We dare you to watch this without laughing. It is not possible.
[Link: Stone Your TV]
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Snowboard photographer Cole Barash is only 21 years old and it seems like he’s been around for ever. Shooting first for the snowboard mags when he was fresh out of high school, then Forum Snowboards, and for the past two years he’s been on the Nike Snow program. This month Photo District News has chosen Barash as one of their top 30 new and emerging photographers in their story PDN’s 30 2009.
While shooting action is a big part of his business, Barash also shoots portraits and behind-the-scenes images. “Snowboarding culture is much more than just the action,” he relates. “I want to show what the trip is like getting there. I want to show the crazy story in the hotel room after.”
Wonder if Cole ever had to sit through a “you’re wasting all your talents” lecture with his high school principal. We’re guessing no.
[Link: PDN via Jared Sourney]
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In preparation for his Fecal Face Dot Gallery opening tonight, February 26, 2009, skate artist and former Think Skateboards art director Jeremy Fish has painted a 30-foot-long mural with three dimensional characters in it according to a story in the Xpress.
The mural-in-progress, which covers two of the Fecal Face Dot Gallery’s four walls at Gough and Market streets, depicts a wooded scene of half-finished cartoon animals and trees. Fish carefully draws the perky lips belonging to one of the trees that overlooks what seems to be a future battle scene. . . . The artist has been crafting the mural for 25 hours, but states he only has a few hours left of touching up the details. World-famous skateboard filmer and photographer Dan Wolfe is in the room shooting time-lapse photographs of the process while old-school East Coast hip hop bumps from small speakers in the corner.
The Ambush opening party is tonight at 6 p.m. at Fecal Face Dot Gallery – 66 Gough St. (@ Market St.), San Francisco, with an after party at The Uptown, 200 Capp St (10-2am).
[Link: Xpress and Fecal Face Gallery]
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Get them while you can. The new Iconoclast Pop-Up will be popped up at 451 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA until April 11, 2009 so for the next 35 days it will be the spot to get limited edition art, prints, books, and other stuff from some of our favorite artists:
The Iconoclast Editions pop-up shop features work by David Ellis, Jimmy Baker, Harmony Korine, Neil Farber, Jacob Dyrenforth, Ohad Meromi, Charley Harper, Lisi Raskin, Ryan McGinness, Larry Clark, KAWS, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Chris Johanson, Raymond Pettibon, Shepard Fairey, Todd Cole, Mark Gonzales, Evan Hecox, Jo Jackson, Todd James, Takashi Homma, Os Gemeos, James Jarvis, Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Steve Powers, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell, Terry Richardson, Mark Borthwick, Craig Stecyk, Ed Templeton, Henry Chalfant, Tobin Yelland, Clare Rojas, Antonio Adams, Cynthia Connolly, PAM, Andrew Pommier, KR, Cheryl Dunn and many more.
We were going to say something about Mike Mills and celebrity salad bar designers, but we’ll save that for another time..
[Link: Iconoclast LA]
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If Wyland can build an empire on painting whales, there’s no reason to believe that photographer Aaron Chang can’t do the same with his images even in this economy. On Saturday February 28, 2009 at 7 PM Aaron will host an event to celebrate the opening of his gallery in the Cedros Design District in Solana Beach, California.
Aaron Chang Gallery, 124 East Cliff St. @ corner of N. Cedros and Cliff
[Link: Aaron Chang Gallery via Global Surf News]
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Simon Evans is a former pro skateboarder who wrote for the British skateboard mag R.a,D. in the early 90s. Now he is an artist with a new show which opened last night (February 20, 2009) at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. Here is the logic behind the show:
. . . these days he’s expressing himself in scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white-out. He uses everyday materials to create vivid stories through collages. For a new show at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea, he’s tells the story of Robinson Crusoe, creating the things Caruso used to keep himself alive when stranded on a desert island. Evans said he was hoping to bring text and visual art together.
The show runs through April 4, 2009, but you can check it online right here.
[Link: James Cohan Gallery via WYNC.org]
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On March 6, 2009 the Hibbleton Gallery will present a new show entitled “Spare Change,” featuring work by Russ Pope, Andy Jenkins, Mike Myers, Chris Pastras, and Chris Yormick—all legendary figures in the Skateboard art and design world. The opening reception is Friday, March 6, 2009 from 7-11pm. It would probably be a good idea to be there.
Hibbleton Gallery 112 W. Wilshire Ave, Fullerton, California.
[Link: Hibbleton]
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The Boston Police Department seems to have a flair for street art themselves as they apparently chose to arrest artist Shepard Fairey on his way to DJ a party celebrating his Friday night February 6, 2009 art show opening at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Police allege that he tagged locations in the Massachusetts Avenue and Newbury Street area and the railroad trestle by the BU Bridge, said department spokesman Officer James Kenneally. . . Fairey faces arraignment Monday in either Brighton District Court or Roxbury District Court or both, said Suffolk district attorney’s spokesman Jake Wark.
According to Fairey this is the 15th time he has been arrested.
[Link: Boston.com and LA Times]
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It’s amazing to us that Arkitip has been able to produce the amazing magazines they’ve been creating for the past three years, however, it looks like the economy is taking its toll on the specialty publishing market as well.
According to an email sent out to advertisers by Tracy Forman, Arkitip, has “made the decision to decrease our magazine publishing frequency from 6 issues to 4 issues a year.”
These changes in the economy have forced us to look at what we are as a brand and focus on further defining it to our customers. We have a groundbreaking publication, a spectacular web property, a thriving online store and thousands of devoted fans of everything Arkitip does. Publishing the magazine 4 times a year does not diminish any of this and will free us up to focus on many other projects that we have had the opportunity to explore before, but never the time.
We always think of cutting print and moving more to the web as a good thing, so congratulations are in order. Follow the jump for the entire email.
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Matix (which seems like a really new company to us sometimes) is releasing a book to celebrate 10 years in the action sports clothing business. It’s called This Is Progress and features the work of: Daewon Song, Marc Johnson, Rick McCrank, Rudy Johnson, Mikey LeBlanc, Reda, and many more.
The book is being launched to the public on February 12, 2009 at the Hollywood Hennessey + Ingalls location at Space 15 Twenty 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Suite 8 Los Angeles, CA 90028.
The first 25 people to buy a book will receive a free Marc Johnson exclusive Matix tshirt
[Link: Hennessy + Ingalls via Active Ride Shop]
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