Forest City Rockers Motorcycle Club

It's been a long time coming, but the Forest City Rockers Motorcycle Club is finally back. But fear not, I'm pretty sure they still only have one motorcycle and everybody else just runs. But just in case they've made a new acquisition in the 2-wheeled motor vehicle department, you should watch the vid. So here it is bitches!


The Forest City Rockers - Episode 2 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

Check out artist Jay Howell's blog here: http://punksgitcut.blogspot.com/
And the oh-fish site here: http://www.forestcityrockers.com/

TIME WASTER! Snuggie Edition

This has NOTHING to do with anything. It is simply hilarious. Also, I would like to point out that both Sarah and I made the exact comments made on this blog about 2 months ago while being slightly inebriated on my couch. It just goes to show you that Sarah and I do, in fact, no what we are talking about.

At least when we are drunk.

So always.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/12/22/ad-wizards-the-snuggie-blanket-for-people-in-really-comfy-cults/

Just hop over to Best Week Ever and take a look. We should be getting some sort of residual for these comments that we can not actually prove that we ever made, but totally did, that have now been plagiarized from us and are being used on the public comedy blog circuit. Unbelievable.

Violence is always the answer

Why talk about it when you can take action. 10 Deep have cut through the baloney and got straight to the point, now you don't even have to tell someone you're gonna whoop their ass because your t-shirt will tell 'em for you.

Image from digitalgravel.com

Wailing on your ice board

What better way to slide down a mountain on frozen water than strapped onto a plank with ridiculously sick graphics on it? This limited board release from CAPiTA snowboards gave me more than a a little pants party. The horrorscope FK features a super sweet graphic of a chick wailing, blood red skulls, mushy brains and all that good shit. I like capita. I like mushy brains. I really like this board.

Check their site and see it in all it's glory...

http://www.capitasnowboarding.com/snowboards/horrorscope-fk

Hiding Out in the Chinese Urban Landscape

This is a pretty badass artist that was featured a while back on Urban Prankster. Liu Bolin, an artist hailing from China, is definitely taking the local urban landscape to a new level in his art. Using the basic graffiti idea of the street as ultimate inspiration, he literally turns his subjects into the street. The detail of his work is amazing and breathtaking, and frankly a little haunting. There seems to be some deeper message about the Chinese government and how they view their citizens, and seemingly Bolin's take on that is a little bleak. But now matter how bleak his deeper message may be, the works are still crazy amazing.

As far as I can find, Bolin doesn't have a website of his own, and I can't even find any biographical information on him. Which may be his choice, or given the political nature of his work, it may be the Chinese governments. Who knows? But he is represented by a few galleries here in the US, but as it turns out ArtNet has the best selection of his work. I mean, if you can afford one, go for it. If not, just peep it anyway, because you will not be disappointed.



www.artnet.com/artist/425227158/liu-bolin.html

Also, the Asian Photography Blog has some pretty interesting stuff on it, so give that a quick once over as well. Twice if you like it!

www.chngyaohong.com/blog/photography/liu-bolin/

Reindeer Games

Here is a little video/toy exclusively available on KidRobot for your holiday enjoyment. If this doesn't get your Christmas Spirit all revved up, I don't know what will!


Reindeer Games from Kidrobot on Vimeo.

Pop Down Project

Tired of pop-ups? Then it's pretty simple to just click them away. Unfortunately, not so much the case in real-life. That's where the Pop Down Project comes in. Every day, especially here in NYC, we are totally overloaded with advertising and images that we may or may not want to see. On the internet you have a choice (most of the time) to view them or not. The Pop Down project is attempting to make you think about that in real life.

Go to their website, download some stickies, print them out, and Pop Down away! Unfortunately the buttons don't really work (yet), but if anything it will start a nice dialogue on what we are forced to see every day. And hey, who isn't a sucker for a good stickie? I know I am.




http://pop-down.blogspot.com/2008/10/popdown-stickers.html

No Pants Subway Ride

Improv Everywhere just released their date for the 2009 No Pants Subway Ride. So if you like to have a lack of pants and a whole lot of subway, be sure and keep the date. It will be on Saturday, January 10th. So come along for the ride.

Also, if you live somewhere other than NYC, Improv Everywhere definitely encourages you to organize a no-pants something on Jan. 10th, as well. Even if it's a no-pants party, it's a start. (I'm looking at you Sarasota...)



www.improveverywhere.com
www.urbanprankster.com

Folkert de Jong

I saw this guy's stuff at James Cohan gallery earlier in the year when it was being shown at the same time as Xu Zhen's Shanghai Supermarket. It was pretty intense stuff. His people range from life-sized to super-sized and are all made of different types of foam, foam cores, and foam glues. And checkin' out James Cohan's website says that it's going to be the year of Folkert de Jong, what with two consecutive shows.

But anyway, check out this sweet little video that I scooped up off of Monster Children. It gives a nice cross-section of his work. And like Zawada on MC says, his accent is hilariously addictive!



www.folkertdejong.com
www.jamescohan.com
www.monsterchildren.com

peter Fuss

Let's get this out of the way. It was unavoidable that someday I would have to talk about something that used a proper noun that would mean I would have to capitalize my p's. Well guess what, one of my lovely, albeit a little tipsy, friends decided to spill some wine on my computer, so now my disk drive doesn't work and I have to copy and paste my p's. I just can't be bothered to copy and paste capital p's every time I need to. So with that in mind, here's peter Fuss:

peter Fuss is a polish artist who, still kickin it in poland, is maybe one of the most politically charged European artists today. His work is legal, illegal, beautiful, complex, and thought provoking. Dealing heavily with themes of religion and government, he has a stark and somewhat pessimistic style. All I can say is check his shit out. His "pictures for poor and rich" are caught somewhere between funny and uncomfortable. It's a definite statement (in a super Marxist way) about the commodification of art. It's amazing.

Beyond that, his instillations and street art are all biting in their assesments of the world in which Fuss is living. Come to think of it, I'm prett sure it's the world in which we all are living.

It's a shame that some of the pieces are referencing things in poland that most Americans won't understand, but Americans just can't be in on every joke, now can we? No, America, no. But even with that, they are still sick pieces. So give them a peep now, people. Maybe it will cheer pessimistic Mr. Fuss up a little.



www.peterfuss.com

Um, yes? Inside Outside Edition

With just one spot of red paint between the eyes the Parisian artist ZEVS, executes the advertising industry's images of perfect humans. 'People don't think about the force of advertising' says Zevs and continues, 'But with just one psst I remove the force. No one wants to be identified with a dead person so advertising looses its effect'. ZEVS calls his action 'Visual Attack', and he has executed billboards worth millions around Paris. At the same time, ZEVS is a respected artist who exhibits all around the world. "Inside Outside" follows ZEVS and other so-called street artists from New York, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Sao Paulo. They all make a living off their art, but they also have an urge to exhibit their work illegally in the streets. INSIDE OUTSIDE is a film about the energy artists get when working in the street. An energy they're missing when exhibiting in galleries and museums, an energy that brings life to their art and to their own lives. It's an energy that's partly caused by the fact that everything these artists do in the street is illegal; "Anything that gives you security is eventually going to restrict you at some point", says Swoon about the art galleries. The artists featured in INSIDE OUTSIDE all face some kind of dilemma with the restrictions and norms of the society they live in, the forces of the commercial art world and the advertising industry who are looking for the next big thing and want to have their bite of the energy and coolness that the street art scene is brimming with. Meet among others: ZEVS / Paris SWOON / KR / EARSNOT/ New York City OS GEMEOS / PIGMEUS/ Sao Paulo ADAMS & ITSO / Stockholm, Copenhagen RON ENGLISH / Jersey City.

Basically that is just Artprimo's fancy talk for "this is going to be the shit." Zevs, yes. Swoon, even better. Ron English, done done and done.

Um, yes? Krink Mailbox Edition

7 inches of fully beautiful Krink glory, this lil guy will be coming to Kid Robot "soon", as the website so descriptively tells us. Anyway, whenever this little dude does hit the store, count me in. Limited to 500, at $40 catch one quick. I'm excited.

Um, yes? Krink Mailbox.

Why not start the day with a little NSFW?

Right, so like the title says, NSFW. But Synthetic pubes is still pretty damn cool. It's a photo site primarliy of female nude portraits, but you have a healthy few dudes or couples thrown in, just to keep things fairly democratic. The thing about this site is there's a nice array of styles and proccesses to keep things interesting. There really are some visually stunning shots in on there, but be forewarned, there are always going to be people who think they're Terry fucking Richardson. Just try and look past that.



Oh, and did I mention NSFW? Yeah? Good.




http://www.syntheticpubes.com/

Theme Numero Uno

Ok guys, you can all breathe easy now because here's the theme for Ish One, brought to you by that black hole of a brain that I call Sarah.

Bodega.

That's right. Like the corner store that's full of angry immigrants who never get your cheap coffee order right. Or, as I like to call it, the glue that holds my life together. No need to take this theme literally, we're all loose at Shittin' Pretty (whoa, hey!), so if a bodega makes you think of a Mexican makes you think of a taco makes you think of the time you got the runs in Peru, that's all fine with me. It's more about the experience anyway. So there is you mission, should you choose to accept it.

Out. xXx

Come on in, have a seat.

Hold your applause ladies and gents for the glorious day is finally here. 

Shittin' Pretty...ma'zine, blog, revolution. You're welcome.

Here's the deal: We're a sweet little NYC based operation, and we've decided to take this little dog-and-pony show to the world wide interwebs. So whether you're one of our friends or one of the lucky ones who stumble across this shit, we're here to blow your mind. And we want you to blow ours...(I mean our minds, so get yours out of the gutter). Shittin' Pretty is going to be a monthly paper operation in the NYC area, complemented nicely by this sweet little "whenever we feel like it" blog. However, submissions would be THE SHIT, so when we announce a theme, show us your best. We'd love to feature you. Everything is acceptable. Painting, drawing, photo, fashion, and your first born could all grace our pages. Or know of anything worth sharing with the world? Tell us, and we'll slap it up here. That's the basic name of the game kiddies. We're really not too high concept, are we? You love it.

Oh, also, the "we" I keep mentioning would be:

Jenna Gard, Ph.D, M.D., O.G. - Jen, Jenna, or Jemma is fine. Pleasure to meet you all. I'm a ginger she-devil by nature and  bad mother fucker by trade. I also enjoy fine wines and long walks on the beach. I am an Aquarius who has relocated from the sunny coast of the Great Wang State (or Florida as some maps insist on calling it) to NYC, because I liked the idea of freezing my tits off. Photo and Illustration are my forte, but I'll be damned if I won't try anything once, twice if I like it.

and Sarah "When Can We Eat?" Lester - Sarah, Meat Boat McGee, or just "Hey You" are probably all acceptable monikers for a saucy mamma who's only half paying attention to you anyway. The picture of a Lady, Sarah spent her formative years at "Mrs. Van der Tussle's School for the Etiquette and Education of Future Housewives", Australia Chapter. Now Sarah owns and operates her own house for the betterment of unwed mothers, while tending to her own brood of young children at the same time. Her personal mantra is "Once a Co-op member, always a Co-op member, shanti shanti om."

Keep in mind, Jenna wrote the above bio, so it may or may not be entirely accurate.

Anywhoozils, hit us up with your art or anything else noteworthy in the city. There will be a theme sometime in the near future for Ish Numero Uno, so be on the lookout for that.

Out. xXx