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...James Merry is a big fan of extremes....
...Björk is renowned for her idiosyncratic aesthetic, and on Friday she was wearing an intricate silver mask (by her co-creative director, James Merry), with orchid-like decorations....
...Her principal collaborators this time include Lucrecia Martel, an Argentine film director in her theatrical debut, and James Merry, a 10-year Björk veteran, listed a co-creative director with Björk....
...Don’t go to Reykjavik — try Akureyri Helped by its role in television’s Game of Thrones, its dramatic volcanic scenery and the musical success of Sigur Rós and Bjork, Iceland is witnessing an unprecedented...
...and James Taylor to John Scofield and James Brown....
...For the past few months, James Merry has spent up to 10 hours a day freehand sewing....
...Who Never Was, by Sjón, translated by Victoria Cribb, Sceptre, RRP£14.99 Set in 1918, as the Spanish flu epidemic turns Reykjavík into a ghost town, the latest novel by this Icelandic poet and former Björk...
...John Sunyer is an FT Weekend journalist Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Björk: “All Is Full of Love” (Director: Chris Cunningham, 1998) Björk is one of pop’s most visionary artists and Chris Cunningham is one of her favourite collaborators....
...The sleep doctor: James Maas Although there are individual differences, most people need between 7.5 and 8.5 hours of sleep nightly to be at their best....
...“The people I admire, Björk, Radiohead and Wilco or Bob Dylan and Neil Young, have been able to keep themselves interested in music and so keep their audience interested,” James retorts....
...Poots describes Björk’s piece, four years in the making, as a union of science, music and nature....
...Take, for instance, the squad of gold-costumed figures wearing top hats, meant to evoke the mortality-obsessed conceptual artist James Lee Byars, who grew up in Detroit and died in Cairo in 1997....
...On the opener, a devious cover of Björk’s “107 Steps”, a simple melody is stretched over an off-kilter bass riff for an odd number of beats before releasing into full-force swing....
...He is very good as James Bond. And Fawlty Towers - my children find it hysterically funny. I like to collapse in front of the television to relax.”...
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