For British sneaker customizer Nash Money all it took was one faithful customization of an Nike Air Max 360 & Visvim FBT to put his name on the map. During next week’s Bread & Butter Barcelona tradeshows, the artist has teamed up with local shop Trust Nobody for an exhibition. The event sponsored by Nike will also mark the kick off of a new Spanish version of shoe magazine Sneaker Freaker.
Nash x Trust Nobody
Thursday, January 17th
Starts at 7:00 pm until late
Galeria La Cuchara
Carrer La Palma
De Sant Just, 7
08002, Barcelona
Last night, San Francisco’s FIFTY24SF opened the doors to it’s latest show Underbelly. Featuring art by Canadian Ben Tour, the exhibition includes mural installations, paintings and framed & dry-mounted works on paper. Each piece embodies Tour’s style of contemporary portraiture. Handling subject material such as prostitution and street culture, Ben Tour managed to achieve an equilibrium through his unique brush styles. He describes his style as a more aggressive approach with rough and quick lines. The exhibition is currently running until January 31st at FIFTY24SF.
FIFTY24SF
252 Fillmore St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
Yesterday saw the debut of Nike’s Be True exhibition in Hong Kong outlining the upcoming Dunk releases as well as some of the most successful releases of the past. Within the exhibition are some Japanese inspired manga portraits which have made them way into a series of gifts which were handed out at the opening yesterday. These items include Moleskine-like notebook, Dunk comic book and printed canvas bag. The Be True exhibition will be on display for three weeks.
Nike Dunk: Be True
Exit by Double Park
73-75 Chatham Road South
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Nike Hong Kong recently launched its own Nike Dunk 2008 campaign with its Be True exhibition at Exit by Double Park. Much like previous instillations such as Bring that Beat Back by UNDFTD Radio, the Be True event featured Japanese artwork and the latest releases of Dunks. In addition a collection of some of the most memorable Dunk releases within the last few years were also on display. The event will run for three weeks at Exit by Double Park.
Nike Dunk: Be True
Exit by Double Park
73-75 Chatham Road South
Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Undefeated La Brea played host to Bring That Beat Back, an event thrown by Nike and Undefeated Radio to promote the first release this year as part of the Nike’s tribute to the Dunk in 2008. The event featured Undefeated Radio’s cast of DJ’s spinning, displays of the Be True To Your School Pack, and Japanese manga style art work incorporated into the event as a medium for the “Be True” story.
Image: Eddie Cruz
To start things off this year, Nike in conjunction with Undefeated Radio will be hosting a party at the Undefeated location in La Brea. DJ’s spinning that night will include DJ Byze One, DJ Phoreyz’s, Mr. Choc, C Minus and Shinehead. The party will take place on January 4th from 8PM to Midnight. RSVP is mandatory at nikebetrue_la@nike.com. This party is going to be big so don’t miss out.
Undefeated
144 N. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Stan Lee is without a doubt one of the most influential comic book personalities to ever hit a sketch book. Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee is a gigantic art exhibition honoring Stan Lee. Approximately 100 artists such as Amanda Visell, Angry Woebots, Cameron Tiede, Chris Reccardi, Greg “Craola” Simkins, Luke Chueh and Travis Lampe among others each contributed original works from Marvel’s large roster of characters. The show will take place January 8th from 7:00 – 11:00 pm.
Gallery 1988
7020 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
323.937.7088
Info/Image: Vinyl Pulse
Among a core of marquee toy-makers in Hong Kong, Michael Lau has established himself as one of the big players in the toy world. With a ton of accolades and projects, his yearly CSBOOTH 14 event is set to take place this weekend. The exhibition will include the customary release of toys. A preview sees ten toy set to go on sale. This marks a busy time for Michael Lau as just recently he came off a project with notorious fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
CSBOOTH 14 GARDENER STILL
Michael Gallery (8, 9 DECEMBER 2007)
Address: 11/F., Lok’s Industrial Building, 204 Tsat Tsz Mui Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2811 3111
Email: crazysmilesmail@yahoo.com
Opening hours: 3 to 8pm
Image: Toysrevil
Snowboard and lifestyle brand Burton has just opened the doors to a 12,000 sq foot store in Los Angeles’ Melrose area. Aside from stocking Burton and its subsidiaries like Gravis, Anon, iDiom and R.E.D. it also boasts a solid range of other action sports brands. The top level of the building was also created as a fully skateable area. Many of industries top action sports athletes and celebrities were attendance to open the doors to this awesome retail space.
Image: The Hundreds / Hiroshi Fujiwara
maharishi’s Churchill Gallery in London will launch a new exhibition including works by Andrew Brandou and Dr Romanelli’s newest Surgical Strike Collection. American artist Brandou themes his art around Adubon prints, citing an inspiration in the "high level of care and craft [which] has given them longevity, but they hold little interest to a contemporary audience.” With this in mind, his "After Audubon" exhibition sets to modernize Audubon’s work by incorporating elements of pop culture, street fashion and designer toys. The result is a contemporary work which incorporates the best of the new and old school.
Dr. Romanelli’s latest line, the Surgical Strike Collection sets out to bring out the passion and tradition within military dress. The goal of this collection was to utilize unconventional forms and add it to the obvious functionality of military dress. The collection has a very much urban feel in association with products of the highest order.
The works and jackets will be available for sale shortly on maharishi.
Churchill Gallery
maharishi
19 Floral St
London
WC2E 9HL
gallery@emaharishi.com
+44 207 836 3860
This year’s Medicom Toy Bearbrick Worldwide Tour for 2007 is set to take place later this month in Tokyo. The Parco Factory will be the site for arguably one of the greatest Bearbrick exhibitions around and will surely boast an impressive range of one of the most popular designer toys in recent memory. The event will begin on Friday, November 23rd and conclude on Monday, December 10th.
The fixed bike documentary MASH is set to hit the shores of Japan early next month in its latest series of premieres around the world. The two locales include the capital Tokyo on November 3rd and Osaka on November 9th. The events are taking place with the help of Japanese firm LOWTEX.
Info – Tokyo
Saturday, November 3rd
Tosimakokaido 1-19-1 Higashiikebukuro
Tosimaku Tokyo 03-6804-7166
Info – Osaka
Saturday, November 9th
El Osaka 3-14 Kitahamahigashi
Chuoku Osakasi Osaka
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