Archive for March, 2013
All Hail BRUTE FORCE!
March 30th, 2013 by chocko
“Brute Force” (2012), trailer Director: Ben Steinbauer We first met Brute Force a.k.a. Stephen Friedland after a short documentary about him a couple months ago at Maysles Cinema in Harlem, NYC. The short doc focused on the artist who came to the brink of stardom in the late 60’s with his Apple Records song “King […]
Tags: brute force, king of fuh, stephen friedland
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Olek: THE END IS FAR – art exhibit at Jonathan Levine Gallery
March 24th, 2013 by Mr. C
It came down to the wire but we did end up making it to Olek’s exhibit – The End is Far at the Jonathan Levine Gallery on the last day of her installation and live performance! The show started on February 23rd and ended last Saturday. Olek is a crochet artist who is known to […]
Tags: art, crochet, olek, yarn
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Red Horse at City Winery
March 23rd, 2013 by Mr. C
Red Horse – the collective folk music trio of Lucy Kaplansky, John Gorka, & Eliza Gilkyson played at the upscale and rustic venue – the City Winery where the posh and privileged intersect with the die-hard fans of the said performers. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the passions of a full-service winery that crafts […]
Tags: eliza gilkyson, folk, john gorka, lucy kaplansky, red horse
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St Louis Record Store Crawl
March 20th, 2013 by chocko
VINTAGE VINYL (6610 Delmar) On a recent trip to St. Louis, MO to go hang out with Julie of Waves On The Sea at a Tegan and Sara show, Chocko made a short list of record stores to check out while in town. Before going to the concert at Pageant in a neighborhood known as […]
Tags: apop records, bdr records, chuck berry, euclid records, record exchange, record stores, st. louis, stl, ted drewes, the retros, the welders, vintage vinyl
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Photos From Outer Space 3
March 7th, 2013 by chocko
Here is another edition of Chocko wandering around town in paparazzi mode. Noomi Rapace made an appearance at Apple in Soho in NYC to promote her new movie Dead Man Down which reunited her with Niels Arden Oplev, the director of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which features Noomi’s breakthrough role as Lisbeth Salander. […]
Tags: Bobbito Garcia, Geneviève Castrée, misfits, Noomi Rapace, Park Chan-Wook, photos, skyzoo, Stretch Armstrong
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The Sketchbook Project — part deux
March 5th, 2013 by Mr. C
The collective unconscious of Mary, Lisa, Ti Hua Chocko, and I gathered at the opening night of the Sketchbook Project 2013 on the 1st leg and eventual homebase of the sketchbook tour at the Brooklyn Art Library last Friday. We were there to check out each others’ submission and to just browse through random sketchbooks […]
Tags: art community, sketchbook project, sketchbook project 2013
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The Sketchbook Project 2013
March 1st, 2013 by chocko
Chocko has done it again…managed to last minute doodle his way into The Sketchbook Project, a global art project that involves creating art in sketchbooks and having your work exhibited across thousands of miles to different cities in North America and eventually finding its permanent home to be displayed at the Brooklyn Art Library. Here […]
Tags: 2013, art, artist, draw, sketch, the sketchbook project
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