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Sorry I've been gone for so long but currently I've been inspired by these videos/films/performances. Enjoy! what music and videos have you guys been watching?

JAY Z "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film" Directed by Mark Romanek

Donald Glover's short film (trailer) for 'Clapping For The Wrong Reasons' could this be a short film? music video?! I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

[photo: reelgood] Words can not express how much this man has been an aspiration and inspiration for me as an aspiring artist over the years. Quentin has forever changed the way I view films and the art of story telling. I pray and hope that there will be more to come from this talented man!!

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Kerry Washington on discovering James Baldwin’s “middle road,” race in America, and the artists who inspire her. -Vanity Fair I think its always important to immerse and absorb yourself into anything and everything. Always stay learning and reading about things that may not really be interesting to you and I say about 80% of the time I can take something inspiring and profound with just about anything... naturally in hindsight I'm intrigued by almost anything but thats just me being weird. I never knew about James Baldwin before Kerry spoke about him. Now I have to read up on some of his work & books! P.S I love how this video was shot like an film

ASVOFF 5 Award 2012 " Best Art Direction" DIRECTOR: Monica Menez CAST: Albe Hamiti / Tune Models DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Paul Robert Klinar STYLIST: Sanne Roesch HAIR: Sabine Nania MAKE-UP: Sabine Nania I've made it no secret that I take in and find most of my inspiration from the incredible Fashion Copious and Fashion Gone Rogue they're two of my favorite sites to visit I can only aspire to be as great as those blogs! So I tip my hat (if I had one) to them! Ok so I'm up late at night on FC and I see this mint green still (as you see above) of a woman with a blonde wig sitting on a pastel bed and I automatically assume that its going to be something good! So I'm watching and about a minute and 30 seconds in I'm baffled and confused but I kept watching to come to the realization that this film was a bit tounge-in-cheek and not to take things so literal and serious. This film is by Monica Menez her film also won the ASVOFF 5 Award 2012 for ...

( photos: Red Carpet Fashion,Glamour ) Its so hard to find Black women as style icons that are actually consistent and relievent in their work that I actually admire and thats really sad to say because there aren't a lot (in my opinion) out there or maybe I'm not looking hard enough but no one has caught my eye yet besides Kerry. Whether she styles herself or has a stylist she always finds a way to make it her own and it doesn't looked forced. If you've been following Kerry' stylish looks through out her Press junket for 'Django Unchained and also through out 2012 up to now she's been wearing a lot of asian influenced looks and I love it! here are some of her looks that admire

( (photo:afrobella ) I rarely go to the movies (which is kind of Absurd for someone who loves film) but any chance to go see a Quentin Tarantino movie I'm all in! My thoughts on the film are and if you had to ask me one thing about 'Django is that I thought it was hilarious! I honestly don't see what the big problem is with the film but we all have our issues with films that are dealt with American history or history in general people are going to have a problem with it positive or negative. But back to the film I wouldn't say it was Quentin's best film (pulp fiction is the best film in my opinion). Can we talk? The whole time while I was watching the movie I was wondering what is Quentin's niche? To me it would be his film cuts like for example just to use another amazing director, Wes Anderson he uses alot of symmetry in his films and specific color palettes/filters in his film. But Quentin I can't put my finger on anything else beside his cuts in his...

"Director Sebastian Gutierrez returns with a black and white trip into 1958 Los Angeles, where a private detective seeks refuge in a hotel while bad men with guns come to get him" - Film School Regects This is what I love about film everything doesnt have to be so serious all the time when there's good directing and a well written script there can be magic! Hotel Noir by Sebastian Gutierrez. I just found out about this film today and decided to share it with you guys! I hope I'm not the only one thats heard of this? The cast is great as well (Carla Gugino,Danny DeVito,Rufus Sewell,Malin Akerman,Robert Forster,Rosario Dawson,Kevin Connolly,Mandy Moore,Cameron Richardson and, Michael B. Jordan) I'm so excited to see this! Can you guys tell I'm a sucker for witty dialogue and femme fetales by now? find out more about the film here

I love this video/mini-film so much Lana del Rey does an amazing job directing in all of her videos! Is it just me or does this song sound like she took some inspiration from Johnny Cash?

It seems theres a couple of Hitchcock movies coming out (not by the director of course) but surrounding his work and life (whether it be exaggerated or true) Alfred Hitchcock is one of my many favorite directors but when I seen the trailer and read the interview Tippi Hendren gave for the NY Times I had no idea that Alfred might of been just as psychotic as his films portrayed. I love in the interview that Tippis' life wasnt destroyed by him You don’t get it. He ruined my career, but he didn’t ruin my life. That time of my life was over. I still admire the man for who he was. ( NY Times Interview ) Shes a strong woman! Check out the trailer below featuring the beautiful Sienna Miller! Its nice to see her in films again! I hope she does justice playing Ms. Hendren! You can watch it on HBO Saturday, October 20th at 9PM! Hitchcock Trailer, starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson. Directed by Sacha Gervasi, Hitchcock movie opens November 23, 2012. I...

Stoker film directed by Chan-wook Park written by Wentworth Miller, Erin Cressida Wilson. From the trailer and the opening monologue from Nicole Kidman I could already tell that I wanted to see this film! The color story is amazingly beautiful I cant wait to see this! Release date March 2013.

ADR preview for her collaboration with H&M. She looks amazing I cant get over it watching this I was in awe for many different reasons... Visit Rookie Mag here . Tavi was on Jimmy Fallon last night and she was amazing! I'm so proud of her success I remember when she was first starting out her blog and she was rapping about Rei Kawakubo for the collaboration for Comme des Garçons and H&M. She's so grown up now and such an inspiration for me that you can do anything you want to do in life, all you have to do is make it happen! I wish her nothing but the best and great sucess with her online magazine! I'm working on my bitch-face now! hahaha I thought I should just throw this one in! the Velvet Goldmine (film). Sorry for the shitty quality if you have Netflix you can watch it on instant!

The apple of my eye, the most amazing director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer Quentin Tarantino. His eye for details and the way he writes... it really amazes me and for me to say this is nothing because his cult films prove and live up to everything that he creates...I have not seen yet a bad film that he's put out yet! Or maybe thats because I'm such a die hard fan that nothing could be bad, but I highly doubt it. He serves as one of the many inspirations and heroes when it comes to my writing style/lingering work(short fashion films). (photos:google) Gilda is a 1946 American black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. It stars Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth in her signature role as the ultimate femme fatale. The film was noted for cinematographer Rudolph Mate's lush photography, costume designer Jean Louis' wardrobe for Hayworth Not only is Rita Hayworth beautiful but when I first seen this movie maybe two years ago I never knew that it wou...

Raquels hair...LOVE! I really love Jerry Lewis!

http://www.miumiu.com Miu Miu Women's Tales It's Getting Late, directed by Massy Tadjedin In the translucent LA dusk we discover four women living very different lives. The camera follows each as they wind down their working days, their four stories weaving together as each prepares for their evening. Shot by Iranian-American screenwriter and director, Massy Tadjedin, with a stellar international cast, Aubrey Plaza, Gemma Arterton, Patricia Clarkson and Rinko Kikuchi, culminating in a gripping cameo performance by rising songstress, Zola Jesus. "We make our faces, our suits, our selves just a little more ready for wherever it is we're going. Fashion is never just the clothes. It's our mood, our excitement for something, our expectations, our attitudes, our outlooks. Managing those is often what getting ready is all about and that's what our short tries to capture." Massy Tadjedin The four women quietly take part in their private acts of preparat...

I'm not going to act like I know who Diana Vreeland previous this post but I knew I'd recognize some of (if not all) of her iconic work I stumbled apoun this trailer on a popular fashion blog that I frequent and decided to check it out. Not only was I stunned about how vibrant and how visual her work was she quickly became one of my icons! I looked up more of her work for Harpers Bazaar and reading a brief about her biography and I was just so amazed The Eye Must Travel—a biopic built around the stellar career of Vreeland, one of the most legendary American fashion editors who ever lived." - fashion bistro check out her site and more information here