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Issue 7. July 2016 Photography Lifestyle Culture
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l Amy Adams
How to be an actress. l City Sculpture
Decorate the streets.
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l Dim Sum
The East in London. l Hasselblad
Innovation. l Idenity
Powerful visual people and testimony.
l Vintage Ferrari
Pure heritage.
l Gin & Tonic
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Contents
Cover photography: Dennis Sterne Ball of Steel, Spitalfields Shot with Canon 5D MK1
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How to be an actress Lights, camera, Adams
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my Lou Adams was born on August 20, 1974, in Vicenza, Italy. She was the fourth of seven children born to Americans Kathryn and Richard Kent Adams, with her father stationed at Caserma Ederle military base at the time of her birth. The Adams family, which was Mormon, relocated from one base to another until they settled in Castle Rock, Colorado when Adams was about 8 years old. Adams sang in the Douglas County High School choir and, aspiring to become a ballerina, trained as an apprentice at a local dance company. Later, she decided the rigidity of ballet training was ill-suited for her, and she began to pursue a career in musical theater instead. Academy Award Nomination In the mid-1990s, Adams worked as a dancer at a number of different theaters and playhouses in Colorado and Minnesota. By the end of the decade, she landed her first film role in the comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous. Shortly thereafter, encouraged by co-star Kirstie Alley, Adams relocated to Los Angeles and auditioned for more roles. She landed one on a FOX television series, but it was later canceled. Adams went on to appear in several small
films and guest star on TV series. She was also chosen to appear in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can (2002) as Brenda Strong—a role that, according to Spielberg, should have launched Adams’s career. But it wasn’t until she starred in the 2005 film Junebug that Adams made her breakthrough: She received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress as well as a Special Jury Prize for her performance after Junebug premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Adams has continued to take on an array of roles to much acclaim. She has earned additional Academy Award nominations for roles in the serious dramas The Fighter (2010), directed by David O. Russell, and The Master (2012), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. In 2013, she entered comic-book fandom with her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in Man of Steel, with Adams reprising her role for the 2016 sequel Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. She again appeared opposite Fighter co-star Christian Bale in the ensemble cast of American Hustle, once again helmed by Russell. Adams was nominated for yet another Oscar, her first for lead actress and this time for her role as a ‘70s-era con artist caught in a web of conflicting interests. She also won a Golden Globe for the performance.
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“I think that I’ve always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place.”
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Sculpture in the City
Above: ‘The Architect’, sculptured by Jilly Sutton on the Southbank, London. 2011-2012 Below left: Forever by Ai Weiwei installation 2015. Right: Regular fixture - Resolution (2007) by Anthony Gormley, Corner of St. Bride Street and Shoe Lane. (nearest tube St. Pauls) The Project Founded in 2010, Sculpture in the City is a collaborative enterprise between the City of London Corporation (the elected body that looks after the Square Mile’s global business district around St Paul’s cathedral), local businesses and the art world. “The point”, so the Sculpture in the City website tells us, “is to engage new audiences with works by established and emerging contemporary artists”. Sculpture in the City is not only an opportunity to see engaging works in unusual settings, it is also a celebration of the collage of time, material and design that exist in the city, and makes for a place unusually rich in contrast and story. A dynamic yearly public art exhibition in the City of London, launching each summer with a new selection of contemporary art pieces placed in and around the Square Mile. New works this summer are currently being installed. The exhibitions runs from June 28 including pieces by Mat Collishaw, Ugo Rondinone and Sarah Lucas. Positive effects of public sculpture Community art can create attachment to one’s community. According to Penny Balkin Bach, (Author of Public Art in Philadelphia and Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Association for Public Art) studies have looked at the economic development benefits of art, but only just recently have there been wider examinations of the effect of art on a community’s sense of place. The Knight Foundation’s Soul of the Community initiative surveyed some 43,000 people in 43 cities and found that “social offerings, openness and welcome-ness,” and, importantly, the “aesthetics of a place – its art, parks, and green spaces,” ranked higher than education, safety, and the local economy as a “driver of attachment.”
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“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” - Pablo Picasso -
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Sculpture Above: Ghost by artist Adam Chodzko 2015 Above top centre: Artist Tomoaki Suzuki’s one of tiny figures, modelled after real Londoners - 2015 Above top right: Shan Hur, Broken Pillar 2015 Above right:
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“You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.” - William Shatner -
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Sculpture Top left: ‘Oh my friends there are no friends’ Top centre: Charity by Damien Hirst 2015 Above: Another Place by Antony Gormley National Theatre, Waterloo London Above right: Laura Ford’s Days of Jugement Cats 1&2 2015
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Steam rising London’s top 3 Dim Sum restaurants.
Hakkasan Mayfair
Dim T London Bridge
Royal China Baker St
Michelin-starred dim sum with an intimate feel. The thing with Hakkasan, is it’s just unashamedly cool. It attracts the Londoners and A-listers alike with its chic, dark interiors who are looking for an intimate place to hang out and feast on Michelin Star food. The baked venison puff is incredible and the char sui bun is one to seek out and savour. Embelish the taste buds. Love them or hate them, Kanye and Kim are fans. If celebrity taste be a benchmark, go visit. Location: 17 Bruton Street, W1J 6QB
Cheap and cheerful dim sum with amazing views of London. Here you can enjoy a variety of steamed bamboo baskets, each being under £4, while taking in the fantastic views of the River Thames and Tower Bridge. With an informal and modern atmosphere, you can simply just stop here for Dim Sum or if you wanted to be creative with your tastebuds, the Noodle Bar allows you to choose exactly what you want from Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian and Thai. There is a takeaway option available here too. Location: 2 More London Place, Tooley Street, SE1 2DB
Traditional and fresh, lively and huge! It’s always a good sign if there is a queue outside. Baker Street is the flagship restaurant. With its gold and black lacquer it offers to host the smallest of family gatherings or up to 200 guest banquets. You can enjoy traditional dim sum and Chinese tea in a lively atmosphere, a perfect place for an office party. For maximum freshness, the Dim Sum is freshly steamed or fried just after you place your order. For pudding try the back sesame dumplings in peanut crumbs. Location: 24-26 Baker Street, W1U 3BZ
‘Dim Sum’ simply translates to ‘Touch the Heart’ The unique culinary art originated with the Cantonese in southern China which has its roots in travelers on the ancient Silk Road needing a place to rest.
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Hasselblad H6D
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An original innovation.
asselblad have launched an allnew medium-format camera. Rather than an improvement on the existing H-series cameras, the H6D range has been completely rebuilt with new technical components and an all new electronic platform. The H6D range introduces the H6D100c, a 100MP option (pictured), and the H6D-50c with a 50MP CMOS sensor. The new models feature a wider range of shutter speeds from 60 minutes to 1/2000th of a second, increased ISO range and a faster shooting rate along with a USB 3.0 Type-C connector. The high-definition rear touchscreen LCD delivers a pin-sharp live view experience and Wi-Fi as standard, a HDMI connector, for external monitor connectivity, completes the tool set. Built-in dual card slots allow enhanced media capability; a CFast slot allows for high-speed capture and an SD card slot enables maximum compatibility. Additionally, the H6D-100c brings 4K video capability to the mediumformat world.
About Hasselblad Handmade in Sweden, Hasselblad cameras are renowned for their iconic ergonomic design, uncompromising image quality, Swedish craftsmanship and high performance. For 75 years Hasselblad cameras have captured some of the world’s most iconic images – including the rst landing on the moon – and helped shape the way we look at the world through genuine photographic artistry. Trusted by NASA and used by the greatest photographers in the world, Hasselblad continues to create products with uncompromising image quality that inspire. The Hasselblad H Camera System with its professional lens family and unique advancements is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive digital camera system of its kind available today. Recently Hasselblad was the rst to launch the fully integrated medium format camera system incorporating the latest in CMOS sensor technology: the H5D-50c. The latest CMOS-based product launches also include the CFV-50c digital back for V System photographers and a 200 Mpix Multi-Shot camera H5D-200c MS. In 2016 Hasselblad launched the all new H6D-50c and H6D-100c.
Founded in 1941, Hasselblad is the leading manufacturer of medium format cameras and lenses.
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StyleLikeU Elisa and Lily, a mother-daughter team bound together by our passion to spread self-acceptance through style.
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rom the moment we are born, the fashion and beauty marketing machine saturates us with monolithic and unattainable notions of beauty and fashion. Obsessed with youth, meaningless consumption, photoshopped “perfection,” and celebrity-worship, we have been brainwashed to hate our bodies, dread aging, yearn for fame over integrity, and spend our lives paralyzed by a desire to fit in. Six years ago we created StyleLikeU as alternative to this unconscious self-hate. Home to a series of radically honest docustyle video portraits that redefine our culture’s notion of beauty, each piece of our content is driving public engagement around the reversal of the fashion and beauty industry’s crippling status quo. By featuring the diverse stories of unapologetic individuals who are true to themselves and comfortable in their skin, you will be empowered to discover that same sense of freedom and comfort in your own skin
In 2009, we picked up a home video camera and began to document real people with original personal style. We interviewed people of all ages, body types, races and genders, all of whom were being submerged in a sea of cookie-cutter norms. Their journey toward self-discovery took us along with them, leading each of us to our own self-discoveries. Instead of feeling excluded and disenchanted, we felt connected and inspired. Documentary In November 2014, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the production of a documentary film that will capture our viral video series, The What’s Underneath Project, on its road to becoming a global movement for self-acceptance. The campaign was a wild success and in just 18 days, we reached our initial goal of $100k. by the end of the monthlong campaign, we raised a total of $135,655. The film is in production as we speak and we’re aiming to bring it to you in the Spring of 2017.
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ELISA and LILY True style is self-acceptance and at the core of every person’s identity.
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CHARLI HOWARD Charli ripped the mask off of the dehumanizing modeling world via a passionate, no-holdsbarred Facebook post that went viral.
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JORGE WRIGHT “My style says that I am really loud, obnoxious, and in-your-face. And I really am in-your-face,”
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MELANIE GAYDOS Model Melanie sees beauty as a state of being that she has achieved through her experiences.
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KELSEY LU MCJUNKINS Kelsey refused the modest dress code of her parents’ religion and carried the clothes that actually reflected who she was in a bag to her high school so that she could change when she got there.
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STAV B “I like to be different, because I am different and because I feel different. There’s no formula to be a human being,”
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SHAUN ROSS “I had it very hard. I had to explain to people why I wasn’t black and why I was black.”
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Car Above: 1961 Ferrari 250 California Spyder Far right: 1951 Ferrari 340 Right: 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider
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Vintage miles The treasure hunter looks for gold.
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t a time when vintage Ferraris are selling for record sums, it seems timely then to look at why this legendary brand evokes so much desire. Given recent stories of rusting treasures found in anonamus barns - we may even excuse a new band of treasure hunter sctractching around deralict huts enable to unearth a piece of golden history. No other automobile name conjours an image of romance to the same degree. ‘Time machine’ - one very apt discription of this beloved force on the road. What’s all the fuss? Put simply, the car combines a highly tuned engine with a very light weight body. It also has high performance transmission, and a low gearing in the rear-end. The first road car by Ferrari was the 125 Sport. Throughout the 1950s, Enzo Ferrari’s fast cars developed a reputation for excellence. Enzo Ferrari felt that many of his customers bought his vehicles for prestige instead of performance. America are inexorably linked with a history that stretches back five decades. The United States brought the small Italian firm
financial stability during its formative years via a number of wealthy enthusiasts eager to acquire machines that were competitive on almost any track. Today, America remains Ferrari’s most important market and a culture enamored by the House that Enzo Built. America take 25 to 30 percent of the company’s annual production, exhibiting a devotion that’s grown exponentially over the years. For Ferrari’s 50th anniversary celebration in New York on April 29 to May 2 1997, the top of the Empire State Building was lit in red for the first time ever. At the celebration itself at Rockefeller Center, a man approached a Ferrari employee, holding a photo of a 360 Spider. “I waited three-anda-half years to get this car,” he beamed, “and I just picked it up at the dealership two weeks ago.” Next year will be Ferrari’s 70th Anniversay.
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Enzo Ferrari
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The largest gin selection by far.
ondoners love gin – that one is a given. Forget the places which claim to have the largest gin selection in London because that title now goes to the Holborn Dining Room at Rosewood London with the launch of their Gin Bar last spring. With a British emphasis to the restaurant in general, it only seems fitting that their next spirit offering embodies a very British love and so the walls will be adorned with 400 different gins. Yes, 400. The Gin library will feature over a hundred gins distilled in the UK such as the Northumberland Gin Company’s Steam Punk Gin and the award-winning Japaneseinspired Jinzu which is a London Dry gin with hints of cherry blossom and Junmai sake. International gins will include the likes of Buss no.509 White Rain – a gin made from Belgian botanicals and a cognac-based gin PinkPepper with spicy notes. It will also host other types of gins such as those which have had colours and flavourings added to them post distillation such as the Pinkster raspberry gin and more unusual
offerings like Finland’s Kyrö small-batch Rye gin. Want a classic gin cocktail, they’ll be mixing those up as well think Vespas and Aviation. They’re also be 20 genevers – which if you didn’t know is gin’s predecessor and is in fact the inspiration for the term ‘Dutch Courage’, see you’re learning something new every day. Of course to drink the gin you’ll need tonic water and at The Gin Bar they’ll have no less than 27 tonic waters including everything from Merchant’s Heart to Fever Tree and a signature tonic made in house with a top secret recipe. So with 400 gins and 27 tonic waters apparently there will be 14,035 different combinations – we tried to do the maths, we couldn’t but basically there will be a lot. So if you’re indecisive you’re going to need to work on that. Prices will range from £9 for a Rathbone Dry Gin up to £52 for the rare 1950s Taplows London Dry Gin. The Gin Bar: Holborn Dining Room, Rosewood London, 252 High Holborn, WC1V 7EN.www.rosewoodhotels.com
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Gin lovers can savour over 14,035 possible Gin and tonic pairings from well-known international brands to small-batch and local distillers to choose from.
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The beautiful game on iPhone Apple’s newest ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad showcases ‘the beautiful game’ with beautiful images captured by fans and their iPhones.
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‘This is our story, this is our fate.’
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‘ Apple created a special ‘Shot on iPhone’ commercial to mark the 2016 UEFA European Championship. The ad, titled “The Beautiful Game” features a montage of iPhone photos, all set to the song ‘Wings’ by Little Simz
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‘This is our kingdom, this is our place.’
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The ninth ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad showcases the slow motion and time lapse features on iPhone 6s. UEFA European Championships runs through to July 10.
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‘Give me back my wings.’
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iPhone 6 Campaign. Photographer - Gabby K in Snoqualmie Pass, Washington.