Autumn and winter is all about layering so here’s some suggestions from ‘Inflate‘, a Dazed & Confused feature. Styling by Robbie Spencer, photography by Anthony Maule. Via Homotography.
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Photography
Totem and tattoo
My thanks to Clive for suggesting this stunning photo, another jewel dredged from the Tumblr swamps which, after some searching around, I discovered originates here. The model is a Brit named Ben, and the blog page showing more of his pictures describes his body art as “one of the sexiest tattoos I’ve ever seen on a guy”. No disagreement there.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The men with swords archive
Infernal entrances
L’Enfer, Boulevard de Clichy (1911).
A recent posting at The Haunted Lamp showed the interior of L’Enfer, a Montmartre cabaret which described itself as “unique au monde”, pictured here in a memorable photo by Eugène Atget. The interior and portions of the exterior were certainly unique enough, and look like they were created by the same people who designed the carnival show for Harry Lachman’s film Dante’s Inferno (1935), but the yawning mouth as an entrance isn’t without precedent. Some prior examples follow.
Palazzo Zuccari.
L’Enfer is long gone, unfortunately, but the entrance to the Palazzo Zuccari in the Via Gregoriana, Rome, is still extant despite being hundreds of years older. I was hoping that Google’s Street View would have some good pictures but they managed to capture the building in the midst of renovation. A friend of mine was working at an office in this street when I was in Rome in 1993 and the yawning mouths and windows are a very curious sight in a narrow road near the Spanish Steps. Flickr has better views, here, here and here.
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Ogre, Parco dei Mostri.
The Rome palazzo is named after the Mannerist artist who lived there, Federico Zuccari (c. 1542/1543–1609), and Zuccari’s inspiration for his doorway came from another Mannerist creation, the Parco dei Mostri at Bomarzo. The mouth in this case isn’t an entrance to the underworld but a devouring ogre, and one of the park’s many grotesque attractions. I wonder if this was also an inspiration for the giant floating head in John Boorman’s ludicrous science fiction film, Zardoz (1974).
Moulin Rouge!
And speaking of films, Baz Luhrmann used the L’Enfer entrance as a gateway to Montmartre itself in the zooming shot which opens Moulin Rouge!. I like that idea, as though it’s an iniquitous equivalent of the old Temple Bar gateway to the City of London. For more pictures of L’Enfer, and details of its history, see here and here. If anyone knows of any other notable doorways like these, please leave a comment.
Update: Nathalie found another Bomarzo influence while Jescie on Twitter drew my attention to a set from this German film.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Villa d’Este
• Harry Lachman’s Inferno
• Atget’s Paris
Circadian by Jack Sparrow
I’m still (still!) playing catch-up posting all the things I’ve been working on this year. Here’s one of the more high-profile releases in the music sphere, Jack Sparrow‘s debut album, Circadian, which is unleashed this week on the Tectonic label. This is another dubstep production and I don’t have to try and describe the music this time when you can hear a stream of it at FACT.
Vinyl sleeve.
Design-wise, this is another release in CD and vinyl editions, and like all the work I’ve done for Tectonic it comes wrapped in Liz Eve’s wonderful photos. The pictures this time are some kind of industrial detritus which she’s turned into abstract landscapes. The vinyl was a three-disc set and the way the labels have turned out is probably my favourite part of this particular job.
Vinyl labels.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The album covers archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• New work: Two forms of darkness
• The Thorns of Love by Antoni Maiovvi
• New music and design
• Plates: Volume 2
• Aerial by 2562
Richard de Chazal’s Zodiac
top left: Scorpio; top right: Gemini.
bottom left: Cancer; bottom right: Libra.
Following the zodiac sets from August, here’s a distinctly homoerotic variation on the theme by Australian photographer and fashion designer Richard de Chazal. See the full set here. Also on his site is a selection of his erotic photography which may interest some of the visitors who’ve been arriving here all week from porn site Queerclick. The small size of the photos should be taken as an encouragement to buy Mr De Chazal’s book. Via Chateau Thombeau.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Mucha’s Zodiac
• Owen Wood’s Zodiac
• Palladini’s Zodiac
• The Major Arcana by Jak Flash