The Hundreds Magazine Issue #4

The Hundreds just released Issue #4 of their in-house magazine, featuring Holly Madison, Ron English, Blu and more. Check out the video from the bikini shoot (Holly Madison, Angel Porrino).

Cherry Blossom Festival

If you are lucky to be in DC this week, you will probably enjoy the 3000 cherry trees that began to blossom today, for the 99th year. And don’t forget to get some  mini-burgers at Matchbox in Chinatown :)

Eames Lounge Chair

Probably my favorite lounge chair for years is the Eames Lounge Chair. In this video you can watch the  Chair being manufactured in the Vitra Atelier on the Vitra Campus in Germany. Check it out.

Jeff Koons Must Die!!! The Video Game

“Jeff Koons Must Die!!!” is an 80’s style stand-up arcade cabinet loaded with a first-person shooter, by Hunter Jonakin, in which players can virtually destroy the work of artist Jeff Koons.

The game is set in a large museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective. The viewer is given a rocket launcher and the choice to destroy any of the work displayed in the gallery. If nothing is destroyed the player is allowed to look around for a couple of minutes and then the game ends. However, if one or more pieces are destroyed, an animated model of Jeff Koons walks out and chastises the viewer for annihilating his art. He then sends guards to kill the player. If the player survives this round then he or she is afforded the ability to enter a room where waves of curators, lawyers, assistants, and guards spawn until the player is dead. In the end, the game is unwinnable, and acts as a comment on the fine art studio system, museum culture, art and commerce, hierarchical power structures, and the destructive tendencies of gallery goers, to name a few.

Twenty-five cents to play. Check out a video of “Jeff Koons Must Die!!!” in action over at Curated.

Via:Highsnobiety

Color – Cool or Not?

I have been asked to expain today, what is Color and what are you supposed to do with it… I said that it is a photo-sharing app… 

Pablo – here is a better answer

via:ATD

Fukushima nuclear plant…

Japan Self Defense Force members in protective clothing prepare to transfer to another hospital workers who were exposed to radiation at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at a hospital in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on March 25, 2011. About 300 engineers have been working around the clock to stabilize the six-reactor Fukushima complex since an earthquake and tsunami struck two weeks ago. (REUTERS/Kyodo)

Andy Warhol portait of Elizabeth Taylor is up for Auction

Mr. Steve Cohen, the owner of an Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor has put it up for sale for more than $20 million.

Hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen has reportedly enlisted Phillips de Pury to auction off the portrait of the late screen star.

He is asking for at least $20m at its major sale of contemporary art on May 12 in New York, The Wall Street Journal reported today.

The 1963 silkscreen, “Liz #5,” depicts the actress – who died on Wednesday, aged 79 – during her “BUtterfield 8″ heyday, her red lips forming a serene smile and her eyelids swathed in blue eyeshadow. The work comes from Warhol’s signature 1960s series of pop-culture icons such as Marilyn Monroe and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Near the market’s peak four years ago, Christie’s sold actor Hugh Grant’s 1963 Warhol portrait of Taylor, “Liz,” for $23.5 million.

The auction house has tried to leave as little as possible to chance. It has arranged for outside investors to guarantee Cohen an undisclosed price for the painting unless another bidder offers even more during the auction – an arrangement called a third-party guarantee.

The current auction record for Warhol was set four years ago when Christie’s got $71.7m for the artist’s 1963 “Green Car Crash.”

Stussy x W-Base BMX Bike

Image via Stussy 2011 Spring Book.

Here is an image from an upcoming collaboration between Stussy and W-Base on a BMX bike. Coming in a chrome/metallic blue colorway, the bike features lots of nice details and Oakley handlebar protection. No release date yet..

‘Save the Date’ Exhibition at Agnès b.

‘Save the Date’ Exhibition at Agnès b. @50 Howard street, New York, will include: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley, Suitman, Rostarr, Harmony Korine and Jose Parla, this exhibition entitled ‘Save the Date’makes for a must see when the doors of Agnès b. open on April 1.

Shepard Fairey on the cover of Be Street Issue 12

French magazine Be Street is about to release their issue 12. This time they have commissioned artist Shepard Fairey to do the cover design. Next to Shepard Fairey the new issue also features Johnny Cupcakes, Rusko, Yelawolf, P-Rod and lots of other interesting personalities, next to the latest in style and fashion.