Book: How to Make Books

Esther K. Smith and Purgatory Pie Press (Support your local small press!) have just put out How to Make Books. It’s a DIY book on book making. I haven’t got a copy yet so I can’t say how it is but the site overall looks like it could be a good resource for artists looking [...]

How to: Rik Catlow’s Smashed Can Art

I was reading drawn today and they alerted me to the fact that StreetRes homie, Rik Catlow gives up the secrets to how he does his smashed can art.

Bookmark this for future reference kiddies!

Peat Wollinger’s guide to customizing shoes

Peat Wollinger stencilist extrordinaire has posted a tutorial on customizing shoes… it a good un’!

Art Show: The D-Nice Black and White Photography Exhibition June 14th NYC

Former DJ for BDP and current photographer D-Nice is having a photography show. His photography is really something else and I’m making a point of going. There’s going to be a slice of hip hop history documented I’d wager.
Wednesday June 14th
B-E-D Gallery
530 W. 27th Street
Doors open at 8
RSVP: rsvp@d-nice.com

Photography: Digital Photography School

Digital Photography School has a shitload of great articles on how to improve your photos. Read up!

Resources: No Media Kings

I was browsing lifehacker yesterday when I came across a posting about silkscreening from No Media Kings. I was planning to post that article but then I started checking out other posts and its a veritable cornucopia (I love using that phrase) of information on DIY publishing & printing as well. So by all [...]

How To: Wheat Paste Recipe #2 by olive47

So it’s Easter weekend, and I had a paste project for the neighborhood all planned out for the holiday. I got my biggest piece up early in the evening, and grabbed a friend to ride with me for the rest of my evening.. Surprise, surprise.. he kicked half a bucket of paste over in the [...]

DIY Roundup: Wheat Paste and Stickers

One of the most viewed posts is one of the very first ones I ever put up here on streetres. It’s the Recipe for Wheatpaste #1. Now the comments section has tons of people who are asking for more info. So here’s a little more info for everyone.

Wheatpaste:
Follow Recipe for Wheatpaste #1 for intsructions [...]

Everystockphoto.com

Everystockphoto.com aggregates stock photos from sites with photos using the creative commons. Grab a new pic for your latest stencil or whatever. I wonder how long it will take for a company to use a cc photo of a swoon piece (for instance) for an ad though.

How To: Flash

Gotoandlearn is a site that has tutorials on doing stuff in newer verisons of Flash that could aid and a bet your site/animation/video making projects.
Link from Lifehacker

NYC: Free Seminars on Web and Design Programs

In searching for places to help me increase my crushing web presence, Noble Design is offering Free Seminars in NYC. They only really teach you how to use Dreamweaver to build websites, but hey, its a start if you don’t know. The first one’s always free, they’re trying to get you to sign up for [...]

Zines: Fecal Face Presents the One Shot Zine

Fecal Face drops another cool tutorial on the throngs.
Fecal Pal, Mimi shows us all how to make a One Shot Zine with just a regular piece of paper and an exacto knife (we’ll you’ll probably need something to put in the mag too).
Very clever!

Printing: Silk Screen Tutorials

Here’s a pretty in depth tutorial on silkscreening from scratch at Barry’s Farm And here’s a forum where we can ask all our n00b questions Craftster Forums

Video: More Video Tips

Video Shooting Tips from the good people at U.C Berkeley’s Journalism School. It’s got lots on really basic information on video techniques such as Sit Down Interviews and more.

Video: Video production on a budget

Joren Clark is a dude who’s got some good info on video making on the cheap. Stuff like Inexpensive Video Lights, and Micro Budget Sound make this a good resource for people starting out making videos.

Rockaway Art

Normally, I dont hype artist’s personal websites or stores but this is an exception. Rockaway Art is live with works by Flying Fortress, Dave The Chimp and Senor B! Peep the sickness within…

Video: The Film Look: It’s Not Just Jerky Motion…

On sites like ekosystem, there’s a new rash of postings showing video of street artists in action. If you’re interested in that sort of documentation, the BBC’s published this whitepaper on getting that “film look” in your video.
Enjoy!

Art Show: Re-vision

Photographer Christopher Pierietti has been taking photos on NYC artists for years. He’s finally assemlbed all of his photos into a new book called, Re:Vision.

The re:vision project was started by New York based photographer Chris Pieretti to showcase the various talents in the city. From clothing designer to street artist or musician to skateboarder, Pieretti [...]

Screenprinting with Faile.

A pictoral play-by-play on screenprinting with Faile.

Art Show: Portland Zine Symposium

The zine lives on and there’s a good looking symposium in Portland, Or August 5-7th

— keep looking »