MURDERTRONICS!

Get on this shit muthafuckas! These guys are on some serious fuck you, do your girl and get fucked up party shit! Do that! Myspace em. And download their live set drop here. Word is there may be a Dienasty mixtape cover in the works. Keep an eye out. Above art by Death/Traitors! Check out their new wheels which come as a pack with a tee. Fiyah!

Road Trip!

Dienasty is outta here! We're packing up and headed out west for 2 wks. Portland, LA, San Diego, and Houston. A little R n R. Looking forward to all the people we'll meet, bands we'll hear, beers we'll drink, spots we'll skate, stores we'll check out. We'll try and post from time to time while we're on the road, so check back. Either way we'll have some pics to post at some point. Keep an eye out for stickers poppin up in your area!

French @ Mishka!

TONIGHT! Tees and Prints!

From Mishka...

French’s latest shirt design for Mishka drops July 30, 2009 at the Cursed Scrolls art show at our flagship store 350 Broadway. Cursed Scrolls runs for six weeks and will host the opening party on Thursday, July 30th at 350 Broadway from 7pm – 10pm.

Мишка
350 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY
J/M/Z to Marcy Ave.
G to Broadway
L to Lorimer

PS. Show is super rad and the prints are totally affordable. Get on it!

Dennis McNett @ ThinkSpace LA!

If you're in LA on August 8th (as we will be!) swing by ThinkSpace and check out Dennis McNett's new mini-show! Hell Yeah! Here's a sneak peak.

So Sick!

Steve Caballero still ripping harder than you!

ALESSANDRO ECHEVARRIA!

Check out the work of super talented illustrator and artist, Alessandro Echevarria's work at his radly named website, Skulldaggery.com. Had the pleasure of meeting, skating and hanging out with him recently and he's a super cool dude to boot.

Tera Patrick for Supreme!

Shot by Kenneth Capello for Supreme. More here from Hypebeast.

Cinders Gallery Presesents...

Local Flavor
Octavius Neveaux with Blues Control
Opening reception Tuesday July 28th 7-10pm
Closing reception Saturday August 1st 7-11pm
with performances by Blues Control, SSPS, and Budy Blues

Artwork inspired by Queens Pysch Duo Blues Control that explores the effect music can have on one's artwork as well as the ever-evolving intersection between music and visual art. A record-release closing party features specially curated performances by Blues Control and friends.

More Gold From A Master!

David Lynch is a genius, amazing films and a slew of interesting side projects continue to add to this man's legend. His newest project involves a cross country and back trip across America to document the lives of "real" Americans. Fascinating, melancholy, funny, etc. Sit a spell and watch for yourself here.

Torche/Harvey Milk/Pollution @ Music Hall of WBurg!

TORCHE

HARVEY MILK

POLLUTION

Sunday @ Music Hall of Williamsburg!

Pre NACCC Events NYC!

MBV

10 days till My Bloody Valentine in Virginia



They haven't aged!

Party Time?

Found this cleaning up my computer, not sure where it's from!

Died Young, Stayed Pretty NYC Premiere!

This should be way rad! Opens today at IFC. More on movie here.

Directed by: Eileen Yaghoobian

Friday, July 17 - Thursday, July 23

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in North America. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy. The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they're not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

Tonight at the Whitney Museum!

FREE! July 17 at 7 pm
Abe Vigoda / Grooms

Part of the LA scene centered around The Smell, Abe Vigoda emerges from a shared background of punk, no wave, and pop. Alternating from melodic and tropical to hardnosed and heavy, Abe Vigoda's sound is equal parts Beefheart and My Bloody Valentine with a haunting pulse and a DIY attitude all its own.
myspace.com/abevigoda

Grooms are Travis Johnson, Emily Ambruso, and Gabriel Wurzel, three friends who play a structurally mutilated brand of noise-pop featuring blissful interplay, sonic experimentation, and song destruction. Recordings have showcased sounds from broken noise-surf to campfire-seance drone. Grooms (formerly The Muggabears) continue to craft songs filled with beauty, gloom, and irony-free whimsy.
myspace.com/groomstheband

Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers

Just stumbled on to this 2003 Swedish documentary. Although I'd call it video art before I'd call it a documentary. Its quite stunning. The tire graveyard is jawdropping.

New Hellz!

HELLZ SPECIAL DELIVERY & SHORT FILM, "KICKS AFTER SIX" from HELLZ on Vimeo.

Always liked this brand, hot designs for hot girls with attitude. Check it out here.

Dan Witz!

from slamxhype, thanks.

New series, Dark Doings, on the streets of NYC! Heads up! Check out more from Dan here.

for your keys!

Yeah right, can think of a lot more fun things to put into this other than change. Get one here.

Victor Wins 1st Place at the Courier Classic!

Congratulations to Victor on winning the grueling Courier Classic on Saturday here in NYC! And doing it in style rockin' our new One Hit Wonder tee! Seen here with photographer extraordinaire, Tak, of New York Bike Dreams. Congratulations also go out to Cali for rolling into 3rd place while rocking our new NYDN tee! Thanks guys for the support!

Peel Sessions in the NY Times!

John "Prolly" Watson gets interviewed about his weekly Peel Sessions! Audio slide show as well! Nice work!

Team Dienasty at the Red Bull/Trackstar Courier Classic!

Victor and Cali are racing in the Courier Classic today, representin' Dienasty with some tees and bandanas! We wish them luck and we'll see you later at rhe Red Bull Space after the race!

Sarah Palin was a GRIT

Thinking about Todd Palin nailin Sarah and this other chick after the big game gives me a boner. I can smell the denim and hairspray.

Mishka X Fucked Up X Milton Glaser!

from High Snobiety...

Mishka gets together with Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up on a collaborative t-shirt. Being mutual fans and supporters of each other’s works, the Mishka design team worked closely with Fucked Up front man Damian “Pink Eyes” Abraham to ensure the shirt signified everything they love about Mishka and New York. Both Mishka and Abraham threw caution to the wind taking Milton Glasser’s timeless “I Love New York “ design and fusing it with the well known logos of both Mishka and Fucked Up.

The special t-shirt will be released at The Pool Partiesʼ Fucked Up show on Sunday July 12th, which is being held at the East River Skate Park. Damian’s going to be chucking them from the stage! Then look for an Mishka in-store and online release the following Monday, July 13th.

Pool Parties Return!

This Sunday...Mission of Burma, Fucked Up, Ponytail and Jemina Pearl. More here.

RVA ALLEYCAT!

If you're in Richmond Va. this weekened there is an alleycat organized by our friend Craig. Sponsored by DIENASTY, Affinity, Outlier, and Norman Porter Company bags! NYC represent!

Starts at The Robert E. Lee Monument.

Way to go Craig!

Black Anvil @ RockStar Bar

Red Bull Trackstar Courier Classic

random vid

Ad Hoc Presents Willoughby Windows Project!

Willoughby Windows Friday, July 10th, 2 - 7pm
An ambitious creative venture featuring 12 storefronts on an entire block (88-106 Willoughby) of downtown Brooklyn which will highlight installations by 15+ artists.
The opening will be a street party on Friday, June 19th, from 2-7pm.
Some of New York's artistic finest will be representing to the fullest.

Some of the artists included in this event will be:
Ad Hoc Art staff/interns, Cannonball Press, Chris Stain, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Ellis G,
Gaia, Greg Lamarche, John Ahearn, Josh MacPhee, Lady Pink, Logan Hicks, Michael De Feo, Morning Breath, and Tom Beale.
Also, some very special guests will be documenting our efforts,
including Charlie Ahearn, Martha Cooper, Art Jones, and Luna Park.
The party will be featuring entertainment by
DJ $mall Change, DJ Painted, and Lady Circus.
Food will be provided from local vendors.

Lichen Opens @ Factory Fresh!

Straight from São Paulo
Factory Fresh presents
LORO VERZ,
APOLO TORRES & MUNDANO

Friday, July 10th 7-10pm
Show runs till July 26th, 2009

Paul Green's School Of Rock!

Metalocalypse rules! But I do wish they'd bring back Korgoth Of Barbaria!

Evil Bong 2 - King Bong!

Evil Bong 2 King Bong - Trailer
by ohmygore

Disposable II - A Skateboard Collector's Bible!

Sean Cliver has done it again! From Ginkgo Press...

Disposable II - A Skateboard Collector's Bible
With the release of Disposable - A History of Skateboard Art in 2004, author Sean Cliver made a brilliant attempt at artfully cataloging every important skateboard deck ever released. In the process, he created a classic, but was left feeling less than whole. Ever the completist, the gaping omissions in the first book gnawed at him and drove him to envision compiling “the” ultimate encyclopedia of Skateboard decks. While Disposable was beautiful, capturing the essence of the aesthetic, Disposable II sets out to be the Bible. The author's industry insider status (in 1989, he landed his first job as a designer at Powell-Peralta) allows him to walk the reader through the culture, the art and the mania with authority. While the boards take center stage, fascinating vignettes and recollections by a who's who of skateboarding round out the book.

And another...

This opened last Thursday and is running until July 26th!

from Cinders Gallery...

Cinders Gallery is proud to present a 2 person show with Philadelphia artists Isaac Lin and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, who are old friends, collaborators, and founding members of the Space 1026 Collective. With a joyful color palate, a side-splitting humorous side, and an endearing sincerity, these seemingly lackadaisical yet awesomely prolific artists perfectly represent the attitude and nonchalance of Space 1026's decade-plus history of serious art-making.

There are multiple elements of Arabic calligraphy, musical notation, graffiti, and geometry in Isaac Lin's drawings, prints, and paintings. A repetitive rhythmic flow takes your eyes up, down, and across the page with colors, shapes, spray paint bursts, iconic faces, monsters, and cartoon dog heads. Using screen-printing techniques, gouache, markers, and collage, there is a depth to the layers of textures and colors, a visual hypnosis of patterns that seem to spread like a positive plague across walls inside and out, on found pieces of paper or even on top of photographs.

Andrew Jeffrey Wright also uses hypnotic patterning in his prints and paintings-checkerboards bend and weave, bursts of colors explode, and deconstructed lines form new patterns from old ones. Wright also paints and draws in a naïve yet efficiently done style that uses a large library of hilarious imagery, from invented characters like his series of Labrador dogs with ab muscles to nostalgic pop culture references such as an E.T. - Mr.T hybrid, Furbies, and Rainbow Brite. His potty humor can be silly but is able to retain a poignancy that is both thought-provoking and sincere.

Days Late, Dollas Short...

Can't always stay on top of everything...Ben Frost @ Brooklynite Gallery. Go before it closes!

Golden Bones July Residency!

The fine gentlemen of Golden Bones are making the magic happen again. Starting tonight they begin their every Friday in July residency at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg! Don't miss this if you're a fan of indie country rock, sweet tunes, and mega talent! Also playing tonight is Little Gold. Sounds like a shiny show! Free!!! So now you have no excuse.

Bombing Down Broadway!

July 4th Alleycat Madness!

Basil Wolverton @ Gladstone Gallery!

Hell yeah! Influential to say the least. Don't sleep on this opportunity to see this man's work!

From Gladstone Gallery...
Basil Wolverton
Curated by Cameron Jamie
515 West 24th Street, New York
June 20 to August 14, 2009
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by American graphic artist and cartoonist Basil Wolverton curated by Cameron Jamie. Basil Wolverton submitted his first cartoon for publication in 1925 when he was only sixteen and remained an active cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1970s. His unique and humorously grotesque drawings reveal both his fantastic wit and inventive technique, once famously described in LIFE Magazine as the “spaghetti and meatball school of design.” Wolverton had no formal training as an artist, creating his own style that distinguished him from the other cartoonists of his generation. As he said, “I know I draw things that look like all kinds of organs and glands, it is like the monkey which, if he pounded away for a million years, might accidentally type out the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ lyrics.” Generations of artists including Peter Saul, Ed Ruscha, Robert Williams, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, and Cameron Jamie have been influenced by his meticulous technique and pictorial freedom, in addition to its undeniable impact on numerous cartoonists from R. Crumb to Drew Friedman.

This exhibition includes a wide spectrum of Wolverton’s work from his earliest drawings published in numerous comic books, including “Spacehawk” and “Powerhouse Pepper,” to his very detailed caricatures, with sculpted and exaggerated features. Perhaps the most famous body of work in the exhibition are his drawings for Harvey Kurtzman’s comic-book version of MAD Magazine from the 1950s. Also included are portraits made for Topps Chewing Gum in the 1960s, which appeared on bubble gum posters and stickers. Wolverton turned to illustrating Biblical themes and events in his later years, represented here by thirteen drawings from the Apocalypse series based on the Book of Revelation. These drawings are regarded among his finest and many of these illustrations were reproduced in Plain Truth magazine.

Born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon, Basil Wolverton resided for most of his life in the Pacific Northwest until his death in 1978. His work has been published in a variety of magazines and comic books, from MAD Magazine, America’s Humor Magazine, The Portland News, Plop! and Hollywood Today. His work has been featured in Timely Comics, Circus Comicsand Target Comics. He also contributed to the Li’l Abner Comic Strip and LIFE Magazine. In 2006, his work was exhibited at The Portland Art Center in Oregon and in 2007 the CSUF Grand Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented a solo exhibition of Wolverton’s oeuvre from the collection of Glenn Bray. The works selected and presented in this exhibition are also from Bray’s private archive/collection.

Happy Birthday America!

Please don't try this at home or anywhere else! It's Die"nasty" not Die"stupid".

PROLLY BLOGGED!

We got blogged by none other than John "Prolly" Watson of Prolly Is Not Probably! Pretty pysched. If you don't know Prolly Is Not Probably, it's John's blog to primarily all things bike, specifically track bikes and more specifically to doing crazy badass tricks on them. He also blogs about his other passions of architecture, fashion, and music. Very eclectic! If you want to see the cutting edge of trick track riding, check out the progression in real time, as it happens all over the world and finds it way, through daily posts, to John's blog. And if you don't know John himself, he is part of that leading edge as he pushes himself and others at his weekly Peel Sessions here in Brooklyn. Here you'll find kids pushing the envelope of what is possible on bikes that were never meant to be so abused! Fun!

Thanks John!

Them Thangs!

So a good friend passed along this blog of random radness. Justin Blyth, designer and animator, is the man behind it. Go there at your risk, be prepared for some good ol' time wasting! You might just see more of this here from time to time, picking out some classics. Check out the blog here and Justin's portfolio site here.

I.L.B.T. from Freshjive! NSFW

Crazy video from Freshjive featuring their Summer 09 line. Nice!