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TAKE ME INTO THE NIGHT

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:18:41 +0000

Trumbull Studio is proud to announce the opening of our Williamsburg gallery with an exhibition of photography curated by Owen Black and Derek Wood.

From December 3 through December 8, 2011, the Trumbull Studio Gallery will present exhibitions by ten contemporary artists working with photography, Derek Wood (United States), Ben Rayner (England), Elizabeth Weinberg (U.S.), Ryan Schude (U.S.), Bryant Eslava (U.S.), Aaron Feaver (U.S.), Scott Cannon (Trumbull Island), Jolie Clifford (U.S.), Kenn Law (U.S.), and João Neto (Brazil).

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THERMONUCLEAR WARRIORS

trumbull1 — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:10:06 +0000

El Pinto Honors Lil Wayne With Custom Salsa

trumbull1 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:59:19 +0000

"This jar of El Pinto Signature Blend was specially prepared for Lil Wayne"

Lil Wayne is known to have a formidable sweet tooth, but did you know that M^r Carter’s palette has a salty side? The CEO of Young Money Cash Money recently received a personalized case of El Pinto’s medium salsa during a recording session for his long-awaited Tha Carter IV album at The Hit Factory in Miami. There are many ways to enjoy salsa — this the Mexicans can attest to — but in Miami I witnessed the Lil Wayne salsa be put to use in strange and newfangled ways by the YMCMB squad that El Pinto product developers and parents of Young America alike may care to take note of:

Mack Maine – Enjoyed the salsa rather traditionally, with tortilla chips and hot sauce.
Gudda Gudda – Microwaved the salsa, then spread it onto “cheesy toast.”
T-Streetz – Only ate the salsa with a spoon.
Lil Chuckee & Lil Twist - Made legit burritos for all, including three large spoonfuls of Lil Wayne salsa in each.
Shanell – Spooned diluted salsa (two parts salsa to one part tequila) onto slices of bologna, which she then rolled up like cigarettes before eating. “Gotta watch those carbs LOL!”
Tyga – Put the salsa in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal with strawberry milk. Why?
Jay Sean – Did not know what salsa was, and did not try any.
Drake – Carefully inspected one of the jars, then began typing furiously on his BlackBerry.
Nicki Minaj – Borrowed spoon from T-Streetz, tried one bite, said she wanted her own “Barbie sauce,” then left with three jars.
Baby – Declared the salsa a “Nice shade of red,” but that he’d die if he were to try even a tiny bit. Is perhaps allergic to tomatoes? Left us to wonder…

Weezy F. himself apparently tried the salsa at one point when I was sleeping — the man keeps even stranger hours than I do — but M^r Maine informed me that he did, in fact, like it, although just how I cannot be sure, and questions of this variety are not generally encouraged within the Young Money Cash Money camp. Regardless, in just four days, the salsa was gone, and with it, that feeling one gets when free food is around. It’s like the song goes, “Niggas wanna eat cause they ain’t ate nothing / But niggas wanna leave when you say you out of mustard.”

When reached for comment, an employee of El Pinto said they had previously catered one of Lil Wayne’s concerts in New Mexico. “We do this type of thing for many big time entertainers such as Snoop Dogg and Nickelback,” she said. Lil Wayne’s variety of El Pinto medium salsa contains tomatoes, green chiles or jalapenos, salt, garlic, calcium chloride, and last, but not least, citric acid.

Wally Trumbull’s New York: Shake Shack

admin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:43:10 +0000

Not Wally Trumbull’s favorite place to get a burger — that would be the original DuMont Burger — but his favorite place for the hangover- destroying peanut butter and bacon/waffle fry combo. In 2005, Wally told the now-defunct Gourmet magazine that, “The frozen custard remains a balm for me, in my darkest hours,” referring to the incident earlier that year at the Bryant Park location¹ during which he was made to wait in line for the first — and only — time in his life.

Limited quantities of this and other Trumbull posters are available in our store.

Supertouch – Lost My Way EP Preview

trumbull1 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:00:15 +0000

We plugged a third generation iPod loaded with the new Supertouch Lost My Way 7″ EP into the Neve board at MetroSonic Recording Studio in Brooklyn, pressed play, and whipped out a malfunctioning, squirrel-nicked Sony CyberShot in order to capture some pre-vibes for our listening public. This record floored Harvey Keitel, no shit. Visit Reaper Records for more info.

The Damned Things Drop Fuzzy Rock Album ‘Ironiclast’

trumbull1 — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:16:01 +0000

Big week in Trumbull Town: Tuesday saw the release of our good friends The Damned Things debut album, Ironiclast, on Island/Def Jam. We caught their second-ever New York City performance at Rebel on Monday night and were blown away by their show.

We are very proud to have had the opportunity to work with the boys on this record. We’ll have more details on that soon. For now, visit thedamnedthings.com to stream the album, which is already available in stores and on iTunes. Check out the video for their first single, “We’ve Got a Situation Here,” and a close-up of the cover for the deluxe edition of Ironiclast: Legacy that we’ll be selling in the year 2035, when this album has achieved classic status and Trumbull has crushed every other existing media empire into filthy dusten ash and forces everyone to return to buying vinyl (with free download tickets) …after the jump.

The Damned Things are:

Vocals – Keith Buckley (Pantera and Smashing Pumpkins covers, Every Time I Die)
Guitar – Joe Trohman (Arma Angelus, Fall Out Boy)
Guitar – Rob Caggiano (Boiler Room, Anthrax)
Guitar – Scott Ian (S.O.D., Anthrax)
Bass – Josh Newton (Season To Risk,¹ Reggie and the Full Effect, From Autum to Ashes, ETID)
Drums – Andy Hurley (Vegan Reich, Earth Crisis, Racetraitor, Fall Out Boy)

Wally Trumbull’s New York: The Chelsea Hotel

trumbull1 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:46:21 +0000

Summer 1978 was rough on Wally Trumbull, who was kicked out of Television — for his electronic drum set — and dropped by Taschen for his “aggravating indecision” to use crayons and Edison-era cameras for the “Columbu: Cruising” biographical (Franco) oversize. Hurt, Wally moved into The Chelsea Hotel and joined the neighborhood’s nascent weight-lifting community, gaining 30 pounds of lean muscle and a facial tic by Labor Day. He had convinced several of The Hotel’s guests to join him on his three-hour (mostly outdoor) sessions, including one Sid Vicious, who for some reason wasn’t gaining much weight. Worried, Wally arrived at Vicious’ room on Oct. 12, bearing cups of isolated protein to find the musician and his girl, Nancy Spungen, laying on the floor. Wally alerted authorities — a first for him — and became distraught enough to quit weightlifting outright. He would later bill Spungen’s estate for the cost of the shakes.

Limited quantities of this and other Trumbull posters are available in our store.

Trumbull Header Artist Series, No. 1: MPH

trumbull1 — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:00:04 +0000

Look up and you’ll see the first in a prolific series of Trumbull headers designed by some of the cheapest and most desperate talent to be found, which we scrupulously screen for quality during begrudged sessions punctuated by violent retching and the cries of our judge’s panel suffering stabbing ocular pain. We’ve been spreading the word about this ritzy plot of pixel space to insiders for some time, but let not the agony of our critics deter ye artists far and wide from submitting to our consideration; consider the floodgates opened.

And now for five questions with MPH, the first to claim our marquee.

MPH

1. What do you do?
Design and illustration.

2. Explain your Trumbull banner.
The miracle of Harley Flanagan discovering Trumbull Island.

3. Who and what influences your art?
I try to get inspired by whoever my client is and what they’re trying to get across. When faced with clients I abhor I am inspired by their deep pockets. And when there are no clients at all I read what Massimo Vignelli, Hergé, and Josef Müller-Brockmann had to say on the subject.

4. Do you know Wally Trumbull?
Wally Trumbull made me a tape in high school. One side was Body Count “Cop Killer“ and the other side was Dead Milkmen Big Lizard in My Backyard. Ever since, I’ve understood the importance of diversifying your hobby interests.

5. What are you doing tomorrow?
Waking up and making a hot cup of business. Everything else sorts itself out after that.

Wally Trumbull’s New York – Dorsia

trumbull1 — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:27:35 +0000

Dorsia, a Glatt Kosher Cajun fusion restaurant-cum-death metal club of which Wally Trumbull was a minority owner, was famously the peak of the New York cuisine scene, introducing both sushi and Pentagram to high Manhattan society. In addition to putting respectable, if dirty, money into Wally’s elk leather satchel, the restaurant also inspired Le Bernardin’s Maguy Le Coze to move to the United States in earnest. It should be noted that Dorsia took fewer reservations a night than did Richard Nixon, but a handful of nightly patrons were admitted on the strength of their ponytails, and their teeth — the fewer the better. It was also Henry Kissinger’s favorite place to eat before he became allergic to cough syrup.

Limited quantities of this and other Trumbull posters are available in our store.

Wally Trumbull’s New York: Greenpoint Hospital

trumbull1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:05:56 +0000

The scene of Wally Trumbull’s only foray into medicine, as part of a freelance article for National Geographic entitled “Under the Knife in North America: An Expose of Medicine in the Other Boroughs.” Wally was the lead surgeon on duty when local police hero Frank Vincent Serpico was carted in after being shot at point-blank range during a purported set-up in Williamsburg on Feb 3, 1971. While removing the .22 caliber bullet from Serpico’s face, Wally impacted the already fraying auditory nerve in the officer’s left ear, causing him to go half-deaf, and preventing the author from casting him in his off-Broadway musical, “Me and the Other Pope,” much to the chagrin of both. Out of respect, Wally would force at gunpoint the play’s lead actor, one Hillel O’Neal, to change his name to Frank Vincent, in tribute to the injured officer.

Limited quantities of this and other Trumbull posters are available in our store.