It has been about a week since Victor was invited to the opening party of George Logan's Red Road Project exhibition in the Village Underground gallery ion Shoreditch. He was invited for the obvious reasons that you can see on the picture here (the blurry figure in red T-shirt). That's one of his first modelling jobs for an editorial shoot as part of Logan's private project. You can have a look at the rest of the photographs on his website www.georgelogan.co.uk.
Víctor has been a busy bee lately! He has had several photoshoots a week for the past few months, he's been catwalking at London Fashion Week (and at Reading Fashion Show for that matter), he's had exciting editorial shoots and even more exciting fashion events. A few posts back I mentioned his business cards that are now ready. As the cards feature his brand new website address, then that address needed to be populated as well. So, here you have it, Víctor's very own personal modelling website
Mad Cow Club is our product range featuring the Estonian animals. As mentioned, the first producs are a selection of button badges that come in pairs - one badge featuring the animal and the other badge the sound the animal makes. There are twenty all together, so make sure to collect all of them. To take advantage of the animals' madness, mix the faces and sounds up!
The calendar for 2010 is one of it's kind! As far as I know, it is the first ever CD calendar produced for Estonian market. It is a very basic and elegant concept. All twelve months are printed on loose postcards that fit into a specially designed CD case. All the photos used for our design are taken by me.
All the products are available to buy from Santa Katariina gift shop in central Tallinn or directly from my company. The onilne shop is not ready yet, but if you really must buy something, then send an email to info@svenskarello.ee with your request. :-D
Víctor is doing better and better as a model and it is only natural that he has his own business card and website to show off all the cool work he has done recently. So, I've designed both of these for him. The business card is the first one done and the website is to follow shortly at www.victorcalderon.co.uk. The photograph on the business card is not by me, though. It is the excellent work by Jun Tan.
That's it, I quit! I gave my notice to Red Bee Media last week and I'm leaving the job in a month. Meanwhile, I'll start working for Sony. Not that I didn't like it in Red Bee. Actually, I will miss all the nice people in my team, the weekly commute to Ealing Broadway and the fact that I knew everything they show on the Estonian Television two weeks in advance, even though I haven't watched it for the past 5 years. It is a perfect job for a student, but now that I have graduated, it's not challenging enough for me anymore.
Seega, kui Londonis on mõni eestlane, kes otsib tööd, mis oleks lihtne ning tasuv, siis minu töökoht on nüüd avalikult saadaval ning ootab pinevalt uut kontorirotti. Töö oleks ideaalne tudengile, sest kontoris peab käima ainult kord nädalas, tavaliselt neljapäeviti, aga sobivad ka reeded või esmaspäevad. Üldjuhul on see töö üsna paindlik. Töö ise on lihtsamast lihtsam, copy-paste, ning oskustest tuleb kasuks inglise keel ning loomulikult eesti keel, sest kogu töö on just nimelt eesti keeles. Palk on piisavalt hea. Minu puhul kattis terve kuu üüri (pole paha kord nädalas kontoris istumise eest). Red Bee Media on väga suur meediafirma, endise nimega BBC Proadcasting ning CVs on see vägagi preštiisne. Kirjuta mulle, kui oled huvitatud ning ma suunan edasi. email@karelpolt.com
Ise aga suundun edasi Sonysse ja alustan juba kahe nädala pärast!
becoming-animal
Digitally composed photographic prints
700 x 700 mm
All available for purchase individually or as a set of five
Photographic prints on the differences between being human and being animal, inspired by contemporary philosophy, sci-fi, National Geographic and other more or less unrelated sources.
http://www.karelpolt.com/show/0910becominganimal/index.html
Opening night:
Tue, 13th October 09, 7pm
Exhibition runs until 5th November 2009
Venue:
The Box Cafe Bar
32-34 Monmouth St
Seven Dials of Covent Garden
London, WC2H 9HB
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As it says, LFW is celebrating it's 25th year. For me it was the third time and as usually, working thanks to Frédéric and for Frédéric, which means that I've got my experience from both the catwalk and from the backstage, but these pictures here are really his and will end up in the Japanese style magazines Soup and Elle Girl some time later this year. That makes me happy enough. I wish I had more time to go and see the shows, but not this year. I have a massive jewellery job on my hands right now. Enjoy the pics from LFW shows Margaret Howell, John Rocha and Osman. www.fredericaranda.com
You should know by now that Victor and I took part of a music video shoot a couple of months ago and the results of the lovely evening with disco rhythms are up on YouTube! Look closely at 2 min 8 sec into the video and you'll see Victor in a stripy shirt saying CLUB on it and me in a green v-neck. If you look even closer you might spot us again for another couple of very short moments, including me covering the whole screen with my big head. Shena's Nasty Little Rumour has been out for a month now and it was filmed by Sam from Hi-Gloss Productions.
Santa Katariina is the newest and probably the sweetest souvenir and gift shop in Tallinn. Well, at least they are sweet enough to sell my designed products. My latest design for them are the new business cards with matching flyers. www.santakatariina.ee
Millbank Interiors' Boys is now officially open and for everybody to admire at the Box Cafe Bar in London's Covent Garden. The opening party yesterday night was a success with more people turning up than I ever expected. Thanks to Devon and David from Millbank Interiors the flow of champagne was seemingly endless and made the guests even happyer than they already were, despite the gallons of water pooring down all day.
Dan the Builder and Devon having a photo-op.
Pretty boys.
This scan is from the latest Japanese Vogue that marks me as a Photo Assistant for the London part of the feature on partying Rococo style. The photo itself is, of course, taken by the fabulous Frédéric Aranda who, by the way, is having the first ever solo exhibition soon (more about that in near future). Vogue Nippon October 2009 issue is in stores now and demands your attention on page 118 where the tiny footnote makes my personal history. Stressful but cool shoot took place in the fanciful Commercial Tavern of Shoreditch.
Vogue Nippon
Frédéric Aranda
This month Millbank Interiors is celebrating their 35th anniversary! The London's longest running gay building company started as something exclusive and unheard of, but has over the years broadened their clientele to anybody who needs to refurbish or redecorate. You can read all about them and their lovely maestro Devon Buchanon on their web site. There will also be feature articles on Millbank Interiors in the October issues of the two biggest UK gay magazines GT and Attitude, along with this new advert celebrating the anniversary.
As you have probably noticed, I have done a lot of design work as well as photography for them over the past few years, including all the designs for their print and web advertising. Now there is going to be a chance to see all these designs together at an overview exhibition, all printed in large format and mounted on the wall. All the prints are available for purchase in case you were wondering. ;)
You are more than welcome to join us at the opening party of the exhibition on Tuesday the 15th of September in the Box Cafe Bar in London's Covent Garden!
Millbank Interiors' boys
Opening party - 15th September 2009, 7pm
Exhibition runs from 12th September to 8th October 2009
Mon - Sat: 11am - 11pm.
Sun Noon - 10.30pm
At the Box Cafe Bar
32-34 Monmouth Street,
Covent Garden,
London,
WC2H 9HA
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All they needed were a few corporate mugshots , but Stuart, Brett and Alexa from SAV certainly know how to turn something as mundane into an easygoing and fun happy hour. Pun not intended, but it was Friday and it was the right time and they do have a fridge in the office. Or was it a wine cellar...?
Here you can see their favourite office equipment at work - the wind machine - for some office glamour.
www.sav.co.uk
Thanks to Sam from Hi-Gloss Productions, Víctor and I took part of filming a dance sequence for the music video of the next single from English disco vocalist Shèna. The filming took place yesterday in the downstairs dance hall of Electric Showrooms in Shoreditch, which has a cool 1970s style colourfully lit disco floor. What fun, considering that I cannot dance. Luckily there were professional dancers and naturally bubbly personalities to save the day! I'm not sure when the single is out, but have a look at her website and her YouTube channel for more information. There are also videos of her previous singles there.
Hi-Gloss Productions
Electricity Showrooms
The Graduation Ceremony took place exactly a week ago. This only shows how busy I have been in the meantime. Or maybe not...
Three years ago, when I started the course, there were people who said I will never finish it as I have better things to do in my life. Apparently, I don't. Now, three years later I'm at this lovely cathedral next to the Imperial War Museum, wearing a silly hat and a silly gown, feeling slightly like a character from Harry Potter books (without the magic) and enthusiastic about the future prospects, despite the economic downtime and soaring unemployment rates. I'm happy the course is over.
To be honest, I don't actually have the important paper to show that I've graduated. It will be posted to me in September. The whole ceremony was a bit of a circus, but no worries. I've got my provisional grades which will most probably be the actual grades.
I finished the BA (Hons) Digital Photography course at the London South Bank University with an overall grade of 2/1 (which in other languages might mean Very Good or second best, just a bit short from Excellent). A result I am very pleased with.
The result for the final project 'becoming-animal', on the other hand, is a cause for celebration! The amount of positive feedback I received was not exactly overwhelming, but dizzying for sure. Final result for the project: First (Excellent)
Last week I was assisting Frédéric on two shoots in a row. First, there was a feature story for GQ Japan on a happy office environment that is being promoted by the people who have this wonderful Spider-Man Cow in their foyer. The company is playfully dubbed What if? and organisers get-away office meetings for brainstorming and inspiration.
The shoot that followed was for Vogue Nippon and featured three beautiful girls at one of the most bizarre and interesting venues in Shoreditch area, the Commercial Tavern, an old favourite of mine.
Both shoots were by Frédéric Aranda and should by out the next month.
So, there you have it. This is my over-romanticised touristy postcard photograph from Egypt. Nearly as perfect as ever! Even the modern solar ship museum in front of the Great Pyramid doesn't show, not to mention the busy metropolis of 20 million people in the background that is masked by haze. There are more images in my Egypt gallery on Facebook.
Everyone in Egypt has their own mud-brick aparment with a mud-brick satellite dish on the roof. 'A country of contrasts' is not a clishé in Egypt, it's the everyday reality. A crazy, surreal, medieval, modern, pharaonic, Roman, Christian, Hebrew, Islamic, eastern and western all in one. There are superhighways through the desert, goats and camels eating from rubbish (like alley cats in Europe) in central Cairo and there is Coca Cola, but it's called something like this
But of course, Víctor and I had a lot of good time there as well. Most of it spent under water, admiring the wonderful world of coral reefs off Sharm el Sheikh. After the traffic mayhem of Cairo, camel rides and stinky pyramids, the retreat to the sea is the best one can do in Egypt.
It was about time to renew the Millbank Interiors business cards with the revamped logo and updated font type. This time David got his own card as well.
For Devon's personal card he wanted me to make use of an old heraldic symbol of the Grana family from Italy, of which he is descended from. Originally the castle boasts gold and the bird is in silver, picking a ripe red pomegranate in the middle. In all, I have boosted the colours and added some gradients to give the shield a more contemporary look.
For Dmitry's personal card I have designed a completely new symbol, the DB logo. DB stands for Dmitry Bychkov, but can also be used for Devon Buchanon, with the only difference in the head on top of the shield.
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