from OUT Magazine

Looking Back At 2011 With Ty-Lör Boring

12.28.2011

BY OUT.COM EDITORS

The ‘Top Chef’ star shares his 2011 favorites

While the ferocious competition and mysterious appeal of Tom Colicchio are usually reason enough for us to tune into Top Chef, there has been something else keeping us enraptured this season: Ty-Lör Boring.

The super cute and openly gay chef, who toils in a West Village kitchen but has done some side work, including modeling for Butt magazine, has been such an enjoyable part of our TV watching this year, we asked him to share his own Top 10 list from 2011.

Favorite Vacation: Culebra, Puerto Rico .
I hadn’t been on a proper vacation in 5 years and before filming Top Chef I took a week off on the beach. It’s completely off the grid which is nothing short of amazing.

Favorite Celebrity Crush: Brian Wilson.
Maybe it was his roommate dressed up as a gimp during a sports interview. Maybe it’s the tights. Maybe it’s the beard. In any case, I am a fan.

Favorite Cocktail: Caipirinha.
Lime, sugarcane, cachaça. In the middle of winter nothing reminds me of the middle of summer like this cocktail.

Favorite Music: “Internet Friends” by Knife Party.
DJ Vito Fun remixed this track for release next summer on Fire Island and I can’t stop dancing to it.

Favorite Book: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey.
Jesus as a hunky construction worker in the modern day Bronx. I couldn’t put this book down for 2 days.

Favorite Secret Weapon: Worcestershire Sauce. 
I came across a recipe for making your own a while back and have some batches in my wine cellar approaching 4 years old. It makes the cheapest steak taste like 90-day dry-aged waygu.

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from EXHIBITION a

JAMES FREY WITH A COPY OF “CATCHER IN THE RYE” BY RICHARD PRINCE ON 5TH AVE

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 28, 2011 BY BILL

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from British VOGUE

Fashion’s Curiosities

CASS CHAPMAN

23 November 2011

THE finest objet d’arts from the worlds of fashion, art, design and travel have collided for a new project, Cabinet de Curiosités, showcased at Browns and curated by brand and fashion consultant Thomas Erber.

SEE OUR COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

Erber’s diverse selection of beauties include a James Frey signed manuscript, mink-lined Pierre Hardy boots and a smoked sapphire glass Girard-Perregaux watch. The project, says Erber, offers “a new space of visibility for independent designers and artists. I naively do believe they make our life better. Or at least mine.”

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…curtain. from EXHIBITION a

JAMES FREY PULLING BACK A CRACK PIPE CURTAIN AT NATE LOWMAN/DAN COLEN “LOVE ROSES” BOOK SIGNING

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 2, 2011 BY BILL

[ click to view at EXHIBITION a ]

from Guest of a Guest 

“Best $2K I Ever Spent!” Terry Richardson Premieres ‘Mom & Dad’ Exhibition At Half Gallery

By Chelsea Burcz

On Friday evening, Terry Richardson littered the floor and the walls with photos of his mother and father as an ode to their relationship and to his family with his exhibition “Mom & Dad,” while Richardson fans mobbed the tiny Half Gallery to just get a peek of the photos (and more likely, the photographer). After about 2 hours of a line that looked like people were waiting outside of the most exclusive club in New York, Richardson and friends headed to Acme for rowdy dinner, followed by an after-party at the Westway, complete with male strippers. Oh, Terry. WARNING: Last couple of slides are NSFW.

Guests included Terry Richardson, Bill Powers, Cynthia Rowley, Lake Bell, Scott Campbell, Abbey Lee Kershaw,David Swanson, Harry Bee, Richard Prince, James Frey, Gibby Haynes….

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from NOWNESS

Mark Abrahams: Candid Camera

The Photographer’s Revealing Portraiture Captures an Unseen Side of Iconic Celebrities

Celebrated photographer Mark Abrahams draws out understated honesty from A-list subjects such as Michael Pitt, James Franco, Lindsay Lohan and Michelle Obama. A former truck driver, Abrahams is entirely self-taught, but his textured and compelling style is often seen in the pages of L’Uomo Vogue, Vogue Deutsch and GQ.

His new eponymous monograph from Damiani Editore contains a potent introductory text from writer James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning, poetically relating a story of a young man falling in love with his camera and mastering the photographic arts. “I wanted to write my intuitive version of what I thought his process was. I looked at the pictures and I just wrote the essay, thinking: that must be what he tries to do, because that’s what I see,” explains Frey of Abrahams’ work. “I respect him a lot, I think his photographs are beautiful and haunting, intense and pure.” Here, the California-born Abrahams recounts his earliest images and his love of Ed Ruscha.

Both you and James Frey are self-taught. Is that how you connected?

My story in photography is similar to his story in writing, and also similar to some of the characters in his books. I actually owned a truck in California, and would haul sand and gravel from plants. One I would go to was called Sully Miller; there was a hut in it with all the old time truckers, 70-year-old guys who have been doing it since the 30s. I literally bought a camera to take pictures of these guys to show my friends. I didn’t even know there was a job [as] a professional photographer. It literally had never occurred to me that people do this for a living. My only association with photography really was family pictures. I wasn’t picking up Vogue.

[ click to continue reading at NOWNESS.com ]

from Writing Without Paper

Sotheby’s Launches ‘Your Art World’

It changes you, the best art.
~ Collector James Frey

Ever wonder what it takes to make, buy, and sell art? Sotheby’s, international art cataloguer and auction house, has created an online series Your Art World that currently comprises four short films intended to demystify or at least offer some insights into the creative process and collecting, buying, and selling art. While undoubtedly serving Sotheby’s own promotional and marketing needs, the series is worth a look (it’s received its fair share of press, too, most recently a write-up in The Washington Post):

✦ The Artist ~ The creative process is discussed by the internationally known artists Jeff Koons, Ronald Ventura, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Amy Granat.

✦ The Collector ~ Art collectors Guiseppe and Daniel Eskenazi ofEskenazi Limited, a Chinese art dealer based in London, Kip Forbes of Forbes Publishing, writer James Frey, Adam Lindemann, and Budiardjo Tek, president/director of Sierad, a poultry-based food company in Indonesia, speak about their passion for art, what motivates them to collect, and what they’ve learned in competing with others for the art treasures they want.

[ click to continue reading at Writing Without Paper ]

[ click to watch Your Art World @ Sotheby’s ]

from The Epoch Times

A Chat With the Star of ‘The Last Rites of Joe May’

Artist Profile: Dennis Farina

By Masha Savtiz

LOS ANGELES—“Joe May is more like me than I’d like to admit,” says the seasoned actor Dennis Farina of his starring role in his new film The Last Rites of Joe May.

In a late September interview, I spoke with the down-to-earth Farina about his recent work, the roles that interest him, and the parts he would still like to play.

“I’m interested in people who are a fish out of water… they’re always on the outside looking in,” muses Farina.

Perhaps best known for movie characters Jimmy Serrano, the mob boss fromMidnight Run, Ray Bones Barboni in Get Shorty, or detective Joe Fontana from NBC’s Law and Order, Farina’s career broke through with Michael Mann’s famed 1980s drug-enforcement drama, Miami Vice.

Since that time, Farina has built up quite a résumé working with performers like Bette Midler, Brad Pitt, and Sir Ben Kingsley, as well as directors such as Steven Spielberg, Ed Burns, and Guy Ritchie.

Are there still roles that Farina wants to explore?

“I’d like to play a priest,” he says. There’s also the title from the book by James Frey, My Friend Leonard, who he notes is similar to Joe May in some respects.”

[ click to read full interview at TheEpochTimes.com ]

from Esquire

“There Is No Truth,” He Said.

The future of the written word, and the liberation of James Frey. With space aliens.

By John H. Richardson

Illustrations by Nathan Fox

Published in the November 2011 issue

Things start to get weird when Frey locks the door to his office and pulls down the blinds. That’s James Frey, author of the famously fraudulent memoir A Million Little Pieces, a big lug with a shaved head who could pass for a member of the Russian mob — small forehead, big jaw, small pursed mouth constantly chewing gum. I figured he was going to punch me out.

Rule number one in journalism: Don’t call the person you are interviewing a fucking asshole.

What happened is, I was interviewing Frey at his offices in SoHo. The subject was his unusual new publishing business, Full Fathom Five, which was about to release the world’s first e-book with a soundtrack. The soundtrack actually syncs up with how fast you’re reading — music, gunshots, the ardent moans of young lovers. Amazing. Frey made me a cup of cappuccino, asked about my family. But then I had to ask about the three-part Oprah controversy and he started talking about postmodernism and Andy Warhol with the strong suggestion that A Million Little Pieces wasn’t really a giant fraud but some kind of sophisticated performance art. “Anyway, there is no truth,” he said. “It’s all fiction. In my experience, 80 percent of reporters just tell flat-out lies.”

So I said, “A guy who has an affair and his wife asks him if it’s really true and he says, ‘No, but what is reality anyway’ isn’t a sophisticated postmodernist, he’s a motherfucking asshole.”

Frey asked me to step outside.

I stood in the hall talking to his staff and my smartphone started going nuts. He’s about to pull the plug! What the hell is going on? Are you really swearing at him? Step outside and call me! Calm down!

Which, of course, just pisses me off even more. Micromanaging panties-in-a-bunch editors, bane of my existence.

Some time passes. I find that I like Frey’s bright young crew, doubtless brutally exploited. Then Frey opens the door looking even more nauseous than he did when Oprah was carving him a new outlet for his writing. He barks at the staff to clear out and motions me in, locks the door, and pulls down the blinds.

I say, “Look, maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Or in your case, the wrong cloven hoof.”

I’m kidding.

He ignores me. “You want the truth? I’ll show you the fucking truth. See that laptop?”

An ordinary MacBook Pro on the desk, a futuristic matte silver shell.

“Open it.”

I hesitate.

“Trust me.”

[ click to continue reading at Esquire ]

JAMES FREY

Forty-Two American Marriages

3” x 4” ZINK Paper

Dimensions: 40” x 31.75”

Artwork created for the Made In Polaroid 50|50|50 art exhibit & benefit auction.

Source polaroid.com

from Terry’s Diary

[ click to espy at Terry Richardson’s Diary ]

from Deadline Hollywood

Legal Drama About Ex-U.S. President Lands At CBS With Penalty

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 25, 2011 @ 6:00pm PDT 
Tags: CBS, CBS TV Studios, DreamWorks TV, James Frey, Jonathan E. Steinberg, Legacy

CBS has bought Legacy, a drama project from Jericho co-creator Jonathan E. Steinberg, DreamWorks TV and author James Frey’s book-packaging company Full Fathom Five. The project has received a script commitment plus penalty from the network and has been laid off at CBS TV Studios. It centers on a one-term president who goes back to work at his hometown law firm where he hand-picks the cases that really matter to him. Steinberg, who will write the script, is executive producing with Frey, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank.

The idea for the project was generated by A Million Little Pieces author Frey’s IP company, which focuses mostly on young-adult fiction. Six months ago, Frey came to Los Angeles to pitch the company’s catalog, and WME — which reps him, DreamWorks TV and Steinberg — got them together to develop Legacy. The project was pitched directly to the networks, landing at CBS.

[ click to continue reading at deadline.com ]

from 720 ABC Perth

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from The New York Times

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from Haute Living

Haute Event: Serena Williams, Sting, Brad Goreski last Night at the Made in Polaroid 50|50|50 Art Auction with Belvedere and Clos du Bois

Last night on Wednesday September 14th, 2011 I had the pleasure of attending an amazing soiree at Phillips de Pury & Company. The art and entertainment community came together for the launch of Polaroid’s new instant mobile printer and a charity auction of the works created by these artists using the mobile printer.

The Made in Polaroid 50|50|50 Art Auction with Clos du Bois and Belvedere benefited Free Arts and original pieces by Tory Burch, Patrick Demarchelier, Will Cotton, Steven Klein, Norman Jean Roy, James Frey and more were sold. Notable attendees and artists included Serena Williams, Sting, Brad Goreski, Patrick Demarchelier, Todd Tourso from Haus of Gaga, Norman Jean Roy, Stefano Tonchi, Sante d’Orazio, Alexa Winner, Maripol, Anita Kunz, Steven Taylor, Chase Jarvis, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Va$htie, Stella Im Hultberg, Michael Bernard and more.  Guests sipped Clos du Bois North Coast Chardonnay, Belvedere cocktails, dined on sushi and mingled throughout the auction house while viewing the works.  As the live auction began, guests eagerly bid on the extraordinary works, with proceeds benefiting Free Arts.

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from The New York Times

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from Wallpaper*

Carnal Knowledge by Malerie Marder

‘Untitled’, 2005, by Malerie Marder

Simplicity is often regarded as the ultimate sophistication, and by this definition alone Malerie Marder’s beautiful compositions are unbelievably compelling. Often set within stark, anonymous motel rooms, her photographic compositions feature her similarly bare sitters. Accessorised only with impassive expressions, they allow the viewer to play voyeur, but with a distinct feeling of having pre-arranged permission.

Carnal Knowledge is her first monograph, a milestone in the career of any artist, and it has been gorgeously produced by Violette Editions with a preface by Gregory Crewdson, texts by Charlotte Cotton and novelist James Ellroy, and short stories inspired by Marder’s works by A. M. Homes, James Frey and Bruce Wagner. There is also a written and photographic correspondence between Marder and Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

[ click to read full piece at Wallpaper.com ]

from Look To The Stars

Viggo Mortensen Takes Part In Charity Polaroid Auction

Polaroid is honoring its founder Dr. Edwin Land’s passion for the arts with the launch of the Made in Polaroid exhibit.

An art show featuring more than 60 pieces created by a mix of artists, designers, photographers, actors and musicians who are united in their passion for creativity, all pieces will be auctioned with proceeds benefiting Free Arts NYC, a non-profit that provides arts and mentoring programs to under-served children. Participating artists include fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier and Steven Klein, designers Cynthia Rowley and Phillip Lim and actors James Franco and Viggo Mortensen, among many others.

“It’s very interesting to me that at this moment in time the new Polaroid G10 printer arrives and re-objectifies the photograph, literally making an object, a paper photograph,” said participating photographer Matthew Rolston. “We seem to be headed toward a paperless world of visual communication and yet here we have an exciting new product that re-invigorates the thought of trading imagery – actual photographs that we hold in our hands – with each other.”

Also taking part are Brett Ratner, James Frey, Tyra Banks and many more.

The exhibit explores the infinite number of ways technology can enable creative expression. Featuring pieces that range from single mounted images to multi-print mosaics, each artist taps a different approach to tell a story with photos. All works were created exclusively using the Polaroid GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, the first product from Lady Gaga’s Grey Label line.

[ click to continue reading at Look To The Stars ]

from The New York Times

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from PaperSpecs

Going Forward with the Flipbacks

August 30, 2011

Hodder & Stoughton, a UK publisher, recently introduced a paperback book format that’s the size of an iPhone. Called Flipbacks, the books are one-third the size of traditional books.

They’re lightweight, feel nice in the palm of your hand and fit conveniently in a back pocket or purse. Some booksellers are already thinking of them as a great alternative to the e-reader … Flipbacks are always fully charged.

Only a few titles have been published in the format so far: The Other Hand by Chris Cleave; The Adventures of English by Melvyn Bragg; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré; Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde; A Million Little Pieces by James Frey; Misery by Stephen King; Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis; Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell; One Day by David Nicholls; My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult; Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson and Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.

Flipbacks have been launched in Spain, France and Australia to date with deals pending in Germany and Scandinavia.

[ click to read at paperspecs.com ]

from Rolling Stone

Petra Nemcova, James Frey Remake Iconic Maxell’s Commercial

Cassette culture is revived and well: all it needed was a supermodel, controversial author and ironically, an iPhone app to breathe new life into it. A new ad from Booktrack features Petra Nemcova and James Frey in an uncomfortably provocative master and servant scenario while paying sly homage to Maxell’s classic “Higher Fidelity” commercial, which blew people away in 1983. British fans may recall the U.K.-only version that featured Bauhaus’s Peter Murphy; younger fans may be more familiar with the late Ryan Dunn’s parody of the clip. In any case, Maxell’s ad is a nugget of Eighties ephemera that manages to keeps on giving.

Booktrack’s take on the iconic ad skips the analog nostalgia, but amps up the style and sound quotients to make its selling point – enhancing your e-book experience with synchronized soundtracks – a little sexier. Nemcova poses as Frey’s coquettish (Marchesa-clad) maid, donning erotic accessories from Kiki de Montparnasse and Christian Louboutin…

[ click to continue reading at RollingStone.com ]

from SYNCHRONICITY

ALBERT REYES: The Art of The Rattling Wall – August 13

ALBERT REYES:
The Art of The Rattling Wall

Please join PEN Center USA and Narrow Books at Synchronicity on August 13, 2011, at 7 p.m. for the opening of ALBERT REYES: THE ART OF THE RATTLING WALL. The Rattling Wall is a Los Angeles-based literary journal specializing in short fiction, travel essays, and poetry. ALBERT REYES: THE ART OF THE RATTLING WALL will feature the artwork that appears in the journal’s inaugural issue, as well as new work. The show will run from August 13-27, 2011.

Albert Reyes has a distinctive artistic approach inspired not only by street art, comic books, and American pop culture; but also by contemporary and classical “high art.” His drawings and illustrations incorporate everything from icons of corporate America to Hollywood stars, to mass media, to politics, to consumerism. Reyes has exhibited at the Pacific Design Center, Giant Robot (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York), Black Market Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, and Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects and Studio Number One galleries. His artwork has appeared in the New York Times: Year In Ideas, Swindle, Chicano Art Magazine, Giant Robot Magazine, and on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and CNN.

The Rattling Wall, Issue 1, includes work by Tod Goldberg, Libby Flores, Tony Hoagland, Joseph Mattson, Kyle G. Dargan, Eric Layer, Stacey Waite, Neal Pollack, Lou Mathews, Don Winslow, Matthew Zapruder, Alisa Slaughter, James Greer, Eloise Klein Healy, Blake Butler, Jessica Garrison, Allison Burnett, Samantha Dunn, Brando Skyhorse, and James Frey. The Rattling Wall is edited by Michelle Meyering.

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from Faces of Minnesota

Bob Frey — Songwriter, Teacher

Bob Frey teaches at the Perpich Center for Arts Education in Golden Valley, MN.  It is is a comprehensive, tuition-free public high school offer ing a rig or ous academic program, with intensive course work focused in the arts.  Kids from around the state come to pur sue their high school education and their passion for the arts.

Bob has a gift for song writing and performs regularly around town.  Take a listen to some of his songs on his mySpace page.  He honed his craft in the bars and cof­fee houses of his home town of Cleveland, Ohio, as well as in Oxford, Ohio and Chicago for merly fronted The Buskers.

Bob is older brother to James Frey the author of A Million Little Pieces.  You prob­ably know all about that controversy.

On a sadder note, Bob’s wife Laura Ferster has been battling, so far successfully, cancer.  She is still going through treatment with a strength and determination no doubt buoyed by Bob’s constant love and support.  I wish the both much strength and Laura a full recovery.

[ click to read at FacesOfMN.com ]

from The Observer

James Frey’s Bronx Jesus Will Ascend to Silver Screen

Christine Vachon’s Killer Films to Produce, Frey to Adapt

By Emily Witt

Christine Vachon’s Killer Films will produce a film adaptation of James Frey’s The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. In the book, which was released in April, Jesus Christ returns in the form of a bisexual recovering alcoholic named Ben who lives in the Bronx.

In an interview with The Observer, Mr. Frey said that he gave Ms. Vachon a copy of the book six months before it was released, but that they had their first meeting on the project two weeks ago. He will adapt the screenplay himself but declined to suggest who he hopes will direct or star in the movie. When asked to give us an idea of what movies he had in mind, however, he listed a round-up notable for what he calls their “heavy, heavy emotional impact” but which some might refer to as a certain gross-out quality: Lars Von Triers’s Breaking the Waves, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Larry Clark’s Kids (also produced by Ms. Vachon). He also mentioned Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (Haynes is a longtime Killer Films collaborator) and Derek Cienfrance’s Blue Valentine.

“I like a lot of emotionally impactful smaller films,” said Mr. Frey.

“But bigger in their intent and ambition,” Ms. Vachon hastened to add.

“It’s not about making 100 million dollars, it’s about making the best thing,” said Mr. Frey.

[ click to read full article at The Observer ]

excerpt posted at The Sun UK

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from 27east.com

BOOKHAMPTON WELCOMES AUTHOR JAMES FREY

WHEN:
Sat, Jun 25, 2011
8:00 PM-9:00 PM

WHERE:
BookHampton
41 Main Street
East Hampton

DETAILS:
James Frey will read from and sign his new book, “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.”

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Any bookseller bookhampton@bookhampton.com
631 324-4939

[ click to read at 27east.com ]

from Exhibition A

JAMES FREY PREVIEWING ED TEMPLETON’S HALF GALLERY SHOW

POSTED ON JUNE 23, 2011 BY EXHIBITION A TEAM

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from PR Newswire

Gagosian Gallery’s iPad App, Designed by Award-Winning Firm @radical.media, Launches Today Taking Users on an In-Depth Journey With Gagosian’s Artists and Exhibitions

NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Gagosian Gallery announces the launch of an application for the iPad, available as a free download from the iTunes store, beginning today. The app will be updated four times per year, providing content that features recent, current, and future Gagosian artists, exhibitions, and projects. The artists presented in edition #1 include Richard Avedon, Cecily Brown, John Currin, Vera Lutter, Kazimir Malevich, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel.

Admirers of John Currin’s opulent portraiture will revel in the app’s gigapixel digital expose of a recent painting, as well as a 2010 lecture by the artist. Other projects include an interview with writer James Frey about his 2011 novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, published by Gagosian Gallery.  The app also offers excerpts from scholar Aleksandra Shatskikh’s catalogue essay for the historic exhibition “Malevich and the American Legacy” (March 3–April 30, 2011, New York).

Viewers can relive a key moment in art history by watching archival footage of Rauschenberg’s

1966 performance, Open Score; or follow a tour by curator Francesco Bonami of “Rudolf Stingel” (March 4 – April 16, 2011, New York).

[ click to read full release at PR Newswire ]