floria sigismondi, photographer and director from canada.

floria sigismondi (born 1965 in pescara, italy)
is a photographer and director.
apart from her art exhibitions she is best known for directing
music videos for christina aguilera, muse, the white stripes,
david bowie, sheryl crow, the cure, björk, amon tobin and marilyn manson.
Broken Boy Soldier

her parents were opera singers.
her family, including her sister antonella, moved to
hamilton, ontario, canada when she was two.
in her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting.
from 1987 she studied painting and illustration
at the ontario college of art & design.
when she took a photography course,
she became obsessed once more,
and graduated with a photography major.
floria Sigismondi started a career as a fashion photographer.
she came to directing music videos when she was approached
by the production company the revolver flm co.,
and directed music videos for a number of canadian bands.
her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works,
located in sceneries she once described as
"entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings",
attracted a number of very prominent musicians.
with her photography and sculpture installations
she had solo exhibitions around the world.
her photographs also were included in numerous group exhibitions.


in October 2004 she gave birth to a daughter, tosca.
the father is her husband living things frontman lillian berlin.
floria resides in toronto and new york.

lenka, the ethereal songstress from australia.

there once was a little girl. she was born in the bush.

her parents called her lenka. her first friends were trees.
her father played the trumpet, she sang with him when she was 6.
she grew up a bit. they moved to the big city (sydney).
she went to school. she danced a bit. she acted a bit.
she went to art college. she started to sing a bit more…
she joined a band called decoder ring.
they created an album called somersault,
which was the soundtrack to a feature film called somersault.
it won lots of awards. she got called things like an “ethereal songstress”
a “pocket rocket” and “breathy, strangely haunting.”
she flew on a plane and landed in los angeles.
she hid away in studios and emerged with new songs.

i'm totally in love with her image, tailor made on her,
thanks to a great artist as james gulliver hancock.

soon a post dedicated to him.

cocorosie, american sisters from paris.

bianca casady's art

bianca casady's art

bianca casady's art

bianca casady's art

bianca casady's art

cocorosie is an american duo based out of france and formed by sisters
bianca leilani "coco" and sierra rose "rosie" casady in 2003.
sierra and bianca casady are part native american sisters.
sierra, the older of the two, was born in iowa, and bianca was born in hawaii.
their mother nicknamed them rosie and coco, respectively,
from which their musical act takes its name.

their mother, a teacher and artist,
would compulsively move the girls across the country
from one state to another.
their estranged father traveled around the usa
teaching in steiner waldorf schools,
and was involved in shamanism and peyote religion.
sierra and bianca spent their summers
hiking from reservation to reservation with their father.

when sierra was 5 years old and bianca 3,
their parents divorced.

in 2000, at age 20, sierra moved into a tiny apartment
in the montmartre district in paris,
to pursue a career as an opera singer, studying at the conservatoire de paris.

during this period, bianca studied linguistics and sociology,
and pursued her passion of visual arts and writing.
she also collected a variety of tattoos,
and was known to attend controversially "ironic,"
white-held "kill whitey" parties in williamsburg, brooklyn.

in 2003, bianca was growing restless and decided it was time for a change.
she left her apartment in brooklyn to travel the world.
unexpectedly, she showed up at sierra's apartment in paris.

over the course of the next two months,
the women spent nearly every waking hour in sierra's apartment.
soon, they had completed both a hip hop recording (never released)
called "word to the crow" and their proper debut album “la maison de mon rêve”.