50 Shades of J’s from Greg B on Vimeo.

Do you like dope art by awesome people? Are you a sneaker freak? Do you wanna show up and chill with a bunch of down motherfuckers and hob-knob with the cool-kid illuminati?

Yeah? You sure? Because the work of Greg Bemis attracts all of that and more. So hit up up Rime this upcoming Saturday, June 1st, and get on that mingle status with a bunch of like-minded individuals.

RSVP at  ACRNYMSEVENTS@gmail.com

One of the only good things about breaking a limb, is getting your friends to sign your cast. The unimaginative amongst your crew will simply write their name, or “get well soon”. If you hang out with degenerates and/or creative types, you’ll inevitably get some wild art on your cast; like a dick spaceship crashing int a planet that’s a vagina.

If you live in Los Angeles, now you have the opportunity to replicate that experience, and you won’t even need a broken arm. Next Friday, June 1st, L’amour Supreme will be at Mishka LA, customizing shirts on some middle of the mall shit. L’amour will have a couple of designs that you can mix and match, along with a full compliment of wild ass, day glow colors. If you wanna get wild you can bring a picture of some dude you hate from your job, and L’amour will make a customized R.I.P shirt with a caricature of your frienemy’s face. Wear that joint to work, let lil homey know he’s about to get dumped on. Maybe then, he’ll stop eating your lunch out the goddamn fridge.

Friday, June 1st, 12- 5PM
Mishka Los Angeles
128 S. La Brea
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Screaming skulls stretched to distortion and beyond recognition are the friends Craig Wheat surrounds himself with — they are the feverishly frenetic visions that kick around in Wheat’s head. On Friday, May 31^st МИШКА will be hosting an event at our flagship store at 350 Broadway. The event will celebrate the art of Craig Wheat, and debut an exclusive shirt made by the artist for МИШКА.

Wheat’s work is a response to the sensory onslaught we deal with every day. There is a sly deceptive humor that runs through his work. His characters are always twisted and foul versions of reality. And sometimes they are just reality: one piece is a tight shot of a wolf — his snout soaked in blood — biting into the neck of his prey. Over the picture text reads: Nature is brutal. Nature is indeed brutal, and so is the work of Craig Wheat. The scope of Wheat’s sting is perhaps best exemplified by his “Crust Fund Kids” project. It is a collection of ink on paper illustrations that seamlessly melds the sensibilities of crust punk and trust fund kids — while wholeheartedly sending up both. Wheat is a multidisciplinary artist based out of Portland, Oregon. Wheat received his BFA in Painting from Montana State University, and his MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Wheat lists, “fashion culture, comics, cats, skateboarding and the visualization of music culture” as the integral tenants of his aesthetic.

On Friday, May 31^st МИШКА will open the doors to its flagship Brooklyn store, at 350 Broadway, to host an event showcasing the work of Craig Wheat. The event will also mark the in-store and online release of an exclusive shirt Wheat made for МИШКА. The event begins at 7 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m.

Friday May 31st, 7pm-10pm
Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725

J/M/Z to Marcy Ave
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

Nvr Mnd’ s Trey La Trash presents Dizzyland at Spectrum (Brooklyn) tonight, Saturday May 18. The event headlines one of the New York’s finest underground electronic producers, Slava.

Alongside Slava is a whole host of amazing performance pieces and music shows including burlesquie hip hop popstar Rica Shay, arty allrounder and performer Ms. Fitz and Post Religion hip hop artist from Miami, Robbie Lee - who released his latest video just the other day from the In The Moment EP on Post Religion.

Dizzyland is going to be one hell of a party.

Tomorrow come down to AM Studio to see an exhibition of Chocomoo collaborative works. There’ll be limited edition accessories designed by Chocomoo and a shirt with Blake & Co.

It’s a one day only event, so don’t fuck around and pull the usual act of planning on coming, then falling asleep on your couch the night of the event. There’ll be solid artwork, great people free booze and tunes provided by DJ AKI. Consider this the first step in broadening your horizons beyond your favorite dive bar.

Thursday, May 16th, 7PM – 10PM
AM Studio
409B W. 39th St.
New York, NY 10018

Hysterical Literature pits women having orgasms against classic literature, in a battle that’s abstractly representative of the war for attention inside every man alive. In the new series by photographer Clayton Cubitt, a woman sits down in a jet black enviornment and begins to read a passage from her favorite book while an assistant brings her to orgasm with a Hitachi vibrator. They say modern art is ideas you could’ve executed, but didn’t. This is great modern art.

Watch as the ladies read selections from American Psycho, A Clockwork Orange, Leaves of Grass and other classics; in a demonstration of amazing concentration and the power of vibrators. Surprisingly, the whole thing is safe for work, visually. Be warned that viewing these may add, unintended erotic overtures to Walt Whitman, which may be a first. Maybe if they had this as an option for books on tape I’d finally finish listening to Moby Dick.

In the land of Kickstarter any half baked idea is worthy of exploration, so here’s people begging for money to fund American Psycho: The Musical, an adaption of Bret Easton Ellis‘ novel about a detail obsessed sociopath in the 1980s. Beyond the obvious fun you could have with an American Psycho musical—there has to be an epic dance number set to Phil Collins and/or Whitney Houston—this play will be very relevant to streetwear heads. Obviously the film version is a cult classic that’s very important to the development of self for modern, American men. Or, maybe that’s just me. In any event, the lead character Patrick Bateman is wild obsessed with menswear, fucks with overly expensive dinners, loves p-no, enjoys modern furniture, and fantasizes about killing most of the people he meets. If Tumblr existed in 85, you’d subscribe to it.

If you’ve ever wanted to go on a nice, classy date to the theatre, but you can never find anything you’re interested in seeing—you need to support this Kickstarter right now. Help make the dream of a half naked dude, covered in blood, running around with a chainsaw, singing songs, a reality. Granted, that might not be your dream (if it is, get help bro), but it’s a dream we’d all like to see, for spectacle alone. They’ve got American Psycho coming to theatres and the fucking Lion King already there. what else do you want? Power Rangers: The Musical?

Cosmotropia de Xam’s EKSTASIA – Discoteca Droga [Trailer, 2013] from Mater Suspiria Vision on Vimeo.

Vocalist and producer, Carmen Incarnadine, was recently featured in Rolling Stone for her contributions to net culture and South African contemporary music. Not bad you’d say, for an artist whose debut album, Siamese Inside (Black Bvs Records) is still up for pre-order.

This pretty kitty has global collaborators as numerous, as Gaea has demi-god spawn. Her Coco Carbomb persona is brash, feminine, sexy, strong and graceful with base notes of alt class. In my opinion, she is one of the few women out there who is actually getting sexual expression 2013 right. Her aesthetic leads with a clear message: I know exactly what I do. Do you get it? 

Too many girls out there are going a bit reverse-Rupaul on us just to find a voice -and no one deserves it. Not them, not us. Carmen stays accountable to herself. As her presence powers through neo sociology en masse, it shows. She has more to say with one image, one poem than a lot of artists can say with their whole catalogue.

Her main partner in crime is Nikhil Singh (Witchboy) who produces a great deal of Carbomb’s work and starred in the Rolling Stone article. The two of them are known to go hand in hand. Carmen is also a long time collaborator with who many would consider thee most prolific project of witch-net culture; Mater Suspiria Vision.

Filmmaker, MSV visionaire and founder of label Phantasma Disques: Cosmotropia de Xam has just completed a future-cult film with Carbomb as his leading femme fatale - Ekstasia Discoteca Droga.

I was thrilled to bits to get a sneak peak the film trailer and now present this Mishka premiere of it. It’s a cut above anything I have seen around netsphere this whole year… and confirms once more what I have always thought; MSV, CDX and Carbomb are the perfect avant garde team.

This film is on a strict limited run. The classic design boxset (white) is 25 copies only, which is almost criminal. The neon-noir style boxset (black) is limited to a generous 50 (If you are fast enough). Trust me, you don’t want to end up paying double on ebay for it in 10 months time. I did that a couple of years ago with the first Crack Witch. Regrets.

The Phantasma Disques system of output is increasingly cerebral with every release. You have to determine the relative collectability of the items and match the concepts with your personal passions or usage. This label is not for the kiddy pool. It has a certain alternate angle that you could only find with refined and bizaare German engineering.

Here’s how Ekstasia Discoteca Droga gets broken down… 6th May: pre-order for the movie DVD boxsets both white (25) and black (50). They each come with a CDR of rare material not found on the LP.

13th May: pre-order the LP picture disc vinyl (see image) with cassette tri-phonic (a 3D-ish soundsystem by CDX) boxset that works with the endless groove tone of the vinyl. It also comes with a pretty old timey device repackaged into MSV awesomeness, something called a phenakistoscope (well, the disc of it anyway). We all actually know exactly what they are. The name of it is just looks long and scary. Check the hyperlink. To view in full effect you need to use a 25 fps camera or phenakistoscope slides. Meh, don’t cry. It is way easier than you would suspect – and so much fun!

Boil your whole life down to one walking trip through the mall, and it would look something like this short film, except this short doesn’t have a part where you go to Foot Locker and examine Jordans you’re not gonna buy for 45 minutes. The Circle Line is a short by Adam Wells which abstracts the human experience into a quick shopping trip in a future mall. The protagonist stops at the first impressions store, enters the rat race, hollers at a chick, and makes some art. This struggle, we all know.

The animation is shot in black and white, because it looks more official and artsy, but also because it adds a ‘lil bit of a depressive flair to a film that talks about the commodification and linearity of our lives. Appropriate, indeed. Take two minutes out of your day to check this out, then go back to listening drug fairy tale rap or trying to get that broad on Instagram with the sideboob to come to your band’s show.

This weekend I eavesdropped on the girl next to me at a cafe telling her friend about her film premiering at all these different festivals. I have no knowledge of film (moving pictures, so I hear), but films, specifically short ones, are great topics of conversation amongst pretentious, bougie people. However, I will cede that when done well, they can be pretty fucking cool.

North Bay is one such project, a psuedo sci-fi short about Sachin Fayez, a scientist obsessed with the prospect of discovering frequencies that exist outside our dimension entirely. It’s a cool concept that straddles the line between campiness and genuine evocative cinema, not always perfectly. We get the standard tropes – a scientist that believes wholeheartedly in his theory, to the point that his reputation has been ruined, he’s lost his tenure, and now spends his days roaming the North Bay hills. He sends his recordings out into the ether, hoping they will somehow resonate with his chasm strait particles. Fayez (played by Jamie Harris) has been at his project for 17 years, but that’s when a rogue camper provides the proof he’s been waiting for. Suddenly, Fayez is forced to deal with the prospect that his life’s work may not be in vain.

North Bay’s plot is intriguing and provocative, but its real strength comes in its cinematography. Long, beautiful static shots of mountainous hiking trails illustrate the loneliness of Fayez’s devotion, as well as just being naturalistically beautiful in their own right. The film also plays with some ideas of new media, including clips of Fayez watching youtube videos, watching analog tapes, and their interaction is central to the film. Regardless of the occasionally weak dialogue, it’s hard not to feel gratified at the film’s climax, just as Fayez does. And peep those Mishka leggings on actress Corsica Wilson!

‘North Bay’ will premier at the London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, running from April 30 to May 6.