Category: Art & Design
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LA People 2008 – Dave Browne
Those “Berds” you may have seen dangling from power lines at various intersections throughout our otherwise dreadfully unaccessorized city weren’t tossed skyward to make a buck. When Venice Beach native Dave Browne lobbed his first handpainted slab of plywood a few years back, neither fame nor fortune figured into the agenda, only folly. (Click to…
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Dick & Jane Art – Josh Spear
See Dick get vintage cool. See Jane become art. See Dick and Jane on your wall as a whimsical conversation piece. Whether they’re part of your memories of early childhood education or not, the nostalgic kick of Dick and Jane has become a universal part of North American culture. Check it out here.
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Dalek in D.C. – Josh Spear
If you’re well connected, you would’ve received an invite yesterday to RSVP for a private preview on Friday for Dalek’s only exhibit this year, Overweight, at Washington D.C.’s Irvine Contemporary. Check it out here.
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Cute Hunter.
so tonight is the Cute Hunter show at Secret Headquarters. you must come to it! or view it virtually.. Check it out here.
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This Joke’s for You
The video ads on the Brawndo site, commissioned by Hottelet, feature members of Picnicface, a Canadian comedy troop, shouting hilariously over-the-top pitches: “It’s like a monster truck you pour into your face!” (The pitches actually owe quite a bit to videos Picnicface has made for a drink called Powerthirst — which doesn’t exist. I don’t…
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What better mentor for a 10-year-old than Charles Manson? Little Billy seeks life advice, and America's most notorious killers are happy to oblige
In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy. Check it…
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Zoo York x Owens: The Urbane Jungle – Josh Spear
When Zoo York asked Mark Owens and Matt Owens to design six decks for their artist series, we knew we’d be in for some of their standard-issue graphical, collage-esque awesomeness. Check it out here.
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Coca Cola Shamelessly Rips Off Evan Hecox In New Billboard
Two weekends ago I was out running errands and I stopped at the light at Franklin and Cahuenga which is pretty much the most northern end of Hollywood. I stop in the left hand turn lane, and dead ahead of me I see a billboard that shocks the crap out of me. It’s a Coca-Cola…
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VVORK »
A bag of live »Snails« with a properly protected microphone introduced in its core. The resulting sound is amplified in the same room as the bag is standing. By Fernandes Avelãs. Check it out here.
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Wooster Collective: Invasion Map of Kathmandu
\ Space Invader’s latest invasion map of Kathmandu is now online and on sale on Invader’s website. All the benefits from the sales of this map will be given to charitable organizations who support the Tibetian cause. Check it out here.
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Speartalks: Marion Peck – Josh Spear
Our general consensus is that it is in the eyes. It has to be, for there is nothing else to offer up that feeling of wrongness in the art of Marion Peck. Her palate is sunny enough, her subjects innocent enough, her landscapes full of greens and lights and other indications of virtue. But the…
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+KN | Kitsune Noir » Readymade Is Now Online!
Click: Whitmarsh on page 15! Last night I spent a half about a half an hour or so looking through the newest issue of Readymade, one of my favorite magazines these days. The only difference is that I read the whole dang thing digitally on my computer. Readymade has made a GIGANTIC leap, deciding to…
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Blek Le Rat Interview – Fecal Face
Think back to the year 1981, some of us were still pissing ourselves, or not even born. Rick Springfield was singing Jesse’s Girl, Blonde was rapping to Rapture, Regan was doing some acting in the White House and Blek Le Rat was painting the streets of Paris. Unknowingly becoming one of the first pioneer stencil…
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Space Invader : ekosystem.org
INVASION IN THE UK / INVASION BOOK #3 160 PAGES 8 X 10,5 Inch – 21 X 27CM 2000 COPIES FRENCH / ENGLISH Check it out here.
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LA///STREET LIFE///BLEK LE RAT AT SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS…
To celebrate the reopening of groundbreaking gallery SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS in its new location on 1331 W Sunset Blvd this Saturday nite, April 5th, founder SHEPARD FAIREY has chosen none other than Parisian street artist BLEK LE RAT as the subject of the hotspot’s inaugural exhibition. Blek’s “Art is Not Peace but War,” a show of…
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From Hoops To Hipsters – washingtonpost.com
Thanks M Half the history of Converse is about basketball, and the rest is about something far more complicated, about the ways a plain sneaker is consistently adored by anticonsumer consumers. A Converse on a teenager now is about remaining authentic and cool, while selling out in every possible way. It is perhaps the neatest…
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Skullphone Goes Big In LA – Wooster Collective
In what may go down as one of the best billboard hacks of all time, LA’s Skullphone managed to hijack not one, but ten, of Clear Channel Communications electronic billboards in the Los Angeles area. To pull it off Skullphone found a way to hack into the billboard’s computer network where he then placed his…
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Hacking the Olympic logo – Eyeteeth
China’s crackdown on dissent in Tibet — and, well, everywhere else within its borders — makes Beijing an odd choice as host city for an international gathering dedicated to competition in the “spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” So it’s no surprise that the Beijing Olympics logo is getting a few enhancements by culture-jammers.…