So good. A classic Upper Playground from back in the day for Vice Canada, featuring Jurassic 5′s DJ Nu-Mark. We had that hoodie… it was an absolute classic to have whilst we were in college.
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Classic Upper Playground Ad featuring DJ Nu-Mark
November 29th, 2011Tags: alignnone-size-large, citrus, citrus report, classic-upper, DJ Nu-Mark, flash, headlines, jurassic, jurassic 5, playground, resizer, The Citrus Report, the-day, upper
Upper Playground Black Friday Sale
November 25th, 2011
Special ‘FAN-ONLY’ Black Friday deal is on its way Be sure to LIKE Upper Playground on Facebook to get in on the action. Offer will be announced first thing Friday morning.
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Tags: citrus, fan, flash, flash-video, headlines, News, playground-on-facebook, resizer, sale, upper, upper playground
Saber #EndMuralMoratorium
September 19th, 2011
This is new… more skywriting and info about Saber’s Los Angeles End Mural Moratorium protest here at Upper Playground.
Posted by FIFTY24SF Gallery
Tags: alignnone-size-full, angeles, FIFTY24SF, Gallery, mural-moratorium, Saber, sky writing, upper
Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe DVD now available and streaming
July 12th, 2011
The Dirty Hands DVD is now available for the first time ever exclusively at Upper Playground. Officially releasing on July 18th, we have a pre-sale of the 2-Disc DVD available early to you where 121 of the pre-sale orders will receive a Munko Vinyl Toy. Dirty Hands is also streaming for free at Upper Playground, check it out here.
Dirty Hands chronicles the life and career of David Choe from 2000 to 2007 as documented by his close friend and director, Harry Kim. The documentary reveals the highs and lows involved in the upwards trajectory of David’s career using the same “no holds barred” style that makes his artwork so unique and sought-after. Ultimately, the film unveils a explicit yet personal story of the trials of a succeeding talent, inspirational to any artist.
Originally, the “Dirty Hands” documentary premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival to multiple sold-out screenings and went on to win the Best Documentary award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. It was also featured as the closing film at the MoMA’s “All the Wrong Art: Juxtapoz Magazine on Film” documentary series. It is now available on DVD for the first time ever through Upper Playground.
The double-disc DVD will be available for pre-sale starting July 12th at Upper Playground’s online store preceding it’s official release on July 18th. 121 of David Choe’s ‘Munko’ vinyl figures will be given away randomly to anybody who purchases a DVD during the pre-sale. The double-disc DVD-set features over 3 hours of bonus footage not included in the film as well as a 20-page booklet designed and written by David Choe. The film will also be exclusively streaming at Upper Playground’s website.
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Tags: citrus report, crimes, david choe, dirty hands, documentary, dvd, film, flash, hands, headlines, Life, upper, upper playground
Prints from San and Escif for FIFTY24SF Gallery’s “See You in Croatan”
July 6th, 2011
In conjunction with San & Esif’s “See You in Croatan” exhibition at FIFTY24SF Gallery, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery is releasing four prints by the Spanish artists.
The prints by San, entitled “I Am a Host of Trophies and Scars” and “I Am Where I Come From“, feature his extremely detailed line-work in earth tones, with the former showcasing a self-portrait. Escif’s prints, “Macarena” and “Morphine“, exhibit his minimal characters in neutral tones.
The prints have been made exclusively for Upper Playground all four prints measure 18″ x 24″ and are silk-screened onto card stock weight papers. Each print is limited to an edition of 50 and is signed and numbered by the artist.
Posted by FIFTY24SF Gallery
Tags: artist, croatan, earth-tones, Gallery, minimal, News, prints, prints-escif, prints-measure, releasing-four, SAN, stock-weight, upper, upper playground
San and Escif painting in the backyard of Upper Playground
June 30th, 2011
Tags: escif, FIFTY24SF, Gallery, SAN, san escif, shot-2011-06-30, the-backyard, upper, upper playground
San and Escif in Los Angeles
June 12th, 2011
SAN and Escif continue their trekking out West on their Upper Playground tour that culminates with their FIFTY24SF show on June 30th, and they just finished a new wall at De La Barracuda in LA, after they painted the front here.
And then, we just got this message that “we are off to Vegas.” And it seems they are posting some walls up along the way…
More to come all month…
Posted by FIFTY24SF Gallery
Tags: along-the-way, escif, FIFTY24SF, fifty24sf-escif, message, News, SAN, show-on-june, trekking, trekking-out, upper
SponsorshipRedux with Ryan McGinness @ Subliminal Projects . . . and Upper Playground get their logo messed with
June 10th, 2011
Ryan McGinness will be opening a new show, well, an old concept in new form, at Subliminal Projects called “SponsorshipRedux.” As McGinness and Subliminal note, “The SponsorshipREDUX project is a (re)presentation of the 2003 Sponsorship project. In 2003, Ryan McGinness produced an exhibition at BLK/MRKT Gallery in Los Angeles that consisted of nothing more than corporate sponsors’ logos sized on the gallery walls according to their level of sponsorship for the exhibition. McGinness explains, “My hope was that a content-deprived exhibition comprised of only sponsorship logos would create enough pause for us to consider both the fine art of corporate sponsorship and the corporate sponsorship of fine art.”
And Upper Playground is a sponsor. We get our logo played with. By McGinness.
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Tags: art, both-the-fine, flash, Gallery, logo-messed, projects-ryan, subliminal projects, upper, upper playground
Alex Pardee “Awful/Resilient” Book from Upper Playground
May 21st, 2011
If you are into Alex Pardee, like we are, here is 172 pages, 250 illustrations worth of goodness from our parents at Upper Playground. Pardee’s new Awful/Resilient book is a great Mother’s Day gift, even though that already happened this year. But its always Mother’s Day, isn’t it?
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Tags: 172-pages, book, citrus report, even-though, flash, flash-video, headlines, our-parents, upper, upper playground, year
Pez ‘The City’ T-shirt Collection
April 21st, 2011
Upper Playground is releasing a collection of three t-shirts from San Francisco based graffiti artist, PEZ, entitled “The City”.
As a graffiti and sticker artist, PEZ has made a literally indelible mark on the city of San Francisco. His stickers are more prevalent than the incessant dreariness of San Francisco’s weather and his graffiti work continues to pop up around every turn. This t-shirt collection is influenced by the mark that the San Francisco Bay Area has left on PEZ, though. Regarding the tees he states, “I wanted to make designs that showed my love for the Bay Area.”
The PEZY Playground, All City and SF PEZ t-shirts are available at the Upper Playground online store and at all Upper Playground retail locations.
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