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How we bootleg DVDs and don’t give a crap. ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

Published on April 7, 2010 in Miscellaneous. 0 Comments

Above: “Hey, what the fuck are you looking at? You mudda-fucka”

Look at this scumbag or as I’d like to call him, man of commerce. You know, I read this article a while back on Slate.com (I’ve been looking at the site quite often lately) about how people, well, I don’t know if you know, but people in China operate these illegal carts/shops everywhere in the major cities, everywhere like they’re McDonalds in Manhattan, anyway, people will watch movies that they generally won’t pay to rent and definitely not watch in the the theaters but if it’s cheap (bootlegged) they’ll give it a try.

Above: 5RMB to 8RMB ($1) a DVD and you get a discount if you buy a bunch, seriously.

Well FUCK THAT SHIT. Are you fucking kidding me. Now you’re telling that you’re going to sit through Norbit just because it cost you a few dollars less? No, that’s bullshit, because NORBIT IS A PIECE OF SHIT – I don’t need to see it to know. The article goes on talking about how movie industries should consider this, consider how they’re not actually losing as much money as they think they are because people who buy bootlegs may not necessarily buy the original or watch it in the theaters but will buy this bootleg cause it’s cheaper. Now this may be true to a certain degree but it’s not accounting for the fact that because I now know and am so accustomed to watching crap on bootleg, because it’s cheaper and I’m all about the content, that I’m not going to watch movies at the theater or buy it when it comes on official DVD and instead just wait for the bootleg.

Above: Mistakes 1.) Letting reporters know that he slept with a tranny 2.) Norbit

TORRENTS – Now it’s pretty mainstream right? I mean, you probably have either heard of it or download movies on the internet (illegally) yourself. There are websites full of links to torrents that let me download new movies on the internet, bootleg-video-camera’d versions or dvd quality, that are cutting into BOTH Hollywood and that black guy on the street in Chinatown. I have not been to the theaters in months. However, the fact that I’ve been to the theater at all was because the movie I wanted to watch (The Departed) just needed to be seen on a big scale. Now that’s the bullshit thinking they should be marketing more. There is NO way to eliminate piracy. Piracy is like a virus, fat lazy people who don’t work because what they ultimately want to do is just watch movies and eat fried pork grinds, skip the get-a-job-pay-for-ticket part, and just download shit while sitting in their parent’s basements and jerk-off afterwards.

Above: Mr. Master Bator says, “I have mosaic eyes.”

Movie theaters are never going to disappear, The New Yorker had an article about how it’s such a social experience – even if you go alone – that it will never disappear, BUT! Hollywood isn’t making their margins solely on tickets, they’re LOSING money on DVDs. My suggestion is, make DVDs so much better and SO full of crap that the bootleg pales by comparison. A special edition box is not going to work. A double dvd set? Eh, better. “The Departed’ in a special edition box double dvd set with extra nude scenes featuring Vera Farmiga (the broad who played the psychiatrist) that’s lengthy and can’t fit on those bootleg 4.2 gig bootleg dvds? I’m sold, where can I buy? – the extra porno could probably be bootlegged and I’d just wait in my parent’s basement for THAT too.

Above: “Sure Mr. Scorsese, I’ll take off whatever you want. (wink)”

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Black People are Beating White People in EVERYTHING! Cont’d! ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Above: “Family film my ass, fuck you cracka assed cracka.”

Above: Seriously, do black people even like swimming? I’ve never heard of it.

The new movie “Pride’ reminds us that black people are better than white people in sports. This time it’s swimming and like its predecessors (Bring it On, Cool Running, Glory Road, etc.) it reminds us of the struggle that black people have against racial inequality in America.

Above: Yay!

It’s weird that there are so many movies like this. I don’t claim to know what drives Hollywood to make these movies, but I’ll make my guess. I think there are definitely a lot of black people going to the movie theaters but not enough to warrant this continuous flow of films that revolve around this black versus white topic. White people must be buying tickets and watching these films.

Take Pride for instance – I don’t know what it’s about at all – but looking at the trailer I get the sense that it’s PG or PG-13 rated, a family film, and the underdog, the black swim team, will probably win in the end. Maybe white people are still subliminally guilty or cause Bernie Mac is funny with his funny way of speaking. Regardless, white people are going to these movies. Why? Maybe after watching the movie, the white family’s parents are thinking in their heads, “oh, what nice negroes, I’m glad they won out in the end cause it certainly was unfair back when there was slavery” (possibly not in those terms, OR possibly IN those terms).

FAMOUS “BLACK vs. WHITE’ FILMS

Bring It On – Cheerleading

Cool Runnings – Bobsledding

Glory Road – Basketball

Tiger Wood’s Career – Golf (It’s not even a movie, I know)

Star Wars – Lightsabering

You Got Served – Dancing

Whte Men Can’t Jump – Basketball again, I guess

Lets not even look at the whole black versus white thing for a second. Maybe white people go watch this movie because of the storyline, which I assume is that there’s a black swim team and they don’t do very well in the beginning but later, up against something racial they amp up their efforts and bam win something or other (THE ULTIMATE SUPREME GRAND SWIM CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS). Hey, I like underdog movies, I thought ALI or ROCKY were both pretty good.

Actually, maybe I’m wrong altogether. There are probably a lot of black people giving their money to Hollywood and I just don’t know about it cause I really don’t do any research regarding these blog entries. Otherwise how can you justify Queen Latifah’s career or movies like Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next or the whole Barbershop series (how many were there? 2? 3?). Finally another possibility pops up in my head and it’s just that black culture is so popular and there are a lot of white people who like it and go watch it. Again though, I feel like black culture is so popular less so because of the content of black culture but ultimately because white people are just still feeling kind of guilty. Eh, who cares? Was this entry racist? It’s okay, I have black friends. eh… go fuck yourself.

by the way…

Here are the results to the Yahoo Answers Question that I posted:

Question:

Can you think of a movie where black people are better than white people in some sort of activity? sports etc.

Other than: the new movie PRIDE (swimming), You’ve got Served (dancing), Bring it On (Cheerleading) or just in general, being Tiger Woods.

Answers:

(just the funny ones – Yahoo Answers Members are pretty hilarious!)

1.) “Why? so you can steal more ideas from us like you have in the whole entire history of the world.”

2.) “no title having to deal with a life or a real time relationship”

3.) “The ” Boys in the Hood “. illustrates that blacks excel in stupidity. “

By the way, DON’T GO SEE “I Think I Love My Wife“

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Lots of Things Like This, organized by Dave Eggers, April 2 – May 10, 2008 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Opening reception: Wed, April 2, 6-8PM
Apexart
291 Church Street
(between Walker and White)
New York, NY 10013 USA‘

Directions: Several MTA trains stop at the Canal Street Station (6, A, C, E, J, M, Z, N, R, Q, W). We are located at 291 Church Street – between Walker and White Streets, just two blocks south of Canal Street. The 1 train stops at Franklin Station and we’re two blocks east.

There were three main people who worked on the show on our end, Jesse Nathan, Jordan Bass, and myself, and we all took a shot at writing essays about the work we’d found and included in this show. The first drafts of these essays were a little formal and maybe even pretentious. We re-wrote them and they still didn’t seem right. So finally we settled on the text below, all of it mercifully brief and plain.

This show, titled Lots of Things Like This, came about when apexart asked for an idea for a show. The first thought that occurred to us was an exhibit that would highlight work that included these three elements:

1. An image
2. Some words (usually referring to the image)
3. A sense of humor

The show never got much more complicated than that. We started with the artists we knew we had to include: Raymond Pettibon, Tucker Nichols, Maira Kalman and David Shrigley. All four of them had found a place in the fine art world, even though in many cases their work was both narrative and funny, a combination that’s historically been rare in galleries and museums. For the most part, artists who use text in their work don’t write punchlines – the text is usually abstract or oblique, open to interpretation. But the rise of comics-based art, and of Pettibon in particular, had opened the doors to new hybrids of words and images, thank god.

So we started looking for work by our starting four artists, and many others, that satisfied the criteria. We figured we would bring in some artists who generally go by the label cartoonists (because, generally speaking, image + text + humor= cartoons), and we did, but we also found some great examples of the form from long-dead painters (Goya, Magritte), more recently dead genre-straddlers (Steinberg, Warhol), and a wonderfully diverse group of artists from all kinds of disciplines: writers, poets, musicians and playwrights. Actually just one playwright, David Mamet. But he’s one of the best.

In some cases, this sort of work is central to what an artist does. Solakov and Perjovschi, for example, are well known for their brilliant and witty combinations of text and image. In other cases, as with Silverstein, this kind of captioned art is at the outer edge of the artist’s oeuvre. But we can say that just about every artist that we investigated, or had a hunch about, did indeed have work like this tucked away somewhere. Long after we had filled the show, we were finding fascinating examples of the form, and of course there are a number of obvious omissions in this show, from Lichtenstein to Picasso.

In any case, being loathe to draw conclusions about the artists’ motivations or methods, because, again, so many of these people are dead, we’re instead going to list some questions that occurred to us and might occur to you and might help the show blow your mind completely:

Why is it that so many of these artists aren’t so great at spelling? And why is it that when they screw up one of their words, instead of starting over, they just cross the word out and write it again? Many people would choose to start over.

Why is it important to many of the artists that the drawings appear casual, even rushed? Is the loose draftsmanship part of its appeal, in that it seems more intimate and disarming? Is absurdity more appealing when it comes across as humble?

What is the line between a doodle, a cartoon, a gag, a work of fine art, and will there ever be a time when someone doesn’t insist on writing a similar kind of silly and rhetorical sentence in an art catalog?

In some cases does it seem that the artist is defacing his or her own work by adding the text? That’s partly why we included the Duchamp / Mona Lisa experiment and the Goya – in both cases the words are a lighthearted comment on a finished or abandoned image. Sorry, that’s not really a question. Moving on…

Does this excerpt from an essay by Michael Bracewell, writing about David Shrigley, help us understand what some of these artists are up to? Here’s the relevant part: “Shrigley’s unlocked studio, situated near a struggling job club, was often raided by vandals who amused themselves by making additions to his drawings. Acknowledging the comedy within the discrepancy between the miscreants’ anti-art attitude and the claims of fine art to instruct or enlighten, [Shrigley] began to develop a graphic style in which the banal or the absurd could be used…”

Couldn’t it be said that these artists are doing lots of not-encouraged-in-art-school things at once, given they’re making work that’s narrative, often informal, un-self-serious and usually featuring punchlines? And given its crossing of these many boundaries, doesn’t it make sense that its practitioners would come from so many other disciplines?

Does the subject matter – in many cases private and withdrawn – fit the form of these drawings? That is, is there something shy and retiring about this work, as if you’re looking at something very private, something not meant for public viewing?

Is it instructive that a good percentage of the art we chose to put in the show was hard to find? More often than not, we would find something in a book or online that we wanted to include, and when we got in touch with the artist, his or her gallery or estate, they would have no idea where the original was. No one would know. It was refreshing, in a way, and seemed appropriate for the form. Again, it doesn’t take itself so seriously.

But it does bring pleasure. This was really the guiding motivation behind the researching and hanging of this show: to put an enjoyable exhibit together, to cover the walls with strange and funny things. In that pursuit, we were lucky to assemble a fascinating group of artists, and we hope you like it.

P.S. The ostensible curator, Dave Eggers, would like to emphasize just how hard Jesse Nathan, a very young man who stepped up to help out, worked on this show. A good deal of the most interesting “finds” in the show came via his hard work, ingenuity and creative digging. Jordan Bass at McSweeney’s was a tremendous help, and of course Kerri Schlottman and everyone at apexart were exceptionally professional, good-natured, quick and efficient, and helpful in every way.

Dave Eggers

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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung’s “Residential Erection” @ Postmasters Gallery April 5-May 10, 2008 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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This is an interesting solo show of Kenneth Tin-kin Hung’s work. His resume is amazing and you might remember him from his website:

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Visit his sites:
http://www.tinkin.com
http://www.gaszappers.com
















April 5 – May 10, 2008

KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
“Residential Erection”

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce “Residential Erection” – an exhibition of new works by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung opening on April 5 and remaining on view until May 10, 2008. The reception is scheduled for Saturday, April 5 between 6 and 8 pm. This will be the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.

Born in Hong Kong and now living in New York Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung creates explosive political spectacles in a form of dense, psychedelically flavored video animations, sculptures and digital collages.
Today’s headlines are tomorrow’s history. The raw materials for Hung’s work are everyday news of wars, religious conflicts, natural disasters, dirty politics, climate change, and global and local economy.
Postmasters’ exhibition is devoted to 2008 US Presidential Election and its unprecedented place at the intersection of politics, popular culture and media manipulation of the political process.
At the center of “Residential Erection” is short, action-packed video animation retelling and contextualizing the election and two monumental pop-up book structures depicting the fields of Democratic and Republican candidates. The precisely researched video hits hard at the hypocrisy of political rhetoric of recent years, and the troubled State of the Union. As hilarious as it is scary, it merges internet-scavenged imagery and original animation with pop graphics to create factual or semi-fictional relationships between the familiar political figures, corporations, and mass media iconography.
At risk of giving away the ending:

FINAL SCENE-MEDIA, PATRIOT ACT AND WASHINGTON MONUMENT A man is masturbating (with a ballot box covering his genital areas) on a couch while watching the Diebold TV. His head is wrapped with an American flag (resembling John Heartfield’s photomontage “Whoever Reads Bourgeois Newspapers Becomes Blind and Deaf: Away with These Stultifying Bandages!”), his right hand is holding a TV remote control in a shape of a handgun. There’s a sign saying “Patriot Act” in the room. Outside the room in the White House. On the lower left corner a “Not News” logo is based FOX news. When the man reaches his climax the screen turns into the Washington Monument exploding red, white and blue colors from its tip. THE END.

“Gas Zappers”, a video in which Tin-Kin Hung takes on the subject of climate change and the politics of global warming, will be shown in the second gallery. Both “Gas Zappers” and an earlier work “Because Washington is Hollywood for Ugly People” starring George W. Bush, his cabinet, and an international cast of world leaders and pop stars, have been shown at Sundance Film Festival in Park City this January. “Washington/Hollywood” was recently on view at The New Museum as a part of “Unmonumental” exhibition (until March 29). In her New York Times’ review Roberta Smith wrote that Hung’s video is “like the cover of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” album or the credits of the Monty Python television show, with jet fuel.” (July 20,2007)

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung’s work is not about “lessness”.

Postmasters Gallery, located in Chelsea 459 West 19th Street (corner of 10th Avenue), is open Tuesday through Saturday to 11 – 6 pm.

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Photos from “Lots of Things Like This”, organized by Dave Eggers @ Apexart Gallery 04.02.08 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Steve Power’s (ESPO’s) Our Puzzle Paradise

Jay Howell’s Mt. Fuji Goes for a Bike Ride’

David Eggers, Jesse Nathan and Jordan Bass found works that had a sense of humor. There was a line outside, lots of white people.

David Eggers

Still looking at the girls but there are no girls there at all there is only
(this’ll kill ya) inner peace and harmony.

Pay your way.

What’s you favorite flavor? Your mom.

Choose: Hold on/Let Go

There’s this butterfly w/ a Swastika flying above and the two caterpillars are talking and one says, “Don’t worry, it’s just a phase”

Horses With their Heads in Buckets of Cum

They attempt to get away by rolling themselves in floor rugs

I wipe my typhoid infected ass with dollars then my agents spend the money in Miami restaurants. No kidding.

A lot can go wrong in large scale physics experiments

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Saves Lives. I get paid for this:

5 Mustache me and Baldy, Beardos all went to Areosmith and loved it

It’s great down here. I’m really enjoying myself.
Yes, it’s great to be away from my wife.

Poster Making

Arguement: Staged to keep the seats around empty. News Update: It turned into an actual argument.

Here is your portrait. I wish to be paid immediately.

I got ten best friends. I’m gonna make them all fight. I hope Rudy wins.

If you were my boyfriend I’d fatten you up and make you life weights, git you big ass muscles, like Paul McCartney

He was tall and his favorite thing was everything

Andy Warhol’s book of shoes

An Egypt Poem: A pretty lady brings me back to lift even though I’m really gross.I’m really strong – I mean really strong.She lves me for my powers.I’m really ulgy and get sensitive when I think back on when I was good looking… then I get mad and smash stuff. We’ll try to rule the sandy lands together. Some indiana jones looking dude with no super powers beats my ass somehow and my girlfriend falls down a bottomless pit in an underground fortress filled with gold. I’m in a museum now.

Almost Canadian

Tired

This broad was trying to get in but they didn’t let her. She was saying, “Oh, my friend is in there”

This is the first time I have seen a bagpiper in the subway.

Until about a week ago, Eddie Van Halens Guitar was the coolest thing there was. Now something else is cool.
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Adam Stennett’s “Off the Grid” @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller from April 12 – May 27, 2008 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Adam Stennett is really one of my favorite painters. From seeing his work to speaking with him in person, you can really understand the dedication he puts into his amazing pieces. Do not miss this show.


ADAM STENNETT, OPIUM TEA (PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM), 2008, ACRYLIC ON PAPER, 30X44 inches

Adam Stennett. Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans). 2008. Acrylic on paper, 30 x 44 inches

Adam Stennett
“OFF THE GRID”
http://www.adamstennett.com

April 12 – May 27, 2008
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday April 12, 6-8pm

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY 11937
Tel 631.324.5511
Mon thru Sat: 10am to 5pm & Sun: 12pm to 4pm

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Adam Stennett. This show consists of new works on paper, sculpture and video, all thematically organized around the idea that the way we look at the world determines what we see. This exhibition, entitled Off the Grid, is anchored by a series of still-lifes which re-imagine the possibilities of a stuffy and traditional genre while the video and sculptural works invoke secret government projects, psychedelic drugs, and the culture wars of the 1960s.

The paintings are elegantly composed and beautifully drawn but their outwardly staid appearance is a misdirection. Stennett’s real program is to reinvent the tropes of still-life and retrofit the genre for renewed contemporary relevance. To do so he returned to still-life’s earliest origins and the Netherlandish masters who gave weight and meaning to each piece of fruit, shank of meat, flower, bowl or bottle they painted, thereby making still life the study of character and narrative by other means. Likewise, Stennett presents objects as if they are to be read as evidence. He paints opium poppies, nutmeg kernels, or hallucinogenic morning glories, with teapots, grinders, strainers, bottles of solvent or grain alcohol. These are materials and tools for the extraction of specific euphoric agents that reside within common plants, seeds and tins of spice. These works are not so much still-lifes as painted recipes, precise visual demonstrations by which the observant may be initiated into all sorts of covert activities.

Traditional still-lifes often aimed to calm by suggesting comfort and domestic tranquility but Stennett makes work that undermines calm. This series encourages the imagination to conjure a monster: part vigilante, part amateur pharmacologist, someone knowledgeable and resourceful, but solitary, secretive, at odds with society and given to violence, self-medication and paranoia. In the end the work defies precise interpretation but it is clear that there is an unseen presence at the conceptual center of the exhibition. Collectively these works form a composite portrait of a contemporary anti-hero, as erratic and volatile as the images themselves are composed and contained. That we are never shown a face, only allowed to sense an elusive presence, makes the experience all the more unnerving.

Accompanying the works on paper are video and sculptural works that take a mischievous look at those who have made research into altered consciousness. The sculptural pieces display team jerseys in orderly upright ranks, as if squared off for a competition. The “teams,” MK-Ultra and Millbrook, make reference to groups that did early LSD testing; the first is a classified government program and the second a community founded by Timothy Leary in a wealthy town of upstate New York. Such research has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists while generally revealing more about the ideologies of those who formulated the studies than about altered consciousness itself. The notion that methods inevitably color conclusions subtly informs every piece in the exhibition. Pinned to a wall of Stennett’s studio is an excerpt from the report of another study–it dryly notes how substances that ordinarily provoke nothing more than dizziness can, when aligned with the ideology and expectations of a particular individual, just as well lead to states of profound euphoria. To Stennett this is a metaphor for the peculiar alchemy by which art transforms images and objects into devices for the expansion of consciousness.

Adam Stennett was born in Kotzebue, Alaska in 1972, grew up in Oregon, and now lives in Brooklyn. His work is in numerous public and private collections and has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. He is represented by 31GRAND in New York City. For more information about the artist or this exhibition please contact Glenn Horowitz Bookseller via email: info@GHbookseller.com, or by telephone: 631-324-5511.

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Being True, A Photography Exhibition Celebrating 22 years of American Youth @ the jrnl gallery – March 27, 2008 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Being True, A Photography Exhibition Celebrating 22 years of American Youth @ the jrnl gallery

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Tim Barber, Angela Boatwright, Kenneth Cappello, Poppy de Villeneuve, Cheryl Dunn, Naomi Harris, Alex Horner, Drew Jarrett, Alain Levitt, Jeaneen Lund, Ari Marcopoulos, Dan Murphy, Jason Nocito, Patrick Odell, Mike Piscitelli, David Ransom,Terry Richardson, Jamel Shabazz, Shadi, Jamel Shabazz, Brent Stewart, Ed Templeton, Tobin Yelland.

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Curated by Emma Reeves and Aaron Rose.

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Opening Reception at the journal Gallery on Thursday, March 27th 2008, 7-10PM

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the journal Gallery
168 North 1st Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

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Photos from “Being True, A Photography Exhibition Celebrating 22 years of American Youth” @ the jrnl gallery ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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This was a Nike sponsored event. I wonder how the flow chart would look like. It would probably be a bunch of arrows (the arrows represent $) from all around the world going towards Oregon. Then, there would be $ arrows pointing from Oregon towards different marketing companies in major cities around the world. Finally, there would be a small arrow going from one of these local marketing reps towards the jrnl gallery/magazine. Ahhh… sweet smell of business (smells like The Man). Loves it.

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Show Program: Part 1; Part 2 – The program has already been disclosed to the public. I think I can post this, but I’m not sure. Anyway, if you’re interested, take a look. Each photographer was gracious enough to include a little commentary with their submission.

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Flagler Productions has Wal-Mart videos ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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This is Wall Street Journal front page news. A small Kansas-based video production company Flagler Productions has a 30 year video archive of Wal-Mart Executives, sometimes during “unguarded” moments. Flagler was hired during the 70s based on a handshake and since then Walmart accounted for 90% of their revenue until 2006, when Wal-Mart decided to stop using Flagler. Now Flagler is offering up their archive to anyone willing to pay ($250/hr for video research and other fees for copies of clips on DVD). Flagler even offered Wal-Mart to buy all the footage for several million dollars but Wal-Mart made a counter offer of $500,000 b/c they did not think the footage had any value outside Wal-Mart’s circle.

Well, it turns out there are tons of people looking to sue Wal-Mart who are interested in the footage and according to the WSJ article, if you have keywords (i.e. board room meeting discussing the lack of women executives) Flagler can find something for you. This is pretty crazy. If you read the comments from the World Street Journal blog, below, you’ll find proponents for both sides saying that Wal-Mart should have been smarter about contracting a third-party or Wal-Mart should pay what would be considered a very small sum for them versus comments labeling Flagler Productions’ new business as extortion.

Pretty interesting stuff, Flagler has since created a Youtube account last month:

Flagler’s Youtube Channel
World Street Journal Blog – Read the comments (they’re great)
Original World Street Journal article

Anyway, for anyone who wants some real hard-hitting journalism, go to Gawker’s take on this whole ordeal. This thing reminds me of Michael Clayton -MAN, that was a good movie.

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Deathbowl to Downtown, a documentary on the evolution of nyc skateboarding Photos 05.08.08 ” ASUPREMENEWYORKTHING

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Crowd outside before going in

Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski

Packed theater

Deathbowl to Downtown

I thought the documentary was interesting. Its discussion spans between 1970s – 1990s and begins with a little introduction of skateboarding from its Californian roots. The emphasis is on how New York is an anti-skateboarding city but the skateboarders adapted to the surroundings during NY’s economic ups and downs. There are a lot of skateboarding videos, cameos by well known artists, skateboarders, the original Zoo York team, SHUT Skateboarding company during the 90’s, there’s a New York City map by artist Neckface, voice over by Chloe Sevigny, the development of NY’s prevalence for freestyling, the saturation of skateboarding in culture, tv, commercials, etc. The documentary took between 2-3 years to complete but personally I don’t think you can tell. I have never skateboarded in my life but I thought it was interesting.








Neckface

I like his work. The pulling up of the jacket to the face is instinctual. I think he was being courteous because he had a cold, and he didn’t want to pass it on to me. He’s just a nice guy, what can I say?

Mountain Dew Sponsored After-Party @ Waterfront


Yo I’m on the internets Aron Downtown Don

There was a skate ramp @ Waterfront





The meat in the burgers tasted like tuna

Skateboarding




DJ Paul Sevigny, in relation to Chloe Sevigny? Maybe?



Tonight was just the beginning. Photographic History of Skateboarding in New York City Reception on May 9th, 2008 @ Etnies Showroom 29 Greene St., NYC, NY. PUBLIC VIEWING starts Saturday May 10th 12-6PM. Visit their site.

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