Alison Klayman, a documentarian whose stories have been featured on Current TV, AP Television and CBC, is the woman behind the newest documentary on Ai Weiwei — the famed Chinese contemporary artist and human rights activist (and man behind the impressive Forever Bicycles exhibit). In the film Never Sorry, viewers get a look at the […]
Forever Bicycles is the centerpiece of Ai Weiwei’s new exhibit in the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The Chinese artist, famed for previous works like Sunflower Seeds, utilizes more than 1,000 bicycles for his new work. The exhibit opened this Saturday (October 29, 2011) with the noted absence of Ai himself due to the Chinese government’s […]
The Ace Hotel group continue their inspired marketing collabs with a new partnership with The Impossible Project, manufacturers of instant film for classic Polaroid cameras. Much in tune with Ace’s vintage and Americana-themed vibe, The Impossible Project helps keep the defunct Polaroid cameras relevant by supplying them with lifegiving film. From now on each guest […]
Caught James Blake‘s show at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s Masonic Lodge last night, and it was impressive. Blake’s post-dubstep sound could not have been married to a better location, a symbol-riddled wood-beamed lodge nestled in LA’s most famous graveyard with a shirt-ruffling soundsystem. When Blake’s piano-led tracks kick into their rolling beats, the bass, syncopated […]
If you asked me to wax poetic about my love of Wu Tang Clan, I’d deliver a handsome leatherbound 1,200 page tome to your doorstep with a 24-karat gold W embossed on the cover. They blew my mind in the mid-90s, made me switch from blue Champion hoodies to black ones, and created an entire […]