2FACED1.com shows one persons two different faces in photos;
Persona 1: WHAT YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED AS
Persona 2: WHAT YOU FEAR TO BE CONSIDERED AS
This leads to a discussion about stereotypes and inner fears of getting misunderstood by the surroundings. Thoughts that every thinking modern day person does reflect upon. We're asking people from an innercity context where old categories as ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality and class are reassessed, why they choose to look like they do. We’re diggin' deep, peeling off garments, codes and attributes. We’re searching for transnational identities - is the conclusion that we choose whoever we want to be today?!
A 2FACED1 STATE OF MIND
A 2FACED1 is highly aware of existing stereotypes related to your own ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality and class. You’re trying to avoid them but sometimes also play with them to make people think twice about who you are. Two faced doesn’t mean anything negative here, it explains the double folded view you have on identity if you’re not the existing norm. It means you have the feet in different worlds, can move between them but feel rather at home in that space in between. You've stepped out of your comfort zone and have become one of the new identities where ol' categories are mashed up and rootlessness and non-given identity just means major possibilities.
2FACED1 is a state of mind, 2FACED1.com is a display-window for that mindset and the network of 2FACED1 includes all of you progressive, non-stereotypes with a double perspective on identity.
2FACED1.com:
Decida - Editor, Founder, Creative Director Oscar Stenberg - Web, Photography Linn Marcusson - Writer, Style Assistant (Gypsie's Mega Trip) Spoek Mathambo - (the Zombo Blog)
2FACED1s:
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THIS SITE LET YOU SEE THE WORLD TROUGH A 2FACED1'S PERSPECTIVE!
One of very few fashion shows for me this Stockholm Fashion Week, since I have my hand's full with other things. Met up with Ann Sofie and Jennie over at Back 1,5 week ago and heard the collection was something for the chicks with the ruff edges, ah yeah chicks such as moi and the R, and I think I do agree. Remixing is what I do, remix is what I am.
Ps. That's why you need to be on Sergels torg on Saturday the 4 th 12 o'clock to defend your right to remix and #StopActa
The Japanese Art Director / Costume Designer / Graphic Designer past away yesterday at an age of 73. Huge inspiration, wish I've gotten to meet her. Read more about her here.
The year was 1995 and "Brown Sugar" did hit us like a bomb, here came this dude bringing back the organic sound of music back before the computer came into the game, still mixing it with the existing hip hop attitude and spot on modernity. He could play all instruments, he wrote and arranged all material and he had done his Prince homework, he had done his Stevie Wonder homework, done the Marvin Gaye homework but still he embodied the year of 1995. In a body that looked hella good doing it.
The album was rock solid, each song was amazing and "Brown Sugar" became a blueprint for what later on came to be called "Neo Soul".
We waited for five years, a groovier but oh so good "Voodoo" was released in 2000, and with it the classic video of "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" featuring a naked D'Angelo. In July same year, the Circus concert here in Stockholm, and this certain concert was something extra ordinary. (det finns en bootleg på denna fantastiska konsert också). I was there and most of my friends too, and we keep the memories from it in a special part of our music hearts.
The years after some few guest appearances.
Then the wait started.
We heard he had alcohol problems, heard he had drug problems, heard he didn't feel well, saw a mug shoot where he looked more like Ol' Dirt Bastard than himself. (Spin - D'Angelo What the Hell Happened 2008)
And we waited for so many years we forgot we were waiting.
And then the news came. D'Angelo will start his new world tour in Stockholm, Sweden, 2012.
Really?! Sounded way to fecking amazing to be anywhere near true. But I went all in and got my tickets on the first row in the center in front of the stage.
January came. What would he sound like, what would he be like, what would he look like?
Not until he actually got up on stage yesterday I was sure that it would happen.
And there he was.
Came on in a studded long black leather jacket, soft trouser suit (no it was not jersey's!), a black bandana and hat. Kind of D'Angelo so to say, but still with a little newer update. Started of pretty cautiously with a guitarr, but the voice was intact and when he removed the guitar and took of the jacket revealing pipes thicker than we remembered them, I think the whole audience felt a relief that he wasn't in such a bad shape. - This could actually become a pretty ok concert, we thought. Well he was a bit thicker also over the stomach area, and then it was this hair-do that would have made a crack head look good(unnecessary evil might one say, but then again this is the hottest guy during the 90s - he's gotta give us normal-looking people that...). But what was making him shine was his little patent smile.
Yes the night was a bit over-filled with funk (and that is coming from a person that got a company name like Funkorama who got funk in all her bones) in the way a lot of American artist from a certain era tends to do it - because they know it's considered "real music", it's something they know, have the skills for and feel safe to lean back against. And I think D'Angelo needed that after a 10 year long concert hiatus. Therefor it sometime became a little bit too much of James Brown inspiration, add the always present in D'Angelo's world; Prince. Everything wasn't super tight (remember I compare him with himself 12 years ago not to some random artist), but for being the first concert in so many years this was a really nice surprise! It became a great concert, with "Shit Damn MotherFucker" as a high light among others! And the new song "Charade" (?) was pretty amazing, not predictable at all! Really promising. I'd love to see him in a couple of months with 25 shows under his belt and then we're talking!!! With that a certain self confidence comes, a self confidence that hopefully also helps D'Angelo to define what his own artistry really, really is about again. Being so close on the first row, I got to see all the small nuances of the body language you not necessarily sense at a concert. This is me Dr Philling it up, but I think I saw the little cute boy in him, the playful, charming but yet very careful little boy who just wanted to make music his own way, not really caring about good looks or sexual symbols. And I'm just happy he found his smile again.
And I ran out of batteries (amateur!) but Mr D got more pics that I wil put up later. Below is some videos I found and yes 4.37 you see moi in my striped shirt and hat hehe. Btw, learn this if you are on the front row it's not ok to sit down, you have a responsibility to give energy to artist in front of you if you're front row. A live performance is a dialouge.
New song Charade
New Tune: Another Life (it's me again in the left corner hehe)
New song: Sugar Daddy
Also notice he had legendary Pino Palladino (born in Cardiff, so I can guarantee he's a 2FACED1!) who was playing the bass guitar on the Voodoo album with him. Cool geezer! (To the left next to drummer above)
I don't have a clue what it says other than Japan + Fashion but my fellow (and moreover self fuckin made) girl Tiffany Godoy looks great as always over at nippon.com
It's Monday but you better start planning for next Weekend!
Street Star has been around a while now, 7 years to be exact. I worked with organizers Martin and Jocke the first time it was organized in Sweden, and a lot has changed since then. We got tons of great freestyle dancers in Scandinavia! I just can't wait for next weekend cause I think there will be some amazing battles!
Streetstar Festival 2012 26-29 Januari
Workshops på Dansens Hus 26 och 29 jan och battles och shower i Solnahallen 27 och 28 jan.
Ett utav huvudprogrammen under festivalen är Juste Debout Scandinavia, uttagningar till världens största tävling inom de stående Streetdance stilarna, Hip Hop, Locking, Popping och House. Utöver detta är det även Breaking battles inom Crew (grupp), Voguing och Waacking battles samt shower och workshops med den internationella juryn.
Hosts: ADL och Aaron Phiri
TÄVLING: 2 personer kan vinna 2 biljetter var genom att maila mig varför just dom behöver dessa två biljetter på hi2faced1@gmail.com, senast torsdag den 26 Jan kl 14.
See you there!
BTW: Don't forget to vote in Kingsize Awards, Category Dance here
OLD SCHOOL and NEW SCHOOL at the same time - in Stockholm! Tomorrow see you at Berns Inner City (no Kevin Saunderson though) then Marie Leveau with ballroom DJ MikeQ!!!
I would guess not even 10% of the innovation internet will bring to the life of mankind has yet been fulfilled. We have the possibility to connect to people all over the world in a way never before witnessed, that changes things (as we for intance seen last spring)and we've just seen the very first % of that change. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) are devastating to our future.
SOPA and PIPA are badly drafted legislation that won't be effective at their stated goal (to stop copyright infringement), and will cause serious damage to the free and open Internet. They put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. And, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
SOPA and PIPA represent a legal strategy that focuses the attention of business leaders on stopping losses rather than promoting innovation and building new products.
Beyond damaging free speech and the Internet, bills like SOPA and PIPA damage industry by reinforcing an untenable faith in the status quo, and an equally untenable fear of innovation. It reveals a mindset that continues to hold back media companies as they vie to compete on the new platforms that have already transformed their businesses, ready or not.
I don't live in the United States. How can I help?
Contact your local State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or similar branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and any similar legislation. Calling your own government will also let them know you don't want them to create their own bad anti-Internet legislation.
Menswear week over here goes on! Over at Vouge.it you find Monsieur RZA along with some Swedish representation, the WeSC headphones (more about that collabo you find here), shot by Nabil (videos for Bon Iver, Kanye, Frank Ocean, Rhianna, etc), interview by Simone Tempia. It's an interesting article and of course my boy RZA is another one of them Occupy proponents.
On Obama, on power:
"He tells me how he feels Obama’s election contributed to this change. “I never thought this could happen. Before Obama, I thought there was a law in the U.S. Constitution that prohibited an African-American president! Instead, it was liberating and it will be especially positive for future generations. Unfortunately, in politics, as in life, actions and words are on two sides of the same coin, and we’re experiencing this from a social and humanitarian perspective. I believe power is truth, but that’s difficult especially when economic interests are involved, especially in favor of a very few, which is what the Occupy Movement «the other 99%»believes».
I admire Obama, even if I realize that it will be extremely difficult for him to keep all his promises. Here’s a practical example that concerns me: I had the same problem with my first film «entirely filmed in China over a 9-month period», “The Man with the Iron Fists”. At the end of the film – which I will only say is a story about money, revenge, and freedom – there’s a scene that required a stairway to explode. Everyone agreed when the script was approved, but when I filmed it I had endless problems. I had to cut it. I’m not a politician – I prefer being spiritual – and I know Obama is in good faith. He entered the White House with the best intentions, but he didn’t consider the fact that everyone, even members of his own party, would have stood in his way, trying to discredit him at every step. It’s all about negotiation, just like in Hollywood. Power is a bitch. It bites you back"
And in the end a headnod to Versace, wich leads you back to yesterdays post further down in this blog!
"I also like Prada & Versace, especially Versace, who isn’t afraid of using color and prints. It’s the perfect Italian gangster style."
is our Editor-In-Chief and founder of the 2FACED1 project.
Stereotypophobe, stylosopher, popculture head and first and foremost a 2FACED1 droppin' visual innercity philosophy that might look kind of Ghetto Barouque. Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Her solid background includes posts as:
- Art Director/Graphic Designer
- Stylist
- Writer
- Dancer /Stage Director/Choreographer
CONTACT: decidastyle@gmail.com
METAL MAGAZINE described her as follows:
”Decida is a pop cultural nerd, music fiend and global inner-city citizen based in Stockholm. A "Jackie" of many trades who realized that the message is more important than the type of media you're working with, She has a background in social studies and graphic design, and is currently a Creative Director and a stylist or "Stylosopher", as she likes to say. "I'm one who uses clothing as codes for identity, knows the brand history both the official one and the one of the streets and sees style as a reaction of the society it's created in" she says."
