Craig Dorety: Division : Light animation sculptures inspired by ocular migraines that examine our visual limits

Craig Dorety: Division


Opening on Saturday, 19 April 2014 at Oakland’s Johansson Projects is an exhibition of hypnotic sculpture animations that will have your eyes watering—after you realize you haven’t blinked in a…

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Voices of Industry: The Oakland-based label is one of the rare few to use fiber farmed and spun in the US, then handwoven into true cotton shirts

Voices of Industry


According to the American Apparel & Footwear Association report released last week, 97.5% of apparel sold in the United States is made internationally. For the past two years, this number has been in decline (albeit in…

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Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972: A collection of rare photographs and murals by Ayé Aton and Sun Ra, finally unveiled

Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972


At first glance, this art book looks out-of-date with its 1970s desaturated colors, as if salvaged from a garage sale. Co-published this year by PictureBox and art gallery Corbett…

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Barry Underwood’s Luminescent Landscapes: Photographic light installations create cosmic scenes at Johansson Projects

Barry Underwood's Luminescent Landscapes


In conjunction with an installation by Sarah Kabot, Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA is presenting new work by photographer Barry…

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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Roy Denim

Our latest video explores the machine driven approach of Oakland’s denim master

Hidden on a back street in Oakland, California in an unassuming warehouse lies what may be the pinnacle of denim craftsmanship in the USA. Roy Denim, the second of our videos to premiere at last week’s 99% Conference, is actually just one man, Roy Slaper, whose obsession with making jeans has driven his small business into the conciseness of denim heads everywhere. In our video we learn about Roy’s machine driven approach in creating his jeans, the birth of his business and how his obsessive attention to detail results in some of the toughest, nicest looking denim around.