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

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. 

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).

The seventh annual Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival (PDX Fest, for short!) is just two short weeks away! This year the festival will be taking place at the historic Hollywood Theatre from April 30 – May 4, 2008.  We will also be hosting an exciting sidebar program of video installation work and multi-media performances at galleryHomeland. This year's festival is easily our biggest yet featuring five jam-packed days of provocative, artistic and firmly uncompromising films and videos from around the globe.  The full schedule is now up for your eager eyes at www.peripheralproduce.com. Check it out!

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Thomas's roommates are two highly talented Portland/LA transplants and photographers. I have known about Jon Humphries's nike work for a little while. I had never found or searched out his web site and full book. John's wife Cel is also working as a photographer, beautiful work. A lot of the Nike SB stuff is art/creative directed by Michael Hernandez head of design for SB. Michael was one of the first people to let me do my thing and influence me in design. Radical! via thomas

A group art show celebrating one year of The Family Bookstore. Opening Feb 28, 8pm - March 31The show includes a range of mediums: from oil paintings by Dave Eggers, music videos by Mike Mills for Barr, etchings by Ashley Macomber, photography by Will Oldham, water-colours by Kyle Field, drawings by Geoff Mcfetridge, sign art by Aaron Rose, and embroideries by Vanessa Davis. Original works by: Geoff Mcfetridge, Aaron Rose, Will Oldham, Joanne Oldham, Dave Eggers, Paper Rad, Ian Svenonius, Mike Mills, Cheryl Dunn, Shary Boyle, Phil Elverum, Ashley Macomber, Sammy Harkham, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Simon Evans / Sarah Lannan, Matt Brinkman, Lori D, Ron Rege Jr, Kyle Field, Will Sweeney, Trinie Dalton, Sumi Ink Club, Cayce Cole, Mudboy, CF, Vanessa Davis. (description taken from here) - Come out support Family tonight, one of the most amazing bookstores on the planet.

I remember stumbling upon photographer & video artist William Lamson's ultra inspiring work on vvork a year or two ago. Today I was feeling a little lethargic and decided to hunt him down again. Great great stuff!

The Pecha Kucha Night: A Celebration book is finally available online. Pecha Kucha Night is a series of global events where 20 presenters take the stage to present 20 slides, about which they will speak for 20 seconds each.

This book is a "best of", with presentations by Japanese super-architect Toyo Ito, Marcus Fairs, PKN founders Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of the insanely awesome and talented Klein Dytham architecture, Tokyo dance group Strange Kinoko, graphic designers Namaiki, type designer Odod Ezer, and British designer Sebastian Conran.

The book was edited by Uleshka deshou, founder of PingMag, and designed by, um, Ian Lynam Design. It weighs in at 176 pages, softcover, and has a nice UV gloss screenprinted cover. The text is a mixture of English and Japanese.

At ¥2000 ($18.75) each, including global priority shipping from Japan, it's a steal.

1000 polaroids were shot by David Horvitz to be used for the cover of a Xiu Xiu/High Places split seven-inch. Each record will have a real polaroid on the cover. 100 other polaroids were shot to be used for a special edition release of the Xiu Xiu Polaroid Book that will be available in the future by Mark Batty Publisher. The selection here are from both of these (one giant pile of polaroids on David's floor). (desription taken from http://womenaslovers.com/polaroids.php)

LA & NY Photographer.
Portfolio: www.zensekizawa.com

Ian Brook updates. Go in & take a look around. I know he is available if anyone is looking. LA based will travel.

A ton of new (and/or recontextualized) content up on Néojaponisme from Mumbleboy, E*Rock, Jean Snow, Eiko Nagase (AQ/Tokyo Art Beat), Audrey Fodecave Tsujimura (OK Fred Magazine), Nobuo Ikeda, Matt Treyvaud, and David Marx. Includes an article about a weird 80s skiing movie from Japan (with video); the removal of rum, sodomy and the lash from Japan's production of the musical Hair; intense illustrations; Japan's infatuation with raw concrete architecture; and inspired collages.

The official announcement of the launch of this new site:

PingMag MAKE is the sister site to PingMag.
We use an interview format to put the spotlight on a wide range of
people active in rural areas. We document the voices of these
unknown heroes and broadcast them to the world. It's the
Japan-based magazine about people and making things,
coming out once a week. We're passing on the passion,
ideas, skills, and life stories of people who are building today
and exploring tomorrow: craftsmen, engineers, entrepreneurs, and inventors.

The unofficial announcement from my end:

This is a really great idea- there are so many small cottage industries from "days gone by" that produce amazing handmade goods that could benefit from a bit of exposure and hopefully some fresh clientel. The site opens with a visit to a custom umbrella maker (folks use umbrellas here regularly, mind you) and a prosthetics shop.

I love any creative agency in Sweden that comes out with their own brand of jeans. Oh, and their work for clients is brilliant too. Here are some short cuts because the site is pretty deep and some of the best gems are hidden. Here here, here, here.

Jonathan Keller a Cranbrook 2D Design Alum.

 

GM's name spelled phonetically from HOC. Hurting, spell check couldn't even catch this one it's spelled perfect.

Mono caught my interest for their effortless writing and style. I am also interested in them as a thriving studio making things I like outside on NY, LA and London. We are thinking a lot about these towns that creatives tend to be able to exist in and live a normal life. Probably because my wife is 4 months pregnant and you begin to think of everything entirely different. In music Radiohead did it again and the new video from Battles with art direction from United Visual Artists shot in a northern Wales slate pile rocks. Bought this (above) type tote that Brian designed for the Liars it came so fast. Been using google reader religiously, I really recommend that. Here is my shared items list. I also downloaded every picture on the Art Department's site, what a great resource. LA a is burning again right now. Looking at this 5-9 thing, thanks for sending me that. New shirt someone sent me is cool, but I don't need the airside logo on the arm. My friend Carter's aunt Bunny Williams has a neat article on her in the NY Times, Can Taste Be Taught. Parting shot...

Matt Pyke and friends have obviously been busy on new projects for the MTV Music Video Awards and a Adidas animation that incorporates the infamous London 2012 logo.

Long overdue, Neojaponisme launches with an initial manifesto, outlining the magazine's strategy for broadcasting cutural criticism, design writing, historical essays, music, and original artwork from Japan to the world.

 

Existing to encourage the heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious, Machine Project presents workshops, events, installations and performances on a semi-regular basis. For more information check out the mission statement. (taken from http://www.machineproject.com) Call in sick for work and take some workshops.