Just discovered Mexican artist Kidghe, homie is nasty. Multi mediums combine to produce these super abstract, architectural, and graffiti wildstyle images. Their chaotic motion is suspended and in pieces, but they’re not collapsing just expanding like pulling a radio antenna or an exploding ship in space. They could go forever inward and out. Peep his newest murals below along with some styles on paper. via Graffuturism …
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Street artist Swoon (aka Caledonia Curry) has recently been vocal about her childhood and dealing with her mother’s drug addiction. In the video below Swoon talks about her parents and growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her talk took place in 2013 at the Feast Conference. She also wrote a compelling opinion piece for CNN. At the beginning she describes a scene where her mother tried to commit suicide with a shot gun, but was afraid of pulling the trigger. Unfortunately her mother …
Just found out about Arthur Chu and his current success on Jeopardy. Besides being an insurance agent, according to his website, he’s also a voiceover artist. I dug a little deeper on the web and found a clip of him doing standup at the Cleveland Improv (he just took down the video from his youtube channel). If you are able to see this clip, you can see his over confidence come out in this comedic performance, something folks on the Internet have …
Okayplayer just posted, “Rottweiler Choir” a poem by the great poet Saul Williams, written for Amiri Baraka’s funeral. Williams performed it at the funeral in honor of a soldier that remains unbreakable, not passed, but transformed…in a perpetual state of forever. Read below. This NGH died for something.i I don’t go for old age. I don’t go for disease. I say murder. Which poets die of natural causes? Which poems kill? I saw the rifles pointed. Jesse Jackson with that blood on …
Legendary genre bending musician PJ Harvey guest edits BBC 4 Radio. Today’s edition features Julian Assange, Ralph Fiennes, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and Shaker Aamer, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Harvey said that she’d only get involved under the condition that her contributors would not be edited without their consent. Toward the beginning of the broadcast she said, “I saw it as an opportunity to try and do something unusual with the format and the content of the …
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