They say he plays the banjo & drinks whisky. The illustrator Stevie Gee has a solo show entitled ‘Vengence is Coming’ over at Jaguarshoes 32-34 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2 8DA. It’s up for six weeks, so if you’re in the neighborhood, you can pop in and see the custom bike paint jobs by Death Spray Custom, prints, tomahawks, screen prints, T’s, etc.
See more images from the show here.
I’m a couple of years late on this but… once upon a time there was an exhibition of lasered skateboard art. The exhibition allowed a select group of global artists to explore the idea of lasering away at seven layers of ply, in order to make their mark on skateboard decks. Only 50 will be produced per artist. Those 50 are available through the Refill 7 Shop.
For old school value, my personal fave is Mark Drew’s design, although at 500 australian dollars a pop it seems a bit pricey for me (although, in all honesty I have no idea of the value of the australian dollar. That might be cheap. I’m just too lazy to find out.)
See more images on Flickr.
No need for facts. All I know about the artist Genta Kosumi is that he was born in 1974 in Osaka, Japan and his artwork is colorful, bizarre and, above all, amazing. Check out his work at Cosmo Head Anno.
I’ve never wanted sculpture more. Frank Plant is a Barcelona based American sculptor who creates “drawings in steel. These are simple and direct studies of the forms and compositions of everyday objects.” I’m loving his recent Kalashnikov rifle piece, but my heart belongs to his heart. He’s one of the artists that I really, really, really want some work from, but know it’ll cost more than I can ever afford. Just like José Parlá, he’s now on my “Things I’d Buy If I Won the Lottery” list.
See more work by Frank Plant.
Beautiful photography in horrible circumstances. I’ve been admiring the work of photographer Fazal Sheikh. Most often his work has been with displaced people driven out of their homelands by civil wars, drought and famine, struggling to survive for years in refugee camps where the traditional balance of their lives has been entirely destroyed. He has worked in camps in Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania, where people fleeing conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique and Rwanda were gathered.
It’s easy to become desensitized to the images of refugee camps that you’re presented with via the news media, but the images in Fazal Sheikh’s photographic series’ such as A Camel for The Son are hauntingly beautiful considering their tragic subject matter.
See more work by Fazal Sheikh.
‘Obsessions Make My Life Worse & My Work Better.’ In 2001 Sagmeister embarked on an ongoing project based on sentences from his diaries. For the typography he used a great variety of materials and sites, writing three-dimensionally on objects and surfaces. His latest piece is ‘Obsessions make my Life Worse and my Work Better’, an elaborate design that consists of 300.000 Euro cent coins on a large square.
See the latest piece via this Flickr set, then find out more at http://sagmeister.com/urbanplay/
Graffiti: A Whodunnit Story. Last summer, whilst wandering around Italy, I took this photo. Some people take holiday snaps of the tourist attractions; I take photos of the cities’ graffiti.
I often wonder about the anonymous artists behind the work I photograph, so it was quite amusing to see the photo accompanying an article on Wooster Collective about the jerm IX tattoo project, which led me to this Flickr photo, which in turn led me to the artist, Microbo.
There’s no real point to this post. I was just amused by how the internet can help you make connections that you might never make without it. Ain’t the internet grand?
Art of the New Depression. I’ve always loved Todd Hido’s sublime and atmospheric photography (especially his ‘Homes at Night’ series), and he doesn’t disappoint with his timely ‘Foreclosed Homes’ series. The images of the creepily silent and empty interiors of recently foreclosed homes, give off a disturbingly sinister vibe. The ‘Forclosed Homes’ series can be found under ‘Interiors’ on his website.
See more work by Todd Hido.
