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Artist and designer Jason Vivona is showing some new work this month at the Slingluff Gallery in Philly – the opening party’s this Saturday night, February 4 from 6-9pm. Stop by if you’re in town – should be a pretty sick show.  11 W. Girard in Fishtown.

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Fantastic buddy and new dog mama Andrea Innocent drops a new site for yo fool eyeballs to geek out on. Get some!! Ask her how Pickles is progressing with his potty training.

Honored to introduce Los Angeles to Chicago “image manufacturers” Nick Butcher & Nadine Nakanishi, the designer/artist/printmakers operating Sonnenzimmer, a Chicago based printmaking studio. In conjunction with their CalArts visit, Sonnenzimmer will be exhibiting a collection of works at a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY pop up exhibition hosted at the Keep A Breast loft in the Downtown LA Arts District. Please join us in welcoming Nick & Nadine to LA, add a few Sonnenzimmer prints to your collection, hang out and talk shop with fellow LA printmakers.

 Image Manufacturing from Chicago
A Sonnenzimmer Pop Up Print Exhibition

Wednesday, Feb 1st, 7-10pm

Keep A Breast Loft
811 Traction Ave Loft 2A
LA CA 90013

Thanks to Keep A Breast and Boxed Water for the generous support!!

The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts presents Share Your Beauty, an exhibition of 120+ artists from around the world representing the community of creative individuals involved in the You Are Beautiful project. In conjunction with the exhibition, MCCLA will be hosting a number of workshops. I’m proud to be exhibiting with this incredible community project!

Share Your Beauty, a You Are Beautiful exhibition
January 14th – February 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110

Photo © Arto Saari / Artofoto

Proudly hailing from Liverpool, no wonder Geoff Rowley’s career has been maculated with various winks at football culture -the most famous being of course his use of Gerry And The Pacemakers’ “You’ll Never Walk Alone” song in his Really Sorry part, which doubles as Liverpool Football Club’s anthem, duh. How did that one tune come into the picture? Geoff explains on A Visual Sound.

Tomorrow night this opens in San Francisco. Last weekend I help art director, Porous Walker set up some of the installation and documented the progress. Photos can be seen over on my COLOR blog. More on Porous, the art department and the installation coming soon.

About the installation from the gallery:

FIFTY24SF Gallery, in association with Upper Playground and American Zoetrope, are pleased to announce TWIXT sc. 83, an exhibition and installation coinciding with legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s newest feature film, Twixt. The exhibition opens January 13, 2012 with a public reception at 7PM.

Over his past three films, Francis Ford Coppola, famed director of The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, has set-out to create self-written, self-financed, self-produced, and self-distributed films with his own intimate crew. Developed through personal experiences, a love of American Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe, and Coppola’s own trials as a horror genre author, Twixt is the story of B-list author Hall Baltimore’s process of writing his new mystery while researching an old murder case in a remote Northern California town. While Baltimore (played by Val Kilmer) is seemingly rewriting history with the help of the an eccentric town sheriff, he finds himself embedded in his most personal, demanding story he has ever written. Filmed around Northern California with locals as actors, as well as sets built on Coppola’s own property in Rutherford, Twixt examines the process of storytelling as it applies to personal experience, artistic influences, and the classic American genres that have become staples of modern cinema.

Working within their own self-financed restraints and freedoms, the team behind Twixt had the unique experience of researching and building sets in and around Coppola’s home in Northern California. Many of the sets were built in Coppola’s backyard, while some required the small town backdrops of Northern Napa and Lake counties. In keeping with the original spirit of American horror, some scenes were created with intentional kitsch, while some dream sequence were shot with highly-detailed, ornate sets and original post-production work.

For TWIXT sc. 83, members of Twixt‘s tiny tiny Art Dept, (Jimmy DiMarcellis, David Hopp, and John Paul Goorjian) will be rebuilding the set of the film’s dramatic climax sequence, scene 83. The center of the gallery will feature a remake and stand-alone installation of the film’s clock tower, shown in the film as an impromptu 3D experience. Also on display from Twixt, will be bat and birdhouses from Nice, California artist John Hathaway, whose front yard/gallery/shop “The Woodpecker”, was a key set in the film. TWIXT sc. 83 will also feature a series of other pieces from the film’s set department that were found around different locations in Northern California and in the Coppola archives, as well as behind the scenes photography by the film’s executive producer, Anahid Nazarian and set photographer, Kalman Mueller. The gallery will run trailers of the film, along with other enhancements to bring Twixt‘s horror scenes to life.

Just finished up a Chin Wag with Australia’s Jack Tarlinton regarding his latest “Cursed” Series for Baker (Dustin pictured below).  We have just added a video interview with Tommy Fynn regarding his recent crowning as Australian Champion. We are also about to start the 2012 Nike SbA Am Series and have cut together a clip of the highlights from last years SbA Am Series which can be peeped over here. Stay tuned for some banging features later in the month.

John Freeborn has just released Random Zine #10, with a bit of a twist, this is the first time he’s releasing this zine as an iBook only.

Along with 19 other artists, he kindly asked me to participate in this issue. I submitted one piece, which I would call pretty random for me, it was fun! 100 pages with artwork by (in order of appearance) Hershel Baltrotsky, Sonia Yoon, Clint Woodside, Ryan Wallace, Rich Jacobs, Jim Houser, Kendrick Shackleford, Tom Maher, Ben Horton, Eric McDade, Chris Sembrot, Joseph Hart, Matt Sohl, Dave Delaney, Sam Croswell, Carlos Miaco, Matt Curtius, Amy S. Kauffman and Jordin Isip.

It’s only $.99 in the apple iBook store, click here to get it!

When it comes to documenting Australian skateboarding in moving pictures, Chris Middlebrook is the most well known and no doubt one of the most devoted. Two of his most recent accomplishments include Nike SB Chronicles #1 and what is arguably the video part of the year: Nick Boserio’s Life Splicing part.

Aside from VX and HD Midds is also a bit of a Super 8 lord. Over at the SbA site we have recently unearthed Chris Middlebrook’s Super 8 reel from 2008. Inside you will find archival footage of: Shane O’Neill, Andrew Brophy Dane Burman, Lewis Marnell, Andrew Currie, Bryce Golder, Nick Boserio, Alex Campbell, Justin Brock, Tommy Fynn and a myriad of other talented rolling units.

Chris Middlebrook is currently working on a part for the next Transworld Video “The Cinematographer Project”: be prepared for some locally spawned lunacy in that one.

Merry Merry Season peoples. See you next year.

Welcome to Derek Fukuhara’s Digital X Filmbot Re-Grip.

The concept to the Filmbot ReGrip’s are that with soo much skateboard media coming out, a quality video part could have gone unnoticed by the skateboard community. What we do is remix the part, possible add some tricks and hopefully catch some eyes who hadn’t seen it before, plus just have some fun.
To watch more Filmbot Re-Grips click here!