As a true “cat person”, or “cat’s mom”, today I want to share with you this amazing photo of Brian handling an adorable white cat with a different-coloured eyes.
There
are a lot of quotes by Brian about appreciating and treasuring any
kind of uniqueness proved, in fact, by all his life and career. I
think this special cat could be pretty nice symbolic illustration for
that.
By the
way, most of you probably know that David Bowie had
seemingly different
coloured eyes. Bowie's
right eye
was blue, while his left appeared dark or brown. This unusual
appearance was the result of an injury, happened to David when he was
15, that caused anisocoria, a condition of a pupil being permanently
dilated.
So,
Bowie didn’t have true heterochromia when humans, or animals, have
two different-coloured irises genetically, but in terms of uniqueness
it doesn’t really matter. David Bowie admitted that he was actually
happy about that injury that gave him gave him “a kind of
mystique”.
Back to
this exact picture, it’s taken from the photoshoot commissioned to
British photographer Neil Cooper in 1998 for October issue of Select
magazine. The whole article was written in a very specific manner
though, and the white beauty was called “Cat From Hell": a fluffy
white bag of pure evil, which has clamped its jaws around the thumbs
of nearly everyone in the room at some point. It hates all humanity,
it exists solely to bring pain”. Well, the journalists’ visions,
as well as their hunting for some hot topics, get mostly lost in time
but great pictures stay, living their own life, and may be
interpreted in different ways - just like the songs sometimes…
PHOTOGRAPHER
INFO
Being
an owner of Jet Studios in London now, Neil
Cooper has been taking original and inspiring photographs for over
20 years creating a lot of
iconic images of the
90’s Brit Pop era.
As we
can see his collaboration with Placebo who never belonged to the
mainstream worked out perfectly as well.
In a
field of fashion, beauty and advertising
Cooper’s
editorial credits include Q Magazine, Cosmopolitan, You Magazine,
Sunday Times Style, Reveal, Now, Instyle, Marie Claire, Elle plus
many international titles. Commercial credits include Jaguar, Louis
Vuitton, Clarks, Terminal 5, and Formula 1.
“Photography is all
about team work and I’ve been lucky enough to work with some of the
most talented Art Directors,
Stylists and H/M artists in the business –
for me photography’s not a job it’s a passion.”
(Neil
Cooper Photography official website)
BRIAN
ON ACCEPTING YOUR UNIQUE SELF
“Don’t
let small minded people dictate how you should look like and be
free”.
(Arte France, September 2001)
(Arte France, September 2001)
Everybody
is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the
next trend.
(NY Rock "Interview with Placebo", January 1999)
(NY Rock "Interview with Placebo", January 1999)
"Imitation
is the highest form of flattery," says Molko, "but clones
kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being
proud of being yourself.
(Hit Music "Outside The Line", April 1999)
(Hit Music "Outside The Line", April 1999)
”Uniqueness,
not homogenization, is what pushes culture and music forward”.
(The US Vault Online, 2001)
(The US Vault Online, 2001)
“I
like the fact that people either think I'm incredibly gorgeous or
flippin ugly”.
(Melody Maker, January 2nd, 1999)
(Melody Maker, January 2nd, 1999)
"...When
people hear the word “beautiful”, they expect something to be
pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know..."
“I
feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very
comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's
minds”.
Photo credits: Neil Cooper
Post by Olga
Post by Olga
