Take a walk on the wild side!
Universal Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a first look at Benicio Del Toro as The Wolfman in director Joe Johnston’s new film, which Universal Pictures will release on February 13, 2009. Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving co-star in the horror pic in which a man (Del Toro) gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.
Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman: Apple Ink.
When most people think of tattoos, they don’t think of computers and software. But for tattoo artists Guy Aitchison and Michele Wortman of Hyperspace Studios, the Mac is as essential as skin.
Why Lou Reed hates iPods.
He dissed the iPod for its incursion into visual and sound media. “It shows you films on a screen the size of a postage stamp and reduces a song to the size of a pin drop,” he said.
With Vans about to launch a ‘Johnny Ramone’ clothing and footwear range - you too can ‘Beat On The Brat’ to your heart’s content.
A good time to cash in on a rock star is when he’s not around. And four years after his death, Johnny Ramone is a suitable candidate for a clothing collection, courtesy of Vans.
Due to launch in spring 2008, the collection includes a t-shirt with concert shot on front and Ramones logo on back (£25), Johnny Ramone stone washed grey super skinny jeans (£60) and a slip-on featuring the man and his signature (£38).
30-second clips of the Ministry and Co-Conspirators cover album are available to preview here. (If you want more than 30 seconds, well, you should know where to look right?)
The track listing is as follows:
01. Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones Cover)
02. Bang A Gong (T Rex Cover)
03. Radar Love (Golden Earing Cover)
04. Space Truckin’ (Deep Purple Cover)
05. Black Betty (Ram Jam Cover)
06. Mississippi Queen (Mountain Cover)
07. Just Got Paid (ZZ Top Cover)
08. Roadhouse Blues (The Doors Cover)
09. Supernaut (Black Sabbath Cover)
10. Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan Cover)
11. What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong Cover)
12. What A Wonderful World (Short Slow Version)
13. What A Wonderful World (Short Fast Version)
14. Willie Stigmata
Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen has enlisted some of metal’s finest for the album including Revolting Cocks guitarist Sin Quirin, Fear Factory front man Burton C. Bell, Revolting Cocks’ Josh Bradford, Prong vocalist Thomas Victor, and the Hell Paso Mosh Choir. Additional Co-Conspirators include the late Paul Raven, Tony Campos and Wayne Static of Static X, and Echoes and Shadows Edu Mussi and Plastilina Mosh. The release date for the album is April 1st, 2008.
A pioneer of graffiti writers in Europe, Blek le Rat was one of the first people to use stencils to make public art on the street using icons instead of writing his name.
He was first exposed to graffiti in 1971 in New York, but didn’t start making his own until ten years later in Paris. Inspired by a stenciled portrait he saw of Mussolini amongst some WWII ruins during a trip to Italy, he created a stencil of a life size silhouette of a rat running along the streets. He stenciled the rat for two years and quickly became recognized around Paris. This change marked a monumental break from the dominance of New York’s graffiti style. His method of creating street art changed the face of graffiti and still continues to greatly influence artists around the world; from Shepard Fairey and Banksy, to JayBadbc and Oseas Duarte to the young artist wheat pasting work around town.
His work has since evolved beyond the rat icon and taken on a more serious context. He now uses his art to serve a social cause, to evoke reaction and inspire change. Most recently, he pasted hundreds of posters around Paris of Florence Aubenas, a French journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq, hoping to provoke a reaction from politicians and journalists and aid in her release. This project gained Blek incredible public support, and has encouraged him to continue to use his Street Art as a voice for the less fortunate.
OPENING RECEPTION:
APRIL 5TH, 2008
8 - 11pm
ON EXHIBITION:
APRIL 5TH - MAY 2ND, 2008
The Death Metal Dog.
Oh man, I haven’t laughed out loud like this in a while!
Melbourne’s Astor Theatre is having an exclusive run of Tarantino’s & Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double-feature. Although both these titles were released on DVD this week, you have to experience them on the gorgeous big screen of the Astor - brimming with its old-school cinema charm - to really enjoy this visual cacophony!
The Astor’s ‘Grindhouse’ feature will have a limited run spanning from March 20 to March 30.
Tarantino’s and Rodriguez’s homage to the trashy drive-in and “grindhouse” double features of the 1970s. Grindhouse was a term reserved for down-at-heel movie theatres that showed D-grade, drive-in-style films, usually with continuous sessions.
This exclusive presentation is shown exactly as the original version was intended, complete with trailers, “scratches” and intermission. (Scratches are a real-film treat for the DVD-jaded generation.)
A DVD release of the full version is NOT planned. (but we know there’ll be one in time right?) Having said that, here’s your chance to finally see this special presentation, on the SuperScreen, in a real-life double-feature movie palace - The Astor Theatre.
Session times:
Sundays & Saturday - 2 PM and 7:30 PM
Monday to Friday - 7:30 PM
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