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Monday, January 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM
aNYthing is proud to present Venus X in our Spring and Summer 2012 Collection.
Venus X is an artist and producer born in Harlem and grew up in Washington Heights. She has recently made a name for herself in NYC’s underground music and art scene. Probably the most loved and most hated of her generation of punks, Venus is a new breed of bad girl branded by the phrase, IDGAF I DONT GIVE A FUCK. In 2009 she created a party called GHE20G0TH1K, merging opposite ends of music; the hood, the internet, the gangster, the nerd, the dancer…GHE20G0TH1K is recognized locally as the best party in NYC by Fader, New York Magazine and Village Voice, among others. Her sets contain raw blends of songs across multiple genres, bridging club variations and street anthems from around the world and transcending music eras. These sets are often experimental employing live-mixed sound effects instead of songs, live chopped and screwed remixes and opting for narratives before BPM matching. Venus uses the cdj as a sampler/drum pad and produces live remixes and new tracks by isolating loops and experimenting with blends.
Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 7:31 PM
 JACK WEBB SUSPECTS HIS PARENTS
BOOK SIGNING
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1st AT FAMILY BOOKSTORE IN L.A.
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KIKI & SLEEPY
WILD JOY
KEDEEM & FRIEND
OTHELLO
MICHAEL JOHNSTON
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 3:41 PM
NEXT TIME: A time-based presentation of future consciousness and interpretations of the near future
A compiling of works that are looking forward to the semblance of 2012, 201…3, and beyond
Admission: $10 includes – epic experience, alcohol, and a copy of the NEXT TIME publication
Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11249
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Friday, January 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM
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When I was a kid and the Internet first became a resource for my aesthetic fix
I would cruise the information highway looking for photos of anything I knew I liked.
From dragon ball-z to my at the time inappropriate appreciation of scantily-clad women
(I was 8) I could not be stopped. Feverishly hunting every dark corner and crevice,
itching to find that one image that satisfied my craving for media. File, Print, OK. File,
Print, OK. Next thing I knew I had 50 pages of mostly white paper with thumbnail sized
images in the top left corner. I would take these images, cut them, and carefully arrange
them on my bedroom walls. The clusters of printed out images became a shrine to those
ideas that were important to me at that time in my life. Each image came from a different
place, no one picture was posted the same person, no two pictures came from the same
source. The fact of the matter was, albeit unbeknownst to each “artist” (source), it was a
collaborative effort, these shrines of mine.
“I’ll Tell You What You Tell Me When,” a new photography show curated by
Tyler Healy now open at the Lesley Heller Workspace (open through this weekend)
brings artists together in a similarly collaborative effort. The yellow themed show
(Healy’s previous shows were equally monochromatic, both done in blue and green)
features photos arranged in tight clusters, printed on what appears to be regular Xerox
paper. The effect of the clusters is a welcome relief from the linear arrangement of most
gallery shows. There is a frenetic energy to the composition Healy has curated. Instead of
sitting lifeless and isolated on the wall, the photos work in concert with each other,
contributing their dissimilar voices to create a harmonious vernacular. Each photo,
whether obscuring or being obscured, achieves a symbiosis with the photos around it.
Each cluster is a shrine in its own right, at the very least to color and composition.
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aNYthing (or ‘A New York Thing’) are the NY based brand run by ex-Supreme store employee and all round cool king of New York, Aaron Bondaroff, have given us the chance to exclusively showcase their Spring / Summer 2012 collection. The conditions for the shoot however were far from anything resembling spring or summer (it was bloody freezing) but Sarah braved it out, and we got it done on the roof of Present on Shoredtich High Street.
The collection is everything we’ve come to expect from the brand. Awesome snapbacks, varying t-shirt graphics and thick jumpers. That’s one of the things I actually want to focus on. The fit. A lot of new brands miss a trick with fits of clothing, and forget that its so important. If you’ve got the sickest graphic ever but your t-shirt is badly sourced and fits like shit, nobody is going to wear it. Some people complain that brands like aNYthing, Supreme etc, are all a little pricey, but have you seen the quality of their garments? Have you seen the stitch quality and fabric selection? I’m by no means suggesting that aNYthing are a new brand, they aren’t at all. But I’m justifying why they’re in the position they are and your shitty t-shirt brand can’t sell it’s first ‘collection’ on your bigcartel store.
aNYthing kill it on this front, I keep returning to their shirts and t-shirts because they not only fit so well, but they are constructed so much better than most, and that’s important to a 6′ 3″ clumsy luddite with a habit of destroying clothes. The hat’s too are better than most. The most noticeable thing is that they actually fit properly on my giant head, the proportions are right and more often than not little details are on point, like leather straps instead of the standard snap back.
I’m aware I’ve ranted here but I just wanted to get across that one of aNYthing’s key strengths is their attention to detail in the places that matter most. Fit, fabric, and quality. A thing that most brands are missing.
aNYthing Spring / Summer 2012
-Tom
BREAKSof10
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Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 2:55 AM
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 5:50 PM
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Spanky and Nina
Drawings and Sculpture
January 18 through February 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 7 – 10pm
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Avenue (between 5th & 6th Streets)
NYC, NY 10003
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FOR THE SAKE OF THE GLOB, INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT, AND EVERY OTHER WEBSITE ON THE NET!
MORE INFO HERE
 
 
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B L O W I N G A D R E A M
January 21st – February 21st
Opening Reception:
Saturday January 21st
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
In Blowing A Dream, Brendan Lynch’s first solo exhibition to take place in the United States, painting, sculpture and installation are brought together in a conversation about art viewed online. Surfing the internet, images streaming in blog format, lead Lynch through an expanse of visual information. Inspired by the process of meandering amongst transient iconography, Lynch initiates brief conversations of one-liners in misused material.
The artist’s canvas and easel, frozen in the eternal drab of cement, is Never Titled; a sarcastic remark on materials inescapably associated with art-making. The emptiness and banality of these forms in cement solidifies the stereotype of the artwork, monumentalizing its form by trivializing its function.
The ephemera of fallen paint, dust settled along the perimeter of the exhibition, is colored powder sanded from a painted surface. In his appreciation of the impact that such idle product has in the chance of beauty, Lynch rediscovers his discarded medium.
This pastoral wandering, online and in the studio, is his ambition to create.
Still House
481 Van Brunt St. 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 9:08 PM
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 11:49 PM
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