Category: Art & Design
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Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir
From Juxtapoz: Graham Roumieu is a Toronto-based illustrator whose latest publication ME WRITE BOOK: IT BIGFOOT MEMOIR just came out a couple months ago and is already on its second printing. Roumieu’s website 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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The Web This Morning
Photography – Olivier Rebbot, gallery link after Peter Howe introduction Photography – John Ficara’s Black Farmers in America Photography Dispatch – Iraqi Special Police Commandos by Guy Calaf Film Review – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye Photography – Idols + Believiers by Jocelyn Bain Hogg Artist – Christian-themed artist Thomas Kinkade is accused of ruthless…
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The Web This Morning
Photography – Chris Detrick named Student Photographer of the Year (my new co-worker) Photography – Ho Chi Minh Highway, by James Nachtwey Art – Russian/Soviet poster collection NYT – They stole $92 million, but what can they do with it?
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The Web This Morning
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…
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The Web This Morning
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…
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The Web This Morning
Photography – Photo Mechanic 4.4.2 released Art/Graffiti – Banksy rocks Melrose NYT – David Lynch, still disturbing after 20 years NYT – What civil war in Iraq would look like NYT – Stephen Colbert NYT – Dr. Gervais’s Frankenstein, Karl Pilkington NYT – Book Review, Paul Bremer’s ‘My Year in Iraq’ NYT – Taliban spokesman…