February 2011
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HeartBreak Shop & Gallery Show by Chelsea I Want...
Our good friends at the blog Chelsea I Want My Flannel Back just opened a pop-up gallery / store in the back of the very nice clothing shop, Revolver SF. And just in time for Valentine’s Day, they are calling it The HeartBreak Shop. Featured are paintings by Jon Stitch, and very nice photography and concept photos by Kristyn Stroble.
We are going to take photos soon, in the afternoon,...
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Jacques Magazine releases issue #7, “The Voyeur...
The Winter 2011 issue of Jacques Magazine, which is issue #7 and the “The Voyeur Issue” if you are scoring at home, was just released. And we have posted about Jacques in the past (see, click here), and apparently you readers at home liked this post from Jacques the best.
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Monocle on Bloomberg: Because so many of us have...
Monocle Magazine, which we have definitely come around on over the past half year, saw a new television series launch on the financial and business broadcaster Bloomberg this past weekend. For all of us that want to look like we want to know about the uniforms of stewardesses on Korean Air and how they reflect a clean sophisticated modernity, then you should click here and start watching.
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A vacation item to look forward to: Wings + Horns...
We have been pondering 3 vacation spots: NYC, Portland, or Palm Springs, mainly because when we get there, we can stay at the Ace Hotel and have one of these Wings + Horns Custom Bathrobes for ACE Hotel waiting for us. Who doesn’t want a thick sweatshirt fleece material on your body whilst on vacation? You are foolish to say you aren’t into it.
January 2011
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Fleet Foxes are back, with album and new title...
A good time to come back, early in the year. Fleet Foxes, the band that sort of swept us all up in Americana spirit back in 2008, is back with a new album and now released title track, “Helplessness Blues.” We were always smitten with the band because it seemed they took a few minutes to write a tune, added texture and vocal care in each note. Their sound seemed ancient, but...
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Egyptian National Museum a target with protestors
The Egyptian Military has detained over 50 men trying to break into the Egyptian National Museum and loot some of country’s archaeological treasures, if not the world’s archaeological treasures. Luckily, the gold funerary mask of King Tutankhamun that draws millions of tourists a year was not harmed, at least yet. It is amazing how we in the West care so much about the art in a...
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PEZ "Louder Than Bombs" for FIFTY24SF and Noise...
In conjunction with Noise Pop 2011, FIFTY24SF has organized graffiti, sticker, and fine artist PEZ to exhibit a collection of album covers done in his signature style for a full showing titled, Louder Than Bombs. The exhibition will open this Wednesday, February 2nd, at FIFTY24SF’s former space at 248 Fillmore Street. Louder Than Bombs kicks off over a month of activities, as Noise Pop will turn...
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Morning Ritual: Monday start up...
Is that Milla Jovovich as a painter? We think that is, and a good way to start the week off in a creative way…
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Mark Zuckerberg on "Saturday Night Live"
So, this past Saturday, you had Jesse Eisenberg, who played Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, hosting “SNL,” then you had Andy Samberg playing his Zuckerberg character on the show, and then you had Zuckerberg himself on the show. Busy, busy night for everything Mark Zuckerberg … .
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INSA's "Graffiti Fetish Mural” in Los Angeles
JSG released some really nice shots of INSA’s “Graffiti Fetish Mural” done in Los Angeles a few weeks back for the LA Freewalls Project. We are all about that blue that London-based INSA used, really electric. INSA is opening a gallery show this Thursday, February 3 at FIFTY24SF Gallery, a show we are looking forward to. More to come.
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Madlib Mondays: Erykah Badu's "The Healer"
We go back to the continuing collaboration between Erykah Badu and Madlib, this time looking at the track “The Healer” from Badu’s New Amerykah album. The track has all the Madlib signatures, including handclap drumbeat, a bit of a radio sample intro, and sophisticated tempo. Add that with the Dilla tribute from Badu, and this is a strong, moving track.
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Aaron Farley
There are certain photographs that capture the energy a particular moment in time has to offer. Aaron Farley has a unique ability to not only capture that energy, but to do so in a way that articulates the emotion of that moment clearly to its viewer. His photos are candid, natural, and loose yet precise at the same time. Beyond this natural artistic ability, Aaron has worked hard to...
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Michael Jordan x Nike Commercials
We are getting to that time of year where the NBA starts popping up as Sunday afternoon viewing on national TV. The NBA, at this moment in time, is full of talent, lots of great players are in the beginning stages of their career. The problem is, none of the great, great players are likable and/or massively marketable like Michael Jordan. Sure, Kevin Durant, Kobe, Lebron James, all amazing...
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Ludo in Paris on the Champs-Elysees
Street artist Ludo just put up this piece, “Tsing Tsing Fly”right in the middle of the popular Parisian street, the Champs-Elysees. That is like having your piece in Times Square. High-visibility, foot traffic, and Internet pictures.
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Francis Ford Coppola on Modern Filmmaking
We like Francis Ford Coppola’s rules for filmmaking: 1) Write and direct original screenplays, 2) make them with the most modern technology available, and 3) self-finance them. But it is not like FFC came up with this idea while sipping red wine in Napa. This is a career of evolving and progressing and making mistakes and then not making mistakes.
There is a great interview with Coppola...
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How to make Eskimo Doll clothing
Incredible attention to detail when it comes to making Eskimo doll’s clothing. Real fur, family business, and Alaska. And a video documentary on the process. Who doesn’t want to know how they make Eskimo doll costumes?
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Sunday Shuffle: Women "Bullfight"
One of our favorite bands of the past few years, Women, look like they may be headed to the sad ending of an onstage fight turned breakup. But what they have left in their wake, including the fantastic Public Strain LP and now this single “Bullfight,” will be a mark of growing respect for the Canadian band in the years to come.
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The Best Drug Smuggling Schemes from Around The...
The Huffington Post, they know what we all like. They know that a list of the best “Drug Smuggling Schemes Around The World” is exactly what we all want to read. Especially the “merry-juana” Christmas, a “six-foot-tall marijuana plant in his home that had been decorated with twinkling Christmas lights in late 2010” in Germany.
Or, this one is great: “In...
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Tracy Morgan on Sarah Palin: Good "handy" material
Regardless of Tracy Morgan’s opinion, as said on the NBA on TNT, Sarah Palin is not good masturbation material. We don’t don’t advise using cheap suburban moms as handy hands-on inspiration…
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EINE gets a documentary
We have always been a fan of the work of London’s EINE, whose blocks letters and sign paintings have been some of the most solid in all of street art. EINE is showing at White Walls in San Francisco soon, so this is a good preview. It was shot over a weekend with the artist. Good looking out.
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More, more, more... INSA @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
FIFTY24SF Gallery in Association with Upper Playground presents: “MORE” – A collection of new work by INSA
SAN FRANCISCO, CA [1.28.11] – Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery are pleased to announce London-based graffiti, conceptual, and fine artist INSA’s first solo exhibition in San Francisco opening on February 3rd, 2011. The exhibition is appropriately titled, MORE.
Within the new body of...
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Sixties Satruday: Led Zeppelin "Babe I'm Gonna...
We are going real Hindenburg Disaster on this one. Recorded in October 1968, and released on the debut Led Zeppelin album, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” sounds like an atomic bomb going off on rock music. Even in the early moments of their career, Zeppelin sound like a completely thought out, realized sound. This is still our favorite Zeppelin track.
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PS22 Chorus covers "ROUND AND ROUND" by Ariel Pink...
Little Kids are awesome. We established that yesterday with this amazing Wolf Larsen song (seriously, watch it if you haven’t yet) Ariel Pink is awesome. Round and Round was probably the best song of last year. And with kids doing little round & round hand gestures during the chorus? C’mon.
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One person's opinion of the new Strokes single,...
We are going to be honest here, we are a little excited about the new Strokes release. We were into the band, not like SUPER into the band, but we liked the first 2 Strokes LPs, found the 3rd one to be laboring, but we think #4 is going to be good. “Under Cover of Darkness” is the new single, and NY Magazine says its good. Which is great, but we haven’t heard it yet. And we...
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What would happen if our internet was taken away...
Oh yeah, and cell phone use. In a quote by Jim Cowie, chief technology officer of Renesys Corp in the Wall Street Journal “What’s shocking about this is that they didn’t just take down a certain domain name or block a website—they took the whole Internet down.” The whole internet.
Read...
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Brian Wilson on George Lopez: Going For It
We were always a bit concerned that our World Series Champions Giants’ closer Brian Wilson was a little Marina, and his performance on “George Lopez” is teetering on that border of funny and a little disturbing. If he doesn’t pitch well this year, this is going to be that “Oh, shit moment.”
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Photos of Humans at Work
Boston.com just compiled photos of people around the world at work. There are 45 photos total. You can the rest here.
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Gorillas Walk Upright like humans now
Are we really surprised? it’s about time for this evolution and for the gorillas to take over. Is that what “Planet of the Apes” is about? We hope so …
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Notes From A Quiet Crucifixion: II
I left as soon as I could. Graduated half-a-year early and through a modicum of different jobs (some legal, some questionable) I saved up enough for a ticket to Frankfurt, with a final destination a few hundred miles away in Paris. Some people stay their whole lives in their place of birth, that home feeling like home forever. Ever since I was a child I always wondered what was out there. My...
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Morning Ritual: The Send-off
Audrey goes Blondie… a good way to go into the weekend…
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Biden to Boehner: "I Hope This Doesn't Hurt"
Do you ever get the feeling that VP Joe Biden is the closest thing the Democrats have to a Republican, in terms of style and demeanor? Joe would just annoy the crap out of us if we were across party lines. Just a pompous, having a good time, never to be -un-elected Senator turned Vice President. Smug, loyal as all hell, and the “good old boy” that you just have to admire.
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We want this tonight: Geary's London Porter, tits...
We love how Selectism describes this beer: “Geary’s is becoming the new trendy beer for hipsters obsessed with Maine and seafaring. But guess what, it’s been the tits for ages and the London Porter is one of the best American examples of the style you’ll ever have.” The fact that they call this beer tits for ages is a selling point.
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First and Final Friday: Sleigh Bells "Treats"
We don’t go to far into vintage land for this one, as we just go to 2010 for Sleigh Bells’ Treats album. This one came out of nowhere gave us the brilliant opening tracks in “Tell’Em” and the closer, “Treats.” Loud, distorted, and poppy, Sleigh Bells gave us one of our favorite albums of 2010. Enjoy.
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The Air Jordan XI “Concord” Retro: The Greatest...
There is a story involved with the Air Jordan XI, a shoe that was so hyped because Michael Jordan was spotted wearing these during the playoffs of his return to the Chicago Bulls, when playing the Orlando Magic in the second round of the 1995 playoffs. These shoes, before the Internet, were TALKED about. The shiny patent leather, the glow in the dark soles, the shoe was epic.
We looked...
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This is the First Ever Photograph of a Human Being
This is the first ever photograph of a human being. According to Petapixel, “This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being.”
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The Nike Sportswear AMERICAN MADE Trailer
What do Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Zetterberg, Obie Trice, Ben Wallace, Niklas Lidström and Juan Atkins have in common? They are all in Nike’s new four part documentary, “Made in America.” And because it is a Nike project, there is money and it looks good. And it is produced by Nike Sportswear Sweden, so that is cool…
American Made Trailer from Nike Sportswear Sweden...
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Wolf Larsen, Elementary School Dance Class, Wild...
One of our biggest musical crushes at The Citrus Report, Wolf Larsen, has released a new video that we heard she’d been working on. I mean c’mon, face paint on elementary schoolers? cute factor hit 11 on this one…
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Morning Ritual: Just cool...
Sometimes you just got it…
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Will Ferrell will be on "The Office"
But just as a temp. Because Steve Carell is making that bad decision to leave his bread & butter of “The Office,” the series gets an extra boost this season when Will Ferrell joins the cast for a few episodes. NBC described Will Ferrell’s character on “The Office” as “a branch manager who arrives from the home office and proves to be just as inappropriate” as Mr. Carell’s...
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Eric Yahnker "Cracks of Dawn" @ Kunsthalle LA
Eric Yahnker has been the talk of the town, as some of our colleagues have been raving about the work of Eric Yahnker. We are into the work as well, and after seeing a few previews, Fecal Face made it out to the show and took some nice photos. We love the Lasagna can, Warhol a la 2011. The pizza piece, too, is priceless. We can see a lot of this work being popular with people…
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Definitely Thursdays: "Roll With It"
Coming in at track #2 on the MEGA (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, “Roll With It” is a stadium singalong, not masterly or trademark like “Wonderwall” or “Live Forever,” but a great early set jam. Oasis were on top of the world in 1995, and “Roll With It” sounded like a pop song unearthed from another time, and in the always Noel wall of...
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INSA Mural in San Francisco
Fresh off some big mural projects in Los Angeles, London’s INSA is in San Francisco preparing for his solo exhibition at FIFTY24SF Gallery, our sister and partner gallery. We have been spending the past few days with INSA, and we can’t believe how quickly and methodical he can create mural of this style and complexity. The “INSA Heel” which has been a trademark and a...
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The peasants will take the castle: Mark...
Who would ever want to be king? Oh right, when you are worth billions what do you care?
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And our hearts sink: "Jersey Shore" headed to...
Really? It has come to this? Its amazing how fast the world is spiraling out of control. Sometime, in the distant future, it may stop. Literally, the pace of complete absurdity is going to end, maybe with China taking over the world, maybe with the USA falling like Rome, but it will stop, and these moments we will look back on and say “This was a bad idea.”
From Yahoo: “While...
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Why they make things in China: Chinese Workers...
If this isn’t a bye-bye to America, we don’t know what is. Obama made some very good, general, non-in depth points in the State of the Union last night about getting the American innovation industry back on track, but while Republicans and Democrats bitch and moan about morality issues, China is wupping our ass and hanging out in Hollywood.
