Q+A: Tony Blankets of Restless People on Family Edition
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
In one form or another, most of the members of Restless People have been in our magazine. Whether it’s when we wrote about Professor Murderin F41, Michael Bell-Smith in F61, The Brothers production duo in F53, or one of the million and a half times we’ve covered Tanlines on this very site. Now the dudes have a site/free online-only record label/collective called Family Edition. Thus far they’ve released music from Restless People, mysterious lo-fi weirdos Newborn Huskies, an upcoming series of original ringtones and also a YouTube video of a dude at NASA trying to give another guy a high five. After the jump read our conversation with Restless People member Tony Blankets about the label, music and what may or may not be an actual story behind a certain Rolling Stones album.
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MUSIC, MUSIC INTERVIEWS tags Brothers, Family Editionn, Michael Bell-Smith, Professor Murder, Q+A, Restless People, Talines
Michael Bell-Smith Shows New Work
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Jason Nocito (F61)
Tonight at 6pm, Foxy Production unveils their new exhibit Abstract Abstract, featuring, among others, Michael Bell-Smith, who we wrote about in FADER 61. The exhibit looks to recontextualize how abstract art is traditionally defined through an “exhibition of paintings and prints that interpret and deploy abstraction in surprising and provocative ways.” Bell-Smith will be using marbled composition notebook covers as the base for his digital prints, turning their design into hypnotic abstractions that are equally worthy of scholarly analyzation as well as us standing around going “dude…check it out!” every 30 seconds. The exhibit runs through October 10th and also features work from Heather Cook, Hilary Harnischfeger, Gabriel Hartley, Xylor Jane, Ilia Ovechkin, Max Pitegoff and Travess Smalley.
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- story THE FADER
Tonight at the Cinders Gallery (103 Havemeyer St) in Brooklyn from 7-10pm, a bunch of artists we’re seriously into, including digital/animated visual experimentalist Michael Bell-Smith and Lucky Dragons (who helped us have what we now remember as basically the happiest day ever) are showing new work that is “exploring intimacy through technology and how it allows us to entertain and communicate, as well as create digital debris. Featuring 12 works by 8 artists that range from video to radio, painting and drawing to sculpture.” We’re already down, but in case you’re not sold here’s a bunch of stuff you could pretend Jamiroquai is singing from the Cinders Gallery website:
“Gone completely virtual. When happy, call it digital bliss. When sick, blame hackers; run anti-virus programs. If it’s viral, buy it with invisible credits. Lives are lived on chips/even the chips are somewhere else, in some mountain of hardware out west. Broken harddrives are eulogized, summer is a series of fun 0s and 1s, bathing suits are pop-up windows, pop-up windows need windex. Google us, facebook us, technorati us, aim us, spyware us, digg us, goatse.cx us, meme us, spotify us. Youtube nights. Cybersquatters rights. Digital debris. Futures made of virtual insanity now always seem to be governed by this love we have for useless twisting our new technology oh now there is no sound for we all live underground.” Full flyer after the jump.
