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Oh my, I’ll just let this one speak for itself. A very wonderful person has amassed this amazing collection of Black Metal images for your review and amusement. It’s just fantastic. For you Flavorphoto fans at work, I have to warn you of nudity in image number one. Nasty nudity at that. Above photo by unknown (yet clearly ass-kicking) photographer.

This is an incredible documentary on an amazing (and amazingly strange) New Wave artist. If you’ve heard of Klaus Nomi, then you know his Opera-style singing talents (and you’re most likely European). If you don’t know him, then rent this and prepare to be blown away. I loved this movie. The scene of Klaus playing Saturday Night Live with David Bowie will most likely feed my nightmares for weeks to come. Love it!

Billed as “the most epic magazine ever,” Hamburger Eyes is a quarterly photozine that accepts and shows submitted photos from all manner of amateur photographers (and a few professionals!). Even doper than reading it is sending them photos and getting published. So get going!
Above photo by Stefan (Endless Shaka). And if you’re wondering whether a skinny white dude really had to get an ironic tattoo that says “Hug Life,” then the answer is - yes - he did. And the rest of us have to suffer for it.

Don’t ask me, because I’m just as confused (and impressed) as you are. In looking over Vice Magazine’s site, I noticed that they’ve chosen a new photo editor and linked to his blog. All that I can figure out is that he’s named Patrick. And that he seems to hang out with a bunch of LA/NY skaters and rockers. And that he seems to be having a much crazier time in life than I am. Take a look for yourself. Damn, I really have to start budgeting money for the occassional hummer limo ride every now and then. Above photo by “Patrick.”

JANET CARDIFF, JANET CARDIFF?! Rings a bell?
People, if you did not participate in the Janet Cardiff project yet, please, please promise me you will very soon. Not participating is a crime and you know what The B. does with the breakers of the Law?
So get out, maybe before you head over to summer stage, take as long as you want but give yourself at least a couple of hours ?

JANET CARDIFF:
Starts at the Kiosk on Central Park South at Sixth Avenue;
A Credit Card Or Photo I.D. is required to take out the audio equipment.
Thursdays through Sundays, 10 to 3:30. Through Sept. 11.
For more Information or for reservations, call the Public Art Fund, at 212-980-3942.

GEERT GOIRIS
Feuer, 530 W. 24th St. 212-989-7700.
Through Aug. 23.
According to the New Yorker “…Goiris is nothing if not versatile, and his picture of a bright midair explosion (or otherworldly visitation?) in a forest clearing is easily one of the most exciting images in town. ”

BILL OWENS
Cohan, 533 W. 26th St. 212-714-9500, Through Sept. 24.
Excellent survey of work mostly from the seventies emphasizes Owens?s sharper edge and restores the bite to his satirical view of the American Dream

WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION . . .
ClampArt, 531 W. 25th St. 646-230-0020, Through Aug. 19
Autobiographical Photography and the Snapshot Aesthetic of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, Jack Pierson, Michael Meads, Walter Pfeiffer, and Michael Schmelling, Ryan McGinley and Wolfgang Tillmans

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints.
Through Aug. 24
Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Ave. at 89th St. (212-423-3500)
An exhibition that harmonizes Mapplethorpe’s classically posed, erotically charged photographs with stylized sixteenth-century Flemish Mannerist prints..

And there are lots of other things to do this weekend!!!

Saturday, August 13

Giant Robot New York, 437 East 9th Street , NYC
Presents Passing Ships
Reception: Saturday, August 13, 6:30 - 10:00
Featuring the art of Allison Cole, Susie Ghahremani, Jack Long, and Jillian Tamaki.
All four artists will attend the reception.

Nublu, Avennue C btw. 4th and 5th , look for the little blue light on the east side of the street
Jeannie Hopper from the Liquid Sound Lounge spins and the Explorations in Dub Play
Another night of great dancing and picture taking while we dance!!!!

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Central Park SummerStage, Central Park at 72nd Street
Barrington Levy, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, DJ Eddie Stats
Dancehall, Dancehall, Dancehall, Reggae, Ska and dance away!
Starts at 3 pm, be there early to get in?

Monday, August 15, 2005

Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, at the park 40th St. & 6th Ave
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Movie at Sunset. Lawn opens at 5:00pm for blankets and picnicking.

Go Bang!
@ 6S & 8S, 205 Chrystie and Stanton street | 10:00 PM $ FREE
Residents: DJ ULYSSES & G.RIZO
Check out G. Rizos live set at around 11.30 pm! That woman will rock your socks off, ladies and gentlemen, and if you do not wear socks during these days of summer she will make the soles of your feet feel again!
Electro * Disco * Hi-nrg* new wave * techno

And a heads up for One of my all time favorites!

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Dolly Parton
At the Radio City Music Hall, 1260 6th Avenue
8 pm

Friday, August 19, 2005

African Underground: African Hip-hop Throwdown
Nublu, Avennue C btw. 4th and 5th , look for the little blue light on the east side of the street

Neil Diamond at the Garden!!!

For the next two weeks, Flavorphoto asks for your greatest, sweatiest, sunniest, craziest, snootiest, (and so on) SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHS. Merely drop us an e-mail at contest@flavorphoto.com, and we’ll put them into two places of honor:

1. The riveting Flavorphoto Daily Blog
2. The stunning Flavorphoto Summer Album in our Gallery

Images should be low-res, and around 500 x 333 pixels. If you’re having trouble resizing your shot, then don’t “sweat it” (that was bad!), and send us what you got. We’ll make it fit. After all the shots are collected, we’ll send out the whole gallery for everyone to see and admire. And the finest image will merit our sexy Naneu Pro Delta Bag as a free gift!

Submit as many images as you like - as often as you like. All formats, film and digital, are accepted. They just have to scream SUMMER!

It looks like the NYC birthplace of punk and new wave, CBGB & OMFUG, will face eviction later this year. In a last-ditch effort to save the place, they are staging a massive lineup of shows featuring classic rock, punk, and hardcore bands. I’m talking people like Gorilla Biscuits, Living Color, Misfits, and Sick of It All. If you don’t have tickets already for these amazing shows, then forget about getting them - the hot ones sold out in about 10 minutes. I feel your pain - we couldn’t get them either. We can only stand in vicious envy of those who did.

Dude. Ever wonder where the term “Dude” came from? Live Science news has a nice bite-size history of “Dude.” Check it out, dude! Okay, that joke got tired pretty fast.

Okay, you probably know that “Glamour” is a thinly-veiled euphemism for a certain sexually-tinged style of photography. If this is your sort of thing, then definitely check out Garage Glamour, the king of all Glamour portals. And hey, check it out even if you’re not a Terry Richardson in training. The advice on lighting, working with models, and camera equipment is top-notch.