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I can’t believe I haven’t watched this yet. Just happened to find these film stills yesterday and thought I’d post them. The costumes are amazing and so are the sets. I am a sucker for the roaring 20s so I can’t help myself. The flapper girls, the hair styles, the music and all that craziness that seemed to have ruled over that decade!  Also: Can anyone find me a ‘cat hat’ like the one in the first screen cap. I need that in my life!

Even though we would never admit it, we all have one slumbering in us, the poor damsel waiting to be rescued by her prince in shining armour. Independent, strong and emancipated, we don’t see her around much nowadays, but she still is the counterpart to the femme fatale whom we represent day after day. Only secretly we do we indulge in the memories of early childhood bedtime stories and various Disney films. Seems like we can’t let go completely. Going through the Spring/Summer 2010 collections I noticed her around, too. In different versions, but never without that little something. Soft colours, flowing fabrics, silk, taffeta and ruffles. And you know, my dear reader, I can never get enough of it!

“The subject of the damsel in distress, or persecuted maiden, is a classic theme in world literature, art, and film. She is usually a beautiful young woman placed in a dire predicament by a villain or a monster and who requires a hero to dash to her rescue. She has become a stock character of fiction, particularly of melodrama.The word damsel derives from the French ‘demoiselle’ meaning young lady.” (via)

On Jeanne d’Arc: ” Her family was made noble, with nobility transmissible through women, which was quite unusual. She did ride a horse and dress up in armor, but she did not wield a sword and never killed anyone, but rather grasped her banner pretty tightly.” (via)

Kanye West x Harry Potter & Prisoner of Askaban, but I a good way:
Kanye West – Coldest Winter (directed by Nabil Elderkin)

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I’ve always been very fond of  kaleidoscope videos, like The Zyphre Song by Red Hot Chili Peppers (directed by  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris) or Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes (directed by Alex Courtes and Martin Fougerol). And I am really fond of this one too. Go, Erykah!

Keeping it short, so I’ll just say go listen to some of their tracks here, or download the track Horchata here . But if I were you I’d go buy the album(s). Way too awesome not to have!

Video for Giving Up The Gun directed by Emmet Malloy (keep your eyes open for RZA, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lil Jon and Joe Jonas)

Jay-Z On To The Next One; directed by Sam Brown.

Screen-capped by me thus the terrible quality.

PS: Link list will be up soon. Just updating a little :D