Assume Vivid Astro Focus for Comme de Garcon

Assume Vivid Astro Focus has made an amazing series of paintings and installations for Comme de Garcon.

Phil Frost

Yesterday I went up to Albany with my partner Laura to visit Phil Frost’s painting studio. We toured the massive industrial work space and got a sneak peek at the hundreds of works that he is simultaneously painting. He has made some very beautiful pieces that are very much worth checking out.

Projection One

I just discovered this very impressive installation by my friend Andy Payne.

How the Austerity Class Rules Washington

Ari Berman on the cover of the Nation:

In September the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan deficit-hawk group based at the New America Foundation, held a high-profile symposium urging the Congressional “supercommittee” to “go big” and approve a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan over the next decade, which is well beyond its $1.2 trillion mandate. The hearing began with an alarming video of top policy-makers describing the national debt as “the most serious threat that this country has ever had” (Alan Simpson) and “a threat to the whole idea of self-government” (Mitch Daniels). If the debt continues to rise, predicted former New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, there would be “strikes, riots, who knows what?” A looming fiscal crisis was portrayed as being just around the corner.

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The BMW School of Contemporary Art

This future / past BMW scene is on my friend Noah’s website. I have no idea what is going on here but I like it.

Five Beauties

Five Beauties, which is produced by (and features) my soon to be brother-in-law, Anthony Cran, just received this great review by the LA Times:

Tennessee Williams’ enduring masterworks understandably overshadow his knack for the short form, worthy miniatures appearing across the canon. The New American Theatre gratifyingly observes the Williams centenary with “Five Beauties,” an airtight quintet of rarely performed one-acts.

First up: the recently discovered “Green Eyes,” a Vietnam War-era study of a tormented soldier and his hormonal bride. Courtney Munch and Brendan Brandt are physically unfettered, palpably attuned combatants, directed by Mark Bringelson with coiled intensity. “The Lady of Larkspur Lotion” shifts to comic Southern Gothic, and Bjorn Johnson’s staging lovingly highlights the fantasist title character (delicious Cameron Meyer), her grimly unconvinced landlady (wry Mona Lee Wylde), and a sodden fellow dreamer (rhapsodic John Copeland).

Before intermission comes “The Traveling Companion,” which packs a wallop. As a neurotic gay writer navigates his aggressively macho escort’s defenses, the exchanges feel as much like embedded memories as taut dramaturgy. Tom Groenwald makes a superb authorial proxy, Byron Field is an ideally posturing prey, and director Ron Klier maneuvers them to memorable effect.

“Moony’s Kid Don’t Cry,” Williams’ first published work, heightens the tension. Helmed by Elina de Santos with precision, this standoff between a factory worker (bravura Scott Sheldon) and his exhausted wife (nuanced Jade Sealey) is Williams in Arthur Miller mode. And the baroque finale, “Auto-Da-Fé” — anxiously repressed son, sweetly domineering mother, incendiary French Quarter — benefits from actors Anthony Cran and Bibi Tinsley and director Jack Stehlin, who devour the surreal, pre-“Glass Menagerie” idiom.

There’s a faintly showcase aspect to the budget-constrained designs, but they’re handled with resourceful élan. Such assurance typifies this compelling compendium.

— David C. Nichols

Dr. Romanelli Rolex

I hung out with my friend Darren last night and he showed me this new Rolex he designed. Pretty sweet.

Soft Lab on the New Museum

My friends at Soft Lab projecting a new facade on the New Museum…

Something is About to Happen

Never Look Down

New paintings by my friend Noah Olmsted

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Timothy Hull
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Taylor de Cordoba Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
May 21st - July 9th 2011
Opening reception Saturday May 21, 6-8pm

Monteleone at 125

The Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans – which my dad runs – is turning 125 this year. They have a new website featuring a years worth of celebratory events and awesome historical photos.

Canary for Flavor Paper

My friend Blake Haney who founded The Canary Collective designed an awesome new website for New Orleans / Brooklyn based company Flavor Paper.

New Atlantic Yachting Website

My sailing company, Atlantic Yachting, has a new website to coincide with the start of a new season of sailing in NYC.

Sahar Ghanbari

A new website of my friend Sahar’s amazing drawings.

Table Manners

Mike Barman just launched his new music management agency, appropriately named, Table Manners.

Alexander Ebert | Truth

My friend Alex Ebert, of recent Edward Sharpe fame, has a new solo album called Alexander. This is the first single.

And here is the whole album..

Chris Cran in Adbusters

Chris Cran is in the latest issue of Adbusters.

The Travel Almanac

My friend Brooke Chroman has been developing The Travel Almanac, a beautiful new magazine that has just launched.

About:

The Travel Almanac explores the topics of traveling and temporary habitation from the personal perspectives of innovative figures in the fashion, music, art, and film worlds. Addressing an increasingly mobilized creative community, it is the first publication of its kind to speak to this sophisticated generation of travelers. The plurality of this community inspires the magazine to focus on individual’s personal experiences and the effects of travel on their lives and work.

Our first issue features original interviews and conversations with director, David Lynch; Javier Peres, Los Angeles/Berlin-based gallerist, curator, and owner of Peres Projects; Andy McCluskey, lead signer of the legendary 80’s band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark; James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem; art-star Terence Koh, as well as many other cultural icons and innovators. The issue also contains a feature on Japanese Ryokans (ultra-traditional countryside hotels), as well as personal travel stories, and reviews of the most exceptional and interesting hotels worldwide.

Double Agent Chair

A sweet new chair from my friend and former student Ifeanyi Oganwu.