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A lot of great events happening on Friday and Saturday including Slow Culture’s second anniversary show honoring the late and great Justin Van Hoy.

Slow Culture Two Year Anniversary
Milk and Honey Group Show: Contemporary Art in California

Aaron Farley, Aaron Ruell, Andrew Schoultz, Ben Venom, Bill McRight, Cali Thornhill de Witt, Christopher Bettig, Chris Burden, Chris Duncan, Cleon Peterson, Curtis Buchanan, Damon Way, Dan Monick, Day 19, Ed Ruscha, Ed Templeton, Emily Shur, Erin Garcia, Florencio Zavala, G. Lewis Heslet, Greg Bojorquez, Lana Kim, Hassan Rahim, Jared Eberhardt, Joel Morrisson, Joey Gallagher, Jon Rajkovich, Justin Krietemeyer, Kevin Earl Taylor, Megan Whitmarsh, Mel Kadel, Matthew Goldman, Pearl C. Hsiung, Retna, Richard Colman, Rj Shaughnessy, Robert Therrien, Sage Vaughn, Shelley Leopold, Souther Salazar, Steven Harrington, Travis Millard, Ye Rin Mok

Opening Reception August 7, 6-10PM

August 7th – September 4th, 2015

SLOW CULTURE
906 N. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Margaret Lee, Emily Sundblad
You Can Teach an Old Zebra New Tricks

Opening Reception: August 7, 6-8pm

August 7th – September 12th, 2015

Hannah Hoffman
1010 N Highland Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Violent By Design

Victor Koast, Graham Nystrom, Shepard Fairey, Mike Giant, Camilo Jaramillo, Joe King, Alvaro Santillana, 123Klan, Clark Orr, Eduardo Viramontes, Les Schettkoe, Thomas Yu, Suedehead, Jose Perez, Matthew Skiff, Edgarzilla, Francisco Reyes Jr., Yaiagift, Alfred Rodriguez, Sketchy Tank, Danny Estrada, Benjie Escobar, Mike Jones, Wesley Eggebrecht, Shane Jessup, Zach Shuta, Chez Meka

Opening Reception: August 7, 7-10pm

August 8th – August 29th, 2015

Stay Gallery
11140 Downey Ave
Downey, CA, 90241

Incase TECHLIFE Retrospective

Opening Reception: August 7, 6-10pm

August 8th – August 28th, 2015

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Luke Pelletier
TOURIST SEIZIN’

Opening Reception: August 8, 7-10pm

August 8th – August 29th, 2015

New Image Art Gallery
7920 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Jonathan Leder
Ninety Two Photographs

Opening Reception August 8, 6pm-10pm

August 8th – August 22nd, 2015

Superchief Gallery
739 Kohler St
Los Angeles, CA 90021

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yensidthejester:

This is Marsha P Johnson.
Trans woman
Drag Queen
Activist
The first person to throw a brick at stonewall.
Hero

Not that fucking white boy they are showing in the trailer for Stonewall. 

willow, sage, rosemary, hellebore, and peppermint wreath!  thanks so much, meghan!

The Witcher 3. It just won’t leave us alone. It won’t get out of our heads.

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SeaWorld released its most recent quarterly report on Thursday, and it’s pretty funny, as quarterly reports go!

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queenoftheimpala:

When they said it might sing, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.

I think my dinner is possessed.

THAT IS NOT A “HUMMING NOISE” 

Nothing rouses my appetite like the wails of the damned.

How did they perfectly capture the noise I make when I have to do shit i don’t wanna do

This leaked Silent Hills footage is so wild

Before August 1st, you could share the cheap shipping benefits of Amazon Prime with up to four other adults . Now, the company will limit sharing Prime benefits to two adults and four children—unless you already signed up—in a new feature called Amazon Household that shares all Prime benefits, and even payment methods.

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we weren’t no suckers.

I’m a big fan of skulls…I like mine it is doing it’s job….I also like skulls in art and I am digging the porcelain skulls by Katsuyo Aoki.
“Predictive Dream XLIII”, H270 x W220 x D323mm

Excerpt from Sail’s editorial in beautiful.bizarre issue 009 ~ “It is in this isolation, in this darkness, in this raw space that the artist Sail enters to fill us with a living language that speaks through the heavy use of black ink, acrylic, and watercolor on paper. As much as a language is understood, it is further defined through silence. The absence of color measures the depth of darkness in the works of Sail..“

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If you're planning on getting in on the concentrated pot phenomenon by making the stuff at home, you're probably out of luck. Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law a bill that makes it even more of a legal risk to manufacture butane hash oil (B.H.O.) or other concentrated marijuana...

The “Infant Liberation Front” Colouring Book

“It’s not just what you can do with a gun; it’s the opportunities you can create with destruction.” Woooooo!

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First things first. “HitchBOT,” for all practical purposes, was a garbage can with an iPhone in it. It could not walk or stand or fire lasers or open a can of beans. By what standard was this piece of useless shit a “robot” in the first place? The answer: a shabby standard. A Canadian one.

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Every CicLAvia event draws thousands of bikers and pedestrians to its route--so why does Tito's Tacos want to shut it down? [ more › ]

“Cocaine” molecular necklace
 
After working for a biotech lab in Vancouver, BC, science “nerd” Tania Hennessy, originally from New Zealand, decided to start making jewelry based on the molecular structure of various vices, such as cocaine, heroin, and LSD.
 
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Prince seems to have turned a corner in his opinions of music streaming services. In June, he pulled his music from a majority of streaming platforms, only to release his new single, “Stare”, through Spotify one month later. Now, he’s struck a deal with TIDAL to exclusively release his new record, HITNRUN, on September 7th.

According to a statement released by the Purple Pioneer, it only took one meeting to convince Prince that TIDAL truly cared about “the effort that real musicians put in2 their craft 2 achieve the very best they can at this pivotal time in the music industry.” He added, “Secondly, TIDAL have honored Us with a non-restrictive arrangement that once again allows Us to continue making art in the fashion We’ve grown accustomed 2 and We’re Extremely grateful 4 their generous support.” [sic, obviously]

The statement also noted that from the conception of HITNRUN to its completion, including the agreement made in that single meeting, only 90 days passed. “If that’s what freedom feels like, HITNRUN is what it sounds like.”

When Prince’s band, 3rdEyeGirl, announced the album, they said it was a “super funky” album for the “super hardcore prince fans.” They added, “It’s just hit after hit and definitely caters to those fans who just love to hear what Prince has to say, rather than wanting to always hear that classic Purple Rain Prince sound.”

In addition to “Stare”, HITNRUN features “HARDROCKLOVER”, a previously unreleased deep cut called “1,000 Hugs and Kisses”, and a new version of last year’s Art Official Age‘s “This Could Be Us”. Below, revisit “HARDROCKLOVER” and check out the (apparent) HITNRUN album art.

HITNRUN Album Artwork:

At Monday night’s Diary of a Teenage Girl premiere, star Alexander Skarsgaard walked the carpet in full-on, gold-lamé, big-wigged drag. He was giving a little Krystal Carrington, a little Dynasty meets Hedwig, a little Farrah Fawcett’s been at Studio 54 too long and it’s only 3 AM.

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Photo by Philip Cosores

Music is often one of the most important aspects of a wedding. Previously, we’ve seen couples profess their love with the help of The Who’s Roger Daltrey and through the use of Bonnaroo themes. Cold Cave recently did his part in making a marriage happen, performing a cover of The Cure’s “Plainsong” at Tony Hawk’s ceremony in Ireland last month.

(Read: The Day Room: Cold Cave and the Humanity of the Artist)

One might not immediately associate Wesley Eisold’s “darkwave” with such joyous occasions as weddings, but the ceremony’s gloomy Adare Manor setting seemed to fit just right. Listen to live audio below, followed by some pictures from the affair.

Please enjoy this mashup of Radiohead’s “My Iron Lung” and the Seinfeld theme — or, a mashup about nothing.

To quote one Redditer, “What’s the deal with Radiohead? It’s not a radio, and it’s not a head!”

Photo by Shaina Hedlund

Chelsea Wolfe has trouble sleeping. Her issue, specifically, is sleep paralysis, a medical condition in which one wakes up and is unable to move, feels pinned down by a large weight, or has vivid impressions of another presence in the room. Doctors insist the experience isn’t necessarily indicative of any dangerous condition; it’s a result of the transitional state between REM sleep and other sleep stages becoming interrupted, causing the mind to be awake before the body. Thus the feeling of paralysis and, often, hallucinations.

For Wolfe, these hallucinations manifest as a shadowy figure in her room moving toward her. “During really intense times that it’s happened in the past, I’ve lashed out at nothing or grabbed my knife thinking someone was really there,” she says.

Wolfe’s sleep paralysis doesn’t involve the sensation of being unable to move, but rather the feeling of an immense pressure weighing down on her chest alongside the hallucinations. The sensation, she explains, was something she didn’t even know was unusual until she started talking about it with others. “I was at dinner with my dad, and he was talking about thinking there was someone in his room once during a dream, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that happens to me almost every day,’” says Wolfe. “Everyone stopped talking and just looked at me, very concerned.”

Those feelings of pressure, dread, and suffocation are what Wolfe drew upon as inspiration for her latest album, Abyss, which stands out as the neo-folk artist’s heaviest work to date. Wolfe’s discography has always been filled with songs that recall half-forgotten dreams, and Abyss furthers that notion of exploring the space between dreams and reality, often in a way that feels immense and overwhelming, at times approaching doom metal. “We weren’t going for a metal sound or really any genre in particular, but we wanted it to be heavy,” says Wolfe.

While that heaviness includes high levels of distortion throughout the record, Wolfe explains that for her, the word heavy means many different things, ranging from guitar tones to finding human sounds out of programmed beats to adding layers of viola from collaborator Ezra Buchla — all of which contributed to a sense of frenzy on many of Abyss’ songs. “The way Ezra plays is kind of the way I imagine my soul would sound,” Wolfe says.

Wolfe chose to leave Los Angeles and record the album in Dallas with producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans, Antony and the Johnsons). Wolfe “jumped at the chance” to record outside Los Angeles; she lives an hour outside the city now and used the change in setting as an inspiration to write new songs. The framework for Abyss’ title track was written on a rundown piano in the chapel of an old limestone building on the property of Josh T. Pearson in the “middle of nowhere, Texas,” a place Wolfe describes as “magical.”

For Abyss, Wolfe wanted to write songs that would lend themselves to a live setting. “We’ve played with such great live bands over the past couple of years, and they looked like they were having fun up there,” she says. “I wanted that, too, so I made sure the album had some songs that would be fun to play live.”

The focus on the live renditions doesn’t take way from any of the darkness or grandeur that pervades the album. For inspiration, Wolfe drew from the work of psychiatrist Carl Jung, specifically Memories, Dreams, Reflections, a partial autobiography Jung wrote shortly before his death. The book focused on recollections of his life, as well as the vivid dreams he would have about friends he hadn’t seen in years, only to find out that they had either just died or would die a few days later.

One dream in particular that Wolfe had about a strange experience in a cave served as a catalyst for the album. For Wolfe, it represented a deep, metaphorical drop into the subconscious. Her focus was on “confronting things that live in the dark places in the mind; confronting things that live in the darkest places on Earth, and beyond that, acknowledging the universe as a wild and endless abyss that we’re all just haphazardly a part of and trying to figure out.”

Photo by Johanna Torell

While the album is heavily influenced by her sleep problems and research into dreams, it’s not autobiographical. None of her albums are. A few years before her 2010 debut, The Grime and the Glow, Wolfe wrote a record about the breakup of three different relationships (“two guys, one girl”) that she scrapped because “it was sickeningly personal.” Since then, Wolfe explains her conscious effort to write songs about the ideas she would write poetry about, “the fucked up things in the world that nobody wants to talk about, the beautiful things that happen at the same time as those fucked up things, and the contrast between them.”

One example on Abyss is “Iron Moon”, a song about the true story of a 24-year-old Chinese poet and Foxconn worker named Xu Lizhi who committed suicide last year. From 2011 to 2014, Lizhi wrote poetry about the harsh conditions of working in a factory in Shenzen. After failed attempts to make a living by returning to his hometown and finding a career in the arts, he ended his life. For Wolfe, one poem of Lizhi’s, “I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron”, stood out. It’s a striking piece that contains lines like:

Youth stooped at machines die before their time
I swallowed the hustle and the destitution
Swallowed pedestrian bridges, life covered in rust
I can’t swallow any more

This kind of imagery, which Wolfe describes as “heavy, heartbreaking, and gorgeous,” served as a template for her approach to Abyss. While she drew on her own experiences for the album, even its most personal song, the wistful and desolate “Maw”, was influenced by a 1998 Robin Williams film Wolfe watched after his death last year. In the film, What Dreams May Come, Williams’ character undergoes a trial to find his wife in the afterlife, only to find that she doesn’t recognize him because she’s trapped in a sort of “mind-hell.” The term “maw” came to Wolfe after that and served as the backbone for the song. “It’s so visceral,” Wolfe says. “I fall in love with words like that — words that instantly bring to mind several different images. Like ‘abyss.’ It’s a perfect word.”

Wolfe’s journey into the abyss may be a personal one, but on her album, she invites the listener to take the plunge with her. Her sleep paralysis doesn’t happen as often now that she’s moved to the mountains and removed stressors from her life. Abyss acts as a catharsis, as well as a resolve to take back control in situations where it has been lost. With regard to her sleep troubles, Wolfe says, “Over time, I just taught myself to take a few seconds to breathe and fully wake up.” In finding that calm in the abyss, Wolfe is finally able to keep the terror at bay.

Faith No More’s Mike Patton, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio, and rapper Doseone have spent the last half decade recording under the alias of The Nevermen. On January 29th, they’ll release their self-titled debut through Patton’s label Ipecac Recordings.

Work on the album, which consists of 10 tracks, started in 2008 when Adebimpe and Doseone linked up in a Brooklyn warehouse. Doseone sent their demos to Patton, who he recorded with two years prior for Patton’s Peeping Tom album. The trio then spent the next few years reconfiguring and recording each track.

In anticipation, The Nevermen have unveiled the album’s lead single, “Tough Towns”, dedicated to “anyone remotely young, feeling inexplicably inspired in the ‘nowhere’ they are from. May you soon escape with style into elsewhere.” Listen below.

The Nevermen Artwork:

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70 Years Ago, Hiroshima, a crime against humanity

A movie based on that titan of tabletop, Dungeons & Dragons, is moving ahead at Warner Bros., reports Variety.

After sorting through a rights dispute between Allspark Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment, Warner Bros. is now in the clear. Allspark Pictures is a division of Hasbro Studios (a division of Hasbro, which produces the Dungeons & Dragons games), while Sweetpea Entertainment produced 2000's Dungeons & Dragons and 2005's Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. Neither film was well received by critics and fans (Ed. note: or most people with eyeballs).

The solution is that both studios will produce the new flick, which already has a script set in Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms setting, familiar to many players and fantasy...

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The bloody, funny Deadpool trailer is finally here.