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Banksy – Films
Videos from Banksy. Here.
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tummie-design
Very cool artist out of the Netherlands, Chantal Knook. Heavy videogame influence. Here.
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Banksy Phone Booth
From Wooster Collective: Banksy and and Pickaxe, Soho Square, London, Today. Here.
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Photos from Shepard Fairey opening
From Juxtapoz: Photos from the opening night of Shepard Fairey’s solo show at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. Here.
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Post No Bills
From Juxtapoz, interview with Shepard Fairey: I feel that I am lucky because I’ve created a formula to which my career as an artist, designer and street artist are able to feed off each other. There are some people that are purists that probably still live with their parents who say if you do street art and commercial art, you’re a sellout, but that is just not a realistic perspective for me. Here.
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Banksy takes on the Melbourne Street Art Scene
From the Guardian, via Wooster Collective: What is disappointing about the authority’s attitude is that Australia is probably still the only country in the world to have elevated a graffiti writer to the status of national public hero. Arthur Stace was an alcoholic from the slums of Sydney who found God while listening to a Baptist preacher in a hostel in the 1940s and took to writing the word “eternity” on the ground in chalk. He rendered it in meticulous copperplate script more than half a million times across Sydney over the next three decades, becoming an urban legend before his death in 1967 at the age of 83. He has since been honoured by a plaque, a range of council-approved merchandise and was the centrepiece of celebrations when the word “eternity” in his trademark hand was lit up in 100ft-high letters on Sydney harbour bridge to mark the new millennium. Here.
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Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman
Deep-Sea Comics, publishers of Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman, and other comic books by David Boswell. Reid Fleming, the crazy milkman, is known for the phrases, “I thought I told you to shut up!” and “I am not bald, I get my hair CUT this way!” Here.
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Duplex Planet
Duplex Planet, where David Greenberger has been asking questions to the elderly for over 25 years. A sample: WHY IS MUSIC IMPORTANT? FRANK KANSLASKY: (Laughs) Not to me it ain’t! LEO GERMINO: Because it’s very, very outstanding. It’s important to make people feel better, too. FRANCIS MCELROY: Because it’s the run of the country, and it’s very popular among all people. BILL NIEMI: Well, it sort of relaxes a person’s mind. CHARLES SHEA: Without it there’d be no happiness. ABE SURGECOFF: It brings melody to the people. HERMAN SEFTEL: It tunes up the system. DORA GURKEWITZ: We’re lonely people and we live alone, so we like to have music. HENRY TURNER: It soothes the nerves. And it keeps you from getting bored too. Of course my radio was stolen from me. HOWARD SHERWOOD: Well, I think it’s a great day starter, starter of the day. Most people put their radio on and it brightens up the day. If we had a lot more music and less arguments things would be a lot better – all over the world. In a lot of these countries you aren’t allowed to put music on. (from Duplex Planet issue # 97) -
Shepard Fairey Preview
From Juxtapoz: A preview of the work from Shepard Fairey’s upcoming show at White Walls in San Francisco. We got these examples of the work that will be on display next month. The show opens April 1st, 2006 at White Walls in SF. He’ll have a total of 50 pieces in the show plus a huge wall mural installation. See you there? Here.
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Street Cans
From Wooster Collective:Here.
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Holocaust installation by Santiago Sierra
From we make money not art: The artist has parked six cars outside the synagogue and attached their exhaust pipes to the building using plastic tubes. It is then filled with deadly gas. Visitors are invited to go inside one by one wearing a gas mask, escorted by a firefighter. Before being allowed in, they have to sign a disclaimer stating they realise the room is full of carbon monoxide. Here. -
Shepard Fairey "New Works"
From hustler of culture: Reception, Saturday, April 1st, 2006 7pm to 11pm Runs through, Saturday, April 29th, 2006 White Walls 835 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Here.
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Space Invader Project
The very cool Space Invader Dot Com, for your information.
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The Web This Morning
Artist- Michael Slack Game Art – I am 8 bit Photography – Preparations for Khmer Rouge trials, Cambodia, by John Vink, Magnum Photos NYT – The Wild Web of China NYT – Gordon Parks, Master of the Camera, Dies at 93 -
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Photography – Pictures of the Year winners gallery Artist – Jude Buffum, does hilarious art with classic 8-bit videogame imagery Yahoo war reporter Kevin Sites is now in Chechnya Q&A with Kevin Sites WFMU – Compilation of the month: Shut up and Play (mp3’s of inane between-song banter). Featuring Slayer, Mercyful Fate, and the infamous Venom in Cleveland tracks WFMU – And if you liked those, in this post are a few Paul Stanley from KISS clips KSL – Family resolution causes concern in Kanab Iraq – Toll in Iraq’s deadly surge: 1,300 CIA – Pillar to press: don’t get fooled again NYT – More tin than gold for Olympic spots NYT – poor and muslim? jewish? soup kitchen is not for you -
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Artist – Megan Whitmarsh (especially look at the embroidery) Photography – Anti-racist demonstration in Paris, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov Wired – Scenes from the MySpace backlash NYT – Another White House briefing, another day of mutual mistrust NYT – Dungeon masters in cyberspace, D&D MMORPG NYT – Army to pay Halliburton unit most costs disputed by audit NYT – Chaos in Iraq sends shock waves across Middle East NYT – Cyberthieves silently copy as you type NYT – Presidential passage through India, quickly -
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