"HOT WAVE"

Jonathan Horowitz

JONATHAN HOROWITZ 

I had no intention of liking Horowitz…this much. I had seen his work here, there and everywhere, and read an interview with him in Interview, who quite rightly regard him as the cleverest artist alive.

Anyway, this evening I decided to attend his private view. I walked into Mayfair's, Sadie Coles to find a candid elite artist hang out. Juergen Tellier was smoking indoors and Michael Stipe, who, by hastily approaching every piece, looked like he wanted to buy everything he saw. 

Horowitz’s Art, History is a great exhibition. It is modern, political and clever.

CSM Art School or Business?

Leonie

We confirmed our friendship making clothes for fairies and persuading everyone we knew, even my mother, that we were sisters. 

We formed a band called LAND at the age of 7.

She has 3 amazing dogs, Rhani, Hiro and Rouge.

Her Blackberry cover is pure GLAM.

Night Works- Robert Mapplethorpe

Alison Jacques at Alison Jacques.

Having finished "Just Kids" by Patti Smith, there was nothing that could stop me attending Night Works. The exhibition is curated by curated by Scissor Sisters, who chose Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, polaroids and sculptures.

CURRY KNIGHTS

Curry Knights, was founded by Alex Jukes (Rogan Ravager) and Leo Gizzi (Captain Curry-geous) in January 2008. 

My first Friday of the Month is dedicated to this food fest. We are normally, as quoted by the group's page, "A brave troupe of fearless spicy food fanatics that traverse the vast kingdom of Ealing in search for the holiest of grails; a banging curry. Uniting in force on the first friday of every month when their tastebuds are at their peak, these heroic adventurers test every curry house in the ghetto of ealing the only way they know how; one restaurant at a time."

It is embarrassingly true that I get ecstatic about such an event. But it is the whole concept. From, thinking of "Currified Names" like 'Dr Who and the Dhaaleks' and 'Aloo Aloo' to Jukes', to the, almost monthly, currified message and to debating why we are being charged £4.40 extra for no apparent reason (even when we include our tips).

Ideally, I would love a muesli club, but until I have one more member, other than myself, I am happy munching on poppadoms and disappointing everyone by not having cash but card to pay with. It seems to annoy just about everyone these days...the way I like to keep it as well.

  

Roll up Roll up!!!

The concept of 'Pop up's' are definitely a growing trend. Disused, abandoned, derelict and cast off urban spaces are being regenerated by the creative and artistic population. Tonight I would like to say that I gate-crashed the latest and perhaps most exciting Pop Up event yet to happen- Cineroleum.

A group of young architects, artists and designers transformed Clerkenwell's abandoned petrol station into a pop-up Cinema for the summer. I found this extremely inspiring- It's an idea that I always find myself questioning-why didn't 'I' up with that?! Temporary pop-boutiques allows artists and creatives to source new outlets.

Everything is hand-built from the paper tickets, chairs, curtains to the pop-corn!

I interviewed Alice Edgerley from Cineroleum!

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B U R B E R R Y

My only fashion show this season was Burberry...

 (and in all honesty, the only one I care about)

Christopher Bailey housed the fashion elite - Vogue's Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, Mario Testino, Deep Kailey, Hamish Bowles and the new era of front-row-fashion-celebs such as Alexa Chung, S.J.P, Serena Williams, Andy Murray and Cat Deely.

Despite the show being effortlessly spectacular, I feel that it was dominated by the front row. Do I really need the celebrity status to confirm or approve that the show will be good - are they the equivalent of the traditional 5 stars? Am I looking to much into this? Yes!

Nonetheless- pierced leather, petite dresses and un-walkable 8 inch heels have quite rightly appeared on my wish list. (Note: for the model who took her heels off-like...c'mon who cares if you can't walk in them be grateful you tried them on!!!...or just settle for a Naomi)

I left the show with one phrase in my head-

'To DIE for daaarlin!'

Hawtness.

ГОША РУБЧИНСКИЙ

OH MY GOSHA!!

No sign of  GOSHA RUBCHINSKIY last night. 

What a shame, I had some of my professional questions ready to ask him...like...

1) What's your best skate trick?

2) If you could skate anywhere-where would it be?

3) What's next...?

4) What did you have for breakfast?

I was even on Google Translate- translating it all and then writing the script out in russian! When, I finally came to the conclusion (mainly the brutal reality) that I'm not multilingual, and  that there was no hope with google, I decided my only possible option was to ring pretty much anyone who I thought could or would perhaps know someone in London who could speak Russian ANDD who would like to accompany me to the exhibition. Desperate times? Hell Yes! 

Regardless, of Gosha's whereabouts at the time of his Private View, the exhibition was fresh, new and exciting. 14 nameless photos spread throughout the tiny gallery in Farringdon which was packed to the street. 

Here are my favourite photographs!

This is just what I wanted to see, an insight to Russian youth and one of the most inspiring artists/photographers/designers/younameit at the moment-G.Rubchinskiy!

Teeth!!! My New Favourite Band

I suppose when Timeout suggest that you should 'arrive super-early as it's gonna be impossibly rammed' for the Eat Your Own Ears night...don't think otherwise. By 8pm Old Blue was buzzing, and I was psyched to interview the Teeth Trio- Veronica, Ximon (Babes) and Simon before their set.

FAN MAIL>>>

High point: See Spaces and my ears ringing till the next morning- a clear sign that it was a brilliant Old Blue moment.

Low point:  Friends who were turned away because it was too full.

How hard do TEETH rock?: They rocked just the right side of hard!

1st Sunday of the Month

A group of Trolls...this is my worst nightmare! Anyone remember when kids put them on the top of pencils? My mum bought me one-I wasn't impressed.

Before it becomes rubble...

Berlin

Berlin. Turkish Market, CFA, Loop Raum, Findus Verkauf are just a few of the places I went to.

It was my mini holiday which turned into a mini adventure. Being stuck in Berlin for an extra 3 nights because of the volcano eruption in Iceland...well...I'm not complaining...even though I did end up getting the Ice Bahn to Brussels and the Eurostar to home-London in the end.