Nice little project by Theron Humphrey. And what a great protagonist to shoot portraits with — Maddie the Coonhound. (Found here)
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Monthly Archive for February, 2012
Our friends at Grey have released issue #07 of their superb little skateboard magazine, keeping their visual language straight and upfront. Here are a few pics including some pages of the special Polar Skateboards feature. Really dig the portrait photos accompanying the interviews and features, with that kind of exaggeratedly high contrast, most of them shot by Lex Kembery. Watch all pages over at Grey.
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Once stumbled upon the amazing photographs of Gerco De Ruijter from a series called Baumschule, aerial photos from a tree farm. Although following a tight grid and pattern due to a well organized and defined cultural lanscape, these photos were also utterly distracting. Explore his recent series called Almost Nature.
“A series made at a conifers nursery in Boskoop, the Netherlands. All these little plants are clones, each color descends from the same source. They resemble the photographic pixel.”
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Just found this pic of a really nice skull, who has been made alive with some color. It’s an older piece by Clark Goolsby, another great artist that we will feature in our upcoming issue. Happy Friday everyone!
“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
—Henry Miller
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Another note about our favourite artist Jay Howell here. Two reasons: he has a show coming up 18 Feb at the Fecal Face Dot Gallery, Midnight on the Sun. But again, San Francisco is not Berlin, so it will be hard for us to drop by spontaneously, watch some art and drink a few cold beverages with Jay and fellow artist Mark Whalen (who you probably know as Kill Pixie). Both show new pieces, Jay has 50 works on book pages plus a release of his newest zine called The Dark Wave published by Unpiano Books & Mt.St.Mtn.
The other reason is that Jay Howell will be featured with an interview in our next issue. Well, when the universe spends us some extra time, we finally could finish the work on #02… But we’re about to hire some befriended squirrels to help nibbling away the stuff.
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Last Friday was J Dilla day: Jay Dee aka J Dilla aka James Yancey, who passed away on the morning of February 10th, 2006 at the age of 32, had suffered from an incurable blood disease and was diagnosed with lupus. He left behind an incredible body of work, an amazing artist whose music you can rediscover at any time, in all these years to come. Stones Throw reissued his little known LP “Ruff Draft” in 2007 for the first time. The original has been released on vinyl only in 2003, and now, there is another reissue, the “Ruff Draft” instrumentals. We love it!
Erosie — the dutch artist, who has its roots in Graffiti, does all the artwork for Martyn’s 3024 label. Here is a selection of recent 12″ sleeve designs with wild patterns and lots of colors. It has a recognizable signature style of Erosie’s art and also as 3024 releases. His large scale mural he painted on a huge wall in Poland also graced the recent cover of Martyn’s LP Ghost People for Brainfeeder.
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Matthew Dent is a great illustrator from London, he is also a forward player of the SoHo Warriors Football Club, a football team of talented creative Londoners that he founded. He contributes to the upcoming issue of JB. with an exclusive and special piece, a double page illustration titled “In The Search Of Now”. And I can already tell that this is totally amazing! Watch out for this, and be sure to check out his sweet portfolio in the meantime with a bunch of cheered up illustrations for a range of clients like Anorak Magazine, Nike, Human Empire…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GERHARD RICHTER!
My great friend DENA is making some tight beats and is about to release her first 7″ soon. Last Monday she aired her tune “Games” with an impressive cool video. I remember playing a gig with her in 2010, she recently opened up for bands like Kakkmaddafakka or Das Racist and soon plays at YoYo @ Notting Hill Arts Club in London. If she continues like this, Dena will enter a new rocket and travel through space.
Her single “Games” will be released on Aerobic International.
Here is a preview of the second episode of the amazing Acid Drops stop motion animations by Matt Box. “Psychedelic hand painted studies designed
to capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders.” First episode featured Jason Dill, no. 2 is with Dylan Rieder. Epic!
