Similar to the VBS Art Talks(my plug) Nick Ferrall has been compiling interviews with contemporary artist. One with Travis Millard, Autumn De Wilde (coming soon), and some great LB artists. Thanks for viewing Nick. By Osmosis TV on Vimeo(his plug).

B/D Shirts now available. VLU friend Amir Fallah, has come out with his new shirts just in time for the summer of love.

I was stunned by this a few months ago. Never had a chance to enjoy the beginning though.
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The Flux Screening Series at The Hammer presents innovative short films, music videos, feature films, filmmaker retrospectives and the most interesting visual work from around the globe. Tonight special guests Syd Garon and Sam Spiegel will discuss their artist/animation collaboration for the band NASA. Participating artists in the project include Sage Vaughn, the Date Farmers and Shepard Fairey. Tonight they will present the world premiere of their latest video made in collaboration with artist Marcel Dzama. Try to make it. There are multiple ways to enjoy the show. Come join the party.

David's latest creation will be projected during the DesignFesta in Tokyo Japan this May 17-18 and was designed to accompany the intense environment of art, music & design. VLU good friend Anna Simonse is in it.

The ultra talented & unassuming guys at Logan have been busy putting together tantalizing visuals for Apple iPod, Kohler and sponsoring a UK film Premiere of Joy Division. As part of the launch of their new satellite office in London Alex and Ben splurged and invited the top creative minds in London to see the new Joy Division documentary directed by Grant Gee. Our friends at Flux orchestrated the whole thing from their Venice, CA office. I got swept into the excitement to provide some design and found myself pleasantly surprised by all sides involved. Logan has always been the place to go if you want to keep it artful, in part because they haven't let all this success go to their heads and stay close to their roots. I could go on but you get the point. I know they have a few more projects they will be rolling out soon. If your in London give them a ring. Cheers!

Known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods currently on view at the Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA. As a teenager was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies that hit the New York scene referencing Preston North End in many of their songs. Their hit song "Let Me Take Your Foto" proved to be prophetic to what Crewdson would become later in life. wiki

The fine folks at QOOB have commissioned 10 folks to create original short films on the topics of speed and freedom promoting Alfa Romeo's new Mi.To car, kicking off a serious promotion spree that involves a film-making contest. So far, films by Trey Hock and myself have been released on the QOOB site, with more to hit soon...

Unsure if this one has made it to the U.S., but if not, it is fully worth Googling. Swiped description, hence the grammar:
*The Record Covers / Takeaki Emori
*2940yen, Jun 2005, ISBN: 4-86020-135-3 Hardcover
New design guide book for graphic designers, of lining up 238 record jackets selected by 17 graphic designers / creative directors. Editing and planning by Takeaki Emori. If you have brilliant ideas and design sense in addition to the strong D.I.Y. spirit, you don't have to get formal education on art or design to venture into the jacket design or typography at the low cost. This book is aimed for those new generation designers (or those who simply have interest in the graphic designs). If you love music, culture, fashion, design, the book will be a huge inspiration for you. The designers who selected the record jackets include the following: ABAKE (from UK. Art director for Air, Daft Punk, Kitsune) EYE (Yamataka EYE. Boredoms.) Hideki Inaba (NIKE ad artwork director) Laurent Fetis (from France: artwork design for Tahiti80, Beck / graphic design for the film "CQ".) Masami Akita (Merzbow) Moog Yamamoto (Buffalo Daughter) Naohiro Ukawa (Prof. of Kyoto University of Art and Design; designer, VJ and writer) SYRUP HELSINKI (from Finland. Ad artwork for TOYOTA and NOKIA.)

Chris Betting aka The Moutnain Label has a solo show tonight (thurs) at The Candy Store which opens in a few hours, so hurry up and cancel your plans and head over there. The opening runs from 6:30-8:30 (3153 16th street between gestalt and that giant bagel sandwich...)

Tomorrow (fri) night in San Francisco (its a busy one): Ryan Mcginley (!) @ Ratio 3 (1447 Stevenson Street, 6-8 pm) Michael Sieben & Nat Swope @ Fecal Face Dot Gallery (66 Gough @ Market, 6-9pm) and there is also a big zine release at the luggage store. (also 6-8 pm)

Saturday in San Francisco there is some kind of book arts fair at fort mason. Could be ok, could be a crafty snore fest... 9am-4pm. Anyone know of anything else going on this saturday?

and just in case you haven't yet, i highly reccommend checking out Scott Barry @ Reciever & Geoff Mcfetridge @ Mollusk while you still can.

The definitive guide to visual art in New York and baby sister to insane D.I.Y. mega-project Tokyo Art Beat has launched!

View Hints for Better Living, a short animated film by CalArts student Mike Afsa. Mike is graduating this year, likes to build scale models and has some more work here.

This Thursday, Justin Fines, Dan Funderburgh and Kevin Devine are going to be showing some new work at Rivera in Brooklyn. This show should be good. Opening reception starts at 7pm. 

Tonight: A celebration of ten years of LOST, L.A.'s primero graffiti magazine, celebrating the anniversary and the release of the new LOST book. 

The book contains highlights of the past decade editor/designer EyeOne has spent documenting LA writing. Includes imagery by Atlas (if you haven't caught the documentary on his work, watch it now!), Pale, Cab, Haeler, and more. Screenprinted board covers, numbered limited edition of 2000.

Even if you are not a graffiti fan per se, the LOSt book is a musthave for folks interested in Angeleno culture. More about LOST here. 

LOST is a picture-perfect example of designer as author. 

 

Clicked on this episode of BoingBoing TV and the mouse nearly got away from me. TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. The facility is equipped with just about every machine for making/hacking/fixing things you could possibly imagine. Laser-cutters, 3d printing, silkscreening, vinyl cutting, circuit board printing, vacuum forming, injection molding, metal forge, automotive diagnostics, engine and transmission removal… the list goes on. Everything is do-it-yourself and they will teach you how. Holy crap, this is huge. Let’s go make things!

Located in Menlo Park, CA. Nine more locations will be opening across the U.S. including Los Angeles. See you there.

The Multinauts - Friday May 2nd, 2008 MIDNIGHT - New Beverly Cinema 7165 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles CA

Also screening best of Dungeon Majesty

2 N I T E GO GO @ The New Beverly Cinema

Wholphin quarterly DVD magazine from McSweeney's.

Well, the first print run of Parallel Strokes is almost gone. To help move the last 200 copies, I printed up some fancy 2 color gradated canvas tote bags. Buy 2 books and get a tote free. Be nice and a poster'll get thrown in there, too.  Bags printed by Sweatshop Union, Osaka's raddest screenprinter. Well, Japan's raddest screenprinter, to be honest.

Both Anna Wolf and Nicholas Lorden take some pretty amazing photographs and tomorrow night are showing some new work here in New York. Girls & Trees opens Thursday, May 1st (7pm-10pm) at I Heart NYC (262 Mott St., BTWN Prince & Houston).

Hollywood was on fire this morning with the news that Hope gallery's second ever offering will be an exhibition and book release party for the SF-based photo zine Hamburger Eyes. The zine has been going strong for 7 years now, and the Eyes stepped it up recently by opening up a Gallery/Shop/Photo Lab in the Mission district known as the Photo Epicenter. The color or b/w lab with large format and digital capabilities can be rented for just $14 per hour and the only way in is for Dave Potes to drop a magical key from the sky. Fecal Face has an article on the space here and some photos of the new book here.