Spread

From this month's magazines, one of which isn't actually from this month at all, I just happened to pick the April/May copy of Wonderland off the shelf; the best spreads. Feast on them.

Ollie Evans and Saam Farahmand

The picture of both Saam and Ollie at the top is from an older magazine. It fits, so it got ripped off my wall, scanned in and stuck with the other bits. Both these guys are highly talented screen fiddlers. In other words, they direct. Ollie has directed music videos for bands like Das Pop, The Gossip, Foals, Klaxons, and Young Knives, all of which can be easily found on Youtube. Saam has been at it even harder, directing for the likes of Janet Jackson, M.I.A and Klaxons. Again, Youtube him. Both are signed to Partizan, which is also worth taking a look at. The directors involved with Partizan create music videos, adverts, short films, promos and now feature films; there are some well known names and some fresh ones, but all have sizzle. Keep your eyes on these two.

Boyd Holbrook

Model and actor Boyd Holbrook will be appearing in Gus Van Sant's current project Milk, a biopic of Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected official. The cast includes Sean Penn, James Franco and Emile Hirsch, suggesting that it might be an interesting watch when it is released at the end of this year. Accompanying the above photos was more of a quiz than an interview, so let's leave it at that.

Nick Veasey

Nick Veasey takes x-ray photographs. Not your average man-in-white-coat checking to see if your leg is sticking in a weird direction because it's broken x-ray but full on projects including a bus, areoplane, people, machines, plants, bats, beetles; you name it, really. In the above interview Nick explains that he doesn't expose live people or animals to the radiation from x-rays, instead he uses dead ones. This makes his intense work even more intriguing, as he has to source fresh dead animal and human corpses to shoot projects. I highly recommend that you use this link to explore Nick's book X-Ray through Amazon's 'search inside' feature. 

Ash Stymest

A new recruit to Models1 and one of the freshest faces to grace the pages of international fashion magazines, Ash Stymest is scorching in his first fully fledged fashion spread in the August 2008 issue of i-D. Aside from his perfect scowling, the clothing being modeled is also immaculate. The bondage suit is tailored and dressy but, obviously, influenced by the skin tight style of punk. The same contrapuntal theme continues into the shoes, which are a sleeker, more elegant derivation of the Creeper. Collaborating clean cut high fashion with a subculture which has it's own distinctive 'anti-fashion' is genius and results in a smart, sexy look that retains an element of edge and attitude. Ash helps bring out that edginess; I think it's one of my favourite pieces ever. All clothing by Undercover. 

Tomorrow's post is the Joseph Gordon-Levitt interview from Wonderland April/May 2008. 

Stay tuned.