Thursday, April 21, 2011

Beastie Boys: Fight for Your Right Revisted


This is the official trailer for the Beastie Boys film Fight For Your Right Revisited

Watch the Star-Studded Beastie Boys Video ‘Make Some Noise’ at Rolling Stone It's basically a trimmed-down version of their 30-minute short film Fight For Your Right Revisited. Make Some Noise is about 2 minutes longer than the official trailer and presents the cameos in a different sequence. Regardless this is what Music Videos should be.

Here's a guide to the celebrity cameos thanks to The New York Magazine/Vulture

Adam Yauch's Sundance short, Fight for Your Right Revisited, asks the question, "What happened after the Beastie Boys left the iconic shindig from the '(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)' video?" The answer: They make mischief with a whole lot of celebrities — so many celebrities, in fact, that the 30-minute short plays like an A-list, hip-hop cross between the videos for Moby's "We Are All Made of Stars" and Weezer's "Pork and Beans." Vulture was on the scene last night when Revisited premiered in Park City, and because we are nothing if not service-y, here's a list of which celebs you can expect in the short (and what they'll be doing).

Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, and Elijah Wood: Playing Mike D, MCA, and the most adorable Ad-Rock ever, respectively, the trio stumbles out of the party at dawn, then goes on a slow-mo destruction spree, tossing beers at people and breaking into a bodega.

Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci: The parents whose absence allowed the party to happen in the first place. A suspicious Sarandon tries to blame the Beasties for the wanton destruction, using pie remnants as proof.

Rashida Jones: The first of the short's many, many two-second cameos, Jones walks down the street, is come on to by the Beasties, and says, "You wish, turkeys."

Will Arnett: If you're still in the throes of Arrested Development withdrawal, enjoy Arnett essentially playing G.O.B. here (expensive suit and indignant "Come on!" included).

Adam Scott: A cabdriver. This is the point in the short where the audience started murmuring the names of the celebrities they recognized, so there was a lot of, "That's Adam Scott!" (and just as much "Who's Adam Scott?").

Rainn Wilson: A churchgoer, he is offended by the Beasties' post-party antics.

Ted Danson: The maitre d' of a café that the Beasties terrorize, and between him and Steve Buscemi as the establishment's waiter, the recipient of most of the audience's "Hey, I recognize that famous celebrity who is making a two-second cameo" goodwill.

Amy Poehler, Roman Coppola, Shannyn Sossamon, Mary Steenburgen, Alicia Silverstone, Laura Dern, Milo Ventimiglia, and Jody Hill: All patrons of the café, Poehler and Steenburgen are lucky enough to get close-ups, but the rest of the actors were there to add barely glimpsed celebrity flavor.

Jason Schwartzman: Another café patron, dressed as Vincent Van Gogh, for some reason.

Chloë Sevigny, Kirsten Dunst, and Maya Rudolph: This is the point where the short started to weirdly resemble Madonna's video for "Music," as the Beasties clamber into town cars with three colorfully wigged metal chicks, who indulge in all manner of illegal activity (drugs, stabbing) with them. All it needed was a Sacha Baron Cohen cameo.

David Cross: Cross reprises his role as Nathaniel Hornblower, the pseudonymous alter ego of director Adam Yauch. Complicated? Perhaps, but you only get three seconds of him anyway.

Orlando Bloom: Credited as "Johnny Ryall," he would appear to be the character from the Beasties' track from Paul's Boutique, except that Orlando Bloom is way too pretty to play a homeless alcoholic.

Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Jack Black: Arriving in a Delorean, the three play time-traveling versions of the older Beasties, with a cowbell-striking Ferrell as Ad-Rock, Reilly as Mike D, and Black as MCA (or, as the younger Beasties put it, "The ghosts of License to Ill future"). It isn't long before the Beasties of both generations get in a dance-off, which culminates in a literal, endless pissing contest. 

Adam Horovitz, Mike D, Adam Yauch: Finally, the actual Beasties appear as cops, hauling the faux Beasties away in a paddy wagon driven by Martin Starr. Still, their most significant contribution to the short might be the new, thumping tracks on the soundtrack, including a remix of "Too Many Rappers," featuring Nas.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: Ten Times Rosie

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley by Rankin

Rankin published Ten Time Rosie last October; it is a stunning 240-page hardback photography book. Ten Times Rosie showcases the creativity Paula Thomas, head designer at Thomas Wylde, and stylist Maryam Malakpour.

 
This is coffee table tome is crazily epic.  Rosie goes from sexy to glamorous to gritty to edgy to androgynous and back again.  This is just a 5-shot snippet of the actual book.


It’s an undeniable fact that Rosie’s amazing though.  She’s a lot more versatile than people who write her off as a Victoria Secret model would expect


Obviously she is very aware of her feminine charms, but it would be wrong to typecast her as merely a bombshell. 


"Shooting Ten Times Rosie was the most incredible experience of my career," says Huntington-Whiteley. "Paula, Rankin and the team worked so hard, the set had an amazing community atmosphere. I think we have created some beautiful and iconic images. I'm so proud of this project and I believe it's something that is very close and personal to all of us as it's a combined effort of our creativity and imagination."


Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Miranda Kerr: A Bad Education

Model Miranda Kerr is quickly becoming one of the most photographed models of the decade. A new set of photos is going viral on the Internet that takes her sexuality to a whole new level.

In one of the latest series of photos, she poses in a Catholic school girl fantasy for Numéro, a French magazine that describes itself as an avant garde fashion book.

Photographer Greg Kadel shot the spread and took inspiration from Catholic school, nuns and schoolgirls.

Patti Wilson, handled the styling for La Mauvaise Éducation, and wasn’t shy about pushing all the buttons that make up a Catholic school girl fantasy — namely sex, blasphemy and fashion.











Daisy Lowe: Dazed and Confused

Daisy Lowe by Rankin for Dazed & Confused
 







Katy Perry: Speaking in Tongues

Mark Seliger shoots Katy Perry for Rolling Stone Magazine in Sex, God and Katy Perry.
 "Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt..'"

Rolling Stone August 2010
I sure that plenty of Fanboys would be speaking in tongues when she was done with them. Unfortunately for everyone but Russell Brand she is now a married women.


Katy Perry: Esquire U.K.


Well hello, Mrs. Russell Brand. Yes, that is Katy Perry and her boobs going full-on Bettie Page pinup girl for the cover of the UK version of Esquire. After taking a look at the Esquire UK site we can say that it seems like Katy’s ladies are a little shocking for a magazine with articles like “How To Use A Spitoon” and “Polo In The Park” but it just goes to show – boobs are beloved by all, no matter how fancy-pants one may seem.[The Fablife]






Women We Love Photographer and director Yu Tsai.

Katy Perry: Dark Angel








The child of pastors and one-time gospel-rocker has parlayed infectious fruit-flavored hits like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot and Cold” into a sold-out 50-city concert tour. And somewhere along the way, her career became a blueprint for aspiring pop stars.


Everything is calculated: the bright red lipstick; the pin-up aesthetic; the irreverent titles and earworm hooks. But where it might seem cynical coming from anyone else, Katy makes it work. Hell, she makes it honest. 


I came out like this 1940s pin-up girl, and of course that has evolved a little bit here and there. It’s a bit of a darker side of me, a little S&M. 


Katy Perry: Dark AngelStory By Joe La Puma; Photography by Gavin Bond; Styling by Kelly McCabe.