Sevilla

Three youngsters make a roadtrip that will change their lives forever.

Director: Bram Schouw
Screenplay: Marcel Roijaards
D.O.P: Jasper Wolf
Production Design: Rikke Jelier
Sound: Evelien van der Molen
Music: Rutger Reinders
Editor: Annelien van Wijnbergen @ Kapsalon
Grading & Online: Laurens Orij @ CRABSALAD
Production: BALDR Film, Frank Hoeve & Katja Draaijer
Winner Golden Calf Netherlands Film Festival 2012
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand 2013
Winner Grand Prix Film Festival Altkirch 2013
Winner Zilveren Krulstaart Netherlands Film Festival 2013
Winner Audience award Festival European Shorts in Bordeaux 2013
Special Mention Festival International du Court Métrage in Lille 2013
3rd prize BE film festival New York 2013
Nomination Best Cinematography GRAND OFF WARSAW 2013

The Moment of Beauty

Direction, Concept, Design & Animation by Takayuki Sato
Music Composed by Yukiko Tanaka
Starring: Sayo Akasaka
Director of Photography: Tsutomu Fujimoto
Makeup / Hair: Shinya Kumazaki
Special thanks: (In alphabetical order)
Adobe Japan, Bellona Model Agency, Flashback Japan, ISP, Nasoundra Palace Studio, Tsukishima Studio and my family

Ballantine's Presents Ben Mead's Art of Drumming

Ever wondered what music actually looks like? See what happens when Ballantine's challenged London based drummer and star of our global TV commercial - Ben Mead - to #StayTrue in a unique experiment to literally capture the shape of sound.

Chicago: The Great American City

Directed & Produced by Kristopher Rey-Talley
Produced by Kristopher Rey-Talley & Sam Wootton
Creative Director: Jason Peterson for HAVAS
Director of Photography: Sam Wootton
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Ryan Dickie
1st AC: Steven Talley
Edited by Sam Wootton & Kristopher Rey-Talley
Sound Design by Todd B.
Creative Director: Jason Peterson for HAVAS

Queen of the Night: Giovanna Battaglia

A Nocturnal Meander Through New York’s Most Decadent Nightspot with the Italian Fashion Darling 

“It’s somewhere between a dream and a nightmare,” explains Giovanna Battaglia of navigating the labyrinth of the Diamond Horseshoe club, the Broadway venue recently resurrected at the Paramount Hotel. The W magazine Contributing Fashion Editor was captured in this voyeuristic short as she played hostess at theatrical ball Queen of the Night during the recent FW14 New York shows. Moonlighting as Creative Director of the immersive event, Battaglia has conjured a world filled with wildly exaggerated Thom Browne-designed costumes and lobster-stuffed steel birdcages by Jennifer Rubell, where unsuspecting spectators are plucked into secret chambers for a solo encounter. “The place smells like cigarettes, sex, perfume, whiskey and church rolled into one,” says Set Designer Douglas Little of the sensory overload. “It’s kind of sinful, classic, decadent and slightly salacious, but it’s there to shake up New York nightlife.” The basement club was first opened in 1938 by Manhattan impresario Billy Rose, and Battaglia is nostalgic for the wayward decadence of the swing-era: “Baz Luhrmann told me the scene in The Great Gatsby when Leonardo Dicaprio is in an underground speakeasy was inspired by the original Diamond Horseshoe,” she says. Here the front row regular gives NOWNESS a quick-fire guide to her quintessential night out.

What's the best party you've ever been to?
Giovanna Batagglia: Dolce & Gabbana’s Venice Alta Moda masked ball. Arriving at the Palazzo with the gondola at night was like something from another era: everybody wearing amazing costumes and masks. The decor was like a 1700 dream.

Cocktail of choice?
GB: Vodka on the rocks. 


Party trick?
GB: No trick, just make sure you have dinner before.

Sprit animal?
GB: A bat and leopard hybrid. 


Four people—dead or alive—you’d like to have at your next dinner?
GB: Cleopatra, Dalí, Baz Luhrmann and Beyoncé.

Best hangover cure?
GB: A steam sauna and a Bloody Mary.

Water

Nike Football: Risk Everything. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar Jr. & Wayne Rooney

To win glory on the world's biggest stage, the world's greatest footballers must be willing to Risk Everything.

Slow Life

The most important living organisms that play the key functions in the biosphere might not seem exciting when it comes to motion. Plants, fungi, sponges, corals, plankton, and microorganisms make life on Earth possible and do all the hard biochemical job. Similarly to all living things, they are dynamic, mobile, and fundamentally have the same motion properties as us. They grow, reproduce, spread, move towards source of energy, and away from unfavorable conditions. However, their speeds happen to be out of sync with our narrow perception. Our brains are wired to comprehend and follow fast and dynamic events better, especially those very few that happen at speeds comparable to ours. In a world of blazingly fast predators and escaping prey events where it takes minutes, hours, or days to notice any changes are harder to grasp. 

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Comme des Garçons SHIRT Fall/Winter 2014 2015

A GIRL NAMED ELASTIKA

She’s young, dreamy and fearless, she drives cars way too fast, she’s also a yamakasi. She likes adventure, fireworks and unrelenting seas. From the day I conceived her, I’ve been a worried father. And a proud one too.