Friday, June 8, 2012

Jewel-Beetle Wing Dress

Charlize Theron wears a dress made from discarded jewel-beetle wings in Snow White and the Huntsmen.  Costume designer Coleen Atwood wanted to create the image of the Queen Ravenna's own physical and psychological deterioration by using these fragile and decaying wings.  Quite a striking turquoise dress if you ask me.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Nature Calls- Moon


Not only is Bjork playing her music amongst the constellations in this video, I believe she is also representing the moon.  On her 2011 released album, Biophillia, she describes how she writes music by walking in nature and singing with the mountains.  She's always been a lover of electronics in music referring to the format as circles and with her time in alternative rock ban The Sugarcubes as square.  In this recent album she was able to use sound bites in nature and save it in electronic form.  A fully organic process. You can listen to a very interesting interview with Bjork on CBC radio progam the Q here