I like it when someone shares something with me that I have never heard of before. So I have the very talented retoucher Dan Watkins to thank for this posting. A few years ago Dan did some retouching for me on a shoot we did for Marisota that was shot in Portugal… fast forward to a few months ago and Dan and I bumped into each other at a talk I was giving about how Advertising Agencies are embracing all forms of digital video.

Yesterday Dan shared a riveting talk with me by Malcolm Gladwell on spahetti sauce, which if you get time you simply have to watch. But what Dan has done is more than that. He has shared with me a fabulous website that is full of inspiration… a website that I have never come across before but I am now kicking myself that I have not known about sooner.

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Back when I got my first job in 1996, my Creative Director gave me a book to look at called ‘LaChapelle Land’ that simply astounded me. Needless to say I hunted down my own first edition numbered copy… and it takes pride of place on my bookcase at home.

‘Heaven to Hell’ is LaChapelle’s third in a trilogy that began with ‘LaChapelle Land’. The images contained within the pages and follow in the same astonishing, color-saturated, and provocative style but this time there is more of a reference to Renaissance, art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globalized pop culture… hence the title ‘Heaven to Hell’.

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