For one weekend only at Space 15 Twenty, The Runaways director Floria Sigismondi hosts a pop-up gallery of her photographs from the making of the film. All proceeds from the sale of the prints goes to Stand Up For Kids, so be there March 12 from 7-10pm for the opening, or stop by through the weekend, but the show closes on Sunday!
Rodarte, Todd Cole, No Age, Guinevere van Seenus and PayPal come together in Aanteni, a film that is at times beautiful and at times haunting—just like the Rodarte clothing it showcases.
Filmmaker Jim Helton follows photographer Atsushi Nishijima as he shoots women's legs in Midtown Manhattan. It's not creepy at all, and actually rather sweet.
A multi-pronged collaboration between designer Mara Hoffman, COACD, stylist Masha Orlov and actresses Isabelle McNally and Yesim Ak.
David David's simple, pastel-colored spring collection is made even more beautiful with five atmospheric films.
On February 16th, it comes to The Bell House. Get your badges ready.
I'm Here is a short film by Spike Jonze about robots in love. The accompanying book published by Nieves is the film's hand-held analogue.
-Molly
Fans of the Hamburger Bed, rejoice! Its creator is back with a new bed—a Millennium Falcon bed, to be exact. The cockpit area is even built to hold a couple of Star Wars figurines. (Via Slashfilm.)
"Desert Song"is part one of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' epic 12-part music video series, SALVO! Alex Ebert is definitely working with a vision, and we can't wait to see all of it. (Via Kitsune Noir.)
Only Olivier Zahm would manage to find a dentist who decorates his office with Brigitte Bardot nudes. And only in Paris. Amazing. (Via Purple Diary.)
Through November 27, Dead of the Living Night is up at Space 1026. Artwork by Jonathan Cammisa and Jonah Birns includes a recreation of a horror video store, imagery crafted from gore magazines, found photos and movies stills, and a life-sized stack of monster corpses. Sounds positively terrifying and absolutely awesome.
This week, Factory 25 releases You Weren't There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984, a documentary which features unseen footage from Articles of Faith, Mentally Ill, Negative Element, Tutu and the Pirates, Jeff Pezzati, Rights of the Accused and Steve Bjorklund. Catch the limited-edition, and it includes a screen-printed posters and a 20-track vinyl EP.
As an adult, it's not unusual to look back at the staples of your childhood and realize they were all vaguely creepy. Such is definitely the case with Showbiz Pizza and its animatronic band, The Rock-afire Explosion. A group of musical robots in animal suits, it didn't get any weirder, and now it's memorialized in a documentary, called The Rock-afire Explosion, screening tonight at Anthology Film Archives. There will be pizza. (Via The Moment.)
Filed under OMG we missed it: Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience. It was yesterday. Though looks like Jenny Lewis didn't make it, either.
