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GQ x Lebron James

The September issue’s cover story for GQ features an interview and photo spread with the once beloved but now kind-of-despised superstar basketball player, Lebron James. Based on released excerpts, it should be fairly revealing and informative as he moves forward with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami. See an excerpt, behind the scenes video, and pictures below.

“It’s not far, but it is far. And Clevelanders, because they were the bigger-city kids when we were growing up, looked down on us.… So we didn’t actually like Cleveland. We hated Cleveland growing up. There’s a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.”

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Spike Jonze + Dave Eggers Q+A @ FMLY

If you’re in L.A. this weekend and are looking for something to do, we are hooking you the fuck up! Celebrated rogue filmmaker Spike Jonze and cult writer/publisher/editor Dave Eggers will be the focus of Saturday night’s event at FAMILY Bookstore on Fairfax. The event spotlights the release of Jonze’s new book, There Are Many of Us, in addition to Eggers’ first illustration book, It Is Right to Draw Their Fur. Check out their descriptions below.

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 (click the link to watch the trailer), 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.

The show will also include a live acoustic performance by Aska, the artist who scored Jonze’s film. Admittance is free, so get there early! Check out the full flyer after the jump.

FAMILY Bookstore
436 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

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New York is Killing Me

Do us a favor and pick up a copy of the August 9th issue of The New Yorker. It features a deeply haunting piece on fallen jazz great Gil Scott-Heron that we think you need to check out. I didn’t know much about the man beyond his era-defining ‘revolution will not be televised’ refrain, and the ‘grandfather of hip hop’ moniker thrust upon him (against his wishes) by a younger generation of urban musicians with whom he has collaborated sporadically over the years. The New Yorker’s Alec Wilkinson helped change that with a compassionate look at the man and his career, especially the hastening spiral of crack addiction that has kept the 61 year old locked up for much of the last decade (either behind doors with a butane torch or behind bars upstate).

New York is quite literally, killing the man.

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Cold Splinters

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No experience has made me long for the outdoors quite like Summer in Manhattan. Scorching days and sticky nights stacked one on top of another like some sort of steamy space time continuum. This is the time of year that I start pining for the dusty Ponderosa forests and ice cold mountain lakes of my Sierra Nevada youth. So it was with great delight last Summer that I stumbled upon Cold Splinters, a blog written by fellow New Yorker, one Mr. Jeffrey Thrope.

Vicariously rewarding in a way few blogs are, Jeff highlights outdoorsy ephemera, exploring a certain nature nostalgia familiar to any of those lucky enough to have spent a lot of time under the stars as a child. Aside from a mildly troubling obsession with Edward Abbey, you can find Jeff picking through old hiking magazines, Jeep brochures and troves of long forgotten music, all to get you in that special campfire mood.

Did I also mention he writes on similar stuff for The Fader. Yup. He’s a jack of all trades.

Speaking of moods, let’s get you in one right now…
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Lauren Dukoff Giving Away Film!

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Renowned music photographer Lauren Dukoff has just posted on her blog that she will be running a small giveaway contest after receiving 40 rolls of free 120 film from Kodak. From her blog:

Kodak recently sent me 40 rolls of 120 film for free. I was really excited about it until I realized that I don’t really deserve free film, YOU DO. When I was younger I used to go without food and pay for gas in pennies just so I could afford film. I would have killed for this film. Professional medium format film is becoming more expensive and rare, that is why I want to give this film to a deserving young shooter. So I have decided to have a little contest. Send me your best image shot on film and I will send you my gift from Kodak and print of mine ( you may choose any image on my website).

Check out the details after the jump.

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Machotaildrop Interview

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There’s an interview up on Fecal Face today with the writer/director of Machotaildrop, an exciting (and weird) new fiction film about skateboarding that I’m not ashamed to say we’ve already posted on once before. Here’s an excerpt from the interview, and you can check out the full interview here. Watch the trailer after the jump.

Were you excited or skeptical about it?
My first reaction was an informal turn of the stomach. The thought of making a fictional film about skateboarding put a real fear into me. That fear quickly diminished and I remembered that I was at the time dishwashing for a living. Not that I hated scrubbing used food from plates, but having a hundred grand to make a short was definitely a better option, no matter what the subject. I also started to like the idea of possibly making the first fictional skateboard film that didn’t make the fine act itself look like a clown show. Although it’s up to the viewer to decide that one I guess. So to make a long story short I teamed up with Alex Craig and we ended up winning the contest with our film “Harvey Spannos” and received a million dollar budget to make a feature that is entitled “Machotaildrop”. It’s amazing how a random camping trip with two strangers from SF can change your entire life.

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Popshot Q+A

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If you haven’t noticed it up in our carousel, we have a new Articles feature up! It’s an interview with Jacob Denno, the man who founded the poetry and illustration magazine. Take a look.

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Wendy MacNaughton

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Some beautiful illustration work by SF-based Wendy MacNaughton.

…REGURGITATION, RUMINATION, AND OTHER FUN FUNCTIONS OF MOUTH OVER MIND… (DRAWINGS OF PEOPLE ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ON THEIR WAY TO AND FROM WORK. FIVE DAYS A WEEK, TWICE A DAY, TWENTY MINUTES EACH WAY. AND OTHER COMMUTES TO BOOT.)

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