Origami Vinyl’s 1st Anniversary
Origami Vinyl – Echo Park, CA
4/3/10

Join Echo Park’s very own Origami Vinyl for its anniversary celebrating a year of great music and hand-picked vinyl. There will be free appetizers from Fresh Girls Catering as well as plenty of birthday cake and Colt 45. All items purchased on this day will amount to a 10% discount. Also, stick around and watch local bands Summer Darling, Twilight Sleep, Kissing Cousins, Future Ghost and Tricky Sizzler perform. →

Secondhand Sureshots DVD Release Party
Downtown Independent – Los Angeles, CA
4/3/10

This dublab documentary film features four amazing, LA-based beat makers: Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody and Ras G in a secret mission to create new musical magic from the dusty remains of thrift store vinyl. To celebrate the release of Secondhand Sureshots on DVD dublab will be expanding the film in its full glory on the big screen. →

Film Screening w/ Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss
The School of Visual Arts Theatre – New York, NY
3/25/10

The MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department of the School of Visual Arts, in partnership with Aperture Foundation, is pleased to present a screening of Alfredo Jaar’s The Ashes of Pasolini, which had its U.S. premiere at MoMA earlier this year. The short film (38 minutes) is a tribute to the brilliant Italian filmmaker, intellectual, poet, critic, and journalist Pier Paolo Pasolini. →

Genre Hound
Film Opinion

A box-office sensation in Europe, this Swedish film is a prime example of suspense thriller storytelling for mature audiences. Based on the worldwide best-selling novel of the same name by late author Stieg Larsson, the story focuses on a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist (played by Michael Nyqvist) and a beautiful yet street-tough goth hacker, the titular character, →

On Easter Sunday, L.A.’s own Cabeza de Vaca Arcestra will appear live on the Cinefamily stage to perform their live score to Cecil B. DeMille’s Biblical silent epic The King of Kings! Over the course of three silents (Faust, Metropolis and Häxan), the Arcestra, which features members of Dios Malos, has established itself as Los Angeles’ premiere ensemble for film score interpretation. Always experimental without ever sounding unprepared, the group constructs scores that exist →

The Corey Helford Gallery and Bristol’s City Museum and Art Gallery presents Art From the New World: A Big Brash Exhibition of the New American Art Scene. A world-class collection of works from emerging U.S. Urban and Contemporary artists from the new American art scene is being showcased internationally in a museum exhibition. →

The Hammer Museum is proud to present The Red Book of C.G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology, an exhibition of well-known psychologist Carl Gustav Jung’s famous Red Book. Jung’s Red Book has been one of the most influential unpublished works in the history of psychology literature and will be its first public presentation, which coincides with the publication of a reproduction of the Red Book by W.W. Norton & Company. →

Sebastian Krueger marries the darker ornaments of baroque pop with lo-fi intimacy. Far from his Wisconsin roots and perfunctory piano lessons, he works out of a small Brooklyn apartment as Inlets, incubating songs over the course of months and creating short, dusty suites. →

In this stop animated short, film makers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szcerbowski explore art through mystery and intrigue. From what I gather, this story tells of a woman journeying through the depths of her own psyche.  →

Launching twelve months of 10th anniversary celebrations in style, the Parisian independent label Record Makers are proud to announce the release of a free iPhone application along with a special digital compilation to commemorate a decade in existence. The iPhone application was developed by Sam Vermette (iDaft) and conceived by French contemporary artists Mrzyk & Moriceau.

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