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COACHELLA RECAP///SLICK & DANNY BOY x ROGER WATERS…

April 28th, 2008

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Roger Waters’ Slick & Danny Boy-designed graffiti pig heads off to slaughter…

Checking in on the road home from COACHELLA, here’s a quick look at the obligatory flying “Dark Side of the Pig” balloon painted by Supertouch buddies SLICK & DANNY BOY bearing slogans like “Don’t Be Led to the Slaughter,” “No Blood For Oil,” and “Don’t Build Walls,” that floated through ROGER WATERS‘ moonlite Floyd set…

UPDATE: $10,000 REWARD FOR LOST PIG:
After being released during Waters’ Coachella-closing set Sunday nite, it seems the pig du jour floated off into the horizon, never to be reclaimed. Now, Coachella festival organizer Bill Fold has offered a $10K reward for the graffiti’d oinker’s return: “A pig got loose last night,” said Fold, “We really like him and want him back…. It’s a very emotional time for us.” Anyone with information of the piggy’s whereabouts or in possession of a convincing bootleg & a need for $10K can contact lostpig@coachella.com…

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The midnite pig rides again…

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Suspiciously anti-Floyd sentiment….

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Obama’s reportedly got dibs on the pig for his next campaign rally…

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The other white meat…

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The “Genius of Roger Waters” in action (no joke, his tour shirts actually say that)…

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Miguel de la Barracuda sweats out the set with vacationing parents Shepard & Amanda Fairey…

COACHELLA RECAP///ART IN THE DESERT…

April 28th, 2008

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Optimus Prime moonlights at Cirque du Soleil…

Aside from a lot of neo hippie-ish little installations throughout the festival grounds, the massive three-day concert that is COACHELLA offered little in the way of compelling artwork save for MIKE ROSS‘ monumental “Big Rig Jig.” Constructed from two real semi rigs, the sculpture literally dominated the skyline, inadvertently paying homage to the legion of surly truck drivers who hauled in the event’s equipment & musicians through 100+ degree temps…

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Features

BEIJING///SUPERTOUCH AT THE OLYMPICS…

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With all the mainstream news outlets presenting the “official” view of the 29th OLYMPIC GAMES in Beijing (including computer-generated fireworks and lip-synching 6-year-old body doubles), Supertouch brings you a street level look at the real haps around town from the back alleys to the 798 Arts District, you won’t see anywhere else…

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NYC///ART CRIMES///ESPO UNVEILS “WATERBOARD THRILL RIDE” ON CONEY ISLAND…

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As we previously reported, New York artist STEVE POWERS (aka: ESPO) has been working on a torture-themed art project for a while now and in conjunction with CREATIVE TIME as part of its national public art initiative “Democracy in America: The National Campaign,” he’s just opened the Guantanamo Bay-themed “Waterboard Thrill Ride” on Coney Island in the shadow of the legendary Cyclone roller coaster and Nathan’s hot dog stand in an empty storefront on West 12th Street. When a dollar is fed into a machine standing outside Powers’ mock jail cell installation featuring paintings by the artist inside and out, viewers can climb a short flight of steps to peer through cell bars and view an animatronic torture scene of a hooded jailer pouring water down the throat of an orange jumpsuit wearing Gitmo detainee…

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NYC///FILM///INSIDE THE “BEAUTIFUL LOSERS” MOVIE…

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Bringing the low-fi art world of BEAUTIFUL LOSERS to the big screen with a full-length documentary on the movement is director and Losers mastermind AARON ROSE, who will debut the film in NYC this Friday, August 8th (aka: 08.08.08) at the IFC CENTER. Presented by NIKE SPORTSWEAR, the film chronicles the lives and creative process of artists including Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and Ed Templeton, among others, whose DIY attitudes informed the aesthetics and ethos of their generation….

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BOOKSMART///INSIDE PETER BESTE’S “TRUE NORWEIGAN BLACK METAL”…

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For those scratching their heads at the sight of the following images, in the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called Black Metal has emerged in Norway. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Pagan mythology and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990’s, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards…

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NYC///SOUND & VISION///MUST-SEE SHOW: DAVID BYRNE’S “PLAYING THE BUILDING” INSTALLATION…

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Talking Heads founder DAVID BYRNE has had one of the most varied and original careers in rock, constantly vacillating between the worlds of music and visual art with rare grace. Throwing yet another curveball through the rarified air of NYC’s art world, Byrne presents music as art in “Playing the Building,” his new CREATIVE TIME-sponsored 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation that transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play”…

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