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Jim Houser’s canvases packed with emotionally charged cartoon-like characters and subtle sayings bodies up to Shepard Fairey’s Echo Park gallery Subliminal Projects as his show The Homebody opens this Saturday.

From Subliminal Projects:

“Subliminal Projects is pleased to present the homebody, a solo exhibition of new original works by Jim Houser. Through his paintings, installations and mixed-media pieces, Houser tempers earnest introspection with whimsical characters, warm colors and organic materials.

On display, Houser’s aesthetic vernacular consumes the entire gallery space, with installations and murals throughout. In recent years, he has taken to integrating music into the experience, often with an original score he composes to complement his visual pieces. The Homebody marks the first time Houser will be releasing his soundtrack as a recording, with a limited-edition vinyl record available for purchase.”

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Skullphone’s Digital Media, the cell phone cursing/electronic sign stealing saboteur’s latest fine art show, comes down this week (July 2nd) but not before a print release party tonight at Shepard’s Echo Park gallery Subliminal Projects.

From Subliminal Projects:

“OFFICIAL DIGITAL MEDIA PRINT RELEASE
The release will feature limited edition prints from the Digital Media exhibition as well as some Skullphone classics.  Come spend the evening with us and see the show before it comes down on July 2nd!

Wednesday, June 30th!
Special guest DJ Chris Ziegler (LA Record, Big Freak)
7 - 9pm“

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Once again it’s dance fever time as DJ Spinna presents Soul Slam VI featuring nothing but the best of Prince and Michael Jackson classics at the Echoplex in Echo Park. You know there’s serious good times to be had here.

From The Echo:

“This event centers around the honoring of two of the most eclectic and innovative artists to date, Michael Jackson and Prince! From the inception of this concept back in 1999 the response for SOUL SLAM has been enormous. DJ Spinna sets the tone of this event as he lays down track after track from both MJ’s and Princes extensive music catalogues along with tracks of their cohorts, i.e.; Jermaine Jackson, Vanity, Janet, Sheila E., J5, The Time etc. Soul Slam returns to LA this June!”

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Women and art I love. Women who create art I love even more. Echo Park’s Subliminal Projects gathers a who’s who of some of today’s female artists whose strong voices can be seen anywhere, from the streets to the galleries and everywhere in-between, for the group show SUBject/subJECT. Among the powerful women in the show include Swoon, Elizabeth McGrath, Kime Buzzelli, Jesse Spears and Nikki McClure.

*Also…“Ten percent of proceeds from all SUBject/subJECT art sales will go to the Los Angeles Downtown Women’s Center, dedicated to providing permanent, supportive housing and a safe and healthy community for homeless women.”

More from Subliminal Projects:

“SUBject/subJECT examines women’s use of public platforms in mass media, inviting both artists and viewers into a dialogue about role models, self-image and the messages women project in both the mainstream and alternative media. Says Cheriel, “Now that women have ‘equal rights,’ what are we trying to say? What’s our subject? Since female artists remain underrepresented in galleries and museums, we created this show as a platform for emerging women artists to represent!”

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Now I’m not the biggest Depeche Mode fan, or even a fan at all actually, but the devoted fanatics that make up the doc The Posters Came From the Walls make me wonder if I should take another listen to the 80’s supergroup that helped define a generation of kids. The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater along with Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise, presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Posters Came From The Walls a film which “tells stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.”

Also…For the DM fanatics out there, this Sunday night’s Park Time Punks party at The Echo’s will be Depeche Mode night. Click here for more info.

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Although it may be cold and damp in LA, this weekend’s openings and events are sure to heat you up physically, mentally, emotionally and hopefully drunkenly.

• Giant Robot’s Biennale 2: 15 Years keeps on rolling with Friday’s intimate artist talk with fabled painter James Jean and GR’s Eric Nakamura (special edition print release too!) followed by Saturday’s (free admission day!) kid friendly art-making workshop with Stella Lai at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

• Portland based artist Andy Kehoe opens his bigest west coast show to date when he unveils The World Unseen and Those In Between at Silver Lake’s Thinkspace Gallery. Take a sneak peek of the show here.

• The Multi-Plane group show at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery marks their biggest group show of the year in a throwback to early animation where “each artist created an original painting using the multi-plane, which was made famous by pioneer animators Ub Iwerks, Max Fleischer, Bill Garrity, and Walt Disney. Consisting of three individual surfaces housed in a custom-made frame, the multi-plane creates depth and a three-dimensional effect through two glass foreground layers and a background wood panel.” Among the incredible lineup of artists are Todd Schorr, Gary Baseman, COOP, Tim Biskup, Sylvia Ji, Ron English, Luke Chueh, Jeff Soto, Carlos Ramos and Sage Vaughn.

• The Hit+Run homeboys celebrate their four year anniversary of silkcreening Southern California with Repeat Offender at the Echoplex in Echo Park. A celebration sure to turn into the weekend’s funnest dance party. “With close to 100,000 one-of-a-kind HIT+RUN shirts printed since the debut in November 2005, show off your favorite H+R shirt and get into the party for FREE. The first 300 guests receive complimentary gift bags with mix cds, stickers courtesy of STICKY RICK, and your choice of a blank t-shirt or poster to customize.” Featuring live screenprinting of 20 exclusive designs from Kofie One, Shark Toof, Kime Buzzelli and Mike C among others as well as music from the Gaslamp Killer and many more of LA’s finest.

• A double dosage of the fine folks of Family on Fairfax as they open the aptly titled Group Show One on Saturday featuring artists Ashley Macomber, Kevin Christy, Nicholas Haggard and Sarah Soquel Morhaim, followed by Sunday’s launch of Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You Signed, Yoko a limited edition book of new poems by Spencer Moody and Anthony Anzalone and published by Cali’s Teenage Teardrops.

• Sweetness is abundant on Saturday as Susan Cianciolo returns to LA with her latest collection of art and uniquely designed clothing with Mountains and Flowers. Also joining Susan will be the musical stylings of the multi-talented ASKA, all going down at Space 15Twenty in Hollywood.

• ‘Tis the season for Santacon. ‘Nuff said. Click here for Saturday Santacons in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Check here for other worldwide Santacon locations.

• And finally, the fortunate art lovers of New York are treated to a double billing: James Marshall (DALEK) and his high flying space monkeys in his show And There Was War in Heaven; as well as the beautiful wooden women of Audrey Kawasaki in her show Hajimari-A Prelude. Both opening at the city’s Jonathan Levine Gallery.

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A solid first weekend of November with friends in art shows, friends being crafty, and Pac Man going up against Kitty. I got my money on Manny.

• Fifteen years strong, Marsea Goldberg’s venerable New Image Art Gallery keeps banging out the hits with the help of special human being Amber Abramson (who herself is often busy-being) as they present the group show 14 Artists. And these aren’t just any artists, they’re heavy hitters Judith Supine, Cleon Peterson, Skullphone, The Date Farmers, Richard Colman, and Erik Foss among others. Party starts at the gallery and continues on to the after-party at the Cha Cha in Silver Lake.

• Get your craft on at the Contemporary Crafts Market in Santa Monica as my dear old friend Tianna Osborne will be displaying (and selling) her art through her uniquely beautiful purses through the weekend. Flyer below is good for free admission for two!

• Want more Manny? Of course you do! So I suggest you start waiting in line now at Hollywood’s Montálban Theater as Nike Sportswear presents Under the Hood with Manny Pacquiao, a send off celebration and Q&A with the man himself and his team of Freddie Roach, Buboy Fernandez and Alex Ariza. RSVP is mandatory and capacity will surely be reached, but if you can’t make it in person the event will be streaming live on Niksportswear.com, Complex.com, and Facebook.

• The HVW8 Art+Design Gallery on Melrose reunites three old designer friends with the show Michael, Kevin & Geoff. Those three amigos would be: Geoff McFetridge who was of course in Beautiful Losers and whose work you’ve most recently seen in the title design of Where the Wild Things Are; graphic designer Michael Leon whose work with Nike is well documented; and Kevin Lyons who’s well, Kevin Lyons.

• Ever wanted to know how to blow yourself up? If your answer is yes (or if you just want to see some good art) then you’re in luck as WK Interact teaches you how to do so at Echo Park’s Subliminal Projects with his solo show aptly titled How to Blow Yourself Up.

• Speaking of blowing stuff up, the Three Apples Exhibition Celebrating 35 years of Hello Kitty continues at the Royal/T Cafe in Culver City with limited edition print releases, live painting, and meet and greets with some of the participating artists of this never ending event. Along with my Hit+Run homeboys silk-screening gear, Buff Monster and Plasticgod will be among the artists on hand from 4-9pm. Presented by Juxtapoz and Japan LA.

• And finally, another celebratory show as the clothing line Blood is the New Black celebrates their five years of existence with a group show and party at Silver Lake’s JÜNC Gallery. And what would an art party be without my talented friends, the lovely Jesse Spears and the sometimes bearded Dan Monick, among the many participating artists.

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The music Gods smiled down upon me on Friday as I was somehow able to get tickets to Thom Yorke’s super secret, super sold out surprise show at the Echoplex in Echo Park. Playing brand new music for the first time with his brand new band with no name which featured Flea, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, the show was supposed to be a “warm-up” for Sunday and Monday’s Orpheum shows but instead the capacity crowd of 325 (including Spike Jonze, Ellen Page, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt among others) was treated to a full 90 minute set! As intimate as small venue shows usually are, this one was special and will be playing over and over in my head for quite some time.

Extra special thanks to Steven Murashige for using my camera properly!

(Click here or the pics below to see more on Flickr)

Video of Thom Yorke, Flea and the new band performing “Harrowdown Hill”:

The evenings setlist courtesy of Stereogum:

01 “The Eraser”
02 “Analyze”
03 “The Clock
04 “Black Swan”
05 “Skip Divided”
06 “Atoms For Peace”
07 “And It Rained All Night”
08 “Harrowdown Hill”
09 “Cymbal Rush”
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(Thom solo)
10 “Open The Floodgates” [NEW]
11 “Lotus Flower” [NEW]
12 “Skirting On The Surface” [NEW]
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13 “Paperbag Writer”
14 “Judge, Jury, & Executioner” [NEW]
15 “The Hollow Earth”
16 “Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses”

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A wild weekend awaits with James Jean, Michael vs. Prince, Wild Things x 2, the antichrist in a cemetery, and Barry McGee somewhere in Pasadena.

• The super talented James Jean signs various items at Giant Robot’s GR2 on Sawtelle.

• Michael Jackson. Prince. DJ Spinna makes you dance your ass off time to their music at Soul Slam LA V at the Echoplex in Echo Park.

• Where the Wild Things Are monster suits created by Christian Joy and sold for charity at Space 15 Twenty along with an exclusive pop-up shop in Hollywood. The always rock ready Squeak E. Clean will be providing the music. Click here or below for more information and to see each unique monster suit.

• Where the Wild Things Are will also be in Alhambra for the Terrible Yellow Eyes group show at Gallery Nucleus.

• Cinespia’s last screening of the season is Roman Polanski’s classic 1968 horror film Rosemary’s Baby at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Needless to say, creepiness ensues.

• Barry Mcgee, Ed Ruscha and many more install installations outdoors and indoors for Installations Inside/Out: Armory 20th Anniversary Exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts as well as various outdoor locations around Pasadena.

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Los Angeles’ weekend warriors become Pacifists in Echo Park, put on Red Shoes in Alhambra, take a bike Tour da Arts in Santa Monica, watch the Jackson 5 in Africa, Junction on Sunset in Silver Lake, and do some unique shopping at the Mini-Mart in Hollywood.

• Skateboarders/artists Andy Jenkins, Mike Myers, Chris Pastras, Russ Pope and Michael Sieben become Weekend Pacifists at Shepard and Amanda Fairey’s Subliminal Projects in Echo Park.

• AMMO Books and Alhambra’s Gallery Nucleus invite you to a reading, artist panel, and signing with The Red Shoes illustrator Sun Young Yoo. On display will be original pieces from the book, a reading of the fable, as well as a discussion on childrens book publishing and the creative process behind the retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale.

• If you haven’t had enough Michael Jackson coverage recently head downtown to the Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles’ closing night gala which features three special screenings of The Jackson 5 in Africa.

• URB Magazine and Asics illuminate downtown LA with the world’s biggest Lite Brite with musical performances by DJ Daisy O’Dell, 87 Stick-Up Kids and Mid City West.

• Silver Lake. Sunset Junction. ‘Nuf said.

• Sonja Rasula takes the local and independent artists and designers of Unique Los Angeles to Hollywood’s Space 15 Twenty with the Mini-Market. On top of good music and free Pabst, there’s a little something for everyone: clothing, art, jewelry, plush dolls, stationery, bath/beauty products, baby stuff, eco stuff, etc.

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