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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.”

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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.”

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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:

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

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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).

• “Orphan Sonny of Los Angeles”, creature designer Sonny Gerasimowicz (read how Karen O turned Spike onto Sonny from the LA Times online here and see Sonny like you’ve never seen him before in the Spike Nieves zine here).

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.

Where the Wild Things Are related to more content:

• Wild Things Week Starts in a Vice
• A Tribute to Maurice Sendak
• What the Wild Things Sound Like
• Where the Wild Things Become Banners
• Where the Wild Things Are covered by the New York Times
• New Wild Things imagery, music, and interviews
• Where the Wild Things (Titles) are Made by McFetridge
• Where the Wild Things Are Featured in a Featurette

• Where the Wild Things Love You So

• Kubrick and Geoff McFetridge meet the Wild Things

• New Wild Things theatrical poster
  

• Where the Wild Things Are theatrical trailer and photo gallery

• One sheet poster and theatrical trailer info

• Wild Things skateboards and shoes

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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.

• Read the complete interview by Vice founder Shane Smith with photos by Terry Richardson by clicking here or on Spike’s smiling face below.

• And click here or on Martin Ontiveros and Nick Gazin’s illustrations below to see the full gallery of Wild Things inspired art including work from Ron Rege Jr., Matthew Thurber, Jordan Crane and many more from the virtual pages of Vice.

Where the Wild Things Are related to more content:

• A Tribute to Maurice Sendak
• What the Wild Things Sound Like
• Where the Wild Things Become Banners
• Where the Wild Things Are covered by the New York Times
• New Wild Things imagery, music, and interviews
• Where the Wild Things (Titles) are Made by McFetridge
• Where the Wild Things Are Featured in a Featurette

• Where the Wild Things Love You So

• Kubrick and Geoff McFetridge meet the Wild Things

• New Wild Things theatrical poster
  

• Where the Wild Things Are theatrical trailer and photo gallery

• One sheet poster and theatrical trailer info

• Wild Things skateboards and shoes

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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.

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!

• Wayne White (one of my favorite typographists) and Exene Cervenka fly their way over to the Western Project Gallery in Culver City with their two person show, We Are Not the Jetset.

• Stick around Culver City for a three person show featuring some Heavy Petting with David Burke, Riddles In the Dark with Mia, and Keep It Down with guest artist Sarah Folkman at the Corey Helford Gallery.

• Don’t leave Culver City just yet cause the Scion Installation Space opens up it’s place for the 2009 Vice Magazine Photography Exhibition featuring Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, Maggie Lee, and former Vice photo editor, Tim Barber.

• Cinespia presents The Muppet Movie at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, need I say more?

• Recoup on Sunday and take an Urban Hike through Little Tokyo with the Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles.

• Spread your wings and fly to the MOCA’s Pacific Design Center on Melrose for an art talk with Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues whose installation Feathered Edge: A New Installation by Ball-Nogues Studio is currently on view and features “over 21 miles of colored strings configured in catenary curves span the gallery space to form a dynamic environment.”

• And finally, end your weekend on a “high” note (yeah, that’s right I said it) with Cheech and Chong’s classic Up in Smoke at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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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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