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SATURDAY (Aug 14): The 2010 Vice Photo Show @ Scion Installation LA

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

A plethora of photographers come together for the often times visceral yet always vivacious Vice Photo Show at the Scion Space in Culver City.

Check a preview of The 2010 Vice Photo Show here.

From Vice:

“After nine years, the annual Vice Photo Issue and Exhibition has become an anticipated cultural institution.  This year, Vice’s Photo Issue is comprised entirely of still life photography – a departure from years past.

For the photography exhibit, opening August 14 at Scion Installation L.A., the curatorial reigns have been handed to Jonnie Craig, longtime staff photographer of the British edition of Vice magazine.  About the theme of the show, Jonnie says: “The pictures gathered for this exhibition express youth in a number of forms—from train surfing to hiking in the woods to working a dead end job—every image acting as an entry of what I have experienced youth to be.”  The featured photographers are Angela Boatwright, Asger Carlsen, Jonnie Craig, Jackson Eaton, Seth Fluker, Nicholas Haggard, Jerry Hsu, Kevin Long, Ross McDonnell, Sophie Mörner, Patrick O’Dell, Alex Olson, Valerie Phillips, Jared Ritz, Lele Saveri, RJ Shaugnessy, David Benjamin Sherry, Peter Sutherland, Patrick Tsai, Sean Vegezzi and Gavin Watson.”

The 2010 Vice Photo Show
Opening Reception August 14th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from August 14 through September 4, 2010

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The Creators Project is Coming

Monday, June 14th, 2010

The Creators Project is an online network from Vice and Intel dedicated to providing the creative insights of the world’s most creative creators across all forms of media. Initially focusing mostly on musicians such as Diplo, Richie Hawtin, Phoenix, James Lavelle, CSS, Mark Ronson, and our boys N.A.S.A., The Creators Project expand their horizons this summer to include filmmakers, visual artists, and of course live music performances as their highly anticipated event series begins in New York.

Among many talented international creatives, The Creators Project Launch Event NYC features Spike Jonze and special presentations of his robot love story I’m Here, musical performances by Interpol, Mark Ronson, The Rapture, N.A.S.A., and Die Antwoord among others, as well as visual installations from United Visual Artists, Radical Friend, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), and the omnipresent Graffiti Research Lab and many more.

Click here to RSVP for the FREE event (with registration) by tonight at 11:59 eastern standard time!

From the Creators:

“The Creators Project event series—a roving global celebration—launches this summer on June 26, when The Creators rolls into 80,000-square-feet of display and performance space honeycombed throughout the legendary Milk Studios in New York’s Meatpacking District.

The event is going to be a groundbreaking combination of interactive art and installations, panels, workshops, screenings, and live performances. As much as The Creators Project is a digital archive of our digital world, it is also a testament to the enduring appeal of the Real. Many of the artists within the program explore the way that digitally manipulated images, sounds, and motions converge in real time, in real spaces.”

The Creators Project
Saturday, June 26th, 2pm-2am
Milk Studios
450 West 15th St. New York, NY 10011

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Sendak Starts Spike Week on VBS

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Wild things Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak and Catherine Keener get together for a shit-shooting session in this exclusive clip from Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (directed by Jonze and Lance Bangs, now available on DVD through Oscilloscope Laboratories) on VBS.tv’s (Vice) ongoing series Spike Spends Saturday With…

From the VBSers:

“To commemorate the DVD release of Where the Wild Things Are, all week we’ll be taking a step back and fixing a long, heavy gaze inward at our very own Creative Director, filmmaker Spike Jonze. Tomorrow we’re proud to present an exclusive clip from the new documentary on Maurice Sendak by Spike and Lance Bangs, which you can buy right here. Then on Thursday and Friday we’re teeing up two new episodes of Spike Spends Saturdays With…. Lucky you!

If you want to get Spike Week started strong, here are a few links for your fortification:

* Here are the secrets behind the Wild Things.
* Spike and Kanye!
* This is the guy Spike chose to dress his movie.
* You should read this meaty interview with Mr. Jonze from our film issue.
* Bonus read: A great interview with Maurice Sendak from right around the movie’s premiere.”

Also…more on Tell Them Anything You Want from the all-loving We Love You So.

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The Wild People Behind The Wild Things

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Over the course of the past five years, Spike Jonze has brought together his (un)usual crew of frequent collaborators, friends old and new, and a kid named Sonny in bringing the Wild Things to life. Meet some of them here from VBS.tv’s Art Talk series:

  • Production designer and Spike’s right hand man, K.K. Barrett (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Lost in Translation).

In his designs for “Wild Thing” creatures such as Carol, above, Sonny Gerasimonwicz was told to show personalities rather than copy Maurice Sendak’s style. (via the LA Times)

  • Music video veteran and one of my editing heroes, film editor Eric Zumbrunnen (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation). Click photo below to view Eric’s segment on VBS.tv.

  • And finally costume designer Casey Storm (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Zodiac). Click photo below to view Casey’s segment on VBS.tv.

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Wild Things Week Starts In a Vice

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are have been everywhere, from free iPhone apps to fort contests, shirts to skateboards, from Newsweek to New York. And as the highly anticipated film of Maurice Sendak’s classic book finally premieres this Friday, October the 16th, expect the non-stop coverage to continue including on this here site of chumpchampions.

Now here’s Vice magazine’s contribution to all things Wild: artwork-a-day from 24 different contributing artists inspired by the Wild Things; and their interview with director Spike Jonze as he reveals how Sendak asked him several times to make the film, how the Wild Things are actually “wild emotions”, and how he thinks the purple lights on Virgin airlines are “the most unflattering, ugly, color-draining light” and need to be changed.

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THIS WEEKEND: Comic-Con Artists, Awesome Con, We Are Not the Jetset, Heavy Petting Riddles, Vice Photography, The Muppet Movie, Urban Hike, MOCA Art Talk, and Up in Smoke

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Oh how I long to be one of the many thousands of lucky nerds in San Diego for Comic-Con (still can’t believe I’ve never been, I fear my dork credibility may be in jeopardy!) Fortunately there are many a happening around Los Angeles to take your mind off all the geeky goodness we’re missing out on.

  • With that being said, allow me to start with a few events at Comic-Con for those who made the trek down the 405 freeway:

Artist signings by Mark Ryden, Joe Ledbetter, James Jean, The Pizz, Scott Musgrove, Ron English, and Travis Louie for Last Gasp Publishing.

Last Gasp Publishing artist signings
Last Gasp Booth #1616
Friday
Ron English-Noon, Mark Ryden-2pm, Scott Musgrove-4pm
Saturday
Joe Ledbetter-noon, Todd Schorr-2pm, The Pizz-3pm,
Mark Ryden-4pm, Joe Ledbetter-5:30pm (2nd signing)
Sunday
Travis Louie-noon, James Jean-2pm

James Jean (again), David Choe, and David Horvath for Giant Robot.

And a Tim and Eric sighting at their very own con of the awesome variety, appropriately called Awesome Con!

Tim and Eric’s AWESOMECON ‘09
Saturday July 25th, 3-5pm
400 Kettner Blvd. Embarcadero Marina Park North (behind the Marriott) San Diego, CA 92101

Wayne White/Exene Cervenka-We Are Not the Jetset
Opening reception: Saturday July 25th, 5-8pm
Western Project Gallery
3830 Main St, Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from July 25 through September 5, 2009


Dave Burke-Heavy Petting
Mia-Riddles-In The Dark
Sarah Folkman-Keep It Down
Opening Reception Saturday July 25th, 7‑10pm
Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from July 25 through August 11, 2009

2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition
Opening reception: Saturday July 25th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Avenue (at National) Culver City, CA. 90232
Show runs from July 25 through August 8, 2009

The Muppet Movie
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Saturday, July 25th
gates open at 7:00pm, movie starts at 8:30pm
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
$10 donation tickets available at gate
$5 parking available inside

Urban Hike-Little Tokyo
Sunday July 26th, 11am-1pm
MEETING PLACE: Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple
815 E 1st St. Los Angeles, CA 90012-4304
Three-Tour Package: $30
General Price per Tour: $15
Student Price: $5
A+D Members: FREE

Ball-Nogues Studio Art Talk
Sunday July 26th, 3pm
MOCA-Pacific Design Center

8687 Melrose Ave. West Hollywood, CA 90069-5701

Up in Smoke
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Sunday, July 26th
gates open at 7:00pm, movie starts at 8:30pm
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
$10 donation tickets available at gate
$5 parking available inside

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Art Talk With a Rose and a TWIST

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Yesterday I ran a post on the upcoming global graffiti film Bomb It, so I thought a good follow up would be to point you in the direction towards more of the same. Specifically an interview with Barry McGee a.k.a. Twist, one of my favorite artists whose work started on the streets. Vice’s online broadcast network, VBS.TV, has a plethora of cool shows on many cultural topics one of which is Art Talk. Recently Aaron Rose did an interview, of sorts, with his dear friend Barry for the show. My only problem with this genius little clip is that I didn’t get to edit it.

(animations by the über talented new dad Max Erdenberger of Central Office and Viewers Like You.)

And if you want to see more unique videos, VBS also features shows ranging from the photographically sexy (Shot By Kern), to our polluted environment (Toxic-Garbage Island), to iconic skateboarders and their craft (Epicly Later’d), to even more garbage (Manila’s City of Garbage), to inside looks into places we’re not really allowed in (The Vice Guide To North Korea). Collect them all!

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