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  • WTAPS x Bounty Hunter Jacket

    August 13th 08, 14:08

    Iconic Japanese Streetwear brands W)Taps and Bounty Hunter will combine this season to produce a collaboration Jacket encompassing many of the signature details of both brands, the W)Taps Jungle Jacket combined with Bounty Hunters Punk inspired zip detail. Stay tuned for more info. Info from Hypebeast.

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  • 88 Boadrum by RockersNYC TV

    August 13th 08, 13:37

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    RockersNYC T.V. was on hand to capture live footage of 88 Boadrum, brought to the world by NIKE & curated by Hisham Bharoocha of Soft Circle. The Osaka-based noise band The Boredoms led 88 drummers down a path to percussive bliss & beyond for 88 minutes on 8/08/08 at 8:08pm. This sonic journey took place at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.


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  • Inside The New Think Silly Store

    August 13th 08, 11:35

    Here is some welcoming news for followers of the much talked about direction Think Silly are taking, a detailed look into the store that will open this week. A refreshing fit out which has taken inspiration from the outdoors with a cabin-esque look while the labels in store run off the tongue. Starting with there own label Silly Thing while Wacko Maria and Julie Verhoeven are big attractions there is also Jam Home Made who have put together some frames especially for Silly Thing. This is in addition to the Silly Thing home ware collection which adds a completely new dimension to the store. If in the area make sure you check out the new fit out of Think Silly when the doors open this Saturday, August 16.

     

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  • Lafayette 5th Anniversary

    August 13th 08, 7:11

    Recently the Lafayette crew from Yokohama Japan put on a show to remember as they celebrated there 5th anniversary. Amongst those making there way over from NYC to make some noise was DJ Clark Kent, Neal Santos of Teamworks, NA of Deadline, Billy Nuts, Augie from Acapulco Gold and Jamie from J Money. Having caught up with these guys while the wee in Japan it is great to see Neal Santos has compiled this film from the trip.

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  • Jeff Koons Set For The Palace of Versailles In France

    August 13th 08, 6:02

    “In September, one of the worlds highest-paid living artist, Jeff Koons, will invade the Palace of Versaille and (controversially) install up some of his best-known works around the chateau and gardens. The 52-year-old artist will exhibit 12 to 15 of his works, including Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold), which sold in 2007 for $23.7 million, his highly recognizable Balloon Dog (Magenta), and his 1986 chrome steel Rabbit. Versaille’s President Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who previously managed the Palazzo Grassi, Pinault’s contemporary-art museum in Venice, has announced that the show will go from September 10 until December 14.”

    Thanks to Artobserved for the info.

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  • Medicom Toy x Hysteric Glamour ‘Andy Warhol’ Bearbrick

    August 13th 08, 5:56

     

     

    Medicom Toy are putting together a Andy Warhol Be@rbrick with Hysteric Glamour for Isetan Japan. This Be@rbrcick will be available from 10th to 26th September 2008 at Hysteric Glamour Concept Store in Isetan Shinjuku. This great piece will be available in 50% and 400%, with the 50% to be given to customers who purchase at the store and the 400% Be@rbrick available for a cool ¥8190.

    Thanks to Toybeast for the info.

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  • Louis Vuitton Moet Hennesy 2008 Video

    August 13th 08, 5:19

    The worlds largest luxury goods conglomerate LVMH recently comissioned one of the most prominent marketing agency Ogilvy to produce a corporate video for their own internal uses, the video showcases footage and products that collectively epitomizes the holdings company brand image and direction, featuring 64 of the most glamourous marks, labels and people that represent the conglomerate which includes huge labels such as Louis Vuitton to Guerlain alongside Marc Jacobs and Tag Heuer.

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  • Mountain Dew Green Art Label Project Volume 2

    August 13th 08, 5:02

    Volume 2 of the Mountain Dew Green Label Art project is upon us and features some very bright names. Mark Smith of Jordan Brand, PJ Richardson from Laundry, Mike Sutfin from Star Wars/WoW, Billy the Artist, Troy Denning and Kid Robot’s Maze are the refreshing names who have put there work to the aluminum bottle. In addition there will be an exclusive and unavailable design produced by no other than Pushead.

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  • Street Art Film Series At Tate Modern

    August 13th 08, 3:31

     

    Pablo Aravena has curated six impressive films which will conclude the works commissioned by Tate Modern at its South Bank building. This weekend is a great chance to take in some exciting film and art, so make your get there.

     

     

     

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  • Undefeated and Wood Wood For The Adidas AZX Collection

    August 13th 08, 3:18

     

    The AZX line is most definitely creating a lot of talk after seeing models A-H release and I-P not far away. Now with news of Undefeated and Wood Wood coming into the final release of Q-Z we can really look forward to a finale like no other. The Undefeated ZX 8000 and the Wood Wood ZX9000 definitely catch the eye in very contrasting ways, Undefeated have stirred it up with a bright number while Wood Wood offer a classic colorway while it is the first ZX9000 seen from the collection. More exciting times are ahead from this epic collection.

     

    Thanks to H (Y) R for the images.

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  • Paul Rodriguez and Clark Hassler Nike SB Expedition

    August 13th 08, 1:39

    Two of Nike SB’s high profile riders Paul Rodriguez and Clark Hassler, have revealed some of there day to day lives with this well captured documentation from the Nike SB camp. A great way to showcase the upcoming Fall/Winter collection, the footage was taken on both coasts during a 5 day adventure. I am liking the plaid shirt put together, it reminds me of a Henrik Vibskov one I own.

     

     

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  • Nollywood (Nigerian-Hollywood) Captured By Pieter Hugo

    August 13th 08, 1:30

    Here is a look at a new body of work from South African phorographer Pieter Hugo which includes a series of photographs that explores the multilayered reality of the Nigerian film industry.

    “Nollywood is, surprisingly, the third largest film industry in the world, releasing onto the market between 500 and 1 000 movies each year.

    Nollywood produces movies on its own terms, telling stories that appeal to and reflect the lives of its public: it is a rare instance of self-representation in Africa. The continent has a rich tradition of story-telling that has been expressed abundantly through oral and written fiction, but has never been conveyed through the mass media before. Stars are local actors; plots confront the public with familiar situations of romance, comedy, witchcraft, bribery, prostitution. The narrative is overdramatic, deprived of happy endings, tragic. The aesthetic is loud, violent, excessive; nothing is said, everything is shouted.

    Hugo has been increasingly intrigued, in his travels through West Africa, by this hyperactive industry, in constant production despite tight budgets and strict production schedules. Over time he compiled a list of the iconic images and scenes that had attracted his attention, and he imagined photographing in these settings.

    His first attempt to photograph on film sets documenting these scenes failed to produce pictures that fully mirrored the intensity of the situations. He then decided to bring his interpretation of these staged realities into another realm by assembling a team of forty actors and assistants. He asked them to recreate the stereotypical myths and symbols that characterise Nollywood productions, reproducing the dynamic of movie sets.

    The tableaux of the series confront us with a verisimilar world: the situations are clearly surreal but they could be real on a set; furthermore, they are rooted in the local symbolic imaginary. The boundaries between documentary and fiction become very fluid, and we are left wondering whether our perceptions of the real world are indeed real.”

    Very compelling series of photography which includes well worth a look at, check out the images below.

    Info: Boingboing, Michael Stevenson

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  • Radiohead score the adaptation of Palahniuk’s latest book

    August 13th 08, 0:45

     

    Radiohead has written a new song for the film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s latest book, Choke, at the request of the film’s director Clark Gregg. This new song is supposedly going to play over the film’s closing credits… I guess using “Exit Music (for a film)” was just a bit too obvious? Nevertheless, apparently Radiohead will also be composing ambient music for the film’s score as well.

    In a recent interview Palahniuk said, “Clark Gregg…knew that I’d written Choke while listening to Pablo Honey, with ‘Creep’, over and over and over. So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits. Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it.”

    Palahniuk also wrote Fight Club, the 1996 feature film adaptation is well known for using Pixies’ “Where is my mind”.

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  • Greg “Craola” Simkins ‘It Wanders East’ Exhibition

    August 12th 08, 22:09

    Greg “Craola” Simkins, a huge favourite of mine is putting a new collection of paintings together for an exhibition entitled ‘It Wanders East’. “With his dazzlingly macabre and admittedly warped imagination, Simkins participates in the long tradition of popular fantasists that includes Edward Gorey, Stan Lee, and Tim Burton. Simkins’ world is a troubled nether region of hybrid creatures—part fairytale, part science fiction. This encompassing vision looks back to the rich history of fantasy illustration while also prefiguring unsettling hypotheses for an imagined evolutionary future. In Simkins’ large, finely wrought paintings, fantastical characters with symbolic accessories are arranged in quasi-narrative still-life’s that spread opulently across the picture surface. Simkins’ grotesque, sumptuous, and often humorous imagery is painstakingly rendered in the mannerist style of Arcimboldo and Hieronymus Bosch, but the contents of his dreamlike tableaux are lifted from the contemporary unconscious—nightmares of toxic landscapes, bioengineered nature, and pop-culture decadence. His blending of organic forms with the appearance of manufactured surfaces suggests technology run amok and a natural world in accelerated flux. Like other artists of his generation, Simkins honed his unique approach in the public arena as the West Coast graffiti artist known as Craola.”

     

    Be sure to catch ‘It Wanders East’ when it opens at the Joshua Liner Gallery on Saturday, September 6th, 2008 (alongside David Choong Lee’s Village of Wind.)

    Thanks to Juxtapoz for the info.

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  • Willi Dorner’s Body Sculpture in Vienna

    August 12th 08, 21:31

    Art director Willi Dorner and photographer Lisa Rastl have collaborated on two project by stacking humans in odd formations to build sculptures in unusual locations spread throughout the capital of Austria, Vienna. The projects titled ‘hängende gärten’ and ‘bodies in urban spaces’ both set out to explore the “relationship between body, space and architecture”. The artist has transformed the human body into a form, a complete reversal from the classical convention in arts of creating the human-like sculptures form from a material. Take a look at the series of photographs from this project below.

    Info: designboom

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