New York based artist Richard Phillips is presenting his new short film entitled “Lindsay Lohan” at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Venice starting June 1st. The film features Miss Lohan in an infinity pool as she seems to be just taking it all in from the marvelously perfect weather to her striking beauty.
For more on the artist and the film, go to www.gagosian.com
Seen here in green, Selita Ebanks hosted an event alongside Bil Maher and with the help of Los Angeles Confidential Magazine celebrating five years of nonprofit do gooding in Los Angeles last night. As the ambassador for the nonprofit organization, Shine on Sierra Leone (SOSL), Ebanks also used the event as a platform for the launch of her new public health initiative, the Birthright Healthcare Program for Sierra Leone.
This new program, funded by Tiffany Persons, will honor local care and treatment traditions traditions and provide access to safe and efficient medical care for mothers and their babies. Last night’s event was thusly also an opportunity to kick off thirty days of fundraising to support Ebanks’ new programming and to assemble a team of midwives, doctors and community health workers to form the core of the Birthright Healthcare Program.
We here at AMMO wish Ebanks the best of luck with this important new program.
For more information visit SOSL’s website.
Since Neolithic times, people have been getting inked. From Muslim Turks to ancient Polynesian warriors, the art dermal self expression has spanned cultures, religions and regions.
Even though the practice of turning your skin into a personal canvas has been around since the dawn of time, the art form has only become legitimized in recent memory. Outside of inmates and sailors, a visible tattoo, even a tasteful one, is known to draw a frown from conservative people everywhere. This often makes finding a job, or even getting decent dining service difficult for tattoo enthusiasts.
Slowly but surely, the tattoo world and the mainstream are starting to merge. It seems like every upper middle class mom is sporting some kind of tramp stamp, and shows like LA Ink are being broadcast alongside squeaky clean programming like Bringing Home Baby.
This phenomenon probably has something to do with the popularization of indie culture. The “it” crowd no longer consists of blonde jocks with trust funds, but rather electro DJs with half sleeves.
Also, the importance of creativity and design has come to the forefront of America’s collective conscious. Steve Jobs has proven that creativity can take companies from the gutter straight to the bank.
A tattoo no longer tells potential employers you’ve done time on Riker’s. Instead, it says “I’m creative, edgy, and willing to take a risk.” These are all qualities companies desperate for a post-economic crash overhaul are looking for.
Whatever the cause, the rise in tattoo acceptance is making one thing clear: Indie won the war. Rejoice!
Photography by @AshleySkyWalker instantelation.tumblr.com
In aid of the survivors of the Japanese earthquake, select designers and celebrities have teamed up with the Japan editions of Vogue and GQ to design T-Shirt for a charitable cause to be sold at Uniqlo. Karl Lagerfeld, Alber Elbaz, Charlize Theron, and Lady Gaga are among the team of personas for the Fashion for Japan project which plans to raise 100 million yen to be donated through the Japanese Red Cross Society.
For more info go to savejapanproject.com
Created using Google Street View imagery, A New American Picture is a new photography series by Doug Rickard, founder and editor of American Suburb X.
To view the series, click here.
As Franck de Las Mercedes’ website asks, “How would you feel if you suddenly received a box via mail, labeled ‘FRAGILE: Contains Peace’?”
How would you feel?
In an era when we are hardwired to report and to be wary of mysterious packages (If you see something, say something!), a small part of you might consider calling 911. But what if this box was drip painted like a Jackson Pollock painting, or smattered with effervescent hues like a Monet? And what if it was packed with significance?
By using a box format painted on the outside, sent by mail, Franck aims to have people interact with a work of art, from the person requesting one, to the very first change of hands at the post office, all the way to its receiver. By holding and observing one, the recipient can consider what the box suggests it contains, realize the fragility of what they are holding, and in that relation become aware or activate their ability to take action and influence change. The boxes must be free, in order to reinforce and remind us that things like peace and hope are not only free but also a priority.
The best part is, you can engage with this project by requesting your own free box of peace here.
Matt and Carrie Eddmonson, the young Kentucky couple behind Imogene and Willie, are the stuff that American dreams are made of. Investing themselves in a mere 5 styles of bespoke tailored jeans and a few other key pieces, they are the opposite of everything fast in fashion.
While a small retrofitted gas station serves as their manufacturing hub as well as their primary showroom, you can now shop Imogene and Willie online here.
Lauren
In a continuation of his collaboration with The Standard Hotel, Ryan McGinness is releasing a pocket-sized version of his Blacklight Paintings: The Blacklight Nudie Cards.
Inspired by old-fashioned pinup playing cards, McGinness’ creation boasts a full-set of sexy original artwork, continuing a long tradition born in the 16th century in India with the original nudie playing cards featuring the Kama Sutra…but with a twist.
When enjoyed under black lights, the nude forms spring forth in full-color fluorescence. So, bust out your black lights, lava lamps and velvet-relief paintings and buy yourself a set here or at the Standard Hotels in New York, Los Angeles and Miami.
Lauren
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