GATSBY
Gatsby (3:34) created by multimedia artist Moselle Spiller, features musician Elizabeth Devlin singing “Gatsby” in an animated exploration of flash mixed with photography and illustration. Playing with concepts of stop motion animated photography she creates a unique visual style that re-conceptualizes design in motion. The performance art / multimedia montage features clothing by Catherine Malandrino, Agent Provocateur, Betsey Johnson, Hue, Iodice, Thuy, Urban Outfitters, Vivienne Westwood, Victoria’s Secret and Wolford. Photography by Moselle Spiller and Indira Cesarine, hair by Rutger at See Management and Makeup by Lucky at Next.
CONTRIBUTOR’S BIOS:
ELIZABETH DEVLIN
http://www.myspace.com/elizabethdevlin
Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky. Elizabeth Devlin invokes influences from scratchy American and French phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies.
“All Are Relative”, Elizabeth’s debut full-length album, offers up a delicious residual hum of dreams and fantastic things; the ear should eat this album in one sitting. Although the individual tracks run a gamut of genre associations, they were conceived as symbiotic pieces intertwined, parts of a dynamic storybook, an audible, cerebral landscape. “All Are Relative” was recorded and produced with friend and musician, Kyle Avallone, in small town Belmar, New Jersey, located three blocks from the ocean, in a hundred-year-old house with creaky steps, a leaky attic, and several orphaned inhabitants.=
After self-releasing her full-length debut album “All Are Relative” in Dec 08, Elizabeth joins the BNS Sessions roster to internationally release “All Are Relative” with distribution through Cargo Records UK to retail and record shops throughout Europe along with Digital Distribution to ITunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Napster, HMV, and Virgin Megastore.
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MOSELLE SPILLER:
Moselle Spiller is a graphic artist and animator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Born and raised in rural New Hampshire, the daughter of bohemian-artist parents, her mother a painter & quilt maker, and father a stone sculptor. Moselle came to NYC at the age of 18 and attended Parsons School of Design. Even after 6 years in NYC she has retained a sense of the cosmic beauty of her natural childhood environment. Her designs take inspiration from early Rock N’ Roll / 60’s Mod style, with a Peter Max psychedelic feminine flair.
After graduating from Parsons, Moselle worked as Art Director for an international toy company based in Hong Kong. After an exhausting jet set year involving monthly trips to China, she decided to go completely freelance in 2008. She creates digital animations, websites, and graphics for local Brooklyn artists, photographers and songwriters. She also plays drums with her boyfriend, whom she lives with in Bushwick with their 2 pet turtles.
“My goal as a freelance artist is to stay true to my aesthetic spirit in whatever project I’m on. By remaining true to myself and enjoying my work, clients will come to me for what I am.
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INDIRA CESARINE
INDIRA CESARINE first discovered her love of photography aged 15, while taking a summer school course at Parson’s School of Design in Manhattan. By the time she had graduated high school Cum Laude from Choate Rosemary Hall, she had exhibited 4 one-woman shows of her photographic work at the esteemed Paul Mellon Arts Center. She was the recipient of Choate’s prestigious Kaufman Award in “Photographic Art”. While completing a triple major in Art History, French Literature and Women’s Studies at Columbia University in New York and Paris, France, she began shooting for a variety of top modeling agencies including Elite, Ford, and Wilhelmina Models. Once she finished her degree, she went to London to pursue her interests in photography and journalism. Within a year she was appointed Editor at Large of the British magazine “Don’t Tell It”, and began shooting for many magazines and clients in England, the US and Europe. She is currently represented internationally with agents in New York, London and Milan.
Her photography has been published in numerous international publications including British Vogue, British GQ, British Marie Claire, Tatler, Flaunt Magazine, British Esquire, Elle, L’Officiel, French Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, In Style, The Times Magazine, Grazia, Oyster, Out, Lush Magazine, Surface, Arena and Vogue Bellezza. She has worked commercially with clients including Cerutti 1881, Nino Cerutti, Charles Jourdan, Christian Dior, Kenzo, Seven Jeans, Agent Provocateur, Wonderbra, DIM, Passionata, Harvey Nichols, Neiman Marcus, Harrod’s and The Body Shop. She has photographed celebrities for such titles as In Style, Tatler, and Esquire including Alicia Keys, Collin Farrell, Dakota Fanning, Macy Gray, Amy Winehouse, Anna Paquin, Lauren Hutton and Jimmy Fallon among many others. She also has collaborated with record labels such as Sony BMG, Jive Records and Virgin Records.
Aside from her photographic work, she began her career as a director with the short film “City of Love”, which was featured at the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival 2007. In January of 2008, she was appointed Fashion Editor at Large of Lush Magazine. In 2009 she launched the online magazine “XXXX Magazine”, now The Untitled Magazine, showcasing multimedia based conceptual films, documentaries, photography and contemporary art. Other upcoming projects include “The Goddess Manifesto” a documentary, book and installation project, and “Inspiration, Organisation” a multimedia based non-profit group.
Indira and her work have been featured internationally on TV shows such as MTV, E! TV, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, HBO’s Special “Ford Supermodel of the World”, “Make me a Supermodel” UK and US.
