NewCityMovement

NiteLite July 18th w/ Jesse Walker & Travis Roberts

Power, Corruption & Lies

New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies (Reissue 2008) artwork by Peter Saville used a reprint of a painting from the National Gallery in London by Henri Fantin-Latour called A Basked of Roses. You can have it reprinted here for a song.

A friend tipped me off to another free amazing MJ tribute mix by hip-hop DJ/Remixer J.Period. It's the best I've heard yet, omitting a lot of the overplayed songs with great flow to it. Also check out his Abstract Best of Qtip mix. [Thanks Stewf!]

NCM Visuals

I'm going to start posting some of my design work here on occasion. Here are two club flyers I did in the past few weeks. The first is for Dance Is A Feeling with Danny Dance and my old friend Stephen Bam Bam Santoro who have a party coming up on August 1st at W. Lounge. The second is a logo and flyer I created for Joe DiPadova's ONE, a long running party in Scottsdale AZ. If you dig this stuff, check out my other work at Contact Design or email me at j[at]gomakecontact.com. Also, all the flyers are archived here in the NCM Flyer Gallery.

Is Summer Here?

I finally stumbled upon the Spring/Summer copy of Fantastic Man (magazine) which brings me so much delight. It's a fun read with even it's table of contents and stock lists offering delicious humor. Two things of interest are the release of their namesake cologne with Byredo Parfums and these Fantastic Man shorts (pictured below) that are supposed to be making their debut through American Apparel this summer. I checked the store and website today. No trace of them anywhere but let's hope they materialize. American Apparel could use some style points as we all know. There's only so many shades of 80's you can recycle in cotton or nylon.

Dark Side Of The Sun

Martin Margiela Sci Fi Sunglasses.
 



Styles from Super by RetroSuperFuture.

Existence Is Finite

Amazing, spooky Edgar Allen Poe book illustrations at Flickr. [Thanks James]

Nick Knight + Gareth Pugh, 'Insensate'

Watch this in HQ... AMAZING! More info here.

Design Sponge put out a guide to SLC this week. [Thanks Stewf!]

Summer Blockbusters Will Melt Your Brain

One of my favorite pastimes is reading the very lowest rated reviews for Summer blockbusters at sites like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes. Here's a sampling from Metacritic's survey of the mind melting waste of celluloid called Transformers II:

"The reductio ad absurdum of a summer blockbuster. It is loud (boom!), long (two and a half hours!), incoherent (poorly explained intergalactic warfare!), leering (Megan Fox in short shorts!), racist (jive-talkin' robot twins!), and rife with product tie-ins (Chevy! Hasbro!)." – Slate Dana Stevens

"The special effects are better and the dialogue slightly more humorous than in the first movie, but the anti-Arab subtext is repugnant." – Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

"This Transformers is a pile of glittering junk." – Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

"A horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments." –
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert 

"An impossibly, incomprehensibly overlong and cacophonous bore." – Christian Science Monitor  Peter Rainer 

"Transformers 2 has a shot at the title Worst Movie of the Decade." –
Rolling StonePeter Travers

Valentino Film

Now playing (for one more day).

Four Egg Cartons

Love the texture of these Four Egg Cartons, oil on linen mounted on panel, 12 x 24", 2007 by Chris Wright (via my new favorite design porn source The Strange Attractor). Speaking of eggs, I think we all know who's ga-ga for hens and chickens.

Ephemeral A

ephemeral A from FIELD

An edit of various scenes from our generative animation system. experimenting with agent-based simulations of social network behaviour.

The Catherine Tate Show

The title of the sketch "Aga Saga Woman" is a pun on the stereotype of the pretentious middle classes having an Aga oven at home. An Aga saga is a type of popular novel, set in middle England and populated by the middle classes of the sort that typically own Aga cookers. Agas are kitchen ranges, often very large and expensive, that are seen as epitomizing the prosperous and cosy middle-class English country lifestyle.

(More info at Catherine Tate Show, more clips here.)

Beatles Rock Band Promo

Passion Pictures are responsible for created this stunning promo video for The Beatles 'Rock Band' game. I'm not a huge fan of either but it's pretty incredible. (Thanks Eric @ Tong Media)

Big Fun / Easy Keeper & Farmers Market

Check out my work buddy Whitney and Ryan's letterpress tent called BIG FUN & EASY KEEPER at the Farmers Market this Summer. They are offering exquisite hand screenprinted and letterpressed treasures for a limited time. Give them your money!

It's hard to imagine how or why this guy transformed his apartment into the Starship Enterprise (Next Generation). Apparently he's sick of it now cause he's trying to sell.

  NYC DJ Junior Vasques selling his entire "master" vinyl collection on Ebay for $60,000.