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NY Times Critics Pick
We are super excited that we got a great review and Critic’s Pick in the NY Times!
Here’s some of what the NY Times had to say:
“The movie also considers that bombing (the term of choice for graffiti painters), once deemed a subversive act, has inevitably been co-opted over the last decade or so, its influences turning up in video games and marketing campaigns, and the work itself mounted on gallery walls. But if the artists shown here making magic with spray paint are any indication, graffiti will never go out of style. It will continue to move with the times; with luck, the filmmakers there to document it will do it the justice that this one does. ”
NYC Parties April 25 & May 2
Come check us out in NYC and catch our premiere party tonight- April 25th. We are also throwing a benefit for 2Esae and KET May 2nd. See details below:
NEW YORK CITY THEATRICAL SCREENING:
Fri. April 25 – Thu. May 1, 2008
Screening Times: 3:05 PM, 7:10PM, 9:20PM
Cinema Village
22 East 12th St.
New York, NY 10003
https://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=1287
212-924-3363
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NEW YORK CITY PARTY DETAILS:
Friday, April 25th
“Bomb It Premiere Party”
The Plumm
246 W. 14th Street, New York, NY 10011
9:00pm – 2:00am
FREE
Entertainment TBA
Open Bar 9:30 –- 10:30
Friday, May 2, 2008
“Bomb It Benefit Event for Alan Ket and Mike Baca (2ESAE)”
Snitch
59 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10010
8:00 – 11:00pm
$10
Performing –
– Spoken Word Artists: Joshua Bennett, Kesed Ragin, Alysia Harris
– Music provided by Amore
– Plus Special Invited Guests
Sponsors:
AriZona All City NRG
Posted in 2ESAE, Cinema Village, Events, Global Graffiti Documentary, Graffiti, Graffiti Films, KET, Murals, New York, Screenings, Stencil, Stickers, Street Art, Trains, Video
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What’s Wired this month? We are!
My favorite monthly mag (cuz it makes me feel smart when I read it)- WIRED just listed Bomb It in it’s Playlist section of the 5.16 issue. If even the geeks at Wired dig us, we’ve gotta be good!
Bomb It
The Bronx subway “bombers” of the ’70s had no idea they’d inspire an international movement, but overseas taggers took the spray paint and ran with it. In this graffiti doc, due in theaters and on DVD in May, Blek Le Rat stencils rodents along Parisian curbs; São Paulo artist Zezao “fat-caps” surreal mindscapes onto sewage tunnels; and Tokyo mom Belx2 splatters walls with little girl pictograms.
Posted in Belx2, Blek Le Rat, Global Graffiti Documentary, Graffiti, Post Graffiti, Press, Public Space, Video, Zezao
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Review in Wholelife Times
Bomb It got reviewed in the April issue of Wholelife Times. Here’s an excerpt:
While the film profiles some anti-graffiti activists, they all come across a little wacky, allowing a true renegade spirit to shine through. The filmmakers, like the writers themselves, see street art as a response to a homogenized global culture that sells off public space to private developers and to advertisers without first consulting the public — which has left individual members of the public aesthetically impotent — and angry. Graffiti, then, is the perfectly insidious way to piss off the status quo and get plenty of positive attention at the same time.
