Different Strokes

We just had a killer weekend, and it began with our artist designed mini-golf course entitled Different Strokes(above). We won a Wyoming Arts Council grant for this, and nearly a dozen artists contributed, including Ben Roth, Zach Allen, Rachel Kunkle-Hartz, Benjamin Carlson, Jeff Brown, Travis Walker, Aaron Wallis, Ryan Bailey, Thomas Macker, and the boys at Igneous Skis. Here's a few pics of the afterparty at the Pink Garter Theatre:

ASYMBOL

Asymbol is the brainchild of Travis Rice and his creative director Mike Parillo. We recently had a chance to swap knowledge with them in our studio and on a visit to theirs. Parillo's work has been featured all over the snow sports industry, and I can see why. See below:

Time lapse video of Parillo at work:

mike parillo time lapse painting

mikey parillo | MySpace Video

Summer 2010 Arts Preview

1. Red
Golden Theater, NYC

This two man play sounds really good. Alfred Molina plays the tortured painter Mark Rothko. It only runs for a few more days, so if you are in NY be sure to try and check it out. This is the second time Molina has played a painter, his first turn being his depiction of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in the film Frida.



2. Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
June 8, 2010–October 17, 2010

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
April 11–June 28, 2010

Two great photographers will be on display in NYC this summer, famed for their candid, snapshot style images of everyday people.




3. The Pitchfork Music Festival
Union Park, Chicago
July 16-18

This festival gets better every year, since the first one held in 2006. The last couple of years have seen icons like Sonic Youth and Public Enemy performing classic albums in their entirety, but this year's eschews that format for a more traditional 3 day lineup. Highlights include Broken Social Scene(pictured above), Raekwon, LCD Soundsystem, and the recently re-united Pavement. And although the $90 3 day passes sold out quick, there are still relatively cheap day passes for $40 available.




5. Twilight Concert Series
Pioneer Park, Salt Lake City
July 8 - August 26
FREE!!!!

What a novel idea: a free concert every week to unite a city. This is always a great thing. Well almost always. Here is the lineup:

July 8: Modest Mouse w/Avi Buffalo
July 15: Girl Talk w/Memory Tapes
July 22: Beirut w/Twin Sister
July 29: The New Pornographers w/ the Dodos
August 5: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (pictured above) w/ Jamie Lidell
August 12: Matisyahu w/ TBA
August 19: Big Boi w/Chromeo
August 26: She & Him w/Dum Dum Girls

Crossover artists

Musicians are always tapping visual artists to provide work for their album covers. Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground Cover or Takashi Murakami's work on Kanye West's Graduation. come to mind.

But Hip hop stars moving into the realm of contemporary visual art is far less common. This week however, there were two interesting stories:

Pharrel Williams on the cover of this month's Modern Painters

The RZA from the Wu-Tang clan has his recreated a painting
of George Washintgton crossing the Potomac.
See above

In other news, the new director of the LA Museum of Contemporary Art has been chosen. He is Jeffrey Deitch, founder of Deitch projects. Love the site, Check it out.