I have some great shoots coming up in the next month.  This Sunday I’m shooting with Marlo Marquise and her very sexy friend Crash.  I shot Marlo once before, pictured above, but never had a chance to shoot with Crash. Its going to be fun!

Check my Twitter for twitpic behind-the-scenes action while I’m shooting these lovelies. And as always check after the break for the NSFW version of the above picture.

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I saw this over on Skate and Annoy and as an obsessive collector I just had to share it on here. Looks like Shiner Distribution, one of the oldest skateboarding distributors in the UK is opening up their vaults.

It has been rumored that Shiner has saved one of each and every board that they distributed over the years. Being in business for as long they have I’m sure you can only imagine the wealth of classic decks they’ve had go through their hands.  And as a teaser, this preview trailer gives a pretty impressive idea of what they had/still have in their coffers.

Bear witness: an irony-portal so dense, so graphic, and so utterly and completely obvious that you as a viewer are powerless to look away. It’s so good, so true, and so clever that you may not even think it’s very cool. So I’ll explain: The Bloglin reader can be counted on to very likely hold these two things dearly—very dearly—to their bosom, and here they are. Together at last.

Oh. Wait. You’re seeing this in your feed reader and don’t quite know whether it’s worth the click or not? Well, let me spell it out:

Beastie Boys. Sabotage. Music Videos. THE Early 90s music video. Remixed and re-imagined by way of Battlestar Galactica. Click away.

This Kotaku writeup rightly marvels at just how spot-on this video is…it’s uncanny. They even provide a link for using some sort of experimental youtube dualscreen site (which my computer HATES, btw. My ears are not happy either) which will SHOW you how spot-on they are. I, on the other hand, am choosing to be most impressed by just how deep this rabbit-hole goes. To wit:

The Beastie Boys start their career in 1979 as a punk group. They hit big in the 80s with frat-rap, and it’s not until 1993’s ‘Sabotage’ that most of their adoring fans realize that the Beasties can play ‘rock’ music as well. The X-Factor of ‘Sabotage’ had more than a little bit to do with it’s epic video that portrayed the band members as undercover detectives in the ‘Starsky and Hutch’ and ‘Streets of San Francisco’ vein. It was a perfect 4-minute parody of an entire decade’s worth of TV crime dramas.

Battlestar Galactica debuts on Television in 1978 and is to space drama what Starsky and Hutch is to crime drama. It is terrible, and dies a very quick and very painful death by 1979 and by then, Star Wars has officially happenned. In 2004, some dudes who worked on The Next Generation picked up the license and re-imagined the BSG lore as super dark, super violent, and super controversial…only after this was anybody alerted to it’s inherent coolness.

So obviously, someone would take the two and mix them. The result is like tie-dyeing a tie-dyed hypercolor shirt. It is a mix of mixes that have been mixed from mixes. And it is awesome. And it is—in my humble opinion—what places like the Bloglin are all about.

Where to start? Why to care? Our homies over at Creative Control put this video up a couple weeks ago. I’ve been listening to the song on repeat for hours at a time. The video is cool, basically what has come to be expected with the proliferation of HD. Straightforward, no high concepts, just dude rapping. It’s interesting to see how HD’s ability to captivate us with stunning resolution lets us stop fussing with the theatrics. One of the trends in both media, and technology seems to be the apotheosis of the quotidian–I’m into that. Fader had mentioned that Big K.R.I.T. is looming in the shadow of TI. This is the first Big K.R.I.T. song that I’ve heard, but I find him much more compelling than TIP #NoShade.

I’ve also been listening to the new Laws mixtape 4:57 (download here). Being that Laws is a fellow Floridian I was very excited when I found out about him. He had another mixtape over the Summer–or maybe in the Fall–titled Your Future Favorite Rapper. I’ve been keeping up with him and I’m eager to see where he’ll go. He started out, like a lot of the other Florida dudes that I know, battling. To me, that says a lot about a rapper’s potential, and it’s dude’s potential that I’m most excited for. There are definitely some bangers on both of these records, and I’m diggin where dude is going, but you can tell that he has tons of skill that he’s still holding back. I think we’ll see some good stuff from him this year.

I went to Fader’s Yelawolf show on Monday. I’ve been keeping up with this dude since early in the Fall. He’s definitely been making moves, and coming up. He put out a mixtape with @DJBurnOne (same dude that did Pill’s 4180) a few months ago. I’m not gonna lie, at first I was bummed on dude’s mixtape. I felt like it was lacking in content, but after a few listens I definitely began to feel differently. This guy is serious with the craft. He’s cold lampin on the kind of cadences that most emcees wish for. There is a great deal of finesse, and understated effort to what he does. And, that finesse really came through at the show on Monday. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was hoping that his live performance would reflect the studio recordings. It did, the guy did not miss a beat, and the delivery was top notch. I could definitely become a fan of this dude if he continues in the same fashion.

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Alexander Binder is a German photographer I discovered a year or so ago when he emailed our info line. I instantly fell in love with his work and had him contribute some photos for upcoming Мишка designs. His work is absolutely haunting and runs the gamut of creepy by echoing 70s occultism through to 90s nordic Black Metal.

Revel in New York conducted an interview with Alexander earlier this year that covered everything from his technical method, inspiration and influences all the way to his video projects. It’s a great read with a great talent that you should all get on to your personal radars.

I met Buck Angel for the first time a couple weeks ago at the Box here in New York City. For those of you who aren’t familiar with him, Buck is a porn star, educator and a transman. I had heard about him about a year ago and was very fascinated by him. While a he has a vagina, Buck is pretty manly, a tough guy even. Just following him on twitter and you’ll see what I mean, he talks a lot about working out and posts pictures of himself pumping iron.

I was recently telling my friend Lux over at Fleshbot, even though I have been photographing only women in the adult industry recently, I have always wanted to shoot Buck…But I wasn’t sure how my members on StaggStreet (who only like to look at women) would take it.

She had just came off a Yale University panel on Porn with Buck (along with Sasha Grey and Joanna Angel) and suggested doing a shoot as an exclusive for Fleshbot which I of course jumped at the oppprtunity! Click that link to see the pictorial, but I warn you it’s NSFW.

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So here I am…a month late and all the happier for it. While the bossmen are in beautiful Tokyo, I figured I’d continue my tribute to that happy land and drop a few fotoz on you inre: Tokyo’s burgeoning street art scene.

One thing that I can say about Tokyo in general—at least the parts that I’ve been to—is that the street art/graffiti is predominantly paste-up- or sticker-based. Not a lot of huge murals. Not a lot of super flagrant pieces. LOTS and lots of lurking in corners, fucking up stuff that was an eyesore to begin with, and blending right in with actual ads. (This phenomenon is so prevalent—again, based on what I’ve seen—that one gets the distinct impression that any ‘real’ mural or paintjob is either commissioned or at least done with permission. Go figure.)

In other words, it’s super disposable, super-distressed, and—in this reporter’s opinion—super-interesting. So yeah, that’s where I’m coming from: stickers. A little bit of paint. And a whole lot of awesome.

I’ve listed a few of my favorites below (is it still cool to say after the jump?), but you can also check out the whole set at My Friendly Neighborhood Flickr Stream. If—too—you’re into this sort of thing, you should check out a few awesome Flickr groups dedicated to Japanese Street Art. Woot.

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So for those of you clever enough to check Lamour Supreme’s flickr stream, this image won’t be all that new… but then again how many of you are obsessive Kaiju junkies (excluding Hateball)?  For those of you who have visited (or have seen photos) of our Brooklyn shop, you’ll no doubt be familiar with the giant Cyco Simon head that lives in-store.

Well, Tokyo is getting a gigantic Soviet Super Soldier Bear head as a compliment to the Simon in NYC. Like Simon, this head is sculpted by Lamour Supreme, who has truly outdone himself with this sculpt. No picture even comes close to capturing how crazy and gigantic this head is…nor reveals all the little easter eggs Lamour has hidden throughout the sculpt. These photos were taken when the head visited our Brooklyn shop before being shipped out to Tokyo.

Speaking of Tokyo, here is Lamour Supreme inside Мишка Tokyo, working hard on a mural for the shop. This Swami Simon mural is a reverse take of the Swami Devil Head mural that we have inside 350 Broadway. So If you’re in Tokyo on March 6th, please come by the shop and check out both Lamour’s giant Soviet Super Soldier head and this mural… plus meet the man, the legend, the toy ruiner in person! Maybe if you’re lucky, he’ll even ruin customize some vinyl for you on the spot. Then you can take it to Mandarake and flip it for some bank!

Have you heard of Pornsaints?  It is this great blog/site that brings erotic artists together with porn stars. The porn stars are then turned into saints (with their permission) by the artists.  Its is great site if you like hot naked ladies and fine art. Check out Founder D’Isa’s own words on the concept behind Pornsaints:

The definition of a Pornsaint is inspired by many religious concepts and beliefs. It’s closer to Mystic and Oriental definitions (Taoism most of all) more than Christian. If God is the most unreachable concept, the saint, being closer to God, renounces human features and identity. A cool separation from the world, like an extreme behavior, is one way to overstep humanity. “…the pornsaint dwells in the house of the saints, but got there traveling a different way, and came in knocking at another door.

Pornsaints is having a group show in Austin, TX on March 28th.  I wish I could make it, but can not. For those of you who live near Austin I strongly suggest you go and report back to me how cool it was.

The show will include paintings, drawings, mixed-media photography and film works by Naomi Arton, B-9, Francesco D’ Isa, Jeff Faerber, Katelan Foisy, Michael Forbes, Aunia Kahn, Zoe Lacchei, Steven Leyba, Danny Malbeouf, Robert Morris, Van Rijn, Natalie Shau, Ellen Stagg, Pamela Tait, Andrew Tong, Nathalie Winans and Kris Wlodarski.

The above image is my submission to the show and it is of Zoli, Ms. January in the Мишка 2010 calendar. Check after the break to learn more about Pornsaints and exactly what they do!

Pornsaint Exhibition #4
March 28th- April 17th
BirdHouse Gallery
1304 E. Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX

Hopefully you all remember when we released the Nag Nag Nag Violent Caveman (Мишка Varient), and were lucky enough to get your hands on one! Well we’re back at it again, but this Violent Caveman is based on the Barom-1 Villain Frankenruge.

The header was a collaboration between myself, Lamour Supreme, and Nag Nag Nag! The NNN came up with the concept, I did the sketch and Lamour did the inking and coloring. I really think the header card came out awesome!

Click the image to enlarge it.

Unfortunately this is a Japan only release with only 10 of these being produced. So the odds of you adding this to your collection are kinda slim to none. Sorry!