ftm

aids window

2012-02-11T07:00:00.000-08:00

island light

2012-02-10T05:00:00.000-08:00

oblivion

2012-02-09T09:00:00.000-08:00

while all the assholes are picking on lana del rey for making money, or looking nervous on television, or realizing 'indie' is a retarded term for music classification...

grimes is the female vocalist you should be paying attention to right now. oblivion is super sexy and my favorite track of 2011.

her album was supposed to drop on 1.31.12 but she got picked up by 4ad and the date got pushed to 2.21. looking forward to it.

you can get a free download of grimes oblivion over at p4k.

g. 11.11.11

2012-02-08T09:00:00.000-08:00


pure light

energy i have left i-iii

my name, untitled, vicious. (r--->l)

gallery girl.

gallery girlz.

lotsa faces

la founderie.

space facess.

the goodness

goodface i-iii

back corner.

all the times i...

G. wall

see you in the next one

la founderie

paint body... paint clothes.

the poets room.


yellow. stars fall

blue

red. bull by the horns

gold

dope. home. high.

images in the post are displayed in order from the front right entrance of the gallery, around the walls and around the room. this is the same order of the price list shown below.

what's that shit cost tho?

"two horses fucking" ...saw this on the way outside.

out back on the dock.

squares wall... outside.

ucamoon. g car.

photos from the opening reception of gregory siff's solo show g. on 11.11.11. a little past due but an interesting, diverse and extensive showing worth having a look at.

the original g. post

more of the same

:: all photos: clark wellington

top 5 rap albums of 2011

2012-01-31T23:14:00.000-08:00

perhaps it's not surprising, that in a year that saw massive upheaval and the toppling of harsh regimes all over the globe, that the american rap underground would see it's greatest resurgence in recent memory.

from coast to coast and everywhere in between, acts that would have been relegated to relative obscurity in years past are on the come up. with wider availability of top tier production quality and the infinite value of internet distribution, independently produced mixtapes are turning the rap game inside out.

the songs are darker and harder than anything we've heard before, but the flows also offer more depth and intelligence than we've seen from almost anything on a major label in more than a decade. what really makes this year's class standout though, is listenability. there is a smoothness of sound and overall vision in this new movement that is just straight up fun to listen to.

credit this triumph at least in part to clams casino. his smooth, slick, bass heavy beats, accented by gorgeous vocal manipulations, dreamy synths and psychedelic complexity have made his productions this year some of the most amazing canvasses to drop a flow over that the rap world has ever seen. i don't believe that to be an exaggeration. pitchfork named his instrumental for based god's motivation
as one of the best tracks of the year. a nod it rightfully deserves. in addition, the clams produced collaborations between ASAP Rocky and Main Attrakionz have resulted in some of the best songs of the year. you needn't listen to more than the first 30 seconds of the first track off live, love, asap to hear my point illustrated (though i highly suggest that you do). triumphant choral vocals and huge bass hits, complete with high hats and handclaps... "the whole world gon be feelin this" indeed.

... but clams' work aside, the rappers themselves have really been the factor that has made this the best year the genre has experienced since i've been an avid contemporary listener. soulja boy, kid cudi and the like rocked the internet world a few years back... some catchy songs sure... but this is the year we got albums. yeah... albums.

well though-out, brilliantly executed albums that not only stand up to, but surpass anything the major labels have to offer. these are not just collections of singles... or hail mary attempts at landing a track on the charts... or a couple tight songs strung out on cheesy skits. these are some of the best albums of the year... genre aside. song after song of clearly illustrated visions, character development, storytelling and lucid, intricate and constantly variable flows that are simply unprecedented. not since nas and biggie in the early 90s have gangster rap and the underground intellectual element been present in the same arena to this extent. everyone is the better for it.

despite the undeniable darkness and often harsh subject matter of this music it's resounding message is ultimately positive. it's about putting in work... busting your ass to make your shit better.

that's a message we should all be listening to.

so without further ado, here's your top five for 2011. i kept it at five to make myself have to make some hard decisions about the stuff that really stood out this year. there are many more albums i have thoroughly enjoyed that didn't make the list. also... shout out to speakerfoxx... dope boy anthems has been by far one of the most enjoyable listens of the year. this list is focused on album work by single artists rather than compliations... no matter how good.

A$AP Rocky _ Live, Love, A$AP

i simply can't deny this album the top spot. it's been on repeat since i downloaded it in early november. when i get in my car this is what's on the stereo. when we go to a party this is what's on the stereo... it plays at photo shoots and on the headphones when i go to sleep. three months straight and i'm not sick of it yet. and i'm not skipping tracks either. it's alll good... album through beginning to end... no skips unless it's ahead, to the back half, to make sure i hear it as often as the first few tracks. not kidding.

and really what's not to love about this album?

it's starts out with a clams dominated block that begins with triumphant proclamation, (and bold statements that instantly raise that expectations for the remainder of the album) a straight attack on haters that would devastate almost any rap battle. the block closes with perhaps the chillest song of the year in wassup. this clams exclamation is only broken up by the deadly smooth banger from asap mob's own ty beats (and the album's second single) peso. during the first quarter of the record we hear references to harlem & houston... bone thugs and odb. yet, what could have come out as a disparate attempt to mash together wildly varying influences, instead results in a smooth, controlled production that annihilates any doubt you may have had that harlem can't do chopped & screwed.

here you have the pretty motherfucker... and he's coming at you so relentless and heavy that you can't say shit about it.

brand new guy brings this now established personality at you in a serious way. this is what it is to get made. clams is off the production but lyle keeps it consistent with the skrewed up chorus and throws his own punch with a menacing staccato bass line. follow this up with a couple of stunning cameos from spaceghost purrp and asap nast on the album's first single. this is some of the most compelling vocal work on the entire album. flow switch for real. it's also a firm reminder that this isn't a major label release (codeine and satan tend to make the man nervous).

we then drop into a syrup coated dream world courtesy of soufein3000, (who it turns out will be our trip orchestrator for the remainder) before being introduced to some more of the asap mob, as well as beautiful lou, whose reverbed guitar highlights a track that is my personal favorite of the album.

this is followed by the most new york track of the album, with space ghost purrp demonstrating that his talent isn't limited to his flow, while rocky lays a tough message about keeping it real on the come up over a desolate sax solo.

then, it's like stepping out of a cold nyc taxi and into the champagne room. asap ferg lays out the most entertaining vocal number of the year with a loose, boozy tribute to the good life and pink of all sorts.

the back of the album finishes up with a tribute to houston, some worldly wisdom, a main attrakionz collab with clams, an acid trip (soufein what up) and the same gold-toothed smoothness that you by now should have come to expect.

overall, it doesn't matter if you're stoned late at night, dissecting the lyrics or bumping it in the car on the way to the club... live, love, asap holds up to any degree of scrutiny and nearly any occasion. the dexterity of flow from both rocky himself and his carefully selected contributors, along with the overwhelming production quality make this album a truly superior statement.

... if your still looking too hard for a narrative or a deeper meaning you're wasting your time. this isn't a sermon, it's not a novel... but it also isn't brainless braggadocio. it's a vivid and complete character sketch of one of the most interesting, talented and fastest rising players in the rap game today.

Main Attrakionz _ 808's and Dark Grapes II

the team of squadda b and mondre man has cut out one of the tightest teams in the game with their green ova label out of the bay area. green ova has released work prolifically this year and squadda and mondre have been putting in solo work on top of their joint projects and collaborations. 808's and black grapes was released as part of the mishka nyc series rather than directly through green ova, but it is the perfect distillation of this group's style and sound.

whereas asap mob bear the mark of the bestial imperial belly from which they emerged, main attrakionz is simply glowing with the light of the golden bay which they call home. the darkness and harshness are gone... washed over by a bath of warm light. the heavy bass hits are still there... but now they're crystallized in clear cloud-like melody. the come up story is still is there. so are the drug references... but now it's all just dank cali kush... leave the codeine alone. the positivity of message that's a redeeming underscore on live, love, asap is the theme of this album.

throughout, the beats are light, playful and ethereal. like live, love, multiple producers and collaborators are all remarkably on point to create a sound that is as coherent as it is diverse. it's crucial to look at the track listing to understand who is making this happen, as it's all so perfectly on the same page that it could easily be mistaken for the work of a single individual. asap mob is all... get fucked up, get rich and let come what may. main attrakionz is hard work and careful consideration, deeply insightful lyricism and music that you just can't help feel good listening to.

i had to think long and hard about the order of the one and two positions on this list. asap ended up getting the nod because of the fact that universal party playability without loosing out on production quality and complexity are a hard (and rare) balance to achieve. ultimately though... main attrakionz feels better to me. it's less pre-occupied with booze, drugs and fucking. it's a statement of purpose. work harder, get better, don't stop.

with the quality of this release i get the feeling that main attrakionz are just getting started.

this is the soundtrack to trans-pacific flights and sunset drives.

Curren$y _ Verde Terrace

curre$y's been at it for a little while now... and perhaps that's why verde terrace didn't get the attention it deserved. this album serves as the artist's most coherent and smoothly executed production to date.

it's slick and bombastic while remaining understated. the vocals are laid back yet commanding. the 1 and 2 nods on this list are come up stories. with verde terrace curren$y demonstrates he's already been around the block a few times and knows what's up.... which is interesting as he still lurks on the periphery to a greater extent than either. this album is free of big name cameo appearances... hot producer's on the track list and a lyric sheet riddled with explicit drug references.

what it is full of is deliciously rich instrumental samples, a flow that is smooth, relaxed and confident, and deep empowering hip-hop that is both right on the same page with what else is happening in the game and simultaneously on a different planet entirely. the production on these tracks is less dark and syrupy than a$ap and less ethereal than main attrakionz. it's direct and deep and is ground by an authoritative, laid back flow that's the best we've ever seen from curren$y.

this is new orleans music. the weight is straight from the thick louisiana air... the jazz is always close at hand. it's familiar and fresh at the same time. it's the album that again and again last year i put on the speakers and had person after person ask me what i was playing. "when i'm off in the zone my niggaz tellin me run that shit". on verde terrace, from beginning to end, curren$y is clearly in his zone and running this shit.

there's a level of sophistication here that the younger guys in the game these days haven't grasped yet. verde terrace is weed rap... but dude's 30... not 21. there's no reason to mention that shit in every line... it's just life. might as well focus on floatin round in your fly cars late at night. in that sense the title is so fitting. curren$y here is above and outside this game... stoned looking down on whatever else is floatin around.

when the references are direct they're still perfectly executed... my eyebrows were raised when i heard that 10 crack commandments beat come on, but curren$y quickly proves that he has due reverence for his forefathers and the cover of sorts comes off as a delightfully fresh take on time tested words of wisdom. skepticism overcome.

"high tunes" is perhaps the realest track on the album. true to life story telling on how the good life isn't drama free... or as far removed from your own bullshit as you might assume. if you're lighting a blunt late night with your boyz play from the beginning... if you're driving around alone late night takin care of business start at sky miles and play through till the end.

"why would i buy you a purse when i could buy me a regal?"

2012 is ripe for a massive summer or fall drop from this dude that could easily jump fully on the energy wave moving through the undergroundish rap game du jour and really take this superbly chill sound to the next level.

Nacho Picasso _ For the Glory

What can you say here? Not since Sir Mixalot have you heard a legit MC coming out of seattle, washington.

the flow here is more backpack and less gangster than the rest of the entries on this list... but if that's due to nacho's remarkably apt cultural literacy and proficiency at dropping esoteric references in every line, you won't hear me complaining.

the production on this album is particularly interesting. all instrumental beats, via tag team combo of producers blue sky black death & raised by wolves (monikers that ooze pacific nw...) are smooth and despondently delicious. the influences range from classic hip hop to witch house to sci-fi egypto... but always luxuriously dark and wet. well done dudez.

amidst the mass, cutting pop-references there is a fair share of honesty that really carries this album through to the next level. lyrics like "i tried to stop smokin, what was i thinkin." ... and "when i'm on the east coast they think i'm puerto rican" add humanity to the otherwise underwater/afterdark seattle superhero persona that nacho creates for himself. the line "treat hell like a honeycomb hideaway" gives a sort of nonchalant acceptance of a less than perfect after-life while at the same time providing the perfect visual metaphor for the entire album... this is a place you can hang out in the dark...

this whole album is ripe with standard rap game braggadocio imbued with the vast pop-culture baubles we're all submerged in... "nacho picasso...pocahontas want to talk to him. she's on my peace pipe checkin my air moccasins." it's rare we get this depth of fiction (and sexual slur) crafted so lyrically from widely available pop references.

"of course your watchin him... he's from washington." cute phrasing... but, yeah... it's true. with the dark fashion superiority raining from that heavy north coast these days you'd be a fool not to be listening to this mc cuttin his chops.

with "for the glory" nacho picasso and his beat producers show that seattle has it's place as a firm, black iron counterweight to the bay area's more hyped, stone-glow. it's less immediate than harlem's syrup slick gangsta bump... but we're eagerly awaiting the next release from this team.

this is the album for late nights alone... drinkin that wine... smokin whatev... puttin in that deep creative work.

Based God _ Velli

ba$ed god. first time i heard his shit he was talkin bout swag and miley cyrus...

that was good... but listen to him now.

"stupid niggaz talkin bout how lil b done killed rap... stupid dicks man, i brought the rap game back" that's the first line that brings you into velli... and it would be true regardless of what comes after. lil b introduced the producers that are now running this new sound. clams casino's motivation got pitchfork nods for a track in it's own right. you can hate on b's style if you wanna... and until velli he didn't really have anything to stick in your face to tell you otherwise. you could say based god is all quantity over quality... that it's just some internet fad. you can say fuck lil b... silent president sucks. you can say whatever you want. a$ap mob, main attrakionz/greenova... anyone making their way in the game right now... owes this man some cred. and velli... velli is based god's cred.

if there's an underlying positivity in the other albums on this list... velli is loaded with outright, triumphant, positive energy. "real thugz is the one that not kill niggaz. real thugz is the one that go help niggaz" ...real talk. tupac was killed in his prime trying to preach this gospel. based god is clearly channeling the late great here and i do believe makaveli is smiling on his work. i mean... can you imagine anyone else last year rapping: "choose your life" and making you really, seriously think about that statement?

based god velli claims the realest... and it is. you can't get realer. what makes this a standout though is the production. beats are loud, fresh and smooth. the based god delivers heavy, confident vocals with a proficiency that legitimizes the subject material of the lyrics. "stop sellin drugz... watchu think about it?"

shout out's to keyboard kid? yeah you see that in 2012's mondre man already. whatchu think about it? this is the most sober, cloud floating, real talking album of all last year. it would be higher on the list but first over absolute truth i like feelin good. this album bumps but it's no party banger... not front to back anyway. "i got aids" isn't gonna get the party started... but it will spit the truth on some real shit that no one else is gonna say in the smoothest possible way.

if someone doesn't give me a club ready version of the "man i gotta be the realest ever handz down handz up" riff from "ghetto dreams" i'll be pissed. "houston texas i love you." ...yeah b... me too.

"like i said... rawest rapper alive." "this is for the bloggers that won't post my fuckin shit..." "i'm rich you fuckin bitch!"gotta say... if your blogging and not giving this shit some respect... fuck off.

"speak your mind if you're feelin something." that's the sub theme of everything base god does... over-releasing? or prolific? either way no one can accuse this man of not speaking his mind... he'll even let you know what it means to him. if b has it his way the music will truly bring us together. who else has truly spoken about the race issues our country still faces recently? king cotton fo real. "proud to be human. proud to be alive."

...but don't think b won't back up his grandiose moral and existential claimz... cold nights in boston shows his resolve to defend what's rightfully his and shouts out cincinnati and ohio at large. so i gotta back that too.

"i'd rather be workin hard than sittin in a cell." ... wouldn't we all.

but don't peg b as a square for his straight honesty. dude is hustlin all night to make his shit happen. velli is the strongest work from b to date and with it, he establishes both the tone and production quality that should carry him through a long and fruitful career.

"drivin thru the streetz... tinted windowz" ... he's the reason you got your deal. represent.

Best Track

best rap track of the year goes to main attrakionz & shady blaze "stratus" much love to japan on the production from uyama hiroto off that kuchibiru network 2 mixtape from friendzone.

Honorable Mention

also... young L's "as i float" is among my most played of 2011... disparate sources, but production is but dope as hell. 2012's only proven so far that he's on the up... next list... he on it.

note: i wrote most of this on new year's eve day 2011... but it's been a busy month and i needed to make sure it got finished right. the choices were made before the new year. mondre man's MAN ep dropped in december... but i didn't get to give it a listen until a couple weeks ago so it's up for the 2012 list.

if you haven't gotten to listen to anything on this list yet... you really must.

bill

2012-01-28T12:10:00.000-08:00

volcanic

2012-01-24T09:00:00.000-08:00

main attrakionz + fool's gold cru

2012-01-23T22:30:00.000-08:00

TUES JAN 24

IHEARTCOMIX, Media Contender, The Echo & LA Record Present:

CHECK YO PONYTAIL 2
... with

DANNY BROWN

KID SISTER w/ SINDEN

MAIN ATTRAKIONZ

PARTY SUPPLIES

THEE MIKE B

Visuals by DEMONBABIES

$15 adv

Doors 9pm 18+

@ ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

img + txt _ cypt2

eat machines _ drop dead

2012-01-23T09:00:00.000-08:00

mind the upholstery

2012-01-22T14:50:00.000-08:00

drugs crew

2011-12-17T12:44:00.000-08:00

press:

New Image Art is proud to be presenting the first gallery exhibition by DRUGS Crew. DRUGS is the abject fringe of graffiti. It is a collective of both experienced and young artists who have, at some point in their development, become deeply alienated by the aesthetic and social state of contemporary graffiti. In the current culture of graffiti the authority that DRUGS Crew works against has moved beyond vandal squads and angry property owners and now extends to the new pigs found in the mono-culture of graffiti artists that police the graffiti world through websites, blogs, sponsored graffiti jams and corporate tie ins. Their rejection of form in a medium defined by subjective hierarchies has produced some of the most original, yet superficially labeled “bad”, graffiti of recent years. DRUGS Crew’s deconstructive aesthetic in this microcosm sets aside the need to technically measure up to the work of their peers, focusing more on expressing the emotions felt while committing a subversive act.

As DRUGS Crew moves off of the streets and into the gallery the work will explore the aesthetic of graffiti as a failed state run by the “Graffiti Police” as well as playing with the history of Graffiti and Street Art in galleries. DRUGS Crew is most present in the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and New York. A large scale installation of their work was featured in “Art in the Streets” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2011. Outside the collective of DRUGS Crew, each member has been featured in art exhibitions around the world under a variety of names.

The installation will feature work by Teen Witch, the San Francisco Photographer whose work mirrors the ideals of DRUGS Crew as well documents the activities of their contemporaries. Loose snapshots detail the swirling world of creativity that surrounds her. Her images celebrate a family of artists, musicians, vandals and whoever else happens to be hanging around.

This exhibition is dedicated to the late Charlie Marks who was a beloved friend to the artists and New Image Art. He was a greatly talented artist and inspiration whose involvement in our lives made this show possible. The installation will include artworks by Charlie as well as pieces that allow New Image and DRUGS Crew to honor their amazing artist and friend.

opening saturday december, 17
6-9pm

new image art gallery

7920 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood
CA 90046

:: img + txt _ new image

pink wall i

2011-12-14T11:30:00.000-08:00

novacane

2011-12-14T06:00:00.000-08:00

FRANK OCEAN [Novacane] from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

exceptional video for frank ocean's novacane by director nabil elderkin.

download the posi†ronic slowed n dro'ed edit:

NovaCane (Slowed & Dro'ed) by posi†ronic

if you don't have frank ocean's album nostalgia ultra yet download it for free below:

frank ocean nostalgia ultra (free download)

high voltage

2011-12-13T13:30:00.000-08:00

end cap

full circuit

high

high wire

palm wire

transformer

blk iii

2011-12-13T11:30:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ c. well

raw meat

2011-12-13T06:00:00.000-08:00

Black Lips - "Raw Meat" from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.

Director: Phil Pinto

Producer: Oscar Boyson
Executive Producer: Rachelyn Remz-Porter
Director of Photography: Ryan Dickie

1st AC: Sam Wootton
Key Grip: Chris DesRochers
Grip: Mike Lukasik

Production Designer: Antonio Santos
Wardrobe Stylist: Olga Mill
Sound Design: Colin Alexander

Production Co: 1000%

Featuring: Stephen & Andrew Barr, Rayna Cummings, Leo Fitzpatrick, Othello Gervacio, Janell Shirtcliff, Tennessee Thomas

Very Special Thanks to Luke Lanter & Rory Mulher at Capture This

Download

tar white

2011-12-04T02:59:00.001-08:00

tar white i _ robo drip

ii _ stax

iii _ leaving the cave

iv _ igloo

v _ turin


vi _ over ice bigger :: p. _ c. well

septic sac

2011-12-02T09:00:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ c. well

thvm sample sale

2011-12-01T21:52:00.001-08:00

THVM Sample Sale tomorrow featuring Roark, Laugh Cry Repeat, Endovanera, Lovers + Friends, Cast of Vices.

get a pair of jeans. do your shopping. thvm's space on palmetto street is worth stop by to take a look at by itself.

friday december 12th - sunday december 14th

noon till 8 (6 on sunday)

1317 palmetto st.

los angeles 90013

50-80% off

blk ii

2011-12-01T13:30:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ c. well

king dude

2011-12-01T09:00:00.000-08:00

King Dude "Big Blue Eyes" from alice cohen on Vimeo.

king dude is the dark folk project from the guy who does actual pain out of seattle. he'll be in la this weekend for a couple of shows.

you can stream the album tonight's special death below or get the first full release love here.

king dude la shows:

12.2.11 _ in store performance at vacation vinyl
12.3.11 _ dem passwords w/ bestial mouths + hive mind

arizas

2011-11-30T09:00:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ c. well

covered in gold

2011-11-29T16:00:00.000-08:00

this bluesy rock meets new dark hip hop has some promise. covered in gold from sf's ca

:: via _ actual pain

golf swingers _ buildings dreams

2011-11-29T13:30:00.000-08:00

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://golfswingers.bandcamp.com/album/buildings-dreams"&amp;amp;gt;Buildings Dreams by GOLF SWINGERS&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

golf swingers is an ongoing collaborative project between ohio based electronic experimentalists ormo and mr. leg.

their fourth release buildings dreams is out now from laps records. it's perfect to get you through your coffee fueled commute and ensuing business workday. you'll find it especially rewarding when you utilize it to prepare for business meetings, conference calls and powerlunches.

golf swingers _ buildings dreams (free download)

aids tape

2011-11-29T09:00:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ c. well

jim mangan _ color'd

2011-11-28T23:31:00.000-08:00

photos from the opening of jim mangan's color'd at country club gallery on october 27th. the show consisted of series of color photographs shot in the utah wilderness. the subjects of the photographs are a group of young people nude save for a slathering of dyed buffalo fat. the images have a strong sense whimsical, primordial exuberance.

the vivid coloration of the subjects is both in contrast and a compliment to the gorgeous natural splendor of the setting. on the one hand, the bright tones standout against the natural hues of the landscape, yet seem not entirely foreign set against the emerald greens of the vegetation and deep blue sky.

in fact, it's the offsetting of colors here that really gives power to these images. limbs outstretched against organic forms, familiarity slightly extracted from the human form by the presence of artificial color to place focus on shape and form and serving to accentuate the uninhibited movement of liberated youth.

the addition, in some of the shots, of fur pieces tepees and disheveled hair lends a neo-tribal sense to the collection. while the presence of a soccer ball in others leaves a feeling of playful lightness.

overall, color'd was arrousing, nostalgic and thought provoking. the scale of the photographs and the thoroughness with which they cover the walls encapsulates the onlooker in a mood of yearning for the outdoors, freedom and comraderie. yet the lingering darkness of the whole leaves you wary of the cost of such abandon.


the artist (center) discussing his work with two patrons.


country club gallery.


all photographs in color'd are available in multiple sizes and editions. they are also compiled into a book.

blk i

2011-11-18T11:00:00.000-08:00

:: p. _ clark wellington

humanity panel

2011-11-17T17:23:00.001-08:00

Aaron Morse Humanity Panel

November 18 - December 17, 2011

Opening Reception
Friday, November 18, 2011, 7 - 9pm

Aaron Morse’s recent work will be on display in two new, concurrent exhibits in November, 2011. A new mural installation debuts at Country Club, Friday, November 18th, while paintings, watercolors and oversize collages are on view at ACME., opening Saturday, November 19th. Also continuing is an outdoor mural project at The Standard’s downtown Los Angeles location.

Morse’s recent paintings, collages, and wallpapered murals reimagine the deluge of pictorial information that comes our way via an ever expanding, media saturated culture. Morse collected books for several years with the intention of assembling images into an oversized collage banner. The subject of these books, ranging from natural history to sporting memorabilia, together with found images from the internet, has been assembled into a dense and subjective timeline of history. Rich in images, the orchestrated Timeline spans the Big Bang to the future in a dynamic and scale-shifting zigzag. Its contradictory graphic and photographic representation is at once playful, serious, quizzical, and inventive.

In order to balance the hyper figuration of the Timeline, Morse has included a new group of paintings that take their visual cues from aerial photography and maps. For all their abstract qualities, these works are actually the stylized representations of a distressed planet, whose cratered, wrinkled, and scorched surface relates to our own. Titles like Topo, Oceania, Victoria, and The Painted Desert allude to eras of exploration and war.

Mural installations at Country Club and The Standard in downtown Los Angeles reconfigure handmade paintings and collages into scaledup digitally generated works that have then been reworked with hand painting and coloring. Hybrids between commercial printing, collage and painting, they reference hand-colored photographs, color separated graphics and rotoscoped animation to create a complex visual environment where themes of history, information, time and materials begin to resonate. Morse takes into consideration his audience, the speed of life and the scale of architecture. In the case of The Standard, the 40 foot mural is at eye level from the car off a central artery and exit into downtown, posing the question of what it means to exit the freeway into Los Angeles’ financial district and be confronted with a picture of our Earth’s origins.

Aaron Morse is a Los Angeles based artist whose works explore historical imagery and the manner in which those images are shaped and manipulated over the course of time. His works are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Country Club • Los Angeles
7561 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
USA

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atoll

2011-11-17T09:00:00.000-08:00

hunx o bleached fidlar punx

2011-11-17T00:30:00.000-08:00

jeffrey lewis + emperor x

2011-11-16T23:52:00.000-08:00

Jeffrey Lewis

w/ Emperor X

Mayday, Northside

4227 Spring Grove Ave. Cincinnati

Thursday, November 17th

Whatever happened to anti-folk? Back in 2007, it seemed like you couldn’t watch a laptop or health insurance commercial without hearing a Regina Spektor song and, after the release of Juno, there werea million college girls who couldn’t stop explaining how the lyrics of Kimya Dawson defined their lives. But in the last few years I haven’t heard much of a peep.

Well, Jeffrey Lewis hasn’t given up the fight. In fact, he’s always kept himself more relevant than the genre as a whole through branching out, as with his cartooning career, his low-budget history lessons, and his podcast appearances. Most importantly, though, he’s consistently put out clever, catchy, inventivealbums. His latest, A Turn in the Dream Songs, was very recently released and is already getting rave reviews by the likes of Robert Christgau.

This Thursday, Lewis will play a free show at Mayday in Northside with opening band Emperor X. Since this show will be a stop on Lewis’s tour proper in support of A Turn in the Dream Songs, it’ll be agreat chance to hear him perform some of the best songs he’s written in years. I mean, who am I to argue with Robert Christgau?

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nacho picasso

2011-11-16T10:00:00.000-08:00

&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://nachopicasso.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-glory"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;For The Glory by Nacho Picasso&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;
nacho picasso comes on the scene rocking the dark, smoothly produced raps that are dominating the landscape of late. he reps seattle on for the glory in a fittingly submarine tone. production from blue sky black death and raised by wolves sets his vocals clean atop dimly vibrant, aquatic/ethereal beats that cast an appropriately vague setting for his sometimes harsh sometimes off-puttingly hilarious flows. i'd bother comparing this to lately blown up a$ap rocky or the general clams casino helmed movement in contemporary mixtape rap... but with a free download including every single instrumental track i'll trust you to cast your own judgments.

shonen knife + weakness

2011-11-15T14:00:00.000-08:00

write up by john crowell

Shonen Knife
w/ Weakness

Mayday Northside

4227 Spring Grove Ave.
Cincinnati, OH

November 16th, doors @ 8pm, $8

Ready to feel old? Shonen Knife are celebrating their thirtieth anniversary as a band this year. Boom. Do you see what just happened? A band that your dad would shake his head at with bewilderment and call “weirdo young kid punk” if he heard one chorus of it is thirty. It’s right up there with Nevermind celebrating its twentieth on the list of things that make you want to curl up with a Gameboy and a VHS copy of Jurassic Park and accept that the world has passed you by. Or maybe you should just come see a really fun rock show instead.

Speaking of Nevermind, Shonen Knife’s big claim to fame for most, of course, is that they toured with Nirvana back in the day. I interviewed lead singer Naoko Yamano before MidPoint Music Festival 2010, but had to miss their show because of scheduling conflicts (damn you, MPMF, for having way too much awesome stuff going on year after year!). I can’t wait to see them this year, and hope to see you out there.

Also, Cincinnati’s own Weakness is opening. These guys play spazzed-out throaty punk that reminds me of a Les Savy Fav that’s maybe even a little more vicious and desperate. They’re getting some buzz too, with Vice Magazine’s Noisey project giving them a profile recently. You can check that out below. Don’t forget to show up on time and see these guys tear it up.

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bloodmilk _ the conjurer

2011-11-15T08:00:00.000-08:00

bloodmilk is a darkly luxurious purveyor of rare crystals and and all adornments occult. the jewelry line of philly based jl schnabel is black magic at it's finest. complex stones, bones and claws... unique metal work and intricate details.

the first bloodmilk lookbook the conjurer is a nice assemblage of both schnabel's current line of wares and her broader black naturalist aesthetic. the photography and styling are also quite nice. download the conjurer as well as the exclusive accompanying s4nta mu3rte mixtape released to coincide with the initial 11.11.11 unveiling below.

the conjurer

s4nta mu3rte _ 11.11.11

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follow @bloodmilk on twitter... and instagram.

conjurer credz:

photography: christina brown
artwork & design: paul romano
the conjurer: jacci stallone
stylist: amber lynn
make up: jenessa cintron
clothing: ovate
wing headpiece: loved to death
leather journals: margaux kent of the black spot books
site: laurel barickman

globular

2011-11-14T14:27:00.001-08:00

surface to air

2011-11-12T14:39:00.001-08:00

Surface to Air
A solo exhibition by Thomas Doyle

LBP :: Culver City
November 12th – December 17, 2011
Artist reception: Saturday, November 12th, 7-10 pm

Los Angeles, CA – LeBasse Projects is proud to announce ‘Surface to Air,’ a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Thomas Doyle.

With this new exhibition Doyle continues his Distillation series, which explores an uncanny intersection between destruction and domestic life. Doyle sculpts in a small scale to create model worlds that upend the laws and assumptions of our real one. In “Surface to Air,” houses hover safely above their ruined and burnt foundations while soldiers huddle below. A family goes about its business inside a home that has been cleaved in two. A subterranean house juts from the earth, as a family trudges through an ash-strewn landscape above. Reflective of the apprehension endemic to our times, Doyle’s works also communicate a timeless longing for the stability of home, hearth, and family.

“Surface to Air” will also debut Doyle’s new Foregone series, consisting of photographic portraits of the child figures that feature prominently in his sculptural work. Measuring just a few millimeters high, each figure is hand painted and then photographed in an enlarged format, revealing detail unseen by the naked eye. Coated in a patina of microscopic debris, the figures reveal the limitations and random nature of painting while evoking the tenderness and anxieties of childhood.

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jggd

2011-11-12T10:00:00.000-08:00

dead meadow @ the satellite

2011-11-11T17:00:00.000-08:00

saturday night 11.12.11

dead meadow
strangers family band
only you

the satellite
1717 silverlake blvd.
los angeles

9pm _ 21+ _ $12

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the spits

2011-11-11T16:00:00.000-08:00

busy weekend for nomad...

11.12.11

NOMAD Los Angeles - Print Studio, Gallery, Art Compound

1993 BLAKE AVE

18+ / $12 ADV / $14 DOS

THE SPITS
THE MOUTHBREATHERS
TRMRS

Dj BLaque Chris

Tickets

afterparty with king tuff dj set
+ short shorts + chris ziegler

footsies
2640 n. figueroa st.
los angeles 90065

10pm +21 free

brought to you by l.a. record + scion

pr$m twn$

2011-11-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

PR$M TWN$

from paul coors and jessie cundiff

opening 11.12.11

8pm - 2am

THE COMET

4579 Hamilton Ave.

Cincinnati, Ohio (Northside)

On Saturday November 12th, The Comet presents a new exhibition, in conjunction with "Northside Second Saturdays", PR$M TWN$, by the creative duo PR$M TWN$. The show, consisting mostly of sandblasted mirror light boxes, marks the PR$M TWN$ public debut. PR$M TWN$ may be local, or they may be from Brooklyn. PR$M TWN$ may be from Berlin. PR$M TWN$ may be from nowhere. PR$M TWN$ are like "Anonymous" in that way, but unlike "Anonymous" in most every other way. PR$M TWN$ may retire after this show. PR$M TWN$ may be your new favorite. PR$M TWN$ may last forever. PR$M TWN$ definitely enjoy late nights and definitely love the Comet... see you $aturday!

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the gimp

2011-11-11T09:30:00.000-08:00

i'm intangible.

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california song

2011-11-11T00:30:00.000-08:00

HEDI SLIMANE
CALIFORNIA SONG

OPENING
NOVEMBER 11TH, 2011, 6-9PM
MOCA PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER
8687 MELROSE AVENUE
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Hedi Slimaneʼs California Song, the first West Coast solo museum exhibition of the photographerʼs work, on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from November 12, 2011, through January 22, 2012. California Song spans the photographerʼs “California period” and traces his explorations of cycles of urban youth culture and artistic communities, through installations of photographic essays, exhibitions, and publications.

Slimane has achieved global recognition over the past decade for his discovery and presentation of emerging musicians and artists. His publications on London youth are among the first books published about the early days of the new British punk-rock movement at the beginning of this decade, capturing the birth of the first generation of Internet users, and redefining the concept of “fans” as an indie youth imagery that has developed globally through emerging social networks. Slimaneʼs widely followed photographic “diary,” created in 2006, established and popularized an entirely new genre—the online photo diary.

Slimane has invented a new and oblique visual language to represent youth and reinvent the rock documentary. In his work, live performance is reduced to a minimal, photographic lexicon—a ritual black-and-white convention of signs. Still life photographs become almost liturgical—a singular, silent expression of youth.

“Hedi Slimane has created a new and fresh visual language for youth today,” said MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch. “His black-and-white images capture the essential expression of the emerging art, fashion, and music scenes around the world.”

Slimane’s exhibition at MOCA will be divided into two parts. An installation and a series of black-and-white print photographs from his California years will be presented on the ground floor, and a sonic, motion-photography installation, produced specifically for MOCA, will be featured on the second floor. The installation will reference a multi-projection, cubic, architectural format, which Slimane has constructed in previous exhibitions to present his photographs, using serial construction and repetition to create an archaic form of cinematic narration.

Slimaneʼs allusive portraiture, in which photographs, portraits, and still life compositions are often signs or fragments of a portrait, will be projected in a repetitive, almost ritual, manner. The installation will also address “performance act,” as defined for the first time in Slimaneʼs photographic essay, Stage (2004), and will include a live performance space underneath the projection.

Select California bands, such as No Age, will contribute to the installation, using a fragmentary sound system, and composing panoramic scores—extended, visual song formats—which will form a dialogue with and define a sonic vocabulary for the photographs.

The exhibition will reference Berlin Project (1999–2002), which was presented in 2003 at Kunst-Werke, Berlin, and MoMA PS1, New York, and is accompanied by the book Berlin (Steidl, 2003). It will also encompass The London Years (2003–2007) presented in 2004, 2006, and 2007 at Almine Rech Gallery, Paris; at Sprüth Magers Gallery, Munich, in 2005; at MUSAC, León, 2008; and referenced in Stage and London Birth of A Cult (Steidl) in 2005.

The California period began in July 2007, during Young American at Foam Amsterdam. In February 2011, Fragments Americana, an exhibition of Slimaneʼs photographs, was presented at Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels. At the same time, Almine Rech Gallery in Paris presented California Dreamin—Myths and Legends of Los Angeles, a group show curated by Slimane featuring artists John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Bruce Conner, John McCracken, Aaron Curry, Mark Grotjahn, Mark Hagen, Patrick Hill, Dennis Hopper, Mike Kelley, Joel Morrison, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw, Hedi Slimane, and Aaron Young, many of whom are included in the museumʼs permanent collection and have been presented in solo, retrospective, and large-scale thematic exhibitions at MOCA. Slimaneʼs book Anthology of a Decade, published March 2011 (JRP/Ringier), includes a photography essay dedicated to the California period.

Images (on flyer, clockwise from left): Girls Christopher Owens, San Francisco, 2011; No Age, Los Angeles, 2011; California girl, Venice, 2010; California boy, Laguna Beach, 2010. All images by Hedi Slimane.

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pb wolf 11.11.11

2011-11-10T23:30:00.000-08:00

peanut butter wolf
11.11.11

It started in 2006 ...
666 Wolf spins a Satanic metal DJ set.
777 7-day event & a gospel-themed podcast.
888 8-day event, all videos.
999 9-day event in 9 So. Cali. area codes.
101010 10 DJ's, 10 hours, all 45s.

11/11/11: 11 DJ's, 11 dollars, 11 hundred records, presented by Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock and I See Sound. Goes from 6PM-1AM at Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock at 2225 Colorado Blvd. PB Wolf is bringing 1100 of his favorite records in a U-haul.

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g.

2011-11-10T22:30:00.000-08:00

Gregory Siff

opening reception 11.11.11

7 - midnight

la founderie

1755 glendale blvd.

los angeles 90026

“To be a G is a term you earn. My father was a G, his name, George. Being a G means loving where youʼre from, your fam, your set. It means Giving back. Itʼs paying your dues. Itʼs being a brother, a friend, a true fighter in the most positive form of the word. It is standing up for who you are and what you believe in. When someone is described as a G, itʼs reserved for oneʼs with a high level of respect.”
-Gregory.

The Site UnScene is proud to announce G. the premiere solo showing of Gregory Siff. Building on the momentum of high profile projects he has completed recently, such as painting with The Seventh Letter, completing The Standard Downtown L.A.ʼs 6th St. Mural, and garnering the street art wall of the moment The Barracuda Wall on Melrose, Gregory is bringing his work out of the galleries, off of the street, and into a space all his own on 11-11-11 at the historical La Founderie in Echo Park, California.

“This year, through art, many truths were unlocked. I had the privilege of laying down paint on walls that my heroes have before me, all across LA. Even painting with legends, The Seventh Letter, who truly embody what it means to be a G.” says Gregory of the meaning behind G. “This 7th letter of the alphabet, symbolizes the heroʼs journey in all of us, creating the best version of ourselves. Goals, Game, Greatness, Grace, Graffiti, Giant, Grounded, Gamble, Genuine, Gold, Green, Grand, God, Galaxy, Growth, Glory, Go!”

In preparation of this event, Gregory has launched Project G., an online event of show preparation with exclusive and intriguing insight into the artistʼs life as he prepares for launch of G. Project G. is designed to create and develop a new and unique relationship between art audience and art maker, in the aim of a creating a show that belongs to both, a show with ʻheart.ʼ You can follow the daily progress, trials, tribulations and successes of Project G. at the ʻGregory Siff Has a Heartʼ website.
Artistʼs bio: Gregory Siff is an American pop artist, redefining the genre by blending the street and abstract-expressionism into his work. Gregory has shown within the United States at various venues and galleries in both New York City and Los Angeles as well as abroad. His work has been featured in the Deitch Projects Art Parades and he has done live art installations and murals for the The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood Library, De La Barracuda in Los Angeles, Urban Outfitters, The House of Blues and The Beverly Hills Hotel. He has been featured in Interview Magazine, Paper Mag, the LA Times, LA Canvas and more.

G. is produced by The Site Unscene, helping make art happen, thesiteunscene.com. Special thanks to: The 7th Letter, Modern Multiples, LA Canvas and Creative Cartel Crew for their support of G.

Preview | Gregory Siff | 'G' Artshow | 2011 from Creative Cartel on Vimeo.

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psych night

2011-11-10T15:12:00.001-08:00

Thief, Adrian, Huggy & Origami Vinyl present:

Friday Nov 11th, 2011

"PSYCH NIGHT"

Entrance Band

White Arrows

Highlands

--Record Rotations by: Neil Schield (Origami)

--Melting Walls by: Thief

--Photography & Filming by: Will Tee Yang & Mike Lund

$10 PRESALES AVAILABLE HERE

Nomad Gallery & Art Compound

1993 Blake Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90039
8PM-1AM
$15@door, 18+
21+ with ID to drink

sunset city

2011-11-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

vivisection

2011-11-09T15:00:00.000-08:00

tim biskup _ former state

2011-11-09T10:00:00.000-08:00

tim biskup. monkey. sculpture and painting.

tim biskup's former state opened at THIS los angeles on october 14th well attended... an adequate celebration of this new body of iconic visual imagery.

the process is as interesting as the result... mold and paint a small, simple sculpture... head only. then break down the resulting profile into fractal geometry and blast them in large scale across a brilliantly contrasting background. then display the two side by side in the gallery as bizarre analog avatars of one other. the result... it turns out... is striking.

the images on display are both warm and intimidating... familiar yet alien. any piece in former state would be equally at home in a child's nursery, your living room or the hall of the most deranged of collector's. the broad appeal of the collection... aside from it's bold visual affront is that it blurs a number of lines while still representing in a direct and immediate mode.

the paintings are blatantly representational yet prismatically abstracted. the sculptures... though crude and simple are well executed nonetheless and provide character to what would otherwise be much more ambiguous expressions.

bird. sculpture and painting.

it's interesting as well that the corresponding pieces... sculpture and painting while representing each other can also be seen to represent a case study in the digitization of personality. the simplification, projection and amplification of ones essence in accordance with digital models. hmm.

bird.

calli brothers.

dragon dog. sculpture and painting.

dragon dog sculpture.

ghonner brothers + bird/cyclops

horns sculpture. from the side.

horns sculpture.

marshmallow

monkey sculpture

t-shirts for sale.

in front of THIS los angeles.


unicorn.

ultimately, former state is a bold, exuberant, confident expression of a new direction in biskup's work. whether this showing proves to be the start of a new stylistic mode in the artists work or a brief experimentation, these images... paintings especially will retain relevance if for no other reason than there imaginative and well-executed iconic clarity.

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skinemax

2011-11-09T02:28:00.000-08:00

Skinemax from Smash TV on Vimeo.

at first your like "oh cool..." and then your like "holy shit how can it be so long?" then you get stoned and watch it late at night with headphones on under a mountain of blankets and pillows.

.....

STARRING KURT RUSSELL

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It's long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

Please support the original works, these are film makers and musicians that have upheld the values of originality and creativity.

This video is protected under fair use copyright law. It is presented for the purposes of entertainment, education, and criticism/commentary only. No infringement is intended.

Tracklist:

Com Truise - Norkuy
Depakote - Tummler
Martial Canterel - For Us
Fulgeance - Glamoure
Daedelus - Penny Loafers
Teebs - Why Like This
Laurel Halo - Embassy
Games - Strawberry Skies
d'Eon - Transparency
FOE - A Handsome Stranger Called Death (Com Truise Remix)
Games - Shadows In Bloom
White Car - No Better
Gatekeeper - Forgotten
The Hasbeens - You And Me
Ford & Lopatin - Emergency Room
Rainbow Arabia - Mechanical
oOoOO - Burnout Eyess
VHS Head - Motions
Outer Limits Recordings - Plastik Child

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shadow pool

2011-11-09T02:25:00.000-08:00

NOVEMBER 9, 2011
MOCA @ HOLLYWOOD FOREVER MASONIC LODGE
6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Cocktail Reception 7pm, Performance at 8pm
Special Guests Jennifer Herrema + Black Bananas
The Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present the premiere of Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s new performance Shadow Pool: A Natural History of The San San International. The work employs a mix of theatrical genres ranging from the slide lecture, the fashion show, the sculptural display, and the live musical act as a means to illustrate the world of the San San International, a mega-convention of staggering proportions. The show will feature collaborations with legendary musician Jennifer Herrema and her band Black Bananas and costume designers Jhordan Dahl and Katie Casey.

The presentation begins in the form of a slide lecture about an obscure book of essays entitled In The Kaleidoscope Room by journalist Elizabeth Stone. Within the book is an account of Ms. Stone’s tour through the San San International in the mid-1970s. She encapsulates the scene at the mega-convention in the following passage:

“There are over 5000 exhibitors on the 13 floors of the convention center. It is the largest of its kind in the world. I’m told that they expect a surplus of three million people to attend. This hypertrophic scale is a result of the merger of several kinds of trade fairs, contemporary art exhibitions, technology displays, and performance festivals into one behemoth event. It is now truly without theme or cohesion, a fair ostensibly about everything and nothing at all.”

Stone’s work of New Journalism is a hallucinatory tour through the multifarious objects and events. She shines an unusual light on the performative relationship between spectator and exhibitor, the rituals of identity transformation, and the dynamics of seduction and power that unfold within the dense conglomeration of displays.

The slide lecture uses the Stone text as an anchor for a broad anthropological examination of this unique cultural phenomenon. The visual tour of the San San International leads us though the materialist fictions of fashion and commodity trends, the structure of value applied to objects, the constellation of dissident street gangs that taunt the convention each year and Shadow Pool, a popular New Age movement of identity erasure and restructuring that is based in the ritualistic use of the powerful psychotropic drug Marasa.
As the slide lecture meanders into stranger and stranger narratives, models begin to appear in custom clothing holding a variety of sculptural objects that both allude to and expand upon the subject matter of the San San International. The piece culminates as a theatrical collage where a fashion show, video showcase, and a musical performance merge with the lecture into a quasi-spectacular interpretation of the multitudinous situation that is the San San International.

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe are known for their large-scale environmental installations in which a wide variety of social spaces are rendered in intense sculptural detail. They create labyrinthine sequences of rooms that draw sharp contrasts between style and use. In these works, it would not be uncommon to move from the parlor of an Upper East Side apartment into the pantry of a Hippie commune or Chinese pharmacy. Their first collaborative installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh) was commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in 2008. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to The Station in Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman. Their most expansive installation Black Acid Co-Op was installed in 2009 at Deitch Projects, NYC and consisted of a twenty-three room, three story architectural intervention. The most recent project, Bright White Underground, was commissioned by Country Club and installed in R.M. Schindler’s J.J. Buck House in Hollywood. It involved the reimagining of the history of this famous example of California modernism as the controversial site of psychedelic research. The duo currently has a sculptural commission entitled The Double Bind: Selections From the Annabel Vale Archive in the lobby of the Standard, Downtown LA.

rsvp shadowpool@moca.org

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gross

2011-11-09T01:52:00.000-08:00

back door beauty?

l$d

war on drugs/purling hiss

2011-11-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

The War on Drugs @ Cameo Gallery 8.19.2011 from Jessica Amaya on Vimeo.

this tour was just in los angeles a few weeks ago. here's a preview write up for their cincinnati show...

The War on Drugs
w/ Carter Tanton and Purling Hiss
Mayday Northside, cincinnati
November 4th

The War on Drugs are from Philadelphia and make dreamy psychedelic Americana. Current indie sensation Kurt Vile was a member for a time. But more importantly, they’ve just released an awesome album (possibly one of the best of 2011), Slave Ambient, and are touring behind it. Their sound has slowly evolved over the years, but if their live sound is anywhere near the stuff on the record, it’s like Bob Dylan singing and strumming his guitar behind blissed-out samples and reverb-soaked guitars.

They’ll be at Mayday in Northside on November 4th (it’s FREE, like most Mayday shows). They’re slowly getting some buzz around them, so if nothing else you should stop by to see a band people living in other cities actually have to pay to see.

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ray station

2011-11-01T07:00:00.000-07:00

jr mural. part of the wrinkles of the city series.

the abandoned ray service station at portia and sunset in echo park is barely blockaded and a sort of free tagging zone. these pictures are less than a month old, but it doesn't look like this anymore. it's been painted over (washed) and re-tagged (partially). the jr mural is still there though...

green guy

face peel

desire obtain cherish. gas pumps.

crack is wack. life is fresh.

desire obtain cherish.

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devil's tongue

2011-11-01T00:47:00.000-07:00

idle hands. displaced plants.

... tusks, ink, vomit... whatever you want.

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color'd

2011-10-26T22:30:00.000-07:00

Jim Mangan Color’d
October 27 - November 12
Opening Reception and Book Launch
October 27th, 2011, 7 - 10pm
DJ set by Patrick Melcher

Country Club | Los Angeles is pleased to present Color’d, an exhibition of photographs by Jim Mangan.

One bright summer morning, seven young men and women drive away from the billboards and the traffic jams, the neon chatter and the constant digital stimulation of their lives. After walking deep into the mountains, they abandon their clothing, along with the labels that have hung heavily around their necks: “promising student,” “stoner fuck-up,” “favorite son,” “vulnerable daughter.” Liberated from the limits that have defined them, they proceed to paint each other from head to toe in richly pigmented bear fat, further obscuring their former selves and setting the stage for the ultimate experience of freedom and resurrection.

The second photographic project in artist Jim Mangan’s trilogy about rebirth, Color’d presents a very contemporary answer to a theme that is as old as the mountains and as universal as sunshine. Shot in saturated instant film and grainy 35 mm film, Color’d is set among the high alpine lakes of northern Utah’s Uinta Mountains and depicts a journey of stepping outside the increasingly narrow confines of modern America to literally paint anew one’s identity.

“For me, Color’d represents a journey where there exists no boundaries, an escape from everyday society into a world where anything seems possible,” says Mangan. “But really, it can be anything you’d like it to be.” As the naked, painted young men and women explore lakes, meadows and mountainsides, Mangan’s lens captures the unfolding—and at times uncomfortable—sense of renewal they experience in this landscape of utter possibility. Uncomfortable, because the paint has also inked over their very identities, until all that remains are blank—if bright—canvases on which they are free to redefine themselves.

Color’d is a follow-up to Mangan’s 2010 project, Winter’s Children, which was a celebration of the pure, naked joy that burns at the heart of snowboarding. First exhibited at Milk Gallery in New York, photographs from Winter’s Children were initially published in the June 2010 issue of Vice magazine before being released in a book published by powerHouse books. The Winter’s Children book is included in the Artist’s Books at MoMA and the MCA Chicago, and is on exhibit from September 1, 2011 - November 1, 2011 at Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece.

Color’d is being published by Dashwood Books, which has recently released books by Ryan McGinley, Ari Marcopoulos and Sam Falls. The book will be available from Dashwood Books in Manhattan, Colette in Paris, in Stussy’s flagship stores worldwide and online. Color’d was first published in the 2011 Vice Photo Issue as both the cover and featured photo essay.

Jim Mangan was born and raised in La Grange, IL. He lived in the mountains of Colorado and Utah for 16 years before moving to Los Angeles in 2010. He left Los Angeles in 2011 and is currently living a nomadic lifestyle while working on his series of fine art photography and short film projects. He will call New York, NY his home beginning November 2011.

October 27th, 2011, 7 - 10pm

7561 sunset blvd.
los angeles

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dumpster diving _ green

2011-10-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

dissassociative

2011-10-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

you're taking depressants but what you really need is a dissociative analgesic.

paintings by dan reddinger

2011-10-15T19:33:00.000-07:00

gray matters to a box of rocks beneath a burning bridge. dan reddinger. 44"x44". oil, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, and oil based satin.

tomorrow afternoon if you're in ohio:

paintings by dan redddinger

An artist salon with live music by DJ Seb. Suggested donation or $5 at the door. Finger food and some alcohol will be provided. Feel free to bring finger food or BYOB.

glenn house inn

1221 Glen Road

Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

if you're not in the area have a look.

former state

2011-10-14T10:48:00.000-07:00

New Paintings & Sculptures
October 14th – November 4th, 2011

Opening Reception: October 14th, 7-10pm

After party at The Little Cave – DJs include: Tim Biskup, MFG, Paul Tao & ERIC WAREHEIM!

THIS los angeles, 5906 N. Figueroa st. LA, CA 90042

press:

Tim Biskup‘s new collection of paintings looks strangely familiar. Maybeit’s the unavoidable Biskup-ness of his color palate or the uncomfortable,slightly “off” expressions of his characters. Whatever it is, it isintentional. This exhibition was carefully planned out from the verybeginning of it’s conception. Something that skews dramatically fromBiskup’s improvisational past. It’s not like he hasn’t put a lot of thoughtinto his shows (His last NYC show was accompanied by a 60 page book oftext.). The difference here is the level of focus. The show is almostentirely made up of large scale paintings in the artist’s polygonal style.To add another layer of unity, the subjects are a series of small mask-likeheads. These are not the carefully produced characters that make up his vastarray of vinyl figures, but small, roughy hewn, crudely painted things thatthe artist sculpted himself. The twist comes from the expert craft andexpansive scale of the paintings. To see those spontaneous lumps turned intocarefully composed geometric images with months of meticulous paintapplication going into their creation is quite surreal. The originalsculptures will be displayed (and sold) along with the paintings. Thus thetitle of the show. But the title also refers to the growth that Tim Biskuphas gone through over the last 10 years. Both in his work and in his life.It seemed at one point that we would never see characters popping up in hiswork again, but now he’s gone back to his roots to re-examine and re-inventhis past. What he’s come up with is a refined, elegant and mature version ofhis former state.

Tim Biskup (b. Santa Monica, CA. 1967- ) was born and raised in Southern California where he lives and works to this day. From his early years going to punk rock shows and Disneyland in equal parts he was more concerned with his own aesthetic vision than with fitting in. His rejection of a traditional art education (He left Otis in 1988 after two tumultuous years) is further evidence of his commitment to his unique path. He pursued his technical training through years of work in the illustration, animation and graphic design industries. When he finally reached out into the fine art world, it was not through any gallery, but by creating his own series of live art auctions (The Burning Brush Art Auctions, 1999-2002), a novel move that launched not only his own career as a fine artist, but the careers of several other previously unknown painters. What has followed are a string of sold-out (and nearly sold-out) gallery exhibitions and inclusion in several high-profile museum shows throughout the world. Long recognized for his complex color and design theories and a decidedly populist aesthetic, Biskup has amassed a cadre of loyal fans and collectors, propelled further by his steady output of limited edition prints, vinyl figures, books, records and other objects. With recent forays into the writing of theoretical text, and performance art he seems determined to remind his audience that he has a lot on his mind. His theories and actions are at times light-hearted and even funny, but can tend toward nihilism, anarchy and revolutionary idealism, matching the visual intensity of his paintings, sculptures and prints.

http://timbiskup.com/

another another masterpiece

2011-10-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

danava + rtx

2011-10-12T00:25:00.000-07:00

danava
rtx
thrones

thursday 10.13.11 @ the satellite

9:00
$10

the satellite
1717 silverlake
los angeles

the black plague will swallow us

2011-10-08T09:00:00.000-07:00

This reception will be free before 9pm and $5 after. so come early and bring your mom.

opening reception for:
"The Black Plague Will Swallow Us"
a group art exhibition & live music
...
An exhibition that will showcase art that comments on mass hysteria, suffering, and death.

The night will also be sponsored by Galleno Winery.

featuring:

Andy Anderson

Roneil Chavez

Bo Chung

Suki Ewers

ghost ghost teeth

Lesley Graves

Spencer Harding

Emily Hillburg

KSo

Pauline Lay

Kevin Manwarren

Crystal Natsuko

Mike Postalakis

Roxy Radulescu

Adam Roth

Jay Sapp

Sean Solomon

Gary Spisak

Eric Woolery

Charlyne Yi

Isabel Zapata

with live performances by:

So Many Wizards

Boyz IV Men (from San Francisco)

Reporter (from Portland, Oregon)

At Pehrspace
325 Glendale blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca 90026

the art will be up from:
10.8.2011-11.9.2011
for appointments contact:
ghostghostteeth@yahoo.com

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time change

2011-10-07T17:33:00.000-07:00

bulb

bird cage

the gate

electrical chasm

green through green

murphy bed

scarface

vines + chain link

window to god

in los angeles the seasons don't change... the nights just get longer.

a few more + larger sizes

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#ows statement

2011-10-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

general assembly declaration as read by keith olbermann.

99%

2011-10-05T23:34:00.000-07:00

"this one's got a camera!" ... yeah we all do you fuck.

yvette 7" remixes

2011-10-05T23:17:00.000-07:00

<a href="http://yvette.bandcamp.com/album/7-remixes">7" REMIXES by YVETTE</a>

listen to and get a free download of the yvette 7" remixes here.

or get the original s/t ep here... or on vinyl

the double bind

2011-10-01T12:00:00.000-07:00

freeman + lowe. the double bind: selections from the annabel vale archive opens sunday 10.2.11 at the standard in downtown los angeles.

press:

Please join us for a reception for the artists
Sunday October 2nd 3:30 pm–6:30 pm
The Standard, Downtown LA
550 South Flower Street, at 6th Street. Los Angeles, CA 90071
Featuring a special performance by RTX

THE ANNABEL VALE ARCHIVE

Between 1956 and 1983, Los Angeles socialite Annabel Vale amassed a vast archive of material focused on a network of subcultures and secret societies scattered throughout California history. Vale's collection was housed within the Limbourg Arms, a large hotel located at 550 South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles. Annabel's husband, Isaac Vale, had purchased the hotel in the 1930s and had designed the space to cater to the set of aristocratic bohemians that were migrating from Western Europe during the rise of Fascism. One of the oldest buildings in Los Angeles, it had at one point in the late nineteenth century housed French social utopian Etienne Cabet and Icaria, the first urban commune. In the 1920s its bar, The Limbourg Inn, was a popular Hollywood watering hole and in the 1940s it became a meeting point for intellectuals such as Theodore Adorno, Max Ernst, and Thomas Mann. Over the years, Isaac Vale accumulated artifacts from a variety of contemporary California subcultures, ranging from Theosophy to Pachucos. The hotel became a sort of ephemeral gallery for his discoveries, curated by Vale himself. Vale died mysteriously at the height of McCarthyism, a time when the culture of the Limbourg became shrouded in paranoia and secrecy. Saddled with an estate of dizzying magnitude, Annabel Vale set forth to make sense of the web of material.

Annabel saw the archive as a body of conflicting symbols, one that involved both a strong counter cultural impulse along with an affirmation of the glory of the western empire. As she poured through the material she began to sense that various artifacts were speaking to one another, forming an overarching narrative of the subterranean history of California. Annabel used the hotel as a place to expand on what her late husband had built and, with feverish intent, attempted to fill the gaps of the nascent picture. In the 1960s, buoyed by the various discussions of conspiracy that were inseparable to the era, she began collecting far more aggressively. Entire rooms of the hotel were taken over for showcasing and storing the archive. Upon her death in 1983 the archive had grown twenty-three times in size and existed as a largely unorganized mass of cultural detritus. Artifacts ranged from counter cultural literary magazines to plans for the coming mega-cities of southern California to rare plant/mineral hybrids.

THE DOUBLE BIND

The material in The Annabel Vale Archive still exists in intense disarray. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe were given limited access to the surviving materials, now housed in a warehouse south of LAX. For the commission in the Lobby of The Standard, Downtown LA, Freeman and Lowe were granted permission to requisition certain elements to integrate into their installation. The Double Bind
consists of items directly appropriated from the archives as well as new works in response to the schizophrenic state of the Vale accumulation. The work exists as an ongoing exploration of the maintained fragmentation of the collection despite its dramatic increase in scale.
JONAH FREEMAN AND JUSTIN LOWE

The artists are known for their large-scale environmental installations in which a wide variety of social spaces are rendered in intense sculptural detail. They create labyrinthine sequences of rooms that draw sharp contrasts between style and use. In these works, it would not be uncommon to move from the parlor of an Upper East Side apartment into the pantry of a Hippie commune or Chinese pharmacy. Their first collaborative installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh) was commissioned by Ballroom Marfa in 2008. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to The Station in Miami, FL, curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman. Their most expansive installation Black Acid Co-op was installed in 2009 at Deitch Projects, NYC and consisted of a twenty-three room, three story architectural intervention. The most recent project, Bright White Underground, was commissioned by Country Club and installed in R.M. Schindler's Buck House in Hollywood. It involved the re-imagining of the history of this famous example of California modernism as the controversial site of psychedelic research.

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if you're in los angeles what else could you possibly be doing? they have a pool.

so yeah... rsvp: info@countryclubprojects.com

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dumpster diving _ synchronicity

2011-10-01T02:49:00.000-07:00

jacuzzi boys

2011-09-30T16:26:00.000-07:00

saturday 10.1.11 _ jacuzzi boys, the lovely bad things and death hymn number 9 at blue star

10.1.11
8:30
18+
$10

blue star bar
2200 e. 15th
los angeles

presented by l.a. record

totems opening

2011-09-29T03:20:00.000-07:00

photos from the opening of sarah soquel morhaim's totems @ synchronicity space in east hollywood on 9.22.11.

totems consisted of artfully captured devastation, surrealist geometric landscapes, mundane domestic portraiture and ultimately strong iconic imagery set in a band of mysteriously ambiguous filler.

in a flickr set these photos would be marginally interesting. totems is a success for the diversity, juxtaposition and arrangement of the images selected.

the gallery installation value of totems depends on variances in sizing, pairings, medium and arrangement. from metaphoric imagery in side by side diptychs to images printed on glass panel, to floor to ceiling columns of 8.5x11 prints, to sculptural representations of photo elements... the way that totems fills synchronicity and bounces sometimes conflicting, sometimes nearly deja vu story lines between the walls is the defining factor of this showing.

on glass panel.


poster mural outside synchronicity.

westlake walls

2011-09-25T22:06:00.000-07:00

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dumpster diving _ clothes shoes

2011-09-24T16:00:00.000-07:00

not a dumpster per say... but whatever.

holy mount

2011-09-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://holymount.bandcamp.com/album/we-fell-from-the-sky"&amp;amp;gt;We Fell From The Sky by Holy Mount&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

holy mount is about to blow your head. do yourself a favor and download we fell from the sky. it's huge... and free. a little akin to some classic dead meadow... but with more gigantic guitars and vocals more buried in the ensuing avalanche. or some black angels without the war stories... but really this shit is in a class all it's own.

when you hear the droning title line beneath the relentless cascade of psychedelic guitars... you kind of have to believe it.

2 of amerikas most wanted

2011-09-23T21:05:00.000-07:00

photos from the opening of neckface + fuck this life 2 of amerikas most wanted at new image this past sunday.


welcome to the after party. amy winehouse.


fuck this life

beer cans and a cowboy hat.

outside new image. never seen so much whiskey at an art show. or so many skateboards.

it was a "spew-nami"

your hell is my heaven

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totems

2011-09-22T14:17:00.000-07:00

totems from sarah soquel morhaim opens tonight at synchronicity space.

7th st.

2011-09-20T23:19:00.000-07:00

apache dropout

2011-09-20T22:49:00.000-07:00

&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://apachedropout.bandcamp.com/album/apache-dropout"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Apache Dropout by Apache Dropout&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;

neckface + fuck this life

2011-09-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

neckface + fuck this life. tonight @ new image. 7 -10.

7908 santa monica blvd.

dumpster diving _ anoy sliks

2011-09-16T15:00:00.000-07:00

c.r.a.s.h. @ gaucho's

2011-09-16T13:31:00.000-07:00

c.r.a.s.h. and crazy band played at gaucho's in la on august 26th. gaucho's is a sweet venue that was the perfect location for a loud, sweaty punk show. loads of shredded newspaper and and gold glitter flying through the air only added to the mayhem.