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Hear The Word & Flash Mob
July 13, 2010Hear The Word -Awareness Initiative
Tilda Swinton is the latest famous face to give her support to Hear the World, the global initiative launched by hearing aid manufacturer Phonak to raise awareness about the importance of hearing and the consequences of hearing loss. Each supporter has been photographed by musician and photographer Bryan Adams holding the Hear the World pose – with one hand cupped behind their ear to convey conscious hearing. For more information about Hear the World, the celebrity ambassadors and advice about protecting your hearing visit www.hear-the-world.com.
Hundreds joined Tilda in Edinburgh for flash mob dance
Tilda and film writer Mark Cousins lead the flash mob in the Laurel and Hardy dance at Festival Square, Edinburgh. Tilda is a patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, launched her new charity, the 8 Foundation, with what can only be described as a flourish. Gathering several hundred willing participants under the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, she led them in a soft-shoe shuffle known as At The Ball, by the Avalon Boys, originally performed by Laurel and Hardy, in an effort to create a “flash mob dance”, where a group suddenly and spontaneously start dancing in a public place. The instructions, disseminated online, were simple: watch the Laurel and Hardy clip, turn up at 11am and give it a whirl. The reason, declared Swinton, was “in pure unabashed celebration of doing something as a group and looking like dafties”. It’s certainly not the sort of thing you see in Lothian Road every day, as the confused people in the bus queue, not to mention the befuddled passers-by, would testify.
Afterwards, Swinton declared herself delighted by the whole event. “It was astounding,” she said, still catching her breath. “So much better than I could even have imagined. It’s so liberating to do something that feels like it could be completely impossible.” Using language only movie stars can get away with, she described the event as “the flower on the seed” of the 8 Foundation, and the flash mob event as “reliably random”. (Source: Scotsman News)
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Links worth checking out
- Trailer: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Video: Tilda Swinton On Rumors Of Her Love Life (CBS News)
- Video: Tilda Swinton: I’m Not An Actor (CBS News)
- Video: Humble Oscar Winner (CBS News)
- Video: Tilda Swinton on “I Am Love” (CBS News)
Win Tickets to the New York Premiere of I Am Love!
June 12, 2010New York Magazine has pulled together a fabulous competition where they are giving away three pairs of tickets to next Wednesday night’s glamorous, star-studded New York premiere and after-party (Tilda will be there!). What do you have to do to win those tickets? Compose a haiku about Tilda Swinton! Take part in the competition and read the complete rules here.
Scottish Fashion Awards and EIFF 2010
June 1, 2010Scottish Fashion Awards are taking over the entire Glasgow Science Centre complex for it’s 5th anniversary event where a host of fashion icons and designers are set to descend upon in 20th of June, 2010. And Tilda has been nominated in the Fashion Icon category along with Sharleen Spiteri, Gerard Butler and Paolo Nutini. Awards are sponsored by Vogue.com. Check out the official site for more info.
Edinburgh Film Festival, here Tilda comes
Sir Sean Connery, Tilda Swinton and Seamus McGarvey are all set to attend the opening night gala of the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2010. The patrons of the event will join French director Sylvain Chomet for the screening of his film The Illusionist on June 16 at the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF).
Source: Belfast Telegraph
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Links worth checking out
- Article: In the Works: Tilda In “Kevin”" (Indiewire)
- Article: The Actor’s Non-Actor: Tilda Swinton and the art of doing very little, exquisitely. (New York Magazine)
- Luca Guadagnino’s interview about I Am Love (FilmJournal)
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As a new feature I’ve added the ability to connect to TildaSwinton.Net with your Facebook login (made possible by WP-FB-Autoconnect plugin)! And why would you want to login or connect with your FB account to this site? Just simply to make the commenting easier. If you like it and use it enough, maybe I’ll treat you with more features – but Tilda will be the main thing here, not the features. And don’t worry, it’s all secure and safe and I won’t be able to access your FB accounts or e-mails etc. Let me know via comments or feedback form if there’s any problems with the login and I’ll try to fix them.
Tilda continues with Pringle
April 14, 2010Pringle Of Scotland are sticking with last season’s cover girl Tilda Swinton for autumn/winter as well! The actress was photographed alongside fellow Scot, and Turner prize winner, Douglas Gordon, both wearing pieces from the Pringle menswear collection. The campaign was again shot by photographer Ryan McGinley, in an abandoned oyster bay in Loch Fyne, and art directed by Neville Wakefield.
“There were really two moods that I felt strongly about for this campaign,” Pringle creative director Clare Waight Keller said “The first was to use the Scottish landscape in quite a surreal way, where Ryan’s spectacular lighting, especially in the night photography, really captured the haunting beauty of Tilda and her surroundings and the uniqueness of Douglas Gordon in a truly stunning combination.”
“The second was a slightly more boyish, ‘bovver boy’ feel, a bit more casual, hanging out at the back of a bike shed,” Waight Keller explained. “One of my favourite images is of Tilda in a beautiful mohair menswear suit, very Bowie-esque with a shock of red hair. The combined photographic talent of Ryan’s dramatic composition and light and Tilda’s luminous beauty have really distilled the blend of modern Scotland and the iconic elements of the autumn/winter collection in perfect harmony.”
Source: Vogue
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Links worth checking out
- Article: Tilda Swinton – A love less ordinary (ES Magazine)
- Article: The AnOther Proust Questionnaire | Tilda Swinton
- Video: Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino: a match made in arthouse cinema heaven
- Audio clip: Added to the site “Like This” by Tilda Swinton fragrance
Sneak Peek: “Like This” campaign & story behind the fragrance
March 17, 2010Here’s a sneak peek at the atmospheric ad, which as you’d expect with Tilda and État Libre D’Orange is certainly a change of scene from the usual headshot campaigns. What do you think of it? (Source: Bellasugar)
Photo: État Libre D'Orange
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Actress Tilda Swinton just launched her debut signature perfume called Like This, last weekend in Paris. The event took place at the boutique of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs on Saturday March 13th, 2010. Before the launch took place, the story of the scent starts with Tilda Swinton deciding one day to look at the world in a slightly different light and to leave a state that she describes herself as one of prolonged “olfactory laziness.” In this case, the inspiration came from perfumes worn by people close to her. The Scottish actress happens to be friends with one of director Almodovar’s fetish actresses, Rossy de Palma, who herself developed a perfume with Etat Libre d’Orange called Eau de Protection in 2008, one of those confidential, arty celebrity fragrances which are the purview of niche fragrance houses as the genre is now not confined anymore to the mass-market shelves. A second source for the new-found interest of Tilda Swinton for perfume was the sillage left by her agent who also happened to wear yet another Etat Libre d’Orange scent, Tom of Finland, another celebs scent of sorts (based on the defunct Tom of Finland’s erotic art.) The dices of fragrance fate were cast in this way and started rolling in the direction of the perfume house both conveniently located 69, rue des Archives in the Marais district in Paris… … read the full story
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