Flicks from our Ferdinand Magellan jump off have finally arrived.

Jen Stark makes great art. I missed this interview she did with The Brilliance so if you haven't read it, check it out. She's rad and always comes out fresh in hibiscus party photos.

REVS is one of my favorite contemporary artists. He's made too many contributions to graffiti and street art to list. This video is pretty cool. Enjoy.

Rime MSK/KCW is one of my favorite graffiti writers actively painting right now. I just got this print from him and i'm siked. Get yours here.

Caleb got a haircut and a new dog

Alex helps the Village Voice illustrate R Kelly's artistic process.

Artist Blu did this painting. Click here to see a better image of it and make sure you zoom in on it so you can really appreicate all the details. Definitely on some other shit.

Tim from 33hz just posted an article he wrote about films with swagger. Check it out:

Hey everyone, just wrote a guest column about films with swagger
(Respect to Teki Latex and The Genevan Heathen) on this website Stag And Dove...

http://www.staganddove.com/culture/into_film

It was heavily edited as these things are but since I love myself and I want you to love me, I have included my original unedited text below:

Film to Hone Your Swagger

1.Outlaw swagger: Vanishing Point (1971)

A metaphor for the post-woodstock nation, the film follows Kowalski, a man who has lost everything and now only lives for buzz. On a bet and on copius amounts of amphetamines, Kowalski has to drive from Denver to San Francisco in twelve hours. Aided by an AM soul DJ, Kowalski evades the police. Utilizing the ultimate symbols of American Freedom; the car, the open road and the possibilities of the west, Kowalski is an existentialist working class hero. Nothing is more seductive than a man who lives in complete freedom living only in the moment. This is the Buddhist nature of swagger.

2. Real New York Swagger: The Taking Of The Pelham 123 (1974)

Walter Matthau is the star of this "Die Hard" prototype. As transit police Lieutenant Zachary Garber, Matthau (along with pre-Seinfeld Jerry Stiller as his partner) tries to foil a hijacking of a NYC subway train with a constant banter of classic new york cynicism. After talking to Robert Shaw''s Mr.Blue (This is where Tarantino stole the whole color name thing for Resovoir Dogs) on the radio, Matthau declares ""The guy who's talking's got a heavy English accent - He could be a fruitcake.""

3. Heathen Swagger: Teen Wolf (1985)

The real star of this movie is not Michael J. Fox but the great Jerry Levine as Rupert ""Stiles"" Stillinski. Not the first "crazy friend" in cinematic history but arguably the epitome of the "never-say-die" attitude later seen in the great films of Corey Feldman. Stiles surfs on tops of cars, is the MC of every party and immediately cashes in on his friend's rare, genetic disease by selling t-shirts. Stiles is the man I aspire to be.

4. Geek Swagger: Better Off Dead (1985)

Some would say Revenge of the Nerds but not I. Another classic from the Summer of ''85, Better Off Dead features the best ensemble of archetypal teen comedy characters. The clueless mom, the drug addled best fiend/friend, the befuddled dad and best of all, Scooter Stevens as Badger Meyer, the savant younger brother. The opposite of his brother, Scooter easily achieves everything he puts his mind to. Through the pamphlets he orders from the back of magazines, Badger designs a working rocket, laser guns and manages to attract legions of trashy women. I admire his dedication to sex and science fiction. I think of him often as I read the 48 Laws Of Power on the D train.

5. Pure Swagger: Casablanca (1942)

There is so much swagger to be found in this movie, In particular I love Claude Rains as French Police Head of Casablanca, Renault. But I feel that the Swagger award has to go to Humprey Bogart’s Rick. Check out this exchange with Nazis dining in his restaurant.

Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick: When you get there, ask me.
Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Strasser: How about New York?
Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

‘nuff said
-tim from 33hz

p.s. check out the new Heathen single SWAGGER, I love it!
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Tim is 1/2 of 33Hz releasing their new single this summer,
Paris Texas featuring Teki Latex and Devin Tha Dude with remixes by
In Flagranti, Max Pask, Curtis Vodka and Architecture In Helsinki.

Tucker sent me an image of this AMAZE roller this morning. It was done sometime last week on Haight Street in San Francisco. This definitely looks like a legal job and pretty identical to the work AMAZE did for Barry McGee's show at the Detroit MOCA.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about ways to bring art and music together. Free News Projects, part of Space 1026 in Philly, does just that. They describe themselves as, "an independent publisher working in the creative realms of art and music. Through intense and close collaboration with each of artist we work with, we strive to build a new paradigm of creativity, freedom and originality in the publishing world." Cool. (Shout Out to Alex for the info and link)

Red Foxx is up on Pitchforkmedia. Check it out.

New track "Swagger" from the Genevan Heathen featuring Omnikrom up on FLUOKIDS right now. Download it immediatly.

New Alex Lukas website layout. Go buy paintings from Alex, Caleb, Becky and Justin's show in Denver here.

A new issue of Swindle is already on the way! Life is truly amazing. Roger Gastman is one of my heroes.

Friend Stephen Burkes is featured in an article on design at Men.Style.

David Day writes an article about my homeboys, Soulclap! . Shout out to Charlie and Eli for finally doing what they want to do and for doing it well.

Justice is down with Fairtilizer. So is Judd Katz. Check out the new new.

The Judge was on the set of TTC's new video, Travailler. Check out her flicks.

Waltham's Adam Rourke made a fresh remix of Blonde Redhead's "Signs Along the Path." Don't forget to vote for the track on the Blonde Redhead Website so he can become more famous. Scroll down the page til you find "signs along the path (L E D mix)" and vote!

Richard Colman is a really awesome artist from DC. Someone liked his art so much that they got a tattoo of it on their wrists. That's gangster.