Showing posts with label modeling industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modeling industry. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2011

Begging Me -First song from Florrie's new six-track EP out two weeks from today, June 14th


Florrie - Begging Me (2011)

Some of you who come to the blog fairly regularly -and esp. those of you who have a highly-tuned pop sensibility that more closely mirrors my own than your friends' or that of the town you live in- have already dropped me an email or two (or ten) asking why I've been so slow to post this first song video from the second Florrie Arnold EP -six-tracks!- which drops two weeks from today, June 14th, when it's been on so many other websites already.
Good question.

Mostly, it's because I wanted to wait 'till this weekend since my intuition has always been that the original release date announced, in late May, would not prove practical for one reason or another.
I guessed right, too, since the news about the release date change came a week ago today in a post by Florrie herself at her website, ending
There will be more news coming over the next few days as it gets closer to the new deadline :) Sorry that you guys have to wait a bit longer, but I promise it'll be worth it!

Since I last posted on her back on March 5th, 2011 in a post titled, Say hello to Florrie - She's musically ship-shape in Bristol fashion, always equipped with a beat & melody -and has a voice & face you won't forget, I've come across her very useful BBC artist page, which has links to all of her various appearances on the myriad channels of the BBC mother-ship, national and local.

Earlier this month Florrie was the cover subject of the Sunday Times Style supplement and someone, perhaps one of the perceptive management consultants she uses, even was smart enough to see the wisdom and humor of snapping a photo of her reading the magazine with just one eye peering above the magazine.

Check out that March post of mine out and then check the following for more info on this amazing dynamo:
Florrie's official website, where you listen to her introductory EP, with FREE downloads:
Florrie's official YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/florriemusic

And we'll now end this post with her song from last year that still pops into my head every week at the strangest of times. Where was this song when I was at IU and could've used it?


Florrie - Give Me Your Love (2010)

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Newest incarnation of 'When Fashion Meets Finance' now offers patina of high-mindedness -former wannabe-philanderers are now do-gooder philanthropists



New York Times
Dealbook video: When Fashion Meets Finance.
Reported by Mac William Bishop, May 6, 2011.
http://youtu.be/un8PHTmlfyI

Groovy! Newest incarnation of Fashion meets Finance now offers patina of high-mindedness -former wannabe-philanderers are now do-gooder philanthropists.

Conspicuous consumption has now morphed into charity work.
Now THAT'S how you successfully re-boot!
http://www.fashionmeetsfinance.com/

NOT that this would ever work in Miami!

This video reminds me a lot of the low-seat bar area at the W Hotel in San Francisco, circa 2000. There were, literally, SO many attractive women crammed into the place that it was actually disconcerting, but not for me and my former housemate from Arlington County, who was now living out there, but for the new women arriving into the area, as they took one look around at how crowded it was with over-the-top beauty and just fled, perhaps in terror.
Jamie and I just watched in disbelieving amazement!

In these new photos from the W website, it doesn't look the same as it did, which is a real pity:

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1153&language=en_US

In actuality, this event took place at
the Bar Basque at 29th Street & 6th Avenue in Chelsea
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/dining/reviews/16rest.html

Gawker's treatment of the NYT's original story from 2009:
NYT Infiltrates Fashion Meets Finance, Possibly Leaves Scarred For Life http://gawker.com/#!5333486/nyt-infiltrates-fashion-meets-finance-possibly-leaves-scarred-for-life

http://gawker.com/#!395246/can-i-call-you-uncle-bill-a-harrowing-account-of-fashion-meets-finance

This story made me think of... ABBA's "If It Wasn't For The Nights"



video: ABBA - If It Wasn't For The Nights- HQ (Japan 1978 - Version 2 - Original Sound Mix )
http://youtu.be/Ev8COPj2teQ


Album version of the song from
Voulez-Vous:


ABBA - If It Wasn't For The Nights
http://youtu.be/cygAFdzCcdU

More great high-quality ABBA videos are at Shay's second YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/2Shaymcn