Hair Wars or Hairdressing Championships 2010

Several years ago, I saw Blow Dry, a delightful movie about two beauty salons in a small English town that are running for the National Hairdressing Championships. Little did I know something similar has been going on in Detroit for quite sometime, and this is what is going on this year ..... A competitive styling.
This is not some eccentric reality show.This is Hair Wars, a 25-year-old Detroit tradition, this year featuring about 34 stylists and 300 models, that has become one of the premier hairstylist events in the U.S. The realization of some of these extravagant hair designs took from 30 min. up to one month to prep.
Here is a selection of the best from Hair Wars.

Beautiful Butterfly, prep time: 10hr

The Hummer, prep time 1day

Fun-House Clown, prep time 1hr

Birdcage, prep time 1hr

Oreo Confusion, prep time 8hr

Alice in Wonderland, prep time 7hr. 30min.

Tropicana, prep time 1month

A Big Bravo to all the participants for their skills and originality .

See more on Time

Images courtesy Time

Thanks to P.P for the tip

Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald: Recomposed 3

It's a shame this isn't getting released domestically. It would be a shame if you didn't hear this. It would be a shame not to share it.

Craig & Oswald - Recomposed 3 (Ravel & Mussorgsky)

Morgan Geist - Detroit

Morgan Geist - Detroit

Morgan Geist from Metro Area has a new album coming out, Double Night Time, which is good news for everybody. It features alot of singing by Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys, who should basically sing on all techno songs. The compositions are always so slippery and organic, you're pulled along without being aware of it. The opener, "Detroit," is fantastic. Basically no one produces such warm and crisp sounds as Geist does, and this jam is suffused with a neon melancholia that's looking back all over the place - to some long-lost inner experience, to a golden age of electronic music, and even to Geist's own earlier work - the end of 'Detroit' slides neatly into an interpolation of one of his own b-sides, "24k." 

I first found out about Double Night Time from my associate Jonathan F, who mentioned it to me in an email exchange back in June. Here is an excerpt:

June 27th, 2008.

JF: Speaking of things that nobody else cares about, I just got the new Morgan Geist record in the mail and I really like it.

me: what is the geist record?? I don't see anything of it online. It is ungoogleable.

JF:I guess it's more techno-popish and the vocalist from the Junior Boys is on it a lot. Less strings and organic touches and more synths than Metro Area. I don't know, their press people sent it to me.

JF: googleable: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Night-Time-Morgan-Geist/dp/B001BGRZ2S/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214591634&sr=1-5 

me: look, some of us haven't finished the internet yet

JF: It gets better at the end.

me: don't spoil it.

JF: Google dies.