June 2012
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Christian Montenegro Illustrates Kafka's "First...
Argentinian artist Christian Montenegro created illustrations for a South American edition of the fantastic Kafka short story, First Sorrow. Being that the story includes a trapeze artist, you get the drift of these fantastic illustrations. Read the short story here. (via)
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100ft Treehouse, No Blueprints,
And we thought ministers had better things to do. According to This Is Colossal, “The Minister’s Treehouse in Crossville, Tennessee is a 100ft structure built by minister Horace Burgess from the early 1990s through 2004.” The catch, no blueprints. The reason? Its America, dammit.
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When the US and Russia don't play nice
When accusations being to fly between Russian and US governemnts over weapons and supplies to Syria, it just gets us all warm and fuzzy for the Cold War days. Russian helicopters on their way to Syria, Clinton is pissed, Russia is being defensive … gosh, it feels so Cuban in here.
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Ai Weiwei "Never Sorry"
We aren’t going to pretend to be some sot of academics who have known about Ai Weiwei for decades and are like all the other art blogs out there that pretend to almost be apart of Weiwei’s inner circle. We just love everything he stands for, and the wide range of work he presents, from a pavilion to a simple picture with his middle finger to a hall full of sunflower seeds. The man is...
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Morning Ritual: Vintage
We assume this is vintage? You can never tell with filters these days…
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Escif "We Are The Robots" in Valencia
Escif, who we consider to be one of the headiest street artists working today, has dropped so many good pieces in his hometown of Valencia this year, its hard to keep up. And with the European street art festival season going off soon, he is sure to drop some more. We love this “We Are the Robots” piece.
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Mike Mills Posters for Commune Design
Mike Mills, the wonderful director of Beginners, created a series of posters for the influential Commune Design of Los Angeles, a company “With a staff of interior designers, architects and graphic designers using a collaborative mindset, we assemble the best team for each job and maintain integrity in every project we do.” Mills seems to fit well.
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Weakness Wednesday: Grimes "Be A Body"
As you can tell, we like Grimes. Even though we don’t consider this to be a super guilty pleasure, we consider it to be one of the best albums/tracks of the year.
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Morning Ritual: The Kitchen Sink
She was bored of cleaning, so she took pictures.
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Book Waves by Guy Laramee
Guy Laramee transforms books into topographical sculptures, because something tells us it is fun. We think its tiring, but Guy is too good to think that.
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Stay High 149, RIP
Stay High 149, one of the true original NYC graffiti legends, passed away at the age of 61. The New York Times, writes: Wayne Roberts was a pioneering 1970s graffiti writer known as “Stay High 149” who borrowed the haloed stick figure from the title sequence of the 1960s television series “The Saint,” put a joint in its mouth and turned it around. His “Smoker” tag, or signature, turned the heads...
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "Give Up the Ghost" Live at...
What is best in life? How about Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood giving over 100,000 people a beautiful and haunting rendition of “Give Up the Ghost” at Bonnaroo 2012? How about 25 songs and 2 hours and 20 minutes? That is some good Radiohead.
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50 Years Ago Today, 3 Men Escaped From Alcatraz
Fifty years ago today, June 11, 3 men escaped from San Francisco infamous Alcatraz Prison. Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin conceived and successfully (in so much they actually got off the island in some way) one of the most amazing escapes in the history of putting humans in the worst of conditions, behind the bars, and told to get normal again. And the Clint Eastwood starring...
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Morning Ritual: Checking In
Hair check, Monday morning check, check, check.
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The York Minster Cathedral interior covered in...
Who says the church can’t evolve? Oh wait, this is in England. They are a little more apt to change then say the Mormon church. From DesignBoom, “greenery installation branch wow! grass! of UK turf company lindum has covered the entirety of the nave belonging to york minster cathedral with a layer of real grass. rather than growing turf from a soil base, the company instead starts...
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Ear on Ear
We call this ear on ear action. An amazing series of shrunken body-part jewelry made to order by Etsy seller percylau, which will make you a far more interesting subject around the dinner table. (via)
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Jaylib Mondays: J DILLA "SAFETY DANCE"
Just having a little fun dancing this morning, safely might we add. J Dilla only practiced safe dancing. As should you.
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Morning Ritual: The Send-Off
Just a taste, because, we don’t know, we like ourselves…
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Euro Cup and High Fashion
In Football Training on Nowness.com.
From Nowness: “The chiseled features and perfect balance of 26-year-old Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen are spotlighted by British photographer and director Sharif Hamza, in anticipation of the Euro 2012 Championship in Poland and Ukraine, which kicks off tomorrow. Hamza used long lenses and handheld cameras to produce an instinctive, player’s-eye...
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The Shadow, created.
From WeWasteTime: “The Shadow” installation (paint on grass) by Brigitte Zieger, created for Les Environnementales, an open air biennial of contemporary art held at Tecomah environmental studies school near Paris.
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First Friday: Wild Nothing "Golden Haze"
We have not been more impressed with another band than the sounds of Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing project, and “Golden Haze” is one of our favorite tracks. With a a beginning that resembles The Smiths, he just sounds confident in a cool breeze sort of way.
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Herzog & de Meuron x Ai Weiwei: 2012 Serpentine...
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Beijing-based Ai Weiwei teamed up for this amazing pavilion structure on the lawn a plane of the Serpentine Gallery in London, England. With a layer of water atop the structure, DesignBoom notes that the artists are “inviting visitors to pass beneath it and observe the recently exposed components of the past structures. eleven columns...
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Stacy Peralta's "Bones Brigade"...
We saw this awhile back, and just noticed that SlamxHype had posted it… a nice look at Stacy Peralta’s “Bones Brigade.” film. Peralta did Dogtown and Z-Boys, so he has a history with these types of subjects. Nice to rekindle the Hosoi v Hawk, style vs tricks battle.
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Morning Ritual: Seeing Double
Just some double vision, nothing wrong here.
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Atelier Martino&Jaña Posters for Guimarães Jazz,...
When you think of good design and music, I generally think Jazz. And Jazz album covers, photographs, and posters. Last year for the Guimarães Jazz in Portugal, Atelier Martino&Jaña teamed up with illustrator Alexsandra Niepsui to create these fantastic Jazz posters that we most definitely want up in our house. (via)
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Must Watch: 'The Dream Team' Documentary
We can still remember the classic SI cover with Ewing, Jordan, Barkley, Malone, and Magic on the cover, kick starting the best basektball team in history and the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The Dream Team is the ultimate height (in our opinion) of basketball popularity and personality, with Bird, Pippen, Robinson, Mullin, Stockton, Drexler, and Laettner (dude was epic at Duke, he fits just...
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Thursday Never Knows: "In My Life"
We always wonder if, at some point in say 1978, John Lennon sat around with an acoustic guitar, played a few chords, then busted out “In My Life” and said to himself, “Oh yeah, I wrote that one, too.” Because this is one of thousands of songs he wrote, and its better than 99.9% of all songs ever written.
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Ray Bradbury, RIP
An excerpt from Bradbury’s finest novel, Fahrenheit 451. The author died yesterday, June 5.
“When did it all start, you ask, this job of ours, how did it come about, where, when? Well, I’d say it really got started around about a thing called the Civil War. Even though our rule-book claims it was founded earlier. The fact is we didn’t get along well until photography came into its own....
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Doze Green "Luminosity in the Dark Rift" Video
Doze Green has a new body of work up at Jonathan LeVine Gallery at the moment in an exhibition titled Luminosity in the Dark Rift. Colin Day stopped by Doze’s studio in SF and shot this video of one of the true originals of the contemporary scene.
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Grimes "Genesis" Live in San Francisco
Ever knows it by now. Grimes is good. And all we hear is that her live performance is really, really good, and so we decided to do a little check up, and her performance of “Genesis” from SF last summer shows this girl knows what’s up. We are hooked.
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Maiden Noir "Toutle Valley Anorak"
One of our favorite things we have seen in the Spring/Summer fashion game this year… Maiden Noir’s Toutle Valley Anorak. We don’t even know where Toutle Valley is… oh, wait, you say that is near Mt St Helens? Got it. We want it more. Its sold out at Haven, if that doesn’t help.
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New Grizzly Bear!: "Sleeping Ute"
What wonderful news to get on a Tuesday evening. Grizzly Bear, the ever-detail orientated Brooklyn band, are set to tour, release a new album on Warp (no title yet), and be really good this Fall. And there is a new song called “Sleeping Ute.”
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Book to Buy: The Furniture of Charles & Ray Eames
Something for the inspiration and coffee table… The Furniture of Charles & Ray Eames. “A hardcover book created by Vitra which looks to commemorate the 100th birthday (1907 - 2007) of Charles Eames and is entitled “The Furniture of Charles & Ray Eames.
“This volume primarily focuses on their furniture design and is grouped into categories based on materials such...
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Morning Ritual: A little oops...
Wonder if that meant to happen? Guess it shouldn’t matter in the Tumblr world…
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Video: Andreco + Ericailcane in Morocco
Ericailcane, who showed with FIFTY24SF Gallery in late 2010, just finished a collaborative piece with Andreco in the Sahara desert of Morocco. These types of things never, ever, get old. We are sure to see Mr. Ericailcane painting in the south of Italy this summer… always a pleasure to see FAME Festival festivities.
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The kaleidoscopic watertower in Brooklyn by tom...
From DesignBoom: “tom fruin has unveiled his newest kaleidoscopic structural installation ‘watertower’ as the premiere work completed in the united states for his series ‘icon’. the brooklyn artist has built a 25 by 10 foot tall water tank formed from nearly 1,000 colorful salvaged plexiglass pieces gathered from all over NYC. the work has been constructed atop...
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "Analyse" Live @ Mercury Music...
I have always wanted to know… what is he staring at? Is he mugging before playing a beautiful piano ballad? Do you think Coltrane used to mug before a solo? We hope so.
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Morning Ritual: The Sit
Just naked sitting on the kitchen floor. That’s normal.
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1800's Baseball Photos from the New York Public...
After seeing the turn back the century game between the Cubs and the Giants this past weekend in San Francisco, and seeing how amazing the Cubs’ throwbacks were, we loved seeing these photos of baseball players in the 1800s. Lots of white guys, interesting facial hair, levitating baseballs, and great uniforms… wonderful stuff. (via)
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Cai Guo-Qiang "Mystery Circle" for MOCA
æOver 40,000 rockets blasting off from the wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. On Saturday April 7, artist Cai Guo-Qiang marked the opening of his exhibition with Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; a site-specific work created for MOCA.”
CAI GUO-QIANG: SKY LADDER
On view April 8, 2012—JULY 30, 2012
The Gefffen Contemporary at MOCA
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Jaylib Mondays: "Life Goes By" featuring Guilty...
Kicking off the Monday morning routine with a Madlib Medicine Show No 1 track, “Life Goes By,” with Guilty Simpson… “Consider it a prelude to Madlib & Guilty’s collab OJ Simpson.”
May 2012
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Bleu Avina
Encinitas based muralist Bleu Avina has taken Southern California by storm. Armed with spray cans, paint brushes, and a desire to share his vision with others, Bleu has continued to create beautifully crafted murals that tell a story about our societies ever relying dependance on technology. -James Pawlish/The Citrus Report
Who is Bleu Avina? Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long have...
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Morning Ritual: Hitting the books
Just hitting the books before school’s out…
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“Chemin Vert” by A Ghost Train
A music video made out of panoramic images pulled from Google Street View and manipulated to… well, be a music video. By the band, A Ghost Train and their track “Chemin Vert.” (via booooooom)
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Nike Air Yeezy 2
So Kanye gets two. Actually, minus the hype, we kind of like the way the Yeezys have come out in both editions. This one looks less Back to the Future and more fashion-forward, but we are going to lean on this notion that Nike designers had a lot of fun taking Kanye’s bizarre brain and making something work. Nike Air Yeezy II in both Platinum and Black editions will release June 9
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Weakness Wednesday: Fleetwood Mac "Go Your Own...
Now that The Citrus Report has opened an office in Sausalito, California, we go with a tune from the album Rumours, an album with roots at the legendary, and now closed, Plant Studios in Sausalito. Enjoy.
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Morning Ritual: Don't Wanna Wake-Up
Some of us just want to enjoy the white sheets and sun.
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Stanley Donwood "Lost Angeles" Prints
Our good friend Stanley Donwood has just released a few prints, two we are highlighting here in LA Exit and Apocalypse 101, in conjunction with his Lost Angeles show at Subliminal Projects. We like his write up on Apocalypse:
A choice selection of Los Angeles landmarks; the Crossroads of the World, one of the huge elephant statues that stand at Hollywood and Highland, the Roosevelt Hotel...
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Roids x Horfe in London
Your morning dose of European super character based graffiti from the Parisian monster (monster in the non-stop wall conquering sense) Horfe and his London mate, Roid. We are fans of both. And you should be, too.
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "Morning Mr Magpie" (Live)
One of our all-time favorite Radiohead mid-song breakdowns, courtesy of the Colin Greenwood bass extravaganza, “Morning Mr Magpie” takes on a whole new level of frantic energy live, and the Basement version captures that mood quite perfectly. Morning everyone.
