This past weekend was the 24th Annual AM-JAM TATTOO EXPO in Syracuse/Liverpool NY, where Winky Dink Ink’s Bobby Ciffone and Matt Truiano participated in the festivities. It was an impressive convention that I expect to attend every year from now on. So many talented artists from all over set up shop at the Holiday Inn with tattoo enthusiasts mingling and getting tattooed everywhere you turned.
Craft Chemistry is a neat little gallery up the street in little italy, syracuse. Tonight they will be showing ‘beautiful losers’ at 7pm
check out the teaser:
It’s all about what you can do with what you have, and Peter Callesen recently started to mesmerize people with his brilliant paper sculptures. Read More…
Music of the Week: Common “Universal Mind Control”
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Marcus Lewis
Sat Jan 9th, 2010:
Some music is an acquired taste and some you just have no choice but to like because of the beat it lays down.
Personally I have song for everyone and some songs simply to get laughs out of friends and family. I’m not opposed to some (emphasis on some!) country music, love me some good ole caribbean reggae, dancehall music, baltimore club, definitely must have classical music in there too. Lots of R&B as well as old school hip hop and R&B can get the mood right, can’t turn away from pop and recently a little bit of rock. I have to place Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 in their own category and I’m definitely not against some good folk music (going to see The Wiyos in a little over a week).
*The Robot is Pharrell
Today we bring you Common’s Universal Mind Control ft Pharrell. Read More…
Advertisement is key to getting the word out about your business and what better way to place your mark on a billboard or automobile. Now-a-days you see company cars driving around with vinyl stickers advertising their business, or buses driving around in cities with ads plastered across the sides. Looking around the web I found a great ad for the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark.
The concept and artistry creates the illusion of this giant snake squeezing the life out of the bus which would have any pedestrian standing in awe at the site of it.
Created by Packsaddlled Y&R and an artistic director Peder Schack.
This December, Factory Fresh pulls out all the stops as we welcome The London Polic and Galo as they return to New York to celebrate more than a decade in the game.
If you’re going to be in Brooklyn tomorrow I highly recommend stopping by Factory Fresh for an incredible art showing of The London Police and Galo. Factory Fresh is located at 1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker, off the L train Morgan Stop, the art show called “Fresh Geezers” and starts at 7pm sharp. The show will run up until January 10th 2010.
Make some time to get there is you’re around, it should be great! Enjoy
“On one hand urbanscreen is a group of free media artists and architects, dealing with research and development of experimental media installations with the aim to stage urban areas. On the other hand urbanscreen acts as a professional agency which translates the creative potential of this current art form onto the dialogue between commerce and art.” – Urbanscreen on Vimeo
For some reason this Facade Projection project by Urbanscreen had me hooked, I found this video a couple days ago and it kinda left me in a daze, my eyes were locked on and I could not turn away.
This week check out of the collaboration ‘DangerDoom’ which is a collaboration of DJ Dangermouse, and MF Doom. I took interest at first by the masked mouse illustration, and when I started absorbing the smooth old school beat with the clever, sometimes humorous, sometimes too sharp rhymes, and read up on a little bit of the background story driving the cartoonish aesthetics, it was obvious this should be music of the week.
DJ Dangermouse is a producer whom I first heard of when he combined Jay-Z’s ‘Black Album’ with the Beatles ‘White Album’, creating the Grey Album.. which was pretty interesting. He also has worked with Gnarls Barkley, and the Gorillaz who are famous for appearing only as their cartoon character incarnations in videos and even a ridiculously elaborate .
So this collaboration is with one, MF Doom. The ‘Doom’ in his name references supervillain Doctor Doom because of their similar masks. After reportedly going through some hard times he re-emerged on the scene in NY masked.
Image taken from hiptics.com
MF Doom is an underground lyricist with some sharp rhymes, combined with the unexpected beats, and on top of everything for the shroud of mystery. They get my stamp of ‘awesome’ approval.
A few months back cruisin’ around the webs I heard about this sticker place that prints stickers.
Scoping out their website, I discovered a fun project they were doing where you decorate an envelope containing a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope, send it to them, and they send back fun stickers.
So…
Sarah, and I sent them in, and check it out! They put our illustrated envelopes on the flickr stream.
In return they sent us some awesome stickers that we added to our bicycle rack / sticker collection two by six.
(Notice our awesome charlie brown Christmas tree, acquired via the barter system from the Hadzor Forest in exchange for one carton of heavy whipping cream.)
The ‘S.A.S.E Shindig’ has concluded but you can read more about it and see lots of wild mail/envelope art on the sticker robot s.a.s.e. page.
I know Halloween past a month ago, but I was talking to my brother and he told me about this youtube video about some guy making a Transformers costume of Bumblebee. He explained to me when the guy stood up he looked like Bumblebee transformed which is pretty cool, but the amazing part about it was as the guy kneeled down the proper way he looked like a miniature Camaro. I had to see it for myself, so here’s the video.
Next Generation Hoody or Actual Urban Security Suit?
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Marcus Lewis
Mon Nov 23rd, 2009:
I like crazy, I like weird, I like out of the ordinary and as we all know, I like my sweats, hoodies and comfy pants. I also occasionally where my dress sweats out, yes I said dress sweats (if you really knew me you’d understand). So when I came across this article on Dornob.com about Fashion for the End of the World I was intrigued that it was based off of a hoody.
