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Paint It Black By Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch may be most well known for her book White Oleander, which was also made into a major film, but her understated follow up novel, Paint It Black, is equally as powerful.

With the famous Rolling Stones lyrics “I see a red door and I want it painted black. No colors anymore I want them to turn black.” typed on the first page, Paint It Black, is nothing short of bold.

Janet Fitch’s book, Paint It Black, is a heavy and captivating tale of artist model, Josie Tyrell. Deep into the grunge and punk-rock scene in Los Angeles during the 1980s, Josie’s story is a bit of a twisted one.

After the death of her boyfriend, Michael, Josie is thrown into an unexpected relationship with his wealthy, and overbearing, concert pianist mother, Meredith. Meredith, however, despises Josie and accuses her of having taken Michael from
his prim and proper “Harvard” lifestyle, and dragging him into the grungy art world she so hated.

The book follows Josie as she struggles with the death of her lover, the hatred of her lover’s wealthy mother, and the music, drugs, and alcohol she just can’t seem to get enough of.

This book is deep, dark, and amazing. With twists and turns chapter by chapter you won’t be able to put this down. The imagery of the 1980s punk rock scene contrasted with that of Meredith’s grand piano and mansion in the hills makes for an interesting 400 page journey.

Photo Inspirations

I spend a lot of my down time perusing through photographers online portfolios and dreaming of doing work even close to the quality of theirs. I think a lot of these images are so beautiful and down right amazing that I’ve saved them all to my computer in their own album and I go look at them when I get bored. Lame? I know. Anyways, since I’M so enthralled by them, I figured I’d share them with you.

(all images in this post can be found on each photographer’s website)

Richard Avedon

My all time favorite photographer is Richard Avedon. His fashion portraits are epically beautiful and his ability to capture the stunning features of females is incredible and his black and white images of fashion are historically famous. Avedon was best known as being a staff photographer at Vogue. After his death in 2004, his images have immortalized his name and talent forever.

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz is currently one of the world’s most famous photographers. Leibovitz began her career in San Francisco with Rolling Stone Magazine before they were a popular publication in the 60s. After touring with “The Rolling Stones”, Leibovitz’s career took off. Since then, Leibovitz has photographed just about every known celebrity, including President Obama, and is featured in just about every issue of Vanity Fair and Vogue.

 

Image: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken the day of, and just hours before Lennon was shot and killed in front of his New York City apartment.

William Eggleston

William Eggleston is most well known for what he did with color photography. Born in 1939, Eggleston came into photography at an interesting time. Color photographs were not yet instant or easily available to the public and the medium of color photography was not yet a popular or widely respected format. Eggleston’s work with color film is like no other photographers. The colors in his images are profound and pop out at you as if the purpose of the photograph was to immortalize the colors in the shot. Blatant and true, Eggleston’s images will forever be taught to photography students as the photos that broke ground for color images everywhere.

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton, who passed away in 2004, was another one of Vogue’s majorly talented photographers. His images were often erotic by nature but undeniably dramatic in the fashion world. Working mostly in black and white, Newton almost created his own genre of photography. These sexually charged black and white fashion photographs set Newton’s name apart from the rest through out his life time and will continue to do so for years to come.

DAMN RICHARD AVEDON, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, WILLIAM EGGLESTON, AND HELMUT NEWTON ARE AWESOME!

Playing In My Car: Wavves

Considering I haven’t take these guy’s CD out of my player in my car for the last 2 months…..I figured I’d write about them. Who knows maybe I’ll even bless some of you with the gift of one CD that you never get sick of.

California based noise-pop band, Wavves, is an infant in the entertainment industry, only becoming recognized about three years ago. Frontman Nathan Williams is responsible for the majority of the song writing, but set the band back a few steps when he had a breakdown in front of a crowd in Spain that was induced by an ecstasy cocktail.

But, nevertheless the band has signed with Fat Possum records and released three albums recognized by publications like The Onion and Pitchfork.

The latest album, “King Of The Beach”, was released in August of 2010, and has undoubtedly brought them more success than the previous two.

Wavves was recently featured at the popular Austin musical festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest where thousands of attendees had the chance to see them play.

“King Of The Beach” is filled with your slacker summer and drug taking anthems but never have those themes been so appealing. The upbeat and energetic attitude of the intro song, “King Of The Beach”, carries through whole album.

With 12 of the catchiest driving tunes I’ve heard in a long time this album is jam packed with talent.

After recruiting Jay Reatard band members, Billy Hayes and Stephen Pope, the band has officially taken a turn for the better. The instrumental qualities coming together to make each of these songs is fantastic.

I hope you are motivated to go pick up a copy of Wavves newest album, “King Of The Beach”. Be sure to check out #11, “Linus Spacehead”.

Click HERE to listen to it on youtube.com

DAMN WAVVES IS AWESOME

freedomonthenight asked: it really seems like a newspapper? but I really likes, it's beautiful

This blog was started for an entertainment journalism class. It has some reviews, some feature stories, some interviews, some trend stories, and then some randoms that I threw in their for my own entertainment! A lot of it is journalistic but there are also a lot of personal reviews of albums, movies, shows, and photographs.

Thanks for reading!

-Caroline

Photographer Denis Darzacq’s Hyper

Paris based photographer, Denis Darzaq is an inspiring and intuitive artist whose gravity defying images are captivating viewers worldwide.

Darzaq released a series a few years ago which he titled, “Hyper”.

For the series Darzaq hired dancers and athletes to leap into unnatural looking and gravity defying poses inside of a grocery store. The images are unbelievable and eye catching, and Darzaq claims none of them to have been photoshopped.

Here are a few images from the series:

Darzacq has images in The Nation Museum of Modern Art and several other galleries and has also released 5 books of his work.

Visit his website at http://www.denis-darzacq.com/

and keep up with his work because he is so inspirational and talented.

DAMN DENIS DARZACQ IS AWESOME!

New Years Eve In New York City

I think everyone dreams of being in Times Square on New Years Eve at some point in their life. It’s a fantasy that many of us have in common, but few of us get to live out.

Every year up to a million people gather in Times Square to scream and count down from for the last minute of the 360 day calendar, until the clock strikes midnight, the year changes, and the infamous glowing ball reaches the bottom of the pole.

For most of us, about 1 billion to be more precise, that experience is had in front of a television screen thousands of miles away and thousands of times smaller, quieter, and less fun than the actual event.

Some of us throw parties, and some of us attend those parties. And some of us try to replicate the dramatic countdown at their parties, and most of them fail.

Regardless what you do, the countdown from 10 one will never be as exciting as it would if you were in Times Square.

The first year for the Times Square Ball was in 1907, and since then the crowds have grown from 200,000 to nearly a million people.

I’ve made it my goal to save up for taking a trip to New York City on New Years Eve 2012, and I’m thinking you should too. I don’t want to be one of the 100,00 Americans watching it from their TV next year. What could be more beautiful, fun, and historic experience than being in Times Square on New Years Eve?

DAMN NEW YEARS EVEN IN TIMES SQUARE IS AWESOME!