These cats @13thwitness and @NigelSylvester are each beasts in their own right.
Mad Transit Audacity Starring @NigelSylvester coming very soon…
#MadTransitAudacity
Whoopi Goldberg by Annie Leibovitz
When I was ten years old, my mom took me to Berkley, Ca to visit our family friends Howie and Jeremy. Howie and Jeremy were married. Howie was a porn star. Jeremy was a sex therapist. I’m 100% serious, and this whole thing is true. There are so many stories I could tell about this trip, but here’s one:
Whoopi Goldberg was/is a GOOD FRIEND of my family’s friend Howie. I actually saw him interviewed in Whoopi’s Biography on A&E, and was floored. When we went to visit Howie, he took us over to Whoopi’s house. Now, she wasn’t there at the time. This was literally the year “The Color Purple” came out. She was probably shooting it, or doing press for it at the time. Anyway, we went over to Whoopi’s house, and I met her daughter. Her daughter had blue hair. First black person I ever saw with blue hair. Again, I was ten. I always remembered this, as I saw Whoopi’s star rise.
Some great pictures of the NEW YORK TYPES/NEW YORK WRITES ITSELF show I DJ’d for Leo Burnett last week. Interesting fact: The dude in the PURPLE SUIT with the BOW-TIE and HANDLE-BAR MUSTACHE is MY POPS.
New York Writes Itself is a cool project where people of the City Of New York write what they see in NYC on the NYWI website. This “script” then gets turned into art by professional artists. This was their first show. It was a letterpress art show held last Thursday at The Art Directors Club in Manhattan.
New York Types opening night
Last Thursday was opening night for the ʻNew York Typesʼ exhibit at the Art Directors Club in New York, presented by New York Writes Itself and The Village Voice. Inspired by the ʻScriptʼ at http://www.newyorkwritesitself.com, the exhibition brings to life real words heard on the streets of New York City.
We had an awesome time, and hopefully you did too. As you can see, we had a great turnout. Actually, it was the greatest turnout being that we broke the 2011 attendance records at the ADC Gallery. (How’s that for ending the year on a good note?)
Over 650 people (including those who acted as scribes and submitted the words they heard to the website) descended on the Art Directors Club for opening night where great art, live music and booze was enjoyed by all.
Huge thanks to all the artists from Swayspace, Center for Book Arts, Peter Kruty Editions, Tarhorse Press, and The KDU. The show would have been pretty boring without you.
If you missed out donʼt worry, the exhibition is open until January 5th, so be sure and stop by the Art Directors Club at 106 West 29th Street and see what everyone is still talking about.
The innovative and extremely limited edition artwork is still for sale ranging from $200 – $250. Contact Regan here to purchase.
We couldn’t have put it all together without the help of many hands. All those hands come from people that work at a variety of brands/organizations. Thank you to everyone who helped out from Village Voice, Brooklyn Brewery, Leo Burnett NY,Dewar’s, French Paper, DJ Synapse, Tonovision Photography, Bill Thomas and The Art Directors Club.
This event was inspired by New Yorkers, and brought to life by New Yorkers. Every piece of art in the show was inspired by a person, scene, or quote witnessed in NYC. Thank you to the scribes for contributing stories. Thank you to the people of New York who unknowingly catalyzed an amazing letterpress show.
A lot of work went into making this event as great as it was. Thanks for being a part of it and we’ll see you at the next New York Writes Itself event.
Get involved as a Scribe at http://www.newyorkwritesitself.com, and your everyday experiences of New York just might become part of the next New York Writes Itself experience, which could take the form of music, writing, photography, a short film or more.
Keep sharing your stories.
Even more photos up on our Flickr and Facebook pages.
LIKE us on Facebook and have a chance to win a print from the show.
- The NYWI Team
Photographer Ernie Paniccioli is one of the most intriguing figures in the cosmos to me. His words just flow in a way most’s do not. If you don’t know who this man is, this video will send you packing for culture-school. This dude says BOB DYLAN gave him the name to his book from the 60s (at the end).
Print carries on with The B&A Journal Via @EricHaze
B&A Journal Vol. 1
Hot off a NYC press the first B&A Journal ships today. The newspaper style journal presents iconic images from our artists and photographers. B&A teamed up with the Brooklyn Brothers on the project. Stephen Rutterford, Creative Director at Brooklyn Brothers comments, “As an Art Director I think it will be refreshing to receive something tactile and non digital for a change.”
I love strong, opinionated women.
(Source: nowherenorth, via incoastalstates)
West kizzy-ozi-oast. A history in pictures.
More info at Over The Edge Books
Camera Re-Construction…
These aren’t X-rays.
Max de Esteban took these cameras (and other gadgets) apart and photographed each layer. He then put them back together to create one image!
Gadgets Photographed Piece by Piece & Reconstructed
via Kateoplis
Deborah Hairey the pooch. - Summer 2011
Estevan and Eriberto Oriol Exhibit “LIKE FATHER LIKE SON” At the Carmichael Gallery, LA
Read back a bunch of posts to get the info on the show…
Photographer Estevan Oriol (Soul Assassins) and his father Eriberto have a joint show coming up together in Los Angeles. If you are in the area, I would highly suggest attending.
Like Father, Like Son Eriberto and Estevan Oriol Opening Reception : Saturday, October 1, 2011, 6:00 - 9pm You must RSVP to rsvp at carmichaelgallery dot com Carmichael Gallery 5795 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232 USA Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Like Father, Like Son, a retrospective survey of works by renowned Chicano, Los Angeles-based father and son photographers, Eriberto and Estevan Oriol. The exhibition will comprise twenty-five limited edition prints from each photographer, including black and white, color, silver gelatin and digital c-prints.
Whilst often distinguished by a complex melange of memory, emotion and intimacy that can manifest itself in equally terrifying and wonderful forms, the relationship between a parent and his or her child is a particularly unique human exchange and can hardly be defined in generalized terms. For Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, who are often cited as two of the most important contemporary documentarians of urban, hip hop, lowrider and Latino culture, the deep familial tie they share extends into and only serves to empower the unique nature of their professional relationship and the intense puissance of their work. Whether viewed together or apart, the Oriols’ photography presents the multitudinous contours of Los Angeles and urban life through a piercing, visionary lens that lends a fascinating, almost hyperreal layer to the earthy, often confrontational authenticity of their subject matter.
More via Carmichael Gallery
