawkins. Hawkins establishes a style of his own early on his latest single. With great structure and a wave-like groove, this single will keep you on your feet.
Holy Wars ‘Mother Father’
For more emotional music we have ‘Mother Father’ by the well-rounded and genuinely talented Holy Wars, who combines her original vocals with a vibe of nostalgia and home. Simply stunning music.
RIVVRS ‘Don’t Give Up On Me’
Once again, when great music comes to us, we take it. RIVVRS gives us just that, a beautiful song that takes us on a journey of a lost romantic. ‘Don’t Give Up On Me’ is an excellent addition to any playlist looking for genuine and authentic music.
Haulm ‘Settle’
For more of an electronic vibe, we have ‘Settle’ by the terrific Haulm. This single is a combination of minimalist sparkling lead plucks and haunting vocals that will keep with you for weeks to come.
Digitalism ‘Jet’
They are back. This time with their highly driven song ‘Jet’. The well-known and respected Digitalism bring us a great wave of energy in their latest single, something we ought to expect from them.
Shaun Barrowes ‘DragonGirl’
Now for something fun, we have ‘DragonGirl’ by the talented singer-songwriter Shaun Barrowes, who truly brings out the love in his latest single through great vocals and fun-blasting lyrics.
Lake Jons ‘Colors’
The last song to enter this Sound Selection is ‘Colors’ by the splendid and truly mysterious Lake Jons. This single emerges us into his music world by combining groovy patterns and ear-comforting vocals. A song for any ear.
Latest single ‘Stranded’ featuring Broods, Reggie Watts & Sarro by Flight Facilities is truly stunning.
To support such a great song, the collective have brought out an equally stunning music video to support it. The music video is in a form of a short film and is directed by Tom Noakes, who truly brought out the emotions from two very talented actors Lauie Sila & Jenny Wu.
‘Stranded’ is out now worldwide. You can download it and stream here.
“A splendid song that deservedly was given a fantastic and unique music video”
Full Music Video credits
A GOONO Film In association with Scoundrel Films
Director: Tom Noakes Producer: Freya Mackenzie Starring: Lauie Sila & Jenny Wu Casting: Daisy Hicks at i4 Casting, with assistance from Catch Casting NZ. Director of Photography: Adric Watson Production Designer: Courtney Mulvay 1st AD: Adam Smillie Editor: Adam Wills Colorist: Billy Wychgel Post Production & VFX: White Chocolate Steadicam: Justin Besser 1st AC: Steivan Hasler 2nd AC: Luke Williams Grip: Kris Wallis Grip Assist: Rommel Cesena Gaffer: Mark Kavanagh Best Boy: Mike Roberts ELX Assist: Beth Johnston Art Assist/Standby: Oliver Hay Art Assist: John Mansour Wardrobe: Sarah Ibrahim Makeup/Hair: Margaret Aston Stunt Coordinator: Harry Deckanalis Stunt Coordinator 2: Mark Le Cornu Stunt Coordinator 3: Talayna Nikora Safety Officer: Andrew Beatie Nurse: Beverley Stewart Traffic Control: Who Dares Production Assistant/Runner: Madeline King Production Assistant: Holly Winter Production Assistant: Francesca Walker Unit Manager/Extras Wrangler: Marshall Abangan
You can check out our previous feature on some of his works here. This is our interview with the creative Fabio Consoli.
Are you working on anything new and exciting?
Self-portrait by Fabio Consoli
At the moment I am living in New York and I am composing a soundtrack for a commercial movie about a building in the centre of Manhattan. As a secondary job, I am a musician, I compose instrumental music for documentaries, commercials and whatever fits with my style. You can listen to my music sketchbook on SoundCloud
At the same time, I am working on a cover for a Japanese magazine, a gig poster for a New York music production label, a book cover for an Italian publisher.
Why and how did you become interested illustration?
I love images, I love paintings and arts in every form.
Since I was 4 I have been loving painting and drawing, at 20 I was still loving painting and drawing. At school, I studied lives of great masters of painting and I had the feeling that most of them died poor and crazy, then, to get a living, I started a job as graphic designer, working on my illustration as a side job. Today, after 20 years, illustration become a real job and music and graphic design a side job.
How do you feel about working in sketchbooks?
Sketchbooks are really important for me, I use them to develop my style, for preliminary studies about subjects that I have to use on my illustration, to discover the world around me.
I teach Visual Journaling at Abadir the Academy of Art in Italy and in an online school based both in Amsterdam and New York called Sketchbook Skool, so I can say that sketchbooks are a real part of my job.
In the last years, I create the Music Visual Journal, which is a projection of my travel sketchbooks accompanied by my Musical sketches played live from me.
What’s it like being an artist in the age of social media?
Social media give an instant feedback about your sketches, your ideas, your finished works.
I think they are big tools for who works on creative fields, but I wouldn’t rely completely on the social feedback, otherwise, I’d be constricted to think that cats photos with thousands of likes are great masterpieces 🙂
Nonetheless, I get most of my contacts from social media, which give me the opportunity to get exposure to art directors and agencies,
Books make me fly by Fabio Consoli
What’s your source of inspiration?
I find inspiration from different places.
Every day I get a look to Behance and Instagram to see what’s happening out there.
I see great masters in painting and contemporary art documentaries.
Movies are full of inspiration, it often happens that as I watch a movie on my computer I do a screenshot to freeze a frame.
Movies give me inspiration about concepts, composition, colour palette, characters. Music Videos are full of creativity too.
Do you have a personal process for developing ideas?
In most of the case to develop ideas I use the Lateral Thinking method of Edward De Bono, you will find a lot of material on the web.
But one random process I have when I feel not in the mood of being so methodic is this:
Basically, I start writing keywords taken from the briefing, I create a text file and then I close it and work on another project.
I think the subconscious starts working without me being aware of it. Then I start doing sketches, then research. (I know it, should be the reverse.) Then close the file and work on something else. And go on until I find some ideas that could work. This could last only a couple of hours or days, depending on the timing I have for the assignment.
Do you have any creative routines?
For me, creativity means no routine.
If I do every day the same things, my ideas will be always the same too. Obviously, it works for me.
Sometimes I work from my home studio, sometimes from my studio in the city centre, I found ideas in the dentist waiting room sketching on the back of a receipt.
I would say that from 7.00am to 2.00pm coffee is a great ideas buster. From 6.00pm to late night beer has almost the same effect as coffee.
What role does the artist have in a society?
I don’t like thinking about me as an artist.
I solve problems for money, that’s the raw reality.
In this age, I can’t see the edge between artist and designer, or artisan, or carpenters. Contemporary art moves in very different way.
I think there are millions of way to do art so I think I there is not a unique role, or at least I have it not clear. But I will think about it.
Can’t stop the time by Fabio Consoli
What do you hope to accomplish with your art?
All my illustrations have a message.
First of all, I hope that they gave the message to the audience.
Then I would like to know that people would hang them on their houses, that’s the aesthetical part of my job.
strong message + nice image = perfect Job!
Any advice for aspiring artists?
I am not good to give general advice but I can talk about my experience.
I really wanted to become an illustrator, I have been working hard on this project, focusing a lot of energies, working with method and constancy.
But there are a lot of talented people out there and it is a very competitive world.
Today I work as an illustrator, but what about the next 5 years? Or the next year? Will people still call me?
This for me means that every day I have to work to become an illustrator.
Harmony’s founder and artistic director, David Obadia has found inspiration from Wes Anderson for his latest collection.
The latest collection by Harmony Paris has taken inspiration from a short film of Wes Anderson’s named ‘Hotel Chevalier’ and several other projects by him.
Key elements that elevate the collection are the camel coloured coats and knitwear, whilst also white jeans are used to contrast the top to create a lovely dynamic for the look. The warm camel colours are often used in Wes Anderson films and in this collection the homage is clearly shown through the way the tones are displayed.
The film itself is a thirteen minute long short prologue to Wes Anderson’s feature film ‘The Darjeeling Limited (2007). The film’s main cast include Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, Waris Ahluwalia and Michel Castejon.
Here is some of the collection shown in the lookbook by Harmony Paris.
Tata Naka has joined hands with Banneya London to bring the world exciting and fine jewellery.
Exclusively made with Banneya London’s exclusive platform, the ‘Wild Flowers’ collection is focused to enhance the look of the ear with beautiful ornate floral arrangements.
The Tata Naka sisters Tamara and Natasha Surguladze once again captivate the fresh feeling of nature in their work, but this time instead of portraying it on fabric, the duo with Banneya London will be displaying their work on precious stone and gold.
The Wild Flowers collection will be made from 18ct Gold, Smokey Quartz, Diamonds, Sapphires and hand painted Enamels. Prices will range from £615 to £1,945 depending on the materials used.
Tata Naka had also presented their SS18 collection at the London Fashion Week, which is available to see here.
Thor: Ragnarok has topped the weekend Box office with a solid start.
Making its US domestic start ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ came out the gates with a very solid $121 million, just this weekend. The film has already made $427 million worldwide, as it looks to become one of the highest grossing films of the year. It currently ranks 16th just below ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’, which has grossed $489.5 million worldwide.
In second place came the awaited holiday film ‘A Bad Moms Christmas’ which managed to gross a pretty impressive $17 million, which puts its estimated worldwide gross to $28 million.
Furthermore, in third came ‘Jigsaw’ which dropped two places since last weekend with a less impressive $6.7 million domestically. However, it has managed to gross around nearly $60 million worldwide (overall) with only a production budget of $10 million. A good turnout for Lionsgate indeed.
We are proud to premiere ‘Second Castle’ by the terrific This Week in the Universe.
Ending this week we have a vibrant duo This Week in the Universe presenting us their latest track ‘Second Castle’. This Week in the Universe is made up out of Beau and Casey Golden, two brothers that have a true passion for 80’s music and 70’s Progressive Rock. With both having great talents in music, they have joined together to make this great collaborative project This Week in the Universe.
As for the song, ‘Second Castle’ is part of a twelve song album named ‘This Week in the Universe’, and is now being re-released as a single with a stunning music video to go with it. It is driven by smooth synths, chillout keys and a throwback vibe that will keep it on repeat for weeks to come.
“Magnificent work by a very promising project”
Here is a beautiful stop-motion music video for that extra visual reference we all like. A truly magnificent piece of work made out of around 3,500 individual images. The music video was directed and shot by Casey and Beau Golden and their talented uncle Adam Barnard.
You can stream ‘Second Castles’ and the full album here. If you would like to find out more about This Week in the Universe and keep up to date with them, you can follow them here and here.
We are proud to bring you our 16th Sound Selection!
Anatole ‘Outgrown’ feat. Tom Iansek
The first song to enter our Sound Selection is ‘Outgrown’ by the terrific Anatole featuring Tom Iansek. ‘Outgrown’ is driven by solid vocals, ear-satisfying sounds and just superb production. This one is a must for any playlist.
BNNY RBBT ‘If I Were Human’
Furthermore, we have ‘If I Were Human’ by the uniquely distinctive and refreshing BNNY RBBT, who combine experimental like soundscapes with modified vocals that will genuinely bring out the emotion in you. Fantastic work.
Linn Kock-Emmery ‘Bby Nevermind’
Another splendid song to enter our selection is ‘Bby Nevermind’ by the wonderful Linn Koch-Emmery, who showcases her raw-driven vocals in this terrific energy fueled song. One to add to your playlists, for sure.
FYOHNA ‘Called It Love’
Alternatively, we have ‘Called It Love’ by the vocally gifted FYOHNA, who combines commercially driven pop vocals and a groovy production to give us a song you will have on repeat for weeks to come.
neek ‘but why’
Now for something more darker and mysterious we present ‘but why?’ by the exciting neek, who combines ambiently mysterious sounds and dramatically flourishing vocals that will grab you into the journey it carries.
Tourist ‘Sleepwalking’ feat. Swim Mountain & Esther Joy
Another great song for the playlists is ‘Sleepwalking’ by Tourist featuring Swim Mountain & Esther Joy. This uplifting, hopeful and simply magical song will you wake up to the beauty of music made by the terrific Tourist. Wonderful work.
Amanda Mair ‘Empty Blockings’
Our final song to enter this selection is an exciting romantic Indie-Pop song ‘Empty Blockings’ by the very promising Amanda Mair, who dives in with pure passion and honesty in her latest single. Great work, one for the playlists for sure.
Beyonce has officially announced that she will be joining the cast for the upcoming remake of The Lion King.
Donald Glover also known by his stage name Childish Gambino will be voicing the character of Simba, whilst Beyonce will be voicing the character of Nala.
Some of the other cast members are James Earl Jones who will voice Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor who will voice Scar.
Current Cast: Donald Glover (Simba), Beyonce (Nala), James Earl Jones (Mufasa), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Scar), Alfre Woodard (Sarabi), John Oliver (Zazu), John Kani (Rafiki), Seth Rogen (Pumbaa), Billy Eichner (Timon), Eric Andre (Azizi), Florence Kasumba (Shenzi), Keegan-Michael Key (Kamara), JD McCrary (Young Simba) and Shahadi Wright Joseph (Young Nala)
The film has been scheduled to be released in the July of 2019 and will be directed by Jon Favreau who has also directed such films as ‘Jungle Book’, ‘Chef’ and ‘Iron Man’.
After a long wait, EA has finally released a teaser trailer for UFC 3.
With the success of the previous UFC games and major growth in popularity, UFC is once again joining hands with EA to make their third game together ‘UFC 3’. After the Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor bout, there is no doubt the fans of UFC and newcomers have been waiting for a new game to be released, it looks like it is coming at the right time for them as the next McGregor fight is still in the distance.
At this moment of time, there is no information on what new modes and additions to the game. But it is guaranteed as usual that the game will have an updated
Roster and will likely include legendary fighters like it did in previous games such as Mike Tyson and Bruce Lee alongside legendary UFC fighters such as Bas Rutten and Kazushi Sakuraba.
The teaser trailer is only twelve seconds in length and primarily reveals that the first look into the game will be shown on the 3rd of November, 2017.
