Vinyl Toys. Sometimes putting down a paycheck to cop these beauties feels like a guilty pleasure but I can say I don’t regret skipping a meal or two for a custom Brent Nolasco Vinyl Toy. This Saturday, Crewest will be releasing some of the illest Vinyl Toys from a hot list of artists who’ve designed their own unique creations for The Customized Buddy Creations. Starting with a blank 8” buddy, the resulting product from each artist is purely one of a kind. The release of these toys will →

Sunn O)) & Boris is proud to present the return of All Tomorrow’s Parties to Kutsher’s Country Club, Monticello for the third ATP New York festival over Labor Day weekend. It has also been announced that on the last day of the event, Sunday the 5th, legendary film-maker Jim Jarmusch will be guest curator for the day. The party starts on Friday the 3rd of September kicking off the event with performances by Iggy & the Stooges, Sleep, Mudhoney, The Scientists, and more. On →

An Eggcellent Spring Event!
The Standard – Hollywood, CA
4/3/10

The good folks Tweetcrawl will be presenting their 4th Annual Spring event at The Standard (in Hollywood.)  Join them this Saturday, April 3rd from 3p-5p for a good old fashioned Ping Pong tournament! The Tweetcrawl Ping Pong champion will win respect, bragging rights, and a free night stay at The Standard, Hollywood! →

The Deli Magazine is celebrating their 5th year anniversary in Williamsburg with featured artists, Midnight Masses, Beach Fossils, London Souls, Locksley and more. Founded by musician and artist, Paolo De Gregario, The Deli Magazine started out as a magazine striving to give exposure to emerging NYC artists and has been a platform for artists to perform at live events organized by →

Design in the Blood
Design Opinion

Without a doubt, the 80′s are back in vogue. Fluorescent accents, hi-top sneakers, velcro… the whole nine yards. In truth it’s one of many short-lived fads that come and go on an ever increasingly speedy timeline, and there’s certainly no shortage of retailers and consumers who jump on the bandwagon with the arrival of the latest trends. I personally gravitate more towards the classic elements of style – a crisp fedora, a pair of chucks, a well-cut blazer, a pair of straight-leg raw denim jeans – though some of these things oft find their way into the hipster’s visual vocabulary there’s no faulting that which is timeless in its look, quality and attention to detail.

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The short film tells the story of a fifteen-year-old Moroccan who is the only heavy metal fan in his town Essaouira. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock. →

This live performance by El Guincho was filmed in the dense Rainforest at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The NHM’s rainforest is home to dozens of birds and other rainforest creatures, subtly and realistically camouflaged within the thick greenery. →

Artwork by Amanda Visell
Natural History Museum- Los Angeles, CA
04/09/10

Amanda Visell shares, “Primeval Love is my first self-invested and self-produced art show. Without official gallery representation in Los Angeles, I believe that I’m in a great position to push this art movement forward towards a more independent artist-driven community. →

The self-described “urban artist” Bua uses acrylic paints to depict modern city tableaux–lively street scenes with characters of urban life like musicians, gangsters and everyday people. His latest work features the rappers Jay-Z and Kool Herc, now showing at the Pop International Gallery in New York. In this interview with VIMBY, Bua discusses his most memorable work as well as a short history of his career. →

Friedrich Kunath
Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, CA
4/17/10

Like a favorite poem, Friedrich Kunath’s works poignantly yet playfully distill the fundamentals of human emotion—desire, loneliness, and anxiety—creating comically tragic scenes in which human beings try to find their way in the world. Employing an impressive range of mediums—drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and neon—Kunath continuously takes up such subjects as the solitary being in nature →