Stop’n Traffic
How powerful are books? Well they can apparently stop traffic if there’s enough of them. The clever folks at Luzinterruptus, put together temporary light-infused guerrilla art installations that are surreal and create a lovely scene in Brooklyn that I wish I could’ve encountered in person. More pictures and information about the piece can be found HERE.
How To Get The Selby In Your Place!
Want to learn how to take pictures like The Selby? Well Todd Selby put together a guide on how to do just that. The guide explains his tips and tricks on how to get the perfect shot. So grab your camera and get ready to get take some photos.
Video: Raekwon – “House of Flying Daggers” Produced By J. Dilla
The Wu always had a unique gritty taste for the martial arts. Artwork by 1000Styles +animation by Ryan Johnson x drew Taylor is SICK ! House of Flying Daggers is off Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linxx II.
3.10.10
I’m still play’n around with this tilt shift photography, bare with me. This dude, haha, wasn’t suppose to be in this shot but it happens to look good. We was all over the Lower x Soho look’n at the other designs out there, talk’n about our projects and jus kick’n it.
Y’all will be see’n more of this dude with some exclusive sneaker reviews, you heard it here. SneakerSoleTv!
Korg
I was in the Lower today with some of my cohorts, good times. I was mess’n around with the tripod at Jay’s crib for a little when I took this photo. On top of that, I want to learn to play the piano; I’m going to mess around with the synthesizer next. Making beats, who knows? I haven’t used one, but why not try it. Enjoi!
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Not try’na toot my own horn, but this photo is so dope. Depth perception is heavy in this one. I tried something new called tilt shift photography. It’s when you focus the lens on a single part of the photo and shift around the surrounding/neighboring area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery. Real tilt shift lenses are quite expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the photo.
Original after the jump.
Save St. James School
I went out to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday to demonstrate and rally with current current St. James students and faculty. After all these years, the Archdiocese is CLOSING one of NYC historical Catholic schools!!! We need to show our support & help out – if not 300 CHILDREN WILL BE DISPLACED. As a St. James alumnus, I for one, am truly hurt and will do what I can to help. Anyone out there who can understand the situation – PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!!! A culturally diverse school is being taken over to be transformed into another Transfiguration, which by the way, happens to be filled with 90% of Buddhists.
The 213 students at St. James – which opened in 1854 – are being allowed to attend nearby St. Joseph’s school as part of a merger between both parishes to save money.
The roughly 70 or so parents and teachers were also protesting the closing of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral School on Mott Street in Little Italy, which opened in 1822 and is the oldest Catholic school in the city.
Contradictory Agenda
Brooklyn based designers David Heasty and Stefanie Weigler (of Triboro Design) have created a New York City subway map printed in all florescent red. Simple huh? The redesigned map strips away the color-coded system while maintaining its functionality. Single color information design. Impressive!
The map embraces a dual (and seemingly contradictory) agenda, “offering practical and aesthetic improvements to the existing subway map while simultaneously subverting these improvements through the absurd adherence to a single color,” Heasty adds. “In this way the map reflects the often contradictory experience of New York City, the rigid systems and grids constantly interrupted by the unpredictable realities of a metropolis, the intermingling forces of order and chaos, and the city’s visual communications frequent inability to make sense of it all.”
- Print Magazine
Spott’d @Print Mag
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.
Sealed With a Simpson
Have you seen these Simpsons stamps? Just got wind of them via Design Observer. Seriously though, “Really, are these not among the best American stamps ever?“
The brilliant new stamps honoring America’s first family of animation — the Simpsons. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, each in a classic head shot against a little rectangular patch of electric color, projecting maximum psychic and visual power. There was no action, sound, plot or space to help them out, only color, line, scale and lots of personality.
Art Adds
500 taxi cabs in the Big Apple will be ditching the familiar garbage ad’s ie: strip-club and vodka advertisements featured on their rooftop billboards. Instead, work by artists such as Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz, and Yoko Ono will be lighting up the city. Props to Show Media, who are the owners of the ad space, and John Amato, Show’s part-owner and art fan.
art adds to the public’s vision.
TEN:15 pm – Viewer submissions
Jermaine, Queens, NY, Monday Nights
Jason, Murry Hill, NY, Graveyard Shift
TEN:15 Variant
Chad Harris, Cross Island Parkway, Rear View.
I thought about Starin’ Through my Rear View by Tupac as I looked at this photo. (Lyrics after the jump)
Brief: TEN:15
HOW DID IT START: a small group of people looking for an artistic diversion in the morning.
WHY?: We thought it would be interesting to see what one minute in time looks like in different places. A collection of life, work + play that revolves around 10:15 am.
It’s provided us with an opportunity to take a step back and look at our surroundings differently. Plus it’s always fun to see what other people are doing.
JOIN THE EXPERIMENT: If you have a camera phone or camera on you at 10:15 am, take a photo that shows a random glimpse of your life at that moment and email it in. Include your name, the location, a title for your photo and your website link (if you have one). Thanks for playing!
Bizy.Dreaming@gmail.com
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!
Blakroc Project week 1
11 artist who collaborated with the Black Keys x 11 days x 11 tracks. 11.27.2009. Photos by John Peets
More photos after the jump.
Video: Ain’t Nothing Like You, Blackroc feat. Mos Def x Jim Jones
Check out Blak Roc’s impending album with the same name featuring NICOLE WRAY.
Street Level x Sue Kwons
“Street Level is a two decade history of New York’s five boroughs through a photo lens. Unfettered, Sue Kwons 200 page deep book looks at average citizens paired up alongside big ticket stars like Hov, Kanye, and the Beastie Boys. Everyone is brought down to street level through the poignant black and white prints”.
Basquiat in the Place to Be xPeter Relic
Source via: Waxpoetics
Ever since Jean-Michel Basquiat created the cover art to Rammellzee and K-Rob’s immortal 1983 Tartown single, “Beat Bop” (the theme to the movie Style Wars), his place in hip-hop’s hall of ball has been secure. But as a friend of Delicious Vinyl’s Matt Dike, Basquiat was also around during the creation of some of the early DV records, making the scene at Dike’s Santa Monica Blvd. apartment/studio, where he painted the studio’s bathroom door in his indelible graf-glyph style. Rapper Def Jef remembers meeting him.
Def Jef: It was early 1988, and I was recording my first album, Just a Poet with Soul. I had the singles done. One day, as we’re working, Matt Dike goes, “Hey, this friend of mine is coming up here, he’s kind of a pain in the ass, but don’t let him annoy you too bad.” Nothing annoyed me back then, because I was so happy. So Matt’s friend came in and said, “I’m Jean-Michel.” And I was like, “Hey, Jean, I’m Jef.” He sits on the floor and takes his backpack and dumps it out on the floor, and pens and paintbrushes and all type of shit falls out. It didn’t look like a painter’s backpack—it looked like a homeless dudes backpack! Twinkies and pennies and screws, and he fishes through all the shit and comes up with a sack of weed. He’s sitting there Indian style and rolls it up. We’re smoking and talking; I’m playing my music for him. He’s like, “You cool.”
Video: ARTBATTLES @Stuy Town
Pesu x Zito x Andre Trenier x Andres Correa
DQM x Adidas Vintage Rod Laver
DQM x Adidas Vintage Rod Laver, $80
Price-friendly and easy on the eyes. If that’s a sign of the times, the times aren’t so bad. Featured in Complex Magazine: August/September 2009 issue
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.
Chad Harris
Broccoli
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