February 25, 2008
Who knew it was so easy to get your work shown in the New Museum? All it takes is some skilled internet navigating and avoiding the museum staff who don’t want you taking photos of your successful self exhibition. [F.A.T.]
Clayton Patterson in ‘Captured’
Captured is a film focused on documentarian Clayton Patterson and the Lower East Side he has been videotaping and photographing for nearly 30 years.
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.
Jasper Johns at the Met
The title of the Jasper Johns’ retrospective at the Met is ‘Gray’, as it collects work from his career that exemplifies his preoccupation with the color, or non-color, gray. The more recent work, dated 2007, and not shown before, is the some of the strongest. Also on view is a work that incorporates the imagery from a Henri Monnier painting, one of the most recent addition to Johns’ iconography.
Jasper Johns: Gray is on view through May 4, 2008 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Photo of ‘Beckett’ by Jamie M. Stukenberg.
February 22, 2008
Possibly the Greatest Video of 2008
This has no relevance to anything, except that it’s Friday and we encourage you to get down and have some fun, however that may be.
Sex Really Sells
Zach from Trackstar appears in the latest issue of Cog Magazine, a pretty great fixed gear bike mag. The ad reads, “Meet Zach - Cusses like a sailor and rides like a warrior poet.” Not coincidentally, you can pick up the magazine in the shop for free (231 Eldridge St.). We got ours smuggled over the Canadian border.
In other news, Dov Charney’s sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit went to trial on Tuesday.
February 21, 2008
Lionel, the Lion-faced Man is our favorite in this who’s who of Coney Island side show freaks. Interestingly, the “Shoot the Freak” person thing is not included. [via Kinetic Carnival via Gowanus Lounge]
10 Deep Skateboard Team
Continuing our coverage of streetwear brands with sports teams, we present: 10 Deep Skateboarding.
Deadline Extended on Bicycle Film Festival
It’s cold and barren outside, but soon it will be summer. Besides being able to cruise around in shorts and a tee, its also time for the 8th annual Bicycle Film Festival from May 30th to June 1st. The deadline for submitting work to the festival has been extended to March 7th, so stop holding back and send in your bike themed video or film.
The Bicycle Film Festival is a celebration of bicycles through film, art and music.
We are accepting entries for films with a strong theme or character of bicycles. A fine thriller with one scene of a bicycle chase does not count. We encourage all films with these guidelines to enter:
All lengths 1 minute on up Short films under 10 minutes are easier to program for our popular shorts program. Of course all lengths are accepted and screened.
All types: BMX, narratives, docs, experimental, Hollywood, cycling, and so on.
The Bicycle Film Festival, plus art show, parade and block party, is always fun and draws a crowd, so don’t miss out on the chance to make your work a part of it.
