Diorshow Artist Thuy Pham, who visited Hawaii twice during spring to show Dior’s latest makeup tips, tricks and trends, is featured in the June issue of Elle magazine, demonstrating how to “indulge your inner diva” with Diorshow products.
Of interest to beauty junkies is Dior’s, Elle’s and Macy’s invitation to be an Artist in Action, featured in the January 2009 issue of the magazine.
Give it a try by grabbing a friend and digital camera and heading to a Macy’s Dior counter. Make over your friend using Dior products and snap a photo of your work. Email the photo to ArtistinAction@Elle.com. The deadline to enter is Sept. 15, 2008. You’re limited to one entry per person or email address. Full details are available at Elle.com/Promotions/ArtistinAction
Set your fashion, friend, skate, surf photos — anything you can think of — to music on video. I tried Animoto with some travel photos.
If you have a handful of photos, no video editing skills whatsoever and about an hour, Animoto.com can create an instant video clip for you. Tried the service yesterday as soon as I read about it in the Sunday NY Times. Sounded like something fun and easy.
I uploaded 30 photos of a trip I took to Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 2006, which took some time because I had to downsize them to upload quickly. As it happens, instead of shuffling them around, Animoto simply uses them in the order that you enter the photos. After you upload them, you can shuffle them around yourself.
Being something of a control freak, it was difficult for me to accept what they do, and I wanted it to end on a particular photo. You never know exactly how many photos are going to be used, but for a 30-second free video clip, it’s about 6 or 8. (Thirty seconds is really short, but afterward, you have to start paying somehow.) I ended up mashing it up about 10 times, and I don’t 100 percent love the final result, but it’s certainly easier than doing all that work of setting your photos to music (you choose from a handful of their clips), provided you even have all the video-editing tools available to these guys.
Afterward, it’s easy to post to YouTube or FaceBook, which are linked to Animoto.
Try it now that you have a day off to play. Use my referral code — ejqnplmd — to get $5 off an all-access pass and help me get free access :)!
Interesting “argument in pictures” by Karen Lehrman posted on Slate, in which she laments the decline of fashion photography. I would agree with some of her points, but the major point unaddressed is that the images also reflect the times in which they are taken and the designs as well. Not all designs are suited for the gauzy, romantic treatment. Nor is that everyone’s fantasy or aspiration.
New York Times magazine
In the case of these New York Times magazine photos that appeared May 4, designers don’t intend to have their pieces worn this way, but this is how the garments were envisioned by an editorial team, inspired by the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” on view through Sept. 1. Like most photography and art today, it is concept driven. Technical ability is assumed.
No doubt the images she admires depict mood, elegance and mastery of the zone system, but, we’ve seen those images before and I wouldn’t want photographers to be limited to the beautiful retro style favored by Lehrman. Even if some of today’s images may be ugly and crude, I respect varying points of view I may not otherwise have had without photographers forging ahead to craft a style of their own.
Check it out at http://www.slate.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm
Tomorrow, Cosmopolitan magazine will be at Nikki Beach in Miami, trying to break the Guinness Book of Record for the largest photo shoot by putting 1,200+ girls in bikini’s on the beach at noon and spelling out the word COSMO.
The shoot will appear in the magazine’s August issue. The previous record was set last September by Australian Cosmo when they photographed 1,010 women on Bondi Beach.
The magazine will be offering manicures, beauty consultations and massages, and the first 1,200 women who arrive will receive a free Old Navy bikini to wear at the shoot.
Hmmm, we have a beach and probably that many women willing to pose for their 15 minutes of fame. If this is going to be an annual thing, someone might want to pitch Hawaii as the next location.
After the C.S. Wo party Saturday night, I moved on to the Peter Lik Gallery at Waikiki Beach Walk, where the photographer had arrived for a surprise visit on short notice.
Lik has been traveling the globe opening galleries from New York to Dubai over the course of a year, but as you can see, he’s kept his macho Outback fashion sense!
Nadine Kam photo
Peter Lik, right, with Mario Frittoli, the celebrity chef of Japan’s Luxor Ristorante who has set his sights on the Hawaii market.
Waikiki Beach Walk is so popular that it was hard to find parking. Valets set us over to the Outrigger, who tried to send us to another hotel, which sounded like an ordeal, so we just went to the DeRussy lot, which is a lot less of a hassle than dealing with the wait of using the valets.
After the party, Japan celebrity chef Mario Frittoli, his hosts and Masako Nashimoto and Anthony Gambino of Nashimoto & Associates decided to check out Nobu’s. I was kind of tired so declined an invitation to join them. I found out from Anthony later that they bumped into another celeb at Nobu’s later that night … a post-concert Sting.
Don’t be looking for risque stuff. This is as racy as it gets, as far as I can see, anyway.
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Jewelry on sale at Alliway.
Meanwhile, the January sales continue, such as Neiman Marcus’s Last Call, and Alliway’s 321! sale at Ward Warehouse. At Alliway that means 30 percent off Alliway jewelry, 20 percent off handbags, and 10 percent off everything else (not the staff, of course), from Jan. 19 through the 21st, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Better check if you have the day off. Call 589-1141 if you get lost.
This also marks the last few weeks to visit Lululemon Athletica’s Ward showroom. Come March, the athletic and yogawear specialists will be moving into Ala Moana Center’s new wing encompassing Nordstrom and 30 other new stores.
Lululemon’s last day at Ward, above the First Hawaiian Bank at the corner of Ward and Auahi, is Jan. 27. Then they’ll be back with free yoga classes at 10 a.m. March 3 to 7, and March 9 at Centerstage. Check Honolulu-community@lululemon.com for updates.
One of Rico Leffanta’s photos from the F.A.C.E. of Nuuanu fashion show in October.
The day after new year. I think I’ll try to have less stress in my life and let some of you do some of my work for me.
>> No. 1: After seeing my story on the year in fashion in Hawaii in the Dec. 27 Star-Bulletin, reader Rico said he was hoping I could direct others to his event photos at paparico.multiply.com, where you can see about 44 great portraits of the models. Would be especially great for the models to see them. I know I hate it when people snap my photos at events and I never know where they go or how they’re used. So Rico, consider it done!
>> No. 2: Another reader has a fashion dilemma requiring your assistance. It seems she has one of those separated-at-birth friendships where she and a friend have similar tastes. They can go to the mall on different dates and go home with the same handbag or shoes.
Anyway, she has this one pair of Betsey Johnson stiletto heels that she absolutely loves and would wear more often … if it wasn’t for said friend who has, natch, the same pair of shoes.
So she wanted to know if it was OK to wear them at the same time. At first I told her it’s OK to go out in groups — distraction in numbers sort of thing — plus it’s kind of cute in a Romy and Michele sort of way.
Then she was like, what if she was only with this friend. So I said that might be a little weird. What do you think?
It might help to know that the friend had the shoes first. (When you have all the details it sort of changes things, right?)
>> No. 3: Were you watching the devastating UH game New Year’s Day? I’m not much of a sports fan at all, and knowing that, the sports ed. is always making fun of my lack of sports knowledge, grilling me on names and events I just don’t know, except through osmosis. To me, Superbowl day is a great holiday because no one’s crowding my favorite restaurants.
But this time even I was alternating between yelling “DOH!” “NO!” and “OW!” while watching the game, mostly because I was spending New Year’s at my brother’s and so had to while everyone else was glued to the big screen.
That was quite painful, stressful and depressing to watch. You Tube newbie pojiboy helped dull the pain with the following video of pre-game (we were so happy then) warring helmets, that was waiting in my inbox the day after. Thanks pojiboy!
Yay, Allison Izu Nagato is coming up with a petite denim line for all the shorties in Hawaii and beyond. We just have to wait about 3 months ’til it hits the stores. It’s kind of hard to wait, but given today’s instant communications, we can’t help but see things months ahead of time. Just think of something and it seems the word gets out.
The word is definitely out about the “notorious” photo session involving a topless Maggie Beach and Rita Blais, as photographed by Russell Tanoue. (more…)
