DMC performed at the Chocolate Fashion show on 9 November in New York. The show, attended in force at $200 per ticket, benefited The Felix Organization – Adoptees For Children, a foundation created in February of 2006 by Darryl “DMC” McDaniels (from Run DMC) and Sheila Jaffe, the casting director of “The Sopranos” and “Entourage”, both adoptees. Grand Marnier and Baskin Robbins were sponsors to a catwalk filled with lighthearted and some-what serious fashions that were adorned with, partially made with, and accessorized with chocolate. For more information about the designers and photos, visit The Chocolate Show. Let them eat chocolate!

Commenting in the latest EDIT 6 magazine and webzine at www.gettyimages.com/edit, Lewis Blackwell, Group Creative Director at Getty Images says that “less than 20 years ago, you could always tell the advertising images from the editorial ones. Ads were at least aspirational, if not totally dreamlike. Sometimes they were lurid in colour. Editorial was gritty realism and always black and white.

“Now it is nearly always colour for news, with only upmarket advertising being likely to opt for a full-page black-and-white image. Authenticity is a key watchword in much advertising photography, while our finest photojournalism is often remarkable for its symbolic power and surrealistic eye for the strangeness of life”, says Lewis. Read the rest of this entry »