Perth's Independent Cinema Festival

Starting this friday, the Indie/Perth (Australia) will gather cinema bucaneers from "down under" and other big screen adventurers for one of the most celebrated festivals in the whole pacific area. Highly antecipated premieres, like Sean Thorpe's "Luke, I'm Your Father" (containing the footage of his real police chase through several American states) and Laura Foxer's autobiographical "All My Boyfriends End Up In Vegas", among others, will take place in Perth's Central Theatre this week.

Tatami rules Milan's Fashion Week

Fairy tales meet romantic evening outfits in an oriental interpretation of western culture.
Satoshi Tatami's latest creations were the cherry on top of Milan's Fashion Week, and backstage rumour says he's been invited for the design of the new british army's uniforms. It's an amazing feat for the 22 year old japanese graduate from the Tokyo Fashion Design School.

Icon-Head Bob

"Although much has been said about it, Icon-Head Bob's new series of works is in fact just an automatical exercise of cartoon style head drawing with coloured markers over white paper! That's it!"
- Icon-Head Bob

"His refusal of intelectualoid patois is a reflex of his work's genesis. Some critics say he's ignorant! I say he's honestly arrogant and he believes more than the rest of us, that the artist must become the art piece himself."
- Damien Matchstein

Gordon Ferreira's "Letters From the Edge of the World"

" Dear friends:
As I start to write you this letter, I am happy to inform you that I'm alive and healthy in a Hotel, near a river, in a street which name i can't pronounce. Everything started earlier this day at my castle. The sun had not yet rose and the air was cold as snow. A man in his fourties picked me up in his dark blue Volks-brand wagon and took me to a place in the valley where they searched and metal-detected me. Following this, they transported me together with other helpless people into a huge object, which, on the cause of it's peculiarities, i will from now on refer to as "huge-winged-elephant".
Shortly after, I felt my body slightly pressed into my seat. Questioning myself about what was happening, I peeked through a small opening in the animal's skin and I noticed that we were hovering above the clowds. I was trying to understand this strange phenomena when, heading my way, coming out from god-knows-where, a beautiful, golden haired princess, wearing a majestic dress where you could read "Lufthansa", offered me food wrapped inside silver sheets. It was too late when I realized i had been victim of poisoning! My intestine was starting to dance when all of a sudden, the animal started to speak in a foreign language. I was frightened and wished to disapear. I closed my eyes, and as if my thoughts were sent to God, I felt the animal's landing on steady soil. I got out. Imagine, my friends, the horror which met my eyes: I was not in the same place! Are you confused? Let me explain: What seemed to have happened was that, when the animal lifted itself above the clowds (with me inside) the land moved a reasonable distance away.
Doing my initial reconaiscence I sighted an immense fortress. Signs all over indicated I was in Lord Frankfurt's lands..."

Out on the stores today, the new Gordon Ferreira's book edited by the nice chaps at Flamant Press.

"The 7th Pie" Storyboard Released

The image above is part of the pilot episode's storyboard from the Andrew Balla's new TV series.
"The 7th Pie is a different approach to the cooking TV show concept...", "...we are aiming at the young student audience who live apart from their famillies and often find themselves without knowledge or budget for preparing a decent meal." More about this article in this month's issue of NoMatchFound!

Presque Citron Competition

French cartoon artist Jean-Paul Rufelin wins political cartoon festival "Presque Citron 2007" in Paris, with his strip of "Animaux Rebeles" published weekly in the La Vogue Politique newspaper. (more details here)

New Album "Hotel" by Hermitage Collective

New album from Hermitage Collective out on the retailers by April 1st.
This time the 5 element group was isolated in the Salt Lake City's Trumman Hotel for one month.
No TV, no telephone, no room service. The only contact with the exterior was through the 14th floor window over the hustle-and-bustle of Lincoln Square. A hard, introspective, sometimes even melancolic approach on danceable music. The Zeitgeist on urban decadence hymns! (Hear the pre-released single below)

"If These Walls Talked" - Hermitage + Ghuna X

My Paper Friend in a Windy Day

The australian Roy Rumble is back with a new hard-cover, fine-print, guaranteed-amusement book!
"My Paper Friend in a Windy Day" is a collection of short stories about the lonely and anonimous urban lifestyle. An amazingly well achieved comedy-disguised drama.
Click on the image above to see the advertizement animation.

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