Things We Like: Hair Posters
For some of us, the best part of getting a haircut is checking out the salon’s posters of people with conspicuous hair. Designed for a hugely broad clientele, hair posters run the gamut from the informational to the inspirational. Depending on where you go for your coiffure, you might get plain, documentary-style snapshots that present haircuts like items on a Chinese-food picture-menu. Or you might find slick, composed shots flaunting poetic hair-structures that inspire patrons to make rash and probably regrettable decisions.
Some of these hairstyles resemble the plumage of exotic birds. Others, their nests. Some haircuts look like topiary or tortured lab animals, some like wedding cakes or charred sand castles. Others still look simply like it’s school picture day in an off-vintage.
We’ve cruised the interhairnet to bring you a deep gallery of the finest in hair posters. In doing so, we’ve noticed that most hair models seem unhappy or angry, quite possibly about the haircuts that have been inflicted upon them. In conducting our research we’ve also been reassured that what we consider our own bad hair days might not actually be so bad after all.
Without further ado, we present you further hairdos…
Interview With Photography Duo Tom Betterton and Jenny Gage, pt. 2
Jenny Gage and Tom Betterton
Like Reese’s peanut butter cups, the photography team of Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton is two great tastes that taste great together. Enlisting their services throughout the years, for clients such as Loewe and Kiki de Montparnasse, we’ve had the chance to witness their unique working process. Tom & Jenny took a few moments to answer some questions from Base partner Geoff Cook, revealing that their thoughts on photography are as rich and refreshing as their work itself. … more
Interview With Photography Duo Tom Betterton and Jenny Gage, pt. 1
Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton
Like Reese’s peanut butter cups, the photography team of Jenny Gage & Tom Betterton is two great tastes that taste great together. Enlisting their services throughout the years, for clients such as Loewe and Kiki de Montparnasse, we’ve had the chance to witness their unique working process. Tom & Jenny took a few moments to answer some questions from Base partner Geoff Cook, revealing that their thoughts on photography are as rich and refreshing as their work itself. … more
Milk Quietly Takes LA By Storm
The entrance to Milk LA includes massive steel doors that owner Mazdack Rassi personally designed in conjunction with the architects.
The Milk Group (a fashion, photography, art and media conglomerate comprised of Milk Studios, Milk Digital, Milk Equipment Rental, House and Legs) has opened a new complex in Los Angeles. Within Base, we’ve been jokingly referring to the new site as “The Taj Mahallywood”. … more
Retratos de Nueva York: Fotografías del MoMA
La Casa Encendida y The Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York –con el apoyo de The Internacional Council of MoMA– organizan esta exposición Un recorrido por la historia de la fotografía, con la emblemática ciudad como telón de fondo a través de la obra de más de 90 autores. … more
Axelle Red, A Newfound Relationship
Axelle Red loves Godiva
Belgian songstress and soul diva Axelle Red has collaborated with Base on three very different projects, each capturing the various aspects of her personality, each involving us.
For her new double album Sisters & Empathy, … more
Chen Chieh-Jen lleva su denuncia a La Fábrica
El artista taiwanés Chen Chieh-Jen, mundialmente conocido por promover la recuperación de la memoria histórica de su país, está expuesto estos días en La Fábrica (Madrid) con su trabajo Tribunal Militar y Prisión (2007-2008), que ya presentó en marzo de 2008 dentro del programa Producciones del MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid). … more
Interview with Photographer David Hughes
Scabal SS09 Campaign By David Hughes
London-based photographer David Hughes produces portraits, landscape, and still life images. Whatever the subject matter, his work carries a distinctive aesthetic, and is renowned for intricate details in prop styling. David is represented by M.A.P. and has worked with clients ranging from Burberry and Dunhill to the Tate Gallery. We collaborated with him recently on the photoshoot for the spring/summer 2009 campaign for made-to-measure menswear line Scabal. David took time out of his busy schedule recently to answer a few burning questions we’d been waiting to ask him. … more
Base and Opera, a Sexy Collaboration
Seasonal Poster, image by Eric Traoré
Since the arrival in 2007 of its new Director Peter de Caluwe and new Director of Communication Christian Longchamp, the prestigious Opéra de la Monnaie in Brussels has undergone some striking changes. … more