ARTE: Friends of Free Expression

These Ai Weiwei new phone and ipad covers are stellar. Staying true to his idea of free expression you can put various quotes from the artist on the backs of your devices.  They are genius and starting at just $15 there is no reason not to get one! Here is what Friends of Ai Weiwei had to say.

"This is the first in a series of high quality gelskins and cases designed to personalize and protect portable devices. Proceeds go to help fund our efforts to raise awareness to the challenges Ai Weiwei faces with the Chinese Authorities and promote free expression via art and activism around the world. Thank you for your support and following."

Get them at friendsoffreeexpression.com/collections/skins-and-cases

ARTE: ONOMOLLIWOOD

Senegalese photographers Omar Viktor Diop and Antoine Tempe reimagine American cinema with Onomolliwood, a series that shows what some of the biggest Hollywood films would have looked like if shot in Africa.

American Beauty, Frida, Breakfast at Onomo's, The Matrix, Thelma and Louise

ARTE: ART DEALER CHIC JEFFREY DEITCH

Jeffrey Deitch is truly one of the genius icons of our time.  I have never met any one like him before and I will never meet anyone like him again, he's an original and his contribution to art is unparalled.

ARTE: EL'S FLOWERS

This is worth downloading...were loving Sunni Colon's latest EP

ARTE: INEZ & VINOODH

The photography duo from Amsterdam are at Gagosian Beverly Hills now!

Basically every picture we take is a self-portrait—a picture of how we feel at that moment in our lives.
—Inez & Vinoodh

ARTE: BLACK BOX + MANDELA MURAL

Black Box opens today! While the Nelson Mandela Mural unveiling is Sunday, click the thumbnails for larger view and GO CHECK THEM OUT...

ARTE: THE MARKET

Happening Saturday August 3, presented by No 9 Candle Co along with Native LA and We Are Onyx.  Come out and support your local economy...all of the vendors are local LA based small business!

RSVP and invite others on facebook NOW!

ARTE: DE∆TH

Was lucky enough to see this film in theaters...if you can't catch it playing in your area you can buy it online!  Its a must see.

Before there was punk...

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early '70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music— and band name—too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album. Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger. Playing music impossibly ahead of its time, Death is now being credited as the first black punk band (hell...the first punk band!), and are finally receiving their long overdue recognition as true rock pioneers.

http://abandcalleddeath.com

ARTE: Happy 4th!

Scientist Bill Nye breaks it down...watch!