The much anticipated Beautiful Losers US theatrical premier opens tonight at IFC. There are shows through out the day starting at 12:45pm but the 8:20pm (which is sold out for tonight) and the 10:20pm viewing will have the director and artists in attendance (that is for tonight and tomorrow night only) Get your tickets here. If you aren’t in NY, hopefully you can catch the flick in LA or SF in the coming months:
9/05/08 - 9/12/08 Landmark Lumiere, San Francisco, CA Buy Tickets
8/29/08 - 9/08/08 Landmark Nuart, Los Angeles, CA Buy Tickets
Each year, Tokion Magazine hosts the Creativity Now Conference, which brings together leaders in the creative fields of art, design, fashion, photography, music and filmmaking. This year’s conference is scheduled for the weekend of May 17th & 18th in NYC at Cooper Union. The Conference will consist of panel discussions and moderated individual presentations. This year’s Creativity Now Conference boasts an impressive array of speakers:
Award winning director/writer Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julian Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely, Kids), star comedians David Cross, Maria Bamford and Zach Galifianakis, curators Kathy Grayson (Deitch Projects), Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA/ P.S 1), Shamim Momin (Whitney Museum of American Art) and Massimiliano Gioni (New Museum of Contemporary Art), José Friere (Owner of New York’s Team Gallery), Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, New York based artists Nate Lowman, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Hanna Liden, influential visual artist David Shrigley, comic book icon Gary Panter, comic artist C.F., artist/musician duo Lucky Dragons and multi-media artist Harrell Fletcher.
Creativity Now is a great event and is perfect for industry professionals and students alike. For more information on attending the event, please visit the site.
Beautiful Losers is a film about a group of semi-unrecognized, yet ridiculously influential collective group of artists. The sort of losers who cherished their outsider status. The sort of creatures who’ve held tight to their respective Crayolas & paintbrushes, their skateboards & video cameras, their spray cans & Sharpies, the very badges of their inner nerd, and are now recognized and celebrated. It’s the classic story. That weird punk skateboarder, the one they’d gun for in PE, now being paid millions for his bad-ass drawings to grace Pepsi campaigns. They came together in the old Alleged Gallery in the Lower East Side, started by the film’s director Aaron Rose over ten years ago and now their work can be seen worldwide, and has been described as a “movement”. The artists in the collective include: Barry McGee, Chris Johansen, Ed Templeton, Geoff McFetridge, Jo Jackson, Stephen Powers, Harmony Korine, Shepard Fairey, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell and Margaret Kilgallen. These artists are self-taught, employing the unrestrained Do-It-Yourself technique, their work not limited to one medium, but many. It’s not about the money or even so much the message as just creating. Being creative and inspiring those around you to do the same. This quote by Geoff McFetridge summed it up for me: “The sun doesn’t know its a star.”
