Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 400.

Sigur Rós. Varúð. Ryan McGinley.

Film #6: Varúð.

sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are ramin bahrani, alma har'el and john cameron mitchell.



"we never meant our music to come with a pre-programmed emotional response. we don't want to tell anyone how to feel and what to take from it. with the films, we have literally no idea what the directors are going to come back with. none of them know what the others are doing, so hopefully it could be interesting."

this piece is my poem to new york city. i wanted to bring a childhood innocence to the streets, through a character whose own light and wonder effects the world around her. i'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms. ---- ryan mcginley

Sigur Rós. Ég anda. Ramin Bahrani.

Film #5: ég anda.

sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are ramin bahrani, alma har'el and john cameron mitchell.



"we never meant our music to come with a pre-programmed emotional response. we don't want to tell anyone how to feel and what to take from it. with the films, we have literally no idea what the directors are going to come back with. none of them know what the others are doing, so hopefully it could be interesting."

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 400.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 400.

Pink. Blow Me [One Last Kiss]. Music Video.

Dave Meyers directs the video for Pink's Blow Me [One Last Kiss] off her forthcoming album - The Truth About Love.

Cloud Atlas. Tom Hanks. The Wachowskis. Tom Tykwer.

Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future.

Life of Pi. Ang Lee. Trailer. Tobey Maguire.

Twentieth Century Fox releases the trailer for director Ang Lee's Life of Pi based on the novel of Yann Martel. The film hits theaters on Friday, November 21.



The story of an Indian boy named Pi --- a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.


Jake Netter

Aaron Rose. The Watts Towers. Simon Rodia.

If you wanted to delve into one of the most creative minds from the past decade, you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Aaron Rose, a linchpin of the "Beautiful Losers" movement and director of the documentary with the same title. "Artists are the storyteller people of our world," says the Los Angeles native. As a writer, curator, publisher, editor, musician, and filmmaker, he's quite the consummate storyteller himself.



For The Avant/Garde Diaries, Aaron introduces us to Simon Rodia, an early twentieth-century Italian immigrant who constructed one of the most impressive, and unlikely, manifestations of avant-garde architecture in the past century. The Watts Towers are a monumental complex of seventeen interconnected sculptures located in the Watts area of LA. Rodia, a construction worker by trade, constructed piece by piece over thirty years what he referred to as Nuestro Pueblo, or "our town."

The Towers are a filigree of mortar-covered steel, adorned with a mosaic of broken glass, tile, shells, and other random finds Rodia collected during walks along the nearby train tracks. Shortly after completing the work, he moved north to Martinez, California, where he stayed until his death in 1965. It is said that Rodia never returned to Watts to see his creation, which were recognized by the United States as a National Historic Landmark in 1990. "I had in mind to do something big, and I did it, "Rodia later said. Aaron Rose calls them “a testament to the power of creativity itself."

Rirkrit Tiravanija. Up Against The Wall ***.

Instagram.



1301PE Gallery.

Rirkrit Tiravanija. Police The Police.

Instagram.



1301PE Gallery.

Rirkrit Tiravanija. Murder & Mayhem.

Instagram.



1301PE Gallery.

Rirkrit Tiravanija. All You Need Is Dynamite.

Instagram.



1301PE Gallery.

The Master. Theatrical Trailer. Paul Thomas Anderson.

The Weinstein Company has release a theatrical trailer of director Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master with Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Master hits theaters on Friday, October 12.

A 1950s-set drama centered on the relationship between a charismatic intellectual known as "the Master" whose faith-based organization begins to catch on in America, and a young drifter who becomes his right-hand man.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 100.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 100..

Frank Ocean. channel ORANGE. Odd Future.

Los Angeles. Instagram.



Best Buy.

Lomo Amigo. Reserve Result. Lomography.

Lomo Amigo: Reserve Result Shoots the La Sardina Splendour.

LomoAmigo Reserve Result is a Lomography enthusiast hailing from the City of Angels. This artist is an active Lomographer who loves to capture the art and continues grow the artist culture by taking photos of awesomeness.



Lomo Amigos are exactly that --- friends of Lomography. This is the best place to see what other people from different walks of life do with their Lomography cameras, as well as find out more people we hope you like as much as we do. Take a look at our current and past Lomo Amigos. Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman, Candice O'Donnell, Beirut, Stephan Kaps AKA mephisto19, Richard Lam, Amber Tamblyn, Mark Sovel, David Arquette, Tochka, among others.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 100.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 100.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color Negative 100.

Lomo Amigo. Reserve Result. Lomography.

Lomo Amigo: Reserve Result Shoots the La Sardina Splendour.



LomoAmigo Reserve Result is a Lomography enthusiast hailing from the City of Angels. This artist is an active Lomographer who loves to capture the art and continues grow the artist culture by taking photos of awesomeness.



Lomo Amigos are exactly that --- friends of Lomography. This is the best place to see what other people from different walks of life do with their Lomography cameras, as well as find out more people we hope you like as much as we do. Take a look at our current and past Lomo Amigos. Elijah Wood, Neil Gaiman, Candice O'Donnell, Beirut, Stephan Kaps AKA mephisto19, Richard Lam, Amber Tamblyn, Mark Sovel, David Arquette, Tochka, among others.

John Baldessari. Learn To Dream.

Instagram.



1301PE Gallery.

Keith Haring. Shepard Fairey. OBEY Collaboration.

Though Keith Haring died only two years after I started making street art, his art and practice had already made a profound impact on me. At art college and on the streets of NYC in the late 80's and early 90's, Keith’s radiant baby and other images could be seen on the tees of all the flyest hipsters. Keith Haring was a prolific artist with a distinct style of drawing and painting that was simultaneously refined, but primitive, deliberate but lyrical and energetic. Haring believed "the public has a right to art" and this philosophy informed his populist approach to spreading his art and messages



He pursued his art with a deeply personal vision, but also as a champion of social justice and a belief in the interconnectedness of humanity. Haring demonstrated the power of art on the streets, but he also put his art on t-shirts and record covers. He even opened a retail space in NYC called The Pop Shop. Eventually Haring’s artwork became widely respected, displayed, and sold as "fine art". Haring rose from the 80's NYC graffiti scene to not only affect the art world, but to dramatically impact pop culture. Inspired by Keith Haring's achievements, I pursued my art career with the optimism that my goals could be attained. --- Shepard Fairey

The Dark Knight Rises. 13-Minute TV Special.

The Warner Brothers studio release a 13-minute special of The Dark Knight Rises at Christopher Nolan's hand and foot print ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.



The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters on Friday, July 20 --- with Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Morgan Freeman.


Gregg DeGuire

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Los Angeles.



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Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Bumble Bee Loves You.



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Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



Color X-Pro Chrome 100.

A Gleeful & Relentless Forward Moving of Time.

Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present A Gleeful and Relentless Forward Moving of Time --- a group exhibition curated by Simmy Swinder featuring works of Shane Hope, Husmann-Tschaeni, Evan Nesbit, Adam Parker Smith and Lola Rose Thompson. The exhibition will be on view from July 14 to August 4, 2012 --- with an opening reception on Saturday, July 14 at 6pm - 9pm.


Adam Parker Smith
Goodnight My Kitten
2012
hand woven bracelets
8' x 9'

A longing for the past and anxiety about the future is a universally shared sentiment in modern Western societies. Whether it is through nostalgia for one’s own history or an interest in that of another, the memories, individual and collective, that we thread together are evidence of our self-conscious existence. Lola Rose Thompson’s dark yet humorous, innocent yet cynical musings documented on a dying medium, the typewriter, attest to this need to flourish while maintaining certain roots. Influenced by the period of Marina Abromovic’s life in which she engaged in performances with Ulay, her then partner, Thompson values her friendships with other artists, the collaborations that grow from them, and moments between moments where creativity emerges.

Collaboration is essential to artist duo Husmann/Tschaeni's process. The pair work backwards, painting simultaneously in reverse on Perspex, until they achieve what they call “a hell of positive energy with a small hint of hidden otherworldly darkness mixed with visual poetry and deep sensitive natural beauty, a daily biological presence combined with absurd undefined monstrous fantasy.” Quotidian details are represented through vibrant and unnatural colors. The artists often feature children performing everyday rituals in the fantastical environments of their paintings and films, turning the worldly into the otherworldly and reality into dreams.

The joy of play should never be jettisoned. As Shane Hope demonstrates through his use of computer technology to form a series of lenticular-3D prints, curiosity about the future of imagination is what drives his artistic practice. Hope customizes user-sponsored open-source nanomolecular design software systems and then uses this software to modify, manipulate and design groups of molecular models. To build his painterly pictures, he assembles together tens of thousands of these models, resulting in fantastic compositions depicting organic, inorganic, synthesizable, theoretically feasible and nano-nonsensical molecules. This process is akin to what Hope says partially motivated his foray into things nanofactural to begin with, Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstoppers. Molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and life extension technologies may make possible the printing of printers, inventing inventors, as well as the expansion of ontological wiggle-room into and across novel substrates. The resulting artworks are colorful, abstract holographic- like objects with relief-sculptural depth, which Shane equates to looking into a forthcoming nanotech toy chest.

Evan Nesbit is interested in the porosity and cognitive physicality of vision. He utilizes pattern, color and material relationships as visual devices, challenging the pictorial space of his painting and our habitual modes of perception. In his work, the imbrication of pattern and materiality activates and unifies the expansive fragments of experience. His jesting visual propositions, decidedly entrenched in the traditions of two- dimensional pictorial space, explore the multifaceted language and syntax of painting as it relates to Nesbit's own experiences. His constant striving to create intellectual uncertainty and spontaneous investigation demonstrates an understanding of our limitations and inevitable failures.

Adam Parker Smith’s tapestry made of woven friendship bracelets is symbolic of our interconnectedness. Be it through the increasingly globalized world, a testament to our technologies, or the knowledge that we are all of the same species, our friendships are what define our humanity. Parker Smith aims to mimic the human endeavor, to understand the universe through a bizarre confluence of real events, daydreams and preexisting fables. His work often offers a false sense of intimacy, a product of our ever more connected yet divorced world.

Under the curation of Simmy Swinder, the group exhibition of A Gleeful and Relentless Forward Moving of Time features the works of Shane Hope, Husmann-Tschaeni, Evan Nesbit, Adam Parker Smith and Lola Rose Thompson with an opening reception on Saturday, July 14 @ 6pm - 9pm.

Carmichael Gallery --- 5795 Washington Boulevard --- [Culver City, California 90232]

Lomography. La Sardina Splendour.

Los Angeles.



Black & White Lady Grey 400.

Santigold. The Keepers. Music Video.

Santi White directs the video of Santigold's track --- The Keepers --- off her sophmore album - Master of My Make-Believe

Compliance. Dreama Walker. Craig Zobel.

Becky and Sandra aren't the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day --- too many customers and too little bacon --- a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer's purse, which she vehemently denies.



Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer's orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.

Lomography. The Skatorialist.

Los Angeles.



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