Mr. Brainwash Experience x NYSF
video by NY Straightforward, much love to these guys!
“Gigante” NYC | Os Gemeos x Futura
Os Gemeos and Futura wrapped up production on their “Giant Project” mural in New York City. The piece can be seen on the side of PS11 at 320 West 21st.
Starring Chelsea Clinton x Mark Mezvinsky
The graphic novel, A Wonderful Honeymoon, is a play on the USA’s most recent blockbuster union, Chelsea Clinton and Mark Mezvinsky. aleXsandro Palombo covers ’society’ through humorous illustration.
Os Gemeos and Futura | “Giant Project” NYC
Os Gemeos and Futura have started working on their “Giant Project” in New York City, across the street from NYC’s PS1. The giant mural by the artists will soon be ready and here is their progress. Futura x Os Gemeos add international flags to the New York City scene.
Video: Art is Life pt. 2
Marshall Gary’s Art is Life travels to Washington, D.C., for episode 2 and introduces the folks at SpaceStudioGallery.
Check out Art is Life pt. 1
Video: “Art is Life” Artist Spotlight Series Teaser
“Art is Life” is a new video series by Marshall Gary. He’s tipped Marc Roman as his first subject for the project, which has the simple premise of highlighting up-and-comers and giving them a new platform for exposure.
Balance
“Balance” wall-hang by Steve Harrington, National Forest
Nice design, I always feel that Taoism/”yin and yang” correlate with Cancer’s zodiac sign [69] or the crab.
Apex x Black Scale x MTN Colors USA
check out their new summer collection
News: Andy Warhol – The Last Decade
Andy Warhol x Jason Dill x Brooklyn Museum Alien Workshop Skateboard Deck
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade (which began at the Milwaukee Museum of Art) opened the Brooklyn Museum of Art stop over the weekend. The exhibition will remain in King’s County through September 12, 2010.
Oil & Water Don’t Mix
“…and they said oil and water don’t mix,
now they all down at the beach washing off the fish…”
-Lupe Fiasco – “Pressure”
Video: Up There
A slice of life from the people who bring you the best billboards in town. A dying breed, but they’re still getting over. A film by Malcolm Murray.
Video: Converse “You’re It” – Kid Cudi
Converse’s new campaign “You’re it” highlights 23 unique and creative artists from around the world in a series of web shorts. The campaign featured artists form 13 different countries including Kid Cudi.
Scrap work
pencil on parchment paper
pencil on parchment paper
I’m never doing what I’m suppose to be doing at the right time. I’m not drawing when I should be, working when I should be – I don’t follow instructions, haha. Damn, something like a fuck up. The one good thing about this community service is my doodles. When I’m bored, I try to find anything to draw or write on. When it doesn’t have any value I work best because the outcome isn’t important. Scrap paper, napkins, whatever it is. I guess value means it has to account for something. I don’t want to give it any meaning.
Church Ave.
I went to Stella’s Bar & Restaurant in the city to watch the game. Good beer and good eats, great combo. I wish I would have taken a picture. However, that’s not what I wanted to discuss. The mosaic murals on Church avenue are just example of great art throughout the city. In a melting pot like New York City, I’m glad you can find a little culture outside of the hustle and bustle. I’m always looking for culture – this is home.
Stop’n Traffic
How powerful are books? Well they can apparently stop traffic if there’s enough of them. The clever folks at Luzinterruptus, put together temporary light-infused guerrilla art installations that are surreal and create a lovely scene in Brooklyn that I wish I could’ve encountered in person. More pictures and information about the piece can be found HERE.
Video: Her Morning Elegance
Stop-motion is also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame. It is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The Pillsbury Doughboy and Hamburger helper were created using Stop Motion Animation. Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie is a more recent incarnation that’s been put through their paces using computer graphics.
Sealed With a Simpson
Have you seen these Simpsons stamps? Just got wind of them via Design Observer. Seriously though, “Really, are these not among the best American stamps ever?“
The brilliant new stamps honoring America’s first family of animation — the Simpsons. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, each in a classic head shot against a little rectangular patch of electric color, projecting maximum psychic and visual power. There was no action, sound, plot or space to help them out, only color, line, scale and lots of personality.
Art Adds
500 taxi cabs in the Big Apple will be ditching the familiar garbage ad’s ie: strip-club and vodka advertisements featured on their rooftop billboards. Instead, work by artists such as Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz, and Yoko Ono will be lighting up the city. Props to Show Media, who are the owners of the ad space, and John Amato, Show’s part-owner and art fan.
art adds to the public’s vision.
Concrete Hermit x Tate Modern
In a move that demonstrates the Tate’s interest and commitment to breakthrough illustration, work by three Concrete Hermit artists (Anthony Burrill, Ian Stevenson and Andrew Rae) has been commissioned and will form part of the ‘Tate Modern Series’. Product launch and book signing is on Friday 31st July at the Tate Modern in London. To learn more about Concrethe Hermit you can read an interview we did with them a while ago here.
Jin Young Yu Glass Scupltures
Korean artist Jin Young Lu creates transparent sculptures with expressive masks that she partially covers with nicely patterned clothes, and the result is quite astonishing. Wonderful ghostly figures that stair right at you.
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