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...Clint Eastwood lining up to be his subjects. His portraits have been exhibited in art galleries around the world and in 14 sturdy books. But in fact most of us own a Corbijn: his artwork covers more than 100 records or CDs, and anyone who has watched MTV or VH1 will have seen one of the 80 or so music videos Corbijn has directed for acts such as Depeche Mode, Nirvana and Coldplay...
...first two albums released by Fountains of Wayne, headed by New Jersey natives Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, were only moderately successful (read: largely ignored by the mainstream). With their 2003 record, “Welcome Interstate Managers,” they broke into the world of VH1, MTV, and Grammy nominations. Fountains of Wayne were nominated for Best Pop Performance, and, amusingly enough, Best New Artist, a testament to just how unnoticed their first two albums went. “Traffic and Weather” marks the first new release from the light-hearted popsters in four years...
...horrors of war, how to engage audiences without turning them off? With Soundtrack and its 2006 sequel, Rampage, which follows a rapping Marine home to Miami and the hip-hop studios of New York City, Gittoes cracked the creative jackpot, with films that could just as easily play on VH1 as in the current documentary-obsessed contemporary art world. (Three years on, curators can't get enough of Soundtrack, which, from March 9, screens as part of the third Auckland Triennial, called "Turbulence.") Gittoes' use of popular culture to explore the Iraq war "is a really amazing way in," says...
...usually validated.WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSEWhen one goes to the tents at Bryant Park, it is actually quite a mindfuck to realize how large the world of minor celebrity actually is. Vaguely recognizable people from all aspects of entertainment and fashion—winners of reality TV shows, pundits on VH1, and the like—lumber through the tents in matted fur coats and are ushered to the fronts of lines in droves.The C-list gets priority seating and huge amounts of media attention (I have never seen Kelly Rowland more mobbed for press in my entire life). Really famous...
...than anything I've ever done," he says. "I feel like I know something. These thoughts make me feel like I'm wearing gold shoes." He's thinking of calling it Be Ready to Be O.K. If that weren't begging to be mocked on VH1's Best Week Ever on its own, he's also got a children's book in him. "It's called Cynthia's New Friend. It's about how we hate change. We hate people to change because we're afraid they'll fly away...