Conor Harrington is from Cork, Ireland. According to an Out of Site interview he found graffiti in a National Geographic; and rap through a friend’s cassette tape, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). Having grown up where graffiti was nonexistent, he was still a writer through and through until art school changed his perspective. Harrington’s paintings are a microcosm of styles that, in theory, don’t seem like they would gracefully cross-pollinate. Instead they …
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Ip Man aka Yip Man was a Chinese martial artist that lived during the early 1900’s. He taught a slew of students that later became teachers or legends in their own right, including Bruce Lee. In the last five years there’s been a lot of Ip Man films popping up. Movie studios have been taking parts of his life and dramatizing it from different angles. He’s become not so much a franchise more than a cash cow. The newest installment, Ip …
The thought-to-be lost Orson Welles’ silent film Too Much Johnson (1938) was found in an abandoned shipping company warehouse in Italy. It was the last film Welles directed before making what has been called the perfect film, 1941’s Citizen Kane. Welles supposedly gave up on Johnson after production. It’s a slapstick comedy that was assumed to have been destroyed in a 1970 fire at Welles’ Madrid home. Too Much Johnson will be out in October. The actual film was restored at George Eastman …
This is part of Adult Swim’s Single Series from their label Williams Street Records. Between Villains ft. Flying Lotus as Captain Murphy, Doom as Viktor Vaughn, Thundercat and Earl Sweatshirt as…who’s album Doris (Columbia Records) drops August 20th. It’s streaming here. Between Villains will be available for download on Monday, here. …
A short documentary about the rampant violence in Chicago by British photographer Will Robson-Scott. …
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