OUTLAW SURFER BROS: WARRIORS OF RADNESS.
We’ve made the Point Break reference once before and now have sincere regrets for doing so. The one analogy that would so perfectly describe Warriors of Radness was wasted so carelessly on another group of Californian outlaws doing some really amazing stuff and now we can hardly live with ourselves. But WOR really are THE OUTLAW SURFER BROS WHO DROVE AROUND IN ARMY SURPLUS JEEPS TERRORIZING TRAFFIC except now they’re a little older and funneling all that mid-20s angst into some locals-only t-shirts, pink pinstriped shorts, and day glo swim wear instead of nose daggering a mountain of cocaine. Shop on their online store HERE or go to Opening Ceremony. Read on
Whoever Loves Me, Follows Me.
Oliverio Toscani was no stranger to controversy by the time he got the world in a huff with his provocative campaigns for United Colors of Bennetton. In fact, his work with copywriter Emanuelle Pirella many years before on Jesus Jeans led to a significantly more European fervor that was no less outrageous than his later work. At that time drawing parallels between religion and commerce – or exposing the hypocrisy of the two – by pairing reworked passages of the bible with vibrantly colored images of his girlfriend’s tanned butt cheeks overflowing out of …uhh…Jesus Jeans, was a lot for Europeans to handle. Needless to say, Jesus Jeans weren’t around for long, but this ad lives on as an iconic example of art meeting commerce. If only advertising would get this good again. Read on
Grace Jones Hurricane.
We were so despondent after missing Grace Jones’ show at Hammerstein this past Thursday that we put her new LP, Hurricane, on repeat and locked ourselves in our tiny apartments for the entire weekend. As time flew by we realized her first record in nearly 20 years is everything a rabid Grace Jones fan could hope for. Our fingers will remain crossed in hopes that she will come back to NY once the record is actually out. Until then we will continue watching the slew of videos that immediately went up on youtube last Friday. Read on
UFOs BURN DOWN MEXICAN HOUSE.
Mexican photographer Jamie Martinez takes photos of UFOs burning down houses, makes GIFs that make you feel super bizarre, and channels mexican lightbeams into his lens to create sun soaked depiction’s of the things that haunt his dreams. Check him out HERE. Read on
JC / DC SLAUGHTERS LIVE MUPPETS FOR FALL.
Jean Charles De Castelbajac’s spewing vomit stream of pop culture insanity has the uncanny ability of making guests at his runway shows convulse with caligulan giggle fits at the sheer ridiculousness of their place in what always seems like some bizarre 5th dimensional punch line. Legos, McDonalds, Rubic’s Cubes, and now Muppett’s!!!!! Our face just melted on our keyboards!! He even has that doofus Lady Gaga decked out in Kermit pelts!!! Read on
WHITE HOT WHIRLPOOL OF BODILY FLUID.
Marilyn Minter’s enamel on metal paintings and lush photography create such a white hot whirlpool of grime and bodily fluids that her textured and delicious depictions of girls eating raw eggs somehow transforms what would normally be a little bit of a……uhhhh…health hazard… into a hot new fetish that everyone needs to get familiar with. Read on
THE HOLY GODFATHER OF ERGONOMICS.
80 year old Luigi Colani understands movement. His quest to create products that fit their function so perfectly to the human body has inspired the likes of Zaha Hadid, Marcel Wanders, and Karim Rashid without question; and as our sustainable future fantasy emerges into reality we are sure to see a new flood of design influenced by the holy godfather of ergonomics. Hopefully that means we can finally get shot from front door to coffee shop via mini pneumatic super train but for now we’d still be happy to settle for a working Canon T90 prototype. Read on
GIRLS MODEL COOGI SWEATERS FOR SUMMER.
We just got back from the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, which while full of many amazing moments – The Gossip covering Aaliyaah being one of them – had none quite as sparklingly impressive as those provided by SF band, GIRLS. Their thoroughly churned pot of Teenage Fanclubbery, 60s pop, lush harmonies, and grinding feedback left a crowd of 300 slackjawed for their first Seattle show. Check out their tunes HERE and cross your fingers for their shimmering reverb, red high heels, coogi sweaters, and awkward onstage banter to visit your town soon because their record will not be hitting the internetz for at least 4 more months.
THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX.
The promise of Wes Anderson’s new film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, seems a little hard to deliver on BUT……it’s like, c’mon!!!!! Roald Dahl, George Clooney, Jarvis Cocker, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson all signed on so why can’t you? Like, you don’t always have to be so stuffy. Maybe a stop motion film that looks like a furry fetish video is just the thing that you need to take you to tier two. Check out more at COOL HUNTING.
HOLLYWOOD BABYLONIA IN QUEENS.
A Kenneth Anger retrospective has been going for a sweltering minute at PS 1 out in the borough of Queens. We suggest getting there early on a Saturday to pay your respects to the godfather of shock cinema, FOX News, and TMZ and then stick around for fun times in the sun.
RAMMELLZEE FLUSHES OUT THE HEAD GARBAGE.
When you become a living, breathing, writer of copy for a small family of talented folks who help people tell stories for a living; you sometimes get stuck staring at blank pages, wishing your finger tips were actually straws and the keys of your computer were little mouths sucking the words straight from your brain into your hard drive. This occasional feeling always ends with a visit to Rammellzee’s website and guarantees a good garbage flush for our head. The Word Warrior declared war on the word 30 years ago and he’s been waging it ever since. Check it out HERE. Read on
ZEVS LIQUIDATES CHANEL ON THE ARMANI FLAGSHIP.
Zevs got nabbed in Hong Kong while throwing up a drippy droppy “liquidated” Chanel logo on the Armani store in preparation for his first solo show in Hong Kong. By staking his claim in the “brand war” he really pissed off Armani and is getting sued for HK$6.7 million. The flip side is maybe we can expect his show to sell out???
PIXAÇÃO’S BARBARIAN ALPHABET.
The glorious menace of PIXAÇÃO has been disseminating through the streets of Sao Paolo for decades, leaving the whole population to feel as if they are living in Suicidal Tendencies’ band room. These videos capture the primitive form of graffiti as it lives now while giving a little back story of how it derived over the years from heavy metal imagery, barbarian alphabets, and pissed off favelans wanting to ram a paint can into the faces of the upper class. Thanks to Cool Hunting for putting this together. Read on
TAILGATING THE TOUR DE FRANCE.
The rampant celebrations of the Tour De France lining the road throughout “euro land” essentially boil down to the fanciest tailgate party that a pretentious, baguette-eating, beret-wearing, no goodnik could possibly piss off middle america with. The only thing that could make it’s awesomeness more infuriating is if Bruno was there shoving a fist full of cured meats covered in brie topped with a smoking gitane up his…..whoa…nevermind. Lots of cured meats, lots of cheese, awesomeness, gitanes, and cycling; all captured beautifully by Brent Humphreys for his Project Le Tour. Check it out. Read on
ALDRIN HASSELBLADS IT ON THE MOON.
“We” have a bad habit. Or at least one of us does and it consists of breaking cameras during moments that are intensely worthy of photographs. And not just breaking, SMASHING. Off the side of a boat, stepped on, dropped in toilets, and the list goes on. Give us (me) the opportunity to take a real picture of a bigfoot or something equally mysterious or elusive and we (I) can guarantee the camera will spontaneously evaporate in my hands. So, good thing the above headline says ALDRIN HASSELBLADS IT ON THE MOON because if it was the other way around it would be like: CLAYTON SERIOUSLY DROPS THE BALL AND SMASHES HIS HASSELBLAD WHILE TRYING TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THE MOON LANDING. Read on