The 3G Show
Opening reception: Friday, September 3rd, 7-10pm
Gallery 1988
7020 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038
Show runs from September 3 through September 22, 2010
Los Angeles’ (via Austarlia) up and coming painting/graf power duo Dabs Myla continue their quest for world dominance with their Japanese inspired show Tokyo Deluxe at Culver City’s Thinkspace Gallery.
“Mission Media Archives in association with Conscious Youth Media Crew and Burning Wagon productions, proudly presents “Why I Ride: Low and Slow,” our recently finished film documenting the untold history of San Francisco’s unique lowrider culture in the city’s Mission District.
Join us for a night of memories, reunions, and celebration featuring the voices of Mission District street historians: Roberto Hernandez, Valerie Tulier, Felipe Velez, Mitchell Salazar, and Sandy Cuadra.“
The good chaps at Secret Headquarters answer the age old question, “what happens when you ask a bunch of cartoonists, artists and assorted weirdos to do one panel comics?” as they’re one-of-a-kind comic book shop in Silver Lake hosts the group show Bound & Gagged. “Comedy, horror, navel gazing, abstraction and more” curated by Tom Neely and I Will Destroy You featuring the artists listed below and, of course, comics and booze!
Seth Galifianakis, filling in for his twin brother Zach, puts his own spin on Between Two Ferns when he sits down to speak with the always chatty Sean Penn as they discuss pugs with sailor hats, the Oscars and, of course, Six Flags Haiti.
More of the funny stuff with Zach Galfianakis, chairs, plant life and the occasional obnoxious buzzer:
In Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed short filmI’m Here young robots with expressive eyes fall in love and sadly break hearts the way humans do: by taking everything they can until there’s nothing left to take. Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood hosts an outdoor screening of the melancholy tale with special live musical performances by our lovely and talented friends ASKA (who’s music helped inspire the short) and Sam Spiegel (DJ Squeak E. Clean of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew) that will surely lift your spirits. Come for the heartache, but be sure to stay for the rebound. Presented by McSweeney’s and Chocolate Industries.
“I’m Here is a short film by Spike Jonze about two robots living in semi-futuristic Los Angeles where humans and robots coexist. Based on Shel Silverstein’s children’s book, The Giving Tree, the plot revolves around Sheldon, the protagonist, lending his limbs to Francesca when she starts loosing hers. This is true love as it gets…
Throughout I’m Here you can hear L.A. based art musician ASKA, whose beautiful song, “There Are Many of Us,” is featured in the film. ASKA told us that the inspiration came from the ‘first song I wrote on a guitar in a bathtub. I felt I needed to tell myself that there are many of us and not just the ‘one’, to release myself from being tied up to the one.”
I’m Herewith musical performances by ASKA and Sam Spiegel
Thursday, September 2nd, 7-10pm
Space 15 Twenty
1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Always looking to push creative boundaries, my main man Milk (Christhat is) directs a truly unique and groundbreaking music video for Arcade Fire’s single “We Used to Wait” from their latest album The Suburbs, and turns it into the interactive interpretation titled “The Wilderness Downtown”. Part Google web browser Chrome Experiment part personalized nostalgia trip, the immersive, multi-window, next level clip literally takes you home before the music even starts as you’re prompted to “enter the address of the home were you grew up” (which eventually appears on screen at the appropriate part of the track with the help of Google Maps technology).
Driven by the haunting melodies of Arcade Fire, you follow the galloping footsteps of a hooded runner who’s seemingly travelling through your old neighborhood as he passes familiar spots popping up in small windows on your screen. Sweeping street level and aerial views of your old home conjure childhood memories as Milk perfectly choreographs the sentimental imagery which culminates in an outgrowth of birds, trees and wilderness.
Top it all off with another window for writing “a postcard of advice to the younger you that lived there then” and you have yourself a personalized and poignant journey (and maybe even a tear or two) that you’ve yet to experience in a music video.
“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”
I just couldn’t resist the over-riding urge to post this through the weekend: moustached Euro baby singing the disco club smash hit record “I Was Drunk” by Riva Starr featuring Noze. And with that, I bid you an awesome weekend!
“Spirited, fun and funky, Wild Style bursts with flavor. Breakdancers, MCs, artists and DJs provide the backdrop for this sweet love story of two graffitti writers. Wild Style has become an invaluable document of the youthful and unaffected scene which became the hip hop movement. Filmed in the South Bronx, it captures the rare moment when these talented kids from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country created the most important artistic movement of a generation. Starring Patti Astor, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and more. With special suprise guests !!
cinespia all star djs spin before and after the screening”
Wild Style
Sunday, Aug 29th, gates at 7:00pm, film at 8:30 pm NEW TIME!!
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
no reservation necessary
$10 donation tickets available at gate
$5 parking available inside
as a courtesy to other moviegoers: NO TALL CHAIRS!!