Updates on some of the biggest stories from The District’s first year

PHOTO by JONATHAN NAFARRETE, WINNER OF OUR FIRST-EVER FLICKR PHOTO CONTEST
Bank doors closing for the last time. Roaring factories fallen suddenly silent. The stock market on suicide watch. Evangelical hymns in 10 thousand churches rising to an angry, bearded God. Foreign powers circling, eyeballing [...]

VIA WIRED
Vessel esoterica Skullphone (as exclusively profiled here by me) is currently in New York but before he left he made sure to leave a bunch of digital billboards blinking skullphones to keep the meme alive. Immediately, ridiculous speculation that “18-year-old graffiti artist” Skullphone “hacked into” the ClearChannel infranet/matrix/mainbrain/salesnexus metastatized from blog to blog—all with [...]

If you caught Heavy Metal Vomit Party last month at Koo’s (or our interview with him), you could not have missed Skullphone’s ten foot tall silkscreens debuting his line of gilded — and glittery — ornaments. As it turns out, I am currently the proud owner of one of said ornaments. And as the only [...]

I wandered in and got a serious peek. Definitely everyone should go. This is up there with MANUFACTURED INSPIRATO (a stated inspirato-ion) as far as Koo’s spectacularism goes. Andrew Jeffrey Wright has some intense geometrics, Skullphone has some just-off-the-rack posters, Bryan Schnelle has done some pretty powerful home-invasion collage on a center pillar… I didn’t [...]

Heavy Metal Vomit Party: A multimedia kind of night framed by Skullphone, Shepard Fairey, the folks at Hooray for Humans and too many more to list here. Also music dredged out by Ghostship, I.E. and Laco$te. 7pm. $5.
KOO’S 530 E Broadway, Long Beach 90802. 562.491.7584; koos.org.
Veteran’s Day Parade: Your chance to find out what all [...]

Hangin’ on the telephone with the true face of California

PHOTO by DAVID GUETTLER
It’s not the new face of California but it’s a true face: the skull with big black eye sockets and a blocky old cell phone and twiggy little fingers-an LA hero, some happy person called it on the Internet, which is probably the [...]