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Park Chan-Wook (bonus points if you can pronounce it correctly) is the famed director of such lovely family films like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and the homage to family values Oldboy. July 31st he gives us statesiders his latest film Thirst.

Thirst is an interesting take on vampire mythology where a priest becomes a vampire after a medical experiment goes awry. He must struggle with his new vampire instincts, powers and insatiable desires. When he has an affair with a childhood friend’s wife that is sick of her own mundane existence, the struggle become even more hopeless as the darkness begins to consume him even more.

Whether you’re a fan of Park Chan-Wook or vampires, this will be another pleaser from the master of vengeance. Click below to see the redband trailer (with extra naughty bits) and read more about vampirism in Korea.

Thirst | Film Overview | Focus Features Movies |.

- KAGE

Rob and I went to school together at The University of Delaware. We ran in the same circles and drank a lot of beer at the Newark’s only safe haven for art nerds, pseudo intellectuals and drugdealers known then as “The Cleaners”. It was our own Beat Movement of the late 90s.
I remember Rob used to make these wild paintings and comics called “The Adventures of Rad Rox” which, to this day, I still don’t fully get when I’m sober. Regardless, one thing was always prevalent: “That quiet skinny dude over there has some crazy skills.”

Check out Rob’s current body of work at RadRox.com and also at GR2, Giant Robot Magazine’s huge group show going on until August 5th if you’re in West L.A.

- KAGE

Tonight, Japanese artist Tomori Nagamoto aka Tomo Lennon will be having his first solo show in New York at Ouchi Gallery. Be sure to stop by and check out his latest series Foreign Soil.

Tomori’s collection of portraits, Foreign Soil, features five major figures in today’s contemporary art/music scene. Artists who had left their native country of birth and are blooming in a foreign land.
(Tomolennon.com)

Tomori Nagamoto -Foreign Soil-.

- SPL

OK, so when I read the description, I kinda thought I was bugging out. Cyndi Lauper and Lil Kim? Yeah right! That’s like the most ridiculous collaboration ever. That’s like Billy Graham and Al Sharpton collabing on a sermon. I must be drunk or something.

Alas, even though I have imbibed a bit tonight, it’s real. Cyndi Lauper and Lil Kim. . . TOGETHER. Why? Mandela’s birthday (OK, makes a little more sense) to make a live mashup of Time after Time and Lighters Up. I must say, it’s kinda fresh. Cyndi can lay it down for BK (even though she, like me, is a Queens native).

- KAGE

Hip Hop music is funny. It’s like when someone decides to make a statement, the collective unconscious decides to amplify that statement by making there own synchronous statement on the original statement. The result is one big ideology that echoes through like minded individuals. This could be mistaken as a “trend”, but it’s far from trendy.

Enter KRS-ONE & Buckshot – Robot. The Blastmaster and The BDI Thug ignite this track claiming it to be the official death of Autotune. Different from Jay-Z’s D.O.A. however, they offer a bit of a history lesson on Autotune and it’s impact on hip hop music. Peep the video directed by Todd Angkasuwan (he even has Buckshot doing a little dance on it. . . legendary!). I’ll def be looking for their album when it drops September 15th.

- KAGE

photo credit: Incase Designs

Seems like the wonderful city of Boston has nothing better to do with their resources than to charge Shephard Fairey (OBEY) with three misdemeanors: one charge of defacing property and two charges of wanton destruction of property for a September 2000 incident where he placed a poster on the back of an electrical box and earlier this year planting a sticker on the back of a sign and a poster on the side of a condo. Eleven other charges were dropped. This on the heels of his controversial battle with The Associated Press.

The 39-year-old Los Angeles street artist, who became famous for plastering his posters and stickers throughout cities, must pay $2,000 to a graffiti removal organization and cannot possess tagging materials — such as stickers or paste — in Boston except for authorized art installations. He also must tell officials when he plans to visit Suffolk County, where Boston is located.
(Juxtapoze.com)

And here I thought NYC vandal squad and laws were ridiculous. But could this mean an end to Fairey’s taking his art to the street?

“I think that people should be responsible about sharing their art, and that’s not a transition or an evolution of my philosophy,” Fairey said outside court. “Fortunately, I’m at a place in my career where I can get sanctioned spaces, so it’s not an issue that I’ll ever have to worry about again.”

We’ll have to wait and see the impact, if any, this will have on the future of art on the street.

Shepahrd Fairey and KAGE

- KAGE

Club Europa
98 Meserole Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
$8 1/2 to Chanty+5% of register
Special Guest:
Miz Metro
Music By:
DJ ILL P
A short film:
“Married Girl” by Alexandra Lopez
Performances by:
Eyeris with Radio Rose, Bless Roxwell. Jeanette Berry, Linda Laporte, Dama Nilz, Jasmine Solano
JUST ADDED: HER VIRGINS & DIVA from CYM
LIVE ART AND DISPLAYS BY MARTHALICIA
MAKE-UP AND DESIGN BY LAUREN WEAKLEY
LIVE PAINTING BY DANIELLE MASTRION
RAFFLE FOR A VINTAGE GUCCI RAIN JACKET

Friday July 10th (After Europa)
STAY
244 E Houston Btwn Ave A and Ave B
www.stay-nyc.com
11pm-4am
NO COVER
Music by: DJ T.Elle Jamine Solano and Radio Rose

*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***

On July 14th, Norweigen artist Bard Hole Standal will debut the first five pieces of the Deinos series as well as displaying a selection of his giclée canvases and prints at Ouchi Gallery in association with The ShadowPlastic Label.

For a little over a year, Bard has been working on the creation of Deinos, a 5 inch resin figure which he modeled, cast and hand-painted himself in his Oslo studio. The figure comes in five colors: black, red, yellow, orange and purple. The numbered 1 of 5 editions of each colorway will be available for the first time ever at Ouchi Gallery through The ShadowPlastic Label. This will be the only opportunity to purchase these figures until the casting of the numbered 2 of 5 editions in two months.

Bard’s work will be on display from Wednesday 7/15 to Sunday 7/19, 12-6p.m. by appointment only. There is an Opening Reception on Tuesday 7/14, 7-10p.m. open to the public.

For more information or to purchase any of Bard’s work, please email The ShadowPlastic Label at info[at]shadowplastic.com.

Download the show press release HERE.
Download Bard Hole Standal’s press kit and price list HERE.

Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary St, Ste. #507
Brooklyn NY 11201 (MAP)

- SPL

For those of you not watching the Michael Jackson Memorial, here is the red band trailer for the new Megan Fox horror movie Jennifer’s Body. So far it looks like Diablo Cody did a pretty decent job mixing snark and gore. We’ll just have to wait and see if it’s worth shelling out the $12 at the theater or the $19.99 at the Best Buy.

Now back to the memorial.
- KAGE

Found this funny lil clip on a friends facebook page. If you love zombies and you love claymation or you just love maids, then you will die over CHAINSAW MAID.

This is quite possibly the cruelest and coolest claymation I’ve ever seen and satisfies my unhealthy obsession with zombies.

- KAGE