New collab from A-Trak and Dillon Francis, out on Fool’s Gold.
In keeping with the two DJs’ absurd sense of humor, they star in the clip as repairmen who transform a busted ATM into a hard-partying dance machine that takes the big city by storm… until the dough runs out.
Directed by Ben Solomon and Daniel B Levin, and featuring cameos from P-Thugg of Chromeo, rap legend Greg Nice and Action Bronson.
Sleigh Bells offer a dark and dizzy live performance clip to accompany their Reign of Terror cut “Demons”. The band’s Derek Miller co-directs, with Gregory Kohn.
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TweetNas is notoriously private, but on his latest single, “Daughters,” the Queensbridge Don gets pretty personal. He first rapped about baby Destiny Jones on his 1994 single “The World is Yours,” but now Baby Des is a full-blown teenager, and in the video premiering Sunday on MTV Jams, he chronicles their daddy-daughter relationship through her eyes.
TweetMastermind Japan has produced a collaboration with Herman Miller Japan. Sticking to its black theme, the Japanese brand, which is entering its last season of operation, has worked on the classic Eames chair and a small matching table. Both pieces feature subtle branding. Limited to 120 pieces each.
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Setting off from a blithe and basic beginning, Ceulers has spent many long nights with painting: stripping it down, lovingly caressing it, kicking it around the room, taking its bent limbs and girding them with humor and grace, manhandling the poor thing so that you can witness every bruise and tear, each scrape and scratch, the mystical sprays and the many whispering brushstrokes he’s dragged across its long face. When they finally wander out of the studio to hang against the stark white walls of far-flunggalleries, the paintings bear all the marks of his love affair.
He strips the medium right down to its skeleton, peeling away all the unnecessary accouterments laden on poor painting by thousands of years to find out as best he can what the act can presently and personally mean. He endeavors to renovate the ancient practice with works wearing proudly their labors, sometimes singly and sometimes coupled together in handsome pairs. A rapid rigor reveals itself, unwinding through stripes and grids leaving the paintings at the end of the process curiously tender and refreshingly human.
Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2012
Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 South La Cienega Blvd
Unit B
Los Angeles
CA
90016
Claude Lorrain was famous for using the Black Mirror as a painting aid, a small slightly convex mirror with a darkly tinted surface. The use of a blackened rather than an ordinary silvered mirror resulted in a somewhat weakened reflection, which stressed the prominent features in the landscape at the expense of detail. It also lowered the colour key. The painter would turn his back to the scenery and analyze the view through the tinted glass which had the effect of abstracting the subject from the world imbuing it with a painterly quality.
My intention for the exhibition Black Mirror is to create paintings that reflect this world through a different light. The figures depicted are often absorbed in intimate rituals with their back to the viewer, veiling the action and creating a sense of ambiguity where the beholder is free to question the meaning. The specific objective is to create paradoxical images that reflect the psychology of the viewer through their interaction with the mirror- like painted surface, and the subject within. I hope to achieve paintings that can be read as both cruel and compassionate, warm and cold, dark and light. John Stark
Opposite – The Last Continent, 2012, John Stark
Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2012
Ambacher Contemporary
Lothstraße 78a
80799 Munich
Germany
