Category: Art & Design

  • Subliminal Projects Release – Obey Giant

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    This Saturday, 5/24, Subliminal Projects Gallery will be releasing a very limited amount of this week’s OBEY Lotus Ornament print . We are implementing a new program for local fans in Los Angeles. Prints are going to be $45 (tax included) and can be purchased by CREDIT CARD only. Beware Ebayers! We are going to be making some policies regarding the prints so anyone who intends on ebaying their print, thanks but no thanks, you are not welcomed! Please visit subliminalprojects.com for hours and info.

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  • LA Weekly – LA People 2008 – Helen Stickler – The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles

    Helen Stickler might be the girl next door. She lives in a perfectly appointed vintage-modern cottage in Echo Park, complete with a beautiful view, charismatic neighbors and a visiting cat. The only thing missing is the white picket fence. But as they say, looks are deceiving.

    Observe more closely, and you’ll notice that the art on her walls is mostly of the street-inspired ilk, paired with editions of her movie posters. That would be as-written-and-directed-by-her: Andre the Giant Has a Posse, a 1997 documentary on Shepard Fairey’s sticker campaign; and Stoked: the Rise and Fall of Gator, a 2003 Sundance Festival screener on the life and murderous times of ’80s vert-skater icon Mark “Gator” Rogowski. Get to talking and you’ll find out she’s just completed direction on an extreme-stunts show for the BBC (Smash Lab) and is about to dig into a hush-hush project with yet another skater, the subversive Jason Jessee.

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  • LA People 2008 – Dave Browne

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    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.

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    “My main reason for doing anything is because it’s fun,” declares the slight-yet-fiery 26-year-old artist.

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  • Dick & Jane Art – Josh Spear

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    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.

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  • Dalek in D.C. – Josh Spear

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    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.

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  • Cute Hunter.

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    so tonight is the Cute Hunter show at Secret Headquarters. you must come to it! or view it virtually..

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  • This Joke’s for You

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    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 think.)

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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

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    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.

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  • Zoo York x Owens: The Urbane Jungle – Josh Spear

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    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.

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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 Zero ad with Evan Hecox-esque artwork. I studied it for as long as I could, and as I turned left I said to myself, “There’s no way Evan did that.”

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  • VVORK »

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    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.

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  • 3 New Prints from Andy Kehoe » Robot Walrus

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  • Wooster Collective: Invasion Map of Kathmandu

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    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.

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  • Speartalks: Marion Peck – Josh Spear

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    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 eyes – the eyes hold none of those characteristics.

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  • +KN | Kitsune Noir » Readymade Is Now Online!

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    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 place the entire contents of their magazine online, and I honestly couldn’t be any more excited about this.

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  • Blek Le Rat Interview – Fecal Face

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    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 artist of the modern street art movement. Often overlooked by more well known media savvy stencil artists, Blek Le Rat was clearly behind many of the styles we see in the streets today. Although much of Blek’s early work was in the streets of Paris, It was not long before he was traveling the globe and leaving street pieces at every stop, and he still is today. -Manuel Bello

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  • Space Invader : ekosystem.org

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    INVASION IN THE UK / INVASION BOOK #3

    160 PAGES
    8 X 10,5 Inch – 21 X 27CM
    2000 COPIES
    FRENCH / ENGLISH

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  • LA///STREET LIFE///BLEK LE RAT AT SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS…

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    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 new spraypaint on canvas works by the pioneering artist whose work predates that of followers

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  • Seen on the back streets of Sydney – Wooster

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  • From Hoops To Hipsters – washingtonpost.com

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    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 trick in footwear history, and who would have thought it, when Marquis Mills Converse first started making simple, rubber-soled work shoes at a factory outside Boston in 1908?

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