September 2011
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Café Volan
Cafe Volan from Michael Boylan on Vimeo.
As you know, all of us at The Citrus Report LOVE coffee, we also love surfing. Our friend Paul Cali recently opened up a dreamy little coffee shop in the sleepy surf town of Asbury, NJ with his friend Doug. This is an interview they recently did about Café Volan.
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Rene Almanza @ FIFTY24SF Gallery
“Stranger” is a foreigner, a resident alien, one in the house of another as a guest, visitor, or intruder, a person or thing that is unknown or with whom one is unacquainted, one who does not belong to or is kept from the activities of a group, one not privy or party to an act, contract, or title, one that interferes without right.
(9.26.2011) San Francisco – FIFTY24SF Gallery presents a...
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Jeremy Fish's Guide to North Beach, 'The Heart and...
Watch Jeremy take you on a tour of our favorite city. View more videos at: http://thefeast.com.
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Lucy McLauchlan @ Fame Festival
Nice video of all the great work done by UK’s Lucy McLauchlan all around Fame Festival this summer. Her ceramic and street work were one of the major highlights of the entire trip.
Lucy Mclauchlan @ Fame festival 2011 from fame festival on Vimeo.
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Oh yeah, "Nevermind" is 20 years old
Well, now we are old. So, in honor of Nirvana’s landmark and culture defining Nevermind being 20 years old this week, we see that this concert from 1991 has been posted. In HD, Live at the Paramount, and its really fucking good.
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Truism of The Day
We don’t know who authored this, but isn’t it true?
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Morning Ritual: Change Clothes
It felt like a morning for change, especially after the fire on our block yesterday…
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Eazy E's son wants to play dad in NWA movie
That should make it easier. TMZ, the most reliable news source in all things unreliable, “reports” that they spoke with Eric Wright Jr. — aka Lil’ Eazy-E — who told them he’s “very excited” that “New Line Cinema is moving forward with the flick … which is set to be produced by Eazy’s former N.W.A. group member Ice Cube.” We...
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Shoes to buy: Clarks and FILA team up for a...
We don’t often like a lot of new shoe ideas anymore (basically we just want an old pair of Vans or a nice old man boat shoe), but this FILA x Clarks Wallabee is about as ill as a new shoe is going to get for us. They are calling it the Filabee, which is appropriate. UNION LA will have them, but we don’t know what’s up with the playing cards in the street while promoting a...
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Weakness Wednesday: Jolie Holland's "Crush In the...
Jolie Holland’s “Crush in the Ghetto” was a 2006 favorite of ours. It has the perfect combination of romanticism and nostalgia, and perfect pop song in a world that doesn’t appreciate this kind of pop anymore.
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Peter, Bjorn + John present an art show by Jonas...
THIS los angeles, Peter, Bjorn + John and MFG present GIMME SOME, an exhibition featuring the artwork of Jonas Torvestig.
About the Exhibition:
When Jonas Torvestig was approached by Peter Bjorn And John about doing their cover for the 2011 album GIMME SOME, there were requests of sticking to objects of three, as all of their prior covers. And some thumbs up…
The fast paced tempo of...
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Gwon Osang's Photography Sculpture
Korean artist Gwon Osang has done something better than posting her portraits on Flickr. She made a sculpture instead, “overlaying life-sized mannequins with detailed photographs of the original subjects.” Brilliant.
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Throw 4,800 messages in a bottle into the ocean,...
That seems like far better odds than any email, news blast, Twitter post, or any bullshit passive aggressive Facebook like. This is committed, fully engaged social networking. As MSNBC reports, “A Canadian man has tossed more than 4,800 messages in a bottle into the Atlantic Ocean in the past 15 years — and received more than 3,100 replies.” The man lived on Prince Edward Island,...
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Saner @ FIFTY24MX Gallery
If you are heading down to Mexico City this weekend, then you should try and make it over to Saner’s new solo show at FIFTY24MX Gallery, Los Iluminados. Opens on October 1st, closes on October 27. From the looks of it, it will be a good one.
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Men With Cats: John Lennon
John Lennon kissed Siamese kittens in his spare time.
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The Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene
Because this is something we all find interesting here at the Citrus Report.
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Fame Festival
A few days spent in the south of Italy for a public art festival can do wonders for the brain. Or maybe it is the pizza and Peroni. Or the local red wine. All and all, a little Blu, Ericailcane, Moneyless, Escif, Boris Hoppek, etc in a small city is an interesting experiment that seems to be working.
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Morning Ritual: Dutch Time
Some of us are in Northern Europe at the moment, so let’s go low country with Marloes Horst today. Its not Scandinavian, but close.
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Being Elmo Teaser
Elmo is a real person. We didn’t know that. Apparently, there is a documentary coming out called “Being Elmo,” that follows the puppeter and his character, Elmo. Enjoy the trailer.
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C215's "Ut pictura poesis" in Brest
We have always enjoyed the work of French stencil artist, C215, but we can’t recall seeing any of these large format pieces by him before. This is the new piece he has done in Brest, France. Beautiful stuff.
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "Polyethylene (Parts 1&2)"
A lot of people say they miss the old Radiohead, the old guitar wheelin’ Radiohead that took the concept of 3-guitar attack and took it to new heights. They band that experimented in B-side form still sounded like a band who wanted to explore the realms of simple pop rock. And this is a song that people can you use to defend their argument.
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Goodbye, REM, after 31 brilliant years
We were gone this weekend and totally missed the REM calling it quits after 31 years story. Wow. Well, there is so much to write about one of the great, enduring American bands, but we will just go right to where it began.
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Herbert Baglione at Cityleaks, Cologne
We love what we see from Herbert Baglione’s new installation at Cityleaks in Cologne, Germany. We always love what Herbert does with scale, and this is just another great exhibition of details and surprises.
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Morning Ritual: Lara Stone
It gets weird when AK does the Morning Ritual. We apologize for objectifying women. You can read about Lara Stone’s travels back home in last week’s T Magazine Travel Fall issue
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Kiral Apartments by ARQMOV Workshop
Nice apartment that we wouldn’t mind living in. The outside gives off a weird visual illusion. The inside looks spacey and perfect for studio work.
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Work by Elena Mir
These illustrations from Elena Mir are really nice. Her use of color and playful characters work well together.
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Madlib Monday: MADLIB REMIXES INSPECTAH DECK,...
From Stonesthrow website: Here are a couple more track’s from Madlib Medicine Show #12: Raw Medicine. Inspectah Deck & Raekwon verses are from two different original tracks - one by 7L & Esoteric, the other from Big Pun.
Madlib Medicine Show #12 is shipping now from Stones Throw. Released everywhere next week, September 27th.
Download MP3: Inspectah Deck & Raekwon (Madlib...
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Want to hear the worst music ever?
Lou Reed and Metallica. All you need is 90 seconds to realize that System of the Down has now moved to second to last in the worst music made ever game.
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Why can't it be branded the "Palestinian...
Its amazing how much international news you get once you leave the borders of the United States. We know that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just came home from the UN after making a historic speech declaring Palestinian independence, and is announcing a “Palestinian Spring” on the horizon. Hey, we like it, we like the vibe, but how about a new branding: “Palestinian...
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David Choe & Herbert Baglione @ Nuart this week…
… So we at Upper Playground are looking back at Choe and Herb40’s first European Upper Playground tour together, back in France years ago. As Dave says, “last time we made love.” Choe and Herbert will be in Norway this week for the Nuart Festival, so we will have more pictures to show in the coming days…
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Sunday Shuffle: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi...
When in Rome, listen to the music of Rome. We were given this album by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi while in Italy this week, and we were really into this opening track from the album. It sounds good while rushing southbound.
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Sixties Saturday: Jimi Hendrix "Manic Depression"
This isn’t a signal of how we are feeeeeeling, this is just an incredible Hendrix track. The drumming alone… perfection. So go ahead and enjoy a little “Manic Depression” this Saturday morning.
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Is the Peace Corps a Learning Experience for...
After reading this very honest article written by a Peace Corps volunteer, we realize that joining the PC is a lot more than the feeding the hungry. It’s well known that the organization has done some amazing and progressive work through out the years. But you have to think, you’re not just doing everything you can, and what you may think is best, for developing countries, but also...
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Dana Barnes
Sculptor Dana Barnes is doing some really cool things with fiber and rope. Up close the knots and matted material seems chaotic and random but from a step back they make a great balanced composition.
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Amazing Future
There are not enough good things to say about this image. We are not huge Star Wars fanatics but Chewbacca’s people look like a pretty good croud to chill out with.
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This Girl Gets Drunk and Makes Poutine
Although she is overall kind of annoying, she makes us want to get drunk. She also brings up some valid points of why we have a love/hate relationship with Canada. And as for making poutine… well, you should probably be drunk when making it too - it’s really the only way to enjoy your poutine.
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Norwegian Summer House
This is just a nice thing to look at right now. We did notice there is a lot of firewood for a summer house. And no beds …
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Ziggy Stardust Dominates Prahran Apartment Facade
This apartment building is in Melbourne, Australia and we can’t think of a more welcoming site than coming home to a five story tall Ziggy Stardust.
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Morning Ritual: The Send-off
Enjoying new heights and varsity jackets in the morning… have a great weekend…
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Is Phil Collins' "One More Night" the definition...
This is what happens with sleep deprivation… you start going through what you think is the most defining adult contemporary song there is… and we leave you with our choice (with essay to come)… Phil Collins, “One More Night.”
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Real headlines: "Toilet roll The Beatles refused...
This one was in the Daily Mail. The saddest part is that we were interested in this. The Beatles, toilet paper, Abbey Road, and auctions? Great times living in the Modern World.
Apparently, “The Beatles once refused to use a toilet roll while recording their world famous Abbey Road album - because they thought it was too ‘hard and shiny’.
“Proving that even the...
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First Friday: M. Ward's "Poison Cup"
Heard this song in the middle of Italy this week. Couldn’t think of a finer way to wake up this morning… M. Ward at his finest moment, the sublime “Poison Cup.”
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"Les Mousses" by Etienne Gros
These sculptures are strange. They look so artificial, yet so plush and flesh-like. It’s one of those art objects you can enjoy looking at, but maybe do not want to own. Having this in your house, maybe creepy? Or maybe awesome, we dare you to show us wrong and make it awesome.
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Men with Cats: Marlon Brando
Possibly one of our favorite of classic men. Or all men.
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"Thankless Thing" by Wild Beasts
Wild Beasts recently released this track from an upcoming single, due to come out November 14th. We dig this band. We dig this song. We hope you do too.
Wild Beasts - Thankless Thing by DominoRecordCo
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The End
That’s all. We just like the photo. Not sure who it’s by or how we got it.
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Retro Muppet Concert Posters
We love the Muppets, we love retro posters and we love this new project by Michael De Pippo for the Muppet band band, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem celebrating the new Muppet movie coming soon.
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Citrus Peels used to Fuel
We always love a good Citrus Story. A chemist at the University of York in the United Kingdom has figured out a way to convert citrus peels into a variety of useful materials, from plastics to ethanol starting a new initiative called the Orange Peel Exploitation Company. We love it. And how cool is that orange frog pic we randomly found while image searching orange peels?
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Missing R.E.M.?
R.E.M. breaking up is sad news for us here. Rolling Stone Magazine has the 1987 cover store now online for you to enjoy all of Michael Stipe’s goodness.
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Morning Ritual: Girl with Cat
Because women loves cats too.
