Shepard Fairey + Kenny Scharf to appear in THE SIMPSONS
Wow, not sure what it means to be on The Simpsons as a cameo but I imagine it's got to be pretty fuckin' cool! The seminal Matt Groening animated sitcom celebrated its landmark 500th episode last night. In the wake of this news, the Hollywood Reporter learns that some famous graffiti artists – some of whom we’ve covered in these pages – will be joining the cast for the March 4 episode.
The episode is called “Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart,” an obvious homage to Banksy’s Oscar-nominated film from 2010 (Exit Through the Gift Shop), and focuses on Bart’s newfound fascination with street art. Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Ron English, and Robbie Conal all cameo as the crew who busts Bart and Milhouse in the act of vandalism.
In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer’s unflattering image all over Springfield. But one night, Bart and Milhouse get caught in the act by established street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal (guest voicing as themselves), and to Bart’s surprise, they invite him to exhibit his satirical artwork in his very own gallery show.
Shepard Fairey wrote the following on his website:
The Simpsons has been one of my favorite shows since the early 90′s. When I was running my screen printing studio in Providence R.I. my crew and I lead a Spartan existence consisting of long hours and a seven day work week. Our only recreational indulgence ritual was to stop work early Sunday evenings to eat dinner together while watching the Simpsons. I’ve always loved the Simpsons blend of humor and social commentary, so it is a huge honor for me to appear as a guest character on the March 4th episode.
Via: Bowery Boogie
ain't that the truth?
"My sculptures are connected directly to my lifestyle and my position as an artist within gay culture and within the punk movement. My sculptures are a public diary, where I represent the way I live, and the people that I have met at some moment of my life"-Fernando Carpaneda
BOOK
Autobiography
Fernando Carpaneda
"PISS IN THE FACE
OF CONVENTION!
A life of paint,
sex and rock `n` roll"
the art of
fernando carpaneda
Brazilian born sculptor Fernando Carpandeda, based in NYC, is one of the first Brazilian visual artists to divulge and exhibit systematically homoerotic works. What amazed me is that each man has own its charactor with highly detailed work (make-up, hair, tattoo, outfits...etc) from a mixture of gay art with the punk movement and street culture he discribes as underground scene, which are somehow attractive subject to me. His miniature men are photogenic in all angles to look from. Fernando is a talented artist who is not afraid of challenging the boundaries of artistic practice and confronting viewers with the issues of stigma and division in modern society. source
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Code Sex Money Lies Power & Fame
In an attempt for a small startup to
grab undeserved worldwide attention
Web 2.0
Starring Ashton Kutcher as
Ashton Kutcher
John Goodman as a skinny
Michael Arrington
Gwyneth Paltrow as
Marissa Mayer
Launching is hard...
...Hacking for attention...
... is even harder!!!
ollywood?
This looks like a movie poster but it’s actually
a really freaking cool blog platform
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The Mac guy as Milk drinking
Kevin Rose
Philip Seymour Hoffman as
Scoble
Don Draper as
Jack Dorsey
Michael Ian Black as
Evan Williams
Howie Mandel as
Mark Andreessen
Will Ferrel as Hollywood Killer
Paul Graham
Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet as
Reid Hoffman
Ian McKellen as
Tim O'Reilly
Owen Wilson as
Matt Mullenweg
William Shatner as
Ron Conway
Michael Cera as the guy that played
Mark Zuckerberg
Megan Fox as
Alexia Tsotsis
showing himself with his signature tagging tool -fire extinguisher
KIDULT
THE TAGGER
the tagger
NY, PARIS
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A kidult is a "grown-up" person who enjoys being a part of youth culture and doing things that are usually thought as more suitable for children
KIDULT recently attacked the Supreme's ad of Kate Moss - Feb 2012
KIDULT tagged Supreme's store front NYC -May 2011
the past tagging BY KIDULt
KIDULT x Christian Louboutin
KIDULT x Louis Vuitton
KIDULT x HERMES PARIS
KIDULT x KENZO
KIDULT x Christian Dior
KIDULT x Agnes B
KIDULT video 'ILLEGALWORLD"
I've been trying to avoid the KIDULT topic, because he is already very famous from super-tagging some of the most famous label shop windows around the globe, and instantly getting the video on the web. And on top of that, I have a tendency to avoid giving more attention to the obvious attention seeker. Do I love it or hate it? my answer is "I don't know". But I've been noticing that as an ex- fashion designer, I no longer have any urge to consume products from those fashion brand empires, like the stores that were attacked by KIDULT ( see below). I'd rather consume products made locally to me in the USA: small production runs with an eco-conscious strategy and cruelty free. Some people think that Capitalism faces collapse on a global scale and I'm not so sure about that. But what's obvious to me is that it doesn't work as we once hoped in 80's.
KIDULT reminds us what direct action graffiti is about : protest and expressing yourself in a creative way, even if for most people its vandalism…
original Supreme's ad
for more: Kidult's interview by highsnobiety- July 2011
EVOL
STREET ART
EVOL is a berlin based street artist that transforms banal urban surfaces, into miniature architectural surfaces through pasting. using pasted paper, EVOL transforms electric boxes, small planters and other geometric city forms, into miniature apartment buildings and other structures. each piece of paper is
printed with a repetitive pattern of flat gray walls dotted with plain window frames. once applied to a surface, the paper transforms the form into small building that EVOL often adorns with small
characters. EVOL performs this process within different cities and has even been commissioned to do installations in galleries, where he was created entire blocks of miniature buildings.
source: designboom.com
ARTIST WEB SITE: www. EVOTASTE.com
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
Ordinary people.
The courage to say no.
