These are two clips featuring renowned tattoo artist Mister Cartoon and photographer Estevan Oriol from Upper Playground’s documentary The Run Up (2009), which is a follow up to their Dithers (2004) documentary. In these two clips, Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol talk about their craft and they give us a glimpse into their world. Bonus video two is of Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol on Snoop’s video podcast GGN show, from mid 2013. Walrus TV Artist Feature: Mister Cartoon Walrus TV Artist Feature: …
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Six artists (Jonathan Meese, Bill Viola, Leigh Ledare, Elina Brotherus, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist) talk about decisive moments in their life and work. Art is expression, the concrete, social, imaginary, fantastic, and the gray areas of life. Louisiana Channel interviewed these artists getting them to discuss the events that influenced them in making choice of living the Artist’s life, and the influences on the kind of art that they make. Here are the individual full interviews of the six artists featured in the video below …
From left to right, Cuban artist Erik Ravelo addresses pedophilia in the Vatican, sexual child abuse and tourism in Thailand, war in Syria, the trafficking of children’s organs on the black market, the death of children by guns in the U.S. and obesity fueled by big fast food companies. Shit look crazy. According to Huffington Post, the photos got banned from Facebook. …
Spanish photojournalist Christina De Middel‘s “Afronauts” is a series of beautiful images that quickly descend into a social commentary on the evolution of the continent of Africa. File Magazine quoted her saying, “The images are beautiful and the story is pleasant at a first level, but it is built on the fact that nobody believes that Africa will ever reach the moon. It hides a very subtle critique to our position towards the whole continent and our prejudices.” via File Mag …
At a time when the Cold War bred paranoia, the Vietnam War was ending, Nixon was resigning, and America’s imagination was walking on zero gravity after landing on the moon, artists Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel were subverting conventional ideas and pulling futuristic stunts that would echo well into the new millennium. From 1973 to 1990, under the moniker Clatworthy Colorvues, the duo plastered their designs on billboards in San Francisco, using the entire space to function as a window into what …
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