Hunter/Gatherer

July 13th, 2011 at 11:00 am

My friend Jon Bocksel told me about this show he’s in that opened this past weekend at Booklyn. Jon’s work is sick and the other artists involved in the show are really talented as well, so if your in NY the bext month you should go check it out. Here’s what they have to say about the hunting:
Hunter/Gatherer includes artists with the common practice of borrowing both aesthetic inspirations and found objects from their local surroundings. These artists accumulate visual, physical, and conceptual source material from everyday encounters and observations. They manipulate materials and appropriate techniques from discarded objects, sign-painting and murals, printed ephemera, and urban architecture. While each artist has their own unique approach to collecting and manipulating, their work evokes similar appreciations for the found and overlooked. With their work combined, Hunter/Gatherer creates a personal map of the city they share and the scenery they encounter. The viewer is confronted by these recognizable, yet often ignored images and encouraged to take a second look when walking down the street. Curated by Aimee Lusty.
Hunter/Gatherer runs July 9 – August, 7, 2011.
37 Greenpoint Avenue
4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Image on left is from Jon Bocksel, Disstopia, 2010. Gouache on Paper. 22″x32.”

Flux Space: East Coast Video

July 12th, 2011 at 9:30 am

East Coast Video is an ongoing project this spring and summer at FLUXspace. East Coast Video showcases emerging makers of videos. Look for to monthly screenings of curated groups of artists from rotating east-coast cities at FLUXspace.

This month is East Coast Video: Vol. 2 BALTIMORE, Curated by good friend Mark Dilks and Joshua Haycraft, this screening will feature video works of a range of east coast artists.

Flux Space:
East Coast Video: Vol. 2 BALTIMORE,
Thursday, July 14 at 7:30pm

Please view Flux Space for event details and artists bios.

FREE BEERS too!

Actual Pain

July 11th, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Stoked on the Actual Pain pain mixtapes you can download for free. The mixes range from gangster rap to black metal in a spectrum of themes curated by some noteable bruisers in the music world. If your not familiar with Actual Pain’s amazing graphic tees, check out their site, download a mixtape and buy a tee! Acid Wolf! Love the Northwest!

Oyloa Later’d Part Deux

July 7th, 2011 at 8:32 pm

Ricky shares his philosophy of True East skateboarding, bringing a new meaning to the term street skating. Early Love, skating through streets hitting everything in their paths, Serge, Reason, Gall, Sub Zero days….beating the shit out of crack heads, the mayor lays it out in this episode.

In the Sun

July 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 am

John Opera uses the Anthotype, which dates back to the seminal moments of photography’s prehistory. During the mid 1800s, it was discovered that pigmented solutions derived from various flower and fruit extracts are light sensitive enough to be used as rudimentary print emulsions. This process takes up to three weeks of exposure in direct sunlight to render an image. Extending his deep interest in the natural world and its possibilities, Opera forages his own fruits and vegetables to create natural dyes to make these prints (1975). Found via Zero 1 magazine.

I’ll leave you with a personal favorite, amazing summer burner, a remix of Moon Duo’s “In the Sun” by Philly’s very own, Purling Hiss. Put on repeat this summer.
In The Sun (Purling Hiss Remix) by Radlandsclothing

Ricky Oyola on Laterd

July 1st, 2011 at 2:48 pm

And so it begins. the Ricky Oyola series starts on Epicly Laterd. Ricky has been a huge influence on east coast skateboarders since the early 90′s. At a time when skateboarding needed bigger wheels and harder pushes, Oyola came hauling ass down the crusty streets, to the blast of metallica and ripping through traffic. At the time, Philly was just starting to get exposure and he really opened the eyes of the skateboard world to what was going on over on the right coast. Skating to Rush’s “working man” in his Static II part was more than ironic, this guy is seriously working, in skateboarding, running a company, holding day jobs, raising a family. It’s pretty backwards that people who have contributed much less to skateboarding have reaped so much more, while innovators and icons bust there ass day in and out just to stay afloat. Ricky is skateboarding and should always be. If you skate, demand that Traffic Skateboards be carried in your local shop. Watch Eastern Exposure III and go skate your entire city, not just “spots”. Oh yea, peep the Radlands tee he’s wearing. Can’t get those bad boys any more!