Our frien tattooist M’ink tattooed “Sang Bleu” on his collarbones! Tattoo acquires @ TinTin, Paris. This is one of the sweetest thing I ever seen! You rule bro! Start a trend!

When I heard that London lo-fi dance band IS TROPICAL had matching Cheryl Cole leg tattoos I immediately thought of rose and barbed wire garters. The reality is more understated, but far easier to create with stick-and-poke. Rumoured to be signing with Kitsuné, and doing the festival circuit this summer. Playing KOKO on August 14 too if you’re up for a grimy night out in Camden Town.

Reading what Max was saying about the DVN show reminded me I had this old Nick Knight book gathering dust on the shelf. It’s a classic bit of inspiration and a regular reference point for men’s designers but beautiful all the same. Dries does it justice.

Jean Toche, I Accuse, March 26 – April 9, 1968, Gallerie Le Zodiaque, Brussels, 20 pages, offset, staple bound.

A rare catalog from an early solo exhibition by Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG). This booklet documents Toche’s little-known aggressive light environments. The catalog, which is also a kind of artists’ book, features text in English and French.
Click HERE to download the PDF file.

De l’or dans les hauteurs is a poem by Herman Melville that inspired Claire Denis in the direction of her rarely upsetting film Beau Travail (1999).

De l’or dans les hauteurs
Et de l’or dans le val,
La convoitise au cœur,
Pour le ciel nulle part
Pour l’homme nul bonheur.

that could be translated as

Gold in the mountain
And gold in the glen,
Greed in the heart,
Heaven having no part
And unsatisfied men.

The whole film unfolds like a continuous dance, and there’s as much choreography in the movements between shots as there is in the movements of the actors or the placement of the landscapes.

Below, the end scene, one of the most alive and electric moments in the film, where Denis Lavant performs a contained intensity cuts loose in a solitary disco dance to Corona’s Rhythm of the Night.

P.J.S. Exhibitions Presents:

METANOIA
“a positive psychological re-building”

A Collection of Works by Renowned NYC Based Artists

Featuring:
Chris O’Donnell
Jason June
Josh Egnew
Ryan Bonilla
Stephanie Tamez
Thomas Hooper

Curated by:
Bevin Robinson
Patrick Sullivan

Opening Reception
Thursday July 15, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm

RSVP
pjs-exhibitions@pitchcontrolpr.com

Exhibition:
July 15 through August 29, 2010

P.J.S. Exhibitions
238 W.14th St.
New York, NY
212-242-2427

www.pjs-exhibitions.com

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.