There are some amazing new beauties up on StaggStreet right now that you will not want to miss. Check out the above shot of Charlotte Stokely and Reena Sky touching each other all over. If that isn’t beautiful enough then I don’t know what is.
Not to be outdone, we have the below images of the first shots of Aurora Snow spending time in the buff outside, Jessie Lee and Jasper in bed together and last but not least Marlo Marquise in this amazing metal bed. Check them all out. You’re welcome.
Get ready to behold the work of a man who’s been called an evil genius, an exceedingly pleasant genius, a half-shell hero, a tumblr maestro, and an internet warrior. Мишка Art Director Mike Jones‘ debut solo show, No Time For Love is opening tonight at our 350 Broadway Store!
Though Dr. Jones may have no time for love, he’s found it in his gif of a beating heart to put together for you all a singularly skewed vision of the iconography of popular culture. Spanning 25 years of inspiration, Jones has created a fully flipped tour through his life and times as a consumer and creator of art, advertising, music, movies, and more. No Time For Love features drawn work, graphical pieces, and even a toy collaboration with David Healey that is sure to raise some SHELL, if you know what I mean. All of the work has been monochromatically optimized to be collected in a limited edition Zine that will be readily available for a low, low price throughout the event, so everyone can take a piece of No Time For Love home.
Though the show will be occupying the store for six weeks, there’s only one opening night, so you better come down later to party with us and, of course, Mike Jones himself as we celebrate the sure-to-be smash success of No Time For Love.
Friday January 13th, 7-10pm Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
Are you ready to pull back the curtain and take a peek into the mind of the creative force behind many of your favorite Мишка designs? Are you ready to behold the work of a man who’s been called an evil genius, an exceedingly pleasant genius, a half-shell hero, a tumblr maestro, and an internet warrior? Then get yourself down to the 350 Broadway store this Friday for the opening of Мишка Art Director Mike Jones‘ debut solo show, No Time For Love.
Though Dr. Jones may have no time for love, he’s found it in his gif of a beating heart to put together for you all a singularly skewed vision of the iconography of popular culture. Spanning 25 years of inspiration, Jones has created a fully flipped tour through his life and times as a consumer and creator of art, advertising, music, movies, and more. No Time For Love features drawn work, graphical pieces, and even a toy collaboration with David Healey that is sure to raise some SHELL, if you know what I mean. All of the work has been monochromatically optimized to be collected in a limited edition Zine that will be readily available for a low, low price throughout the event, so everyone can take a piece of No Time For Love home.
Though the show will be occupying the store for six weeks, there’s only one opening night, so you better come down this Friday to party with us and, of course, Mike Jones himself as we celebrate the sure-to-be smash success of No Time For Love.
Friday January 13th, 7-10pm Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
718-388-1725
Hey hey NYC, looking for some cultured-up activity to get down with this weekend? You better be! Always be expanding your mind on some artistic stee. One of our illustrators, Pierre Botardo, is part of a 3 man art show entitled Next To The Sea, and it opens this Sunday at the Munch Gallery in the LES.
Each of the artists focused their work on aquatic themes, stating “from voyage and craving for adventure to nostalgia and a sense of belonging, the sea is intriguing and reminds us of how close we are to the next adventure and how far we have traveled from where we began.” Heady! I know Pierre is capable of some really stupendous collage work (you can see one of his pieces above) and I’m sure this show will be awesome. Check it out!
Sunday, January 8th, 5-8PM Munch Gallery
254 Broome Street
New York, NY
Hey look! Sports stuff! Though this may come from Chicago Blackhawks fan Frank Saracco, I think all us New Yorkers can appreciate it’s disdain (loving disdain, Philly fans. Relax) for the Flyers, especially after our epic victory at the Winter Classic. Better luck next time Briére, the 5 hole works a little better when the goalie stick isn’t fully covering it! Anyway, check out this mural that this dude made for his daughter. Bawww!
It’s all of the Blackhawks drawn as her favorite heroes like Batman, Thor, Lion-O, Shrek, and the dragon from How To Train Your Dragon (?). This girl is all over the place. The Flyers have been cast as Darth Vader, Wile E. Coyote (is he really evil per se? I guess so…), Maleficent, Skeletor, and Coach Laviolette is Stewie Griffin for maximum lolz. This is fun. I like this.
I haven’t shared with you guys in a while some of the recent naked ladies that have full new sets up on StaggStreet. Here are teaser images from those sets you should check out.
Above is Heather Vandeven in her sexy bikini and Moroccan style bed and also Rogizoid on a red floral arm chair.
Friend, coworker, and street artist Royce Bannon is curating a group show at the Woodward Gallery consisting of work by artists he’s handpicked as some of the best to come out of the graffiti and street art scene. People like Nose Go, Cope2, Kosbe, Matt Siren and more.
Rather Unique captures the most eye-catching and memorable street art around, Royce’s work included. No doubt you’re very familiar with his work even if you don’t know it. If you feel like putting names to tags, or just wanna see some dope art, then come check out the show starting January 7th.
Jan. 7th – Feb. 19th, 2012 Woodward Gallery
133 Eldridge St.
New York, NY
Hello internet friends, and Merry Christmas to all of you! Just knowing you’re out there is a gift enough for me ^__^. Hope you’re having a great time wherever you are! Anyhoo, as usual we have our jet black christmas tree up in the 350 Broadway store.
This year, we enlisted some of our favorite artists to paint a bunch of wonderful and festive Christmas ornaments to decorate that bad boy. Kinda puts other trees to shame don’t it? Check out the lot of them after the jump!
In 2011 we were lucky to bring Travis Egedy, who you probably know better as Pictureplane, on as a Bloglin contributor. In between work on his amazing album Thee Physical, Pictureplane wrote about all sorts of interesting things for us, whether it be his best-of for Psychic TV or his updates on the burgeoning #Seapunk movement.
For the end of the year, Travis has put together a list of ten things from all different spheres, whether it be music, art politics, or even geographical, that he considers to be the biggest cultural touchstones of 2011. Enjoy!
~Whole Milk
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10. Rebecca Black’s “Friday”
We all remember where we were when we saw it first: the hilariously dumb lyrics, the awkward singing, the cheesy effects, the non sensical and pointless rap verse; This was THE video of the year. It was also the public’s introduction into the weird weird world of Arc Music Factory. the un-ironic or self aware tween music company that was a never ending rabbit whole of WTF’s.
But it was “Friday” that stole the show, and with good reason. It was such an abomination on all fronts that it was somehow really endearing, and will go down in history as a classic of internet meme culture. Here’s to Rebecca Black and the Arc Music Factory, for making the world laugh, and drop their collective jaws in 2011. <3
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9. Ryan Tracartin’s “Any Ever” at MoMA PS1
I have written about my love and appreciation for Ryan’s work here numerous times. A futurist, he is truly becoming the voice of a disembodied generation. A generation that occupies a multidimensional digital landscape that is truly scitzophrenic, psychedelic, and hyperreal. Ryan Trecartin‘s work is a reflection of our post-post modern age in a way that feels very important and highly relevant in a way that most artists work is not. “Any Ever” was his big museum show this year (rare for any artist his age) and i flew out to New York just to see it.
I was able to meet him, and even ended up in a strip club with him later that night (right after I was almost arrested with my friends Ryder Ripps, and Cody Critcheloe from SSION, but thats another story). So, back to the art, consisting of 7 different videos in different rooms that were fully immersive environments, the show was fantastic and hugely inspiring. it is hard to think of any other artist really speaking as poetically about my generation like Trecartin. a true genius. i look forward to following his work for years to come.
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8. AraabMuzik Live at Ghe20 Gh0th1k
AraabMuzik had quite the year, mainly by blowing a lot of peoples minds with the great Electronic Dream. But I was lucky enough to catch a live set by the producer in a small basement rave in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The party was one of the notorious and famed raves put on by the often imitated, but never duplicated Ghe20 G0th1k crew, and that night, AraabMuzik was a secret guest.
Teeing talent like AraabMuzik in a DIY punk style setting like that was nothing short of legendary, and his set melted the room. He just stands at his MPC, and beats at it like some sort of cyborg, seemingly un-human. It was a real game changing moment, for all of music. I feel like no one could believe what they were seeing, or hearing. That night AraabMuzik tore a hole in the fabric of reality, no joke.
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7. Teotihuacan
In April of this year, I was fortunate enough to travel down to Mexico City to do a performance with the dark lord Ritualz. The whole trip was incredible and I was also able to go to Monterrey and DJ tribal musica to local kids there alongside one of my favorite producers, 17 year old 3ball phenomenon, Erick Rincon. It was something I will never forget. But the most amazing and life altering experience came from visiting the ruins of the grand city of Teotihuacan.
Full disclosure, the experience of the ruins was enhanced through some high grade mexican LSD, but it wasnt the acid that made it special. Being in such a sacred ancient place that is architecturally sound with the earth, its environment, and the cosmos is nothing short of mind altering. no modern buildings have this effect. It was very powerful, and I couldnt help but wonder of course, just WHAT was the true purpose of these massive pyramids? Maybe one day humanity will remember our true past. Oh, and we also shot a music video while at the pyramids.
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6. Prurient’s Bermuda Drain LP
My album of the year. I feel I have already written in depth a few times about this record, but it is just flawless and epically beautiful.
A dark masterpiece of sound design and brutal emotion by the mighty noise god, Prurient. Noise purists were confused and angered by this release, what with the synths, and the drum machines! Heaven forbid. Respect.
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5. Snack the Planet
In July, an art event like no other I have been a part of occurred in downtown Manhattan. Inside the Museum of Art and Design was a room with a fully equipped flavored oxygen bar, energy drink shrimp cocktails and cyber snacks, the most fashionable of the contemporary New York underground, and a black-lit white carpeted chill out space with blue plastic blow up furniture.
This was Snack the Planet, an experimental party thrown by curators of the next age, Patrik Sandberg, and Lauren Devine, both affiliates of the always amazing DIS magazine. The idea was to somewhat re create the classic cyber-arcade hangout from the seminal 1995 movie, Hackers, but what ended up being created was a genuine Temporary Autonomous Zone. Lighting and “set design” was left up to genius design crew Thunderhorse Video who hand made the entire cyber bar from scratch.
Performances included the incredible queer-art rap poetry of Mykki Blanco with Physical Therapy as her DJ, supreme vibe controllers Teengirl Fantasy, and myself with full choreography by my two incredible dancers, Raw Acid. The event itself was just unbelievable. the energy was explosive because everyone was high on oxygen, life, and energy drinks.
During my performance, people were literally humping on the ground, blowing up condoms, molesting my dancers, and generally just freaking out. I honestly dont think a crowd has been that fanatical in uptight Manhattan since the early 80′s. it was a sight to behold, and that night, Snack the Planet was a cultural revolution. view incredible photos by Rez Avizzar of the whole night, here.
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4. James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual
The conceptual art statement of the year, Far Side Virtual was a revelation. From the genius merry prankster that is James Ferraro, the album was a psychedelic journey through our consumerist culture. As a statement regarding what it is like to be a human being living in a manufactured reality, where everything is designed to be simplified and consumed by a mass audience, this album hits that on the head better than any essay of cultural theory could.
Sounding like hitting the “demo” key on an old keyboard while shopping in a supermarket while riding an elevator in Starbucks all captured on a thrift store VHS cassette, nothing sounded like this this year. Yes, it is that fucked up. I don’t know how he did this. It is simply brilliant.
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3. Matthew Stone’s Optimism As Cultural Rebellion at Hole Gallery
Matthew Stone is a british artist whom I have been a big fan of for some time. A few years ago in denver, I was hosting an art salon in a speakeasy bar once a month, where a small group of artists and thinkers would get together to discuss a topic. On one occasion, we chose to discuss the radical notion of optimism and its revolutionary power to change. I presented some of Matthew Stone’s essays on the idea of how optimism is extremely important and as a tactic in radicalism and the progression of culture and spirit.
So it was fantastic to be able to attend the opening for his American debut show dealing with that concept. There was a deep transcendent spirituality to the work in the show, which is one of Matthew’s gifts and strong points. Matthew’s photographic and sculptural work is extremely poetic and romantic and references classical painting, yet is overtly queer and contemporary. I feel a spiritual connection to Matthew as he fancies himself a bit of a shaman and shares a lot of the same conceptual outlooks on life and humanity that I do. His work shows the power in geometry and in the human form, the soul inside of the body. it was just sublime.
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2. American Indie Rap Getting its Groove Back
As an old school indie-rap head (um remember Anticon?) it was cool to see that 2011 was the year American underground rap broke out with a vengeance unseen since the days of Company Flow in the late 90′s. With the music industry in steady decline, mainstream artists were left scratching their heads, as their lyrics of money, cars, and clothes were becoming increasingly irrelevant. It seems like indie rap was everywhere this year, with the internet explosions of Odd Future (“Yonkers,”anyone?) and Kreayshawn, like it or not, teenagers on DIY budgets were making a loud splash.
This year we saw the breakout of some new stars climbing to the top from the underground. Artists like Danny Brown and A$AP Rocky both had incredible, and dare I say historical albums, and shit Das Racist were on the fucking cover of SPIN magazine. Rappers like Young L and SpaceGhostPurrp were putting out really dope mixtapes. And I saw the magician god himself, Lil B, give one of the weirdest and most avant guard performances I have ever seen with full on new age spoken word sermon during the Supermoon at the Fader Fort during SXSW to over 2000 people. that was some incredible fucking shit. ART RAP IS BACK!
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1. The #Occupy Movement and the Global Uprising
Watching 4am live stream on the internet from some dude’s cellphone of hundreds of riot police violently destroying and dismantling the #occupywallstreet protest center in Zucotti Park because of a media blackout was disgusting, enraging, and an event that shook the world.
Talk as much shit as you want on the occupiers, but this year they succeeded in snapping people out of their dark trance illusion that everything is fine and well in the world. It was the news story of the year, that was barely covered or taken seriously by the government owned mainstream media. As they say, you can’t arrest an idea, expect only more global conflict and revolution in 2012. Tear the shit down.
Technique is a funny thing. Some guys go through so much preparation and planning, while some just show up and let it happen organically. It all depends on what you feel comfortable doing, but I definitely feel that approaching a project with minimal thought is probably more my style. I do plan and prepare, but I don’t like to over think what I’m going to do. Kind of letting nature take its course. Being in the moment. When I went to Art Basel this year, I didn’t have much of a plan.
Just a box of paints that Thunderdog studios took down there for me and a floor to crash on graciously provided by Jack Murumatsu and Buff Monster. I went with the flow and rode this endless perfect wave of art. A lot happened that weekend, but the collaborative mural that me and Buff monster did was definitely the highlight. With very little preparation and a rough sketch on a brown piece of torn paper we embarked on it with only a couple of hours to complete. The results of time constraints and two dudes just having fun was great experience.
So when my friend Last Witness offered me a wall to paint at the local skate park with under 90 minutes to do it, I jumped on the chance. Seth shot all the pics on the fly. I just thought I’d share it since the process is something I rarely document or even remember. I kind of zone out and just let the art take over. The blank expression on my face in the pics is pretty evident of that. No, I don’t look like that all the time. Last Witness started shooting after setting up the lights and said “what you going to paint?”
I replied that I didn’t know yet, I’m still thinking about it or not thinking about it. You see, if you empty the mind, it allows inspiration and new ideas to flow into it. Sort of like being a hole in a flute. If you’re thinking, then the hole in the flute is blocked and air can not pass through it to make a beautiful sound. I like to see myself as just a portal. A hole where the art can pass. After all, I’m not the one doing the art but something more powerful and grand which we are all a part of. All a component of the Love Supreme. I guess you can call that my anti-technique.
