Hasta La Motion!

Jul 07

BLABAC ALMOST LOSES FACE TO MEGA RAMP.

Posted in: BLABAC PHOTO, DC Shoes, Gallery, Mike Blabac, photography, Skateboarding

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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.

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Jul 06

Episode 2: KL Receives a Crushing Phone Call.

Posted in: Karl Lagerfeld, photography, tv

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You may have guessed by now that we are slightly fixated with Karl Lagerfeld. Ever since his impersonator showed up at our Phonebooth party we’ve been trying to work out the meaning behind his leathery visage making subtle cameos in all our work. It’s similar to the self-referential theme that had Hitchcock standing in to pump gas or make change in all of his films, except that would only truly make sense if we actually WERE Karl Lagerfeld. Are we? Is he the man behind it all? Pushing buttons? signing checks? Does he fund We Make It Good? He did famously say that if he weren’t a fashion designer then he would be in advertising. Are we in advertising? Are we making art and calling it advertising? We have no answers for these questions as of yet but keep checking back to see if we’ve gotten any closer to working it out.

Jun 29

A TRANSMOGRIFIED JOURNEY OF TERROR

Posted in: Gallery, Hamburger Eyes, Minna Gallery, photography

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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.”

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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

Jun 22

PULP

Posted in: Gallery, Joni Harbeck, Neil Krug, photography, PULP

The upcoming book from Neil Krug, PULP, is a photographic collaboration with supermodel Joni Harbeck that pays tribute to a wide range of 60s and 70s iconography. Krug’s flickr account previewed some of these images earlier this year after he shot through a few rolls of expired polaroid film. The overwhelming response to those images inspired him to continue collaborating with Harbeck and has now resulted in a 200 image, self-published coffee table book to be released in August. The Jodorowsky influence is still prominent but has expanded into a more varied palate of iconic influence with some dashes of Morricone, Robert McGinnis, and Hitchcock.

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Jun 03

RJ Shaughnessy’s Search for Werner Herzog.

Posted in: Abe Vigoda, Family LA, Gallery, photography, RJ Shaughnessy, Werner Herzong

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RJ Shaughnessy’s new book – Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon – will be having a release party at Family LA this Thursday with heavy choons provided by Abe Vigoda. Be sure to check it if you live in the LA metropolis. For now, here are some photos he took of LA teens on the hunt for Werner Herzog to tide you over. rj_shaughnessssssy_00

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May 28

Kenneth Cappello / Acid Drop @ Milk Gallery NY!

Posted in: Acid Drop, David LaChappelle, Gallery, Kenneth Cappello, Milk Gallery, new york, photography, Skateboarding

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Check out the Kenneth Cappello show (curated by Tim Barber) at the Milk Gallery, opening June 2nd at 7pm @ 450 West 15th Street.

“Kenneth Cappello grew up on punk rock and skateboarding in Houston, TX. Acid Drop collects the casual snapshots he made as a teenager, in the late 1980s, of his friends skateboarding. The former assistant of photographer David LaChappelle, Cappello’s work has been featured in ID, Vanity Fair, and Dazed and Confused, among other publications. In 2004 he released his first book, Loveless, with Surface to Air, Paris. He lives and works in New York.” – Aaron Rose

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Mar 05

Matthew Tischler Screen Series

Posted in: faux pixel, Gallery, matthew, mesh, photography, tischler

Matthew Tischler gets a lot out of mesh. His images look like wet pixel impressionistic miniature color studies. Although his work looks like it is digitally manipulated, Tischler says he prints everything traditionally from negatives with no fancy enhancements. He uses the screens to obscure the identity of his subjects, ultimately isolating and integrating his subjects into their environment. Check out more here.