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We concepted this June, 2011 & made late August, 2011 at Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival, Sydney, in anticipation of and as a tribute to the latest Duran Duran Girl Panic! video directed by the master, Jonas Åckerlund & reuniting 5 of the world’s most famous Super Models. That's all we knew at the time about that one! All we wanted was to tribute it before it happened! The weird old thing about genuine approvals and painstakingly dotting the i’s, t’s and T&C's, is when you really want no personal gain whatsoever and wish to provide undying tribute to the music and the host of parties involved in making fashion happen, is how they all say yes when your views are zilch. But all start changing their minds, if your views start really hitting! The facts here is that everything (and that's everything!) was cleared with Duran Duran from late 2010 onwards & "I came by invitation" to MBFFS, complete with an IMB Fashion letter saying "we must be in that DD clip" - (the not for my profit YouTube Duran Duran Support I had decided to make and try and support various cancer charities with, particularly a Fashion Targets Breast Cancer initiative I knew was happening locally with MBFFS; but more critically around the world with our own Plaque Full of Likes initiatives, still happening now and already having helped build Smart Phone X-Ray. We’re still ‘living’ in hope for a lot more in the future). All was re-cleared and agreed on my birthday & OZ Father's Day, Sept 4, 2011. Ever since, I've been up against a Google Content Match Algorithm wall & a handful of deceitful flaggers and already proven bogus Flag YouTube Messages, who are somewhat jealous their own catwalk promo videos, photography (or even songs) were not doing, perhaps, as well. DD and their whole Girl Panic! team have always approved & supported us. Indeed, Jonas Åckerlund when shooting at The London Savoy what was going to become the Duran Duran Girl Panic! Viral said “Naomi, (Cambell) Cindy, (Crawford) Helena, (Christensen) Eva, (Herzigova) and Yasmin (Le Bon) all got inspired by that Aussie Mercedes Benz Fashion Clip”. To top that, as I’ve already said, we made it to highlight the work that NBCF were doing with a lot of their initiatives like Fashion Targets Breast Cancer or Runway for Research. Finally I thought, if these phones are so smart, an APP for early detection, must be possible....And it is! At what has always been widely publicised as the best MBFFS ever located at Sydney’s Town Hall, we teamed up with who has been widely tipped as the best ever MBFFS photographer, Elie Nakhell of ProPosed Photography, who was sponsored by Miro Door to be there and ProPosed’s Elie signed our release for 6 of his great shots and even acted in our fun Girl Panic! tribute. See ProPosed Elie’s comments in all the blogs and on YouTube and Google: “Proposed Photography Was Very Fortunate to Work with the talented Chris Simon. – Looking Forward to our Next Big Project!” Elie helped us again, this time working entirely under my direction with shots for our special three videos, including “Do You Know Where You Are”, that were sanctioned with remixes of The Man Who Stole A Leopard for the official 2012 Worldwide Duran Duran Appreciation Day that coincided with their exclusive pre London Olympics Performance. The worldwide sound recording administrators were also fantastic with their support and John Taylor of Duran Duran released a special message, remix MP3 and video to all DD fans on YouTube. Our three YouTube Support Videos using the DD The Man Who Stole A Leopard matched sound track are all linked to the same Plaque Full of Likes Cancer Cure Initiatives as all our Duran Duran YouTube Support Videos, starting from 2010. ProPosed’s Elie further stated: “For More info visit fashiontargetsbreastcancer org au is where you can find out more about the great cause!” That local initiative is still linked to the chrisMsimon YouTube “About” Tab, but as said, chrisMsimon YouTube Plaque Full of Likes is very much worldwide. ProPosed’s Elie has been a Godsend in support on this and other DD clips: “Proposed Photography Thinks you Rock Chris! Your So Good!” This FUN video made in 48 hrs of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival closing has always been 100% cleared and should be able to be seen worldwide and on all devices. Meantime, the incredible MBFFS 2013 just finished last month in Sydney and as can be seen in our 2011 viral support video, one of our super high fashion stores, Myer, always put on some amazing shows. Sydney comes alive again – the night after my birthday – when the real Panache starts with Myer’s rival store David Jones playing wipe out with the ultimate pop-ups, paparazzi, bloggers, dj’s, celebrities, stylists, fashion designers, catwalks and amazing ambassadors like Wonder Woman herself, Megan Gale. This dynamic Super Model who took over Italy is an intelligent whirlwind of a girl and has an exclusive Isola Swimwear edit in David Jones to kick off Vogue Fashion’s Night Out, on Sept 5th 2013. And if Megan’s Swimwear Range doesn’t atomize or give you heart attacks or the best birthday present on Earth; check out Jessika Allen range, Nick Smith hosting Men’s Summer Trends, The #WEARE campaign styled by bloggers’ Harper & Harley’s Sara Donaldson and A Fox That Meows’ Rochelle Fox. And from cats that scratch to some of the bench marques like Camilla Franks’ Summer Range. I chin wagged with her at some show somewhere once and she is certainly or supposedly popular on a worldwide scale. Anyway, even at the worst of times, Sydney is often only about exclusive offers, celebrities or VIP parties, but you should really try to get to St James – Hyde Park, just as the sun goes down on September 5 and you’re finishing work and you can really participate with the runways and live shoots and really gr8 charitable institutions like Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, which is all about research to give kids a healthier future and certainly would be supportive of what we have always tried to achieve with our Plaque Full of Likes’ initiatives which have never been only to do with Fashion Targeting Breast Cancer or Runway for Research, but building an app that can early detect in all youngsters for both breast and other forms and one day cure. I’m in awe of the iconic Anna Wintour who invented VFNO throughout every Fashion Capital of the World and really puts fashion in the hands of the punter with some incredible interactions. I met a graduate Town Planner the other day, who was really switched on and wanted to travel the world and I started thinking about some of the best or most amazing installations I could inspire her with and Anna Wintour, VFNO and retail displays kept coming into my mind, (along with an interactive rubbish tip I designed for The Fairfax Museum once)…But I love how VFNO does not only stretch the globe, but even driving around the corner from my studio before you hit the City CBD lights, cameras and actions of Vogue Fashion’s Night Out, places like Stockland Merrylands under the hanging shirts artwork have got all the local and Parliament House camera guys posing as paparazzi to red carpet everyone. Face painting becomes far more than just kids’ animal faces, with amazing fashion artists designing a whole range of public face masks, tattoo art and all sorts that I’d kill to have in my next abstract movie. There’s the wonderful McGrath Foundation doing very similar work to the MCRI. There’s pamper lounges and all sorts and its all down to this amazing one worldwide idea of Anna Wintour that’s been innovating for 4 or more years now. We should get her working on some TV-Ad men’s T-Shirts ;) Ha, ha, lol. But seriously, Sydney’s second City, Parramatta should never be under estimated. The local council have come into their own lately…Not so much with the parking outside my studio, but certainly with community artistic stuff and shows at Riverside Theatres, where not long after Vogue Fashion’s Night Out they are showcasing our own Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) web series Post Life, that was launched in November 2012, training up emerging filmmakers in scriptwriting, directing, editing and cinematography. From there a production team was created and the seven part web series was filmed in Parramatta and went into the editing suite at ICE ready for the launch on 10 September 2013. It has been made by one of the youngest, most inventive and most multi-cultural teams on Earth and I’m hoping to dip into ICE on my next project because they are certainly the largest non-government community arts organisation at the forefront of cultural engagement and creative practice in Western Sydney and they’re right on my doorstep. Problem is you may have heard that Sydneysiders have this thing about Melbourne and Melbournians have this thing about Sydneysiders. It’s why a Steven Spielberg Space Craft was symmetrically altered to pave new streets, synthetic fountains and build a new City in nearby NSW/Victoria border bush called Canberra, to become the Capital because Melbournians wanted Melbourne and Sydneysiders wanted Sydney. However, you can go there now to get your Music Videos created and they do rather still have a reputation for watching lots of those other types of videos that apparently Miley Cyrus really likes. In fact, one of those Grrr Nation Ad Men, or was it that Wrecked for Success guy who doesn’t like Campaign Briefs…I get so confused nowadays, because apparently you can only get into the comms business if you are a reality person on ten (?) ;) ;) Ha, ha, lol, as they say. No seriously, one of those, eh, Ad, eh, Gurus was going on about how this year’s Federal Election, (like The General Election in the UK) can only be won by Twerking. Wait a minute. Hey you in the black T-Shirt? Did you not mean Tweeting? Anyway, I digress, the Information and Cultural Exchange is way cool and it’s often the case that multicultural creative outposts like this unearth new talent. Talking about Triple J’s Unearthed, they voted local, Meri Amber’s song, “Share My Time”, number one. She, (Meri) is not a Parra lass actually, she’s from nearby Granville, (still Parra, really), but it’s not so much the geography that’s important; unless it’s Google Maps, because she is in fact showcased on the Google + Artist In The Plus Channel and on their compilation download, with her hit song and clip, “The Loveliest Guy I Know”. This rather cool new lady singer – songwriter has that unique thing of being both a superb musician and superb filmmaker who launched into our Google world late September last year with her first really public video and song, “Overtime”. And it looks as though Meri might be doing lots of overtime herself – worldwide – if she keeps churning them out. So before she becomes Empire of the Sun, check her out at her launch of some 5 or 6 new songs she’s themed as Wandering MP and there’s a 7.30pm show at The Newsagency in Marrickville late September, I think…It’ll be all over Google…Oh yeah, she nailed a song about the operating systems war. I love that ‘cos I was penning lyrics recently about exactly the same Android vs. iPhone thing and I’m rather hoping Meri is agnostic, ‘cos that would make her a real Pop Star as far as I’m concerned? But I bet she’s just iPhone, Ha, ha, lol. But I don’t suppose it matters too much with the raging views she’s getting. I wonder if she digs Melbourne or even Andy Warhol…..Samsung Note or S4 anybody?…Now Andy would have loved one of them………for 15 minutes….

 

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