Colors of Hope Vol.204.06.2009, 18.17
…a silent common denominator. I could feel but not tell what it was then. Till one day in May 2008, while shootin’ the video for “Meet You In Paradise” in Prazeres/Rio de Janeiro, I realised that the way I chose my words & melodic lines within each song I was subconsciously addressing hope. And all of a sudden it came to me, it literally appeared in front of my eyes: “Colors of Hope”! It felt like I was levitating for a few seconds. Like sheer childish joy. I wanted to spread it all over the world that very moment. Speakin´ of spreading: Tomorrow, June 5th, my second Single “Emotional Android” will be released. We were´nt able to shoot a video for this song but I´m sure it´ll enhance your fantasy by just listening to it;+) Find it on www.fetsum.com and don´t hesitate to purchase it!! |
Colors of Hope Vol.130.04.2009, 18.46
I don’t know where to start. How do you tell a story, if you don’t remember the beginning and you can’t foresee the end? I’ll start with the present! I’m releasing a single called “Meet You In Pardadise” on Fri. May 1st, 2009 and it will be available on iTunes, amazon, musicload, fnac etc. We’ve shot a video for the single in Rio de Janeiro/Brasil. You can watch the video right here:
If you like the music, feel free to buy it;+) About one and half years ago I started to record songs without a concept for an album or anything like that. It was easy to find titles for the songs since they all had particular themes I was talkin’ about. After recording a few tunes I started to reflect on my tiny achievement and realised, though each track arose from a different mood, there was an invisible thread connecting one with the other. Something like …(read more tomorrow!!) |
Visual Politix!02.03.2009, 20.20
JR As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he questions pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes. Using a camera he found once in the subway, JR finds inspiration in informal encounters he makes following his travels and his intuitions. From 2001, he has been pointing his camera to a number of communities (writers, breakdancer, fresstylers, …), and worked with popular actors and musicians such as Vincent Cassel, IAM or the Gotan Project. From 2004, he has been working on the 28 millimeters project, which first part – Portrait of a generation – led him up to the New York Times front page. The large size pictures of the Montfermeil and Clichy-sous-Bois youth have been notably displayed on the walls of the European Center for Photography and the square of the Hotel de Ville, in Paris. His pictures beginning to sell at Hotel Drouot of Paris, he keeps on planning unauthorized exhibitions of large size pictures such as in Rome or in Wuppertal (Germany). He is currently working on the second and third parts of the 28 millimeters project in Middle East and Brazil. The 3rd stage of the 28 millimeters project – Women Are Heroes – has already led him to Africa in post-conflicting zones to shoot the women with who he wishes to share painful stories and to testify of their desire to live. Their portraits were already pasted in Sierra-leone and in Liberia. In 2008-2009, JR will develop this project in India and in Asia |



















