September 2010
31 posts
KAWS ''Passing Through'' Exhibition Video
One of my favourite artists, KAWS, just released a teaser video for his upcoming exhibition ”Passing Through” which is set to take place at Hong Kong’s Harbour City shopping center in Tsim Sha Tsui. The main focus of this exhibition is concentrated on a massive Companion piece. The exhibition will begin on October 4th, 2010 and run until October 24th, 2010.
Terry Richardson x N.E.R.D. "NOTHING"
Famed photographer Terry Richardson shot the cover art for what has been confirmed as N.E.R.D.’s fourth upcoming album “Nothing”, dropping at musical retailers in the coming months. This caps of a extremely busy profile raising year for Terry Richardson who’s lens has fast become the eye in which we see todays pop icons.
N.E.R.D. are in Europe next week @ Orange RockCorps, Paris and an...
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Last Meal Before My Trip Abroad
I’m heading to Slovenia tomorrow to visit family. Tonight though, I had a bit of a treat.
Mussels in white whine. The perfect send off.
Iron Man Anime
I totally slept on this collaboration since the 2009 teaser trailer, only to have a quick search today and see that more info came out at San Diego Comic Con a few months ago, including new footage.
I’m not a big Anime fan, so the otaku thought that all Anime should be based on intellectual properties solely from Japan is wasted on me. Personally, I love Madhouse’s previous...
OriginalFake x Medicom Toy Company: Pinocchio &...
On Saturday morning I was lucky enough to cop one of these sets from The Hideout, London. It’s beautifully made and is already being sold for 5x the retail price on the auction market. It’s no big shock as New York artist KAWS continues to grow in popularity. A HUGE thanks to my buddy Declan Khan for making it happen.
BUZZ Player by BOGUN Software
While everyone’s been clamoring for a VLC Player iPhone application after the iPad release this week, the kind folks at BOGUN Software were nice enough to send me a review code of there latest application, BUZZ Player.
BUZZ Player does exactly what BOGUN Software claim. Simply put, BUZZ Player will let your iPhone or iPod Touch play any media format that otherwise wouldn’t play on...
Today’s track comes from KiD CuDi entitled...
KM3D-1
AnOther Magazine, artist/filmmaker Baillie Walsh and supermodel Kate Moss delve into the increasingly popular 3-D format with the creation of this 3-D short film titled, KM3D-1. The film focuses on one of fashion’s most recognisable faces (South London’s Kate Moss) captured at a rate of 1,000 frames per second.
AnOther Magazine - “Suspended in time and space, Kate is caught inexorably in the...
MR JUDGE MEETS: SHAUNA MAE LUEDTKE (SLIP-OFFS)
In the first of a series of interviews with the talented and inspirational people that have blessed my life, I meet Shauna Mae Luedtke.
Spawned from a unique one-off custom pair of shoe’s for her boyfriend, Shauna, a remarkably talented graphic designer hailing from Calgary has taken the VANS wearing community by storm. With the wonder of the world-wide-web, her buisness,...
Today’s track comes from one of my current...
Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk
You know how every year (if we’re lucky) a humor book comes out that becomes a must-have? Not a book about comedy but a book that is itself a work of comedy. The kind of book that somehow penetrates the public consciousness to the point that your uncle gives you a copy for Christmas? Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk has a comedic pedigree that will make comedy fans drool, with a list of...
Psycho 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray
I just got round to watching a copy I borrowed and will be buying this when I have some spare money next month. The transfer of this classic is truly astounding.
Howl | Allen Ginsberg Biopic
September 25th see’s the opening of the Allen Ginsberg biopic ‘Howl’. The film looks back at the Beat Generation writers influential career and life, centered around the obscenity trial Ginsberg faced after the publication of his poem, Howl.
In 1955 Allan Ginsberg sat in a cafe in Berkeley California and wrote a poem. He was asked to perform the poem at a reading and at first refused, but...
Today’s track comes from visionary, Kanye...
The reason for the lack of updates...
A big thankyou to everyone that made my 27th birthday celebrations so special.
Now back to some productivity…
Apple Store Covent Garden
This week I had the opportunity to visit Apple’s new flagship store in Covent Garden. Spread over two floors, the Apple Store Covent Garden features beautifully restored masonry, with stone arches inside and out. It’s a masterful blend of old and new, which suits the environs of Covent Garden.
Not only did the decor blow me away but so did the customer service. The advisors there ran...
Janelle Monáe Showcase @ GAP Bond Street
Got to check out a music showcase of Janelle Monae presented by GAP (two years on from a sublime performance in L.A.). I remember people before the show expecting typical music but what they witnessed was something sublime. Blown away once again by the energy of her live performance and the tightness of her backing band.
This girl Is The Future.
Mad Men: Season 4
The US networks have had it for a few weeks now, but finally season 4 of Mad Men airs for us brits tomorrow night on BBC FOUR and BBC HD at 10pm.
While I’m excited for it being shown by the BBC, my biggest gripe is that it’s been relegated to BBC FOUR. This is such a celebrated series and with good reason that there really is no excuse from the BBC’s programmers. I can’t...
Today’s track ‘Money Maker’...
Buried
Buried, is a wildly claustrophobic film about a U.S. citizen in Iraq, taken captive and buried alive in a box. With only two items to help him escape — someone else’s mobile phone and a lighter — he is involved with a fight for survival.
In Ryan Reynolds’ solo performance, his character doesn’t really know how he got into this mess or what the enemy wants from him so...
Update
Just to keep everyone in the loop. The project is going well thus far. Already have some partnerships confirmed and the first collaboration in the works.
Please link the blog to as many people as you know. While it documents personal events and the odd inspiration, I’m writing this blog mainly to document the birth of an idea crawling it’s way into reality.
Thanks for reading and...
Yi Zhou “I AM YOUR SIMULACRUM” Exhibition Review
Today I took a trip to 20 Hoxton Square Projects for Yi Zhou’s exhibition that I had previewed earlier this week.
I had the pleasure of being joined by new friends Emma Gould and Lydia Dibiendeto. Here is what we saw…
”I AM SIMULACRUM” runs till September 11th.
Beauty & Youth x Vans
This months Cool Trans Magazine released info on a new collaboration between Japanese brand Beauty & Youth and Vans. The four piece pack of plush satin Authentic’s will release in burgundy, grey, black and blue exclusively in Japan.
Anyone going soon? Wanna pick me up a pair of burgundy, grey and black in a size 10UK?
Apple 'Music' September 1st Recap
So, I’m not going to go into a whole heap of detail because quite frankly there are plenty of sources to get your nerd on but any new Apple product announcement can’t simply be ignored so without further ado.
New iPod Refresh
All iPod models have been refreshed. The iPod shuffle ($49) is tiny, the iPod nano ($149 for 8GB $179 for 16GB) has now gone touch-screen and the new iPod...
David Choe x Danny Trejo “Machete”
David Choe was one of the artists recently commissioned by 20th Century Fox to create art works based on the upcoming film, Machete (The other being Mr Cartoon). Detailing his inspirations and meetings with the famed Mexican icon, Danny Trejo, a video (directed by Estevan Oriol) follows both David Choe and Danny through the whole creative process to arrive at the two finished works (posted...
August 2010
21 posts
Today’s track is ‘Test My Will’...
Yi Zhou's 'The Greatness'
Yi Zhou, a young Chinese artist, living between Paris and Shanghai, creates large multimedia installation artworks that blend film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and contemporary music composition.
Yi Zhou’s latest 3D animation The Greatness, based on layers of video game programs and advanced 3D programming research, also featuring Pharrell Williams, will...
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'Daydreaming with...' James Lavelle Exhibition
Today I took a trip to London’s, Haunch of Venison for the final day of Mo Wax’s James Lavelle’s exhibition, Daydreaming with…. Inspired by the desire to marry music and visual art, the artwork was influenced by the music of Lavelle’s musical project U.N.K.L.E. The exhibition showcased both new and retrospective work, many Futura fans will recognise the Pointman character as featured on...
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Lost in Translation Blu-Ray Announced
This is some damn-hot news! I don’t have a lot of time on my hands to wax rhapsodic about it today, but I’ve got to let you know that Amazon has just listed Sofia Coppola‘s brilliant Lost in Translation for a U.S. Blu-ray release this December 7th!! I’m so stoked! That’s right – I just wrote the word “stoked.” That’s how out-of-my-mind this news makes me. This is honestly one of my all time...
Boxed Water Is Better
So, I’m pretty obsessed with bottled water since I quit carbonated drinks. Disturbingly though, those little bottles just build up, and honestly, that can’t be good for the environment.
Check out Boxed Water Is Better. Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious. Boxed Water Is Better, is a boxed water company and I for one hope that...
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Blue Belle Cafe
Today I took a walk around my local high street. While on the surface it consists of charity shops, fast food and pawn brokers, just around the corner in Maple Rd a community of diverse shops and cafes is slowly building in the old market space. Blue Belle Cafe sets itself apart from other cafe’s in the area. It’s peaceful, clean, reasonably priced and so far away from your typical greasy...
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Dee & Ricky x CHANEL lipstick
Dee & Ricky are back to the LEGO board with an unofficially official CHANEL Lipstick piece. Only 50 made.
When your creative juices are flowing it’s refreshing to see something so simple be so effective.
Lots of updates coming
So stay tuned during the next few days
Todays Track: San Francisco-based shoegaze duo...
Tonight, while you were sleeping, I will have...
Reserved my URL
Sketched out the website design
Confirmed my first event
Started on my first collaborative effort
Written up my 30 ideas for the following day
Yes. I am pretty pleased with myself
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“Ponyo’s Name is an Onomatopoeia, Based on Miyazaki’s Idea of What a...”
– That’s my imaginary future baby girl’s name settled then
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Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek)
Don’t let the appearance of a frolicking good time at the shore fool you. The film, set for a Oct. 13th Opening Galla European Premier at the 54th BFI London Film Festival, is an adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel about English schoolchildren who grow up knowing they are special but perhaps don’t fully understand the future that awaits them.
Never Let Me Go, an atmospheric examination...
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WatchToday’s track ‘Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out’ comes from LA soul artist Mayer Hawthorne. His latest full-length entitled ‘A Strange Arrangement’ has been the soundtrack to my summer. Enjoy!
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Ghost World coming to Blu-ray in 2011
Daniel Clowes’ brilliant Ghost World, adapted into a film by Zwigoff in 2001 and starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson looks set to be remastered and debut on the HD format next year.
We, at MR JUDGE says… are currently in negotiations with Icon Film Distribution to host a London screening of the HD remaster 10 years after its original theatrical release.
Please email your...