not from us, we think you should work for a living, ya fucking hippies. go here to enter the contest from Amoeba records, and then go here to check out Anthony Ausgang’s art. it’s the only good thing about that album anyway. or you can get your tickets the American way, by spending your hard earned minimum wages here. Francis and the Lights and Helios Creed open.

yikes, acid-y. more previews of Ryan Trecartin’s upcoming show at MOCA’s site here and check out his Vimeo page here if you’d like to gamble with your sanity.

here’s a taste of summer from the upcoming shows at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. the ever amazing Natalia Fabia opens this coming Saturday from 7-10pm, check out a few pics from her previous show at CHG in our somewhat lackluster very first gallery ever here, and more impressive shots from the recent Brandi Milne/Natalie Shau show here.

from Corey Helford: “Once upon a time, Summer was a no-man’s land for art. When we opened four years ago, we were shocked to find galleries closing up shop in July and August, waiting to re-open for the Fall art season. But with cable TV now debuting some of its best new series in Summer, Comic Con delivering the ultimate Pop Culture fest in July, and big art shows like Todd Schorr’s retrospective at the Ben Maltz Gallery and the urban art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego opening their doors during the “dog days”, Summer has become a legitimate “Fourth Season” for the arts. Our Eclipse the Summer series began with a bang in Bristol, England and we’ll be presenting some of the finest artists in the New Contemporary Art movement with Brandi Milne, Natalia Fabia, Eric Joyner and Buff Monster exhibiting their newest and most exciting work to date. We invite you to join us for our most ambitious summer schedule ever and prepare to be inspired, shocked and awed by the artists who are setting the standards for the next big wave in the art world. Check the image attached for new works and information on dates and times.”

happy fireworks everyone!!!

SATURDAY, JULY 3rd

a month long tribute to Dennis Hopper’s unmatched contribution to film, art and the world begins appropriately at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Cinespia’s showing of the seminal Easy Rider. there’s a film series throughout the month, mostly at Cinefamily (Silent Movie Theatre), as well as an exhibition at MOCA next Saturday, July 10th. more info with specific screenings after the jump - pour one out 4 tha homiez : o (

electroclash ex-patriot Miss Kittin scratches the decks with Paolo Mojo @ Avalon Hollywood (three thumbs up from j. s. – tix here)

the Hive Gallery is having its July group orgy show with Van Soro, Leyla Akdogan, L. Croskey, Charles Swenson, Gaia Bracco and Juan Alvarado, $8 at the door, $5 for peeps in black and yellow (cause it looks like a bee, get it? Hive Gallery? bees? eh? eh?) yeah, it costs money, but there are music performances, djs and burlesque

just duo it with Mates of State @ the Echo with Free Energy and Nick Thune opening

Fetish Nation celebrates its one year anniversary @ Circus – print the STUPID flyer above for discounted tickets. (i love this club, lots of fun i.e. lots of decadence, but they totally need a new graphic designer – p.s. see our NSFW pics from previous Fetish Nation nights here)

go take a Baths, you stink, with Dublab pal Daedelus, El Ten Eleven and Matthew David @ Troubadour (tix here)

the Dum Dum Girls are suckers with the awesome Crocodiles at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa

annndddd there’s a helluva Hootennany goin’ on with rockabilly legends Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis  battling it off with each other @ Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine (5305 E Santiago Canyon, 92676). the all day show also features Nick 13 from Tiger Army, Old 97’s, Shooter Jennings, 3 Bad Jacks, Throw Rag and a lot more, plus more than 300 classic cars and the Miss Hootenanny contest. ain’t nothin’ more American than a rockabilly festival. (tix here)

SUNDAY, JULY 4th

Part Time Punks @ the Echo with a record release party for Magic Bullets – (holy shit! Zola Jesus is doing PTP on August 1st! – i’ve talked about her plenty before and now she’s getting all huge and shit. catch her now while she’s still doing intimate venues.)

everyone loves a 3rd annual Riot Grrrl Carnival benefitting the Downtown Women’s Center with Las Sangromas Y El Cabrón, Stella Pace, Sin Remedio, Desmadre En Krisis, Social Concern, Augustia @ The Smell

DENNIS HOPPER FILM SERIES The Cinefamily, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and Los Angeles Filmforum on the occasion of the exhibition Dennis Hopper Double Standard, presents a month-long retrospective of Hopper’s most famous and infamous film works—along with lesser-known treasures—that celebrates his decades-spanning, wide-ranging career of searing performances and ambitiously idiosyncratic directorial efforts. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 7:30pm gates open; movie at 9pm Hollywood Forever Cemetery 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., CA 90038 Cinespia hosts a large outdoor screening of Easy Rider (1969, 35mm, Sony, 95 min.) to kick off the series. INFO cinespia.org TICKETS $10 FRIDAY, JULY 9, 7:30pm and 9:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Easy Rider (1969, 35mm, Sony, 95 min.) and The American Dreamer (1971, 16mm, 90 min.), with director L.M. Kit Carson in person INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 16, 7:30pm and 10:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Mad Dog Morgan (1976, 35mm, 102 min.), with director Philippe Mora in person, and Kid Blue (1973, 35mm, Fox, 100 min., archival print courtesy of Fox) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 23, 7:30pm and 9:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Night Tide (1961, 35mm, 84 min., archival print courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Tracks (1977, 35mm, Rainbow Films, 92 min.), with director Henry Jaglom in person INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members SUNDAY, JULY 25, 6pm, 8:30pm, and 11pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Blue Velvet (1986, 35mm, MGM, 120 min.), Hoosiers (1986, 35mm, MGM, 114 min.), and River’s Edge (1986, 35mm, MGM, 99 min.) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 30, 8pm and 10pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Out of the Blue (1980, 35mm, Discovery Films, 94 min., new restored 35mm print) and White Star (1983, DigiBeta, 92 min.) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $14 general/$10 MOCA and Cinefamily members SATURDAY, JULY 31, 7:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 The Last Movie (1971, 35mm, 108 min., archival print courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $10 general; $6 MOCA and Cinefamily members SUNDAY, AUG 8, 7:30pm Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., CA 90028 In conjunction with the Dennis Hopper Film Series, Los Angeles Filmforum presents Warhol/Hopper: Films by Andy Warhol featuring Dennis Hopper, screening Warhol’s Screen Tests Reel #4 (1964–65, 16mm, approx. 40 min., silent, b&w, 18 fps) andTarzan and Jane Regained… Sort Of (1964, 16mm, 80 min., color, sound). Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort Of is a playful avant-garde parody of the classic Tarzan films of the 1930s and ’40s featuring Taylor Mead as Tarzan, Naomi Levine as Jane, Dennis Hopper, Irving Blum, Claes Oldenburg, Brooke Hayward, and Andy Warhol. This rarely seen film was shot in Los Angeles in October 1963 while Warhol was in town for his second exhibition at Ferus Gallery. INFO/TICKETS lafilmforum.org

ain’t nothin’ but a she-thang with Brandi Milne and Natalie Shau at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. show is up through July 7th. check out pics from the opening here.

Saturday, June 26th

Brandi Milne’s My heart Shall Not Fear at Corey Helford with Natalie Shau in the loft

100 Artists See Satan group orgy fund raiser at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana (three thumbs up from j.s. – yeah it’s far away but this will be insane with work from pretty much everyone ever. one hundred piecez of art iz for sale so bring your evil checkbooks, people.)

Todd Schorr’s Designed For Extinction retrospective at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design (three thumbs up from j.s. – super early, from 4-7pm. Schorr will be signing books.)

Lou Barlow (of Sebadoh/Dino Jr fame) at the Bootleg Theater

get off Danzig’s mother cause he just got off yours at Club Nokia with Gorgeous Frankenstein, Toxic Holocaust

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings bring The Heavy to the Wiltern (tix here)

Spaceland seems like A Place To Bury Strangers with Light Pollution and Useless Keys in Silver Lake

L.A. RECORD is having a kickoff party with Abe Vigoda and Dublab Soundsystem DJs with FRRREEE FUCCCKIINNGGG ALLCCOHOLLLL at Nomad Gallery (1993 Blake Ave, 90039) to celebrate their hundredth issue. there’s a whole month of discounted and free shows and djs when you buy the L.A. Record Card, check out the calendar here. (Antibalas, Nite Jewel, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti, The Growlers, Au Revoir Simone, Blitzen Trapper are some of the highlights. more than 120 events total. congratulations, guys!)

annndddd continuing their weekend of gayness, there’s an ABBA Fest at the Hollywood Bowl with, ehem, Men Alive, the Orange County Gay Men’s Chorus, opening the festivities

Sunday, June 27th

Self Help Graphics and Art’s 2010 Annual Print Fair (what bad economy? spoil yourself a little, you deserve it!) from 12-5pm downtown with limited edition prints from Shepard Fairey and many others

The Blank Tapes, Bill Cutts and the Uptown Two at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach

The Growlers, The Entrance Band at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa

Goldfrapp, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, tUnE-YaRds at Hollywood Bowl

revenge of the nerds with Spazmatics at Key Club

The Adicts at Brixton South Bay in Redondo Beach

this dude named Alex Dueckminor aka the Crystal Beach sent me his video for Columbus’ ‘Lovemachine’ and it’s fucking rad so i’m posting it. he has a bunch of sick illustrations at the Crystal Beach website, too, like the one below.

Columbus – Lovemachine from The Crystal Beach on Vimeo.

SATURDAY:

WTTD pal Courtney Cruz and her Devil’s Playground gets all kinky AGAIN with the sequel to her Fetish Girls Burlesque downtown at Bordello Bar – check out some naughty pics from the first Fetish Girls Burlesque show in our galleries here (three thumbs WAY up if you know what i mean from j. satan)

Meltdown’s gallery is having s fund raiser for Downtown Dog Rescue with a group show of more than fifty artists doing portraits of cute widdle doggies, including works from Chet Zar, Nicole Bruckman, Christopher Umana and about fifty more

this actually went public last night, but regardless the Vader Project in Hollywood on Melrose looks fantastic with more than a hundred art-ed up Darth Vader helmets from pretty much every relevant underground artist ever. there’s a catalog signing at two pm.

LeBasse opens for Yoskay Yamamoto’s ‘Familiar Strangers’ show in Culver City

Gary Baseman’s ‘Giggle and Pop’ show from noon until four at the La Brea tar pits with his “Tar Pit Girls” – i like him but he’s a little skeevy, too…

Tortoise shells the Troubadour with Das Boton

Murs brings underground hip-hop above ground at HOB Sunset

i always say Mewithoutyou wrong at Henry Fonda/Music Box

SUNDAY:

revenge of the nerds with Spazmatics at Key Club

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Holy Fuck is neither holy nor fucking at the Troubadour with Nice Nice (tickets here)

the amazing amazing amazing Fitz and the Tantrums continue their Thursday night June residency at Spaceland (three thumbs up show from j. satan)

Random Patterns bring chaos to order with free beer all night and a free recording of their show ($10) with Overly Green at The Hobby Shop in Highland Park. (you MUST MUST MUST check out the Psychic Luau single below)

(Random Patterns – Psychic Luau)

Downtown Art Walk will be off the hizzizzle since it’s all summery and all, be sure to check out the Hive Gallery’s video game group show

finally got around to recovering stuff from that dead hard drive, and speaking of resurrecting the dead, i’ll be posting some golden oldies from the last year or so that i never got to put up. first off is the amazing Zombies In Love opening this past February at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra. it was an evening of romance and body parts. check out the pics here.

well, the fascists at the Getty wouldn’t let me take any pics of the Leonoardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture show, but for some reason it WAS okay to take pix of tons of great impressionist and Euro art on the other floors. stupid but whatever, olde world art bastards will get theirs soon enough… anyways, check out some amazing paintings and scultpures here, cause it’s not like YOU’RE going to go to a museum any time soon, so let WTTD do the work for you… (the show is up through June 20th in case you feel like getting up off your ass.)

amazing new “art” from Brandon Bird. buy prints at his site here.

I have a new painting up at brandonbird.com!  I warn that the image is not for the faint of heart:

http://brandonbird.com/uncanny_valley.html

Other, less disturbing new designs, and products are on their way, but in the meantime I’m running a sale on cards and T-shirts to make room:http://brandonbird.com/shopping.html#shirts

Over in the TopatoCo store, half a dozen older paintings are available for the first time as large format prints.  Three feet of “Coach!”:  http://www.topatoco.com/brandonbird

And in another tale of inventory management, we’ll be discontinuing the TopatoCo versions of “Arete,” “Brotherhood of Mutants,” and the smaller “Sears” June 11th, so if you want one of those, grab it while you still can.

Thanks!

-B

WTTD is fashionably late as always. sure wish i went during the day, though, cause the stuff i saw after everything closed was killer. stopped by just in the nick of time at Thinkspace, LeBasse Projects, Gallery 9 and a couple of others along Culver City’s famed Washington Blvd to get some pics. check out stuff here from Dave MacDowell, Edwin Ushiro, Abram Santa Cruz, Mark Brunner, Yoskay Yamamoto, Jean-Pierre Roy, Thomas Doyle and a shit ton more.