Undoing Giants: Vinicio Capossela, Empassioned Music Man

Vinicio Capossela, born in Hanover, Germany in 1965, raised in Reggio Emilia, Italy, inventing his own musical genres I call Italian hardcore cabaret, the gritty love song and the psychedelic ballad.

With his latest album release, The Story-Faced Man (Warner Music Group, 2010), Capossela has nine studio albums and three live albums to his name.  Perhaps only more recently building a larger following in the United States, Capossela is one of the most original and influential living artists in Italy today.

His verses, often rooted in the mythological, fantastical, philosophical and of course, in love, could never be mistaken for anyone else's, for they are uniquely Vinicio. 


"On a dark ship someone's trembling like a swan, the shadows create and undo giants in the sky after a rainfall, and men have turned the lone dragon into a god..." 

                                                                                           --Vinicio Capossela, Lanterne Rosse
                                                                                              (my translation)


                                             
                                                                  
                                                                                                         Le Poisson Rouge, NYC

                                                           

Official Website:  www.viniciocapossela.it/
Hear his songs on Myspace:  www.myspace.com/viniciocapossela





                                                                   

Johnny Rozsa, Untouched, Christopher Henry Gallery, Oct. 22nd, 2010

Johnny Rozsa channels an old kind of romance:  Prohibition parties, Oscar Wilde,
Fellini's 8 1/2, Gang of Four.

Johnny's photos are a winding narrative of someone who reaches into in.  It's his factory.

He touched my head and twirled my hair.  I felt loved.

                                                                                                     Johnny Rozsa, Krys Fox

                                                                                           Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, Marco Testa

  

                                                                                                                        Olek

Temple de Mexico

November 16th, 2009

Marisol Mercado Covarrubias presents her jewelry line, Temple, at Tribal Arts Gallery, NYC. 
www.templedemexico.com

Marisol Mercado Covarrubias

 

 

 

 

Chat et Mois

Gimme my Munny, Nov. 12th, 2009

Kid Robot launched its new do-it-yourself toy line, Munnyworld, with a custom, designer toy exhibition at Eloquent Delinquents Gallery.

The artists were great, friendly, lots of toy signing.  At some point, I got spritzed with Corona, New Year's Eve style by a pair of San Tropez vacationites who were bar hopping when suddenly, a tight gallery space with exposed, limited edition artwork obstructed their path.  I brushed off some foam, along with the gentleman standing next to me, also sprayed.  I'm pretty sure we made peace.  You know,  "desole," it was just "pour s'amuser," "passer un bon moment."  Gallery?  What gallery? Art shmart.  Just a little beer.  No hard feelings, but be forewarned, I believe security is heavily armed over at Larry Gagosian.  Continuer a maintenir la paix!

Wobots in Munnyworld:

 

 

 

Tim

 

Tim Dubitsky and Tobias Wong

 

Travis

 

Munny's Travis

 

 

Tony: Il Miglior Fabbro

Tony Beno Holden:  Chef, Blackbird Cafe, Brooklyn, New York

I see Tony just about every day at Blackbird where I get my coffee.  Tony and I once debated the popularity of a certain beet dressing on a hamburger.  Was it too experimental?  Did people want a plain old burger?  We mulled over the issue for a few minutes.  I don't think we ever concluded anything and promptly moved onto a conversation about Italian political corruption.

What do beet dressing and Italian politics have in common?  Nothing.  They're just the kinds of things Tony and I talk about and of course, we reminisce about some of Italy's finer points.

Ciao Tony!

Kinemacolor

"She's letting me stay here while she's working on a movie that's being made in Canada. But I guess you already know that. Well, I couldn't afford a place like this in a million years... unless, of course, I'm discovered and become a movie star. Of course, I'd rather be known as a great actress than a movie star. But, you know, sometimes people end up being both. So that is, I guess you'd say, sort of why I came here.
[pause]
I'm sorry. I'm just so excited to be here. I mean I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this dream place. Well, you can imagine how I feel."

                                                                                                     -- Betty Elms, Mulholland Drive

Nail Polish in Dovima by NARS

Brave New World-Testers by NARS

Touche Eclat skin highlighter by Yves San Laurent

Gloss Pur by Yves San Laurent

Lip Gloss Quad in South Beach by Cargo

 Lip Lacquer in Eros by NARS

 

 Lip Lacquer in Chelsea Girls by NARS

 

 Lip Lacquer in F***ed With by NARS (o.k., I made that one up)

Lip Lacquer in Hot Wired by NARS

Wild and Untamed Things

So, hair.  Why is Issac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation, what goes up must come down, accepted unequivocally?  Ok, fine.  Gravity.  But has anyone sought to challenge that theory?

More than 2oo years later, Albert Einstein would find flaws in Newton's theory on a couple of fronts, but my question is, could Einstein's hair have proven Newton wrong altogether?

Did Einstein's hair challenge some basic laws of gravity?

Would Newton have been threatened by Einstein's hair?

Has anyone ever seen a photo of Einstein with a slick do?

I'm tackling my platitudes one theory at a time, people.

To wild and untamed things:

Shaun, Artist, Union Square

 

Paid Laugher, SOHO

Greg, Artist and Bartender, Williamsburg, Brooklyn