Love is in the air (or is it?) as September’s outdoor movie screenings are back at The Barndall Art Park beginning with the instant classic LA love story 500 Days of Summer directed by our boy Marc Webb, and starring the love lorn Joseph Gordon-Levitt and heartbreaker Zooey Deschanel atop the hill at the in Los Feliz .
Click here for further details and full September screening schedule of films.
The Warriors, director Walter Hill’s 1979 New York street gang cult classic which, through time, has become a regular classic, hits the streets of LA along with The Orphans, The Lizzies and of course The Baseball Furies for a late night screening of major ass kicking at The Cinefamily on Fairfax. “Warriors…come out to plaaaaaayyy!” indeed.
From The Cinefamily:
“Before it was a video game, before it was name checked by groups as divergent as Twisted Sister and the Wu Tang Clan, and before Shaq adopted “Can you dig it?” as his catch phrase The Warriors was simply the most bad-ass, shit-kicking, take-no-prisoners group action flick this side of the The Dirty Dozen. Walter Hill’s legendary NYC gang quest epic is Greek history by way of 1970s Marvel comics street justice wrapped in a pleather vest: in a Big Apple populated by almost solely by gangs of every human variety imaginable, The Warriors have one night to soldier through the enemy boroughs back to their home territory of Coney Island after being falsely accused of murdering a gang underworld bigwig. Hill worked his way up the ranks working for Sam Peckinpaw, and The Warriors takes that “fables of hard men” aesthetic as far as it will stretch, portraying a world where demonic baseball mimes rule the parks and rollerskating Osh-Kosh-B’gosh-kateers stalk subway bathrooms, while an omniscient velvet-voiced radio DJ calls the play by play between Motown classics. So get your Cinefamily colors on and bop it down to the theater for a midnight rumble. Cinefamilaaaaaay, come out to play-eee-aaaay! DJ Holloway (Dublab) will be here to man the turntables before the film!”
The Warriors
Although it appears as though he’s sticking with his signature pink characters, backgrounds and animated landscapes, the ever growing Buff Monster goes Beyond the Pink at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery.
From CHG:
“For “Beyond The Pink”, Buff Monster creates a new series of acrylic-on-panel works that radiate with his signature pink neons, Superflat style, and disarmingly subversive characters. The artist’s futuristic playgrounds bounce with creative expression as multi-hued argyle pyramids intermix with melting facades and floating faces.
Presenting his works in a larger and more detailed context than before, Buff Monster revisits his classic ice cream and maraschino cherry imagery with an eyeful of fresh inspiration. Returning from his recent travels to open the “Art From The New World” museum exhibition in Bristol, England, the artist adopts a more experimental approach, blending his iconic graphics with new landscapes, as well as introducing portraits for the first time.
“This new body of work is influenced by the history of Western art that I saw throughout Europe. My time at the Louvre viewing Renaissance paintings was truly inspiring. The National Gallery in London had some amazing pieces as well. And then visiting the Tate Modern was a bit of a shock after seeing nothing but classical paintings, but the pop stars like Lichtenstein and Warhol still get my pulse racing,” Buff Monster adds.
Upstairs in the loft, a vibrant series of flattened metal spray cans customized by Buff Monster will be on display. Open to the public, the reception for “Beyond The Pink” will take place on Saturday, September 4 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until September 22, 2010.”
Beyond the Pink
Ghostbusters, and Goonies, and Gremlins! Oh, my! Fresh off their ultra successful and thriving Crazy 4 Cult 4 group art show, Los Angele’s Gallery 1988 brings another inspired group show to their Melrose gallery with The 3G Show which features artistic odes to the aforementioned Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins. Co-presented by the always artistic Autumn Society.
Click here to see more of what’s in store from Gallery 1988’s The 3G Show and much, much more from Slash Film here.
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.
Check a preview of Dabs Myla’s Tokyo Deluxe here as well as their recent Juxtapoz interview here.
Also…showing in Thinkspace’s main gallery is Sarah Joncas’ with her latest solo show Siren.
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!
Take one part beloved comic strip in Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson; replace with equal parts evil comic book villains-one part Lex Luthor and The Joker; add in the witty writing of Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets) along with the awesome art of Lee Bermejo (Batman); insert into the pages DC Comics Superman/Batman #75 and voila, you’ve got yourself an amazing tribute to a comic classic in Joker and Lex.
Click here or the small version below to see Joker and Lex up close. (via the High Definite)
Also…see Lee Bermejo’s black and white inks here.
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!, the found footage freaks who blow minds daily, return to LA’s The Cinefamily with a double dose of video carnage in EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! presents: Everything Is Festival! A Two-Day Explosion.
For full details, and there’s lot’s of awesomely bizarre ones, click here.
From The Cinefamily:
“Imagine a weekend where all your fantasies come true. A weekend where you can just be…free. Laugh until your sides literally split open, and feel as cool as a skateboarding, shade-tippin’ dog. We’re talking about the festival to end all film festivals — Everything Is Festival! (aka the 10th Annual Gathering Of The Terribles)! For reasons beyond our control (God’s plan), we at Cinefamily are giving the found footage freaks at Everything Is Terrible! free range of the weekend, and letting them do whatever the hell they want (note: we did have to say “no” to the all-night helicopter foam party). This makes it the official L.A. premiere of their latest mash-up feature-length film, 2Everything 2Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift, not to mention some of EIT!’s favorite movies in their uncut glory, plus dance parties, BBQs, a return of the Cinefamily Found Footage Battle Royal, and top-secret über-rare prints from the vaults of Cinefamily and Austin, TX’s famous Alamo Drafthouse! For more info on becoming a contestant in the Found Footage Battle Royale, click here!”
Copywriter/Laker lover/Asshole of the Year and resident glutton for punishment/sadomasochist, our good friend Chris Pouy is many a thing. A coward he is not though as he takes the kid gloves off, along with the protective head gear and bad idea jeans, for his first amateur Muay Thai bout in what promises to be a “good old fashioned brawl” at the International Fight Showdown at Knott’s Berry Farm Resort Hotel in Buena Park.
Click here for further fighting details from Chris “The Deuce” Pouy.
The dirty hands of David Choe return to LA to sign copies of his comprehensive, 10 year in the making, self-titled art book as well as his signature whale-inspired Munko vinyl figures at Giant Robot’s Sawtelle gallery space GR2.
From the Giant Robots:
“Giant Robot is proud to host a reception and book signing with artist David Choe to celebrate the release of his 288-page, self-titled monograph published by Chronicle Books.
Raised on comic books, affected by street art, and inspired by crime, women, and music, Choe has developed a unique and restless style that is effortless yet meticulous and focused yet dirty. Since the artist contributed his first illustration to Giant Robot magazine in 1997, he has gone on to become an international fixture in the worlds of street art and indie comics, and has had hugely successful solo shows in high-end galleries in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles (not to mention all three Giant Robot locations).
In addition to signing his brand-new book, Choe will be autographing his newly released Munko figures, which are based on his whale paintings and made by Japan’s Good Smile Company.”
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