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Defgrip // Bicycle Film Festival 10

jordan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:30:22 +0000

Our homies at Defgrip have teamed up with The Bicycle Film Festival to act as host for the BMX films for the 2010 Bicycle Film Festival!

Each year, The Bicycle Film Festival curates an outstanding selection of bicycle related movies from around the world, and in recent years, we’ve seen a more articulated taste in BMX films come to fruition. Defgrip has stepped on-board to make sure that trend continues.

We are looking for short films under 10 minutes that are innovative, creative and tell a story.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBISSIONS IS March 27, 2010

There is only a small window to submit your films so get on it!
Click through to Defgrip for more info

N.Y.C. in the 70s

matt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:16:44 +0000

Over the last few decades, New York City has undergone a lot of change. Regardless of its implications, it’s always been a hub of burgeoning culture, so it’s always fascinating to take a peek into the past in order to be able to put the present into some perspective.

Here, Bruce Barone provides us that opportunity, capturing a wide variety of moments throughout the city during the 1970s. It’s not exactly photojournalism, but he’s done an excellent job of honestly conveying those natural moments.

Seen @ PICDIT.

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Spike Spends Saturdays With: Opening Ceremony

jordan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:49:29 +0000

part 1

part 2

This week VBS launched an pretty fun and interesting episode of Spike Spends Saturday With, following Carol Lim & Humberto Leon of the the mulit-faceted retail entity Opening Ceremony. If you’re a fan of OC, you gotta check these out.

With stores in New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and their latest at the Ace Hotel in NYC, their retail spaces feature a truly unique and inspired take on design and culture.

Hollis Brown Thornton Q+A

matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:14:01 +0000

1. Hi Hollis. Where do you live? What do you like about it?

I live in Aiken, SC, which is also where I grew up. I realized I physically need the climate in the South while living in Chicago. There is all kinds of plant and animal and bug activity during the warm and hot times of the year, just a general sense of vitality, that is motivating. But it is mainly the heat, being hot, sweating, spending 7 months out of the year wearing only shorts and flip flops. I’m just very productive in those conditions.

Chunk

2. How do you come up with the titles for your pieces?

I use basic description titles, like VHS, for the more direct work. When I need something more open ended, such as a loose thematic association, I have a file with hundreds of potential titles, collected from all over the place, organized in different categories. When I want one of these more ambiguous titles, I’ll go through these titles and find the best fit. But the titles are very important. I’ll spend weeks or months at times before I settle on certain titles.

The Continents Are Large Areas of Crust that Make Up the Solid Surface of the Earth

3. What are some of your favorite things?

Cy Twombly, Peter Doig, Matthew Barney, Takashi Murakami, Basquiat, Born to Run, R.E.M.‘s first 10 albums, Music Has the Right to Children, The Wonder Years, Svetlana Boym’s “The Future of Nostalgia”, 1980s style, Arrested Development, running, carrot juice, Ray-Ban Aviators with yellow lenses.

VHS

4. Why is sharing/repurposing important for art?

Art comes from other art. Artists build off what others have done before them conceptually, technically, and creatively. I think that is the main importance of sharing. Repurposing is important because you have to use things in your environment. The stuff around you, from pop culture, even if it is trademarked or intellectual property, it is part of you now, you’ve been saturated with it. And if, among your goals, you want to say “This is what it was like to be alive in my time.”, then some of that stuff from culture, that you didn’t initially create, has to be included.

Miami Vice

5. When were video games coolest?

I’m not able to play new games often, but I follow the industry and new games are just so innovative. Their rapid evolution, the way they present interactive adventures, the level of realism, their general scope.….. in terms of engaging, memorable, unique experiences, the new stuff is fascinating. But COOLEST, the simplicity of game graphics in the 8-bit era, those clunky images made up of individual and relatively large pixels, its a lot like punk rock, the primitive simplicity and the ruthless difficulty of the 8-bit era games, I think that will always have an almost untouchable cool.

Nicodemus

Hollis Brown Thornton

Unknown Pleasures

jordan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:23:06 +0000

All good things must come to an end. With a heavy heart we announce that Blood Is The New Black is stopping production on their classic Arab Division print. Brendan Donnelly is behind this tasteful re-up on Peter Saville’s timeless piece for Joy Division.

This shirt is an instant classic of the brand on one of my favorites to date, and soon, it will be gone forever. Blood is slanging the last of their stock NOW on their site for 15 bucks. You better get it while the getting is still good.

Blood Is The New Black is making way for their new Summer 2010 line which features their most provocative line of shirts and new featured artists.

Photo via Visual Therapy

Vincent Alvarez for Lakai

jordan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:24:34 +0000

You know Lakai has their video game on lock down. Their latest masterpiece stars Vincent Alvarez which was originally slated as a short promo and quickly morphed into a mini-part of sorts.

Directed by none other than by Federico Vitetta and shot by Drew Lauer, this Lakai spot features some of the most impeccable skate footage you’ll ever see. Backed by an Atlas Sound track, you know Lakai did this up one up right. Are you just playing around with your new DSLR and shooting video? Pay attention, because this is how you shoot.

HoboFM x Say Mayday Party @ Cheetah’s

matt — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:34:02 +0000

As this was such an enormous success last month, we’ve decided to bring the party back to Cheetah’s, the classiest strip joint in L.A. Come this Thursday, March 04, expecting the same things: cheap drinks, erotic dancing, and good music. In addition, we’ve decided to tack Ancient Crux onto the bill, which is, well, perhaps the first time a band has ever set up and played on a stripper stage. It will be interesting, and many a surprise await. Make sure to RSVP here. See you there!

Cheetah’s Hollywood
4600 Hollywood Blvd.
9pm — 2am

Shotwell: Alex Klein, Pt. 2

matt — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:25:00 +0000

We are extremely happy and excited to present the second, and final part of Alex Klein’s Shotwell episode. In part two, we learn about the actual production of God Went Surfing With The Devil, the responsibilities of being a documentary filmmaker, and the effects the whole experience had on him. We even jump off some cliffs. Enjoy, and if you haven’t seen part 1, please watch it first after the jump.

Visit the Shotwell page here.

Monday just got a whole lot better

jordan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:17:33 +0000

White Arrows // Superhumanoids // The Damn Sons // Spirt Animal

3.01
Spaceland
1717 Silver Lake Blvd

Smell Like A Man, Man

jordan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:30:13 +0000

Ya, ya I know you rock selvedge denim but you proabably wear Axe body spray. Catch Old Spice on the up and up with their latest campaign: Smell Like A Man, Man. Directed by the brilliant Tom Kuntz with some pretty dope post by The Mill.

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