Year: 2009

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BrewDog’s Equity for Punks

As of November 1st, BrewDog is the beer sponsor of The Thousands. They will be providing everybody at the opening with plenty of great beer. Otherwise my plan was to buy a bunch of cheap beer and put up a donation bucket, so I’m very thankful I won’t have to resort to that. Since BrewDog is majorly helping out me with The Thousands, it’s only right that I repay the favor.

BrewDog is a different kind of brewery. They’re independent, and they do things like brew an 18.2% beer and then make a 1.1% beer when people get mad at them. One of their latest projects is Equity for Punks. At Equity for Punks, BrewDog is looking for 10,000 investors to invest £230 each to own a piece of the brewery.

Here’s their video pitch:

Equity for Punks from BrewDog on Vimeo.

And here’s BrewDog talking about Equity for Punks on the BBC:

Equity for Punks is an opportunity for people to support something they love. If you like beer and you like the environment, then why not invest in an environmentally friendly brewery which is only two years old and growing quickly?

Here are the benefits of investing (from the BrewDog blog):

Benefits of Being a BrewDog Shareholder:

· Full Dividend Entitlement, equal to that of existing shareholders

· 20% Lifetime online shop discount

· Owning your very own part of BrewDog

· Owning part of our awesome new energy self sufficient brewery

· Owning part of our new BrewPub in Aberdeen and subsequent BrewPubs

· Sell and trade your shares on www.equityforpunks.com or at a potential later listing

· Share in our future growth

· Having your say in how the company is run and vote on key decisions online

· Being able to buy your own beer in shops and bars

· Literally become richer with every BrewDog beer you drink

Oh yeah, did I mention the 20% lifetime discount? Not bad.

To learn more, check out Equityforpunks.com

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Street art in the gallery

Mark Holsworth is apparently a much more eloquent writer than I am. On his blog, he makes some great points about why the misconception that street art cannot be brought into a gallery is just that: a misconception.

Here’s my favorite point:

Walking through W.E. Kennick’s imaginary warehouse of all the objects in the world and trying to pick out the art you may be confused by Duchamp’s readymades but not by the street art. (Kennick, Journal of Philosophy, v.81) Street art is designed to appear as art without the museum, you would know that it is art anywhere.

Read the rest of the article (and please, do read it, it’s great) at Melbourne Art & Culture Critic

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Alexandros Vasmoulakis

Some great news from Gallery Nosco:

We are pleased to announce
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Private View: Friday 13th November from 6 to 8pm.
EXHIBITION OPEN: Saturday 14th November – 25th November 2009,
From 10am – 6pm.
133-137 Westbourne Grove, W11 2RS, London

Artists:
 Naomi Doran, Dran and Alexandros Vasmoulakis

The work that Dran had at Pure Evil Gallery earlier this year were exciting, so I’m glad to see him back in London. And while I usually don’t like Alexandros Vasmoulakis’s work, it should be nice to see him come to London and maybe he will surprise me.

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MNMNT Snowboards

I might actually buy one of these. MNMNT Snowboards makes snowboards (duh) with great artwork. Snowboarding is pretty much the highlight of my winters, but it can be nearly impossible to get a board with cool artwork. MNMNT might just be changing that.

Welcome to the 2009-10 MNMNT Snowboard collection. Each season Creative Director, Christopher Glancy curates an ever-growing pedigree of artists to create site-specific art and deliver the highest quality product on the market.

Turning our back to momentary trends, vapid graphic design and company branding, we focus on the visual impact and technical superiority of our boards. Our dedication to provide premium products drives us to search for new and unique approaches to enhance riders’ snowboard lifestyles worldwide.

Started in 2001, based on a collective of Mid-Atlantic artists, Monument Snowboards was started and driven by art.  Providing unique products to riders.  Today, that collective is worldwide, with many artists across the globe contributing to our vision.

Here are two of my favorite boards:

The 777 by Richard Colman
The 777 by Richard Colman
Memento Mori by Kelsey Brookes

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Nike/Livestrong Stages hits NYC

Yesterday was the opening of the New York City leg of the Nike/Livestrong Stages exhibition which also had a stop in France. While some of the work was the same, there were some new artists in this show like Os Gêmeos. Arrested Motion was there and took plenty of photos.

Os G
Os Gêmeos
Jose
José Parlá

The lineup for stages is full of some of the best artists in the world. José and Rosson Crow are two of my favorite artists who aren’t “street artists.”

Rosson
Rosson Crow
Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey

Photos from Arrested Motion. AM also has a bunch more photos from the show including artwork from Kaws, Futura and JR.

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Nomad at Circleculture

Nomad

Last night was the opening of Nomad’s first solo exhibition over at The Circleculture Gallery in Berlin:

The Circleculture Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition featuring the artist Nomad. As an original street artist, he developed his expressional variants conceptually and technically through interactive projects in interior and exterior spaces: combining writing and street art with poetry and classical painting. In this context, we become acquainted with Nomad’s “street art” in the gallery as part of a holistic work of art. The works shown move between humour, satire and human drama. At the centre is the clown or fool, who mirrors the ambiguity of human existence.

In his works Nomad connects his sensitive artistic side with the ornamental style of his street art and the graphic with the sketchy. There are clearly influences from classical painting, in particular from the Renaissance period. As a result, Nomad’s painting does not aim to be complete – it is a inventory of the here and now that adapts social reality and processes it multidimensionally. It retains the ease and aesthetic of his freely improvised work on the street.

The works exhibited by Nomad move to and between humorous ease and deep emotionality. Tragedy, love and emotion come up against humour, laissez-faire and improvisation. As a result, he uses on the one hand marker aesthetics in the form of lines, which express the human need for order. On the other hand, he lends his artworks an artistic component with coloured and sketchy elements, which symbolise the chaos of existence. The message is one of self-irony and a positive worldview, which are meant to encourage the observer to think.

Nomad is invited regularly to street art festivals, exhibitions and performances. He counts among the most enduring street artists in Berlin and the world. In the last six years he has painted 2000 to 2500 rubbish objects, which were quickly snapped up off the street by passionate collectors. In the summer of 2009 Nomad worked with American actor Ashton Kutcher to paint the roof of Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The large-scale art campaign received international attention.

“Everything I do is based on spontaneity. My art arises locally and on the spot. On the street I have learnt to adapt, to merge existing reality into my art.” – Nomad

Nomad

Nomad