photo by Nobuyoshi Araki

Diane Pernet literally has a shaded view of the world through her uniform of veiled headpieces and black sunglasses, which make her one of the most iconic figures in the fashion industry today. She is responsible for championing the fashion film and nurturing it’s many forms, initially in the You Wear It Well competitions and now with the ASVOFF Festival. This September during Paris fashion Week the Centre Pompdieu will host the city’s first fashion film festival. Over the three days there will be screenings, installations, presentations and discussions and I’m sure some of the most incredibly dressed folk you might ever see and black, black and lots more black.

The full Main Stage schedule for OFFSET2010 is now online. There is an intensive programme of presentations planned for the Main Room Stage as well as daily screenings of short films and animations curated by Darklight. They are also delighted to be showing a screening of I’m Here, a creative collaboration between Spike Jonze and ABSOLUT Vodka.

Programming for the second room at the conference is ongoing but will feature breakout sessions, Q&A’s, workshops, smaller presentations and more we’re still working on. Details in the next couple of days.

There are two great filmmaking competitions at Darklight this year. ‘Free Your Film’ is a commission to make a short film for a budget of 3k and ‘My Environment, My Film’ is a viral competition and the prize is a HD camera.

Both are linked off the main Darklight website.

NYC’s finest art collective Faile have gone and outdone themselves yet again. As part of Portugal’s Arte 2010 festival they have taken their iconic 2d creations and brought them to live in 3d and then went one step beyond to create a “future temple” to house them all in. Every detail is considered, every single inch of it treated with love and attention, every element is unbelievable. The piece was meant to only be up for a couple of weeks but such is the interest, both locally and people flying in to see it, that it will be extended for a couple of months. Check out more pictures here and here. Also, here’s the making of, the effort just blows me away.

2 years in the making, the PhotoIreland Festival is almost upon us. Starting 1st July and running for 10 days there’s over 30 separate events spread right over spaces all across the city featuring the finest Irish and international talent. Fair play to the organisers of this, they’ve managed to pull together a hugely innovative, interesting and eclectic variety of projects, exhibitions, workshops and screenings. Make sure you make it down to some and support it.

You’d think with the sun scorching all around us that people would kick back, take it handy for a couple of months, and get stuck back in when Mother Nature and Jack Frost conspire against us all once more this Autumn. Not so it seems as there’s plenty of events upcoming that are worth getting out and supporting so forget the football, Big Brother and Pat Kenny on The Front Line and get stuck in at some of these…

Super8 Shots Festival in Galway opens tomorrow with a fantastic, varied lineup.

The first Pecha Kucha Night Belfast tomorrow night!

King of Concrete promises to be the biggest yet with over 10,000 people expected over the 2 days to see bmxers, skaters, breakdancers, artists, djs and much more rocking Wood Quay and venues all over town.

And if that hasn’t you out of the house enough, our friends at For The Love Of have teamed up with Castlepalooza and Re-Dress and have just released the brief for anyone creative to get involved. Click here for the 5-0.

We had the great pleasure to welcome Harry Pearce of Pentagram to Dublin for OFFSET 2009. The video of this fascinating presentation is now online…enjoy!

Killruddery Film Festival is a four day repertory film festival taking place from the 11th to 14th of March in Killruddery House, just outside of Dublin of particular interest are a long list of rarely seen contemporary and silent classics.

Above poster by Gav Beattie of Tiny Little Horse, who as we mentioned earlier have a show of their posters opening tomorrow night at The Shaw Space.

Now here’s a great idea for a creative event. A Design Film Festival 2010 happens at the end of this month in Singapore and features an eclectic selection of the best documentaries covering various aspects of the creative arts (architecture, graphic design, art, photography, motion graphics and guerilla culture) from the last couple of years.

With the event design by Felix and all the good people at Slint it can only do well. Would be great to see an event of this calibre on this side of the world.