It happened when the artist left a Copenhagen nightclub that was hosting the after party for his newly opened gallery exhibit, Your Ad Here, last weekend. The 41-year-old designer and a friend were reportedly “punched and kneed” by three “left wing anarchists,” leaving him with a “black eye and a bruised rib” (and ego), according to a lengthy statement on his website about the incident that was first reported by the Guardian. Read more »
Graffiti on a brick wall in Brooklyn offers an alternative to the Free Hugs Campaign. (Photo: Hey Camera Girl/Flickr)
Here’s an 8-bit Indiana Jones on a quest through the 8-bit sands of Dali’s Persistence of Memory, admiring a droopy clock. There’s The Secret of Monkey Island crossing over with Van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace on the Place Du Forum, its post-Impressionist swirls translating nicely as vintage digital grains. Designer Aled Lewis made these brand new mash-ups special for the freshly opened “SUPER iam8bit” group show in Echo Park, featuring the work of 100 artists and the world’s largest “arcade cabinet.” Bit art is the new Pointilism? “SUPER iam8bit,” Group Show, Aug 11 – Sep 10, iam8bit HQ, Los Angeles
Tupac lives… in this painterly rendering, for his upcoming 15-year death anniversary. Artist Tim O’Brien has previously terrorized the internet with an IRL Charlie Brown and gleefully crossed out Bin Laden for the TIME cover. This one’s loving though, with the artist carefully structuring Tupac’s “jolly” face with pre-elderly pores and ridges with just “the slightest hint of anxiety” and dressing him in understated, “in cognito” garb. O’Brien imagines that “he lived a decent life, not eating himself into oblivion.” Someone paint fat Tupac.
Check out Marko Manev’s simplified superheroes, here to geek out old timers into pre-blockbuster, pre-Broadway, untainted comic book nostalgia and to remind us of the greatest super power of them all… branding. We’ve been on a minimalist pop culture kick since mini-muppets and have resisted too long. Oh look, pictogram movie poster maker Viktor Hertz made Eminem’s “Drug Ballad” minimal too! Ahhh. Must. Stop. Can’t. Stop. Hammertime.
Back when the Soviet superiors were fiercely censoring everything fun, people got crafty, especially those with a friend who could swipe some X-rays from a hospital. They would use the loot to make copies of black market Elvis in the middle of the night, lest they get caught and thrown out of school or fired from their jobs. The risk was worth that coveted Heartbreak Hotel ribcage. Read more »
Rep. Peter King (R-NY), a congressman with known ties to the Irish Republican Army, wants to investigate President Obama, the commander in chief of all U.S. Armed Forces, for allegedly leaking classified details about the daring raid that took out Osama bin Laden to Sony Pictures who’s making a movie about it. Read more »
Someone stole an expensive KAWS painting that was hanging in the hallways of Marc Ecko’s offices. The thief signed in as “Nat Heller,” entered the security code to get to the second floor, smashed the fiberglass, rolled up the work into a tube and took off on 23rd street, but not before getting snapped by the elevator camera with loot in hand.
President Obama swooped into NYC on Thursday to get money from Harvey Weinstein’s rich friends, but we obviously don’t have video of the event that people paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend. But, here he is getting off Air Force One and then later getting back on it.
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