As we enter summer [aside: Found’s Silver Lake location is currently closed for the next year, as there’s been a lot of confusion over that], I wanted to share a mixtape that Jesse Rogg [Golden] and I just put together, ‘Something’s Got to Give.’

Jesse’s record label, Modus Vivendi Music, whose studio is in nearby Los Feliz [but represents artists from all over the world] has been a part of Found’s events, exhibitions, and general shared sense of a diverse boutique for cultural output.

It’s inspired by the unreleased Marilyn Monroe picture of the same name, as well as the Jack & Diane romcom ‘Something’s Gotta Give,’ although neither Jesse nor I have ever seen either.

We hope the mix recasts familiar sounds and songs in a context you might not have considered, meanwhile delivering bits and pieces which you might have never heard through a nostalgic filter.

We’ve decided a long time ago that genre-bound mixes might be easy to mix, because of similar instrumentation, tempo, themes, lyrics, etc. but typically feel flat, consistent to a fault, and….easy.  We’ve also come to the conclusion that there’s nothing more deflating than reading a track list before you hear a mix, so that’s why you don’t see one.  Will gladly share the tracks with you, though.  Also, some of our friends with taste will be tapped to put together some fun, diverse mixes on an irregular basis, under the Budget Cuts series.

Thanks to Classixx, who provided an amazing unreleased instrumental, Love Grenades, Casxio [w/ Golden + Public’s soon-to-be-released remix of ‘17′], all the Modus Vivendi Music family, and, of course, the internet.

Download it here.

CL Meisinger’s Default Project Returns to LA.  From CL:

‘the exhibition is at LA Artcore and is a group painting show with Lore Eckelberry, C.L.Meisinger, & Young Il Kang.

my 5 footers will be exhibited-pop figurative oil paintings. should be hot.

the closing reception is June 27. The Default Project will be performing a piece called “lungless in la.”

i am working with a costume designer to create a stage of removable appendages that will be reattached throughout the performance. the reception is from 1-3.’

Desert Island — If you only had one book for the rest of your life, etc. etc.

Jetset Graffiti produced this nice little interview with 3 members of Lastplak who came and showed with us in November, via Rotterdam. Nice one.  Click here to watch.

Found is excited to announce the opening of Garage Gallery’s newest addition to their roster, Federico Gutierrez-Schott and his works on paper.  As usual, work is exhibited one night only and will feature some great entertainment, in the more unique locations I’ve regularly visited exhibitions.  The reception is this Saturday, April 11th.  Click on the image to enlarge.

http://garagegalleryla.com

Join our friends of the Eastside collective From Here to There LA as they open the appropriately titled, ‘New Works,’ at Bandit Saturday evening.  Visit heretotherela.com for more on the group.  We’ll post some pics next week.

[via moleitau’s Flickr]

…Get excited and make things, as moeltiau reimagines British WWII pacifier propaganda poster and slogan ‘Keep calm and carry on.’  

Found 100% endorses this message.   I think that we have entered a phase that will separate the gluttons from the gifted makers from the [often pseudo-]intellectual gatekeeping fakers.  

To a renewed era of appreciation more independent of commercialization…

Feel free to show us what you’ve made recently. 

The Times reports on several graffiti related homicides in the Southland the last few years.

A preview of Karthik’s video project ‘Darkroom,’ as scored by Eric D Clark, opening this Saturday.