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Urban Outfitters has recently paired with the The Impossible Project to help them with their mission:: to save instant film! The Impossible Project plans to re-start production of analog instant film for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. After the production of instant filmed stopped in 2008 The Impossible Project acquired a Polaroid factory and it’s equipment in Holland and signed a 10 year lease. Their plan isn’t to bring back the same film, but instead to develop a new product with new characteristics all packaged under a new brand name. To lean more about the project click here.

Urban Outfitters is helping the cause by selling deadstock film and cameras at select stores nationwide. Three stores in LA are participating starting tomorrow, the Melrose, Westwood and Cahuenga stores.

Check out the Urban Outfitters’ Blog for more information on the project and more fun Polaroid related stuff.

Simen Johan’s exhibition of new images and sculptures titled Until the Kingdon Comes will open Thursday September 10th at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City. If you happen to be in New York on the 10th, the opening is from 6-8pm in Chelsea.

This new work is an unbelievable combination of traditional and digital photographic techniques and taxidermy based sculpture that creates a blurred line between imagination and consciousness.

To see more of Simen’s work click here.

                 

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Not much to post for art events this week, just one.

SATURDAY 8/22
Cerasoli Gallery (Culver City) 6-9pm | ROY NACHUM Prophecy | more information

     

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Happening_in_Los_Angeles...Art.zip (236 KB)

On Friday we sat down with photographer Cody Cloud (best name ever). He came by to show us his Shanghai Zoo series that he worked on during the summer of 2008.  This collection of color photographs portrays a zoo much different than the bustling, state of the art zoos we are familiar with here in the US. Instead, the Shanghai Zoo somehow appears to be almost completely vacant, oddly quiet and out of date. This is a surprise considering the sophistication of the city that houses this zoo. During Cody’s six full days he spent at the zoo he never spoke to anyone, he allowed himself to get lost in the zoo and to explore deserted exhibits.

Our sit down with Cody was different from most. Cody did not bring us his portfolio but rather allowed us to review his contact sheets. From this large body of work we curated 15 images to share with you.

To see Cody’s site and his edit to the Zoo series click here.

                             

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We found these drawings by SWAMPDONKEY via Boooooooom, one of our favorite blogs.
Too good to not post too..

         

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WEDNESDAY 8/12

Undiscovered Gyrl Readings and Q&A with Author Allison Burnett 

Frank Pictures Gallery (Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station) 6:30pm-9:30pm Click here to RSVP

"Acclaimed author and screenwriter Allison Burnett reads from his latest novel, Undiscovered Gyrl (Vintage Books), and takes questions from the audience. An epistolary novel for the 21st Century, Undiscovered Gyrl is the tale of Katie Kampenfelt, a beautiful, wild, funny, lost teenage girl. Her story is told in blog entries that chronicle her life as it spirals out of control.” – Frank Pictures 

THURSDAY 8/13

PRO’JEKT LA Summer Series installment 2 - Facing West: fashion Photography in the Land of Celluloid Curated by Jessie Cowan, Presented by the Lucie Foundation

Space 15 Twenty (Hollywood) 8pm-10pm Click here to RSVP

DJ TNT and Projected Photographs by Geoff Moore, Jennifer Rocholl, Tasya Van Ree and more. If you haven’t been to Space 15 Twenty this is the perfect opportunity. Enjoy music, art, cocktails and shopping. 

FRIDAY 8/14

Art Center College of Design Graduation Show

Art Center Hillside Campus (Pasadena) 7pm-10pm
 
“Graduation Show is a wonderful opportunity to visit the College and be inspired by the talent and passion of tomorrow's creative leaders. Work shown by graduating students represents the wide range of disciplines taught at Art Center. On Friday evening complimentary parking and shuttle service will be provided at the Rose Bowl, Lot K.” – Art Center

SATURDAY 8/15

unNATURAL HISTORY by artist Joshua Levine

Tarryn Taresa Gallery (Downtown) 6pm-8pm

“Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present unNATURAL HISTORY the debut solo exhibit of artist Joshua Levine in Los Angeles.  Using taxidermy models as a reference point, Levine constructs fantastical and sometimes frightening hybrids of familiar animals. The creatures are often brightly and unnaturally colored, with numbers of heads, eyes and legs that are typically considered to be extraneous in land mammals. “ – Tarryn Teresa Gallery

   

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Mutation: A Vinyl Show

Black Maria Gallery (Atwater Village) 7pm-10:30pm

“Black Maria Gallery is proud to present “Mutation”, an exhibition featuring a selection of some of the most sought after artists in the art toy scene today, proving that vinyl is the new canvas. Participating artists include: 64 Colors, Brent Nolasco, Bryan Collins, Button Eyes, Camden Noir, Draifet, Jeremiah Ketner, Kalypzo, Kat Brunnegraff, Kendra Binney, Kill Taupe, Motorbot, Mark Basa, Nathan Hamill, Okedoki, Podgy Panda, Reactor 88, Rosie O’Donnell, Shaun Wightman, TyleR & Zombie Monkie.” – Black MAria Gallery 

     

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Happening_in_Los_Angeles.zip (70 KB)

“Don’t look for work...make it” - Kate Moross

We sat down with Kate Moross, she is an Illustrator/Designer/Art Director/Video Director who runs a clothing label, record label and a Boutique...and she just turned 23!

Kate is from London, she got her start in the Music industry by designing psychedelic hand drawn music posters, since then her work has graced various mediums from murals, laptops, people, music videos, cars, apparel, ads, video games, logos and on and on. 

Here are a only few examples of her work on various mediums....to see more click here

         

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Kate_Moross_is_a_H-U-S-T-L-E-R.zip (1163 KB)

ART GALLERIES

Fifth Floor (Chinatown)
Saturday 8/8 from 6pm-9pm – Re-imaging Chinatown: An Interactive Planning Process

   

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Openings_and_Events.zip (706 KB)

-Fifth Floor

MUSEUMS

The Hammer (Westwood) all events are free
Tuesday 8/4 @ 7pm - Hammer Screenings SEAVIEW

“A meditative documentary about a holding center for asylum seekers from all corners of the globe, who are stranded indefinitely in a summer camp in Ireland.  Intensely close conversations with immigrants from Congo, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sri Lanka reveal their individual stories, from the epic to the everyday, and the trauma of waiting endlessly in this bizarre no-mans-land. (2008, 82 min. Dirs. Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley)” - The Hammer

Thursday August 8/6 @ 8pm - Hammer Presents JAZZPOP: MARY HALVORSON TRIO

“Now in its fourth year, JAZZPop returns to the Hammer courtyard for three Thursdays of jazz without boundaries. Veteran artists and bold new voices present a series of free performances of original, adventurous music that combines inventive composition with improvisational prowess and propulsive groove. JAZZPOP draws on influences as far-ranging as jagged noise rock, impressionistic electric jazz, moody country blues and gutbucket soul, to re-imagine jazz as a music of our contemporary moment.” - The Hammer

The MOCA (Downtown)
Robert Frank’s The Americans, on view till October 19

       

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Superluminal has decided to begin featuring Los Angeles-based artists as part of a series of posts titled The Los Angeles Artist Series. This first post in the series features the photographer Simone Lueck. We had the pleasure of meeting with her recently and reviewing her project The Once and Future Queens, and we loved it! The body of work features portraits of older women posing as glamorous movie stars. The women in these images show an intense longing to shine in the spotlight even though the spotlight has perhaps moved on.

This is what Simone says about living in Los Angeles and making this body of work:

“I live in LA and I like it here. I like that the palm trees were all planted at the same time. I like that Gloria Swanson played herself in Sunset Boulevard. I like that she had it, and then she lost it, and she didn’t know the difference. I like that she buried her dead chimp in a satin-lined casket. Making pictures in LA is good. It’s like sifting through an old trunk filled with worn-out fan letters and a bright blonde lock of hair from 1953.

Recently, I have been making pictures of people posing as glamorous movie stars. The Once and Future Queens includes pictures of individuals who answered an online ad soliciting older women to pose as glamorous movie stars.

The pictures are collaborations: Each participant is asked to provide her own makeup, hair and wardrobe and to select a desired location for the shoot. The project came from my fascination with glamour, a remnant of Old Hollywood.”

Below are five images from the series. To see more images from The Once and Future Queen or other projects by Simone, make sure to check out her website.

         

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The_Los_Angeles_Artist_Series.zip (1393 KB)

We had every intention of adding this to the last post (Art Center Portfolio Review), but spaced.

Adrianne Techasith