Basement to The Penthouse
On Sept 4th History Will Be Made In The UnderGround !
Presidential Society Presents: “The Basement to The PentHouse Tour”
Sponsored by : Majority Rules Clothing, Price Simon Designs, S.C.U.M. And Beyond The BaseMent
This is the second project I’ve done for Presidential Society. I’m just a music junkie and I always enjoy the opportunity to be around musicians. The last event, I Wanna Rock | NYC Underground Event was live, you missed out on some great performances and a chance to see NYC underground talent.
I WANNA ROCK RIGHT NOW | NYC UNDERGROUND EVENT
Main Event: Kayla Bliss, PremeDaPrez, AbsoTheGreat, Dante’ and NewDay w/ Live Band.
Under Cards: Spaz, ShadP, MusicBiz, Project Porter & a Surprise Special guest! Guest Performances also..
DID YOU SEE THAT LlNE UP!?!?
Sponsored by: BSKY, Fashion Hurtz, Keep It Surreal Online, Pardon Me Duke, Public Assembly, Vinnies Styles, & Young Successful Society
Also Giveaways and GiftBags: From Brooklyn Sky, Fashion Hurtz, and Vinnies Styles.
Location:
Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
News: Andy Warhol – The Last Decade
Andy Warhol x Jason Dill x Brooklyn Museum Alien Workshop Skateboard Deck
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade (which began at the Milwaukee Museum of Art) opened the Brooklyn Museum of Art stop over the weekend. The exhibition will remain in King’s County through September 12, 2010.
Puma City x South Street Seaport
PUMA CITY has landed in New York’s South Street Seaport area for the duration of the World Cup. More than just celebrate the beautiful game – offering a unique playing, shopping, and viewing space – PUMA CITY celebrates sustainable architecture. Their mobile structures are built with containers. PUMA CITY will be bumping through July 11, 2010.
Best Desserts: Bizy Dream’n x The Lamp NYC
Just recently I’d been working on a flyer design for The Lamp, a non-profit organization creating a movement to reform and improve media, & Always Order Dessert for Best Desserts at Double Windsor Bar. On June 9th New York City’s hottest food bloggers go at it in a dessert contest before a panel of celebrity judges…and you!
I’d been putting it off for a couple of days, you know how I do. Nevertheless, I everything was as promised – they approved. Chilly. I was going for a retro diner look with the typography. I wanted it to be homey, tasteful. If you look at the design, I kinda stole from Jim Jarmusch’s, a memo to a friend, layout +post. I really enjoyed that friendly feeling I got from it and I just wanted to use it. I’m a little hype about this because exposure is exposure, good or bad, people will know of you. In this case, it’s definitely good exposure.
Support The Lamp, hope to see y’all there.
Check out the flyer after the jump.
Bape Camocollage 2010 Exhibition
This weekend marks the start of a surge of activities for Japan as it is the start of the Golden Week. In conjunction with the Golden Week, BAPE’s NIGO is holding his very own Golden Week with a roll of activities. But before that, NIGO will be opening the BAPE CAMOCOLLAGE 2010 Exhibition in Kyoto. NIGO has taken care to set up and prepare the exhibition himself, doing everything from stamping the canvas, hanging them, titling them, and making sure everything is executed to perfection. Check out the behind-the-scenes photos of NIGO prepping the space.
Here are the first images from the Bape Camocollage 2010 Exhibition that is currently on display at the Bape Gallery. In the last 17 years the Bape camouflage pattern has become an iconic graphic and this week Bape is selling it as a piece of art. They offer different size canvas’ featuring the camouflage pattern in overall 3 colors. Should you be in Tokyo this week, make sure to check it out.
It’s Surreal: The Radiant Child, Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat became notorious for his graffiti art in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene. I’ve been on Basquiat since the beginning of my blogg’n days. No secret as to why I labeled one of our tags, “SAMO,” Basquiat’s moniker. In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. Literally making his mark with graffiti on public walls under the nom de plume “Samo” (short for same old thing). It definitely made its mark on me. Debuting at this years Sundance Film Festival, “The Radiant Child” is a film on the legendary art icon Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.
Past Articles:
Keep It Surreal >> SAMO
Keep It Surreal >> Lee Jaffe x Basquiat
Keep It Surreal >> Basquiat x Peter Relic
“Refuge,” Imminent Diasaster x Armsrock
Brooklyn based Imminent Disaster has been preparing for a show with Armsrock called “Refuge” at ThinkSpace Gallery in Los Angeles on March 12.
Imminent Disaster In The Studio: Prepping for “Refuge” at Thinkspace Show
Spott’d @ Brooklyn Street Art
News: Matt W. Moore, Crystals x Lasers Exhibition
We’re kinda late on word of this event, but better late than never. Thanks to the web as a new media, we’re granted unlimited to access to information. Matt Moore’s work with patterns and color pallets pulls your eye from point to point on the composition. View photos from the opening reception.
MWM (Matt W. Moore) has traveled to Paris for one month to prepare, from scratch, for his first Paris Solo-Exhibition. He arrived with no art, no supplies, and no firm plan for this new series of canvas paintings. The ideas for the artworks have actualized while processing time spent absorbing French Culture, exploring the City Of Lights, the vibrant colors, the exaggerated geometry, and the diverse architecture and fashion of Paris.
These paintings were created entirely with spray paint, one of Matt’s favorite mediums. But the designs are very clean, and appear almost digital in their precise details and craft. An honest, analog attempt to achieve the same depth and abstract geometry of his digital “Vectorfunk” style. The goal with each work is to have the viewers eye fall into the piece and get lost in the optical illusions, trying to figure out what is up, down, left, and right.
MWM : Crystals & Lasers.
Since.Upian Gallery. Paris, France
February 5 – March 12, 2010
View images from the opening reception
*Series of 18 New Canvas Paintings and a Mega-Mural in Paris District 10.
News: Pop-up Design Museum ['n] Boston
Founders Sam Aquillano, Bose Corp. product designer, and Derek Cascio, Philips Color Kinetics designer, were discussing ways to boost the profile of the Massachusetts design community, sketched on the back of a pizza box. These two guys decided to look a organizing a museum in a different way. Because traditional museum hadn’t been an appealing market, Sam and Derek looked into bringing the museum to the public. Design Museum Boston will be separate installations scattered through multiple retail locations. Design Museum is about bringing education in design [animation, print, fashion, architectural, industrial] to the public and that there are designers and there is a design scene in Boston. The New England area and its designers are putting that traditional and colonial essence into the design scene that’s heavily influenced by a ever-changing modern world.
I proposed an idea for the Design Club here at my school to make a trip to Design Museum Boston’s launch party, considering how many designer’s will be there. It’d be a great way to network and build a name in a region different from what you already know.
Design Museum Boston is a non-profit organization with the goal of creating, establishing, and operating virtual and physical design exhibit spaces online, in Boston, and all over New England. These spaces will exhibit design work and host events and programs related to design education.
Design Museum Boston Launch Party
March 16, 2010 7:30 pm
West End Johnnies
138 Portland St.
Boston, MA
Check out Design Museum Boston to R.S.V.P
Video: How to Make It in America x KiD CuDi
“How to Make It in America follows two enterprising Brooklyn twentysomethings as they hustle their way through New York City, determined to achieve the American Dream. Trying to make a name for themselves in New York’s competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein (Greenberg) and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon (Rasuk) use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam’s cousin Rene (Guzman), who is trying to market his own high-energy drink, and their well-connected friend Domingo (“Kid Cudi”), the burgeoning entrepreneurs set out to make it big, encountering obstacles along the way that will require all their ingenuity to overcome”.
“How to Make It in America,” HBO’s new dollar and a dream series premieres February 14. I don’t know too much about the film, but a story about struggle, ambition, and determination plotted in Brooklyn, NY gains my attention and anticipation for something exciting.
Teaser after the jump.
SELF
You are invited to participate in “The Power of Self” an international competition celebrating the vitality of self portraiture. A panel of judges including actor Steve Buscemi, director Chris Weitz, Guggenheim curator Helen Hsu and Flavorpill founder Sascha Lewis will award one artist a package of incredible prizes including six months of free living at The Edge in New York City or $7007 in cash. The most popular portfolio as voted by the public will also receive $1,000 cash. Your images have power. Now is your moment to reveal them to the world.
Submit your work to: ArtistWanted
Josiah Venter x Bar4 Brooklyn
I hope all of you have been enjoying these beautiful and surprisingly warm, autumn days. I imagine most of you are heading out of town for Thanksgiving but for those of you staying here, or for those still undecided, perhaps an evening of music in Brooklyn with Josiah persuades you to stay and better yet, come out and celebrate.
- Josiah
8pm @Bar 4 in Park Slope Brooklyn
444 7th Ave (corner of 15 St) 11215
Free!
Lubalin Now
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, the installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography. Including Justin Thomas Kay, HunterGatherer, Alex Trochut, Non-Format and many more.
Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design.
Opening Reception
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 6 – 8pm
The Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square Gallery [ MAP ]
This event is free and open to the public.
Designed to Chill x Design Philadelphia
Laidback present “Designed to Chill,” an interactive launch party and discussion on how great design can enhance relationships during Design Philadelphia. We will be creating our very own urban hang suite for you to relax and hang out, play with Wii and board games, and experience a sense of community. You will leave with quick easy pointers on creating a space of your own using color and conversation pieces, tips on creating game nights and the food and design to complement it. Laidback will also introduce new designs from the collection throughout the space.
For more info about Design Philadelphia and other events going on during the week check out http://www.designphiladelphia.org/
NYC Skate Weekend’09
Check out some cool pics I took while I was at the 5Boro’s “Back to the Banks” skate jam. My brother called me, while he was at a closing ceremony for our elementary school which he’s been volunteering at, and told me come into the city with my camera. It was totally unexpected, but a cool experience and worth the trip. NYC Skate Weekend went on from June 4th – June 7th.
Sun K. Kwak: Enfolding 280 Hours
March 27–July 5, 2009
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor
Korean-born, New York City–based artist Sun K. Kwak is creating a site-specific work composed of approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery. The mural-like piece will be affixed to the walls and pillars.
Drawing with masking tape has become her signature form of expression. Kwak continues to challenge perceptions of familiar surroundings with this technique, which for her is both meditative and performative.
For more information check out BrooklynMuseum.org.
Can I Kick It?
Can I Kick It? at SoleFood NYC is looking to be one of the best events of the summer, for me that is, hosted by some of my favorite painters, PESU from Old Soulz and Concep. We missed the official date, but I still want to get out there. You never know! Just being in the atmos and the possibility of meeting these guys are satisfying, and hopefully the sample sale is still going on. PESU ART x GOODWOOD has some cool necklaces, it’s making me think if there can be some Bizy Dreaming accessories as well.
Who’s down for the trip?
Source via: Old-Soulz Ent. (OSE)
Habana Outpost & Market
Great summer activity! Enjoi good food, musiq, art, design and bohemian folk in Brooklyn. That’s if you’re into those kind of things.
Outpost Market brings together the hottest local designers and artists in one big, colorful outdoor marketplace. Local DJs, frozen mojitos, and kids stuff make it the perfect opportunity for everyone to get together and support the community.
Look fly and shop local – shop Outpost Market!!!
Outpost Market @ Habana Outpost Fort Greene
757 Fulton Street at South Portland Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Telephone 718.858.9500
Weekends, noon to 6pm
The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York
Exhibition: Today – July 5th//Various Mid-town locations
Admission: Free
The NYPL, in collaboration with the NYC Transit Museum, presents “The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York” starting tonight—an exhibit that explores 8 current, massive underground transportation and water projects that will modernize New York. “The vast underground network of tunnels is the focus of a historic exhibition allowing visitors into a world unknown, featuring the much-discussed, but little understood, mega-projects” (a sneak peek, pictured). The exhibit is in two locations: The Science, Industry and Business Library’s Healy Hall (at 188 Madison Ave) and the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store at Grand Central Terminal.
Chad Harris
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