515 Alive 2008
Urban Music & Arts Festival
Saturday, July 26th
DJ / Performer Schedule
Act Time
Solar Cathedral Main Stage
DJ MISJAH 11:00 - 12:30
ACG3 aka The Goat 10:00
DJ Sonar 9:00
Mike Gervais 8:00
Mustafa Avdic 7:00
Christian James 6:00
John Hester 5:00
Level Matrix 4:00
Main Stage
DJ Flash 11:15 - 12:30
DJ A-Roc 10:45
DJ Episode 10:30
Cleo’s Apartment 9:45
Joey Ashby 9:15
DJ Episode 9:00
Des Moines Boyz 8:15
DJ Episode 8:00
Chester P 7:00
Launchpad DMI Entertainment Showcase 6:00
Xplizit Records Latino Showcase 5:00
DJ Avant Garde 4:00
Jungle Row (4th st. Patio)
S.P.E.C.T.R.E. 11:00
Aaron B 10:00
Fallen of the Inferno 9:00
Kabuki 8:00
Nemo 7:00
DJ Mindblur 6:00
DJ Solargy 5:00
Sir Kit Ree 4:00
The Groove Oasis (The Lift)
DJZ 8:00
DJ Kelix 11:00
Tasty Box (live) 12:00
UK Club Stage (Vaudeville Mews)
Justen Parris 1:00
Jack the Lad 12:00
Bay 51 11:00
NNOthing 10:00
Moksha 9:00
Christian Capone 8:00
dB 7:00
US Club Stage (4th St. Theater)
DJ Sharlo 1:00
Stevo 12:00
DJ Drumspinna 11:00
Skitzo 10:00
Sneakers O’Toole 9:00
Thousands Millions 8:00
TJ Hood 7:00
D Nuts 6:00
Vulcan Mojo 5:00
Mashup Mountain (The Royal Mile)
Tim Grimes 12:00 - 2:00
Jade Reed 11:00
Al Brown 10:00
DJ Cloud 9:00
Dave Leo 8:00
DJ Uplift 7:00
Jason Stone 6:00
Eyes in the Dark Stage (Court Avenue)
DJ Nova 11:00
Flatform 10:00
DJ Raj 9:00
Brad Baetz 8:00
DJ Jimmy Jim 7:00
Segway 6:00
Planned Parenthood “Protect Your Decks” Stage (4th st. Parking Lot)
DJ Oz 11:00
DJ QC 10:00
DJ Bui 9:00
Guy Le Beau 8:00
Brad Goldman 7:00
DJ Vain 6:00
Hector Vasquez 5:00
BTsunami 4:00
The self-proclaimed “best rapper alive,” Lil’ Wayne, proved to be just that, when his last album Tha Carter III sold over 1 million copies in its first week. Now, the rap superstar looks shine on a different stage, as QD3 Entertainment preps a film biography on the life and career of Mr. Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. titled, The Carter for 2009. From the producers who delivered the Tupac Shakur documentary, Thug Angel, as well as the popular Beef DVD series, QD3 Entertainment in association with Young Money Entertainment, has announced plans to release the first-ever biography on the life and career of Weezy. Directed by filmmaker Adam Lough (The Upsetter, which chronicled the life and music of reggae producer Lee “Scratch” Perry), the film will explore the man, his family and the drive behind his fame. rest of the story via HipHopHoney.com
Summer Gear:Haberdash Thru July at 1350 N Wells St; Old Town; 312.440.1300
40-75% off most spring stock including light jackets, buttondowns, sweaters, blazers, slacks, polos, tees, and hoodies from the likes of Mike & Chris, Trovata, Shipley & Halmos, Theory, and Penguin (though you’re on your own for discounts on nefarious plots and trick umbrellas). See what’s in store at HaberdashMen.com
Denim Gear:The Warehouse Sale Fri and Sat at 2301 S MLK Dr, South Building S105;
Bronzeville
Thousands of pairs of premium denim (everyone from Chip & Pepper to True Religion), all at up to 80% off; the space is 15,000 sq ft, so shopping for new pants will wear a hole in your old pair’s crotch. Step to the jeans at TheWarehouseSale.com
Staple Gear:Polo 750 N Michigan Ave; Gold Coast; 312.280.1655
Their whole summer collection’s 40-60% off while it lasts, plus through July save half on a generous smattering of dress shirts and neckware. Pony up at at Polo.com
Flossy Gear:Apartment #9 Summer Sale Thru July at 1804 N Damen Ave; Bucktown; 773.395.2999
Snag 20-50% off spring and summer merch: Etro linen suits and buttondowns, Martin Margiela sweaters, and shoes from Sperry and Band of Outsiders (free nickname with purchase — sorry, “Ponyboy”’s taken).
Home Gear: Design Within Reach ’til July 29 at:
1574 N Kingsbury St, Lincoln Park; 312.482.8661
10 E Ohio St; River North; 312.280.4677
Up to 75% off achingly modern, weather-resistent outdoor goodness, from bar chairs, to tables, to sofas. Plant your ass and take a look around — the world is now your television. Check the discounts at DWR.com
More Flossing:Jake 939 N Rush St; Near North Side; 312.664.5553
3740 N Southport Ave; Lakeview; 773.929.5253
60% off shirts, blazers, and t-shirts from Marc Jacobs, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Adam Kimmel, and Martin Margiela (sadly, none of Jake’s designers cut clothes for The Fat Man). Shop ShopJake.com
Work Gear:George Greene 49 E Oak St; Gold Coast; 312.654.2490
The jacket/suit-heavy spring lines from Kiton, Alexander McQueen, Etro, Zegna, and Tom Brown are 30% off ’til they’re gone, at which point you’ll be 100% shopping at Men’s Wearhouse. More at George-Greene.com
James Homer, a member of the Unseen Photography Collective, features a series of photographs entitled Alone as part of the group website. In a “Where’s Waldo?” type of way, the viewer tries to locate a sole figure dwarfed by his or her surroundings. The person is very much part of the scene, but it is clear that the scene exists with or without the presence of that individual. Big picture thinking, but the scenes are captivating on their own, so that no one feels as though a message is being served up. Also interesting is Homer’s Nation of Shopkeepers series.
Artist: James Homer
+ unseenphotography.co.uk
Artist Brent Houzenga Opening Reception at The Lift Friday, July 11th
Artist Brent Houzenga is the next artist to show at The Lift. Houzenga’s artwork will be on display the months of July and August with his opening reception set for Friday, July 11th 6-9pm. The title of his show is “Another Visitation” and will feature a variety of newly created prints on found objects, installation segmented pieces, and imaginative paintings. Brent was recently featured in local arts magazine DSM and is currently Assistant Director at the Ankeny Art Center.Please visit his website www.brenthouzenga.com
Thank you for supporting the arts in Iowa and please add this event to your art calendar listing.
Lucian Freud has become the most expensive living artist at auction with his “Big Sue” painting. The large naked woman painted on a couch is called “Benefits Supervisor Sleeping” and sold for $33.6m or £17.2m at Christies last week. The sitter is Sue Tilley and she sat for Freud over a four year period.
I’m so glad that a painterly painter now holds the title of the most expensive living artist at auction. Big shiny hearts and pill cabinets might be interesting but how can they compare to a painting by a living master?! Of course I’m biased as I’m a painter too, but who isn’t biased?
Ruslana Korshunova, a stunning supermodel, fell to her death from the ninth floor of her New York City apartment earlier today, in what appears to be a suicide. See her biography, photos, and video here. Ruslana Korshunova Ruslana Korshunova is an accomplished model who Vogue magazine named the “…Full Article @ Technorati, Fashion
Noticed that you post on art, culture, etc and wanted to introduce you to my website. Feel free to browse around .We represent some great artists, who you may like to feature.
Kevin Ledo is a Montreal-based artist focused on the ideas of beauty, desire and idealism. His paintings often portray these concepts, sometimes with a dose of irony and Catholic influence, by way of the human form. Sometimes Ledo’s colours are toned down completely; at others they edge out the representational aspect, as in the case of If Only I Knew Your Name and A Street Ad Caused Desire, where the pinks and purples are anything but soft and flowery. And who knows why, but there is something about the stencilled piece that follows, Gymstars, that grabbed and kept us.
Artist: Kevin Ledo
+ kevinledo.com
Sebastien Grainger (ex-DFA1979) is set to drop his first release under the moniker The Rhythm Method (his “party” alias). But when you hear “party” don’t think electro bangers in the style of his ex-bandmate’s MSTRKRFT… or even along the lines of “Let’s Make Out” by DIOYY in which Grainger leant vocals. The double A-side features some smooth late night party jamms showcasing a sophisticated style.
Cover art above by Will Sweeney (obvs). You can purchase the 7 inch on 50 Bones’ MySpace. Oh and make sure you head over there in listen to “Renegade Silence” — it’s my favorite of the two.
You’ll be doing more than merely snappin’ yo fangaz after this one- probably some hand clappin’ and some ass shakin’ and some fist raisin’ for sure… now go and bump this and get crunk like how them white folks do!!!
For those of you who’ve been hot on the Johnny Depp trail as he’s been filming the John Dillinger movie, “Original Gangsters,” around town and throughout the Midwest, tonight may be your last time for a sighting.
An Ultimate Insider tells me that they’ve finished filming the movie, and tonight’s the wrap party at West Loop hot spot Bon V. Whether or not Depp will be in the house has not been confirmed, but planners have invited 900 guests to fill up the 300-capacity club. The party was originally scheduled to take place at Alhambra Palace down the street, but for some reason that’s not happening.
Other possible star sightings from the movie tonight include actors Christian Bale, Channing Tatum and Giovanni Ribisi.
Being a young mum certainly hasn’t stopped Nicole Ritchie being a fashionista. She was photographed in Glendale recently wearing a pair of Siwy “Nicole” romper shorts with built in suspenders. These are the same pair of denim shorts worn by Laura Conrad (see below) of The Hills last year . Check out PinkDenim who have a selection of Siwy Denim on sale with reductions of up to 35%.
Matt W. Moore has taken doodling to a new level with his various series of eye-catching illustrations and graphics. Vectorfunk 2 is a series of posters that combine line, form and colour in ways that pop – all of which contribute to a sense of action and movement within each piece. The Geometry posters incorporate symmetry, which does not take away from the excitement, but rather adds a kaleidoscopic aspect to MWM’s work. Looking at these pieces feels like being a kid at an amusement park, with access to all the rides, carny games and candy.
Artist: Matt W. Moore
+ mwmgraphics.com
He wrote the RGB statement and he sent it to us all only once, it’s all it took, we all we agreed, we loved it. He was so graceful with words. This was our statement that he wrote for us all in RGB:
“We are a collective of artists cultured in the streets, but though we refuse to be limited. Every member retains their own identity, though occasionally we set this aside for the greater good of the group. We choose to combine our skills and talents and occasional weakness to achieve things we could not necessarily achieve as individuals. We shun the rules and regulations and despise the status quo. We ignore preconceived limitations and strive for innovation.” - SOLVE
As some of you may have heard, last Saturday night, on June 14th, the Chicago based street artist SOLVE was brutally - and senselessly - murdered in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood.
Brendon Scanlon (SOLVE) was much beloved and admired by the Chicago street art and graf community, and his loss leaves a deep whole in all of our hearts.
SOLVE had an incredible influence on the Chicago scene and helped a lot of young artists get their start.
Our hearts and thoughts are with Brendon’s family and loved ones.
Chicago’s street art community lost one of its brightest talents over the weekend when Brendan Scanlon, AKA Solve, was murdered in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood. Solve’s work was up all over the city bringing bright colors to traffic signal control boxes, positive affirmations to sign posts and a range of other characters, images and messages displayed on paste-ups, boards, stickers and stencils on walls, signs and newspaper boxes.
A suspect is currently in custody for the tragic crime, and the close-knit street art scene is memorializing Solve with tribute pieces showing up around town, and at a quickly established installation at Grand and Milwaukee Avenues. Besides his own pieces, Solve frequently collaborated with other Chicago artists and helped many newcomers step up their game from scribbled tags to complex print techniques and through-provoking concepts.
What follows is an excerpt from an interview Solve gave a few years back to frequent collaborator Swiv for use in a book on contemporary street art interspersed with pics of some of Solves work from streets and galleries around Chicago.
What’s your typical medium?
Solve: When I started doing “street art”, the definition of street art where it’s graffiti in a non-traditional form, it was just little stickers here and there, and that was a few years ago now. And then I started doing stencils, I was doing this little two-color stencil guy, and I was doing him for quite awhile, and then I got kind of sick of spray paint fumes, and the illegality of carrying cans around, not to mention the difficulty in obtaining them, and their cost. They’re pretty expensive for a poor artist type. So then I started doing paste-ups, and stuff. I was stenciling on paper, and then pasting the paper up. So then I could do more intricate stencils, like four-color stencils, and not have to carry around a big ridiculous bag of stencils. And also, I could do larger size stencily things. But then I learned how to screen print, and started doing a lot of screen-printing, and now I use various mediums, but it almost always ends up being a paste-up. When it starts getting cold out I do more boards, because my paste doesn’t work
What message do you want your art to portray?
Solve: Well, each kind of image or piece I do tends to have a different message, I guess. A lot of the messages aren’t very direct, I try to be sort of esoteric and leave it open to interpretation. The messages are usually taken from stuff I see around, like in the news or my perceptions of the world, some problem that I perceive, and I usually make a thing about that. I don’t have any answers, I don’t think any of my pieces give an answer, they just present a problem, I guess. I also was doing those polka dot box things for awhile, which I should do more of, but haven’t done in awhile, they’re just so ridiculous. I love the idea of this completely ridiculous thing in the middle of the city. Because the city is so serious, people are going and doing their business, and you have to rush from here to there… I think it’s kind of a stop and smell the flowers thing, like hopefully people will stop and get a smile out of it.
Do you wanna tell me more about those boxes?
Solve: They’re street lighting boxes, is what they are. You probably have a picture of them. They’re little boxes on a pole, and they control when the lights go. It started one day when there was one at the end of my alleyway that I had done some paste-ups on, and Swiv had done some paste-ups on, and I had put some stickers on, and they had been half peeled off, and there was a bunch of tags on it, and it was starting to look really… bad. And I had to walk by it every day on my way out, and one day I was like “ok, that’s enough”, and I just decided to go paint over it. So I painted it this bright green color, and I thought it was kind of boring, I wanted to add something to it. So what’s a pattern that doesn’t really carry any meaning or weight behind it? Polka dots! So I polka-dotted some pink polka dots on it, and I was like “wow, this is really cool!” Then I went out, I think that same day, and painted another one. And it just went from there, I just started going out and painting them here and there.
What would you say is your main motivation for doing street art?
Solve: You know…. I just do it. I don’t know why. There’s not really any financial gain, there’s no mainstream logical reason why anyone would do street art or graffiti. I think it kind of was, I’ve always done art, I’ve always been kind of an artist, I think it’s just one of those things you’re kind of born with. And then, I just got frustrated trying find shows, and trying to find a place that will show your work, and whatever, dealing with the whole scene. So then it’s like, whatever, I’ll just put it out here for people to enjoy. I don’t really care. Just a way to put it out there so people can see it, as opposed to having a lot of artists who just have a bunch of paintings and stuff in their closet, you know, or in storage. It’s like, what’s the point? So, might as well just put it out there. I guess that’s the main motivation, just to get it out. I guess it’s kind of a creative outlet for me, and then hopefully other people can get some enjoyment out of it.
Where and when did you get your start? You gave us a brief history, did you wanna go more into that?
Solve: Well, when I was in high school and middle school I was one of those kids doing the scribbly scrawls, that was awhile back. I’m getting a little older now. But it just kind of evolved. I was getting kind of sick of that, it wasn’t going anywhere, but I still had that drive to put stuff out, I guess. And it just built and built and built, until now it’s a pretty sophisticated operation, in my opinion. I’ve got a giant room strictly devoted to making art. I’ve got tons of screens. It just kind of happened, I guess. Started doing little stickers, and it just builds. It’s kind of like an addiction, in a way. Whenever you start drinking, or whatever, and you build up that tolerance, and that little bit just doesn’t do it for you any more so you gotta go to a bigger dosage. And then that’s just how it is, you keep getting bigger and bigger and better. That’s kind of the hope too. You know, if you get bored with it, it starts to get stale, then you’ll probably stop doing it. So you gotta keep going, you know?
I was reading the Curb Crawlers Blog as I do every Wednesday morning at 8:30am and I came a across this great set of interviews with all the producers of “The Carter III”
My fav quote so far, in reference to “Shoot Me Down” feat. D. Smith (produced by D. Smith)
“I was going to Hot Beats for a session and Lil Wayne was there. My business partner, Stacy Barthe, actually knew Wayne and his people, and they had heard the track a couple days prior to me meeting [Wayne] and told him about it. So I went in the room and saw him and the first thing he said to me was, “Thank you.” He hadn’t even heard the beat yet. So I played the beat and it was probably like 15 people in the room. He heard the beat and kicked everybody out except for like two people, the engineer, and myself. He smoked two blunts, asked for a cup of hot tea and just went in.”
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