Shepard Fairey’s newest political installation took over the corner of Houston and Bowery this weekend and NYMAG interviewed the artist during the raising of the piece. The space is a wall formerly occupied by Os Gemeos and made famous by Keith Haring. The Os Gemeos painting is preserved, but who knows how long Shepard’s collage [...]
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I remember sitting in my cousin Javi’s room, ransacking his Art Laboe and Eastside Story cassettes, finding his Funk CDs and listening to this track over and over and over again. I was eight. I’d never seen the video to this song until finding it last night. Pop and lock, foo…and have a nice day. Director and producer Tamra Davis shot footage of New York City artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the late 1980′s before the artist died of a drug overdose. After 20 years, she’s revealing her archives to the world in a new documentary called “The Radiant Child.” The trailer above speaks for itself and, quite frankly, I’m emotional [...] I don’t share the same taste of mansion as James Murphy but I enjoy the way he approaches the creative process. Also, his iMac setup gives me a… should be revered. New York City is a bit misty-eyed tonight because two of the city’s coolest residents decided an opportunity to live in South Africa for five months was just to good to pass up. We’re bidding them adios tonight. Flurries have been falling consistently for the last 24 hours and it doesn’t look to be letting [...] I’m the exact age when Ira Glass–host of This American Life–was still a mediocre reporter (his words). I’ve probably been blogging for just as long as he was in radio and I’m still unsatisfied with the way my blog looks, feels and evolves. At least my blog fluctuates much like our generation–unstable, morphing, extending and [...] Chinati Center Art Classes from Alejandro De La Cruz on Vimeo. Nina and I wouldn’t allow Marfa’s closed shops, boutiques and galleries to snuff out our enthusiasm for adventure. Enlightened by some wonderful interns at The Chinati Foundation, Nina and I ventured over to the center for an Origami and paper-making workshop. I kept my hands [...] I recently acquired a Netflix subscription and spent an evening watching Johnny Depp’s performance in “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.” I’ve been on somewhat of a HST binge the last few weeks. I started with William McKeen’s “Outlaw Journalist: The Life And Times of Hunter S. Thompson” and then watched “Gonzo: The Life And [...] According to Wikipedia: [Paul Otlet] was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called “documentation”. An emphatic “Hell Yeah!”, Señor. Video [via Oso] Real Madrid kicked off their 2009-2010 campaign with a thriller at the Santiago Bernabeu. Raul, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lassana Diarra contributed to the 3-2 victory over Deportivo La Coruña. It’s not exactly a dream start to the season, since the back-line allowed two goals, but seeing Cristiano Ronaldo playing in a white jersey is quite [...] The xx hail from “South West London” are “unsigned” (according to their Myspace page) and are about to play six shows in eight days in New York City at completely different venues each time. This track is off their album “2.0″ which is scheduled to be released August 17, 2009. Get the record and get [...] I don’t really have a Sunday morning ritual besides listening to “A Sunday Smile” by Beirut almost every Sunday. It perks me up the way a morning kiss, or the sight of the ocean at dawn can. But a few Grizzly Bear songs are stuck on my musical belt. With the lead is “Ready, Able”, [...] With one jarring statistic, Food Inc. sent me home questioning the food distribution system in the US. From the film, “one in three children born after the year 2000 will be diagnosed with early-onset diabetes. 1 out of 2 minority children born after the year 2000 will be diagnosed with early-onset diabetes.” How’s that for [...] I’m destined for humidity and rainy weather in New York City this weekend after a year-long (on and off) stint in Mexico City with my lovely fiancee. I have been selected by the world-renowned verbal history archive StoryCorps to hold one of their cherished Mobile Booth facilitator positions for 2009-2010. Yes. This means I have [...] Two Weeks Is it me or are Grizzly Bear member’s eyes really huge in this video? After a sudden dose of multiple viewings of Grizzly Bear’s newest video from their recent album “Veckatimest”, I couldn’t help but try to close my eyelids one at a time and sweat profusely. Didn’t really work. The Fader points out [...]
Passion Pit released “Matters” this week and are soaring to new Indie heights with a tour throughout the US and Europe all summer. Since I’m currently based in Los Angeles until June 15th, I’ll be hitting up their Echoplex gig Friday May 29th. The G5 Familia In New York City from Alejandro De La Cruz on Vimeo. I sit, peer through the window to the landscape below me and listen. One track leads to images, and images lead to interactions, and interactions then lead to video cameras and scooters. Thank you to my friends and extended family for making [...] |
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