Sky Ferreira, the kooky pop misfit who recently performed in Hong Kong, was born in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, in the United States, and raised by her grandmother, personal hairdresser to the king of kook, Michael Jackson. After signing her first record contract, aged 15, Ferreira was told, “Don’t talk [to the media] about religion, sex, [or] drugs.” Last September, she was arrested in New York for possession of ecstasy and was later photographed topless in the shower for the cover of her debut album Night Time, My Time. The artwork was produced by filmmaker Gaspar Noe …
On July 28, 1750, the German composer died, aged 65, from a suspected stroke complicated by pneumonia. His grave in Old St John’s Cemetery in Leipzig lay unmarked for nearly 150 years. Today he is considered one of the main composers of the baroque period and his music has reached outer space, on the Voyager Golden Record. Two copies of the gramophone record, containing a spectrum of images and sounds, was on board the Voyager probes launched in 1977. The contents of the record were selected for Nasa by a committee chaired by cosmologist Carl Sagan …
In an interview with journalist Ira Flatow in 1996, Sagan quipped about the possible existence of extraterrestrial life, “It would save me so much effort if the aliens were here. Even if they are short, dour and sexually obsessed, as the alien abductees, so-called, claim.” In the same interview, Sagan mocked conspiracy theories surrounding the 1947 Roswell UFO Incident. Who knows whether aliens actually crash-landed on Earth that day, but we do know for certain that Roswell, New Mexico, is the birthplace of Demi Moore …
It seems ex-husband Ashton Kutcher wasn’t the only toy the 51- year-old actress liked to play with. Moore has more than 3,000 lifelike dolls, estimated to be worth more than US$2 million. In 2009, Kutcher told talk show host Conan O’Brien, “I think the dolls have souls. And they’re always looking at you – we have some in the bedroom and that makes things just weird.” In 1997, Moore appeared in a short fashion movie titled I Create Myself, shot by German photographer Ellen von Unwerth …
As a rebellious teenager von Unwerth joined the travelling Circus Roncalli as a magicshow assistant, handing blades to the knife thrower.
Much of her photography today contains allusions to her former circus life. In 2011, von Unwerth, who specialises in erotic femininity, produced the cover shot for the biannual fashion magazine Vs: a portrait of seductive coolgirl Sky Ferreira.