Typically uninspired, promo shwag is getting some extra attention from Tools of the Trade, a San Francisco company focused on making fine art “accessible and interactive for everybody.” Their first community-building venture is “Rollin’ High,” a pot-themed dice game “developed” with graffiti writer and artist Mike Giant. Read more »
This Saturday, a curated selection of urban art from the last 25 years, along with contemporary art, design, photos and toys hit the auction block at Phillips de Pury & Company’s New York sale. Offerings include paintings by graffiti artists from SEEN to Os Gemeos, pop art from Andy Warhol to Jeff Koons, fashion photos and nudie pics by Helmut Newton, Bert Stern and Steve McCurry—he took that famous photo of the Afghan girl. Plus art from Shepard Fairey and Faile. Prices range from a few hundred dollars for a plastic Godzilla to a few thousand for a Campbell’s soup dress to more than $15,000 for a set of signed KAWS prints. ANIMAL assembled some of the best investments from the pop art matrix of offerings below and you can view the full shebang here. Read more »
Unlike Krylon, who doesn’t want to associate with graffiti, longtime tool for vandals, Sharpies, gladly did a signature series for Mike GIANT, longtime writer, tattooer, and artist who once had to put a disclaimer on his website with a link to Shepard’s (people used to confuse OBEY Giant with his moniker). Considering all the black and white styled work GIANT does it makes perfect sense. According to him, it’s a natural fit considering he uses them anyway, telling The World’s Best Ever: “I’ve been drawing with Sharpies almost exclusively since 1990. If someone then had told me that I’d have a Signature Sharpie someday, I would have laughed at them.” |TWBE|
As the fixed phenomena continues to spread like the rage virus, expect more and more media to be dedicated to this micro-subculture. There’s Cog and countless other bike messenger centric, glued-together rags, but issue 1 of Goathedz is more of an artsy fartsy styled zine featuring the increasingly popular single speeds. Graffiti writer and tattooist Mike Giant did the cover for the debut issue. It’s selling on WeSoldOut for $15.55 (damn dollar and that’s with a little bounce back). |SlamxHype|
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