Hasta La Motion!

Mike Blabac’s new book for DC is a career spanning collection of golden moments that show the fence hopping, curb grinding, and great-wall-of china-jumping insanity that have made him one of skateboarding’s most respected lensmen. Never afraid to stick his lens in uncomfortable places, he bears a few nicks, bumps, and “one inch to the left and I wouldn’t be here” stories that unavoidably come with the job. BLABAC PHOTO does a great job of showing it all.

WMIG is currently seeking interns. Please apply if you have, or are seeking, a degree in English / Communications and consider yourself saavy in the world of social networking. You should generally know a thing or two about culture, art, and music and feel comfortable with a lot of writing, clicking, and some production. WMIG is a small, cozy company with few employees, which means this position would have you working side by side with the founding creative directors on everything from film production to curating wemakeitgood.com to producing events and plenty more. This is a non-paid internship, however we do provide college credit. Applicants must live in the NYC area and be able to commit to at least 3 full days a week. Applicants should also be detail oriented, highly motivated and eager to carve out a niche in a fast paced environment.

Please send a resume, cover letter, and 2 writing samples to info@wemakeitgood.com.

FRENDEN’s explosively colorful illustrations came to us late last night via the whispernetz and forced us to immediately watch a stack of powell peralta videos, do an acid drop, and call in our medicinal marijuana prescription. If these prints came in blacklightable velvet we’d quit everything, make our bedrooms into a shrine to teenagedom, and dole out bags of whipits and JD cards to all our friends as communion.

We used to be able to write the things off that we didn’t like with just one word: hippy. But now, these hippies at Ball – Nogues Studio are doing really cool stuff that we can’t easily dismiss with a blanket generalization. So check out the amazing architectural anarchy these hips are churning out of their environmental design sweatshop. 

“Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice that creates experimental built environments to enhance and celebrate the potential for social interaction through sensation, spectacle and physical engagement while striving to infuse the matter of the built environment with a downstream purpose. To achieve these results, we work with unusual materials, develop new digital tools, and apply architectural techniques in unorthodox ways. We share an enthusiasm for the fabrication process as it relates to the built object both physically and poetically by letting the properties, limitations, and economic scenarios associated with a material guide a structure’s ultimate form while developing methods to extend the intertwined boundaries of a material’s aesthetics, physical potential and lifecycle.” – Ball Nogues Studio

We always think of Hamburger Eyes as a cleaned up version of the gang Keanu Reeves shot up in the beginning of Point Break. Except now, instead of dealing drugs and driving around in surplus army jeeps terrorizing traffic, they just show off gigantic photos of their barefooted spiritual journey through the streets of California where they start street fights, play with pitbulls, and brush their chrome weaponry. Check out their EXODUS show at the Minna Gallery on July 2nd.

“On July 2nd, Hamburger Eyes presents EXODUS at 111 Minna Gallery. This exhibition will showcase black and white photography from regular contributors of Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine. Photographs will range in size from large murals of 8 feet x 10 feet, to the traditional standard of 8 inches by 10 inches.

The shows title, “EXODUS” envokes not only the feelings of mass migration, but of transmogrification. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine, subtitled “The continuing story of Life on Earth”, has dedicated their pages to the study of the human condition. And, in this exhibit they intend to display their visions of transcendence from past, present, and futurekind. It is a mission of containing time by setting it free, thus shall begin the EXODUS.

This event will also celebrate the release of Hamburger Eyes Issue 013. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine is based in San Francisco. It is off-set printed in black and white on glossy stock, perfect bound with a cardstock cover, holding 150 pages at a run of 3000 copies. Hamburger Eyes is carried in shops, stores, libraries, galleries, and museums across the entire planet.”

HAMBURGER EYES presents

EXODUS
July 2 to August 1 2009

Opening Reception
Thursday
July 2 2009
6pm – 2am
21 + Up

111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://111minnagallery.com