Cinema Paradiso David Smithson looks at the birth of the Cannes Film Festival and Bali’s place in the history of celluloid. There aren’t many things we can thank Mussolini for – but if it wasn’t for Il Duce we’d be stuck with the Oscars, and Brigitte Bardot would never have been tempted to dip her [...]
Stephanie Cornfield Stephanie Cornfield has shot some of the world’s biggest stars. She talks to Salvador Bali about access, adrenalin and fortuitous encounters. Stephanie, click away… I’m Stephanie Cornfield, I was born in Paris, but travelled frequently to America. I have dual citizenship – French and American, but with mixed origin, French-Italian on my mother’s [...]
Earth Calling Bowie David Bowie owes me three dollars, writes Sarah Douglas. CELEBRITY sightings are so common in New York that the natives have engineered a convincingly pseudo-cool façade for such encounters. Naturally there are some that excite more than others. It’s good if they are actually doing something – an underground show, falling on [...]
All I Can Mike Pohorly talks to Canadian filmmaker David Mossop about the genre-bending ski movie All.I.Can, currently the top downloaded documentary on iTunes. David, Bali is home to surfers and surf filmmakers, what are your thoughts on the relationship between surfing on water and boarding and skiing on snow? All board sports are intrinsically [...]
Paranoid Android Andrew E. Hall fights to reconnect. A disconnected generation hung up on the virtual world. How do we keep it real? Virtual reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of the imagination. – Frank Biocca et al in Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality Really? And there [...]
Bryan Ferry smashed me at table tennis Drew Corridore Gets A Lesson In Life From A Bat-Wielding Pop Star. WHEN I was a chipper, chirpier, version of the ageing rapscallion I’ve become, I had the best job in the world. It was one of those things one did to afford the books and birds so [...]
Heroes Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name – Sir Walter Scott and/or Thomas Osbert Mordaunt By Andrew E. Hall When you hear the words “hero” or “heroine”, who comes to mind? Maestro, some think music please [...]
Jimi Hendrix Stole My Jacket A big night out in the Big Apple sees Salvador Bali relieved of his jacket by a young musician named Jimmy James. In the mid ‘60s I was one of two resident DJs at the Salvation Night Club, which was one of the hot spots on West Fourth Street and [...]
Boomtown Bali All the marketing talk is about and “tranquillity” and “lush tropical vegetation” and “ancient rituals”. But Bali is on its way to becoming a city without even trying: the urbanisation of Bali is under way and nobody seems to be in charge. People fell over laughing in 2009 when the magazine Conde Nast [...]
Fads The last 50 years in 4,000 words (or the Death of a Hipster in something less). Andrew E. Hall gets it on. WE’RE going to take a little trip. No, not Timothy Leary-style, but we’ll start our trip in the decade he was famously quoted as saying: “My advice to people today is as [...]
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