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04
Oct

The Best of Daryl and Andy

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Daryl and Andy at BLBC Bike Kill, Bed-Stuy BK 2009 Photo: Rebecca Smeyne

About a year ago right now Daryl and I filmed what would be the pilot episode of “Late Night with Daryl and Andy”. Not much more than a hipster variety show, Daryl and I filmed ourselves cracking jokes and talking jib jab for exactly 60 minutes when the camera reached the end of the tape. Mini DV tape, yo.

We’ve since come a long way… a full year, a solid four episodes and change… here are some of the highlights from Season 1. Full episodes after the jump. And Season 2 coming soon! Stay tuned.

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04
Oct

Curriculum Vitae 2012

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22
Sep

Westward – Road Trip Photo Book

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Fun with photo books.

In July I took a road trip with my friends Mike and Scott. We drove from Charleston, SC to Denver, CO. Using the Hipstamatic app for the iPhone, I took hundreds of photos on the road. We made stops in Asheville, Louisville, Sweetwater, Nashville, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Abilene, including visits to The Grey Hound Hall of Fame, The Lost Sea, and the Jim Beam distillery.

The book is 5.5″x8.5″, perfect bound, 182 pages with nearly just as many photographs. Printed through MagCloud.

Click here to PREVIEW, PURCHASE & DOWNLOAD THE FREE PDF

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29
Aug

Nitrous Oxide

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At the dentist and trying not to laugh.

I’ve never had Nitrous before! At least not in a medical environment. I mean, sure, I emptied cases of whipped cream chargers as a bored barista, and I did done a TON of Nitrous on Phish tour, bought and sold stolen hospital tanks in the MidWest one summer… but that doesn’t count. That was a long time ago. And that gas was just ok. It was fun but it wasn’t the sweet, sweet carefully sustained flow of N2O I had at the dentist last week. Whoa nellie, cut with just a bit with oxygen, on a steady stream straight to my brain, that sweet gas… it hit the spot. And I remembered something I forgot: Nitrous Oxide is the shit.

I hadn’t had that much Nitrous since the Phish New Year’s Eve run in Miami back in 2003. Holy hell, that afternoon my then girlfriend’s little brother and I made like $1200 selling beer in the parking lot before the concert. And the show was stellar; we got pretty drunk. After the concert, back in the parking lot, everyone was partying: drinks, drugs, car stereos from all directions, and a cacophony of hisses and shrieks as pushers filled balloons from N2O tanks hidden in hatchbacks.

That night we blew our entire wad of cash on huge bouquets of Nitrous balloons, fat, yellow balloons I remember. We gave a few away to cute girls but mostly we leaned against someone’s minivan and huffed: haaaawaaaaawaaaaawaaaaawaaaaawaaaaawaaaaa…

High on laughing gas at the dentist last week, I made my way back to that night in Miami… I was once again standing in that parking lot with knotted-off balloons between my fingers. Holding the largest balloon with both hands and its open end like a nipple in my mouth, I inhaled, exhaled back into the balooon, inhaled again, exhaled, inhaled more… only kinda losing consciousness… laughing, feeling as if someone wrapped a warm, wet towel around my face and gently removed my head from my body.

A fleeting high, Nitrous Oxide takes you to someplace, someplace out of your body, if only for 30 seconds. They say, clinically speaking, the audial hallucinations are symptoms of your brain suffocating. Makes sense, I guess. We breath oxygen, not Nitrous. And though my dentist’s gas was cut – never heard the wawa’s – I was still pretty geeked. By the time they choked me up with a dental dam, I wasn’t even there. I was someplace else, someplace familiar, someplace warm. I was back in Miami, Dade County, New Year’s 2003. Phish had just finished a great show and I had enough cash to buy all the balloons I could ever want, far more than I could carry…

I’ll never be as smart as I was before that night in Miami. But damn did we have a good time. Almost as much fun as I had at the dentist last week. Thanks, Doc!

Nitrous Oxide turned me into The Thing. Watch out!

PS – That new remake of The Thing looks terrible… ugh.
Really though, how can you improve upon perfection?

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18
Aug

Tweeting from 20th Annual Seattle Hempfest

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Yes, for serious.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!

Tweet, puff, pass. A.P. Smith at Seattle Hempfest 2011.

I will be tweeting LIVE from Hempfest Friday, August 19th.
3pm-8pm PDT / 6pm-11pm EST
(a poem by A.P. Smith)

READ ARCHIVED TWEETS: twitter.com/#!/apsmithnyc

18
Aug

Mike Force on the cover of The Stranger

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Humbert Humbert’s Daydream by Mike Force

Seattle people! Go out and get your copy right now! My friend Mike Force did the cover of Seattle’s alternative weekly newspaper, The Stranger. When I asked Mike via text if he had grabbed 10,000 copies for his friends and family, he said: “I grabbed ten thsnd jpgs and emailed them individually.”

Mike “Digital Age” Force, strikes again!

Not like this is Mike’s first cover job for The Stranger. Already had that. From the back. In 2004, Mike Force illustrated these sepia slobs for a summer tourist/patriot cover jam.

No one said Seattle was classy.

You like that, huh? Yeah you do.

Check out so much more of Mike’s work at AAutoTone.net

Also! Mike Force illustrated my book, Welcome to the Land of Cannibalistic Horses (Puberty Press, 2005). Amazon’s got a few starting at $5.95 – get your copy today! Before it’s toooooooo laaaaaaate…

17
Aug

Jamz d’Summer – Remixx 2011

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Yellow Lamborghini, Yellow Top Missing. A.P. Smith in Los Angeles (July, 2011)

Dear Diary,

This summer has been incredible. I’m living the dream! I’ve been traveling for over six weeks, drove across the country, spent some time in Los Angeles, hanging in Seattle now… the weather is great here. We took the boat out on the lake last weekend, so much fun!

This week I finally sat in front of the computer to download and organize something like 2,400 photos and videos I’ve taken over the last few months. Then I got a little stoned and edited together this montage… two months of my summer, from NYC to LA, in just under four mintues. I hope you enjoy!

Love,
Andy

Jamz d’Summer – Remixx 2011

What was your favorite part?
What was your least favorite part?
Would you let your daughter “hang out” with me?
Would you let your sister accompany me to a Phish “concert”?

Ok, that’s all for now!

02
Jul

TONIGHT: 3D Dance Party!

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Anaglyph hotties.

For tonight’s dance party at Coco 66, Adam Bezer has prepared for you a visual voyage… projected on screen in real 3D.

You can expect some areal footage, skydiving, skateboarding, dinosaurs and more.

All fitting to the deep sounds of…

|||||||||||| DJ DIRTY FINGER —> NOW W/ BLUD DRUMS
|||||||||||| FREE BLOOD
|||||||||||| THE BLUE AND RED 3D SPECTACULAR
|||||||||||| DJ CUNILINGUS
|||||||||||| FRANZ BAROZZI

SATURDAY, JULY 2
at COCO66
66 Greenpoint Ave.

9pm doors
Party till 4am
21+ / $6

FREE BEER at 9pm!

Oh hey… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ‘MERICA!

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20
Jun

WED 6/22: OAM presents Public Discourse

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Still from the documentary film Public Discourse (2005)
Directed by: Brad Downey, Tim Hansberry, Quenell Jones

Public Discourse is an in-depth study of illegal installation art. This is a film about passionate artists who want their work to be seen by a wide range of people rather than be confined to the systemic structures of galleries and museums.

Painting street signs, manipulating advertising, postering, and guerrilla art, are some of the subversive tactics used in this film by artists including: Darius and Downey, Swoon, Shepard Fairey and Revs.

Shot in the classic cinema verité style using compact mini-dv and video 8 cameras, Public Discourse follows the art-making from initial idea through to installation and exhibition, capturing the artists’ private and personal moments of exuberance and regret.

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This Wednesday, June 22, Open Air Modern is hosting a free projected screening of this unique documentary film. Please do join us this Wednesday at 7pm.

Open Air Modern presents:
Public Discourse, street art documentary film
Wednesday, June 22
FREE at 7pm
at Open Air Modern
489 Lorimer St. (btwn Grand and Powers)

Following the screening, we are thrilled to welcome director and cinematographer Quenell Jones to discuss the film and take questions from the audience.

Quenell Jones, director and cinematographer

Quenell Jones attended SVA for his undergraduate degree in Narrative Cinematography and earned his Masters of Docuementary Cinematography from the University of Salford in Manchester, England.
He recently filmed 13 webisodes for NBC’s 30 Rock and completed a four-year documentary journey with the legendary boxer “Smokin” Joe Frazier as cinematographer on the upcoming film Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears.

JUST ANNOUNCED: Also joining in our discussion after the film is writer and photographer, Ed Zipco, author of the non-fiction book The Adventures of Darius and Downey, which features the tales and exploits of two artists and companions featured in the film Public Discourse.
Ed Zipco is an acute and empathetic commentator on urban graffiti art, relates their most memorable experiences, from their early exploits and brushes with the law, to their work internationally in London and Berlin.

The Adventures of Darius and Downey by Ed Zipco (Thames & Hudson, 2008)

Through a series of true stories, this unique book reveals the tight-knit, exciting world of street art. Darius (aka Leon Reid) and Downey (aka Brad Downey) did their first piece together in Brooklyn in 2000—a life-changing experience marking the birth of a partnership that would go on to revolutionize street art.

Whats-Up or The Burden of the Children by Brad Downey, 2006

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Open Air Modern presents:
Public Discourse, street art documentary film
Wednesday, June 22
FREE at 7pm
at Open Air Modern
489 Lorimer St. (btwn Grand and Powers)

With cinematographer Quenell Jones and author Ed Zipco in dialogue following the screening.

Public Discourse has screened at dozens of film festivals all over the world, including: Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Copenhagen International Film Featival, Beirut Documentary Film Festival and Berlin’s Transmediale Festival. We are delighted to bring this film back to Brooklyn for the first hometown screening in over five years.

Join us at Open Air Modern!

Open Air Modern – 489 Lorimer St. (btwn Grand and Powers)

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20
Jun

Another Epic Weekend – Thank You!

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AP Smith and Kiel 57 at Music Hall of Williamsburg (6/17/11) Photo: @Brock_Fetch

Thank you everyone for coming out on Friday for my Northside Fest showcase!
We had a blast!
Killer performances by Like Diamonds, Selebrities, Darlings, Rocky Business and Memberz Only. Sadly, DJ Cunilingus was detained at customs due to visa complications – big thanks to Jah Jah and Carlos for stepping in and handling it.

NO CEILINGS!