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G40 Art Summit - Richmond, VA Mural recap by RVA Magazine

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:42:00 GMT

UPDATE : Several new murals were completed in the final days to bring the total completed works up to 23. All we can say is WOW! These guys were working. We have updated the Official G40 Mural List, so you can check them all out and see how massive these pieces are in person. Real quick, thank you to all the incredible artists that made this possible - Aryz, Pixel Pancho, Roa, Scribe, Angry Woebots, 2501, Jaz, Lelo, La Pandilla, and Gaia. Also, thanks to Shane and the Art Whino team for bringing the G40 to Richmond.

PIXEL PANCHO

Tiki Bobs Cantina, 119 N. 18th Street

9 W. Grace Street
p: Todd Raviotta

1809 E. Main Street
p: Marc Schimdt

1202 N. Hull Street
p: Marc Schimdt

ARYZ

TecHead, 117 N. 17TH Street
p: Marc Schimdt

Across from Bellytimber, 1506 West Main Street
p: Marc Schimdt

ROA

Bellytimber, 1501 W. Main Street
p: Marc Schimdt

Have A Nice Day Cafe, 11 S 18th Street
p: Marc Schimdt

JAZ

212 W Broad Street
p: Marc Schimdt

Nile Ethiopian Restaurant, 309 North Laurel Street
p: Marc Schimdt

Across from FW Sullivans, 2402 West Main Street
p: Todd Raviotta

LELO

414 W Broad Street
p: Marc Schimdt

Empress, 2043 W. Broad Street
p: Marc Schimdt

1711 E Main Street
p: Marc Schimdt

LA PANDILLA

17 West Marshall Street
p: Parker

GAIA

11 W Grace Street
p: Marc Cheatham

ANGRY WOEBOTS

311 W Broad Street
p: Tony

Tiki Bobs Cantina, 11 S 18th Street
p: Parker

2501

Have A Nice Day Cafe, 11 S 18th Street
p: Parker

Plaza Art, 927 West Grace Street
DETAIL
p: Parker

Have A Nice Day Cafe, 11 S 18th Street
p: Parker

SCRIBE

315 W Broad Street
p: Marc Schimdt

117 W. Clay Street near Abner Park

More G40 Stuff happening this weekend.
Thank You for everyone who came out and made the opening such an awesome experience! If you missed out the opening or didn't see all the exhibits there will be events every weekend and the closing next Art Walk which is May 4th - Art Whino.

Exhibit Hours in all locations
Saturday and Sunday
11am-6pm

Friday April 13th
G40 Video Art Party
Music and Video By
DJs Adrian Loving and John Bowen (Video Killers)
Hosted by Gallery 5
Event info here
8pm-Midnight
Free

Saturday April 14th
The Illest Ingredient Dance Competition
bboy/bgirl Battle 1 vs. 1
allstyles Battle 1 vs. 1
115 W Broad St
Event info here
4pm-10pm
ALL AGES WELCOME
Admission $10

Sunday April 15th
Unconscious Markings - Doodle Workshop
115 W Broad St
Event info here
2pm-4pm
Free

Also if you are in town dont miss the premiere of the RVA Street Art Festival April 12-15th

bioRide Van Tours
Tour the city and see the new, creative and expressive RVA murals that have recently been painted with Richmond's most premiere transportation, bioRide. For $12 a person, check out the sites of some of the latest RVA monuments in style and luxury. Call 804.926.0393 for more information or email ride@bioriderva.com

Here is a GOOGLE MAP of the murals.

G40 Art Summit Richmond opens this Friday!

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:44:00 GMT

G40 RVA Mural Progress Update #2 from RVA TV on Vimeo.

Public phone booths in New York repurposed into libraries

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:06:00 GMT

Lost at E Minor| New Trends | by Zolton|

Architect John Locke is doing to the phone booths of New York what every self-respecting bookworm has silently wished for since cell phones became ubiquitous and books became redundant. Almost! As part of his Department of Urban Betterment project, he has been converting normally grimy, grotty phonebooths in the city into useful resources for the bookish subway trawling population.

La Pandilla In Art Basel

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:02:00 GMT

La Pandilla en Wynwood Art Basel from Worldjunkies on Vimeo.

Lou Pimentel Stormtroopers

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:45:00 GMT

Great piece Lou Made for us for Comic Con NY. We still have paper prints for $50 and Canvas prints on wood frames for $150

Secret War Art Baltle at Art Basel US VS EUROPE

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:54:00 GMT

Secret Wars by Octopustudio from OCTOPUSTUDIO on Vimeo.

Buff Monster, Kano, and Tristan Eaton, representing USA, against Chaz, Mr. K, and Wayne Horse, representing Europe. For ninety minutes, the artists merged freestyle with no plan or materials, limited to only black markers on white board.

Melbourne Artist: Meggs

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:08:00 GMT

Dope piece by Meggs. Killer artist from Melbourne! He will be tearing up a piece for us at the Weapons of Mass Change Exhibit as well.

kaNO Darth Vader Helmet

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:51:00 GMT

Dope Darth Vader Helmet kaNO tore up for the Vader Project. Cant wait to see what he comes of for our soon to be revealed show Weapons of Mass Change.

Never2501 In IIha Grande, Brazil as seen on Juztapoz

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:04:00 GMT

Never2501 In IIha Grande, Brazil

Wonderful use of lines in this mural by street artist, Never2501 depicting a spearing of what resembles a dinosaur.

El Mac in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:08:00 GMT

El Mac Artist Statement, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo.

Here's a new video put together by the good folks at VNTWT in Saigon, VietNam. It's based on footage and interviews from when I painted there in 2010. I don't think I was as eloquent as I could have been, but other than that I think it's a great video and hopefully gives a little bit of an insight into how/why I paint what I do. I really found a lot of inspiration in VietNam and look forward to going back to paint there some more, and hopefully visit some other parts of SE Asia as well.

How & Nosm, German Graffiti Wonder Twins, Paint the L.A. Weekly Building

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:20:00 GMT

By Shelley Leopold Fri., Feb. 17 2012 at 8:00 AM

Shannon Cottrell

For more photos check out our slideshow, How + Nosm Paint the L.A. Weekly Building

The L.A. Weekly celebrated Valentine's Day 2012 like no one else could, with a new red, black and white façade painted by artists Raoul and Davide Perre, known as How & Nosm.

In October, during our interview with How & Nosm about their show at Known Gallery, we half-jokingly asked if they'd want to paint the L.A. Weekly building, but we never imagined they'd say yes and actually set a date. The concept is, loosely, "messages in a bottle," representing perhaps those the newspaper delivers every week, yet conveyed via familiar surrealist How & Nosm imagery: fish, hands, faces, hearts and brains, plus secret visuals we may never decipher.

Shannon Cottrell

The final work is a series of colorful bottles, some of which incorporate the windows of the building. This way, the L.A. Weekly staff becomes part of the art just by sitting at their desks.

The bottles are floating in a background that morphs from pink and red diamond shapes on the left side of the piece to organic gray waves meant to signify the L.A. River on the right.

To get a full view of the building, brave the traffic exiting the 405 by stepping across the street, and you'll see that the bottles become one huge, building-sized bottle, spilling a nefarious red liquid onto the street. (We would like to think it represents our blood, sweat and tears, but that would be up for interpretation.)

Shannon Cottrell

Originally, when photos and measurements of the building were sent to them, the brothers realized they would be painting over their colleague Ben Eine's 2011 "graffiti crossword" piece, which previously occupied the facade. In the world of graffiti and street art, "going over" someone is not OK. But after a discussion among the three artists at Art Basel in Miami, L.A. Weekly received Eine's official sanction via email: "With regard to the outside of L.A. Weekly I couldn't think of two people I would like to repaint the outside of your building more than Nosm and How, I know they will do an amazing job."

Shannon Cottrell

The mural, How & Nosm's eighth mural in L.A., took almost a week to complete, a process that included a day of rain, a broken window and some wayward eggs thrown by a motel resident (yes, boom lifts are loud at 8 in the morning).

This is their third wall for 2012 -- on their way to a self-imposed goal of painting 100 murals a year -- and they will finish another here before they leave for New York at the end of the month. They've also just come off the successful "BoneYard Project" at the Pima Art and Space Museum in Tuscon, featuring their painted World War II-era 737, and their already packed schedule includes a summer trip to Milan and a huge project in Prague in the fall.

Shannon Cottrell

33third Los Angeles, the paint store/gallery, and Montana Paint, the paint manufacturer, generously contributed the paint and filmed the process from start to finish. See the trailer for the film below and stay tuned for the finished version in March.

PixArt: February 2012 Feature – Monster Sickling

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:57:00 GMT

February 15, 2012 By Jerrod Maruyama 2 Comments

We couldn’t be more thrilled to feature this great piece from Oakland artist Yosiell Lorenzo. You might know Lorenzo from his wonderfully creepy line of Sicklings. If you haven’t seen or heard of these little guys make sure to check out his site and see them for yourself. A new batch will be for sale this week so don’t wait. Read on for more about the artists in his own words. Our thanks to Yosiell for his time and talent!

Name: Yosiell Lorenzo

Website/Blog/Portfolio:

www.yosielllorenzo.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/yosielllorenzo

I currently live in… Oakland, CA

I consider my hometown to be… New Haven, CT

My Favorite Pixar Movie is…Monsters, Inc. Growing up, all kids think we have monsters in our closets at one point or another. I was definitely one of those kids who made sure my closet was closed before going to bed, haha.

My Favorite Pixar character is… Mike Wazowski

Tell us about your piece: I like to combine digital illustration with “real life” backgrounds and textures. I’ll create an artificial scene but throw in an aspect or two of reality so people kind of question what they’re seeing. And then I’ll age the whole piece. I really get into the process. As for what’s happening in this scene…Well, Mike Wazowski just happened to walk out of the wrong closet door that night and is now jarred up. (I guess you could say he’s in a pickle?) The Sicklings are currently deciding what to do with him. More than likely, they’ll party and celebrate with their favorite beverage: dew tea. Sadly, we may never know Mike’s fate…

Who/What inspires you? Right now, there’s a certain individual in my life who really inspires me. But in general, everyday life, people I meet and certain parts of movies or songs are all capable of triggering ideas for new work. Also: anything old, dark or turn of the century usually grabs my attention.

Recommend something, anything to our readers: People should really check out Jeremyriad.com, which is an awesome curated blog about pop culture and design. He coined the term “popjects” to describe the accessible art objects he writes about, and he has amazing hair. Another site I recommend is Storenvy.com, which is where I host my shop. It’s got an awesome community/social vibe with good-looking storefronts, and most of all it’s free…what’s not to like?!

Shameless self-promotion: My new series of resin Sicklings will be released Friday February 17th in my shop. It’s the third batch, and the first two are sold out. Stop by and check out http://shoplorenzo.storenvy.com/ for originals, prints and anything Sickling-related!

Introducing Roa Street Art from marcos333's blog

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:50:00 GMT

February 15, 2011 from marcos333's blog

Roa is probably one of the most notorious street artists nowadays. Illustrating buildings, walls and everything paintable with his animals in many cities around the globe. I was not a huge fan of spray paintings, I always found that this technique was mostly related to the hip hop culture, but Roa artworks shows how intense, curious and beautiful can be images done just with a spray can. However, it's not his technique that surprise me the most, but the way he inserts his images on the places and how they get a totally new meaning. It seems that Roa don't have a official website, but he has a Flickr where you can find more of his works, have fun.

PORTRAIT Enter the world of ROA from MOUARF- du PhotoGraff Collectif on Vimeo.

Lil'G Mini Boombox by Jasin Dollin on Pre-Order at Ideacious

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:40:00 GMT

Lil'G Mini Boombox by Jasin Dollin on Pre-Order at Ideacious

After three long years of development, Jasin Dollin is now ready to roll out his DIY product cum speaker-system; Lil'G Mini Boombox! Retailing for US$95 per with a limit to 1000 pieces to be made, the item is currently available for pre-orders on Ideacious, whereby 5 secures your position in the pre-order queue. Read the steps in the link provided.

PRODUCT-DESCRIPTION: Lil’G Mini Boombox is a portable speaker system blends an 80s hip-hop vibe with the millennium’s urban, vinyl-toy look.With interchangeable and unique speaker grills, along with being bluetooth enabled, Lil'G is a modern way to share and express your love of music and style. High quality speakers in a durable boombox styled body protect your MP3 player, and Lithium Ion Battery that is powered by a USB adapter. Just pair your music device to Lil'Gs bluetooth or plug into the headphone jack and let the music play.

NYCHOS x FlyingFortress – The Anatomy Of Mother Bear Giving Birth

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:19:00 GMT

NYCHOS x FlyingFortress – The Anatomy Of Mother Bear Giving Birth

Posted by aecho on February 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Cold winter in Vienna but still not to cold to go big and detailed. Nychos and Flying Fortress made a propper and massive start into 2012 with this amazing mural in Vienna. Check this out.