RIP KERSE 3A BTM (via Tbone -n- Icepick)
Cool footage of young UK ripper Shaun Currie (via club mumble)
Just what would DJ Spooky do for a Klondike bar (via interview)
From Shok-1 an extensive look at the Public Provocations street art show at this years Art Basel
2F2K homie Katsu taking the artform to new scales
[...]
Entries from June 2009
June 23, 2009
Lovers Of Today 6/23/09
June 19, 2009
Have Mercy Mr. Percy 6/19/09
Judith Supine (via New Image
My web connection is spotty but I will try to keep up. I am slowly going t add more original content to the site in the form of reviews and such so get ready world.
Graffiti legend “IZ THE WIZ” will be missed
“You’d be polite, and pick up, and say ‘Hello’ [...]
June 18, 2009
Table Manners 6/18/09
A few thoughts about last nights panel discussion at Greg Kucera Gallery here in Seattle titled “Blowing up Demographics“.
The topic seemed to be about how moderator Mary Ann Peters felt the art dealers association art show “Century 21 : Dealers choice” was too White Guy centric and really the problem for her was not [...]
June 17, 2009
Butterfly Dreams 6/17/09
Mike Brodie a/k/a Polaroid Kid
“I’m into everything being very clear. I’m not into obtuse. I’m into people working for it, but at the end of the day if somebody wants “it” I want there to be as much as possible for them.” Artist Brendan Fowler discusses his recent book project and where he is going [...]
June 15, 2009
Tierra Amarilla (Mi gente) 6/15/09
Coming back To Where I Started Carlos DZINE Rolon 2009
A look at Dominican arts collective Quintapata . I especially like Jorge Pineda’s work in red ball point. (via c-monster)
“but it’s like I don’t want you to do it for free. So that’s why you get flow, and that shit ain’t free. I had to make [...]
June 12, 2009
summer magic 6/12/09
Chor Boogie
The First Annual C-Monster Venice Biennial Awards. The best roundup of the exposition I’ve read so far.
How Droll. Pharrell, Murakami, and Jacob the Jeweler make some really lame shit for Art Basel and folks are starting to realize just how much they love Cupcakes iced with baby lotion
“Our whole approach was what you might [...]
June 10, 2009
Once Bitten, Twice Shy 6/10/09
Habitual Offeder Greg Lamarche 2005
An interview in images with graff artist CRE (via)
A nostalgic tour of the Crayola Crayon through the last century. For me it’s all about the smell of the paper on the crayons that takes me back to Mrs. Stricklands 1st grade class. (via)
“To me, the job of the artist is to [...]
June 9, 2009
Slipping into Dankness 6/9/09
“The Swimming Cities of Serenissima” Swoon 2009 (via)
It’s time to pack it all in. The NYTimes has an article about the new found respectability of graffiti. Blechhh (via WYW)
“Area others could call “rundown” or dilapidated, were in fact pretty charming. There was visible history on the facades with all their marks from generations of inhabitants. [...]
June 5, 2009
The Charm of Distance 6/5/09
via glob
“The UK is weird. They are more censoring that even the US! The magazines there are really pushing it, they are ahead of the curve, so you would think that they would be more open minded.” A short talk with photographer Richard Kern as prepares for his upcoming NYC show. (via interview)
Wow. I [...]
June 4, 2009
Randomness of Chance 6/4/09
Steal, Quietly, Question Michael Genovese 2008
“I don’t know if it’s sad, pathetic or what, but I don’t think so. I mean, nothing has felt too terribly wrong yet and I generally have a good moral compass—all things considered. I really try not to over-think this shit. Otherwise you just wind up sounding like phenomenologist [...]
