View From The ZOO 2005 [The ZOO]

The BUZZ

It's your chance to meet the authors and artists involved with the truly fabulous powerHouse Books. We've featured some of them here on ZOOZOOM and are looking forward to meeting them at what's been billed as the 'Drunkest Book Party You'll Ever Go To'. We've attended powerHouse events before and we're sure we won't be disappointed.

ZOOZOOM readers :: You're Invited!

The MV Gallery of Photography would like to invite ZOOZOOM viewers to the opening reception for their exhibition "Out of the Shadows - The unseen work of Walfred Moisio 1910 - 2001" It's on December the 9th between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. The Gallery is located at 33 Little West 12th Street #204 New York NY 10014

Don't worry if you can't make it, we'll be running a story on Walfred Moisio in the coming weeks.

ZOOZOOM was awarded a silver Davey Award in the website magazine category.

'The Davey Awards is an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding
creative work from the best small firms worldwide.

'David defeated the mighty Goliath with a big idea and a little rock. That is the sort of thing small firms do every day. The Davey Awards honors the achievement of the 'Creative David's' where
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'The Davey is judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), and
underwritten by The Creative Group, the leading creative professional staffng company in the
world, ADWEEK magazine and FSB (Fortune Small Business magazine).'

Many thanks to the IAVA, The Creative Group, ADWEEK and FSB.

Got a chance to see C Gibbs play live at the Gershwin Hotel, New York last night, He'd just returned from a tour of the 'South' where his country sound infused with New York attitude served as a reminder to our kissin' cousins that there's 'modern country' north of the Mason-Dixon. [David McIntyre] more...

It's official, but still secret, McEye Media have launched celebritycrack.com. It's the place to get your celebrity fix. It's still in beta, still testing, still building, but it's looking good, unless you're Paris Hilton!

Visit Ricky Powell's exhibition 'Public Access' at the powerHouse Gallery.
Opens Thursday, October 13, 2005 and continues through November 11, 2005
Reception is on Thursday, October 15, 2005, 7 to 9 p.m.

Jimmyjane :: A Product With a Lot of Buzz!

With stockists that include Jeffrey and Space NK, and mentions in W and Elle, Jimmyjane are causing quite a buzz. Their products are elegant, sophisticated and sexy. These purveyors of gold and platinum plated pleasure are not for the faint-hearted. more...

Images from Janette Beckman's exhibition 'Made In The UK' at the powerHouse Gallery. photos by Jon Espinosa

Londoner Janette Beckman began her career at the dawn of punk rock working for The Face and Melody Maker. Beckman photographed groundbreaking album covers for The Police's first three albums. Moving to New York in 1982, she was instantly drawn to the underground hip hop scene. Her photographs of the pioneers Afrika Bambaataa, Run DMC, Salt-N-Pepa, and Grandmaster Flash are collected in RAP: Portraits and Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers (St. Martin's Press, 1991). Beckman's work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Glamour, among others. She lives and works in New York. more...

We particularly like the Limited Edition of two hundred copies that include a copy of the book in a slipcase designed by Paul Smith, with your choice of one of ten images from the book, signed and numbered by the artist. The Paul Smith Limited Edition

Janette with Vivien Goldman.

Images from Janette Beckman's exhibition 'Made In The UK' at the powerHouse Gallery.
photos by Jon Espinosa

Visit Janette Beckman's exhibition 'Made In The UK' at the powerHouse Gallery.
Opens Thursday, September 15, 2005 and continues through October 6, 2005
Reception is on Thursday, September 15, 2005, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

We will be featuring a story on Janette's exhibition this fall. In the meantime, Janette Beckman says:

Once upon a time in the UK, before MTV and big business took over the music industry, before people became obsessed with money, before the time of stylists and expensive designer labels, when bands had total artistic control, anything seemed possible, there were no rules and they were making it up as they went along.

Just out of art school, I was working for the music paper Melody Maker taking photos of three or more bands a week. Around the corner in Covent Garden was my attic studio and darkroom - a tiny room with no heat and a bucket to catch the rain dripping through the hole in the ceiling. It was right in the centre of London, close to all the best clubs, pubs, and cafes, and my rent was $70 per month. Brilliant.

The bands were just like us, a mix of mostly working-class kids and former art students. There were no publicists to keep you away from the band; you traveled with them on the coach, hung out in the bar, ate in the caff, went to the sound check, and poked your camera wherever you could.

The fans were often friends of the bands. They looked fantastic: punks, skinheads, rockabilly, 2 tone, self-styled kids with that attention to detail. They were wearing bin liners (garbage bags), shopping at jumble sales, army surplus stores, ripping up their mum's old sweater, sticking a few safety pins in their school blazer to look good. It was the D.I.Y. aesthetic and it didn't cost anything.

You didn't have to follow the traditional idea of beauty to be a star. Think Poly Styrene with her braces on her teeth and wild hair singing 'Oh bondage up yours'; Shane Macgowan, the spotty punk; Jerry Dammers with this front teeth missing. Style, attitude and music were everything.

As Dee Dee Ramone said '[Punk] gave everyone a chance to say something. That's revolution'. And despite unemployment and 'No Future', many people look back on those years between 1977 and 1983 affectionately as one of the last times that their generation felt so happy and carefree.

New York, July 29, 2005

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