View From The ZOO 2005 [The ZOO]

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
strength comes from ideas, intelligence and out-of-the-box thinking, not a 'Giant's' bankroll.

'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

Visit Scott Harrison's exhibition 'Mercy', at the Metropolitan Pavilion
August 29th to September 8th
123 West 18th St. 4th fl.
New York. NY 10011
www.mercynewyork.com

Matty Charles

Met up with ZOOZOOM's own Rob Hann to go and see his good friend Matty Charles playing at 'The Living Room' in the Lower East Side. Rob described Matty as the best unsigned act he knows. Well who needs signing, Matty's selling CD's at ten dollars a pop and guess what, the money's all his, no middle man. Visit his site MattyCharles.com http://www.mattycharlesmusic.com make a purchase and keep the music live. more...

Visit Matty Charles

Legs McNeil

CBGB book launch at CBGB

CBGB's threw a party last night to launch their self titled book that celebrates 30 years of photographs taken at CBGB's. A publication made all the more poignant by the fact that 'rumor' has it that CBGB's will soon be closing its doors for good; their lease is up and the landlord wants to raise the rent. At first glance, it looks like it's a case of a scum sucking capitalist pig putting the squeeze on the little man, but after last night I'm thinking that cbgb's is either cheap or crap at business and maybe both. While nothing much has happened there for the past 20 years and with almost all the Ramones dead, it's still an institution in the New York Music scene with great brand recognition.

So they have a book launch, but they won't let me look through the book, "If you want to have a look, you can buy one up front" I was told as I casually flipped through the pages of books piled high on the stage. PR lesson #1: if you want free press let me look at the fucking book. PR lesson #2: invite some people who are under thirty. It was like geriatric rockers night. I couldn't get near the shuffle board; sure these guys are part of the institution that is CBGB's but surely some other bands of significance have played there in the past 20 years.

So spend a little money on marketing, work that brand and you might be able to pay the man and keep the music live.

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The 'books' in question

Photographer Janette Beckman

Photographer Cody Smyth

Chris Carraba of Dashborad Confessional

Danny Fields and Arturo Vega

ZOOZOOM joined Liz Goldwyn in her daring cut out red outfit (seen above) and her entourage of bold and beautiful friends at Marquee, to celebrate her debut documentary 'Pretty Things', which is due to premiere on HBO July 19th. With a bottle of Vodka costing $295 dollars and my plus one not offering to pay, we stuck to the free mini cans of Sofia California white wine being served by models in training. Unfortunately there were no celeb spottings (well not anyone I recognized) but there were a bevy of beauties and their older male friends getting on down to some classic disco tunes. more...

Visit Pretty Things

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Visit Pretty Things

Pyjamas were the required dress code for Scanty's pyjama party held at Movida. And with a free bar to spur the crowd on, everyone got involved in a few games of twister and the hula hoop competition.

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Visit Movida

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Visit Movida

MediaPost picked up our Spoof Ad yesterday. Read what they have to say about it.
We have also expanded our comments to answer some of the questions we have been asked about our Spoof Ad. more...

View the magazine.org Campaign

The hot and trendy Soho crowd descended upon the Spencer Brownstone Gallery on July 7th to view its new group exhibition patriotically titled 'Red White Blue'. After viewing the pieces, which ranged from photography to sculpture, the crowed spilled out onto Wooster Street sipping their complimentary can of beer and continuing the opening with a block party.

Many thanks to TIME.com for listing ZOOZOOM as one of their 50 Coolest Websites in 2005.

TIME.com:
How do we come up with our 50 best? Short answer: we take your suggestions, probe friends and colleagues about their favorite online haunts and then surf like mad. This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.

TIME.com says about ZOOZOOM:
Impressively-designed 'zine featuring high-quality, full-screen photos of beautiful models in designer clothes. Musicians and artists are also featured, along with more serious works of photojournalism.

Other must-clicks Include: New York Public Library's Digital Gallery, Overheard in New York, PublicAgenda.org, FlavorPill.net and SeatGuru.com.

An ice replica of Unit #2 Diptych melting outside Citizen : Citizen's ICFF 2005 Show in Brooklyn.

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Citizen : Citizen

A gold plated saw horse by Philip Wood. Set of 4 comes with hand made box [$1.900].

A cold metal sprayed English school desk by Jimmy St James [$9,500 - SOLD].

Citizen : Citizen

Images from CITIZEN : Citizen's ICFF 2005 Show

CITIZEN : Citizen are our great friends and we went to one of their ICFF shows this Sunday at the Tribeca Grand. It was a fantastic show.

Citizen : Citizen

Our great friends and we went to one of their ICFF shows this Sunday at the Tribeca Grand. It was a fantastic show.

Macromedia Site of The Day

Thanks to Macromedia for featuring ZOOZOOM as their Site of the Day. Obviously we're big fans of Macromedia, where we would we be without Flash, the program that makes ZOOZOOM's design and interactivity possible. We'd be frustrated I guess because all our ideas about big originally commissioned fashion photographs and video content together with our ideas about non-intrusive full screen rich media advertising would be just ideas, or worse we'd be pumping out banner ads and irritating pop-ups within a sea of tiny pictures, just like the rest of the web. So we say thanks for the recognition and we feel good in the company of Mini, The Grammies, IBM, Audi, FIFA and Boeing: other great brands featured in the past month.

ZOOZOOM nominated for Best Fashion Site in the 2005 Webby Awards

ZOOZOOM Won the 2002 Webby Award and is thrilled to be nominated for a second time.

Webby Awards
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The other nominees are:
Alexander McQueen
Hint Fashion Magazine
Nike Genealogy of Speed
English Vogue

ZOOZOOM Launches New Site

ZOOZOOM is proud to announce the launch of its new website to coincide with the start of Fashion Week in our home town.

Please enjoy the new stories and functionality (you can print and email stories). Please spread the word. Please let us know your thoughts.

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