Walmart recently hijacked a popular image from California based artist Eddie Colla and have been selling it on their online store. To add insult to injury, they call it “Art Wall Banksy ‘Asking for Permission’ Canvas Wall Art.” In response, and in an effort to reclaim his image, Colla started a 1xRun campaign with the same image, but remixed. The 18 x 24 inch 3-color screen print is on 100 lbs Cougar fine art paper. Each print comes signed and …
Author: Tracy Jones
Yi-Shiang Yang is a painter out of Keelung, Taiwan. The texture in her eerie paintings give them a creeping pulse. The light colors and subtle details speak to a fleeting innocence eclipsed by time and observation. According to Empty Kingdom, she’s a left-handed painter illustrating “personal themes of exploration and nostalgia.” …
Record/Play is a sci-fi love story described as “war, fate, and a broken Walkman transcend time and space.” It’s a short feature full of spaced out emotional beats and not much dialogue besides a woman’s voice from Bosnia 2-10-1993. The first frame tightly wraps around old cassette tapes with handwritten labels: Venezuela 4-14-86, Cameroon 1987, Portugal 8-14-87…cut to a small suite case full of cassette tapes on a dinner table. A man studies the Bosnia tape before putting it into …
Pharrell William’s single “Happy” first appeared on this year’s Despicable Me 2 soundtrack. Homie’s been cranking out bangers like Robin Thicke’s disco delight “Blurred Lines” and his collaborative effort with Daft Punk “Get Lucky.” About the jams, in a GQ profile he said, “There’s a lot of fucked-up travesty in the world. Sometimes you just need a Hallmark card.” His “Happy” video is literally 24 hours long. It’s the same song looped over ill choreographed dance scenes, celebrity appearances and the …
Brooklyn Street Art founder and notable photographer Jamie Rojo recently got arrested over mistaken identity at the sight of Banksy’s presumably last stunt (a throw up in actual bubble letters). Street artist Space Invader also got cuffed in New York City earlier last month. Strange timing. Rojo posted some fresh Swoon flicks. In his new Images Of The Week, besides Swoon, Rojo included shots of Banksy’s last stunt from his October Better Out Than In NYC artist residency. Read about …
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