Bicycle Film Fest- Boston 09

This weekend (Friday November 20th and Saturday November 21st) BFF is coming to Boston for an epic two day event. Come out Friday night at 7pm to the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge for Goldsprint challenges (and to support our boys at Open, natch), then follow up with us on Saturday for movies and short films inspired by the love and thrill of bikes at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Sq. For a complete list of showings, check out the main page here.
Hit up the afterparty at Flat Top Johnny’s @10pm to end the festival on the right note with all the right people.

What is BFF you ask?

“In 2001, Brendt Barbur, Founder and Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. Instead of being deterred by this experience, it inspired him to create a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film. Now in its ninth year the festival is held in 39 cities worldwide. 250,000 people are expected to attend this year.

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle in all forms and styles. If you can name it – Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Road Cycling, Mountain Biking Recumbents – we’ve probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance?
We bring together all aspects of bicycling to advocate its ability to transport us in various ways. Ultimately the BFF is about having a good time. We have been fortunate enough to include the work of established artists such as Jorgen Leth, Mike Mills, Jonas Mekas, Blonde Redhead, Swoon and Michel Gondry; as well as talented newcomers as part of our programming.”

Friday NOV 20, 2009
Middlesex Lounge- GOLDSPRINTS
7pm – 2am
315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Sprints at 7:30pm with DJ Mayhem
Afterparty starting 9:30pm with internationally renowned DJ BREK.one

Saturday NOV 21, 2009
Brattle Theatre- SCREENINGS
screenings 5pm-10pm
40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square

Flat Top Johnny’s- AFTERPARTY
One Kendall Square Building 200
Cambridge , MA 02139

peep the trailer for BFF 2009

DEVASTATE YOUR REAL ESTATE

This Friday by Fenway (Brookline Ave), join Evoker, Josh Falk, Kngee, Stephen Holding and a handful of other talents for their new gallery opening “Devastate Your Real Estate”.

132 Brookline Ave, Boston MA (FOURTH WALL PROJECT)
Opening Reception is from 7pm-9pm;
the gallery will be up for a month from September 18th-October 18th!
After party will be held at ZuZu’s at 10pm with DJ Gucci Vuitton on the decks

Momentum Recap

Unfortunately, I was gone this weekend and didn’t get a chance to go to the Momentum Art Opening but I did just get some pictures of the show sent to me. First, OPEN just launched the Momentum micro-site click here to view. The site highlights select images of the project and gallery show.  The Momentum project consists of a series of 5 frames, cycling cap, t-shirt and vectorfunk prints - all on the site and available for purchase.

They’re also presenting the entire Momentum gallery show and MWM Mural on the Chorus site click here to check it out.

Hawkins St Mural (25 x 15 ft)

click here for more pictures of the gallery

Evoker x Mike Giant

After seeing Mike Giant’s blog post about his new Rat Bones Tattoo, our friend Evoker decided it would be a nice juster to ship Mike out one of his Evoker x Rat Bones Logo tee & stickers. Today, Evoker got the picture below sent back to him! Now, we just need to get Mike to Boston for a show!!!

Puma MP3 Beatdown Final Round

Its been a long, long wait but the 3rd and FINAL round of the Puma MP3 battle is TONIGHT!
If you’ve been to the first and second rounds of this battle, you’ll know that this gets packed pretty quick- so make sure you get out to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) early tonight for this event. Come support LAB to avenge their loss on the 2nd round and claim the title of the Champions!!!
*The full line-up is as follows:
LAB
Bladerunners
CVS Pharmacy from Route 2 in Saugus
Gstar
The Weekly Dig
The Phoenix
Night Society
+ 1 other team TBA

PUMA presents: MP3 Beatdown Championships ICA -100 Northern Avenue on the waterfront, Boston MA
July 29th 8pm-12am this final battle is an 18+ event

Josh Falk x Mountain Dew 2009

Our good friend Josh Falk with the help of  Nick Z got an amazing opportunity to paint ramps and staging for the Dew Tour this weekend in Boston. If you dont know about the “Dew Tour” its the world’s premier season-long action sports tour, and will feature the world’s best athletes in skate vert and park. The tour and his work will be seen LIVE globally to over 150 million households in 11 languages across 48 countries and four continents. You can also check out our friend Evoker painting live at the TD Garden today & tomorrow.

click here for more pictures….

Openly Biking Dirty 2009- This Sunday!

If  your in Boston this Sunday evening stop by Middlesex Lounge for Openly Biking Dirty 2009! The event is in support of The Jimmy Fund and the Pan Mass Challenge, our friend Chandler, is riding the PMC for the third year in a row. Over the past few years, Chandler and his team are excellent folks, friends of ours and definitely need our support to make this years ride better than last!

Sunday night will consist of socializing, dancing and roller-racing – a little bit of something for everyone, bike or no bike!  If you are not familiar with roller-racing, its pretty simple: head-to-head stationary bike races, 300m in distance, the speed and time are projected for the crowd to see – a great spectator sport and a good way to settle disputes with friends. The 300m seems to be the right distance for everyone, whether you race weekly or have ridden to work once in the past few years.  Our good friends over at OPEN Bicycle will be providing bicycles to race with so just bring your game face and checkbook!

gnomes by chris piascik

If you didnt know already, we love gnomes! Here are some cute ones drawn by our friend chris!

Gunsho takes over Boston.

For the past week I have gotten the pleasure of having James aka “Gunsho” paint 25 ft of windows at my shop. The piece that most artists spend 6 to 10 hours painting, took him right around 22 hours. Not only did he spend five days painting, he also had a 2 hour commute every day he came here. I can honestly say James is a part of the LAB family now. The time and devotion he put into painting the front of our shop is just incredible. The black outline alone was 3 days of painting and another 2 days for color. I’m so grateful for all of his hard work and effort, and hope everyone can check it out before it comes down. Click here for more pictures of the piece. Oh… and one last thing- this was the biggest piece he had ever done- his forty is 18×24″ drawings- no paint!

-kim

THE “DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY” POSTER SHOW

LAB Boston is proud to present “Bare Knuckle Brawlers”, the poster show for “Died Young, Stayed Pretty”. The opening of the show will be Friday, June 26th from 7-10pm and will feature the following artists: James Quigley, Jesse Ledoux, Jeff Kleinsmith, theMiracle5, Dan McCarthy, Nate Duval, Darren Pasemko and other local artists. LAB has worked closely with Eileen Yaghoobian, Producer/Director and Kristin Groener to showcase artwork in connection with the documentary. (www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com)

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a documentary about the underground poster culture in North America, from the ’60s psychedelic masters, like Victor Moscoso, to the gig poster crew today. The artists represented in the film “push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that?s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape,” says director Eileen Yaghoobian.

Outside of their own subculture these posterists are virtually unknown. “But within their ranks they make up an army of bare-knuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy ’70s porn stars.” They?ve created their own visual language and have created posters that are “strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful.” Yaghoobian’s film is the first (and maybe the last) of its kind.

The movie will be shown at the MFA, in Boston July 30 – August 7th, 2009- click here for more information and times. Also… click here to see the Facebook Event Page