Girls from outer space landed in Berry Behrendt’sBeaver street studio just in time for us to shoot this magazine promo. More candy for the eyes, devoid of narrative, but with large doses of energy, light and textures.
If I meet someone for the first time, say in my local French bistro, and they ask me – Austin what do you do? Instead of the default answer - video director, film maker etc… These days I just tell people “I sling eye candy for a living”.The next question is usually – what does that mean?
Photographer Clive Booth asked me to get involved in a project he was doing with fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic. Clive had documented four consecutive fashion shows for Roksanda at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK.
I like Clive’s open-aperture, shallow-depth-of-field style. The footage was something I really needed to absorb; there was a lot of it. This needed an imaginative concept to pull it together. Again, I found myself with a lot of freedom to create what I wanted. Roksanda’s strong features and glaring eyes made me dream of magical, emotional, breathless moments. It ended up being a little less about the event and more about textures, color, emotion and dreams.
M.A.C - Fall ‘09 as seen by New York artists Marilyn Minter, Richard Phillips, and Maira Kalman.
I embarked on this project at the end of last year and it’s great to finally have it go public. It gave me an intimate insight into some really wonderful New York artists. Their passion, techniques and points of view inspired me. Marilyn’s quest for the magic moment, Richard’s creative zone and Maira’s feel for color, texture and humor will resonate with me for a long time.
So many projects have come and gone this year but this is one I will remember. For me it was about creativity, process, color and New York City. I felt ‘right at home’ documenting creative minds that live for their work.
M∙A∙C takes you behind the scenes to visit the three top contemporary artists as they create the dynamic images for the Fall ‘09 Make-up Art Cosmetics colour collection. See what happens when M∙A∙C makeup and these art world luminaries get together. Art is in M∙A∙C’s DNA, so this season we celebrated artists in every shade and stripe by inviting three of the art worlds leading luminaries to create images for our Fall ‘09 Make-Up Art Cosmetics collection. See these artists as they work with M∙A∙C colour. Richard Phillips with his trademark approach to hyper-glamour, digitally retouches an image with supersaturated M∙A∙C colour and finishes. Illustrator, Maira Kalman, makes bold with shades, giving us a playfully eccentric, brighter-than-bright take on life, while Marilyn Minter’s attitude towards seduction and sexiness meets its match in M∙A∙C pigments and glitter.
