Eric Haze is an artist and designer who I’ve got a lot of respect for. This video of him from 2006 (part of the Stussy World Tour series), sums up a lot of why. It’s not just that his creative output is iconic, but his entire attitude.
Stussy World Tour – Eric Haze from Stussy on Vimeo.
Via Juxtapoz
Photo courtesy of Haze
Check out this video with Chris Parkinson on the young street art and mural scene in East Timor…
These Walls Can Talk from Chris Phillips on Vimeo.
Photo by Chris Parkinson
I’m baking alive here in Atlanta for Living Walls, but damn things are coming along nicely. Nanook and Gaia have finished a couple of walls, including this one. But Living Walls is a busy event, so I’ve been missing out on a lot this week, including some big news from Banksy. Check all that out here…
Photo by Elbowtoe
Shepard Fairey was just in Oslo working on a mural for the T&J Art Walk event that Faile were working on last week. This wall is in tribute to the victims of the terrorism in Oslo on July 22nd. If you’re in Oslo this month, be sure to check out the rest of the walls being painted for the art walk, as well as the indoor exhibition benefiting Human Rights Watch. All that info on the T&J Art Walk website. Here’s a video of Shepard working on the wall and some photos:
Shepard Fairey OSLO 2011 from T&J Art Walk on Vimeo.
Photos courtesy of T&J Art Walk
Lonac is an artist in Zagreb, Croatia. This is one of his latest pieces, Time Catcher.
Time Catcher from Marin Mimica on Vimeo.
Photo by Lonac
Fans of the late Margaret Kilgallen should definitely watch this video where one of her mentors, book conservator Daniel Flanagan, speaks about Margaret and the work at her recent show at Ratio 3.
Photo by Meighan O’Toole
Barcelona’s Zosen has a new video out called La catástrofe del postmodernismo or The catastrophe of postmodernism. In case you can’t read Spanish, here’s the English version of the John Zerzan quote he’s writing on the walls in this video:
Demoralized, derealized, dehistoricized: art that can no longer take itself seriously. The image no longer refers primarily to some `original’, situated elsewhere in the `real’ world; it increasingly refers only to other images. In this way it reflects how lost we are, how removed from nature, in the ever more mediated world of technological capitalism.
Postmodernism subverts two of the over-arching tenets of Enlightenment humanism: the power of language to shape the world and the power of consciousness to shape a self. Thus we have the postmodernist void, the general notion that the yearning for emancipation and freedom promised by humanist principles of subjectivity cannot be satisfied. Pm views the self as a linguistic convention; as William Burroughs put it, “Your `I’ is a completely illusory concept.”
And here’s the video:
intervención ZOSEN BANDIDO from TV, Espacio expositivo on Vimeo.
Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression is a long-awaited film about the people who go out on their own and without permission to paint over graffiti. Check out the trailer:
“Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression” Official Trailer from max good on Vimeo.
Vigilante Vigilante is going to have it’s first public screening on August 12th. The film is premiering at the Roxie Theater in San Fransisco. You can get tickets online. Personally, I can’t wait for a screening in Philadelphia. If anyone makes it to the San Fransisco screening, let me know how it is.
Check out more about the film on the Vigilante Vigilante website.
Photo courtesy of Vigilante Vigilante
A day late, but here’s the link-o-rama. Let’s just say it feels like I’ve been competing, exactly one year on, with Ben Eine for the title of having had the strangest week. Here’s what I’ve missed:
Photo by Sabeth718
Check out this video with a trio of top Australians: Kid Zoom, Meggs and Anthony Lister. It was filmed recently in South London thanks to Very Nearly Almost and It Drew Itself. Damn the Kid Zoom piece is nice.
MEGGSxLISTERxKID-ZOOM from itdrewitself on Vimeo.
