Who Is This Guy??

What is that thing he's standing on and why is he on this blog!!!???

Stay tuned to find out....

Have You Heard Of Hans-Peter Feldmann?

...if not I suggest you go look him up right now!

ooga booga 3 year anniversary party this sunday

And just as we were talking about OOGA BOOGA last sunday, their three year anniversary party is coming up this sunday! …And everyone performing at the party RULES… If you are anywhere near LosAngeles on sunday you should make sure you are there... and if you're not maybe fly in for it...





to quote: "...We are now officially 3 years old! Party this Sunday afternoon in the shop's courtyard, featuring live music by Soft Circle (Hisham Bharoocha from Black Dice, Pixeltan, Lightning Bolt, etc.) & High Places (Mary + Casual Rob from Bad Waste)....plus DJ's Sara Clendening & Eric Wesley! July 29th, 3-7pm, free!"


YESSSSSS!!!!!

I asked a suburban teenager what his tag was...

Evil never looked so happy.

I saw this in Australia...

Apparently, on the occasion of Jeff Koons' most recent solo show at Gagosian in London (well, there are actually two, both of which end tomorrow) the English media is trying to sensationalize and attack his art on the grounds that it is somehow invalid and/or inflated... personally, I have always thought that attacks on him seem rather shallow and shortsighted... and hard to win. This interview with him from the Metro is brief but really great.

. Thank you WillBoone

The Phoenix In Foolscap

Imagine my surprise when I rolled up to my favorite motorcycle shop/coffee joint on Sunday and saw this! Folks, it was almost enough to make a grown man cry. Community beautification anyone? This truck has seriously been sitting here for weeks, tagged to death with the worst graffiti you can imagine and looking, frankly, like hell.

Leave it to Alexis Ross, aka Mr. Valentino of the infamous Gents of Desire party crew, to come along, buff the thing out and get to work on this glamorous facelift over the weekend. As these photos clearly illustrate, the man is a master with the brush and I can guarantee you the corner of Virgil and Normal will never be quite the same again.

Enlisted on lettering duties was the even more infamous (and illusive) Finn, who didn't want his photo to be here (sorry Finn). A dynamic duo who give even the most dynamic signsters a serious run for their money.

The tophat and cane were done by Yasmine, Alexis' lovely and talented significant other, who after adorning the truck with her visual magic...

...staged a full fledged family picnic on the sidewalk!! Ahhh Summer.

If you’re in New York on Tuesday…
Paper Rad will be performing with Cory Arcangel at the MOMA
July 24th. PLEASE COME or tell all trolls!!!!
Extreme Animals, Dr. Doo, DJ JAZZY JEZXX plus Cory and SLOW JAMZ BAND!!!!
"everything is real"!!!!!!
mo info at: http://www.myspace.com/poprallypaperrad
It will be beyond new levels unreal.
YESS.

Sunshine Muse

Some weekends just seem to fly by in the blink of an eye. Not much happens and before you know it, it's Monday morning and time to jump back into the daily grind. The last few days however couldn't have been more different. It seemed like a never ending string of fun activities came my way. I wish every weekend was this exciting...Evolution Summer in full effect. Here are some of the highlights:

The excitement began on Friday afternoon when Chris Johanson came to town.

We knew it was gonna be a good time when we looked down and noticed that, completely without planning, we were both wearing winos and flourescent socks. Brothers from different mothers. Chris came to town because Sonic Youth were performing Daydream Nation at the Greek Theatre and we were going!!

As we walked in the gate I immediately bumped into Spike and Sonny. Spike is working on the movie version of Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are," which from all accounts is going to be beyond amazing. Sonny developed the characters for the film which is gonna be a mix of live action and animation. They say it's gonna come out next year. As you can see here, these guys were in a good mood and so were we. The show was about to start and you could feel the excitement in the air.

Red Kross opened the show, but I was so excited I forgot to take photos. My camera takes crappy photos in low-light situations, but if you squint through the blur you'll recognise this as Thurston Moore. We had seats right in the front row. The dude was so close I could almost feel his breath.

Time to get it. Before you let it. Get to you.

The next morning we woke up and drove to Venice to hang out with Raymond Pettibon. If you've never seen photos, Raymonds house pretty much looks like this all the way through. Stacks and stacks of incredible art everywhere!

This was the first time Chris and Raymond had ever met, so there was something that felt kind of historical about the situation...at least to me. Something like a generational passing of the torch or something...although I might be reading into it too much. I'm always tring to find historical significance in mundane things. It's one of my biggest assets/defects.

One room of Raymond's house was entirely wall to wall books and framed Black Flag flyers. It was too much to take in really.

We all went for a walk through Venice Beach. Chris talked about moving to LA.

He already found his dream car!! More to come...

Sunday is a totally great day to shop.

But what if you aren’t leaving the house?
Or you are trying to shop on the internet, in your house, before you leave for the day?
Or its any other possible time at all and you want to shop online for some of the best art books/zines/records/artist-editions/art-objects/clothes from one of our dearest friends in the world who has one our most favorite stores in the world and is fully online killing it as well?
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Yess.

Los Angeles Art Report

If anyone is doing the gallery crawl around LA in the next few weeks, these particular shows are definitely worth checking out. L.A. Object and David Hammons Body Prints, at the Roberts & Tilton Gallery, pretty much blew mind mind when I walked in the door. Holly Myers from the Los Angeles Times described it this way, "(the show) is an anomaly in this languid season - a group show with substance, devoted not to what's hip now but to an underexposed vein of Los Angeles art history: 1960s and '70s assemblage." I agree. The works could not be further in style from what is currently deemed "aesthetically hip" these days, but that is maybe why it's so refreshing. I highly sugest seeing this if you can. Roberts & Tilton, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90048 www.robertsandtilton.com

Also, if you're already down in the Bev Hills/Wilshire area, Chris Burden's show at Gagsoian Gallery is worh seeing. I couldn't find any good photos to pull from the show, so I'm showing this old documentation of his famous "Shoot" (1971), where he had himself shot for a performance. That piece isn't in the show (I just thought it looked cool), the show is totally different...relating to yin/yang, sports cars and tractors, but you can see that when you go! Gagosian Gallery, 456 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 www.gagosian.com

Poses, Emotions, Disasters At Sea, Burning Crosses And Rainbows

Fairfax was jammed packed with people tonight for the Mike Mills/Blonde Redhead video release party at Family. The event was organized by the Directors Bureau and the crews were out in force to soak up a little of the Mike Mills magic on a summer night.

If you're wondering why all these photos look so funny, I thought it would be cool to try to make them look like Mike's art. I'm not really sure if I've succeeded, but it was worth a try. Moving all those contrast knobs around wasted some time anyway. Plus, it gives this whole blog a kind of timeless quality...as if you were reading this post back in 1955. The image above is Miranda July striking a pose from one of the videos.

Cali Dewitt (Teenage Teardrops) and Dan Monick (Photographer/Sads Drummer) were having a loving moment when this photo was taken. As far as I know this is the first published photo of Cali's new haircut (not that you can really tell).

The man of the evening, the humble genius, man of many talents, Mike Mills!!

To watch the videos click HERE

More Baltimore

I was born in Berkeley, CA, and then moved to Baltimore, MD, where I lived from ages 8-19. I always compared Baltimore to Berkeley and I hated it. (Wait, to be fair, I was actually living outside of Baltimore, in rural Baltimore County).
But lo and behold, the ridiculously cheap housing and constant influx of new young art students finally created one of the most beautiful and exciting scenes in the contemporary underground american music/art music landscape. Today's Baltimore holds heavy stakes in the noise world (Nautical Almanac, Tarantula Hill, Lexi Mountain Boys) and the weird pop world (Dan Deacon, Ecstatic Sunshine, Beach House, Santa Dads, Pony Tail, Wham City) and every middle zone in between... which includes the post-late show/youtube- variety-show/underground-document world.
Ladies and gentleman, I would like to present to you a fine—if only somewhat deal-with-able— document of Baltimore circa 2007, The Ed Shrader Show.

Baltimore, this weekend:

This thursday-sunday in Baltimore...

Maximum Approach
-Paper Rad (Providence, RI and Pittsburgh, PA)
-Crystal Coven (Baltimore, MD)
Curated by Brendan Fowler

July 19 – 22 (just for the duration of Baltimore’s Artscape)

Opening reception Thursday July 19th, 6-8 pm, with performances from Paper Rad and Crystal Coven.

Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1401 Mt. Royal Avenue. Baltimore, MD.

…and if you are gonna be anywhere near, there is an INSANE MUSIC FESTIVAL hapening at the same time…

It's Gonna Be A Whole Lot Hotter In The Jungle...

James Clauer, our good friend and director of the film "The Aluminum Fowl" (featured in ANPQ Issue Five) recently returned from a six week journey down the Amazon River in Brazil. He just sent me his photos from the trip which are totally insane. Amongst other things, these were included in the mix.

ANP, most popular magazine amongst Brazilian street prostitutes.

The caption for these read simply, "A drunk sloth" (?!) You figure it out.

Five Humans Share Thoughts, People Respond?

Opening at Anti-Social Gallery in Vancouver...
Ashley Macomber, Chris Johanson, Deanna Templeton, Jo Jackson and Ed Templeton.
See more photos at the RVCA SKATE BLOG, or at Ed's Toy Machine Blog...

July 3rd St Marks Church Benefit recap...

Just to recap, last week I threw a benefit party for the historic St Mark's church in New York with A-Ron the Don and Ethan Swan. (Bronwyn Keenan from the Guggenhiem Museum asked A-Ron to do it and he brought Ethan and I onboard). The Guggenhiem, RVCA, Supreme, www.ruckus.com, a slew of generous individual liquor and food donors and a serious team of volunteers and Interns (The St. Marks Roaches) came through with so much support it was nuts. In total about 2000 people came and over $12,000 were raised to help renovate the building where Patty Smith played her first show, Sam Shepard staged his first two plays, and Andy Warhol screened his first film, along side countless other historic landmark art events of the last 40 years... and we were only trying to raise $9000...
The mood was excited but relaxed, with people going back and fourth between the church's beautiful garden/graveyard/courtyard and the main chapel area where the bands played. Nobody threw fits about paying the $5 cover which went directly to the cause (except NeckFace who insisted that there must be a guestlist, funnily enough), and everybody in the world's friends seemed to be there.
...below are the photos that I took throughout the night... with a camera with a broken focusing mechanism...

Superstar Drag City session musician and the Mighty Flashlight, Mike Fellows, dj’ed the garden the whole night... these photos were taken very early in the night, as he dissapeared into the crowd after an hour.

He had my favorite dj set up of all time... It looked like he was signing people up for a goodvibes march next summer.

Fatboy (KidAmericaTeam) and his bar team... things were getting hectic as soon as the doors opened at 7:00...


Ian/JR/Jeremy running the door.

This is the inside space, before any of the bands played... it was so mellow...

DJ FREE SIMON (dj'ed inside before and between all the bands all nite) and batboyKent.

Ethan Swan handled all the performer logistics for the whole thing. There were 8 bands and three djs. He was starting to get stressed about the logistics. Dash Snow and Jamal Griswold were hoping to hold him down.

I'm sorry, it was kind of hard to not take this photo. Marcus (RockersNYC)/Dash and friend.

The bands started just after 9:30 pm, with Patric Cleandenimn and The Living Image playing first. I knew nothing about them except that all four members had attended Cooper Union. They were a totally beautiful surprise. Not to hater/weird out, but they kind of sounded like an amazing version of what that fake band called Cold War Kids are supposed to sound like. Actually, that doesn't do Patric Cleandenimn justice. They are totally super super good in their own super super way.


Criddler, Creeper, Pager.


Young Lords perfomed some sort of americanna rock. I'm not sure if they always run an american flag on their bass drum or if it was some sort of nod to the next day's impending pollitical holiday.


There was this crazy phenomenon happening by this point in the nite, which was that as the space in the garden filled, huge gaps between the people remained where the church's crypt/mounds were. You would look out at people packed so tightly around this sort of organically shaped seas of space, and then realize, whoah, there are other people way under the space where it looks like there are no people. Crypts.



The sound in the church can be pretty hard to handle. Drums and loud amps sound really really boomy... Kria Brekkan (aka Kristin from MUM and Doctess from Animal Collective)'s sole interest in playing the show was the church's legendary grand piano. The sound for her set was beyond perfect. And everyone sat.



Dash, A-Ron, Thomas from Rub N Tug, Jordan Bennet


I can't remember if I first heard of Modrocket in California at the RVCA homebase or in NY from A-Ron... they got down with both teams simultaneously, before any of the band members were even 18... The girls all live in NY, and 3 of the 4 live within a few blocks of the church. They are young and not fucking around. Please expect so insanely much from these kids.


Yess!

Nate Harrington (FamilyStoreLA/AaronRose'sHelper)/DanHougland(Excepter/OtherMusicNY)/JoshDibb(AnimalCollective)

Effie Briest are a six woman new york avant rock super group... I had been hearing of them for at least a year now, but had never gotten to see them... and they were fucking unreal. Incredible.


Their sound was so powerful and humongous. Fully amazing.

In spite of the fact that I only got one photo of them playing (what?!?! YIKES!) Lizzy Truly and The Fibs fully rule. A lot. ...and a special side/fried/back-in-the-day note: the keyboard player, Erin Krause, used to work with Aaron (Rose) and I at Alleged Galleries in New York... I'm sorry there are so few Lizzy photos!

After Lizzy, A-Ron came out to get everyone riled up before The Virgins played. Maybe my favorite moment of the nite: when he called Donald (the Virgins' front person who had just dyed his hair '91 alterna red that day) "Lollapalooza" on the stage before they played.



The Virgins are kind of the new NY downtown scene hometown hero band... Like, not DIY punk/indie land, but like, nitelife/scene band. They are totally sweet people, and their songs are ruling and totally accessible. They just signed to Atlantic, so they are going to get kind of majorly major big, soon. Really rad jams. Killer Pop for the team!

The police had come by this point and made everyone either leave the outside garden area or go inside the church where the bands were playing, so the inside was completely packed... probably a little over a thousand people were watching.



A-Ron took the stage at the end of their set... from this photo it might seem like it should have sounded nearly rap-rock...
but it was more arena/beyond thunder dome. The energy was insane. Can you see the guy on the right throwing his crutches in the air? This moment was really the peak of the nite.

The stage got so mobbed out after they played. Total team photo opps beyond one million.

Awwww, man....

And then after the Virgins finished, and after a long technical delay that made it seem like things were all fully over, well after 3:00, and after most of the thousand people that were there up until just that moment, Car Clutch played-Car Clutch is a thing that I do with Ethan Swan, who plays in BARR with me, as well. But Car Clutch is no speaking, just "dark bangers." Total 3:something a.m. small group jams. (All CC photos were taken by Andrea Longacre White. Thank you Andrea.)

So far, I've gone out of my way to not post any photos of myself on this blog. I guess my resolve breaks down here.

Its kind of funny, we seem to always have at least one or two people kind of involving themselves with the band at each show. A-Ron was sort of the 3rd member of Car Clutch at that show. Chopping game.

Rub N Tug dj'ed after us, at 4:00 am, but the lights all went out-they played in total darkness to about 30 kids that actually danced until 8 AM- and we had been there since 3 pm. I'm sorry, Rub N Tug, no photos... But also, speaking of no photos, I realized that I never got any photos of Bronwyn Keenan, who initiated the whole event and asked A-Ron to come on board and bring Ethan and I along in the first place. She was running around all nite, handling things past the speed of lite. And I only got this one photo of Father Frank. He runs the church and rules beyond possible description (a squatter since the 70s who now runs a church that only holds community oriented performance art events...)

A-Ron, Father Frank, and JR.
Thank you so much to everyone who came out!

ZINELAND @ UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM

If anyone is going to be in Los Angeles this Saturday, come check out "ZINELAND" at the UCLA Hammer Museum. It looks like it's going to be pretty cool. ANP Quarterly is gonna have a booth and I'm going to be moderating a panel discussion on independent publishing there. Here's all the info:

Saturday, Jul 14 / 6pm
UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
www.hammer.ucla.edu

PRESS RELEASE:

Enter the fascinating, diverse and plucky world of do-it-yourself publications. A selection of talented LA ’zinesters will set up shop in the courtyard alongside local purveyors of independent publications from across the USA. Participants include ANP Quarterly, Family bookstore, Eve Fowler, Insert Press, Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Christopher Russell, 2nd Cannons Publications, Skylight Books, Esther Pearl Watson & Mark Todd... and more!

Browse vendor booths and pick up affordable, handmade and limited edition chapbooks, mini-comics, artist books, journals, and ’zines. Sit in on a panel discussion moderated by Aaron Rose (publisher of the free arts and culture magazine ANP Quarterly and curator of the traveling exhibition Beautiful Losers), focusing on the importance of independent publishing in today’s corporate media-driven world. Sample international confections from Heartschallenger while listening to music specially made for their pink ice cream truck. Get wild with LA’s indie rock glam extravaganza Sounds of Asteroth—live on stage!

‘Zineland is organized by Hammer Programs Coordinator Darin Klein.

Evolution Summer Has Officially Started.

Here's the proof.


The Boredoms / 77 Boadrum / New York City / 7/7/07

Deanna has a new book out~!

Check it out Here.
And buy it from the newly opened Someday online store. (aka PAM from OZ)

july 3rd party... more soon...

The PARTY/BENEFIT we threw two days ago was completely bananas/amazing/beautiful.... for now a, HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE that worked and came out, and an IOU for a full report later today...

Throw A Kit!

Special Thanks to Jeff from Choke Motorcycle Shop

Sprinkle Me With Stardust.

I spent the day yesterday in Tuscany, Italy at Niki De St. Phalle’s “Tarot Garden”. Some of you might remember the article we did about Niki way back in issue three? There were photos of this place in that article, but they could not do justice to how incredible it actually is!!

Niki spent almost 20 years painstakingly building the garden. It consists of 12 individual structures, each one relating to one card of the Tarot. The amount of work put into this thing is totally mind-blowing.

The entire garden is set on top of a mountain that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. You climb through trees and discover mysterious buildings in the clearings.

Her classic “MAMA” sculptures are everywhere!


Thousands of tiny tiles, ceramic sculptures, wood, metal and pieces of broken mirror come together to make this magic psychedelic garden by the sea.





The photos below are of the room where she lived. It is inside one of the sculptures.

The entire “blob-like” space is made of tiny pieces of broken mirror that keep on reflecting into each other into infinity.

The Elrod/Rose contingent was feeling it in a major way!

INDEPENDENT / FIRE / WORKS

A Benefit for St. Mark’s Church-on-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street @ Second Avenue
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
7pm – 4am

Organized by by A-ron, Brendan Fowler and Ethan Swan
Presented by The Guggenheim Museum, Supreme, RVCA Clothing, ANPQuarterly and www.ruckus.com

Performances by The Virgins, Car Clutch, Lissy Trullie, Kria Brekkan, Effi Briest, Mod Rocket, and Young Lords

DJs Mike Fellows, Rub n’ Tug, Free Simon

Food & Drinks

$5 Entry

All funds-raised will go toward restoring the façade of historic St. Mark’s Church

Downtown. Bohemian. Avant-garde. When we think of the original downtown scene we think, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Allen Ginsburg, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, then Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Richard Hell, Eric Bogosian, Thurston Moore, and the list goes on. St. Mark’s Church was their clubhouse. It was the place where they could do what they did with whomever they wanted with no one to answer to. This is where Patti and Lenny Kaye first met up, poetry with guitar, in 1971. It's where Andy screened "Empire". And before all of them, it's where Isadora Duncan danced and Carl Sandburg read his poetry. Black Panthers met there in the 60’s and anarchists and other protestors demonstrating against the GOP convention in 2004 found a safe haven at the church. The Poetry Project started at St. Mark’s Church in 1966 and continues to support and celebrate artists. Danspace also took up residence in the 70’s and has mounted performances by dancers from Merce to Meredith Monk and Bill Jones. Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysterical Theater, the driving force of avant-garde theater, has steadily produced some of the best downtown theater since it first started in the 60’s and has been at St. Mark's since 1992. Through these and other programs, St. Mark’s continues as a place where progressive politics and the arts keep engaging in a dialogue that defines our understanding of culture as more than just what is fed to us by the media.

Independent/Fire/Works has been organized to help maintain that space and its spirit for ongoing generations of artists and performers. As part of the celebration for St. Mark’s, the artist Dash Snow, who exhibits his work at LES gallery Rivington Arms and was featured in the most recent Whitney Biennial, has created a limited edition print to benefit the church. The event will feature performances by alternative superstars, The Virgins, Car Clutch (BARR), Lissy Trullie,
Kria Brekkan (MUM/AnimalCollective), Effi Briest, Mod Rocket, and the Young Lords. DJ’s include Mike Fellows, Rub n’ Tug, and Free Simon. Everyone has donated their time and energy to the cause.

Downtown has changed, it is a state of mind more often than a physical space, but St. Mark’s Church is still here and still a dynamic force for the arts and community.

--Kira von Eichel, June 26, 2007

For more information please go to http://nyglob.com/