After 4 years of running Facehunter, a blog dedicated to photographing individuals with a unique sense of style, Yvan Rodic has been given the chance to show his work offline in the form of a new book which will be out this coming April.
The book entitled Facehunter (Prestel) publishes 326 of Yvan’s best photographs from his travels around the world and presents them in a full-color volume that makes every page turn a fun and inspiring look into a culture that Rodic defines as “New Creole Culture” — that is, a person who takes their fashion inspiration not from one place or culture, but from many all at once. Yvan Rodic’s photographs hail from Berlin, Antwerp, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Singapore, Vienna, and Stockholm (just to name a few) and really do a fantastic job of capturing the most interesting of the fashion-obsessed around the world.
If you aren’t too crazy about fashion, I have a feeling you’ll at least appreciate the fact that Yvan is amazingly good at what he does: stopping strangers on the street and photographing them to look like models. Surely, there’s some skill involved in that process that not everyone can mimic so effortlessly.
Check out the thumbnails below for some more images from inside the book. And if you’re at all curious, you can pre-order Facehunter on Amazon.com for just over $16 (the book comes out in April).
Mainframe, a production studio specializing in motion graphics and animation, created this wonderful and light-hearted video for theChallenge Your World 20/20 series.
The Challenge Your World 20/20 is a series of 20 videos each year that showcase a wild invention that can somehow solve environmental issues the world is facing. The inventions can be absolutely ridiculous and don’t have to be actual products which explains why the video above gets away with such hilarious suggestions.
The Daily Beast has a slideshow of every fashion mistake of 2008 with wonderful pictures to illustrate. Headbands, tights, shutter shades, and girls that dress like boys are all included in this list. Check it out and see if you aren’t participating in looking like a fool.
I just came back from my Youth Culture & Fashion class and I watched this very great documentary today on hip-hop and sneaker culture. The film is called Just For Kicks and it was made in 2005. The documentary looks back at hip-hop culture and how it shaped the world of fashion as it is today. From the early days of breakdancing to early rap groups like Run-DMC, to big-time sports celebrity sponsorships, Just For Kicks covers seems to cover all important aspects of the culture then and now.
I liked the film so much that I just added it to my Netflix.
for only $10. It’s worth it, get it!