#salon dada

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Salon Dada - Chien de Pavlov

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Salón Dadá | Salón Dadá CS

Gente Insaciable

Pero Nada

Virginia

Clavicordio Sin Fin

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Anonyme, vue du Salon Dada, Paris, Galerie Montaigne, 6-30 juin 1921.

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Anonyme, vue du Salon Dada, Paris, Galerie Montaigne, 6-30 juin 1921.

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Salon Dada, Paris, Galerie Montaigne, 6-30 juin 1921 [affiche/poster], Strasbourg, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain.

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The Tao of (dry) haircutting . installation #04 . 07.29.11

The Tao of (dry) Haircutting ... Mode iQ & The Human Element

Haircutting is both a science and an art. The science of haircutting reveals the tools, pathways and secrets, which unlocks the door to the spiritual art of revealing true beauty. 

I began cutting hair 38 years ago during what I affectionately refer to as the “silver era” of geometric haircutting. More than 30 years ago, as my understanding of theory progressively developed, I realized dry haircutting had more value than simply “cleaning up the line.” I soon discovered there are unique benefits from both wet haircutting and dry haircutting.

In wet cutting we see the directional patterns of growth and the distinct planes of the head. With dry haircutting we see movement and feel the texture of the hair.

My friend and mentor Vidal Sassoon once said, “For me, haircutting is architecture with a human element.” For 50 years we’ve explored the architecture of haircutting. That architecture was the inspiration for geometric haircutting. A clean single fluid line and the architecture of graduation becomes a geometric shape. The geometry of haircutting is classically fulfilled while executing a wet precision haircut.

But, what of the human element?

For me, the human element of haircutting is communication and physics. Like the fine art of bonsai… the human element is at once attainable and elusive, fleeting, yet available. It is the perfect synergy of material (hair), skill (technique) and being (communication).

The human element is poetic; it is spiritual. Haircutting technique exponentially expands when elementary relative and quantum physics are explored in relationship to haircutting and the client experience. The physical haircutting mode and the exploration of the human element become available by expanding the client conversation and dry cutting skills. 

The divine sculptor, Michelangelo, “sees the angel waiting to be set free” carved from the stone; the revolutionary painter Jackson Pollack, “see what wants to be painted” on the canvas.

The post-modern hairdresser has the opportunity to “listen for for the style waiting to be heard” and “look for the beauty wanting to be  seen” touched by the muse, feeling, revealing and unconcealing inner beauty. A discovery of self... exceptional professionalism... mastery of craft... cool iconicStyle & a commitment to the extraodrinary with a keen awareness of the arts, style, fashion and culture at large

If we can think geometry and practice geometric then we can think physics and practice physical hair. 

 FS ƒ HCT3  

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TO BE CONTINUED...

"Be cause; New York is wherever I am."

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© 2011 David Kinigson and the musified group. all rights reserved.

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iconic style manifesto . installment #02 . 07.19.11

iconicStyle manifesto (elemental 5)

I . street history... habitually 'burban (earth)

History tells us fashion habitually looks to the "street" informed by the youth culture. Not long ago, in an analog era, fashion inspiration took years to gradually make its way from Paris, Rome, Milano and New York to 'burban communities.

II . asphalt culture... devilish whimsy (fire)

No longer confined to the asphalt jungle, fashion inspiration is neither mandated by the haute couture runway, nor is it dictated by the devilish whimsy of Prada-draped editors.

III . cyber ethos... conscious collective (wind)

Once known as the sub culture, or the underground, high fashion is currently clued up by the diversity of a global cyber ethos instantly connected by technology. The street? Your neighborhood? This collective consciousness association is the Cyber Hood.

IV . cool fusion... alternative inspiration (water)

A cool fusion of art, cinema, sounds and 'zines; graphic, film and digital; photography, design and video cam; analog, pop, club kids, grafitti, gender bending androgyny; old school, new school, no school, street wise, hard knocks, back in the day; vinyl, lo-fi, high brow, unsub, no wave; demographic database, snail-mail-junk-mail-spam-mail-direct-mail, mad ads and profile marketing; editorial, original programming, theSpace, faceSpace, myBook, goohoo, yoogle, yoo hoo, apple core, soft porn, déjà vu once more; the world wide internet and social media networking.

V . a pure space of nothing (the void)

This cultural paradigm shift opens the door to the muse and the assimilation of "the everything" stimulated by the collage of alternative inspiration. The (hair) artist has an opportunity to take a quantum leap outside their creative box so that they might create from a pure space of nothing where the muse and reality fuse... translating alternative inspiration into cool iconicStyle.

(TO BE CONTINUED) 

"From one thing know ten thousand things." miyamoto musashi

 "Be cause; New York is wherever I am."

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coming in (a) future installment(s) ... 

"being a heterosexual male hairdresser is just like being god."

"the last starlet"

"initials d.k.n.y."

"a science, an art and the human element"

"the tao of (dry) haircutting" ... 10 dry cutting secrets revealed

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© 2011 David Kinigson and the musified group. all rights reserved.

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UPCOMING DAVID K EVENTS...

our next academy workSpace is... 

progressiveDesign . trinity 102 . seamlessBlending 

the art of dry haircutting for maximum appeal and movement

July 24 & 25 2011 (demonstrations, theory & "live" hands-on)

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to register for progressiveDesign or any academy workSpace or for more information about booking an onLocation customDesign workSpace at your salon...

contact us at 561.340.6400 or [email protected]

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© 2011 David Kinigson and the musified group. all rights reserved.