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Fashion stylist Devon Walker photographed by Altamira

I love how he manages to mix the look of Grace Jones, Kid ´n Play and Kim Jong Il without any trace of irony - and getting away with it.

Throwing the Muse

Grace Jones photographed by Chris Cunningham for Dazed. A pin-up for the 40+ set. Also worth reading to keep up with the coming Hurricane: State of Grace in the Guardian.


It appears that Grace and her team are trying to tick all the right (if obvious) boxes this time around.

EDIT: I fear that the "ticking the right boxes" ended with the (proposed) cover design:

The Man-Eating Machine

So this is the new Grace Jones teaser-video! It was the opening for her recent show in London, and appeared multiple times as a filmed-from-screen-vid on ytube. Watch those for great crowd reactions. Actually I would recommend to watch those "bootlegs" instead of the proper version because the song is such a disappointment!
It sounds like post "Mezzanine"-Massive Attack with a bit of dull Rammstein thrown in for the mainstream crowd.

But still: It is absolutely amazing! Despite using a cheap video by not-exactly-fresh-director Nick Hooker, who is doing this distorted mirror-thing for quite some time now. It all fits into the Grace-Image and it´s pretty freaky and in fact a bit scary.

As a teaser it is a wonderfully minimal attention grabber. But for the full album, which should be out sometime, I personally wish that Grace would deliver the most abstract, artificial-pop! Not something that sounds like a leftover from somebody else.

But I am probably missing the corporate point...

Grace Jones: A One Man Show

The one and only Grace Jones is rumoured to release a new album, produced by Sly & Robbie with the inviting title "Corporate Cannibalism".

Sadly this was supposed to have happened 2 years ago. But if you ever went to see Grace Jones in concert you know that she always liked to take her time. Sometimes she decided to go onstage when the majority of the audience had already gone home!
So, if it is coming out this year or in 2010...Grace is always worth it.

With this video I experiemented with the new service Omnisio which allows you to edit your own videos, or stuff you found on Youtube, into one consecutive playback!

For this I used the five parts of Grace´s legendary "A One Man Show". The whole thing clocks in at 43 minutes and features Grace performing her fantastic "Niteclubbing" material in her typical outfits and antics. It begins with her version of "Warm Leatherette", the sick hommage to J.G. Ballards great novel "Crash".