The Watchmen movie has been all the rage lately, especially with Clay Enos’ coffee-table book, “The Watchmen Portraits”. The black and white images are incredibly detailed, catching every wisp of hair, freckle, and glimmer. He has brought pop-culture into it own art form.
I’m a few years late in checking this documentary out, but Next – A Primer on Urban Painting by Pablo Aravena is a great homage to modern street artists. It tells of graffiti going beyond the streets into galleries, and what’s more interesting–street culture in a global context–document of visual expression, politics and history at a primal level. One segment which really stood out was an interview with a Brazilian graffiti artist and his perception that unauthorized graffiti in Brazil wasn’t as persecuted as it is in the US mainly because of the social climate–how the Brazilian authorities have larger crimes to attend to. Art was a source of escape from their daily lives.
Here are a some artists:
-Scrawl Collective: http://www.scrawlcollective.co.uk/
-Pure Evil Gallery: http://www.pureevilclothing.com/
-Faile: http://www.faile.net/site/
-bo130: http://www.bo130.org/
-Fafi: http://www.fafi.net/
-Dalek: http://dalekart.com
-Delta: http://www.deltainc.nl/indexdeltainc.html
-DFace: http://www.dface.co.uk/gallery
-Doppel: http://www.doppel.to/home.html
-Hisashi: http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tenmyoya/
This is a random vector illustration on the phrase “Life on the Edge”. You could view the TEE SHIRT HERE.
This random shot was taken while I was waiting at the San Bruno Bart station, as the San Francisco Airport was close by.
Evidence of a trip to Yerba Buena Gardens in the morning.
I’ve met Idiot the Wise, aka !Inspire! on Flickr, and came across a call for arts towards the Inspire Collective Art Show (to be shown in galleries and on the streets of Tel Aviv). Such a great concept. You could check out the Flickr gallery for the first show here.
Spring is here! Looking forward to warmer weather, when you could eat ice cream at night without getting a wicked chill afterwards.
This photo was shot near the Presidio area in San Fran. It was a wonderfully cloudy day.
Sabertooth Lion Cub is a mixed media project exploring the darker side of art. You can see the initial graphite drawing devoid of color and gradients. There’s a distinct Giger influence, but I took some artistic licensing in the anatomy of the cub. He’s a little vicious, but a cutey.
The Paper Toy Contest sponsored by Giant Robot Magazine and Scion has a fun streetart feel. You could view all the submissions here. The highlighted artist is Shin Tanaka, a graffiti artist specializing in vinyl and paper toys. Thus far, he has participated in about 500 projects worldwide.
