BONUS! Here’s a video of a band I’m completely in love with called WOODS playing ‘military madness’ at the closing party for the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
This band is just the best.
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OMG WOULDN’T MISS THIS IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
The Silent Barn
915 Wyckoff Ave
With
Erica Freas
Dark Dark Dark
Hira Panna Lesea and Friends
Frozen Form the eyes of the a.m. - a short play by the Dome Theatre Companie
Projections by Zoch and Nastia
late night dance out with DJ PorkChopChopChop
Friday, May 25th | 8pm | $Donation: Bring Dollars for All the Hats at
the Silent Barn 915 Wyckoff Ave @ Hancock | Ridgewood/Bushwick,
QNS/BKLYN L-Halsey or M-Myrtle/Wyckoff or Ride Your Bike All the Way
down Myrtle Ave.
DAY:
1) STREET PARTY May 19 | 1pm-7pm
2nd St at 2nd Ave
Fun bike games other fun events presented by TRACKSTAR.
Footdown, trackstands, and skids for all.
FBM hosts BUNNYHOP CHALLENGE w/ cash prizes. Performance by Ines Brunn.
and BIKE PARADE May 19 | 1pm
Meet at 33 W 17th St. near 5th Ave
Calling all tall bikes, short bikes, long bikes, regular bikes to the streets of New York. Show your colors! Ride your most fun bike: with your team, club or your biker friends. Dress yourself up and your bike.
Go see some films about bikes! Schedule/Tix here also bicyclefilmfestival.com
2) Dance Parade NYC
NYC will finally see, hear, and feel a massive mobile celebration of
dance music and culture in all its forms, from electronic beats to
drum and dance troupes. With 50-plus sound systems, 100s of crews,
over 6,000 registered dancers so far, from Herald Square all the way
to Washington Square Park — followed by a huge getdown in the park
with Kool Herc, Danny Tenaglia, and many many more — all making a
big noise to free the beat and the feet in New York already
Full listings online.
6th Avenue and 32nd Street, Manhattan
1p; $free
team@danceparade.org
http://www.danceparade.org
NOTE: Seems like a great idea — a protest that doesn’t look anything
like a protest.
NIGHT:
2) BIG PARTY! Bike Film Fest Kick-off Party! Bands! Beer! Bikes!
Update: go to Studio B. in Greenpoint. Party will be there.
For the full schedule of events and screenings, and to buy tickets, check out www.bicyclefilmfestival.com.
Don’t miss Monkey Warfare (Friday, May 18) - Toronto Film Fest Special Jury Award Winner! Get your tickets before they sell out!!!
For press inquiries, please contact Jill Meisner, Pitch Control PR, 212.475.4919 or jmeisner@pitchcontrolpr.com.
May 16:: BIKES ROCK OPENING NIGHT PARTY
OPENING NIGHT DANCE PARTY!
Studio B
259 Banker St. (between Calyer St. and Franklin)
10pm-4am FREE
Ditch Productions present:
Mike Likes Bikes: Machine Integrated Kinetic Expressions
performances by: NJ Turnpike and Eystek
Headliners: GANG GANG DANCE
Dirty Finger (Black Label Bike Club) / James Stacher (Black Label Bike Club) / Brian Degraw (Gang Gang Dance)
May 17:: JOY RIDE - An Art Show Inspired by the Bicycle
Curated by Brendt Barbur / Hosted by Fountainhead Films
OPENING PARTY on MAY 17: 6pm-12am
Regular Gallery Hours: 12pm-7pm (May 17-21)
33 West 17th St. near 5th Ave.
Participating Artists:
Swoon / Phil Frost / Amy Franceschini / ESPO / Michel Gondry / Steve MacDonald / David Namaiki / Shepard Fairey / DAZE / Kareem Black / Peter Sutherland / Julia Chiang / Ryuta Nakajima / Massan / Brian Vernor / Benny Zenga / Fast Eddie Williams / Cheryl Dunn / Takuya Sakamoto / Madsaki / Erik Zo / Ko Masuda / Gina Marie Scardino / Erin Nicole Brown / Taliah Lempert / Amy Bolger / Steve Crandall / Tod Seelie / Daniel Leeb / Goods / Joseph Becker / Conrad Carlson / Erik Foss / Greg Ugalde / Yohei Hanazawa / Loren Purcel / Natascha Unkart / Ellis Gallagher AKA © Ellis G. / Jason Chaste / Dr. JPL / Ryan Doyle (BLBC) / Wolfgang Paperchase / Chris McNally / Mike Martin / Bradley Baker and Patty Bowman / Andrew McClintock / David Mashburn
After Party:
HOME SWEET HOME
131 Chrystie Street (Between Delancey and Broome)
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Swashbuckler’s Ball
A Benefit for the Miss Rockaway Armada
Thursday, May 10th
Europa Nightclub in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
98 Meserole Ave., (corner of Manhattan Ave.)
G train to Nassau
Doors at 7 pm, $7 or $5 if you dress up real
crazy like a pirate or other nautical character
Shake Your Booty to the Fantastic Talents Of:
Rude Mechanical Orchestra (radical marching band)
featuring Team Awesome (guerrilla dance troupe)
Pony Pants (West Philly dancepartymeltdown)
Rench (block rockin’ honky tonk)
Veveritse (balkan brass dance grooves)
And:
Enjoy Mississippi-themed snacks! Get your random fabric and clothing
screen printed by the Rockaway Crew! See the Amazing Slideshow!
Don’t Forget to Dress Nautical: Pirates, Mermaids, Sailors, more!
The Armada is collective of people who traveled down the Mississippi
last year on rafts we built ourselves; a project of sustainability,
cultural exchange and adventure. Help send us down the river again,
this time all the way to New Orleans!
www.missrockaway.org
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Band links:
www.rudemechanicalorchestra.org
www.myspace.com/ponypants
www.renchaudio.com/
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Links to online flyer and advance tickets:
http://www.missrockaway.org/wordpress/BUY TICKETS NOW HERE
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Ed Zipco took this pic at his photo party thingy last week
Oh well! So. All is well. No. All is grand! I resigned from one of jobs today. Woo hoo! I’ll be going down the river this summer. Yay!
Okay, so. Lots of good fun things have happened lately. Much partying and carrying on. I haven’t spent any money on anything except laundry in 2 days. I did my laundry.
Here are some pics from Ed Zipco’s photoshoot party at the Brooklyn Industries Gallery in which he constructed a human slingshot with a mattress landing pad. Also pics from the Sweville show and the Miss Rockaway benefit art show opening Also, a small surprise asshole splasher manifesto that appeared on the ground.
Check out the flickr gallery here
Ahahaha. From the Skewville Orchard Street Art Gallery Closing Party! See the whole thing here.
More pics from the Skewville show here.
Also, the Miss Rockaway Benefit Art Show at Ad Hoc Gallery
ed & kat
Very disgruntled art show organizers!
The fellow they call “Hot Jamie” and hot Todd
Skewtown & Chevin. We’ll miss you on Orchard!!
Chevin, Todd & Brandy Gump.
Kristine, Adam & girl I don’t know.
Brandy & Cubby performing.
Chevin & Thaddeus
Seeliemonsta.
The great Stark.
And then that promised splasher manifesto pic. Thought this was kind of funny:
Tonight I learned to tune a guitar. Last night at Ashley and (Bonfire) Madigan and Jane LeCroy’s birthday party I sang the night away and it was fun. Thursday’s Miss Rockaway Armada benefit show went very well. There are still some amazing pieces left, so if you haven’t seen the show, look at it on flickr here. Anyway, tonight I made myself tune a guitar that I brought home from Todd’s house to play. I wasn’t quite getting it perfect so he called me on the phone and listened to me tuning and we figured it out. That was pretty nice. Also, I slept till 3 and then rode my bike in the rain to coney island for the marching band thing and grub at coney island. but they did grub early so i missed it. it was a nice ride anyway.
oh hell yeah. come get the Miss Rockaway Armada down the river. This Thursday!!! Also, catch up with us on flickr and read about us in the new york times.
Rolling on the River:
Art Exhibit to Benefit the Miss Rockaway Armada
Art Exhibit to Benefit the Miss Rockaway Armada
Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Opening reception on Thursday March 29th at 6 pm
Exhibition runs March 28th - April 1st
Open 12 - 6 pm
Directions at adhocart.org
Info at missrockaway.org
New York (March 26, 2007) - The Miss Rockaway Armada will host a benefit art exhibit in New York City on the evening of March 29, 2007 at 6pm. The group is calling on artists and art enthusiasts for their support to send this scrap-raft flotilla down the Mississippi River. Currently docked for the winter at a biker bar in Illinois, this group of artists, performers, dreamers and doers from all over the country will get back on the water in June. The group hopes to raise funds for much needed motors, fuel, nautical equipment and transportation. The auction will feature performances by members of the Armada and art from the river itself including a life-sized story booth decorated by David Ellis & Swoon. The benefit show will feature work from dozens of artists, including:*Swoon
*Elbow-Toe
*The Barnstormers
*Dennis McNett
*Gore B
*Visual Resistance
*The 62
*Tod Seelie
*Space 1026
*and many more!The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and has been built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Wisconsin. The collective floats down the Mississippi River on a 110 foot raft made of scrap materials. Last year they spent months gathering resources to build this floating home/art project, then floated from Minneapolis to Andalusia, Illinois; all the while stopping to meet people, share skills, perform, swap stories, and otherwise engage in cultural exchange. However, they have many miles to go before they reach New Orleans. The Armada is gearing up to tackle the Big Muddy again and are eager to see who and what they will encounter as they continue the impossible experience that characterizes Miss Rockaway.The group is creating a mobile cultural center that embodies their search for creative and sustainable ways of living.
*Elbow-Toe
*The Barnstormers
*Dennis McNett
*Gore B
*Visual Resistance
*The 62
*Tod Seelie
*Space 1026
*and many more!The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and has been built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Wisconsin. The collective floats down the Mississippi River on a 110 foot raft made of scrap materials. Last year they spent months gathering resources to build this floating home/art project, then floated from Minneapolis to Andalusia, Illinois; all the while stopping to meet people, share skills, perform, swap stories, and otherwise engage in cultural exchange. However, they have many miles to go before they reach New Orleans. The Armada is gearing up to tackle the Big Muddy again and are eager to see who and what they will encounter as they continue the impossible experience that characterizes Miss Rockaway.The group is creating a mobile cultural center that embodies their search for creative and sustainable ways of living.
For information contact A’yen Tran, ayen@missrockaway.org. Ad Hoc Art is located at 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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NYC->Philly to see Dark Dark Dark (missing them with all my heart, and not just because they took Todd away, I wince at the departure of Marshall and Nona and George) at Fancy House->DC for NCOR->Philly to drop Josh off at NotSquat, 2nd visit to Finley at Fancy House->NYC to Todd’s then biked up to my house. Whew! And a 3hr boat meeting I called into. Now trying to go to bed. I need to get better at tearing my eyes from the screen.
Here’s a pic of Marshall. I miss you guys so much already.
Be there tonight!!! Will be amazing!
it’s at 95 dobbin st, ps.
Fletcher said: Tomorrow, tuesday, at Black Betty me and The Prayers return to shred with our dogs The Goddamn Rattlesnake. Watch us play some gooves with Crozier, Handsome John and the Rattlesnake. Two bands, our bar, our night. Show starts at 10 o’clock. Jay plays the psychotic reaction inbetween and after. 2 dollar beer. Big fun! Black Betty’s on the corner of Havermayer and Metropolitan in Williamsburg. For more info go to:
myspace.com/psychoticreactionny
from le nonsense:
XXXXX SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 XXXXX
Benefit Show
Come out and show support for Andy Stepanian, a NYC activist serving
three years in prison for organizing and attending animal rights
protests, and the Earth First journal, a radical environmental
magazine in financial crisis.
With: Ghostmice playing with members of Japanther, Evan Greer,
Griffin and the True Believers, and Brook Pridemore. Come early for
yummy vegan food, sweets, and drinks. See some great bands, and help
activists and radical resources in need of funds.
The Arm
281 North 7th Street, between Havermeyer and Meeker, Williamsburg,
Brooklyn
5p; $7-10 suggested donation
http://www.andystepanian.com/
http://www.shac7.com
http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/
Thanks to everyone who came to the Justseeds fire sale last night and Todd’s bday party. It was rad. Thanks to Wooster for posting it and to Visual Resistance for workin so hard. Thanks to Dark Dark Dark from Minneapolis & the Miss Rockaway Armada for playing a slammin show!
from nonsensenyc:
XXXXX FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 XXXXX
Midnight Ridazz NYC
We are having the first ever Midnight Ridazz NYC bike ride. Midnight
Ridazz is already well established in LA and elsewhere on the west
coast and we are bringing it here. The idea is that of a fun party
atmosphere bike ride, make noise make jokes dress in costume it is
not meant to be a strenuous ride. The first ride will be themed Kings
and Queens and will be meeting at Fort Greene park in Brooklyn at the
Myrtle and Washington entrance, then riding through northern Brooklyn
and into queens terminating in East Williamsburg/Bushwick at Siegel
and Bogart. The ride will be about 10 miles and no rider will be left
behind. After the ride, riders who are 21 and over may choose to
continue on to one of the bars in the area with other riders or go
their own way home. Your best frivolous royal dress is encouraged.
For more information on this ride and Midnight Ridazz in general
check the website.
Fort Greene Park
Myrtle and Washington entrance, Brooklyn
10:30p; $free
http://www.midnightridazz.com
oh wow oh wow oh wow.
today i swept and mopped the floors of my apartment and then i got inspired and painted the hallway and the kitchen and scrubbed the bathroom.
this an excellent IRL followup to my antlertown makeover.
kind of a life favicon install if you will.
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