Here’s the “explicit” music video short Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win directed by Spike Jonze, written by Adam Yauch, reminiscent of Inception, Thunderbirds and Team America and featuring little plastic Beastie Boys. Read more »
No one knows why the 57-year-old Frenchman spray-painted two “sitting duck” Poussin works — Holy Grail conspiracy? — but London’s National Museum Gallery is being encouraged to charge admission/beef up security.
Pretty ladies and their prominently featured breasts starred in this video calling all “young, smart, beautiful women” to “rip it up” for Putin: “What are you ready to do for your president?” Aside from the sexism-lite, there’s one problem… Putin isn’t the president. Read more »
Parting Shot
Graffiti writers SEN2 and EWOK get festive and partially aquatic in Brooklyn. (Photo: Luna Park/Flickr)
For reasons we’ll never be able to comprehend, people willingly stand on obnoxiously long lines everyday to eat at the original Shake Shack, a popular hamburger joint in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. Read more »
So That’s Why Graffiti Artists Write Their Name
According to the New York Times, graffiti is spreading all across the Untied States, in cities big and small. But why? Marcia Dennis, who heads Portland’s highly ineffective anti-graffiti efforts, thinks she has the answer: “The rush is addictive, and these guys don’t quit. They all think they’re going to end up being fabulously wealthy graffiti artists like Marc Ecko or Banksy or Shepard Fairey.” Well, at least she got the first bit right. (Photo: Terry Frederic/flickr)
Toronto’s Show and Tell Gallery wants to spread shape-n-letter joy and “cross-pollinate” the effect of DALEK’s (James Marshall) vibrant, linear abstractions with SP ONE’s (Greg Lamarche) typographic, cut-out collages. It’s double the fun, full of “robust colours” and very ooooo. “Geometric Balance,” James Marshall and Greg Lamarche, Jul 22 – Aug 31, Show and Tell Gallery, Toronto
Many of NYC’s various agencies aren’t so keen on answering Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, even though they’re required to so by law reports amNY. Not surprisingly, the NYPD was the most likely to outright ignore the paper’s correspondences or instead, would point them to outdated information on their website. Read more »
Victoria B.C.-based artist Laura Bifano paints furry forest beasts, sea-critters and insects as “pixelated” forms. Still cute though, lest you imagine the pure horror of a creature like that IRL, stumbling towards you on its blocky feet, blinking square eyeballs and drooling cubic drool… The artist is right in the middle of dropping one original print a day on her Etsy shop.
Here’s the Klan’s signature cowardly dunce-cap updated with McDonalds brand imagery stitching. Double disgusting! Designer Erik Bergin baits controversy with a series of shamefully stigmatized headdresses, remixed. The one textured with cigarette butts puckers out, resembling the Pope’s pointy hat. Also available in a “thug life” theme and in form of a sort of nail-ridden birdhouse hat thing. Fashion!
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