Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Wilco at the Greek Theater, Berkeley CA


Wilco played an outstanding set from 8:30pm - 11pm, covering a large portion of their catalog. Tweedy and "co" performed to the Berkeley crowd with a great deal of energy and humility.


Wednesday, June 24, 2009

FIXED SF edition Nike I.D.

Arrived in the mail today!







FIXED SF
Influenced by my bike, I spent an hour at the Nike ID studio with a design consultant creating a pair of Nike Dunks that represent the fixed gear culture. This is the result.







Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Live Blogging the Atlas Cafe and Gallery - Mission Dist. San Francisco

The Atlas Cafe has not only a great menu - breakfast lunch, din, cool staff and a dog friendly seating area outside, but an amazing local artist gallery. Right now they are featuring one of their own employees, Josh Farrell.

Josh's work is a veriety of imagery collaged together often with a subtle or subconscious homoerotic undertone to question strucures and beliefs of his and our own sexuality.

Portrait of the artist

Monday, June 15, 2009

Me w/ Fonseca and Kiano in the background at the flats

Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool

Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool

Long-term Installation

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool, an extraordinary and visually confounding installation by the Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool will be on view in P.S.1’s unique, double-height Duplex gallery from October 19, 2008 through April 13, 2009.

Leandro Erlich is known for installations that seem to defy the basic laws of physics and befuddle the viewer, who is introduced into jarring environments that momentarily threaten a sense of balance or space. For this exhibition, Erlich presents one of his most well-known and critically acclaimed pieces, Swimming Pool. Speaking about the project, Erlich says: “When I first visited P.S.1, I remember thinking how perfect the Duplex space would be for the installation of Swimming Pool. This space divided the experience of seeing the work perfectly, and in the correct order. Almost ten years since its creation, Swimming Pool is finally in the exhibition space for which I have always felt is so perfectly suited.”

Erlich has constructed a full-size pool, complete with all its trappings, including a deck and a ladder. When approached from the first floor, visitors are confronted with a surreal scene: people, fully clothed, can be seen standing, walking, and breathing beneath the surface of the water. It is only when visitors enter the Duplex gallery from the basement that they recognize that the pool is empty, its construction a visual trick fashioned by the artist. A large, continuous piece of acrylic spans the pool and suspends water above it, creating the illusion of a standard swimming pool that is both disorienting and humorous.

Leandro Erlich (b. 1973, Buenos Aires) has been exhibiting his work internationally for over ten years. He has had solo shows at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (2003); MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (2006), and Le Grand Café, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Nazaire (2005). He represented Argentina at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), where he showed Swimming Pool, and was also featured in the Singapore Biennale (2008), the Liverpool Biennial (2008), 7th Havana Biennale (2001), the 7th Istanbul Biennial (2001), the 3rd Shanghai Biennale (2002), the 1st Busan Biennale (2002), and the 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004). His work will be shown in the upcoming Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial in 2008. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.

The exhibition is made possible by David Teiger, Estrellita B. Brodsky and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

K-ramp'n

Fonseca Films

Chris Fonseca creator of Fonseca Films, is an active force in the fixed gear biking community. Chris has been filming on a regular basis to show the cultural movement from young talents to O.G.'s on track bikes.
Photo's taken from www.timothymar.blogspot.com features, Kiano, Fonseca and a few others...

Line Drawings with flowers

Line Drawings

A collaboration Cassie and I co-created at Cronkite Beach. What is a line drawing? Do you need a pen or a pencil? We worked with what we found and gathered. The sky made for a nice canvas. The flowers Cassie picked made for some nice lines. The winds made for some nice marks and compositions. Here are some of the results.

Photos by Cassie Tregellas - http://www.acrackinthewall.com

Another day at the islands, Ferry Bldg. San Francisco, CA

Photos by Cassie Tregellas - http://www.acrackinthewall.com

Another day at the islands - Ferry Building, San Francisco CA

NYC

Poster Art on Mercer on the way to Nike ID studio

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Love this image.

Obama wearing a Chè wearing a "Hope" Obama shirt.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Chari & co.

If you ride a track bike and live in NY, this is where you shop. Run
by just two Japanese guys, Chari&co. has the best vintage track bikes
to choose from.