Bad Brains Interview on SlamxHype
Nice exclusive interview and photos with HR from Bad Brains. His responses start to get a little convoluted toward the end, but you should always listen to old punks, even when they start talking like a bottle of Dr. Bronners…
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Kevin Hayes Interview on Fecal Face…
Our good homie Kevin Hayes has a mini-interview up on Fecal Face! Kevin shoots takes amazing nude portraits of girls looking louche and comfy and totally like themselves, even when you can’t see their face. There’s so much trust in his photos, it’s sort truly moving and sort of fucked up at the same time. He also shoots lots of everyday things that remind of when everyday things mattered to you. A lot.
Kevin talks all sorts of awesome about his work. Read the interview here.
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Scott Albrecht @ The Curiosity Shop
The Curiosity Shop is an San Francisco boutique shilling “crafts, kits, and curios for the creatively inclined,” as serves as a gallery space for artists from all over the country. SOMETHINGMISTAKENFORNOTHING is a solo exhibition of new works by artist Scott Albrecht. With his type-based imagery and hand-drawn/ hand-cut lettering style, Albrecht attempts to re-contextualize words and phrases stripped of their meaning through the sheer ubiquity of them in everyday language.
From the artist statement: “If we could only isolate ourselves from how we perceive these phrases, and experience them literally, as if for the first time, we might actually find that they have the potential of expressing something truly heartfelt.’
The show opens this Friday in SF. Stop by if you’re in the bay area!
Them Thangs Zine – The New Dark Age
Them Thangs is a a stunning/ridiculous/beautiful blog of visual inspiration from Amsterdam-based artist and graphic designer Justin Blyth. It’s a never ending digital scroll of images sourced from god-knows-where and who-the-hell-cares. The cryptically titled collages betray a mild obsession toward everything wonderful and awful about youth and sex and growing old and being cool. Or not cool.
The New Dark Age is Them Thangs’ first foray into print and commissioned content. The seemingly small zine folds out into a 24″ x 33″ double-sided poster with contributions from friends and countrymen William Eadon, Harper Smith, Mark Magiorri, Todd Tourso and more…
Click here to purchase/sneak a peek.
StrangerMix Mixtape from Saymayday
Spend the final dog days of summer (September is generally the hottest month of the year. WTF is that?) with the latest mix from Saymayday, guest curated by Rich Hirsch of Stranger BMX – a great mix to zone out to before you go back to doing whatever it is that you do in the fall. Check out the tracklist below.
1. International Feel — Todd Rundgren
2. Summer Holiday — Wild Nothing
3. Hermosa Domingo (Bonus 1973) — Aguaturbia
4. Youth — Beach Fossils
5. The Obeah Man — Exuma
6. Politely Declined — Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
7. Harlem Shuffle — Vigon
8. Party in Session — Black Uhuru
9. It’s not meant to be — Tame Impala
10. Go Outside — Cults
11. Sun Was so high (So was I) — Best Coast
12. Sugar On My Tongue — Talking Heads
13. O vale — Cassiano
14. All Around and Away we Go — Twin Sister
15. Dear Limmertz — Azymuth
Listen and download here
Imagining Daphne
NY Mag has posted a brief, interesting profile on Daphne Guinness, the professional fashion-plate, sometime designer, heiress to the Irish brewery fortune that bears her name and all around baller-ass eccentric lady who prefers to have the heels professionally removed from her pumps because “I found it inconvenient to have heels at one point…these just make more sense.”
Read the full profile here.
VICE and Harley-Davidson- Doin it Baja
via Hypebeast: “VICE and Harley Davidson present an all-new VICE series titled “Doin it Baja”. A roadtrip through Baja involves Arto Saari, Heath Kichart, Keegan Sauder, Patrick O’Dell, KY & Harvey, Hime and Bill Bryant with escapades ranging from skating, to fighsting and of course hog-riding courtesy of Harley-Davidson. An opening will take place this Wednesday, August 18th at Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s KCDC. RSVP here via VICE.”
KCDC
90 North 11th Street (Wythe/Berry)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
United States
Spike Jones + Dave Eggers @ Family Bookstore
Seeing as I rarely make it to Family’s events, I feel like just a leeeeeetle bit of a jerk for planning to attend what is sure to be their biggest opening yet – a double book-signing and Q+A with Spile Jones and Dave Eggers. If you were the kind of teen whose angst could be assuaged by a stranger giving you a pretty leaf then you know you love both of these dudes. This Saturday. Get there early – it’s sure to be packed.
From the Family newsletter:
“Family Bookstore is pleased to host the launch of two new books by Mcsweeneys:
There Are Many of Us by Spike Jonze
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur by Dave Eggers
Eggers will conduct a live Q&A with Jonze, followed by audience questions. Both will be signing books afterward.
Co-composer of the soundtrack to Jonze’s film I’m Here, Aska, will perform an acoustic live set to begin the evening.
Filled with gorgeous photography, behind-the-scenes ephemera, and funny, inspiring interviews, There Are Many of Us celebrates the uniquely spontaneous making of Spike Jonze’s new movie I’m Here, a boy-meets-girl love story, set in LA, experienced by robots. The book includes an original CD soundtrack as well as a DVD of the thirty-minute movie I’m Here, with special bonus content.
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur is Dave Eggers’s first collection of drawings. Most of these works are of unusual mammals, most often accompanied by slogans with ancient, heroic, or just plain odd overtones. This full-color package will be a combination of 26 large-sized prints and an accompanying booklet.”
Family Bookstore – 436 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Eric Joyner Interview on Arrested Motion
There’s a fun interview with artist Eric Joyner up on Arrested Motion. Joyner’s work centers on the subject of robots and donuts…and not much else. He has a solo show opening this Saturday, August 14th, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA.
Read the full interview here
I’m hungry.
i-D turns 30
via Hypebeast: “August 2010 marks the 30th Anniversary of i-D, as the magazine celebrates with a special birthday issue, following the theme of “Then, Now, and Next.” Throughout a 3 week period, i-D held photoshoots at the Somerset House, collaborating with Nick Knight to document the turn of the decade. Roughly 200 people took part in the special project, including cover stars Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Lady Gaga. The “Then” Pre-Fall issue will go on sale August 12th, 2010.”
Normally I’m hip to these “collectible” multiple cover rackets that magazines run whenever they have an anniversary (or wedding, bat mitzvah, what have you), but I’m intrigued by i-D’s approach – this post from Hypbeast suggests that they’re putting out 3 separate issues with different content. Foiled again!
Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void
For his latest film controversial French director Gaspar Noé mixes themes of sex, drugs, childhood, death, and reincarnation with seizure-inducing visuals and ultimately life-affirming message. Early reviews are calling it unwatchable, which means you should really watch it. The film debuted at Sundance and will hopefully have even limited theatrical release this year.
YSL fall/winter sneaker video
They did it. Someone actually made sneaker porn.
Ripped
From Di$count: “These are some of the pages of Ripped: T Shirts From The Underground by Cesar Padilla. He owns Cherry Boutique on Hollywood Boulevard. I don’t know fuck all about this guy, so excuse my ignorance… Padilla has an amazing collection of t-shirts, but he also has an unbelievable collection of other shit.”
There are two awesome things going on here – one is said book, which unlike a previously mentioned t-shirt book, is less of a design reference and more a sartorial history of post-punk musicians and artists of the 70’s and 80’s. The other is this blog out of Australia called Di$count which contains equal parts party-monster fashion photos, DIY projects, and rambling punk manifestos about the farce of luxury. They chose to sneak photos of the book while in a store, but you can buy it here.
(Images via Di$count)
Pixar: 25 Years of Animation at Oakland Museum of CA
Don’t front. Everyone loves Pixar movies, and the animation gets more impressive with each one. Pixar: 25 Years of Animation spotlights the years-long creative processes behind Pixar’s movies. The exhibit opens tomorrow and will run through January 9, but the folks oat Juxtapoz are sharing lots of photos from their preview tour.
more info here
Juxtapoz photos here
Take 100: The Future of Film Book
A new title from Phaidon press is an inspired, forward-looking take on the film book (many titles available today are merely shufflling the same set of classics under slightly variant analyses). Take 100 presents 100 of the world’s most exceptional and emergent film directors, selected by a panel of prominent international film festival directors. Hypebeast breaks down the criteria: “each curator (nominators) will select ten film directors and one long feature film which the director made, produced and distributed in the last five years. Each selected film must be a long feature film and should be his or her first, second or third film.” Each feature offers an in-depth analysis of the chosen film and it’s director. Best of all, it’s actually priced to buy and read.
Buy on Amazon
Missoni FW ‘10 Film by Kenneth Anger
Hats off to Mitra and everyone else who’s been sharing this video. I saw Anger give a talk at the Hammer Museum last year where he just rambled about the Jonas Brothers for an hour, and I remember thinking “Welp, he’s done. That’s too bad.” It’s a delight to be proven wrong by his latest work for Missoni done in true Anger form – trippy soundtrack, acid colors, weird stuff superimposed on top of other weird stuff – and the Missoni family wearing the stuff, of course.
(video via NY Magazine)
California State Fair
” The California State Fair runs through August 1st in Sacramento, and it’s located right next to a water park too. Bad-ARSE. The whole nine yards with rides, games, petting zoo, cows, lizards, fireworks, hot rod tracker pull, horse racing, demolition derby, lawn mower racing, monster truck rides, moto-cross, … plus music from such hot acts as “Weird Al” Yankovic, Village People, Rick Springfield, Eddie Money, and others… Oh man, be sure to get there before it’s over. Fairs rule! It’s part of the whole summer experience.”
(via Fecal Face)
How are you missing this right now? Get in the car! You may still be able to catch the Dachshund Derby and eat horrible fried things that no one else thinks to fry!
Epicly Later’d: Full Bleed
“Full Bleed, the photo book chronicling NYC skate culture, is the feature of the latest Epicly Later’d episode. Listen to the likes of Alex Corporan, Ivory Serra, Andre Razo, Patrick O’Dell, and Peter Bici talk about the book, as well as the development of the skate scene in New York over the last 30+ Years.”
(via Dave’s Quality Meats)
FUCT Movie, “The Doctrine”
“FUCT enters an interesting time for the brand as founder Erik Brunetti embarks on an all new creative venture with the unveiling of the first of a series of cinematic short films. With a strong voice and the talent evident over his graphical work, we very much look forward to the first of a three part commercial series.”
(via Hypebeast)
The short-film commercials are sparse, sincere and totally on some next level Brunetti-ness. Part 2 has just been released and is labeled NSFW – talk about re-thinking streetwear.
Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution
The “about” section of this blog is an excerpt from a review of ‘Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Mankind’ which I think is trying to make a point about the democracy of aesthetics. That’s all well and good – I’m just completely psyched on these selected pieces from filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s long-running comic strip Fábulas Pánicas.
Click here to see larger pics from the original post)
Avedon Fashion @ Museum of Fine Arts Boston
“Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative, spirited portrayals of the “good life” showing beautiful women wearing extraordinary clothes in irresistible settings, as well as memorable portrayals that are both elegant and reserved…his vision of the modern American woman, one of wit, individuality, and fast-lane glamour, captivated the public…
Avedon’s career as a fashion photographer is displayed decade by decade in this exceptional traveling exhibition from the International Center of Photography in New York, the first comprehensive survey of Avedon’s fashion photography since 1978.”
Avedon’s fashion photography pioneered the American ideal of glamour in the latter half of the 20th century – he’s the reason Vogue is still littered with shots of models mid-jump in front of a plain background. If you’re in the Boston area, this is not a show to miss. Pick me up a catalog from the gift shop while you’re at it.
The Social Network
It was all over Twitter this morning, and you’re probably reading this on Facebook, so I don’t want to get into some sort of existential ouroboros, but the forthcoming biopic about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) looks simultaneously cheeky and dark (i.e. amazing). Who knew software programming could be so sexy and Less Than Zero-ish?
Is It Iced Coffee Weather?
For those days when you’re on the fence, a real website to address an age-old query – enter your zip code and you will be met with a swift, irrefutable reply.
One Trip Pass
“One Trip Pass is an ongoing project that includes pop-up shops, design collaborations and a blog. The name comes from a trek across the desert in the winter of 2009 when an economic crisis and a season of political change made old structures collapse and new ideas come to mind. That one trip was a rediscovery of American craft and standards, and humor and kitsch–all seen in flea markets and second-hand shops and even gas stations–wherever folks were putting pices of Made-in-USA menswear back in circulation.”
(via One Trip Pass)
Basically some cool guys on a perpetual road trip, thrifting all around the country and selling/showing off their amazing finds. You want to hate, but you love it so much.
RIP Harvey Pekar
“Harvey Pekar, the irascible writer who spun the mundane details of his own life and the quotidian existences of his fellow Cleveland residents into comic-book narratives, and who showed that the comic-book panel could include everyday feelings of anxiety and disappointment as easily as it does the adventures of costumed heroes, has died, The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported. He was 70.
Mr. Pekar was best known for his on-again, off-again comics series “American Splendor,” whose title deliberately contrasted with the everyday people it documented (often the author himself). A wide range of illustrators contributed to its pages, most famously R. Crumb, who first met Mr. Pekar in Cleveland in the 1960s and encouraged him to turn the stories he gathered on his travels through the city into comics.”
(via NYTimes Blog)
Is It Art or Fart? Launch party
“Is It Art or Fart? collects images found on the street that happen to bear uncanny resemblances to great works of contemporary art. It began as a blog run by two friends whose obsessive preoccupation with contemporary art spilled over into the recognition of “fart” – bogus versions of art everywhere. The sightings are a funny testament to how art has changed, and show the world as one big readymade. Includes unintentional appropriations of Richard Prince, Forcefield, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Kippenberger, Mike Kelley, and the rest of your favorites! Is It Art or Fart? is designed by Brian Roettinger in the format of a Penguin Classic pocketbook”
Wednesday, July 14th at 7:30pm @ Family
Family is a lovingly curated bookstore featuring hard-to-find books, films, zines, music, and art prints. Get there.
Franks and Friends at Space15Twenty
Celebrate the opening of Space15Twenty’s latest pop-up -this time a curated jewelry studio-TONIGHT with friends/babes The Franks and Aska. DJ sets by Fool’s Gold and Iamsound(system) to follow.
more info HERE
Visionaire Creates Blooming McQueen Book
Visionaire is a tri-annual album of fashion and art published since 1991. Each issue has a theme and collaborators are given unparalleled freedom to push the format of the album – previous issues have been printed on neatly stacked button-down shirts, and recorded as a CD box set.
Their latest issue is a book dedicated to the late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, including contributions from his collaborators, admirers, and a section of images inspired by his work. Not content to be a mere book, the pages of the latter sections are embedded with wildflower seeds that will actually bloom, should you choose to pour water on your limited edition and cover it with dirt.
It’s beautiful to think about, anyway.
Morning Benders Summer Mix on Saymayday
The dudes over at Saymayday have this awesome habit of getting awesome people to make downloadable mixtapes for them – not buzzing, throbbing shit mashed together with soundbytes from horror movies, just well curated batches of music to suit a mood. This latest mix comes from Chris Chu, lead singer of the incredible Morning Benders (please treat yourself to their moody 60’s pop sound). Everyone’s talking about the Morning Benders’ cover of Joanna Newsom’s Have One On Me featuring a beat by J Dilla (!!!!) but I could just die over Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters doing Tonight You Belong To Me.
Listen here. Immediately.
Click here to check out previous mixtapes from Saymayday.
Rebel 8 in Los Angeles
“From 2-9PM on Saturday, July 24, 2010 we will be at Barracuda on 7769 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles, CA. Mike Giant will be in the building painting live and signing. DJ Morse Code will be handling the music. FREE BEER thanks to Tsing Tao. FREE tequila and margaritas by Sino Tequila. FREE FOOD! Bring the entire fam and tell everyone you know.”
Babes and hynas insist you come!
(via the Rebel 8 newsletter)
Unknown Hipster
Unknown Hipster is a blog by pithy illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme that documents his comings and goings amongst the hautes mondes of art and fashion. Completely devoid of photographs, the blog is covered in amazing illustrations in Delhomme’s deft signature style. Needless to say it’s not updated on the daily, but new entries are definitely worth checking back for.
Beach Camp by Chelsea Hodson
“BEACH CAMP, a story collection by Chelsea Hodson, explores a space detached from the mainland—an island where girls sleep in cabins without walls, throw chicken nuggets across the cafeteria, threaten towel-wearing boys, and go looking for the buffalo. Hodson separates her journey into tidy sections shorter than the time it takes a counselor to say I will arrange a boat to take you off this island tonight so help me God…”
Yes, there is such a thing as an LA Literary scene, and young writers like Chelsea Hodson are keeping it alive and well. Beach Camp is Hodson’s first release through Swill Children, an amazing publishing enterprise that encompasses art, writing and music projects in a variety of physical and online mediums.
Beach Camp is set for a timely July 4th release. You can pre-order it here.
…you want HOW much?
“An Ansel Adams photo sold for a record-high $722,500 this week. That raises a broader question: How does pricing work in the art market, anyway?”
There’s a great story on NPR’s Planet Money that examines the curious mix of market forces and aesthetic criteria that goes into pricing fine art.
click here to listen
(image – Damien Hirsts’ The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living via NPR)
A.P.C. Journal
So the French clothing label/arbiter of cool APC has started a blog. At the moment, it’s a lot of here’s a picture of our store and here’s a picture of a thing in our store, but posts about French publishing house Les Editions de Minuit, and one of an APC lookbook from 1992 hint at a broader scope to come. Fingers crossed.
Signal’s Jacob makes a mixtape: Pizza The Hut
In case you were wondering what Signals beatmaker and remix whiz Jacob Safari does when his band isn’t wrapping up a new record with producer Brad Breeck of The Mae Shi, this is it!
Jacob’s mix leans heavily towards a buffet of classic electronic favorites like The Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin together with surprising chaotic additions from Converge (mixed with Mr. Oizo?!) and Atari Teenage Riot. The mixtape also features unreleased Signals tracks including a Junk Culture remix of “Silverfish” that will be included on the US digital release of Signals’ “Silverfish/What Dreams/Remixes” via Retard Disco, plus a Signals remix of Japanese pop-punk band Cubismo Grafico Five’s “Catcher In The Riot”, slated to appear on the band’s upcoming 7″.
download the mixtape here
more Signals here
Anna Dello Russo
It takes BALLS to make peoples’ jaws drop during fashion week, but Vogue Nippon’s fashion editor-at-large Anna Dello Russo does it on the daily. Kudos to Tommy Ton for diligently documenting her sartorial exploits for us hoi polloi. Now go do some pilates.
(image via Jak&Jil)
Not Your Father
My Mom, The Style Icon is a touching photo-blog where readers can send in old pictures of their moms looking stylish and grainy, at turns bad-ass and subtly sexy, and sometimes posing with strange men in far-flung locales. The latter of these gems go into a section called Not Your Father, and it’s my favorite portion of the site - mom had to get broke off sometimes, too. Shit.
Color + Noise
Look at these gorgeous sweaters from Jil Sander men’s collection for Spring ‘11. They remind me of Ray Johnson’s Calm Center. If you’re unfamiliar, check out How to Draw a Bunny immediately.
(runway images via Jak&Jil)
Mark Gonzales & Ari Marcopoulos
“Franklin Parrasch Gallery, in alliance with HoBO Magazine is pleased to present a collaborative project between artist Mark Gonzales and photographer Ari Marcopoulos. The exhibition includes Marcopolous’s adventurous photographs of model Diana Dondoe and Mark Gonzales. Post-production Gonzales has drawn and etched upon the surfaces of these photographs. The twelfth issue of HoBO magazine will feature these collaborative photographs and an interview with Gonzales by Glenn O’Brien. The proceeds of works sold from this exhibition will be given to a cancer research foundation.”
(via Franklin Parrasch)
This special exhibition closes June 26, be sure to make it if you’re in NYC.
First Kiss Zine
You don’t know yet? First Kiss is an amazing handmade zine compiled and edited by Girl Power author Marisa Meltzer and White Lightning blogger Elizabeth Spiridakis (who also designed).
The collection includes contributions from Gavin McInnes, Lesley Arfin, Brendan Donnelley, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Gould, Aviva Yael, and Elizabeth and Marisa themselves. First Kiss is only $5 plus shipping – a steal for original published work from the aforementioned culturally relevant individuals!
Click here for the First Kiss tumblr page, where you can buy your own copy and browse stories and photos from FK readers.
Hip Glasses for All
“Although they might look they come straight out of Moscot, Adspecs from Adaptive Eyewear are changing the way the world sees. Using a liquid-filled lens, wearers in developing countries can self-adjust using syringes until the prescription is just right for them. The glasses are mass produced and tweaked in the field, making the operation more cost effective; $15 provides one pair of glasses. Better eyesight can improve academic performance and allows adults the opportunity to acquire more sight-centric jobs. The round lenses aren’t exactly a fashion statement (the shape is necessary for an undistorted view) but in terms of what they mean to someone without access to eye doctors, they can be life-changing.”
Find out how to help out the cause here.
(via Refinery29)
The Ultimate Toy
For the little man in your life (who’s very, very, careful) Richard Christiansen, advertising guru and founder of New York’s preeminent creative house, Chandelier Creative, has collaborated with Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti and their acclaimed studio, Partner’s & Spade, to create a five piece, 24 karat gold, limited edition toy soldier set.
The sets, numbered to 100, will be available exclusively at Partner & Spade in NY beginning June 12, with a special father’s day celebration on June 20.
Just don’t let them get caught in the vacuum.
Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony, Resort ‘11
Just because the 90’s are back doesn’t mean you should hang onto those pilly old duds from WetSeal. Chloe Sevigny’s capsule resort collection for Opening Ceremony is a sophisticated interpretation of the trend that includes five easy dress silhouettes in iconic prints (leopard, polka dot, etc.), and a collaboration with nineties footwear brand NaNa that results in some seriously wacky, seriously cool shoes.
Click here for a slideshow of the entire collection.
Daily Film Blog features John Bradford’s affecting photos of skaters doing skater things like flying through the air, getting hurt, and showing off their art collections. Click the link for more.
(Skateboardermag.com’s Daily Film Blog)
We Barbarians at Spaceland
Long-beach based rockers We Barbarians are playing for FREE at Spaceland every Monday in June.
Starting tonight. 21 and up. No excuses.
Internet Archaeology
“Internet Archaeology seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture. Established in 2009, the chief purpose of Internet Archaeology is to preserve these artifacts and acknowledge their importance in understanding the beginnings and birth of an Internet Culture. We focus on graphic artifacts only, with the belief that images are most culturally revealing and immediate.”
(via Internet Archaeology)
It’s a singular, historically significant thing to feel nostalgia for electronic media. Poke around maybe you’ll come up on your aunt’s old geocities blog.
Vintage T-Shirts Book from Taschen
“Selected from the collection of Patrick and Marc Guetta, owners of World of Vintage T-Shirts on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, this book assembles over 650 stone-cold classics of the genre.
Drawn primarily from the golden era of the 1970s and 1980s, these vintage T-shirts are not merely nostalgic artifacts; they represent an historical record of political, popular and corporate thought in America. Vintage T-Shirts documents the most striking variations on this infinitely versatile garment. With an introduction on the history of the T-shirt in American popular culture by Alison A. Nieder Vintage T-Shirts is an essential work of reference for anyone interested in pop culture, fashion, or graphic design.”
(via Taschen)
Preview the book here
