(models Lonneke Engel and Doutzen Kroes)

Last night, at their home in Rockefeller Center, Christie’s Auction House hosted the likes of Salma Hayek, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Ted Danson, David and Susan Rockefeller, Matt Lauer, Brian Williams and Anne Curry as they all bit to save the Earth. “The Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth,” the first ever carbon-neutral auction, raised over $1.3 million to benefit four major environmental not-for-profit organizations:

- Conservation International
- Oceana
- NRDC
- Central Park Conservancy.

(Salma Hayek in Balenciaga)

Donated auction lots, including works by Damien Hirst (which sold for $80K) and David LaChapelle (Daphne Guinness took home his “The Rape of Africa” for $45K, following a rather intense bidding war!). The final lot, a round of golf with former President Bill Clinton, took home a whopping $80K, ending with resounding applause as the gavel struck!

(Miranda Kerr in Temperley London)

(Ted Danson, Boxer Andre Berto and the evening’s emcee Chevy Chase)

Starworks Group is proud to have created the branding, identity, marketing materials and website for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts through our branding arm – Marque. Last night, Glasgow’s vibrant art scene took over the city as its museums, galleries, and many other spaces showcased the work of both Glasgow-based and international artists in a vast array of exhibitions and events, celebrating the very best of contemporary visual art.

Over 50 artists are presenting sculpture, drawings, installations, films, videos, sound works, performances and music in venues ranging from the city’s renowned Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum -taking part in this growing event for the first time – to the Hunterian Art Gallery and Tramway to diverse artist-run collectives, small galleries and temporary sites.

With many projects revolving around the theme of ‘past, present, future’, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art opens today, 16 April 2010 for two weeks. The Festival’s exhibitions program is complemented by a lively series of talks, screenings, seminars, performances and other events.

Artists include: David Shrigley, Susan Philipsz, Douglas Gordon, NVA, Joseph Beuys, Christoph Büchel, Leslie Thornton, Graham Eatough, Keren Cytter, David Maljkovic, Gerard Byrne, Linder David Noonan, Claire Barclay, and Jim Lambie.

www.glasgowinternational.org

Hello Starworks readers. Today I write my final post for the Starworks blog. It’s been 4 years since we proudly launched this blog for all our Luxury brands, magazine clients, and overall friends in the industry. The years 2006 to 2010 have been a whirlwind of activity in the field of New Media, Advertising, Publishing, and Film — all topics you’ll hear me writing about on future endeavors at Sugar Barons, “All Things Digital, Film, Arts & Culture”.

As you know, my mind thinks in terms of music, so this has been the tune I’ve been humming all day…a joyful favorite — “Adieu, Adieu, to you and you and you”…. For my last post, I thought I’d cull together some flashbacks working for Starworks. Here ya go….

My Top 5 Memories at Starworks

(Spinning Costello Tagliapietra Fashion Show)

5- All the cool Fashion Week gigs I DJ’ed for Starworks clients and beyond — La Perla, Costello Tagliapietra, and Sue Stemp… in addition to the other Fashion Week days and nights backstage snapping pics for our blog with the most talented Starworks PR girls.

Read Fashion Week DJ post
Read Fashion Week post 2
Read about Colette Party / Fashion Week

(Underwater Model for Mnemosyne)

4- Shooting underwater in a pool at night at a Hollywood movie lot (where The Abyss was filmed) in order to film Daphne Guinness’ art short for Mnemosyne. Our entire crew was is scuba gear pulling an all-nighter, including David Parker and Kai Regan.
See the Making Of Video Mnemosyne
Read Daphne Guinness Q&A
See Behind the Scenes at Mnemosyne

(Director Brody Baker at Sundance Film Festival)

3- All the Sundance movie trips with Greg Krelenstein and Marni Golden, where we deliriously (yet blissfully) screened up to 5 movies a day trekking in the snow. My favorite year was when we cast the experimental art shorts for the New York Times website (T Magazine) entitled Take, Utah directed by Brody Baker.
Read about Take, Utah, series

2- My voyage to Art Basel last year to shoot a series of videos for New York Times website with 6 artists. The memory includes Director Crystal Moselle, Photographer Dan Martensen, several Scarface quoting in Miami, and pulling all-nighters editing the video for 24 hour turnaround on the website. Ahhh, the deadlines for New Media. We love the pressure.
Read about Art Basel series

and the #1 memory working at Starworks is… (drumroll please)

1- Strolling into the Rockstar Games headquarters in New York with Karl Lagerfeld on one arm and Daphne Guinness on the other — to discuss getting Karl’s image and voice into Grand Theft Auto IV. It was a “home-run” meeting. Pretty classic.

Available now on the smartly curated Iconoclast website, 2 pieces from some of my favs — Geoff McFetridge and David Shrigley. Get them before someone else snatches them up.

David Shrigley
Don’t make wild promises which you can’t keep, 2004
Offset print on archival paper
22.8 x 15.7 inches
Edition of 100
Dated and signed by the artist
($150.00 USD)

Purchase David Shrigley piece

GEOFF MCFETRIDGE
Recent Work, 2009
Softcover color offset book
10 x 7.5 inches
First Edition
($14.00 USD)

Purchase Geoff McFetridge piece