REVIEW OF 2010 : DAVID CURTIS-RING

David Curtis-Ring, Peacock portrait photography by Christa Holka

I worked with ADAD on the music video Love Part II where we had some great fun with smoke, confetti and sugarglass! In the video there is a moment when a sheet of glass appears to break over Bright Light Bright Light and so while filming this part Alun and I were hovering above Rod with a sheet of sugarglass, poised, waiting for the go-ahead to let it fall! Eek! This felt quite dramatic at the time, to be dropping what seemed to like a piece of glass! We only had two chances to get it right but it worked out really well in the end. The sumptuous collage of textures, lights and varying colours that you can see in the finished piece are among my favourite things about the video!

I'm a London based artist working in set design, costume and props. My practice references mythology, elements of fantasy and mysticism and often features the animal as symbol. I'm interested in creating a striking visual language through an exploration of archetypes and a tactile, colourful and handmade aesthetic. I've just recently finished work on a music video for pop duo Muchuu where I art directed and designed the set and am now beginning a project with fantastic DOP Michel Dierickx.

www.davidcurtis-ring.blogspot.com















Video still from Love Part II by Bright Light Bright Light























Muchuu Set design photography by Fanny Jansen

Peaches Does Herself

Some pictures from the dress rehearsal, the Show had it's premier last night with great sucess!

Peaches Does Herself

Sorry for the lack of blog posts over the last month but I have been busy working on a very big project 'Peaches Does Herself' a musical featuring and Directed by Peaches. It will be live in less than a week!

http://www.peachesrocks.com/
http://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/

The Burning Cross

Burn the set downnnn!!!!

Kim Howells: Behind the Scenes

Kim Howells has blooged me up looking ever so relaxed on Set. My new take on Horizontal Art Direction.

Check out all the pics over at Kim Howell's Blog

Studio East Dining - SHOWstudio

Today was spent at the marvelous SHOWstudio with filmmaker Jez Tozer shooting a video short to celebrate the opening of Bistrotheque’s new pop-up restaurant Studio East Dining, thirty-five metres above a construction site in Westfield Stratford City. A selection of Studio East Dining’s menu prepared by Bistrotheque’s head chef, Tom Collin. I was on hand to prepare a simple place setting for Actress Gwendoline to sample these 4 courses and cocktail whilst being captured on film.

'The final Footage of Gwendoline will be juxtaposed with time-lapse recordings of the construction process to create a video celebrating this unique dining event, set to a soundtrack made from noises recorded from the construction site.'

Fred Butler blogs about 'Dining al Desco'

Fred Butler Emailed yesterday to ask if she could have some pictures of me 'Dining al Desco' along with a series of other prop stylists for Fashion 156 blog which she is currently guest blogging for with Studio partner Craig Lawrence.

Colour Theory Process - Contributing Editor

Here are a few process pictures from the Contributing Editor shoot we did for your perusal.

Colour Theory - Contributing Editor

My new Story came out this week with styling by Kim Howells and photography by Thomas Cooksey. Super thanks to Gemma Smith and Lloyd Rossborough for all their craft.



























































































COLOR THEORY
Photographed by Thomas Cooksey
Fashion Editor: Kim Howells
Hair: Naoki Komiya using Tigi
Make-up: Martina Luisetti using Liz Earle Skin Care
Set Design: Alun Davies
Photo assistants: Danny Mazz, David Norbet Gilbey and Sabrina Biermann
Fashion assistant: Reuben Esser
Hair assistant: Shin Sone
Set Design assistants: Gemma Smith and Lloyd Rosborough
Model:  Danny Mazz at Models 1
Retouching: Upper Studio
Special thanks to Provision Studio and Provision Lighting

Shoot!

Today's shoot went super well! but as always I can't reveal anything on the blog just yet but here is a sneak abstract preview ;-)

Bright Light Bright Light at the Lexington London

We had the pleasure of working with Bright Light Bright Light last week at the Lexington gig in London, what an exceptional night it was The Fly gave it a 5* rating. And we were really excited to be able to be working on some stage set and lighting, we gave a taste of what is to hopefully be a lot more i the future for Bright Light Bright Light London gigs.

Thanks to Lynne Morris, Gemma Smith for all their help, to Christa Holka for some great live photography and a special thanks to Olivier Ruellet for some amazing visuals, that were not shown to their best due to some technical errors, however we are planning on getting super technical for the next Bright Light Bright Light gig, stay tuned for laser and hollograms gallore!







































































































































All photographs by Christa Holka

Full Moon

In my quest to keep a constant blog updated I have found that I have
to express honesty, today has not been the most inspiring, however I
am somewhat entranced by the power of the full moon looming over
whilst I work late....again at the studio, oh I love it really!! xx

Lu Flux Film

Net a Porter

I was so busy yesterday with sending out my new Mailout, that's #3 now, oooh I am getting old, two years almost in fact! But more about that sooon I promise! Anyway why not check it out for yourself! http://ymlp.com/zbQYNs

What I was trying to say was I really wanted to blog about my new story with photographer Markn for the lovely people at Net a Porter that we shot only last Thursday, Markn and Net a Porter have been super busy getting the final edit together and designing a layout for it's launch online only yesterday.

For this we created a very soft subtle space, a motel or apartment the exact location is left to the dream like quality of Markn's images, the complexity of innocence combined with some very sophisticated fashion evoke a filmic quality similar to that of directors such as Sopia Coppola or Sam Mende's.

Please take a look at Net a Porter.com

New editorial

Here's one your going to have to wait and see!!