Tue, Aug 30 2016
Heir gets Lethal
Thank god I have insomnia and squirrel curiosities because otherwise I wouldn’t have found this flyer.
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Fri, Aug 26 2016
Hetty Douglas: London Painter
In my opinion, Hetty Douglas is one of the most interesting painters in London right now. Her work consists of bright bold colors, in an abstract expressionist style. Occasionally her work includes provocative text such as “sorry for treating you like shit & 4 fingering your best m8”.Read more
Sat, Aug 13 2016
IMITATION OF LIFE
Last Saturday I took a trip to the Broad Museum for the Cindy Sherman special exhibit “Imitation of life” Raw and real vintage imagery surrounded the space, large format photos drew crowds of conversationsRead more
Thu, Aug 11 2016
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
OBEY is proud to help our buddies from DEATH ALLEY with their first festival. “Last Night on Earth” will take place this Friday in Amsterdam. The festival celebrates a night of never-ending rock ‘n’ roll, with a line-up other festivals can only dream of. No time for dreaming though, gotta stay up all night with the bands rocking until 05:00 in the morning!Read more
Thu, Aug 11 2016
SAN FRANCISCO: 2 NEW MURALS + AMERICAN CIVICS OPENS 8/13!
Shepard is in San Francisco this week painting two new murals to coincide with the opening of American Civics, the first-ever collaboration between Shepard and the estate of Jim Marshall. The exhibition opens this Saturday, August 13 at San Francisco Art Exchange! For details on the new murals, check out the SFist article below.Read more
Wed, Aug 10 2016
BANNED IN DC BOOK SIGNING AT SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS
Last Saturday Jonny Furlong & I checked out the “Banned in DC” book signing and talk with Cynthia Connolly, an LA native who brought the visionary aesthetic and perspective that punk was in fact an art and merged it to the DC scene, where Punk music was not considered a true genre during the 80s. “What existed in LA did not exist in DC, and what DC had, LA did not,” she states during her book signing.Read more
Tue, Aug 02 2016
GUILLERMO DEL TORO: AT HOME WITH MONSTERS
This past Saturday, my wife got my lazy ass out of bed and wanted to do something productive. I normally like to sleep in, play with my pups and have a bud light or two or ten ha! So we decided to head over to LACMA and check out the exhibit. I guess I am a member now at LACMA, so we were lucky enough to be some of the firsts to have a look at this dudes crazy collection which actually comes from his home he calls ” Bleak House” .Read more
Sat, Jul 30 2016
The Kids Will Have Their Say: London Punk Documented
A photography exhibition at the Doomed Gallery in Dalston, London. For this project I documented the DIY punk scene in London. I’ve been attending hardcore punk shows in London since I was 15 (now I’m 21) and over the years I’ve accumulated so many photos that I thought it was time to arrange them into some sort of project.Read more
Wed, Jul 27 2016
Bad Brains x OBEY at Subliminal Projects
Saturday we launched our collaboration with the legendary band Bad Brains. To kick things off right we decided to host an art show in addition to music in the back featuring Trash Talk and a Bad Brains super group. Here’s what Shepard had to say about it.Read more
Wed, Jul 20 2016
Califaztlan Love
This last weekend I was invited to enjoy the amazing ceremony held by various indigenous families upholding their Aztec roots dancing to celebrate their families, their bright future, and the year of the rabbit. While this has been an ongoing tradition held right here in San Diego’s Chicano Park in Logan, I had no idea that such rich history existed so close to where the college kids ruin my life right in downtown?Read more
Wed, Jul 13 2016
BRIGHT CLOSING PARTY
In celebration of this years Bright Tradeshow, OBEY teamed up with LODOWN MAGAZINE and BRIGHT to host the trade show’s closing event. The garden of Chalet in Berlin is the perfect location for free beers, bbq, great music and the launch of Lodown’s “YOUTH CULTURE“.Read more
Sat, Jul 09 2016
GETTY
Luscious green trees, textured stone steps and huge glass doors surrounded my peripheral vision. Echoing voices, and Tourists with crew neck sweaters tied around waists were seen from miles away. A few weeks ago I finally visited the Getty Center in L.A. The visual stimulation was worth the drive, with numerous buildings filled with priceless Art.Read more
Wed, Jun 29 2016
PARIS FINALE
I’m back in LA and catching my breath from a very busy but amazing trip to Paris. After my “Earth Crisis” installation at the Eiffel Tower during the COP 21 last November, Galerie Itinerrance and I discussed a follow-up art show and murals to build on the concept and aesthetics of the “Earth Crisis” installation.Read more
Fri, Jun 24 2016
OBEY at Glastonbury
OBEY Family friend Simon Holmes was in Glastonbury last weekend, toughing it in the mud to set up dope OBEY installs for one of the stages at the festival. Check out his behind the scenes pics of how the installs were put up. The 2016 Glastonbury Festival goes does June 22 – 26th.Read more
Wed, Jun 22 2016
PARIS PART 4 uh lala
After another rainy day and sometime sitting around * again * we started rocking on the last mural of this trip before setting up the last of the gallery for the opening on the 24th. From what I’m hearing from the locals, this is a very historic mural Shepard is doing.Read more
Wed, Jun 22 2016
PARIS PART 3
Finally it was not dumping rain on us today and we made some good progress working on the 3rd mural which I’ll post up after this once we finish tomorrow. Heres a good look at the past few days working on the Delicate Balance mural and since we had to deal with so much rain and delays, we for once actually got to do some touristy stuff and checked out the Louvre. Enjoy and more to come tomorrow.Read more
Tue, Jun 21 2016
#LIVINGROOMTODAY
In a world of mediocrity #LIVINGROOMTODAY brings a new user experience for music, art, and social advocates around the world. Presenting a fully collaborative platform for the viewer and artist. Hailed as “the new wave of the underground” by Vice’s NOISEY, the team at #LIVINGROOMTODAY is pushing the envelop on what can be done in a fully connected world.Read more
Wed, Jun 15 2016
OBEY IN PARIS PART 2 and more
Sorry for the delay on posting about our time in Paris. Its been a pretty hectic trip thus far, dealing with late shipments, weather and all kinds of other fun crapola. Im going to have to spilt my post into two separate ones sense a lot has been going down and playing catch up.Read more
Wed, Jun 15 2016
OBEY IN PARIS Part -1
Myself, Shepard and the OBEY GIANT crew jump on the jet and now are in Paris. I’m going to get right to it and attempt to be somewhat of a photo journalist and post up our travel as it goes. I haven’t really slept in 34 hours, so please bare with my verbiage. The last time I was in Paris was with Shepard in 2009 and it was two days of non stop action and barely remember it, but luckily I have all my photos to act as my memory.Read more
Thu, Jun 09 2016
Londun
Recently our women’s director Ayumi Hanaoka took some much deserved time off to run around Europe, primarily London, for a quick week. From the looks of it she spent her time at museums, pubs, getting tattooed, shopping, and more than likely curb side smoking. Different country, same Ayumi.Read more
Tue, Jun 07 2016
Maison Objet Through the Lens of Ligne
Visions of chest hair and gold chains under pastel suits and hilarious old women lamenting on their lanai patio play together in my mind when I think of Miami…at least that was until recently when I had the chance to roll into town with the group of creatives behind Ligné Group to partner with Maison&Objet Americas for their 2nd annual interior design and lifestyle summit.Read more
Fri, Jun 03 2016
Lecherous Gaze
Somewhere around 2002 my buddy Jeroen still had his punk/hardcore label called COALITION RECORDS and he was going to a lot of shows bringing his distro.Read more
Wed, Jun 01 2016
KARTEL TEL AVIV
My gypsy brothers are back at it again!For a limited time only, Kartel is bringing the essence of the Haifa scene to Tel Aviv.Read more
Fri, May 27 2016
Studio Visit: Knickerbocker Mfg.
Recently OBEY got the chance to visit the Brooklyn compound of essential workwear and fundamental utilitarian wardrobe with the guys at Knickerbocker Mfg. With a tour from owner, AJ Livingston and fellow chainstitch partner & friend, Brian Blakely, they showed us that true craftmanship still exists today.Read more
