Tonight (Thursday, April 4, 2013), Los Angeles’ Known Gallery kicks open their new show Skateboard High School | Years of Pictures by Patrick O’Dell. For a little backstory on why you might want to visit the opening, click here to read Chris Nieratko’s love letter to an O’Dell photo on Vice.com. The opening party begins at 8 PM. Known Gallery is located at 441 North Fairfax Ave., in Los Angeles, California.
[Link: Known Gallery]
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Surf photographer Jack English has curated a collection of over 50,000 surf photos that has been licensed by magazines, ad agencies and Fortune 500 hundred companies for years. Now these same photos are available for the rest of us to purchase as murals, prints, and/or posters on SurfImages.com.
“By selling our surfing murals, prints and posters, we wanted to give our consumers the opportunity to own a unique, tangible piece of artwork,” said Surf Images owner Jack English. “We have big brands licensing our work every day, but now we are giving everyone the opportunity to own a beautiful piece of artwork that they can enjoy in their home or office.”
If you need some images to surf up your personal space click the link to check it out or follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
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A group show including work from Russ Pope, Neil Blender, Hagop Najarian, John Sollom, and Mike Myers titled Microscopic Hinges opens April 4, 2013 at the Artists Republic 4 Tomorrow in Laguna Beach, California.
Curated by Russ Pope, the show includes small and medium scale works serving to mark this place in time for the five artists as individuals and friends. Some people might call it coincidence – some call it destiny – but there is no denying that microscopic hinges link us all together, binding our past, present and future. Like a chapter book flipped to the middle, these five have a unique bonded history – with more to come – but April 4th they show us what progressive art in Orange County looks like today.
The opening begins on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7 PM. AR4T is located at 210 North Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. For more info click the link.
[Link: AR4T]
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The US Department of Agriculture apparently has a “Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope” at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland that allows them to get some amazing photos of snowflakes, according to a post on Twisted Sifter.
Samples of snow, ice and associated life forms are collected by dislodging the crystals or biota from the face of a snow pit or the surface of the snow onto copper metal sample plates containing precooled methyl cellulose solution. Within fractions of a second these plates are plunged into a reservoir of liquid nitrogen which rapidly cools them to -196°C and attaches these pre-frozen materials to the plates. . . After arrival at the Beltsville Electron Microscopy facility, the copper plates can be stored at -196°C in storage dewars. Selected samples are transferred to the preparation chamber for sputter coating with platinum. This renders them electrically conductive and they are placed on the pre-cooled (-170°C) stage of a Hitachi S-4100 field emission Scanning Electron Microscope where they are imaged and photographed.
So that’s how they do it. Click the link to see a few more of the images and then realizes that on a powder day we go blowing through billions of these crazy micro architectural masterpieces.
[Link: Twisted Sifter via Boing Boing]
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The opening reception for C.R. Stecyk’s new installation at Los Angeles, California’s The Museum Of Contemporary Art Faith, Hope, Charity begins at 3 PM on Saturday, March 23, 2013.
Faith, Hope, Charity by C. R. Stecyk III refers both to the ambiguity of Faith Street in the original Bunker Hill neighborhood, where MOCA Grand Avenue is located, and the allegorical need for it in the remodeled landscape that has been thoroughly leveled and radically rebuilt. Musing on the superimposition of cultures and values on landscape and language, the installation comprises a grouping of panels whose dimensions are that of early 20th century show bills. Featuring various combinations of letterpress printing, serigraphy, photography, airbrushing, printing, and relief painting based on architectural fragments from Bunker Hill, the panels will be altered by the artist throughout the duration of the exhibition in Broad Lobby at MOCA Grand Avenue.
Any reason to hang out with Mr. Stecyk is a good one. The MOCA Grand Avenue is located at 250 S. Grand Ave. in Los Angeles, California. Admission is Free.
[Link: MOCA]
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Dakine took a Portland, Oregon roll with legendary photographer Bryce Kanights to see how he works, rolls, and which Dakine bags (Reload 26L & Mission Photo 25l) help him get ‘er done.
[Link via Thrasher]
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Kilian Martin goes through a lot to get us all to watch him work his flatland freestyling. Is it working? We’re not sure.
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Scott Hultgren the design mind behind the Valhalla Design & Conquer agency has created an action March Logo Madness grid to find the best action sports /youth culture logo of all time, but he needs you to vote to make it happen. Here’s how he describes it:
That’s right, just like the basketball tournament but different. The voting will be open for a week, at the end of the week the votes will be tallied and the winner will go on to the next bracket. At the end, the designer of the winning logo will be able to claim he is the world champion of the logos and may receive a prize of some sort.
For the first round match ups click here. In the skateboarding category Independent and Thrasher go up head to head in round one. Man, that’s a hard decision to make. Check back each week as the winners go head to head in the next round.
[Link: We Design & Conquer] [click to continue…]
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NHS CEO and President Bob Denike is taking the whole Jeremy Scott fashion rip off of Jim and Jimbo Phillips up a notch by sending out an email asking for everyone to help “spread the word.”
It’s obvious to us, the Phillips family, the fans of Jim Phillips Sr. and Jimbo Phillips, and fans of the brand Santa Cruz Skateboards, as well as many in the global skateboard and skate art community that there is clear and obvious infringement by Mr. Scott. We are discussing this with our legal team to determine our next steps. . . I hope that Mr. Scott sees that his actions have hurt and affected many people, including the Phillips family, and that he has also severely damaged his own reputation. It is not too late for him to do the right thing, as an artist and creative person, and fix his error in judgement.
Click here to check out the book Scott reportedly used as “inspiration” for his collection, or for the official word from Denike, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Fashion designer Jeremy Scott appears to have drawn “inspiration” for his new A/W 2013 collection from Santa Cruz Skateboards father and son graphic artists Jim and Jimbo Phillips, according to a story on Spin.com.
Jeremy Scott is well known for his lust for youth culture and nostalgia, and these graphics are right in line with his sensibilities: last season he threw Bart Simpson all over a $500 sweater and no one batted an eye. But “repurposing” in the Internet era becomes something slightly more sinister when your source material is not already a household name. Matt Groening can take a hit, but we’re betting that Jimbo’s not sitting on a multimillion-dollar industry based on some trippy faces he came up with in the ’80s.
According to Jimbo Phillips Facebook page he’s not stoked.
[Link: Spin]
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