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GALA! DAMAGEDANCE!

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

I want to give a shout out to DAMAGEDANCE!

Last fall I started designing for this wonderful company. We are a rather young company, just celebrated our third birthday, but we been lucky to have had many opportunities to show director Jessica Taylors work!

DAMAGEDANCE is currently working on a new piece of choreography title "Our Masks" which will premiere at our Gala October 5th.

If you are interested in tickets to the Gala please email- damagedance.nyc@gmail.com


Here is a link to our Kickstarter where you can find out more about DAMAGEDANCE- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/978855535/damagedance-costume-conquest 

http://www.damagedance.com/

Pierre Huyghe and the abominable crab...but wait it's so beautiful

Expo 1 at MoMA PS1 opened May 12th. After Hurricane Sandy an exhibition on ecology among other things seemed rather fitting. The theme of Expo 1 is 'Dark Optimism' and after seeing the exhibition I find an optimistic view difficult after experiencing artwork that portrays the current issues with our planet.

The exhibition is vast including grandiose pieces by artists like Ólafur Elíasson and Andres Villar Rojas but in a small dark corner room next to the staircase is a piece by Pierre Huyghe. Its location in the building is important because there is a sense of discovery. An aquarium sits in the back of the dark room containing a hermit crab with an unlikely shell, a resin copy of Branusci’s Sleeping Muse. This is not a small hermit crab like the one you begged your mom to get for you at the mall when you were eight but a massive fifteen year old hermit crab that could be describe as the Yoda of the sea.

Dozens of Arrow crabs, which are small and territorial, cling to the basalt rocks that fill the tank. Arrow crabs fight to the death, slowly eating each others legs off until there is nothing left. The hefty hermit crab is able to move the rocks as he crawls around the tank, constantly causing chaos among the inhabited arrow crabs. This aspect is definitely the "Dark" side to the optimism but truly eye opening to observe this "Sleeping Muse" cause so much destruction.

This is an image taken by Frieze Art Fair of Pierre Huyghe piece Recollection, 2011 the image is similar to the piece at MoMA PS1

Visit MoMA PS1 For Expo 1

How to make a wire headband

Leave opening at one end and pull fabric through

I recommend adding tape to the end of your wire so it doesn't poke through

Pin and hand stitch the end of your headband

Then twist and and you're done!

Shop my headband at https://www.etsy.com/shop/Lacani

White Prism Music Video Shoot

A few weeks ago I worked on a music video for White Prism's new EP and this week the EP was released.  Check it out- https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/white-prism-ep/id626387030
(Video soon to come.)

The lovely Ms. Johanna Cranitch

MUST SEE Exhibition

I highly recommend the Impressionism, Fashion, Modernity exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art going on now thru May 27th

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2013/impressionism-fashion-modernity

I have been doing design research on corsets for a new project. Here are some interesting facts.

Catherine de Medici often gets credit for corsets because of her ban on thick waists at court attendance in the mid 1500s. For the next 300+ years women used the corset as their main support garment.

Many corset wearing women in the 1500-1600s wished for a 16 inch waist, mind you, the average waist today is 33inch and the average model's waist is 25inch.