{"id":40160,"date":"2017-01-26T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40160"},"modified":"2017-02-07T20:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:35:50","slug":"watch-candy-crush-feat-brooke-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=40160","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8220;Candy Crush&#8221; feat. Brooke Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=40234\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40234\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brooke-candy-candy-crush-1-560x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brooke-candy-candy-crush-1-560x316.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brooke-candy-candy-crush-1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/brooke-candy-candy-crush-1.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/195901395\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Impresario<\/em> Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralffilms.com\/\">Gracie Otto<\/a>\u00a0has joined forces with Australian photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomkerr.com\/\">Thom Kerr<\/a> to create a surreal short fashion film, <em>Candy Crush<\/em>, featuring &#8220;Opulence&#8221; pop performer Brooke Candy. The visual, shot at San Luis Obispo&#8217;s Madonna Inn, follows the story of a hotel employee wistfully musing about a young star (played by Brooke) before her rise to fame.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<p>&#8220;Brooke had always wanted to shoot at the Madonna Inn,&#8221; Kerr said about the <em>Candy Crush&#8217;s<\/em> campy, colorful setting. &#8220;I\u2019d visited once for lunch on a road trip a few years back, so I was familiar with how kitsch and amazing the environment was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The film is set against a monologue, performed by Kerr in a deep country twang, which he wrote to complement Otto&#8217;s direction. &#8220;There&#8217;s always been something real strange about that girl,&#8221; he says, drawing out the word, &#8220;real,&#8221; as Brooke admires her reflection in a giant butcher knife, dressed like a queer Cindy Lou Who.<\/p>\n<p><em>Candy Crush<\/em>\u00a0sees the cult artist wearing designs by Romance Was Born, Discount Universe, Lou Dallas and BCALLA, all captured in an original editorial for Australia&#8217;s quarterly beauty publication, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/laudmagazine.com.au\/product-category\/magazine\/\">Laud Magazine<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(See the full spread in issue #5). (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/popnography\/2017\/1\/17\/premiere-brooke-candy-stars-surreal-fashion-film-candy-crush\">Out<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Impresario Director Gracie Otto\u00a0has joined forces with Australian photographer Thom Kerr to create a surreal short fashion film, Candy Crush, featuring &#8220;Opulence&#8221; pop performer Brooke Candy. The visual, shot at San Luis Obispo&#8217;s Madonna Inn, follows the story of a hotel employee wistfully musing about a young star (played by Brooke) before her [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[2597,7052,7055,7053,7054,1541],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40235,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160\/revisions\/40235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}