More stuff coming from Grey Skateboard Magazine, London:
“We are pleased to announce the launch of The Edition, a collaborative publication between Nike SB and Grey Skateboard Magazine.”
A few more infos on the blog of The Edition.
A short video from November 2011 about the Concord Project by José Parla, two massive murals the artist did for the Concord City Place Art Space in Toronto. A work that took Parla almost a year to finish.
A few impressions from Bright Tradeshow and Rampenlicht exhibition from last weekend. Skateboards, art, zines/magazines, music, minigolf, nice people, beers… and a triangular mini-ramp!
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Good times this Saturday: I am really pleased to DJ at the album release party of my very good friend Emika. She released her debut album on Ninja Tune recently and is going to celebrate it on upcoming Saturday, 21. January in Berlin, which the Czech born and raised in Britian beauty calls her home since a few years. Also playing: Actress from London (Honest Jon’s Records), Pinch from Bristol (Tectonic Records) and DJ Pete aka Substance from Berlin (Hardwax/Scion Versions) with who I will play a back-2-back session, early and late. See you all there!
Horst Krzbrg, Berlin
Sa. 21. Jan 2012, 23:59 h
The Bright Tradeshow is starting this Thrusday 19. – 21. January here in Berlin. It’s a fair for skateboarding, streetwear and all that stuff. On last year’s winter edition of Bright, we released the first issue of JB. with the great support of our friends from IrieDaily. We will be around on Friday to investigate and meet some friends and artists and the whole skateboard industry folks from Europe. There will be a lot of things happening around the tradeshow such as exhibitions, film screenings, concerts and lots of parties of course. Get some infos in the Bright Magazine.
On Saturday, we will also be at the Stattbad Wedding for the opening of the exhibition Rampenlicht and the sound performance by our friend Sergej Vutuc, with who we made this lovely postcard which you can see in the picture above. See you there or there!
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
—Hermann Hesse
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Here is the latest edition of mono.kultur — issue #30 features the highly acclaimed illustrator and graphic artist Chris Ware with the sweet title The Sense of Thereness. This thing is for all fans and magazine freaks. But probably as well as you, I’ve never been too much into comics, but there is no way you could get around such goodness like the work of Chris Ware. It was an evolving interest in graphic art and infographics in the first place that led to ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ once, an impressive, big book about a lonely middle aged man who meets his father for the first time over Thanksgiving weekend. Some elements of this novel appear to be autobiographical.
The mono.kultur issue has been designed by Matt Willey from Studio8, who also worked on Elephant Magazine and the redesign of NY Times Magazine. It looks like a proper portfolio of Ware’s work, with the usual fold-outs and specials that are a standard at the mono.kultur house.
“The one thing I don’t want to be is a storyteller.” — Chris Ware
(Pics lifted from the mono.konsum website.)
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I am not having a real soft spot for fashion photography and magazines, usually I get really bored looking at it. Plus these million tumblr blogs that all look the same. But there are always exceptions. Probably it is because 032c (my favourite mag anyway!) is doing the best job on impressing/inspiring me with their approach to this world. Always edgy and rough, looks like that’s the way I get attracted to it properly these days.
Alasdair McLellan from England, who also shot the nice series ‘Palace Wayward Boys Choir’ for the Supreme book Vol. 6, is such a photographer. The constant contributor of 032c has a show starting today, 12. Jan. at the Société de 032c, running until 20. Feb 2012. I couldn’t navigate around this series he recently shot for issue #35 of fashion magazine self service with these two incredible beauties… Wow!
Watch the trailer for the upcoming issue of Kingpin Magazine, a special issue about the DIY culture in skateboarding that will be accompanied by some exclusive videos about the project ‘Set In Stone’. This project is supported by Carhartt and Emerica. Really nice logo by the way…
That’s a real special one! Jay Howell just sent me this new music video he made in collaboration with Jim Dirschberger from Eighty Four Films and Creature Skateboards for the band Trash Talk. We have an interview in the upcoming issue of JB. with this rad dude Jay. The video is awesome, but nothing for you little soft-boiled cats…
Coming up this month, the first solo show in Germany by the American artist Mark Jenkins is presented by Gestalten. Jenkins is best known for his installations made of transparent tape or clothed human figures in public spaces, which are mostly provoking strong reactions.
Unveiling new sculptures he specifically made for this show, “Glazed Paradise” opens on January 19th at the Gestalten Space in Berlin-Mitte. The show includes some smaller tape sculptures and photographs of his interactive installations. If this is not enough, grab a copy of Jenkins’ first monograph published by Gestalten that will be available at the show and in their store — “The Urban Theater: Mark Jenkins”.
“Glazed Paradise” — Opening on January 19, 2012 at 18:30 including a talk by Mark Jenkins with loads of personal insight into the process of his tape sculptures.
Some music for the beginning of January. Just received the upcoming release on Lucky Me by Machinedrum, who released his amazing LP on Planet Mu in 2011 (on my birthday!). SXLND is modern Housemusic with that certain UK touch to it. Travis Stewart wrote these tunes in the Brooklyn summer of 2010, now powered up and engineered for 2012, cheering up these cold rainy days! The 12” EP comes with a cut-out Geisha inner sleeve, but I could not find the info on who made the artwork. Nice idea! Oh, and the download card which comes with the vinyl includes a Scuba remix.
An impressive series of pictures of abandonded places in Detroit is shown at the Kühlhaus, Berlin at the moment. The photo exhibition ‘The Ruins of Detroit’ by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre is a one off until this space gets opened for further art shows and events later in 2012. Yet another vibrant old/new part of Berlin, the area around Gleisdreieck, that gets the usual capital treatment for some fancy action — hopefully it can live up to its expectations in the future and doesn’t get another random sleek place.
The rise and fall of the City of Detroit has been captured at numerous times, but the way it has been documented by Marchand & Meffre has no equal. Their imagery shows what remains of a once-great city and the story of a post-industrial America with a mystical thoughtfulness that is showing bits of life coming back to these once busy places.
The show runs until 10 Jan 2012 and only on Thursdays to Saturdays at 6 pm.
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The year 2011 started with JB. Magazine — The Shifting realities issue. The year 2012 starts with issue #02 — State Of Now. More featured artists, more pages, more radness. We are excited!
Happy New Year everyone!
2012 is already a great year!
…but sharing a few great moments of the past months with you. Anyway, we at JB. love lists, they’re great. But sometimes they are just a waste of time — writing or reading them. Total ambivalence here. Maybe.
It’s been an exciting year for sure. I have seen lots of highs and a few lows, big metamorphosis trip going on which started with releasing JB. Magazine #01 — The Shifting Realities issue in January 2011. This was such a relief after working on it for so long, and also because of finally having done JB. stuff on paper after a such a long time. Meeting many amazing people along the way, opening up and experiencing new perceptions, seeing the potential to create things in a different way, listening to great music, skating rad spots, being connected and committed … (continues)
I am rather going with the seasons than dividing the year in beginning and end. But in the northern hemisphere it seems logic that winter is the time to close a chapter and to begin a new. Going inside, having a rest and refilling the batteries. So, the past seasons, especially spring and summer of 2011, were accompanied by some amazing music. And the one particular tune, the greatest of all tunes was… Falty DL — Hip Love. Shortly before releasing his LP, this one has the most plays this year in terms of Falty’s music — right before ‘Gospel Of Opal’, probably the two tunes with the deepest emotional connection. (listen below)
Anyway, have a nice time with your family and friends and some extra power for the upcoming year, or the season after winter. The days already started to increase the time of light. Sharing more special moments over the next posts, also including some more music.
— Jenne, JB.
Falty DL aka Drew Lustmore, pic by Shaun Bloodworth
