Thursday, June 30, 2005
COME TO THE FILM FRIDAY & SATURDAY AT PIONEER THEATER!
TONIGHT AT DEITCH BROOKLYN
So tonight in the Brooklyn Deitch Projects space is a release party for their 2005 shows book. I was leafing through it and as a dear friend pointed out it's totally a hipster year book. The best thing about a hipster year book is you might be in it! Anyway, since I've been helping out with Swoon's upcoming show I've spent gazillions of hours in the building that this party will be in tonight and man, I'll never look at it the same way ever again. Speaking of all that, the show opens July 7 at 6pm at 76 Grand st. Come celebrate the raddest, most beautiful show ever by an exceptionally incredible artist. Until then, stop walking by the windows and heckling me while I'm sewing there at night.
RELEASE PARTY with LIVE BANDS!!!! Deitch Projects is pleased to announce the publication of Live Through This: New York in the Year 2005, a huge anthology edited by Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson showcasing the most exciting and fresh art being made right now in and around New York.
Live Through This brings together over thirty of the most innovative and influential art, music, and fashion people who are changing artmaking now. New art practice is now intimately tied to the lived experience of the artists themselves, and this book-- through more than three hundred color reproductions of artists, artworks, events, zines, concerts, openings and parties-- illustrates and examines the nature of this relationship.
June 30th, 9pm-midnight @ Deitch: 110 North 1st Street, BrooklynWednesday, June 29, 2005
okay so lemme tell ya some roundup stuff.
on the wburg bridge this morning. i was really hoping someone would fuck this billboard up. first it was neckface begins and then they put the same one back up and rambo covered it and then this horrible navy shit. not that "make fuck not war" and "love, love" are neccessarily the most effective slogans but hey, at least they did something. up today on wooster.
my leg. improving some.
this artist is doing stuff all outside this gallery. when callie and i walked by i snapped this pic and he was like "you owe me ten dollars" then i kind of giggled and was like who are you? and he says "I'm THE ARTIST" and i'm all, okay. and i'm thinking--it's probably not the best way to make public art--by charging people to take photos of it when they walk by, jackass. his stuff is pretty clunky and ugly anyway. moral of the story is, whoever this artist is, he sucks.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
TIMES ARTICLE ON CYCLISTS KILLED RECENTLY AND THE MEMORIALS.
The stenciled images are not the only new memorials for bicyclists. Last week, a collective of artists called Visual Resistance began using bicycles that have been spray-painted white, called "ghost bikes," to designate spots where bicyclists have died. The first was on Fifth Avenue near Warren Street in Park Slope, where a 28-year-old lawyer, Elizabeth Padilla, died after being struck by a truck on June 9, said Kevin Caplicki, 26, of Fort Greene. Mr. Caplicki is a member of the collective and said he happened by Fifth Avenue moments after Ms. Padilla died. The experience motivated him and others to introduce to New York this type of memorial, which has appeared on the streets of St. Louis and Pittsburgh.
"I feel an affinity with any cyclist who has fallen," Mr. Caplicki said. "I hope that people can make a connection when they see a riderless bicycle and think about a life that's gone." [update: visual resistance said: you can also check out link for some fotos or our main site!]
Monday, June 27, 2005
WEEKEND OF BRAWLIN AND CRYIN AND TANGLIN WITH THE COPS. EVERYBODY GETTIN FUCKED UP AND SLOPPY.
meet the coolest man alive. imagine being this cool. right, i tried too. not gonna happen. hands down radder than everyone else. (click to enlarge any pic)
so this weekend was fantamastic. friday's critical mass was amazing, going through manhattan up to the west side on 10th ave, through central park, over to the 59th st bridge, into queens then into wburg. friday night was the freakin plan-it x fest. defiance, ohio was incredible. made me feel like i was 15. singing along to every word and being so wide eyed and happy after getting fucked with by the cops outside. saturday was the legendary chunk 666 v. black label & all city riders bike brawl with pics galore below. it was an all-day affair with bads and afterparty at the hook. made a detour up to troublebrass's greenpoint housewarming party and then back down. must've ridden a zillion miles that day. sunday was the freed simon block party. it was nice. ah the summer. every weekend full of wonder. and, i've just been alerted that i'm written about in this article on the film I'm in called "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion" which screens this weekend (July 1, July 2) at Pioneer in Manhattan. Please come.
my fave blog reader hiding behind her helmet outside the plan-it x fest show with defiance, ohio, madeline and other rad bands that i almost got arrested for no reason outside of.
will here getting ready for critical mass.
Sunday, June 26, 2005
A WEEKEND OF TANGLING WITH THE COPS.
antlers getting harassed by cops outside of the plan-it x fest friday night after critical mass. they pulled sucka and i out of the crowd for taking pictures, took our id's and made me get lost. then i came back later and got to see defiance, ohio. thanks to untitled name for snapping this shot at great risk to himself and his camera.
SIMULTANEOUS MEMORIAL FOR FOUR SLAIN CYCLISTS WED.
Friday, June 24, 2005
WEEKEND PLANS REDUX.
(photo from Jesse Cohen's email exhibition #6: Bike Month. Photo taken in Radom Poland, Year unknown.*)
Welcome to Friday kids.
Here are your weekend plans:
FRIDAY
1) Vigil for Andrew Morgan on Elizabeth and Houston at 6pm.
2) Memorial Critical Mass ride. Different entry points. Friday, June 24,
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