California Artist Neckface will be exhibiting a collection at named “Death Becomes You” in Melbourne, Australia at the Don’t Come Gallery . If you haven’t seen a collected showing we highly suggest you go. The very talented artist Neckface dropped out of the School for Visual Arts and since then has applied his art to brands from Vans, Stussy, and has collaborated with a series of skateboard decks including Baker. Makes you want to bite someones neck off!!
We’ve seen a lot of Nike’s Blazers running around the world. In our opinion they’re great looking kicks for the most part (we’ve seen some stinkers to) but these take the cake!!! Due for a Jan 19th release the “China Rock” well be by far the illest pair to drop. Right next to the “Milks” (my personal fav). Their availability will be only for tier 1 Nike accounts. Chinese Rocks!!! He-yaw!!
On a trip to a Ford dealership in Orlando FL laid before my eyes the Ford GT. I’m not even a Ford guy, in fact kinda hate them. But when viewing this car up close I proceeded to ask the dealer questions which in turn the dealer started asking and all of a sudden I was about this close to signing the deal. Cooler heads prevailed, but the site of the automobile is truly amazing. And if you do own one now is your last chance to upgrade your car into the Ford GTX1 Roadster. This is because Gennadi Design Group, the company responsible for the limited edition makeovers, has announced that it will stop taking orders on 31 August 2008.
The upgrades included a roof conversion, racing seats, adjustable shocks, Wilwood brakes, a hidden rear bumper, and some interior improvements. The GTX1 also received a power boost to 700hp. Thus far, only 100 GTX1s have been ordered and completed. So finish busting a nut and go get it done.
……..Who the hell is in that photo in your header. Well if you step back from you monitor (KEEP GOING!) you will see the one and only Patty Hearst aka “Tania” when she was “kidnapped” by Symbionese Liberation Army. Its truly an amazing story, if you haven’t heard about it watch this documentary. Oh she’s also the daughter of Randolf Hearst of Hearst Publications. They have controlled the news and magazines you read since the 1920’s. Yeah that Hearst, and let me tell you those guys are kinda (I use the term lightly) shady. They shifted the political landscape to the super far right after the New Deal was in motion. They also killed the idea in the 20’s that auto manufacturers release a hemp oil running engine (which is similar to vegetable oil diesel engines used today) to protect their oil interest, and set in place the criminalization of marijuana and financially back all those crazy ass “don’t smoke weed or you’ll jump out of a window” films from back in the day. And just look where that got us!! If you don’t know about that then go to wikipedia. So we find it a bit amusing to use her a our “mascot”! Ok class is over go, talk amongst yourselves.
Its been some time since we opened a up Vice magazine. Mostly due to the fact that the apathetic, hippster, Urban Outfitter shopping nob-end bit have been a long running myopic theme for some time (think in decades) but upon leaving a shop in of all places Williamsburg Brooklyn, I happened across the latest issue and wanted to see if its the same crap- ola or had they stepped up their game since their sneaky underworld dealings with Viacom puppets MTV had made a big difference. I’m sure in ad-sales. Well to our surprise the “Fiction Issue” was very interesting . After thumbing through the mag I was impressed by the vacancy of slack humor, which at one time was very funny but now just bland. With interviews with Little Caesar founder (not the pizza company dumb ass the magazine) Dennis Cooper, and shorts from some pretty good writers like E.C. Osondu and Laurie Weeks . We really enjoyed this issue, around the office a word of ad-Vice keep doing whatever your doing, you’re growing up.
Williams and Miceli
In recent news brother Pharrell in his new found wealth has been up in the grill of folks Louie Vuitton for some time. In 2005 Williams and Bathing Ape founder (and the master of mark-up for poor quality goods) Nigo designed and launched the house’s first sunglass collection in April 2005, but now Pharrell has his sights on making jewelry for the French fashion mega house. “Blason”, the new collection’s name of fine jewelry designed in collaboration with Camille Miceli (the Vuitton creative consultant who now designs jewelry for the brand and handles Marc Jacobs’s personal public relations). Louis Vuitton will officially unveil the Blason collection to press on January 21. Specific details on the collection have yet to be released, but Louis Vuitton is expected to unveil four separate and distinctly themed lines under Blason that will launch this spring at its flagship stores worldwide. We can’t wait to see another diamond encrusted skateboard in pink yellow and god knows what else. Oh brother!
“Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag – eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right). Based on the images uploaded to his/her Flickr stream, “The East London Decapitator” as he/she has been dubbed, is largely striking mainstream advertisements, like this (my personal fav) High School Musical 2 poster.”
From: Wooster Collective
“A Coffee Table No.1″
Luxury design company Based Upon started by 32 year old twins Ian and Richard Abell was started after they discovered a liquefied metal called Aloxolotl. Thiscan be sprayed onto any surface and create different aesthetic effects, even speeding up the process of rusting for certain materials.
The “Alchemists” soon found with Aloxolotl and other materials like semi-precious resins and coloured lacquers, often experimented with layered textures for their designs. The look is organic patterns that resemble chasms in rock, or water ripples on wall spaces with the titan feel of METAL.
Remember GOLD is the metal!
“Taking The Piss 100,000″
“The Park”
A brand new book from the folks over at powerHouse by one of the most respected American documentary photographers Steve Schapiro. Schapiro’s Heroes brings together an extraordinary collection of stories in the photo-journalistic tradition of people who have shaped our lives, our politics, and our tastes with behind-the-scenes photographs, we visit the young Muhammad Ali and his Monopoly set, followed everywhere by the neighborhood kids; glimpse the warm family life and campaign of Robert Kennedy; see Andy Warhol in photographs never before published; watch Ray Charles perform; visit the set with Samuel Beckett; and march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. This is a super dope book that would look nice in the household, and you’ll for sure rack up points when that one night stand you brought home is over, that is if she’s not completely piss drunk.
This (courtesy of Pitchfork.com) is a great list for some music you might have missed during the year. If you did well I guess having your head up your ass for a year has to hurt sometime. Click the link to redirect to Pitchfork Get some!!
P.S. Number one is still up for debate.
