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The Art Rocks event last week at The Bowery Hotel was a smashing success by all accounts. An eclectic crowd from downtown, uptown, and out of town, took in a great showing of emerging artists. Many of the pieces sold, from young artists to young collectors. The event raised not only awareness for the artists, but over $150,000 through ticket sales, sponsorship, and art sold to the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia. Thank you for attending if you came. If you missed out - see you next year. Here are some links and photographs.

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Vogue.com
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VanityFair.com
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Guest of a Guest Post
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Guest of a Guest Gallery
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Down by the Hipster
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Artlog
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PatrickMcMullen.com
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-Emmett

My friend’s mom use to always tell me ”idle hands do the devils work” so in order to keep our youths’ hands busy, we must support them in there non-gang life ventures. If we do this we can change my friends moms saying to ”idle hands do installation.” If we don’t we can’t… well you can’t be mad when some young kid robs you at knife point, thank you.

After exhibiting last August in a well received group show produced by his friend, curator Tripoli Patterson, at Collette’s Antique Barn, in Southampton, Herbie Fletcher returns to the Hamptons this week to exhibit recent works in a solo show entitled, The Rectangle: A Herbie Fletcher Exhibition. Curator Tripoli Patterson’s new Bridgehampton location, Collette Gallery of Bridgehampton, located just behind the old Bull’s Head Inn on Montauk Hwy, is a perfect spot to showcase Mr. Fletcher’s exciting title piece.

Being the creative man that he is, Herbie has a way of seeing art in everything and using what is at hand to create his masterpieces. A Pipeline veteran and a true innovator, Herbie Fletcher, known by all surfers, is like a father to many North Shore surf heroes of today. When asked for their broken boards by the surf legend, local Pipeliners such as three-time world champion, Andy Irons, international superstar Bruce Irons, long board champion Bonga Perkins, and Herbie’s son, Nathan Fletcher, happily complied. Herbie uses them to create dramatic and energized sculptures, which he calls, “Rectangles.”

Also on exhibit, will be some of Mr. Fletcher’s large, resined photographs, printed on canvas. Combining important aspects of his life — documentation and shaping surfboards — Herbie brings forth a beauty of his own making that demonstrates his undeniable desire to create.

The show’s opening reception will be on Saturday, August 9th, from 5 to 8 pm at The Collette Gallery of Bridgehampton, 2546 Montauk Hwy, Bridgehampton, NY, 11932. The show will be on exhibit through August 25th, 2008, and will be open to the public for viewing from 10 am- 6 pm, seven days a week.

*Note: On the night of the opening, Saturday, August 9th, One Ocean, a restaurant located at 1 Ocean Road, in Bridgehampton, will be hosting a prix fixe dinner and drink specials for the artist and friends until eleven pm. All are welcome to come and meet the Herbie.

Hope everyone is healthy and well and having a great summer. I am curating a solo art show entitled, “The Rectangle, A Herbie Fletcher Exhibition”, at my new Gallery in Bridgehampton, The Collette Gallery. Hope you can all join me for the opening reception this Saturday, August 9th, from 5pm to 8pm. There will be music courtesy of the great mastermind Max Barbaria, goody bags from Oakley, refreshments and good people.
See you all here,
Hurricane Trip

Our dear friend Max Barbaria recently turned an undisclosed amount of years old. Everyone had a blast, except him…

Annabelle, James, and Alexs recently went to the NY Aquarium. Max didn’t go.

All photos courtesy of Alexa!

I was hurricaning it around last weekend and whirled right into Verne who just finished filming The Guru with Mike Meyers. Luckily he was mad chill and told his body guards to put me down and I had I sec to tell him about my up and coming show, he like the work and said he would try to make it. Then I called him Minnie Me, forgetting that wasn’t his real name and it got a lil weird.

Big up Lil Verne

Dude!!  You know this event occurred in some small city in the Netherlands and the guy hanging is the other guy’s cousin who walked in on hanging dude smearing hutspot and stooflap all over his wife and was like,

“Wé wère goïng tò wåtch thë Nîght Rìdër! Tïme tó kìll yøu m¥ cöuzîn!”

“ARF! ARF! ARF-ARF!”

(Rueters) Tuesday May 6th–

Nuremberg, a southern German City located 170 kilometers north of Munich was ravaged by Hurricane Trip late last night. 75% of the 500,132 residents were left displaced, a death toll has not yet been established but officials fear it could climb into the hundreds as more bodies are being uncovered as rescue teams work around the clock.

Germany has not seen wide scale destruction like this since World War II. “My wife woke me up screeming in the middle of the night, just in time for me to see the roof fly off my home, that was the last time I saw her” said Helmut Von Wafer, local businessman. His wife’s body was found in a tree 3 miles away later in the day.

Geologists have been struggling to understand the magnitude of Hurricane Trips latest sighting. Currently they have it ranked slightly behind the Tsunami that hit Southeast Asia in 2004 and ahead of Hurricane Trips last sighting, when he destroyed a portion of East 23rd st. in Manhattan.

Scientists believe Hurricane Trip built up strengths on powerful beer at the Hausbrauerie Aldstadhof in Nuremberg. He then insulted the owners wife, poured beer on 3 patrons and then began spinning around causing 90 mph winds and flew out the roof. Trip came to rest in ditch 3 kilometers south of the town with 3 young German Maidens and an empty “Das Boot” from the film “Beerfest”

Bavaria declared a state of emergency and the German government has appealed to the European Union for 85,000,000 Euros in relief, to find homes for the displaced and bury the increasing number of dead.

With Hurricane Trips return imminent, officials in Bridgehampton New York have begun advising residents to board up their windows, stockpile potable water and other non perishable goods and prepare for the worst.