The Company Freak Disco Collective, led by Jason King, turned Central Park Summer Stage into a dance party today. Stars like Karl Dixon and Dawn Tallman (above), Ultra Nate, the ladies from Chic and many more brought back those Studio 54, Paradise Garage nights singing classic disco, soul and house – “dance dance dance dance ” – perfect start to the GayPride weekend.
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June 28th, 2014
KEO (above) painted the mural of Bambaata outside the Gavin Brown Gallery. The show, curated by Johan Kugelberg features Buddy Esquire’s fliers, Joe Conzo’s photos, Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style – and you can buy some of Bambaataa’s priceless records to play at home.
Imanuel aka BB7nyc stylin’ and profilin’ outside the gallery
The Cold Crush crew.
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June 27th, 2014
One weekend a year the area called Welling Court in Queens becomes a street art gallery. The project organized by Ad Hoc has grown each year with crews of legendary, groundbreaking, and up-and-coming artists transforming the neighborhood into a public art experience. This year saw legends like John Ahearn who cast street legend Smith (below), Cey (above), Lady Pink (below), and many more painting from dawn till dusk.
Cern One
Lady Pink
Alice and Trap
John Ahearn casting artist Smith
KR1
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June 25th, 2014
At the British Consulate in NYC to meet Sir Cliff Richard OBE and celebrate the start of Wimbledon. Sir Cliff was a fixture on the radio when I was a kid, his song Summer Holiday was a British ‘anthem’ in the sixties.
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June 20th, 2014
I shot this photo of the Brothers Johnson chilling out in Los Angeles in 1981 – love the number plate. George aka ‘Lightnin’ Licks’ and Louis aka ‘Thunder Thumbs’ recorded one of my favorite songs ‘Strawberry Letter 23’ which was originally recorded by the great Shuggie Otis .
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May 10th, 2014
Singer Jose James has a new single out called ‘EveryLittleThing’ In true artist’s spirit of fearless experimentalism the new record shows his love for not only soul but rock and electronic based music. He grew up listening to bands like Nirvana, Jimmy Hendrix and Radiohead and later spent many late nights in East London Clubs hearing electronic music. .
To celebrate this we decided to wander the streets of Brooklyn to shoot the cover for the single (above) – it was a sunny day and we found this rusty painted flag wall – it seems just right.
José James’ new album ‘While You Were Sleeping’ comes out on June 10 – it is electrifying!
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May 6th, 2014
One afternoon Dave Sussman rolled up to my place in his beautiful 1976 Cadillac. The ‘BKLYNWAY/BEASTIECADDY‘ is covered in photos of the Beastie Boys, as a fan described it “ain’t enough o’s in smooooooth!” Dave created this art piece to honor the passing of MCA who sadly died in May 2012.
Coincidentally Ricky Powell, the man some call ‘the fourth Beastie’, just happened to be passing by – I think MCA would be be looking down smiling.
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May 1st, 2014
My show at HVW8 Gallery for Art & Design in LA opened last Thursday, big thanks to Tyler, Nikolai, and Addison for throwing a great party, as well as my girl Jen from Art Duet for kicking it up and getting press from the likes of Jay Z, Complex, LA Weekly (Jake you rule) and Brent Rollins for the photo above. The show is called ‘Rebel Cultures.Punks, Rap, Gangs’ : images from British punk era, LA punk scene, Old School Hip Hop, and the East LA Hoyo Maravilla gang series.
HVW8 Gallery is at 661 N Spaulding below Melrose Open Tues-Sun 1-6pm until May 18 2014
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April 30th, 2014
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April 26th, 2014
I’ve been working with jazz singer and musician Jose James for the past year.He’s been busy: playing with a 100 piece classical orchestra in Amsterdam, producing the trumpet player Takuya’s album, and writing and recording his new album – all while touring the world with his band.
We filmed a piece for Absolut Vodka last year – the theme was ‘Everyone expresses creativity differently but what happens when you apply your creativity to something completely new’ – Jose decided to apply his creativity to taking a photograph – I was to give him a nuts to bolts lesson on how to take a photo using black and white film, and make a print in the darkroom – become, as he said, his ‘sensei’ for the day, José was an excellent student Here it is: Absolut X
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March 3rd, 2014