dna - shoe grafitti
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8/7/2019 DNA - shoe grafitti
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H I G H L I V I N Ghrs.Pune talking Aloe skin secrets p23
Preeti Devnani
So you own an expensive pair of designershoes for which you shelled out bigbucks… Yawn! Owning high-street labelsis passe; because it’s now cool to sport cus-tom painted shoes that only you own inthe whole world.
This new concept is called shoe graffi-ti. And one such shoe graffiti artist 20-year-old Bruce Dunn is busy turning hiscustomer’s boring shoes into snazzypieces of art. “One day I bought a pair of white canvas shoes. I found it boring andthus grabbed my paint brushes to make it
more colourful,” says Bruce.Sushant Chhabria, a fine art photogra-
pher who’s quite popular for shoe graffiti,says,“I once was on a look out for a partic-ular kind of shoe. As I didn’t find it in
the market, I took it upon myself to paintthe same one. It’s mostly teens and college
kids who like .” “The reason someonewould want to get their shoes to be graphi-tised is to reflect their own style. A rocklovergot me to paint guitars on his showswhile girls make me paint fairies and flow-ers on their footwear. One can have skele-tons,knives,bikes,hearts, their own name
or football club logos,” explainsthe creative junkie.Bruce says thebest kind of shoe to work on arethe canvas ones as opposed to Rex-ene or leather and he chargesRs1,200 onwards. Graffiti on otheraccessories like helmets, bikes,guitars, cafe walls, caps is also thein-thing.
16-year-old Vedika Puri, a stu-dent of St Mira’s says, “I had my pink can-vas shoes done up in gothic design with
hearts, crosses, stars and roses. It’s girlyand yet tom-boyish which is how I like it.Seeing them,my friend who is a Manches-ter United fan got his favourite footballclub’s logo painted on his shoes.”
HOOKAH
BOTTLE
MAKES A
FORTUNEAATT a recent Indian sale held atBritish auction house Bon-hams, a rare intact Mughalgilt-decorated glass hookahbase from the first half of the18th century created a lot of excitement.A Bonhams representativesays, “It sold for 1.6 million
pounds a whooping amountconsidering its higher esti-mate was just 12,000 pounds.The 19.5 cm tall gilded greenglass bowl has a globular bodyand short cylindrical neck witha rib. It is decorated with afrieze of poppy plants alter-nating with cypress trees.”
John Clough (1904-1947), ahigh court judge in Kolkataowned the hookah bowl and itwas passed down through hisfamily to the present owner.
Riddhi Doshi
.BUZZZZ... The Avatar effectfor Hrithik and
Rakesh Roshan!
Prithwish Ganguly
FILM-MAKERRakesh Roshan and sonHrithik will soon travel to Hollywood to woo
the visual effects company that worked onJames Cameron’s Avatar to provide special
effects for his movie Krrish 2 .A source says, “Rakesh has been very
impressed by the special effects of Avatar . He wants the same kind of ef-fects for Krrish 2 . So, what better thangetting the people who had done it forAvatar to do the same for Krrish 2 . Themovie will have detailed fight se-
quences, an opulent setand thus the visuals willhave to be breathtaking.”
The source adds, “Incase the creators of Avatar can’t work on the project,similar companies of re-pute will be approached.”
Moreover, Rakesh alsois keen to make Krrish 2 into a 3D movie alongside
the normal feature film format. “3D isthe new IT-thing in the world withAvatar , Alice in Wonderland , Clash of
the Titans and others being released in the
format. The makers will certainly weighthe pros and cons of making and releasingthe film in a 3D format in India and inter-nationally,” the source ends.
After being blown away by the special effects ofJAMES CAMERON’s movie, father and son
now want to rope in the sameproduction team for their next film
Hrithik
Roshan,(inset)RakeshRoshan
Graffitised shoesare the new‘sole mates’ forthose who loveto flaunt theirindividuality
SHO’E’ING OFFSHO’E’ING OFF
Shoe graffitiartist Bruce
Dunn