Tomorrow (05/07/08) at 2 pm, Lucky Dragons and a few cohorts are playing in the East River Amphitheater (Cherry St. @ FDR Drive). Lucky Dragons is a one man, two laptop and plastic recorder operation with a serious emphasis on audience participation and creating interactive audio applications. It’s one of the few laptop projects out there that sounds human and organic.
Lucky Dragons’ shows tend to culminate in everyone sitting around in a circle holding hands while connected by electrically conductive cables, which sounds like a painful process, but in reality means…
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Yazmany Arboleda’s The Assassination of Barack Obama & The Assassination of Hilary Clinton returned yesterday for a 24 hour showing in a metal and cement storefront across from the NY Times Building on 40th street.
I was early to the opening. Maybe a dozen people stood around inside and upstairs, climbing stairs flanked by a big black cock. A DJ played songs. We drank juice.
Yazmany was thrilled. The Secret Service had come for him the day before while he was setting up the exhibit, masking all the art in brown butcher paper…
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This weekend hundreds of artists will being showing their work, on their terms, in their space, as part of the Bushwick Open Studio & Arts Festival. All you have to do is get off any subway stop in bushwick and grab a guide to the festival.
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Preparing to re-open The Assassination of Barack Obama and The Assassination of Hilary Clinton, Colombian artist Yazmany Arboleda and some friends took an indelicate part of Barack’s anatomy for a guerrilla walk across NYC over the weekend.
Arboleda’s The Assassinations were shut down several months ago after their gallery hosts in Chelsea received extensive pressure (read Secret Service) to pull down the controversial exhibits dealing with the media’s portrayal of Clinton and Obama.
But, as this video shows, Barack is coming back in all his Mandingo glory to NYC when the exhibits go…
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No one asks to be the lord of the moves. People ask to be the lord of the moves. The lord of the moves in mysterious ways.
Dave Franzese is the host of DNCHRD IV. View photos of Dave in the gallery so you know who to slip cash to on the way in AND out.
Get to know Dave as The A Button, DJ Fingertips, Bad, and a landmark.
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the apartment is having another one of its unforgettable events tomorrow night tackling the ultimate in sustainable activities. Come be a part of a conversation so esoteric your IQ goes up by proxy, that is if you can make it inside (usually has a line around the block so come early).
Details after the jump…
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View pictures not of Tony Schultz from The Winger, but the artist never to be known as him.
Get your ticket for team red while they last. DNCHRD is Tuesday May 20th.
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Education Through Music and All Day Buffet host a Battle of the Bands to raise money for inner city music programs next Thursday, May 15.
For the last six months LVHRD member Victor Jeffreys has been “working through the night, under cars, and in back alleys” to bring you this super-secret chance to make a difference.
Four bands of students from Education Through Music have each been assigned a celebrity coach - Jay Jay French (Twisted Sister), Sammy James, Jr (The Mooney Suzuki), Rachel Platten, and Goldspot’s Siddhartha Khosla - to guide them through a…
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Jon Chonko from thehappycorp spent two days going up and down a ladder, pencil stenciling THE AWARDS across this wall at the Art Directors Club.
It’s the kind of thing that makes your eyes believe in God: one minute the words are there and the next minute they’ve spread out into a massive line-flock. The letters exist only because the lines BEND. Lines, bending. Mind, blown.
thehappycorp produced the entire design aesthetic for the 87th ADC Awards with help from Trollbäck. They even brought in some absurdly stellar celebrity DJs to blow everyone’s mind with…
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At last night’s ADC Award’s Gala Tim Harrington of Les Savy Fav took turns blowing our minds with his playlist and regaling us with stories of how unglamorous life as a rockstar can be:
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The multimedia campaign for Halo 3 ate lunch and dinner at the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards, taking home 5 Gold Awards in Broadcast Advertising, Broadcast Art Direction and Integrated Advertising. It is one of the most decorated art projects in history.
For the launch the third game in the Halo series Bungie and Microsoft assembled a truly breathtaking breadth of diorama, video and audio that takes viewers through the Battle for New Mombasa where Earth’s forces clashed with the invading Covenant alien fleet.
The story of battle is…
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thehappycorp, working with the Art Directors Club on the 87th Annual Awards Gala, managed to snag some top-notch creatives DJ at the party tomorrow night.
One of those gentlemen is Jeff Staple, residing behind an imposing black glass door on Orchard St. that serves as the hq for Staple Design.
In addition to being the brains behind some of the biggest projects in streetwear history, Jeff is also a standup dude who knows how to work a party.
There’s still some time to grab tickets to tomorrow’s Gala, where you’ll find Paul Pope, Jakob Trollback, Tim…
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