Within the immaterial Lucky Magazine is artist, Dash Snow modeling in an ad for Adriano Goldschmied. Consider that this is the man who takes photos with a camera “made of wood, palm leaves and cocaine” and creatively combined newspaper clippings and semen in ‘Fuck the Police’. In his own words from Paper Magazine:

I’m not a businessman. [But] my business used to be and still is thievery, to some extent. I came across a camera, which I thieved when I was 16 and started taking pictures. I’ve been partying for years, probably since I was 11. I did my first line of coke when I was 13 years old and I’ve been partying every night and taking pictures ever since. Everything’s a blur and every night is New Year’s as far as I’m concerned. [When I’m at a party, I look for] a dark corner, a wallet, a bag of blow and some love to go.

Though we don’t question Dash Snow’s motives for taking the job ($30,000 is a nice bit of scratch), we do question Adriano Goldschmied’s reasons for choosing Snow and barely showing off the jeans.

Continue reading: Dash Snow, the New Face of AG Jeans

Wax Poetics and adidas Originals present New York Breaks and Beats!

The Legendary Godfather of Hip-Hop DJ Kool Herc gives a vinyl history lesson in breakbeats, hosted by Chuck-D of Public Enemy, live at the adidas Originals store in New York.

Monday, July 31st
From 7 to 10pm
adidas Originals, 136 Wooster Street

You must RSVP

Benefit Art Show for Daniel McGowan

Thursday, July 27 & Friday, July 28, 2006, 5-10pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St, Lower East Side, NYC
Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com

On Thursday, July 27 and Friday, July 28, Visual Resistance will present If They Come For You In the Morning, a benefit gallery show featuring over 70 renowned and emerging artists at ABC No Rio in New York´s Lower East Side.

The show will feature some of the most respected and prolific street artists working today, including the Barnstormer´s David Ellis, Banksy, Swoon, Borf, Chris Stain, Arofish, Kelly Burns, GoreB, Josh MacPhee, and MOMO, as well as veterans of the landmark political comics journal World War 3 Illustrated, including Eric Drooker, Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Nicole Schulman, and Christopher Cardinale, as well as dozens of other participating artists.

All proceeds from the show will benefit the legal fund of local environmental and social justice activist Daniel McGowan, who currently faces life plus 335 years in prison on federal charges of arson, property destruction, and conspiracy. Daniel was arrested during Operation Backfire, a multi-state sweep of environmental activists who have now been charged with virtually every unsolved earth and animal liberation case in the Northwest. Daniel has pled not guilty to all charges.

All artwork in the show will be reasonably priced, with selected prints starting at $5. Don’t go home empty-handed!

One Night of Fire
Saturday July 29th : Sunset through Late
Location announced on July 28th.

On the first warm night of last year artists, performers
and over a thousand wild-eyed revelers took the streets of
Red Hook Brooklyn. It was a night of fireworks, march
bands, champagne, flatbed soundsystems and
police-helicopters set against the epic ruins of a
forgotten era. Saturday, July 29th, you are invited to
participate in the next iteration: “One Night of Fire”.

In an era of darkness, we light our own flame.

Imagine: a street, a train and a massive fire finale.
We’ve moved the date of this event in order to have
greater participation from you artists and dreamers who
have been so enthusiastic about making this night
unforgettable. For everyone who has desired participation
in these events, this is your chance.

Do you have 35 minutes to spare? No worries if you don’t. The title pretty much says everything. DJ Unit, Sound Advice mashed up Notorious B.I.G. with Gnarls Barkley and the result sounds like, well, every other Notorious B.I.G. mashup. ‘Smiley Faces Hypnotize’ and ‘Crazy Butt’ will get a little extra replay. If you skip this one, just nod your head and play along when your boss mentions it on Monday. You can download it at Gnotorious.com.

Around 9:30 this morning, a delivery van lost control and smashed through the front window of Chelsea Bicycles on West 26th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue. Fortunately, nobody was injured. Unfortunately, renovations on the store front were finished just days prior to this accident.

Send Miss Rockaway Down The River send off party

+— Japanther
+— Aa
+— The Goddamn Rattlesnake & Poor Boy Johnson
+— Lidia Stone

Europa Night Club in Greenpoint
98-104 Meserole Ave., (corner of Manhattan Ave.) Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday July 19th
9pm, $5

Six months ago, in regards to Critical Mass, Criminal Court Judge Gerald Harris determined that the parade permit law is “hopelessly overbroad” and “constitutes a burden on free expression that is more than the First Amendment can bear.”

In response, the NYPD wants to redefine parade permit laws. According to the NY Times:

The Police Department wants to require parade permits for bicyclists traveling in groups of 20 or more, and any bicyclists or walkers who take to the streets in groups of two or more and disobey traffic laws for things like parades, races or protests, according to a public notice filed with the city.

The department also wants to require a parade permit for groups of 35 or more protesters who restrict themselves to the sidewalk, officially clarifying a regulation that court rulings described as too vague, according to a police spokesman.

Under this proposal, you and a friend or other person, would need a parade permit before cutting across the street mid-block, or riding bicycles without bells, or hailing a cab from the edge of the street, or volunteering to chaperone a horde of underprivileged children on a field trip to the museum.

A public hearing on the proposal is scheduled for August 23, at 6pm in 1 Police Plaza.

Though beef is best left to the parties involved, this diss on Fees is so thorough it couldn’t be ignored. For those who can’t read iris blue on white:

1. Your Russian!
2. Your real ugly!
3. You can’t fight, so you use Mace!
4. You’re a big toy.
5. You have a bad haircut
6. You have no friends – because no one likes you! At all!
7. You never graduated high school.
8. You have a baby for reals, dunny.

No spelling or grammar was corrected, and no facts were checked. You can’t fact check a bad haircut.

This is an 8-week, fixed gear only race series. The series will be run similar to Autumn Attack, only this time, the races are pre-scheduled and you are encouraged to come with a team on the nights of team races.

July 10- Team Race (come with a team of 2)
July 17- Indie Scratch Race (3 laps)
July 24- Team Time Trial (come with a team of 4)
July 31- Team Race (if your teammate sucked, you can come with a new one) (Double Points)
August 7- Scratch Race (4 laps)
August 14- Handicap Race (The ones with the most points start later)
August 21- Team Race
August 28- Scratch Race (1 lap sprint) (double points)

PRIZES: Each night, the winner gets two-thirds of the nights money. The other third will be put into the grand prize, which will be split between the top male and female racer. Also, Bike Works, Trackstar, Fortynine-Sixteen, Reload and Fyxomatosis (Andy White).

Mondays starting July 10, 9pm reg, 9:30 race ; $3
@ Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Park
Info: thursdaynight.fixed@gmail.com