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Billabong will host its 5th annual Design For Humanity Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. On a lit runway, inspired by art, screaming for a live band, Design For Humanity is one night of celebrating, motivated by a cause. This massive fashion-music-art block party will feature two concert stages, three DJ stations, a runway fashion show showcasing one of a kind Billabong bikinis, and an art auction, with all proceeds going towards VH1’s Save The Music Foundation. Buy tickets here, and read on for more information:

Design For Humanity is Billabong’s charitable division that seeks to raise funds and awareness of worthy causes, all the while celebrating art, music and fashion in the process.

Billabong is proud to announce the 2011 beneficiary is The VH1 Save the Music Foundation. With your ticket purchase to Design for Humanity, you are helping to make an impact on the youth and keep music in public schools.

Come ready to bid and buy art, buy a t-shirt, buy a grilled cheese sandwich, have a cocktail, or just dance your pants off.

Proceeds from the art show sales, live t-shirt screenprinting, food trucks and bikini collaborations will be donated to The VH1 Save the Music Foundation.

Doors open at 7pm with the art auction, food trucks, DJ’s and loads of secret installations you’ll want to be there early to see it all.

LA’s best DJ duo, LA Riots, will be performing on the LES loadin dock stage while Sin City’s Best Female DJ, DJ Tina T will be mixing beats for the VIP Street Party.

Fashion show starts at 9:30pm SHARP with DJ Mark Moreno.

Headliner Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros concert at 10:30pm. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros are a happy to be in love motley crew of creativity and chaos that’s both contagious and sincere. The layers of sound they bring to their shows is captivating and their chorus infectious. The folk-pop collective is known to draw the most raucous of crowds, with lead Alexander Ebert characteristically jumping into the crowd several times -the lot of them will perform live on the main stage and you can expect a unforgettable performance at this year’s Design for Humanity.

On the side stage, coming off a HUGE tour with Florence and the Machine and massive success at SXSW, the unique sound of 50′s/60′s blues, soul, garage rock that is Hanni El Khatib will be performing. Also performing this evening, disco house from New York’s The Hundred In The Hands. Their music is an avant-pop split between the austere and feverish.

Closing out the night will be San Francisco’s DJ Mike Relm. World-renowned for his audio and video mashups, you should plan on taking the next day off so you can stay up to dance to his form of modern entertainment.

Original works of art will be available to bid in a silent auction with Buy It Now options (for those of you who want to spend most of the night at the VIP bar). Attendees will register at the Art Show space to place bids (credit card or cash required at the end of the auction). The Design for Humanity Art Auction will run from when doors open at 7pm til midnight so come ready to outbid and win!

Featured Artists List:

Adam Dennis, Andy Davis, Angela Clayton, Anna Topuriya, Artemis Nolasco, Brian Rea, Casey Gray, Clayton Brothers, Cody Hudson, Cory Little, Daniel Chang, Daniella Manini, Danielle Petach-Brown, Dave Kinsey, Frieda Gossett, Jeff Soto, Jonathan Calugi, Juliana Neufeld, Julie Goldstein, Justin Kreitemeyer, Katherine Streeter, Kelli Murray, Kyu Hwang, Lora Zombie, Mario Wagner, Mark Allen Miller, Marq Spusta, Mel Kadel, Nancy Mungal, Nate Duval, Nicholas Chalmers, Pamela Henderson, Ryan Jacob Smith, Ryan Tatar, Sara Christian, Sarah Awad, Sophie St-Onge, Tyler Warren, Yoku Furusho, Heads of State and many more TBA.

In addition to original works of art curated by Daniel Chang in the Design for Humanity art show and live art installations, Artists Republic For Tomorrow (AR4T) out of Laguna Beach is pairing up legendary music photographers with artists where artists paint over the photo for a unique collaborative artwork that will also be up for bid.

Design For Humanity 2011 event teaser from Billabong Girls on Vimeo.

This year has been extremely busy already both in and out of the studio. I wanted to let you know about some exhibitions I have coming up in the next couple months. I hope you can check them out!

Starting this Thursday May 19th, through Sunday the 22nd, I will be showing work at the ArtPadSF art fair with White Walls Gallery. The fair is taking place at the historic Phoenix Hotel in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. ArtPadSF is a provocative new 21st century boutique art fair that focuses on emerging and contemporary art from the Bay Area and beyond. For more information visit www.artpadsf.com.

Also, on Saturday June 4th, I will be exhibiting two of my older paintings in a group show titled Down & Dirty at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Parlor Gallery alongside my good friend and studiomate Chris Blackstock. For more information, visit www.parlor-gallery.com.

Lastly, on Wednesday June 15th, I have the privilege of being part of Billabong’s DESIGN FOR HUMANITY exhibition and silent auction in Los Angeles. Design For Humanity is Billabong’s charitable initiative with this years proceeds going to VH1′s SAVE THE MUSIC. It began as an opportunity for Billabong’s marketing, art, and design teams to come together and give back to a non-profit close to the heart of our industry. The event is taking place at Paramount Studios New York Streets back lot and will feature a full fashion runway show, live music and much much more. I will be attending the event so if anyone wants to hang out while I’m in LA, go to www.designforhumanity.com and purchase tickets.

That’s it for now! Stay tuned for more big news in the coming months!

For those of you in SF, you know that we’ve been getting some funky weather as of late. Gloomy, rainy and just outright cold. But lucky for us, Spring is officially on its way, and so with that in mind I decided to ‘clean out’ some old nu disco tracks that i’ve had for years with no real opportunity to play out. Some tracks are only weeks old and others years. One even dates back to 1999 believe it or not. This mix is funky, sexy, upbeat and just downright wonderful in my opinion with a lot of heartfelt vocals and warm melodies that will leave a big smile on your face. It will have you shakin’ those hips and tappin’ those feet in no time. Perfect for the office, the studio or the car or wherever you find yourself this lovely weekend. Please enjoy my brand new one hour and thirty minute Nu Disco megamix SPRING GLEAMING and have an amazing weekend. Sunny days are on their way, life is good.

Download by clicking the little downward pointing arrow on right side of the player.

Spring Gleaming Nu Disco Mix 2011 by Casemo

Tracklist:

1. Cinnamon Chasers – I Like Watching You (Diamond Cut Remix)
2. Flight Facilities – Crave You (Cassian Remix)
3. The Young Punx – Dance with Someone Else (Phunk Investigation Remix)
4. Les Rythmes Digitales – Hey You What’s That Sound ?
5. Indeep – Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (Dcup’s Bootleg Remix)
6. VEGA – All Too Vivid (Kill The Noise Remix)
7. Chromeo – Hot Mess (Duck Sauce Remix)
8. Diamond Cut – Teardrops
9. Pacific! – Hold Me (Breakbot Remix)
10. Pnau – Baby (Breakbot Remix)
11. Klever – Let The Music Play
12. Jackdied – Feel
13. Kap10kurt – Mission Complete (SymbolOne Remix)
14. Harris Robotis – Up All Night (Knightlife Remix)
15. Frankmusik – Better Off As Two (Justin Faust Remix)
16. Knightlife – All Systems
17. Burns & Fred Faulke – You Stopped Loving Me (Louis La Roche Chillax Dub)
18. Coma & Dillon – Aiming For Destruction
19. College ft. Electric Youth – She Never Came Back (Russ Chimes Remix)
20. Ali Love – Diminishing Returns (Extended Mix)

The opening reception for The Letter Collector at Gallery Hijinks was a great success and a lot of fun this past Saturday night. The show included over fifty artists from around the country and over 100 artworks in all mediums. The show runs until the end of the month with a special night of music and performances taking place on Saturday, March 19th from 6-10pm. The event is part of the neighborhoods “Lunar Mission” Art Walk in conjunction with nearby galleries Guererro, Steven Wolf, Elenor Harwood, Gallery de la Raza, Triple Base and Southern Exposure. Each gallery will be hosting its own special event that night. Anyway, should be a lot of fun. Check out opening night photos from The Letter Collector at Gallery Hijinks below. Congrats to Jillian Mackintosh, Lauren Lanzisero and Joe Lumbroso for throwing a fantastic show. WORD…

“G’d Up From The Feet Up” My piece for the show.

Artist David Bayus (Right) and friends
Walter chills
Lauren Lanzisero


Larry chills
Dj’s from Thud Rumble mixin’ it up
Letter “K” from Meryl Pataky

Letter “P” from Ryan Riss
Artist Jessica Hess
One seriously packed house
Artists Chris Blackstock and Pakayla Biehn
Artist Meryl Pataky (Left) and friend
Artists Eric Otto and Brett Amory
Lauren and I
Glowing “Y” from Meryl Pataky post show
PEACE

FROM WARHOLREIMAGINED.COM …

For Warhol Reimagined we’ve asked some of the best talent in the art world today to come forward and rework some of Warhol’s classic imagery.

Our featured artists were given 20″x 26″ panels, and we’re asked to pick from a selection of over 60 of Warhol’s works. The works were chosen based on their importance in Warhol’s history as an artist and overall representational aesthetic. The artists have been asked to reinterpert the Warhol image they have selected into their own style.

Andy Warhol is best known for his Campbell’s soup can works that were first displayed at Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962. These works now hang in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We’ve chosen to recreate the MOMA display by utilizing the talents of 32 well known and emerging artists – each reimagining a different can in their own light.

Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory is curated by Warholian.com and this will be their first ever art show for the newly established arts brand. Warholian exposes the “New Artist Movement” genre emerging in Los Angeles, New York, and namely San Francisco.

The show is being presented by Project One, an art gallery and lounge in the Design District of San Francisco. Project One gallery features 1200 sq feet of open gallery space with 20 foot ceilings. The gallery represents local, national and international artists, and focuses on contemporary art from artists they love.

March 5th- March 27th, 2011

Opening Reception: March 5, 2011 from 6-10pm

With over 50 artists from across North America, Gallery Hijinks is proud to present The Letter Collector. This exhibition aims to simulate the distinctive styles, shapes, and mediums of an antique collection of letterpress type, in the form of contemporary art. Please join us for the opening reception on March 5th, 2011, from 6-10pm.

The Letter Collector is curated with the intention to exhibit both emerging and established artists in one massive group show based on the common love of type and script. Stemming from immensely different backgrounds, each artist creates their unique translation of a letter in the alphabet. The viewer will experience an assortment of letters expressed through a range of mediums: drawing, painting, photography, neon, wood, relief sculpture, and mixed media.

Exhibiting artists include: Aaron Bo Heimlich, Alexandra Zee, Andrea Wan, Andrew Johnson, Austin McManus, Beau Stanton, Casey Gray, Catherine Ryan, Chris Blackstock, Christian Rex Van Minnen, Christopher Davison, Claire Colette, Damon MacGregor, David Bayus, Denise Santillan, Dustin Klien, Eli Harris, Eric Helve, Erik Otto, Fernando Pizarro, Hannah Stouffer, Jakub Kalousek, Jason Vivona, Jing Wei, Jon Contino, Kyle Jorgensen, Lafe Eaves, Lisa Congdon, Louise Chen, Mark Warren Jacques, Matthew Reamer, Meryl Pataky, Mike Giant, Molly Bosley, Morgan Blair, Nas Chompas, Pakayla Biehn, Timothy Karpinski, Rich Pellegrino, Robert Minervini, Rosie Hanna, Russell Leng, Ryan De La Hoz, Ryan Riss, Sarah Patterson, Sean Somers, Seth Neefus, Shea Greene, Tanya Behar, Uri Korn, Whitney Lasker, Whitney McCabe, Viktor Layne, and Yellena James.

The Letter Collector will be on display from March 5th, 2011 until March 26th, 2011, and is open to the public during gallery hours (11am-6pm Tuesday-Saturday).