Lindsay Lohan Strikes A Pose. Make That Many Poses In Richard Phillips' First Film.

above: Film stills from Lindsay Lohan by Richard Phillips

Lindsay Lohan - A Richard Phillips Film, Jul 28th 2011 at The Gagosian Gallery


The press release:
Gagosian Gallery announces Lindsay Lohan, Richard Phillips' first short film. In his 90-second motion portrait of Lindsay Lohan, Phillips draws on the conventions of his painting that explore the legacies of classical portraiture in relation to the mediated representations of contemporary popular culture.

The film depicts Lohan in a number of classical poses, with references to iconic moments in film, such as Brigitte Bardot smoldering in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt, or the searing psychosexual interplay of Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman in Ingmar Bergman's Persona. To create a timeless and psychologically charged Hollywood setting, Phillips repurposed a remote Malibu mansion, but freighted it with the speculative desire of contemporary cinematic performance.

Through Phillips's lens, the defiant openness that makes Lohan so compelling on film becomes the ignition key of each image; the pause before action that allows for the identities of actor and director to meld, where expectation and projection contrast with the construction of multilayered identity.

In these full-frame motion portraits of Lohan, Phillips repudiates the cynical expediency associated with the artistic and commercial convention of the screen test by examining and exposing its manipulative and coercive undertones. He thus works to subvert this carefully constructed form, presenting Lohan as released from acutely mediated narrative representation.

"Lindsay has an incredible emotional and physical presence on screen that holds an existential vulnerability, while harnessing the power of the transcendental—the moment in transition. She is able to connect with us past all of our memory and projection, expressing our own inner eminence." -Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips’ Lindsay Lohan will be included in Commercial Break, presented by the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Venice, June 1 - 5, concurrent with the 54th Biennale di Venezia.

Credits:
Directed by: Richard Phillips and Taylor Steele
Director of Photography: Todd Heater
Costume Designer: Ellen Mirojnick
Creative Director: Dominic Sidhu
Art Director: Kyra Griffin
Editor: Haines Hall
Color mastering: Pascal Dangin for Boxmotion
Second Director of Photography: Alejandro Berger
Directors’ Assistant: Katerina Llanes
Wardrobe Stylist: Ira Hammons-Glass
Hair Stylist: Aaron Light
Make Up Stylist: Mylah Morales
Photographer: Christelle De Castro
Photographer's Assistant: Gregory Brouillette
Music: Tamaryn and Rex John Shelverton
Production: GE Projects
Typeface(s): Jean-Luc by Atelier Carvalho Bernau

Richard Phillips would like to thank Lindsay Lohan, Eleanore Lieven, Melissa Lazarov, John Good, Natalia Bonifacci, Doug Aitken, Aimee Walleston, Michelle Finocchi, Ania Diakoff, Patrik Sandberg, Chrisitian Kaemmerling and Group Lotus, Lynne Mannino at Spotwelders, Nadia Sadigianis at Box Studios, Jess Rotter at Mexican Summer, Mark Mayer, Celestine Agency, MILK Studios, Chateau Marmont, and Gagosian Gallery. Special thanks to Josephine Meckseper.

View more videos from "Commercial Break," presented by the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture: www.commercialbreak.org

Ride-On Torpedo Toy For Kids In 9 Cool Designs by Jerry Koza.

Jerry Koza is a designer whose speakers for Symbio I shared with you many moons ago. His name is back in the blogosphere lately with his sleek ride-on toy for kids.




Despite being designed in 2005, Jerry Koza's Torpedo has been getting a lot of attention lately, largely because of Gessato's nice post on the toys on their Gblog.

The Czech designer created laminate shell children's toys in a sleek shape with glossy colors, images and numbers.








Be aware that the images are a little misleading. The toys are very small (26 x 70 x 36 cm) as seen below:

and are available for purchase here

images and info from Prague Art & Design

Dr. Romanelli's Custom Rolex For Bamford.

Designer Dr. Romanelli (aka Darren Romanelli and DRx) is known for working with pre-existing brands and cultural icons to create special collaborative editions for such well-known brands as Levis, Disney, Warner Bros and Hello Kitty to name a few.

Most recently, he teamed up with the Bamford Watch Department, who customizes steel sports luxury watches by Rolex, Patek Philippe and Tag Heuer, to create a special "Dr. Romanelli" edition.



The Romanelli Rolex Milgauss features "scissors" as hands, a jagged second hand and his RX logo on the face.


The watch is not yet available for purchase. For more information as to its release, contact Bamford here

Art to Rave About. Self-Portrait Made Up Of Ecstacy Pills By Artist Scott Blake.

Artist Scott Blake, a Savannah College of Art and Design graduate, specializes in unique forms of digital mosaic and bar code art. A few years back, he created this self-portrait comprised of Ravers favorite drug, MDMA or 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, more commonly known as Ecstacy or simply "e".






Scott collected all of the XTC pill images from Dancesafe.org, a harm reduction organization promoting safety within the rave community.

Pixel Dimensions - 5184 x 6480
File Size - 61.3 Megabytes
Color Mode - RGB Color
File Format - Photoshop Flattened
Individual Pill Pixel Dimensions - 144 x 144
Pills Generated - 256

See more of his work here.