FAMILY

2010-04-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

Jaime Hernandez Signing Tuesday May 4th in Los Angeles!

2010-04-26T17:35:00.000-07:00

All these NY-centric blog posts getting you down, our sun drenched blunderers? well don't worry hometown friends, we got something awesome for you....

"To celebrate the release of the new art book, The Art Jaime Hernandez-The Secrets of Life and Death, Family is pleased to be hosting a signing and conversation with the books principal creators Jaime Hernanadez, Todd Hignite, and Jordan Crane on Tuesday, May 4th at 7pm.
Jaime Hernandez, along with his two brothers, Gilbert and Mario, changed American cartooning forever when they self-published their first comic book, Love and Rockets in 1981. Over twenty-five years later it is still going strong. Hernandez’s stories chronicle the lives of some of the most memorable and fully formed characters the comics form has ever seen. His female protagonists, masterfully delineated with humor, candor, and breathtaking realism, come to life within California’s Mexican-American culture and punk milieu. an acknowledged inspiration to countless artists-without Love and Rockets, the entire graphic novel landscape would look very different and that much worse without it.
The notoriously private artist has opened his archives for the first time for acclaimed Editor/Writer Todd Hignite, revealing never-before-seen sketches, childhood drawings, and unpublished work, alongside his most famous Love and Rockets material. Beautifully designed by the award winning cartoonist and designer, Jordan Crane, this new book is the definitive biographical and critical tome on the artist."
there.

And it warmed my heart to stumble upon this Village Voice cover a couple days ago. Sick.

Jam

2010-04-26T15:54:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow night in NY is the launch for the Charles Willeford book Family published with Picturebox. We're psyched to be sharing the event with the launch for a new book published by Decathlon called Jam. It's a collab by Maggie Lee and Jack Greer collecting their photos, drawings, and collages.

You may know Maggie Lee from her zine Frenching. Jack Greer is a part of the still house collective.

Jack and Maggie will be showing videos and signing. Here's some examples of Maggie's 'Video Salads':

smokebath.com

2010-04-24T18:21:00.000-07:00

2010-04-24T14:34:00.000-07:00

Did you know Family was on the smash hit HBO series Entourage last season? It's true (background second photo)! I meant to post this a while ago but was waiting until I could do screen grabs, instead you get photos I took of the tv with my cell phone. Not sure which episode this was but it was from the last season, the one where E dates that weird girl who thinks he's cheating on her but it turns out she's just crazy. Bonus cameo by Peter Sutherland's window display!

2010-04-23T16:32:00.000-07:00

Albert Maysles with Peter Sutherland Photos

2010-04-21T17:52:00.001-07:00

Photos by Brian Da Mofo Baller

NYC Event Vids

2010-04-20T20:21:00.000-07:00

The dudes curating the thirtydaysny.com site have thrown up some rad videos documenting the events and projects we've put on. Stoked this stuff is being documented with such class.

Albert Maysles with Peter Sutherland Tonight in NYC!

2010-04-19T21:51:00.000-07:00

Mike Bones + PC Worship Tonight at Family NYC

2010-04-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

You will love this man.

2010-04-16T19:22:00.001-07:00

You totally will. The first Family book (co-published with PictureBox), Charles Willeford's I was Looking for a Street, is now out at both the Los Angeles and NY Family stores.
An excerpt is in the most recent issue of Vice(but not online). And here is the cover, one last time, to help you know what you're looking for when you pop in. The painting of the youngish Willeford on the cover, by the way, is by my big brother Jonathan. His first published work. I like it a lot.

The Beaver Trilogy plays Tomorrow in LA!

2010-04-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

Finally, a post talking about something going on at home. oh good ol' home...

Life. Art. Obsession. Olivia Newton-John. For a far-out glimpse into how all these alchemic elements collide, look no further than Beaver Trilogy.

It doesn't get much better than this. Without a doubt one of our all time favorite movies-the kind of movie that if it was ever released on dvd it would sit prominently on one of the center tables at the store for at least a year. It's the best thing Sean Penn and Crispin Glover have ever been involved in. It's heartbreaking, and awkward, and funny, and thematically rich. It's never been released on VHS or DVD, and rarely gets played (oh sean penn, you son of a bitch). But it is playing on Saturday night at The Cinefamily. And you are lucky. Because while we are stuck in New York trying to teach these turkeys how it is done on the west coast and do god's work, you get to go see one of our favorite movies ever on the big screen and its not a dupy bootleg. You're gonna love it, you lucky lucky few.

In 1979, a chance meeting between "Groovin' Gary", an eccentric surfer dude- type, and Trent Harris, who worked for a local TV station, resulted in The Beaver Kid, a captivating short doc about Gary's other life as an awkward, yet impassioned Olivia-styled female impersonator. Obsessively driven to the subject matter as much as Gary was driven to "be" Olivia, Harris years later refashioned the story into two separate fiction shorts -- with one crudely shot on video starring a young, pre- Fast Times Sean Penn -- and the other starring the inimitable Crispin Glover -- with both actors giving their performances all they have to give. Viewed as a whole, Beaver Trilogy is an experience so distinct, layered, and brazenly raw that it eludes an appropriate cinematic analogy. As a film, it's mesmerizing. As an extract of the human psyche, it's astonishing. Please don't keep it waiting.

We're proud to co-present this rare theatrical screening of the legendary omnibus by Salt Lake City auteur Trent Harris, the man behind the cult fave Crispin Glover vehicle Rubin & Ed!
Saturday, April 17th at 7:30 pm.
To buy tickets, go to the Cinefamily site.

And if you're reading this, and you don't live in LA, just watch all these.

More Photos

2010-04-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

For some stunning photos of the goings on at Family NYC, check out Sarah Soquel Morhaim's photo site:

Meryl

2010-04-16T13:28:00.000-07:00

Meryl Smith came in today to the NY spot to start work:

Who knows what this will be!

Aska and Butchy had their final session today. Look out for the recordings they made in here.

All at Family NYC:

Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Fred Armison at Family NYC Vid

2010-04-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

Mark Your Calendars LA...

2010-04-14T18:51:00.000-07:00

Aaron Rose's old VHS tapes tonight in NY!

2010-04-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

Those in NY - in a couple of hours Aaron Rose will be hosting a presentation of old VHS tapes. Come along!

Maggie Lee from Vice took some more party photos and books and art: Here

Opening night video from the Absolut / Thirty Days site:

Thirty Days NY Opening Night from Thirty Days NY on Vimeo.

Also here are some photos of Fred Armisen and Andrew Jeffrey Wright performing comedy last night - by Brian Da Baller. It ruled hard!

Those in NY - AJW left us a brand new hilarious zine published in France, as well as 'Fartin' While Walkin' silkscreen prints! We are open for biz noon - 9 everyday!

Opening Photos

2010-04-09T12:18:00.001-07:00

WHOAH! What a welcome. Who knew huh? Over a thousand people turned out, it was really great, and we couldn't be more psyched for the rest of the month. More photos at the Thirty Days NY site.

Saturday Night in NY!

2010-04-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

DAP made this flier for tomorrow night!

Thanks to everyone who came out last night!

Tonight!

2010-04-07T22:01:00.001-07:00

It's past midnight so I can say tonight we'll be having our opening party! We installed Kyle Field's work today, or Denise the superhuman installer did. They look amazing.

Gary and Josh have been assiduously working on the light show after hours. Here they are offering hilarious banter for the camera. For real they are a dynamite comedic duo. Here Joshua is about to refer to me and Sammy as: "shmucks, but good shmucks."

We just posted about Gary so here's some Joshua White light show clips. Joshua White is renowned for his light shows at NY's Fillmore East in the late sixties and early seventies for artists like Hendrix and the Grateful Dead, employing an arsenal of various trailblazing effects, including the now-iconic “liquid light"!

People may be less aware White also directed the 'Bookman' episode of Seinfeld! This is my favorite episode, which is a big call. Watch how Jerry can't control his laughter.

Opening

2010-04-07T10:05:00.001-07:00

Totally spaced and never posted the full line up of the NYC art show. here it is:
KING KONG
Art From Los Angeles:
Geoff McFetridge
Brian Roettinger
Ashley Snow Macomber
Cali Thornhill Dewitt
Deanna Templeton
Ed Templeton
Sergio Aragones
Pablo Ferro
Rodarte
Hamburger Eyes
Kyle Field
Autumn De Wilde

The work looks really amazing. If you're in the area come to the opening tomorrow night at 7pm. Brian Degraw (Gang Gang Dance) and Aska Matsumiya (asDSSka, The Sads) will be performing sets to Gary Panter and Joshua White's insanely sick light show.

Getting There....Remix

2010-04-07T05:45:00.000-07:00

All photos by Bryan Derballa.

Getting There....

2010-04-04T05:35:00.000-07:00

Gary Panter came in on friday to start on a chalk mural for the projection wall built for him and Joshua White. I could have watched him all day, and practically did.

While gary worked on the wall, the program posters arrived.

All ten thousand of them.
The image is by Ben Jones. 27 x 32 is really big.

Then I got a great cup of coffee at the Spanish diner around the corner.

And here's what the wall was looking like when I was leaving for the day:

Why has nobody made Panter wallpaper yet? seems like an obvious one. Also, dont ask for his notes. That's just plain rude.

Good week

2010-04-02T17:53:00.001-07:00

Just a small sampling of the many new jams that arrived this week. Yes
we got the krautrock book, and yes it rules.

BTW

2010-04-01T16:29:00.000-07:00

As you know, we are curating the physical space at 70 Franklin St, April 8 - May 7. We're only one element of this wide reaching Absolut Vodka/TBWA project. Beyond the space we're curating, Dallas Clayton has been gathering material by some great videographers interviewing artists around the US at thirtydaysny.com. That will run for longer than our contribution to the project, so keep checking it after our space wraps up. When we're up and running you'll be able to watch videos of our events there too!

Here are the bookshelves Ben Jones has been working on: