ANIMATED SHORTS FROM DATDATDAT
Animated Shorts called “Palatine” and “Drone”, created by Datdatdat.org. Datdatdat is the moniker / online presence of Andreas Fischer, artist, designer and director from Berlin who is also a member of the We Are Chopchop collective.
NATIF NATAL:BENEFIT SHOW FOR HAITI
On February 25th, Partners in Health, in collaboration with Svedka Vodka and Discosalt are throwing a benefit show to raise money for Haiti at Grasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. We are really excited to participate in this event which will feature art on auction from Discosalt Artists and performances by Annie and the BeeKeepers, Apollo Run, Kenji Urada, Lost Coves and Social Hero.
8:30pm – Lost Coves http://www.myspace.com/lostcoves
9:15 – Kenji Urada http://www.myspace.com/kenjiuradatheband
10pm – Social Hero http://www.myspace.com/socialhero
10:45pm – Apollo Run http://www.myspace.com/apollorun
11:30pm – Annie and the Beekeepers www.myspace.com/annielynch
DJ Miles Michael Morris in between sets and late night Emcee Jay stone
Doors 8pm, 21+
Load-in for bands 6pm
If you cannot attend the show, pease learn more and help us reach our goal by making a contribution at: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/brooklyn4haiti Thank you!
It’s for a really great cause so we hope you come out and show love the Brooklyn way. See you all there!
MINIMAL TV POSTERS
Vienna, Austria is home to a lot of really interesting graphic designers and artists. Albert Exergian, a Vienna native, recently created a simple poster project to visually capture the essence of 27 TV series ,through very minimalist design. We think he did a really great job but surprisingly there aren’t more Hasselhoff series in the mix. The Hoff is huge there. We want to see a poster for Baywatch!
Scroll through the images and find your favorite show.
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BETWEEN THE SKY AND THE SNOW
Last November, we shared a photo essay from the Land Between Here and Mountains, a London based collective of photographers held together by Jess Gough and Hannah Davis whose goal is to capture the in between moments of their journeys rather than their destinations. They recently updated their site with some new wintry mix of images from their travels in the past few months which you can check out above or just click on their blog to see the entire essay…in progress of course.
VANISHING POINT: VIDEO ANIMATION
My friend Cory at Backseatsandbar linked me to this really sweet video animation from Bonsajo, a visual performance unit in Japan. The film was created using AfterEffects Cinema 4D by Takuya Hosogane with music composed by cubesato. You can watch the animation below or click on the thumbs for some high resolution stills from the video, found here on flickr :
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MWM : CRYSTALS & LASERS
New solo exhibition from Matt W. Moore at Upian Gallery, Paris starts next Friday. Click HERE for details.
KILLER VAN, MAN!: JOE STEVENS ONGOING PHOTO PROJECT
Joe Stevens, a filmmaker and photographer whose work has been featured in the MoMA in New York, Creative Review and the Guardian, has created a curious ongoing project called Vans and the places where they were: A photo documentary which chronicles surviving custom and conversion vans on the west coast from the 70’s and 80’s. Originally started over a decade ago in 1996, the project now includes hundreds of images shot on 120 mm film and “examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment.”
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While discosalt and chicks equally share love for these shaggin’ wagons, they have been dying a slow death in favor of more fuel-efficient transportation and will surely be erased from the road entirely (tear). Luckily for all of us, Joe is carefully chronicling these 4-wheel rock and roll dinosaurs that once reigned supreme as the ultimate self-expression vehicle. For Joe Stevens, “the goal of the project is to one day shoot the last remaining van on the final frame of photographic film in existence. Then the project will be finished” . Check out more of this insanity (to date) HERE.
…and if you are on a van kick now like I am, you should peep some more vintage vandemonium found HERE. Just mentally insert yourself into these pictures and feel the awesome power of the van.
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FIXIE PHOTO EXHIBITION + THE REVIVAL FILM PREMIERE
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Photographer Brad Serls recently joined Perth’s bike crew to showcase a photographic exhibition that features fixed gear bike messengers. Here are a few snap shots from the exhibit but you can check out more of his work on his facebook page or ProllyIsNotProbably.com
In other fixie news: Back in August, Discosalt featured a film teaser for a new documentary on fixed gear riders called The Revival. You can learn more about the filmmakers and the riders featured in the film on their website but no word on the next screening or whether the film will be available to purchase on DVD. The film first premiered in Vancouver last November, was later shown here in New York through an event put together by ProllyIsNotProbably.com, and Post Bike Shop in Brooklyn and has been working its way around Europe. If you missed a screening in your hometown, you can check out this video from the screening in New York posted by Skitch clothing:
EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM ROBERT SEIDEL: _GRAU
Robert Seidel created this really beautiful impressionistic award-winning experimental film called _grau which is based on memories that surfaced for the animator during a car accident. Not only visually powerful, the animation is also really effective on an emotional level. “Past events emerge, fuse, erode and finally vanish ethereally … various real sources were distorted, filtered and fitted into a sculptural structure to create not a plain abstract, but a very private snapshot of a whole life within its last seconds”. Watch the film below:
CHORA: A MEDITATION ON THE IMPERMANENCE OF FORM
All things appear and disappear eternally and infinitely. But from what does form appear and disappear and who observes this? Interactive Chicago based artist Brett Ian Balogh explores the impermanence of form through a new multimedia installation called Chora.
For the project, Balogh combined audio data generated from the seismic activity of Mount Etna in Italy which is blasted through four speakers, with a moving abstract white filament image that renders an ever-changing wire based structure. The visual component, was developed using CAD (computer-aided design) and Blender (an open-source video-game engine). The most unique aspect of this piece is that it’s not a loop.
A three-minute, quicktime screen grab is available here. Check it out.
PETER ROSS PHOTO SERIES: INSIDE WILLIAM BURROUGHS BUNKER
Gothamist tipped us off to a new photo project from Brooklynite photographer Peter Ross that examines the metaphysical aura of stuff with a series of photographs of William Burroughs’ possessions. The series contains such iconic images as Burroughs walking sticks, hat and typewriter. All of which, are still sitting in his old apartment in NYC at the partially converted YMCA at 222 Bowery; the apartment which Burroughs affectionately dubbed “The Bunker”. You can see more of “The Bunker”, on Flickr or watch this short film entitled William S. Burroughs “The Bunker” by Rattapallax.
FRESH GEEZERS: THE LONDON POLICE AND GALO @ FRESH FACTORY
What: Fresh Geezers
Where: Fresh Factory
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop
When: December 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Damage: Free
Just in time for the holidays, The London Police and Galo team up for some brotherly love and gifts for you at Brooklyn’s Factory Fresh. After more than a decade creating art, Galo, a graphic designer who creates colorful, line based art and The London Police, three lads, on a quest to make really rad street art and travel the globe, will will be showcasing new canvas, some featured films and installation works created site specifically for Factory Fresh.
ITS ALL ABOUT MAKEUP: SCRATCHING THE SURFACE WITH STREET ARTIST VHILS
Portuguese street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils creates urban art that is really unlike any other street art out there. He not only uses classical graffitti techniques but also manipulates the layers of actual city walls by pouring acid and bleach onto surfaces to unearth the layers beneath. Vhils art is poetic, complex, and ambitious, often focusing on the needs we have abandoned in favour of our wants, and the realisation that trading pleasure back in for happiness will be a less than straightforward exchange. You need to watch this for yourself.
OFF THE GRID: FEATURING DAN SELZER + DAVID ELLIS’ RECOLLECT EXHIBIT
This Thursday at le poissonrouge, come drag a toe and rage against the dancing wasteland at OFF THE GRID, a once-a-month event which focuses on dance music that you won’t hear on a typical Friday or Saturday night. It will focus on a collage of Mutant Disco, Punk Funk, No Wave, Early Electro and rare B-Sides.
Special guest DJ Dan Selzer of the infamous post punk label, Acute Records will share the decks with the Resident NY DJs Chris Alker and Monica Sharp . Need a break from the beats, check out David Ellis‘ exhibit, RECOLLECT, which will be on display through Feburary 12th 2010.
David Ellis continues his practice of record collecting as a process for making sculpture. Ellis presents three new wall sculptures in his ongoing “Recollection” series. The works will be constructed with more than 1,000 record sleeves systematically arranged by color and theme. The result is a resin-encased block of recorded history that seemingly levitates. His motion painting “Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love” was recently exhibited at MoMA.
For more information please contact (Le) Poisson Rouge Art Gallery at art@lprnyc.com. For media inquiries please contact marketing@lprnyc.com.
Le Poisson Rouge Gallery Bar (Downstairs)
158 Bleecker Street
FREE Entry
10PM – Late
21+ Only
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www.danselzer.com
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF YUSUF SEVINCLI
Our friends at Tinyvices.com turned us onto some really great art from Istanbul based photographer Yusuf Sevincli. Yusufs photography provides us with a beautiful and intimate look into the life and times of everyday citizens of Turkey. Working often in B&W, without ignoring the benefits of color film, we’re presented with a stunning body of work. Check out some more of Yusuf’s portfolio on his webs here or at tinyvices
IMMINENT DISASTER IN BROOKLYN
Not only the future of Bedford Avenue but emerging Brooklyn based artist: Imminent Disaster. ID’s work focuses on large scale street art installations and is driven by the ephemerality and decay of modern urban life and the vestiges of human narrative visible and becoming invisible within it. Disaster’s most recent works build on the idea that the gradual loss of memory is an inevitable part of human mortality. We just think it looks pretty cool. But you can read more about Imminent Disaster’s master plan and check out more of her art HERE on her site.
NEW VAMPIRE WEEKEND VIDEO RIPS OFF AAKASH NIHALANI
Hype aside, we”ve never been huge advocates of Vampire Weekend. While their new album, Contra is getting serious praise, their new seizure inducing video for the track “couzin”, totally rips off our friend Aakash Nihalani’s signature box art. When we first saw the video, we thought maybe Aakash had given the band consent to use his art but as it turns out he was never consulted and was never compensated. Way to steal another artists work guys! If you are interested in checking out Aakash’s actual work, click on some of the links below:
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POSTERBOY STRIKES AGAIN OR COPYCAT?
Either New York’s “Posterboy” is back in action for a third time or there is a copycat offender out there cut and pasting subway ads with the same conviction. This is the latest ad spotted on the Church Avenue bound platform at Nassau Avenue. For more “Posterboy” check out these links:
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YOU’VE GOT A VERY IMPORTANT DATE: TIM BURTON EXHIBIT @ MOMA
This month, the MoMA is curating a Tim Burton exhibit that will run through April 26th, 2010. The exhibit examines Burton’s unique influence on popular culture and art and “explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film.” You can check out over 700 never before seen drawings, paintings, photographs, concept art, storyboards, puppets, and costumes from some of Burton’s weirdo dark and quirky-themed films like Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks, Ed Wood and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The show will also feature a selection of amateur and student films, music videos and commercials influenced by Burton, and a complete set of Burton’s features and shorts. And all in time to get you in the weirdo mood before Burton’s newest film Alice in Wonderland hits theaters in March 2010.
THE LAND BETWEEN HERE AND MOUNTAINS
The Land Between Here and Mountains is a London based collective of photographers held together by Jess Gough and Hannah Davis. Their photo essay project is about capturing the inbetween moments of their journeys rather than their destinations. Check out some of my favorite images above or click on their blog to see the entire essay.
