16 July 2009

JONATHAN GLAZER: WRANGLER JEANS COMMERCIAL



Great jeans, great commercial by Jonathan Glazer for Wrangler Jeans.

THE DEAD WEATHER cover GARY NUMANs 'ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC'



The Dead Weather do Gary Numan's, the Electronic Jesus 'Are Friends Electric' proper.

THE DEAD WEATHER: LIVE AT THE VIC, CHICAGO JULY 28-29



The Dead Weather featuring: Allison Mosshart (the Kills), Jack White (the White Stripes), Jack Lawrence (the Raconteurs) & Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) have released their much anticipated album "Horehound'.
Jonathan Glazer directs the Dead Weather's film short 'Treat me like your Mother', a true love story or is it a seriously fucked up take on the classic tale of 'boy sees girl, boy unloads automatic machine gun into girl, girl pops two or three hundred caps into boys ass, bullet riddled boy stumbles off into sunset'?
The Dead Weather play at The Vic, Chicago on July 28th and 29th.

15 July 2009

DASH SNOW: NYC ARISTIST, 27 AND DEAD

Dash Snow, NYC rock-star photographer & artist, dead of a heroine overdose at 27. He was also a graffiti writer (aka SACER) who ran with the infamous NYC IRAK CREW.

"His death has shocked anyone who had any contact with him or knew his work. The drugs were all there in the artwork (and the rumours), but so was a sense of real beauty and honesty. It wasn't necessarily the aesthetic of his work, but its independence that made it so influential. He simply didn't give a shit." * guardian.co.uk

12 July 2009

AGNES VARDA: LOS ANGELS GRAFFITI & GANGLIFE 1981



A note on IMDB explains:

"The French director Agnes Varda spent a couple of different years in Los Angeles, and this particular year produced her documentary "Murs, murs" and her fiction film "Documenteur". The title means "Walls, walls", but also puns with the word "murmurs." Varda located dozens of murals around LA and filmed them. Many of these are gone today, so this is a true documentary, documenting a wonderful aspect of southern Californian visual culture. She interviews the artists, a truly multicultural and multicolored group--and shows the paintings in their urban contexts. One memorable scene shows a mural at Venice Beach with young people dancing in front of it (probably near where their sons and daughters are roller skating or skateboarding now). An enjoyable movie by a European with deep aesthetic appreciation for marvelous, imaginative, colorful imagery that was considered throwaway pop culture at the time. "

See more videos by/ about Agnes Varda at YouTube.com.