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Dan Gordon
Askew
Insightful interview with local legend Askew, talking about style, technique, and development as an artist.
For more, check out Urban Development Project website.
BONUS: He’s rocking the T-Shirt I designed for Frontline so many moons ago. Joy.
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Gaga / Fierce
Since Lady Gaga’s music video for ‘Telephone’ with Beyonce was released yesterday it has clocked millions of Internet views. If you haven’t already watched it, you must. It’s a 9 minute Tarantino-esque tour-de-force of a music video. In the same way that Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill riff on endless pop culture and film references to [...]
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Act Like They Forgot About Dre…
We have this running joke at our house. Whenever someone is missing, under the radar or generally keeping their steez on the downlow, we joke that they are hiding out in the basement with Dr Dre. Generally speaking, Dr Dre, the legendary hip-hop producer, keeps things on the serious downlow. He doesn’t do a lot [...]
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‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’
450 words individually synced and animated to the famous monologue from the 1976 movie Network. Network is a satirical film about a television network and its struggle to overcome poor ratings. Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning script about the pursuit of ratings at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye [...]
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The Making of Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 Cover
Here is a very cool timelapse of the making of the cover for Jay-Z’s new album The Blueprint 3. Very interesting to see photographer Dan Tobin Smith’s process.
There is a also nice little interview with Dan Tobin Smith over at itsnicethat.com about shooting the cover.
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Kidz In Space
Loving this new video by director Tim Van Dammen for Kidz In Space ‘Downtime’. The Kidz In Space are a Kiwi legend in the making. Distinctly un-enthused with the current state of music on Earth, they are onboard the Spaceship Synthesizer, launching themselves into the outer limits of the universe, in search of the finest alien [...]
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Semblance / HelloVon
Semblance / HelloVon
Cerasoli Gallery, LA September 19 – October 14
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An Interview with 123Klan
Since morphing their graffiti crew into a full service design studio in mid-nineties, the often imitated but never replicated 123Klan are veterans of the graphic design landscape. The clean street style of founders Scien and Klor have made their way onto cars, kicks, clothes, magazine covers, toys and beyond.
With a client list to rival agencies many times [...]
