Holton Rower "Painting"

Clever.  Spill paint.  Spill some more.  Get a bunch of people to spill different colors.  Voila, million dollar piece.

please go away MBW

can't believe she got brainwashed. photoshop---image>mode>gray scale----filters>color halftone black-----select inverse>black>delete selection, add new layer>paint brush>paint hair, eyelids, lips----brushes (paint splatter) add texture, done. 

when in doubt, splatter paint.
damn you  post post modernism

Banksy for the poor man

Apparently, original Banksy pieces sell at a starting price of 40k british pounds...or $100k US. But you can get a nice 3-piece on canvastown.com for about $100US

supra dupra

just ordered these on ebay, pure hotness.  move over reebok hightops and pumps, it's been fun

Venice Beach Graffiti

I was out this past weekend catching the sights and sounds of Venice Beach--bodybuilders, potheads, buskers, panhandlers etc. And blatant weed dealers posing as "medical clinics."

I hadn't been out there in a while and to my shock, an Adult Swim piece went over one of my favorite murals.  I stumbled on yet another rupasboy piece pasted over a griffitti-ridden vending machine.  This time, a fish with what appeared to be snail shells as scales, with hearts spewing from its mouth.  A google search on rupasboy yielded very few results, and the only info I could dig up was a MySpace page that hadn't been logged into in over 6 months, zero friends and no pictures.  Rupasboy is apparently from New York and has a penchant for online poker.

Adult Swim

rupasboy

substance80

Interview: Diplo on Dubstep

Interview: Diplo on Dubstep

A few years ago, Diplo put a picture of his passport on the internet, his Angolan visa stapled to it. He went there to collaborate with DJ Znobia and other kuduro producers, putting in the actual work, money and other stuff where his mouth is. This excitable, curious tenacity—local or otherwise—is why we have always loved Diplo. He worked to make sure OG Baltimore club DJs got the attention they deserved, brought baile funk DJs up from Brazil and signed Bondo do Role. Dude did a remix for Gwen Stefani. He’s diverse and insatiable and we have come to expect from him things we did not know. So the prospect of Blow Your Head, Diplo Presents Dubstep had a lot of weird potential to us. What unheralded North Dakotan dubstep had he dug up now? Well, some we already heard. And it was from England (mostly). But that’s cool! We were curious about his deviation in path from the road less traveled to one, you know, like some people already have been on. Not everyone, but it’s definitely not a secret street. He filled us in on the origins of the Mad Decent compilation and his plans for further Blow Your Heads. Buy it now, and download Diplo’s bonus mix, too.

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/category/music/interviewsmusic/#ixzz1D0owSiMo

ruPasboy poster popping up everywhere

Reminiscent of the first generation iPod adverts.  I've seen tags and stickers over the past few months with the name Rupasboy around town.  Saw this poster today on various walls downtown.  Sorry for the bad resolution, took it with my blackberry junk phone

Googled the name, couldn't find anything relevant

Now that's a GOALIE mask

up & coming artist, Vanessa Vaughan

I met Vanessa last summer while visiting San Francisco.  She's a Canadian mixed media and graphic artist who's been featured in Carousel Magazine in 2009: http://www.carouselmagazine.ca/frame_index.html

New Betsy Walton work

http://www.morningcraft.com/

Troy Lovegates Book

I wish I could get my hands on Troy Lovegates' book, "Other".  Released on Anteism in limited numbers...

His work is really starting to grow on me

Know Hope Solo Show in Brooklyn

Israeli street artist Know Hope comes to NYC