Rakim Mayers better known by his stage name ASAP Rocky drops a new video for Long Live A$AP. Directed by Rocky and Sam Lecca and features Rocky on the throne presiding over a stark black and white universe.
TweetOn January 1, Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman turns 50 years old. Filter magazine’s current cover takes on the story of the cult Manhattan Beach punks, and in honor of that they’ve compiled Filter Presents: Songs of the Descendents, “an entire album of Descendents covers from some of our favorite bands today.” Los Angeles skate punks FIDLAR have covered “Suburban Home”, with a Spanish spoken-word intro from Anus Kings’ Brian Rodriguez; listen and download above, and hold tight for contributions from the Babies, the Bronx, and YACHT among others.
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Azealia Banks drops BBD (Bad Bitches Do It) on
Soundcloud, produced by Apple Juice Kid with Sup Doodle. Here’s how she described the track on Twitter: “It’s Trap, but it’s Rave. it’s Banjee, But still a lil classy.
Pete Fowler’s version of Nemesis The Warlock from Unbox Industries has been approved by creater Pat Mills himself!
Nemesis stands 15cm tall and features and is non-articulated.
In Kwang Lee’s paintings, the Berlin lakes and the landscapes of Davos shine in a mysterious light. This light is not an observed one, like the Impressionists’ object of study, nor an artificial mise-en-scène. Objects seem to glow from within. Their intrinsic essence shines through, making them look both familiar and strange. It is a perceived light which Kwang Lee brings to expression. Darkness robs her of the most important sense of a painter, and strenghtens her inner feeling for the hidden essence of things.
On the smooth mirrors of the lakes, the artist sets this light in a dialogue with itself. The water surfaces form nature’s canvas. On them we observe, entranced, the reality surrounding us. Due to the refraction of light it appears new to us, in an unusual proportion. The water’s movement dissolves the static quality. Kwang Lee’s pictorial compositions direct the viewer’s gaze time and again to the still and yet stirring mirrors.
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2013
Galerie Son
Mauerstraße 80
10117 Berlin
Germany
Matt Bray’s abstracted figures draw upon personal feelings of alienation, using expressionist techniques to engage with the human body. Bray’s paintings occupy and explore the tensions between subject and object, figuration and abstraction and allows the paint to exist on its own terms.
Being and Nothingness brings together key works to date, from dark forlorn heroes and expressive portraits to a more fragmented figure. Colourful sci-fi inspired canvases see the figure transformed – trashy horror movie monster, neon zombie or dismembered android body parts, now form the subject for Bray’s immediate and impactful approach to painting.
Exhibition runs through to February 16th, 2013
Medway Visitor Information Centre
95 High Street
Rochester
ME1 1LX
