Peat Wollinger’s guide to customizing shoes
Peat Wollinger stencilist extrordinaire has posted a tutorial on customizing shoes… it a good un’!
Open Call: Peel Magazine
PEEL magazine is putting out an open call for artists to send stickers to be included with their limited edition polybagged copies. If you send 500 (1 for each limited edition) you’ll get a free copy of the issue and your stickers will go all over the world.
Be in the next issue’s blackbook: if you [...]
Interview with Elbow Toe
Another great interview over at Gammablog, this time with Elbow Toe. It’s an interesting read, who woulda guessed his pop played pro football!
Streetres Sucks!
A couple weeks back I posted a tongue in cheek thing about Viking getting written up in Chicago time out. Basically, we spend a good deal of time talking shit to each other over IM and I took it out of the IM and put it here. So to all who may read this and [...]
Art Show: Busk at Inoperable Gallery July 20th
This coming Thursday, the 20th, INOPERAbLE will be hosting one of Viennas most notorious Street art/Graffiti Writers. You know you have seen the Busk Monkey Faces, Huge Busk Rollers, Millions of Stickers, and countless Paste Ups all over this and other cities. You will have a chance to buy or at least check out some [...]
Art Show: ART TREK - The 3rd Generation
“ART TREK - The 3rd Generation”
opening August 5th at 18h – Mekanik Strip, St. -Jacobsmarkt 73, Antwerp, Belgium
expo from August 5th until 26th, 2006
This third edition of “Art Trek” will unite the talents of several young artists who have one thing in common: they love to create. Whether it’s by means of drawing, painting or [...]
Mount Virus Zine: By SkyGrandPager
A new zine hot off the presses courtesy of SkyGrandPager. 14 pages- 2 dollars, Color cover black n’ white innards. Email him here to get a handfull of zine-y goodness.
Open Call: Stickup Sticker Show - Philly PA
Philly stalwart Creeper is putting together the 2nd annual Stickup sticker art show at Tattooed Mom, in Philadelphia.
Heres the deal:
If you would like to participate in the show, but aren’t 21 or can’t make it to the opening, drop or mail an envelope containing your stickers off at Minnow with your name, contact info and [...]
Art Show: 9 Lives (Chicago).
9 Lives
OPENS TODAY July 14th, 6-10pm
Featuring:
Anthony Lewellen, Caleb Neelon, Chris Silva, Chucho Rodriguiz, Dan Ezra Lang, Jerry Inscoe, Michael Genovese, Remi Morgan and Thor Alward
PartsUnknown is pleased to showcase the work of nine artists with backgrounds in graffiti. Curated by Chris Silva and featuring artists from Chicago and beyond…
PartsUnknown Gallery
645 West 18th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616
312-492-9058
Gallery [...]
Press Release: Chicago’s Street Art Kingpin - the Viking
Chicago “Post Graffit”-ist and avowed Morrisey fan, The Viking, got a nice write up in Time Out Chicago.
An excerpt from the interview
“up close and in person the Viking is relatively nondescript—five-nine inches tall with red hair… (and a)..DePaul honor student”
and
“The pictures often include cryptic poetic phrases (like “The victim severed his throat so the media [...]
Magazine: Wallspankers #1
Wallspankers has released both a print and pdf version of their very first issue. Check the site and submit submit submit!
Photography: $10 Camera Lightbox
Strobist has a great write up on how to make a fancy $10 photographic lightbox for those fancy photos of smaller things. Looks cool!
Benefit: Miss Rockaway Armada
The Miss Rockaway Armada
The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and is now being built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco and Seattle. The Armada enjoys support from the Holasek-Weir Projects, the Wooster Collective and the Barnstormers art collective, who will donate a [...]
Video:Even More Video Tips
Cnet UK publishes a round up of beginners video techniques that are helpful and may even nudge me into doing something with my painstakingly researched, hastily bought, never used video camera.
Link via Lifehacker