Ripping paper has never been so hypnotizing. [MOMO]
March 8, 2008
What’s Happening Saturday?
+ Monster Track Side Events: skids and freestyle fixed gear competition (Rocky’s, South 5th St. at Kent Ave, Brooklyn)
+ JK5 Opening Party at Mishka Pop-Up Store: celebrating the new line release. (Mishka Pop-Up Shop, 218 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg)
+ Vanishing New York: photographers capture a city in flux. (Rabbit Hole Studio, 33 Washington Street, Brooklyn)
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What’s Happening Friday?
+ Gold Sprints Party: sweat, booze, art, music and bikes. Monster Track may be canceled, but the party goes on. (Third Ward, 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn)
+ Prepare for Glory: photos, paintings, illustration, shenanigans and merriment. (Saved Gallery, 3 Hope St, Brooklyn)
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On Sale Now: Supreme Sesame Streetwear
Photo from 12oz.
Earlier this week in Paris, photo provocateur Terry Richardson opened a show at Collete, featuring his latest work with Supreme’s mascot of the moment, Kermit the Frog. While Richardson has shot for Supreme in the past, this is Kermit’s first time. Now he’s gracing skate decks and posters all over New York. As Complex points out though, this isn’t the green frog’s first venture into the streetwear game. A couple years ago Kermit graced some sneakers for adidas adicolor, which, considering the ugly factor, we’re all better off forgetting.
Back here in New York, hypebeasts of every all-over printed stripe lined up around the block, waiting for Supreme’s store on Lafayette to start selling the Spring and Summer line. But today, Supreme forced them to wait in the alley around the corner. It’s not clear whether they’re stepping up their notoriously snobby attitude towards customers, or simply protecting them from another possible scaffolding collapse.
March 6, 2008
On the unlikely chance the suspected bomber happened to be joy riding around the scene of the crime for many hours, “police stopped several bicyclists for questioning Thursday morning near Times Square, but no one was detained, WABC-TV reported.” [CNN]
A-Ron is ‘Like Rodney King on Dust’
Gavin McInness and Derrick Beckles host the first episode of Street Carnage +1, their very own radio show for Street Boners and TV Carnage. Off-Bowery A-Ron joins them as the figurative +1 while figuratively or not “out of his fucking mind on crack.” They play some Ninjasonik, listen to weird beats while A-Ron shouts out cities, then talk about A-Ron’s legal issues, first with aNYthing and now with the Wreck Center.
He brought in a CD of his new band called The Interns which is his interns playing beats while he talks about shit, kind of like what rednecks think rap is. We asked him what the fuck happened to aNYthing and the Wreckcenter and his answers went on for hours. Basically, “I started aNYthing but they say they own it because they put up the money so we’re going to court” and “I started the Wreckcenter but the neighbors complained because they thought it was a whorehouse so the cops shut it down.”
More specifically, A-Ron calls out Kid Robot owner, Paul Budnitz, for starting the complaint. It’s hard to glean much more than that. A-Ron talks really fast.
What’s Happening Thursday?
+ Hamburger Eyes, the San Francisco based, film-loving, photozine-makers, celebrate the release of their first book, Hamburger Eyes: Inside Burgerworld, with an exhibit at powerHouse Arena opening tonight at 6 (37 Main St, DUMBO, Brooklyn). Watch a video about them at XLR8R.
+ Jordan Eagles opens a show of blood art at Merge Gallery (205 West 20th Street, Chelsea). Eagles has been experimenting with blood as a medium for 10 years which makes us wonder whether Dash Snow will be jerking off on the NY Post as long.
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Selling Weed to Sell Records
Naming your record label after the drug trafficking gang that funded it is a bad idea, especially when they’re responsible for 12 murders and moving a million dollars of weed per week for 7 years. Whoever thought people wouldn’t make the connection between John Shop Crew, the murderous drug dealers, and John Shop Records, the reggae label, is a fool. It’s interesting that John Forte, producer for the Fugees, worked with John Shop. He’s currently serving 14 years for trafficking thirty pounds of liquid cocaine. [NYDN]
Photos from James Top’s ‘Afrology’
Through March 22nd, Afrology, featuring the paintings of James Top, legendary graffiti writer turned artist and controversial educator, is on display at the Essex Street Gallery (27 1/2 Essex Street, between Hester and Grand Streets). The image of an afroed man forms the foundation of seventeen works, which explore elements of the African American experience. Graffiti letters running across the top label these themes while the collaged images below provide a more nuanced look. Several paintings feature the work of street photographer Jamel Shabazz.
