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the art in the streets issue
apr 11
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123
 
INTRODUCTION
Wlcom to aspcial dition of Jutapoz
In honor o the frst major street art and grafti retrospective,
 Art In the Streets
, opening at MOCAin Los Angeles this April,
 Juxtapoz
Magazine created a companion text to the show as our April2011 issue. As Art In the Streets opens this weekend, Juxtapoz and Levi’s have teamed up, in thespirit o street art and grafti, where rewriting the rules is the mantra, to bring you the April Issuehere in ull as a digital experience. With Levi’s Film Workshop opening at MOCA or the entirety o Art In the Streets, allowing both the general public and museum visitors to create their own flmsand motion-based productions, we hope this digital version o Juxtapoz’ April Art In the Streetsissue will inspire you to create something in the determination and essence o street art.
PRESENTS
April 14th–August 8TH, 2011
152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles California 90013
WORKSHOPS.LEVI.COMTWITTER: @LEVISWORKSHOPS | FACEBOOK.COM/LEVIS | VIMEO.COM/LEVIS
FILMSBY
ALEX STAPLETON,CAT SOLEN
+
 SWOON,KENNY SCHARF
+
 NATHAN MEIER
+
 MALIA SCHARF,NECKFACE
+
 ISAIAH SERET
SECRETSOF THE DOC
DOUG PRAY,MICHAEL RAPAPORT,ALEX STAPLETON,ONDI TIMONER
VIDEO SKATE NIGHT CURATEDBY
PATRICK O'DELL
WITH
SPIKE JONZE,LANCE MOUNTAIN,TY EVANS
AND
SURPRISE GUESTSCINEFAMILY
FILMSERIESWITHSPECIAL GUESTS
WERNER HERZOG,CHARLIE AHEARN,BUSY BEE,FAB 5 FREDDY,PATTI ASTOR,JEFFREY DEITCH,MARIPOL,MARK H.MILLER
CLASSESLEDBY
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER
SCREENINGSWITHFILMSBY
JOEY GARFIELD,ESPO AND ADAM YAUCH
MOTIONPAINTINGWITH
DAVID ELLIS
PHONOTROPE-MAKINGWITH
JIM LE FEVRE
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2
JUXTAPOZ
CALENDAR - ART X FILM
FRIDAY
04/15
7:30 PM
LEVI’S PRESENTS: WILD STYLE
Cineamily
Joyous, raucous, and explosive,
Wild Style
is themovie that made Hollywood wake up to hip-hop.Ater the flm, join us or an ater-party with directorCharlie Ahearn, co-stars Busy Bee, Fab 5 Freddy &Patti Astor, along with other special guests.
SUNDAY
04/17
11:00 AM
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER:SUPER 8 BASICS
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Using the classic home-movie camera, students willexplore the history and application o small ormatflmmaking. This workshop includes basic cameraoperation and shooting techniques. No previousflmmaking experience necessary.
SUNDAY
04/17
3:00 PM
MEET THE ARTISTS:SWOON + CAT SOLEN
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Filmmaker Cat Solen and
AITS 
exhibiting artistSwoon will share and discuss their collaborativeshort flm First in a series o our conceptual flmsmade via the Workshop and celebrating
Art in the Streets 
.
TUESDAY
04/19
8:00 PM
LEVI’S PRESENTS: DOWNTOWN 81
Cineamily
Downtown81
starslegendaryartist,poetandmusicianJean-MichelBasquiat,asdirectorEdoBertogliocapturestheenergyotheearly-’80sNewYorkart-worldandbohemiansubculture.Post-flmpanelwithMOCADirectorJereyDeitch,artist/ 
Downtown81
producerMaripol,and
Jean-Michel Basquiat 
atthe
FunGallery 
co-directorMarcH.Miller!
THURSDAY
04/21
8:00 PM
LEVI’S PRESENTS: MUR MURS
Cineamily
Mur Murs 
is Agnès Varda’s love letter to LosAngeles–ephemeral, idiosyncratic and startlingstreet murals that give reeways, airports, andother communal spaces unexpected vibrancy andlie. Plus
Stations of the Elevated 
, a wordless tonepoem by German flmmaker Manred Kirchheimer,eaturing music by Charles Mingus.
FRIDAY
04/22
8:00 PM
LEVI’S PRESENTS: GLOBAL GRAFFITISHORTS
Cineamily
A shorts program curated by Cineamily, incl HelenStickler’s
Andre The Giant Has A Posse
, her 1997look at Shepard Fairey’s inamous guerilla stickercampaign, Matt McCormick’s
The Subconscious Art of Grafti Removal 
, and the rare
Dreams Don’t Die
,1982 movie about an inner-city grafti writer.
SATURDAY
04/23
5:30 PM
SCREENING: CAVE OF FORGOTTENDREAMS + WERNER HERZOG IN-PERSON
Natural History Museum
Werner Herzog’s brand new documentary
Cave
 
of Forgotten Dreams 
gives you exclusive accessinside the Chauvet caves o southern France.Putting modern 3-D technology to a proounduse,
Cave
transports you back in time over 30,000years! See the oldest known pictorial creations ohumankind in their astonishing natural setting.
SATURDAY
04/23
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
A/V SESSIONS: D-FUSE
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
London-based artists D-Fuse kick o our A/VSessions with their live Sonic Cinema perormanceLatitude [31°10N/121°28E]. Shot during a 3month period in China, ragments o conversations,crowds, journeys, lights, deserted space andarchitectural orms are mixed in a unique liveperormance tracing a multitude o paths, identitiesand inuences, representing everyday lie ocontemporary China.
SUNDAY
04/24
11:00 AM
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER: 16MM BASICS
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Join us or an introduction to 16mm flmmakingusing Bolex reex and Beaulieu cameras. In thisworkshop, students will learn basic cameraoperation and lighting. No previous flmmakingexperience necessary.
WEDNESDAY
04/27
8:00 PM
LEVI’S PRESENTS: SKATE VIDEO NIGHT
Vista Theatre
Noted photographer and producer Patrick O’Dell(Epicly Later’d) will present a special compilation oseminal skateboard videos rom the 1980s to today.The screening will be ollowed by a conversationwith legendary skateboarders and flmmakers,including Spike Jonze, Stacy Peralta, LanceMountain, Ed Templeton, Greg Hunt, Ty Evans, RickHoward, Aaron Meza, Tobin Yelland.
SATURDAY
04/30
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
A/V SESSIONS: DAVID CABRERA
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
In an emerging world o video perormanceartists, ew have background and skill asimpressive as David Cabrera, AKA mr.cocoon.With the perormative approach o a live musician,his adaptable style has been described aspsychedelic narrative, oten reerencing NamJune Paik and late 60’s light shows.
SUNDAY
05/01
3:00 PM
SECRETS OF THE DOC
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Acclaimed documentary flmmakers DougPray
(Hype!, Scratch, Infamy, Surfwise) 
, MichaelRapaport
(Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest) 
, Alexandria Stapleton
(Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel) 
,Ondi Timoner
(Dig!, We Live in Public) 
will revealthe challenges and their tips or shootingunscripted flms.
MONDAY
05/02
7:00 PM
LA PREMIERE OF FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTREVISITED DOC
Egyptian Theatre
This 30 minute short was one o the most talkedabout flms at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.The Beastie Boys have revisited their classic “(YouGotta) Fight or Your Right (To Party!)” musicvideo, with an all-star cast that puts any big screenblockbuster to shame.
SUNDAY
05/08
11:00 AM
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER:HOME MEDIA MASHUP
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Bring in your old home movies (Super 8mm,8mm, VHS) and learn to edit and reappropriate theootage to create a story.
SUNDAY
05/08
3:00 PM
MEET THE ARTISTS: KENNY SCHARF +NATHAN MEIER + MALIA SCHARF
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Filmmakers Malia Schar, Nathan Meier and AITSexhibiting artist Kenny Schar will share and discusstheir collaborative short flm, Kenny Schar: More,Newer, Better, Nower, Funner.Second in a series o our conceptual flms madevia the Workshop and celebrating Art in the Streets.
 WORKSHOPS.LEVI.COM
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SUNDAY
05/15
3:00 PM
MEET THE ARTISTS: NECK FACE +ISAIAH SERET
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Filmmaker Isaiah Seret and
AITS 
exhibiting artistNeck Face will share and discuss their collaborativeshort flm. Devendra Banhart, Edward Sharpe & TheMagnetic ZerosThird in a series o our conceptual flms made viathe Workshop and celebrating
Art in the Streets 
.
SATURDAY
05/07
11:00 AM - 9:00 PM
MOTION PAINTING WITH DAVID ELLIS
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Over the course o a ull day you are invited joinartist David Ellis in the making o a motion painting.Participants will help build, light and shoot withtime-lapse photography a variety o ound objects.When the sun sets we will watch the fnished flm.
SATURDAY
05/14
1:00 PM
PHONOTROPIC FUN WITH JIM LE FEVRE
 
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Spend a unique and entertaining aternoon withBAFTA and British Animation Award-winningflmmaker/animator Jim LeFevre, the champion othis modern-day incarnation o the Zoetrope, thePhonotrope. You’ll learn tips and tricks to make yourown short looping animations.
SATURDAY
05/14
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A/V SESSIONS: VJ FRANZ K
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
Franz Keller is a true multimedia artist - hisprojection work is a combination o moderncomputer geometry with classic media, such asink brush drawing and puppeteering. He is agraduate o UCLA Design School, and prominentmember o the Pomona Arts Colony, and ormerdirector o SCA Project Gallery. In the techno clubs,and on YouTube, he’s known as VJ Franz K - a video journalist as well as music / visual perormer.
SAVE THE DATE 05/24
 8:00 PMEGYPTIAN THEATRE
PREMIERE OF THE OFFICIAL STORY OF ART IN THE STREETS,DIRECTED BY ALEX STAPLETON
SUNDAY
05/01
11:00 AM
ECHO PARK FILM CENTER:16MM LOOP MAKING
Levi’s
®
Film Workshop at MOCA
An activation o Eisenstein’s theory o montagemixed with lessons in how to use a splicer andprojector. Scratching, tweaking, dying, repurposingound ootage to make flm loops. Participants willchop up old flms and make a new edit/flm loopthat is screened at the end o the workshop.
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Alf Holmleft a comment

nice layout and stories
10 / 11 / 2011
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Check out this amazing April 2011 issue of Juxtapoz!
07 / 26 / 2011
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Scribdleft a comment

Check out this amazing April 2011 issue of Juxtapoz!
07 / 26 / 2011
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Joe Drgosleft a comment

Awesome
05 / 24 / 2011
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