our first and favorite sponsor, TEKSERVE, the fabled ‘Mac’ Store on 23rd Street, made art & tech history with their first ever 15 second ipod ‘loop’ (to call it an ‘ad’ would be a grave injustice, but that’s what it was). An inspired bit of live action, involving hundreds of iPods, filmed at the store, and produced by real TEKSERVE employees, who more often, than not, are talented artists, musicians, writers, and cameramen, as well as tech wizs, on their day job, – it was on the ‘net’ – almost the minute they hit the finished button.
you can still see it on: gizmodo
The brainchild of TEKSERVE’S DICK DEMENUS, over 60,000 dollars worth of iPods were lined up and fall domino style in the store, in a path leading up to the iPod sales counter. The rapid click click click as they hit the ground is one of the best parts. The seamless, 15 second, loop, feels like an animation, but is totally live action. It will be (literally) huge when it is screened on the 15 x 30 foot giant LED screens at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN:
MAY 1 – JULY 30, 2006 – so there’s still time to catch it, large scale, if you are in the area.
tekserve
~TEKSERVE/15 sec iPod tumble |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 4:03pm
JORDAN SEILER, ‘REMOVAL SATISFIES THE CONDITION’, an installation of absconded street objects, such as light boxes, advertising signs (and large ones, at that), telephone booths, and other assorted objects, that were then transformed into the most beautiful and somber minimalist art. seeing is believing, photos from the opening and subsequent installation visits, post soon. The show also included grainy low-fi footage of the ‘hijackings’. The show ran from April 14 – May 5, 2006, at THE CANAL CHAPTER aka 1134NYC.
photos from the opening
THE CANAL CHAPTER
~JORDAN SEILER/The Canal Chapter |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:26pm
MIN KIM opened ‘hour of the siege’ an exhibition of her new works, at atm gallery, on March 23, 2006. The show took over both atm spaces, and ran until April 22, 2006. Above, MIN KIM, and ‘Inevitability of unpredictable outcomes’, 2006.
Min Kim was born in Seoul, KOREA, in 1975, and is now based in NYC. She attended the New World School of the Arts, in Miami, FL in 1993. In 1996 she studied at the Student Art Center International, in Florence ITALY. In 1997 she received an MD B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute, Colllege of Art, Baltimore.
MIN KIM with ‘Behind the trees, in the snow, I want to bury everything’, 2006.
Photos: Nancy Smith, atm gallery, April 1, 2006
more photos from the opening
atm
~MIN KIM/atm |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:13pm
Abe Lincoln, Jr. – ‘EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH’ – at the opening of the Abe Lincoln, Jr.
performance and art show, Dec 1, 2005, at Orchard St Gallery, on the Lower East Side, NYC. The show ran from Dec 1 – Jan 6, 2006.
Photo: Nancy Smith
more photos from the opening
more photos of Abe Lincoln, Jr.’s work, from the March 25, 2006, closing party, the ENDLESS LOVE CREW (ELC) open jam painting session at the Chashama Center Gallery.
~Abe Lincoln, Jr./TAQUERIA PENDEJO |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 3:03pm
Photo: Nancy Smith, NYC, Nov 19, 2005
NOAH LYON and ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT at the opening of: ‘ART IS A SMILE THAT GIVES YOU A HUG’, a collection of work in various mediums by Mr. Wright. The show ran from Nov 19 – Dec 21, 2005, at Giant Robot New York, on 9th Street, in the East Village.
Noah Lyon is the creative dynamo behind the Art Lovers Photo Report hotlinked ad/logo site: ‘retard riot’.
to see ‘retard riot’ (the third ad/logo on the 2nd row) and photos of the opening:
‘ART IS A SMILE THAT GIVES YOU A HUG’
~NOAH LYON/ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:52pm
Photo: ASHLEY REID, ‘Stuffed’, 2004, large format camera, photograph mounted on aluminium.
from the show: ‘Ridykeulous’, curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, PARTICIPANT, March 10 – April 2, 2006
(image scanned from the catalog)
ASHLEY REID, recently graduated from SVA with a B.F.A., major in photography, and until recently, has been the gallery manager at DANIEL REICH GALLERY. She’s now set her sights on pursuing a full time career. She just had her first one man show, ‘ASHLEY REID – DEVESTATINGLY GOOD TIMES’ , an exhibit of her large scale, staged, & very fictional, narrative self-portraits, at NOWHERE GALLERY, in Milan, ITALY.
photos from the PARTICIPANT, ‘Ridykeulous’ opening
first photos of ASHLEY
~ASHLEY REID/Ridykeulous |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:27pm
Photo: K8 HARDY, ‘Fashionfashion Kitchen Look’, 2006, large scale, c-print, self-portrait.
scanned from the catalog, ‘Ridykeulous’, ‘Annual Kids Issue!’, ‘Memo from GOD! Evolution is Finally Over!’ – “THIS PUBLICATION CREATED ENTIRELY BY THE POWER OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN AND LEO KOENIG GALLERY”.
‘Ridykeulous’ catalog cover, artwork: ‘Choo-Choo’ by SUZANNE WRIGHT
‘Ridykeulous’ curated by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, at PARTICIPANT, ran from MARCH 10 – APRIL 2, 2006.
artlovers wrote this about the show on the MARCH – APRIL 2006 home page:
… ‘there’s a huge in-your-face, full frontal, show up at PARTICIPANT. ‘Ridykeulous’ is fresh, dynamic and full of hard charging art energy. The show transcends sexual politics with a visual and often witty, celebration of radical gender attitudes that cascades towards the funny, the happy, and the flat-out defiant. Curated with huge energy, by A.L. Steiner and Nicole Eisenman, the show is full of many different kinds of work, in too many media to list, but 2 more photographs, apart from k8 Hardy’s striking self- portrait above, which defines the mood of the show in split second, A.L. STEINER has a photo of Ponyboy, that makes one stop in their tracks, and ASHLEY REID has a pretty amazing staged self-portrait of herself in an Afro, naked on a rug ! with a Dolly Parton look alike – included for good measure. The show runs wild at PARTICIPANT, MARCH 10 – APRIL 2, 2006′.
PARTICIPANT
photos from the opening
~K8 HARDY/SUZANNE WRIGHT/Ridykeulous |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 24th, 2006, 2:04pm
feels, the second CD by the New York based Animal Collective,
is probably the most important alternative CD of 2005. A real gem of an album,
it marches forward from where the Animal Collective left us in 2004,
when they released their legendary debut CD – Sung Tongs .
The feels CD, like Sung Tongs, continues the
Animal Collective’s search for new sounds, while at the same time being much
more accessible. In comparison to Sung Tongs, feels,
has a lot more lyrics, which help flesh out the meaning of the songs.
This does not stop the group from using those lyrics as an abstract sound
element in their quest to explore new sonic territory. Surprisingly all
this experimentation does not result in self-indulgence.
The new CD is as tight as Sung Tongs in its desire to create
new musical paths towards emotive authenticity.
It’s the sexiest experimental music we’ve ever heard . .
IF artlovers had a soundtrack – this would be it !
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, feels, Fat Cat Records 2005
Layout by Rob Carmichael
animal collective
~Animal Collective |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews | By Simon Cerigo | April 26th, 2006, 10:07am
DEVENDRA BANHART & his back-up tour band: HAIRY FAIRY appeared in an amazing photo shoot in the MEN’S FASHION SPRING 2006 issue of: THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE – titled:
‘GENDER TROUBLE’ – “IT’S A BOY. IT’S A GIRL. IT’S ANDROGYNY. DAPHNE MERKIN PEEKS UNDER THE SKIRT OF FASHION’S LATEST PASSION.”
PHOTOGRAPHY BY: JEAN-BAPTISTE MONDINO
all images scanned from: THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE – MEN’S FASHION SPRING 2006.
some quotes from the text by DAPHNE MERKIN:
“Gender, as anyone who has sipped at the supremely relativizing potion of postmodernist theory has come to understand, is a fragile construct, wobbling atop its binary foundation. ….
“whether he (Banhart) is dressed in a regulation suit and tie offset only with a brooch and a bracelet, or decked out in flowing robes accessorized with strands of oversize beads, there is something about his presence, as there is about the rest of his languishing tribe, that subverts our cruder epectations of what it means to be feminine or masculine. Perhaps it’s only that they give those of us who sedulously avoid the taint of transgression in our own more workaday performances pause to reflect on the endless mystery of gender.
“Might it be more of a floating signifier than a fixed set of attributes?
“And are we, in the end, only as blue or pink as we feel?”
~DEVENDRA BANHART/The New York Times Style Magazine |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 24th, 2006, 5:44pm
CocoRosie/Musicians – Photographed by ROBERT MAXWELL – image scanned from THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE – WOMEN’S FASHION SPRING 2006.
BIANCA CASADY (left) and her older sister, SIERRA, are the NYC Indie cult band of the moment. They recently toured with ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, to introduce their 2nd album, ‘NOAH’S ARK’.
BIANCA CASADY aka RED BONE SLIM opened ‘RED BONE SLIM VS. ITSELF: An Exhibition of Drawings’ on March 9, 2006, in the AFF Storefront, 123 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side.
from the press release:
… “these drawings trespass through themes of gender/race disphoria and familial roles .. to the meditative psychadelia of possession states and third eye travel”.
RED BONE SLIM’S past shows include ‘Yo mire un garza mora dandole combate a un rio’ – a group show curated by DEVENDRA BANHART at the ATELIER CARDENAS BELLANGER in Paris, September 2005 & another DEVENDRA BANHART show at ROTH HOROWITZ in NYC, in December of 2004. SLIM’S work can be seen on the album sleeves of CocoRosie’s ‘La Maison de mon Reve’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’ – as well as on the cover of the Voodoo-EROS compilation ‘The Enlightened Family’.
The opening was amazing – a kind of modern day Freida Kahlo meets THE THIRD EYE and gets rid of that boring mural painter boyfriend. Even Antony, of Antony and the Johnsons, who has so much charisma in person it is unbelieveable, showed up, in the final minutes. There were sparse strings of colored lights & fragile colored tissue paper cut-outs of mysterious symbols adding to the festive, but charged & low-key ambience.
photos from the opening: ‘RED BONE SLIM VS. ITSELF’, an exhibition of drawings,
by BIANCA CASADY, aka RED BONE SLIM, The Voodoo-EROS Museum of Nice Items, (**AFF**), March 9, 2006
more photos of: MILITIA SHIMKOVITZ & ‘The Enlightened Family’ compiliation, artwork by BIANCA CASADY aka RED BONE SLIM
voodoo-EROS
~CocoRosie |
Posted in The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | April 24th, 2006, 4:44pm
