video/fashion/technology

two of my big loves are fashion photography and music videos. i don’t even care when people say terrible things about the fashion photography biz or mtv… they are wrong. fashion photography is beautiful and music videos have had my heart since i saw Sade’s No Ordinary Love and wanted to be a mermaid foreva. i watch that video in its entirety at least four times a year. my other confession is that from the age of 9 to 12 i would stay up till daybreak watching fashion trance on the weekends. (if you’ve never seen it, you’ve clearly missed out)

today i fell upon these beautiful videos while surfing the web and also a list of the top 1o fashion films of the season. the video below is on there. AMAZING. it’s also amazing why more fashion photographers haven’t explored video. i’ve blogged about video before, it’s just so beautiful… whilst i was in journalism school all the talk was about how video is the new photo… blah, blah, blah. i don’t for one bit believe that video can ever replace photo but i DO DEFINITELY believe that photographers can harness the power of video and make shit amazing! like beautiful, mind blowing, art. if you are a great photographer, you have a great eye, why not try video? give it a whirl! i suppose everyone really is behind on the video wave, guy bourdin’s videos were listed in the top 10 of 2009…. hello, those videos were not made in 2009.

what i definitely DO NOT like is that all the cool fashion video work is coming from the Nick Knight/ SHOWstudio part of the world. WTF? are there really no other fashion photographers that have realized video is a really beautfiful element to add to their work? i get it, those guys are wildly intelligent and into beautiful things, but to everyone else: step the fuck up! i’m right on it…

props to kathryn ferguson for really bringing it on video #1. one of her blog posts is titled “experiments with crystals”. girl is cool. this film is tite! last two videos are nick knight, cause i just couldn’t resist posting them…