Category: Art & Design

  • Drain Guy

    Drain Guy

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    Little People: ps. Got a couple of exhibitions coming up this month. The first is in a completely unofficial capacity… I will be placing some little people around The Leonard Street Gallery for the opening night of their new show Eleven on Thursday 8th March. Eleven features, unsurprisingly, eleven artists who “…question the nature of…

  • Graffiti. It's a FUN Crime

    Graffiti. It's a FUN Crime

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    Wooster Collective: Here.

  • Barney meets the black widows in Toronto

    Barney meets the black widows in Toronto

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    Wooster Collective. Here.

  • Printable Cold Sores

    Printable Cold Sores

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    via Wooster Collective: Why don’t we just see them for what they are? They are regular people just like us, they just have a team of retouchers waiting at the ready. Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring these people back down to our level, and tell advertisers that you don’t agree with…

  • Jeff Wall – The Luminist

    Jeff Wall – The Luminist

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    NYT Magazine: One thing that Wall knew for certain when he took up the profession in the late 1970s is that he would not become a photojournalistic hunter. Educated as an art historian, he aspired instead to make photographs that could be constructed and experienced the way paintings are. “Most photographs cannot get looked at…

  • Little Ideas We Love: Random Acts of "Public Embroidery"

    Little Ideas We Love: Random Acts of "Public Embroidery"

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    Wooster Collective: To give a little life to drab seats on buses and trains in Sweden, Ulrika performs random acts of “public embroidery” – small images or short words (for example hello, hugs) that are quickly cross-stitched on seats in public transportations. Here.

  • Invaders' FAQ

    Invaders' FAQ

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    Wooster Collective: Along with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world, we’ve been obsessed by Space Invader’s work for years. This week, Invader updated his website, and for the first time, posted a Q&A which gives some background and explains what his project is all about. We thought we’d pass it along.…

  • Look up in the sky! It's a bird, It's a plane, No, It's Chuck Connors pretending a log is his kak!

    Look up in the sky! It's a bird, It's a plane, No, It's Chuck Connors pretending a log is his kak!

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    WFMU’s Beware the Blog: This is probably the funniest comic book related website out there – devoted to proving that, contrary to popular belief, Superman was an a*hole. Featuring sections devoted to unintentionally sexual comic book covers, comic book war propaganda, comic covers featuring apes (it’s ridiculous just how many there are), stupid super powers,…

  • Herbie

    Herbie

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    Duplex Planet: “Get me a cup of coffee before I faint.” “I’m far from Lynn and I ain’t showered yet, no foolin’.” “I’ll be fallin’ down like a tree.” “You got me caught here like a pair of pants.” “I’ll smoke another cigar by and by.” Here.

  • Street Art In Mogadishu

    Street Art In Mogadishu

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    Wooster Collective: From Rich Jones comes the photo above of street art in Somalia that depicts the militias that roam Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Rich says that this article – Doctors Without Borders 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Crises of 2006 – is “one of the most important things you’ll read this year”. Here.

  • WALLSPANKERS ISSUE THREE

    WALLSPANKERS ISSUE THREE

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    Wallspankers: ISSUE THREE STICKER CONTRIBUTIONS: 9.10do, 37 Cents, Air, Alex Robbie, Alexandro Farto, Amy Rice, Blessness, Bloodlet, Capish, Collette Elson, Danny Glix, Deadvolt, Debbie Hill, Demitri Nezis, Dolla Lama, Downtimer, Dres13, Emecuatro, Fabrice D, Fost, Hero, Jamaisvu, Jessica Monster, Jontando, Junichi Tsuneoka, Jurne, Justin G, Lala, Lisenbart, Lococateters, Logan Shirah, Lopez, Michael Metallo, Mike Walshe,…

  • Freedom of Speach in Belorussia.

    Freedom of Speach in Belorussia.

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    Wooster Collective: We’ve been a fan of Amnesty International’s street campaigns for years. This one, about freedom of speech in Belorussia, was done by Saatchi & Saatchi Poland. Here.

  • Dan Witz's The Third Man

    Dan Witz's The Third Man

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    Wooster Collective: For the second year in a row, Dan Witz has an annual New Year’s prank. Over the last few days he’s installed a series of real gloves around his neighborhood in Brooklyn. He’s calling the project “The Third Man” (after the movie). Here.

  • Seen On The Streets of Tehran

    Seen On The Streets of Tehran

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    Wooster Collective: One of the most interesting email correspondences we’ve maintained this year is with a group of Iranian graffiti writers living in Tehran. While the communication hasn’t been easy, every time we open an email from A1one we feel like the reason for updating the Wooster site has been re-confirmed to us. The images…

  • HOAX: NRA's Secret Graphic Novel Revealed!

    HOAX: NRA's Secret Graphic Novel Revealed!

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    Wonkette: Let no one accuse the NRA of shirking its duty. Freedom In Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century, is a spectacularly beautiful graphic novel. Here, for example, is one of the biggest threats to the white suburban hunter: dirty hippies and their evil sidekicks: the dynamite-carrying owl, sinister pig, angry Wall…

  • Tilt!

    Tilt!

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    Here’s a painting for my solo at 1988. I gutted an old pachinko machine for a frame. This is pretty big compared to most things I paint. Here.

  • Living galerie > Guillaumit

    Living galerie > Guillaumit

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    A very cool piece of art from Guillaumit, from the blog ArtCade: Guillaumit inaugure notre série d’artistes exposés dans le PS3 Living-Room, avec une toile impressionnante et foisonnante de détails. Difficile de décrire les activités de Guillaumit, tant cet illustrateur-graphiste-vidéaste va dans tous les sens. Alors on le laisse expliquer lui même : “J’ai commencé…

  • 10 artists who’ve had a major impact on today’s “Street Art” landscape

    10 artists who’ve had a major impact on today’s “Street Art” landscape

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    SocialPest: Ok I admit it this is a shameless way to generate traffic, but anyway here’s the SOCIALPEST top 10 list of artists who helped to shape the current “Street Art” landscape. This whole exercise is tongue in cheek so please do not let it wind you up. Here.

  • NeighborWOOD

    NeighborWOOD

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    Juxtapoz: Photos from the opening reception of Mike Burnett’s NeighborWOOD, a custon wooden toy group show, at Compound Gallery in Portland, OR. The show opened on December 7th and runs until December 31st. Here.

  • Last Hurrah for Street Art, as Canvas Goes Condo

    Last Hurrah for Street Art, as Canvas Goes Condo

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    NYT: And Jace, who created a piece on the building’s fifth floor that includes a frighteningly large mousetrap, made of wood and metal and baited with a huge bag of fake money — a clear jab at the development that is about to transform the building — probably won the prize for longest commute. He…