Gotta hand it to The Jupiter Drawing Room Ad agency that created these ads for ArriveAlive, an organization created by a father whose son was killed while driving drunk that plans to install these stickers of – to borrow a phrase from Kanye – ‘drunk & hot girls’ in sexually explicit states of drunkenness in men’s & women’s bathrooms in major cities in what must be an attempt to deter ‘Girls Gone Wild’ types from getting behind the wheel after a nite behind the Margarita bong.
The money shot is definitely the backdoor view of honey’s thong as she coughs it up in the ladie’s room stall. We can only imagine the amazing bathroom graffiti these sleezy decals are going to inspire.
Shepard Fairey, founder of Obey Giant and world-renowned stencil artist, talks to Crave about the inspiration behind his work and his motivation as an artist.
A little bit about Shepard: In 1992, while still an illustration student at RISD, Fairey started his first business venture, Alternate Graphics, to showcase his emerging design and silkscreen printing talents. He created stickers, t-shirts, skateboards, and posters which were all available via black and white mail order catalogs that he distributed. He also did small commercial printing jobs for clients to help cover some of his expenses. In 1994, Helen Stickler created a documentary film, Andre the Giant Has a Posse, that focused on Fairey and the growing phenomenon of his subversive stickers and posters. By 1995, Fairey had two or three full time employees, two of whom were long time friends from Charleston, whom he had known through his many years of skateboarding. During this time, he also created a small sister brand, Subliminal Projects, with Blaize Blouin, and released several skateboard and poster designs using this moniker. Fairey created a skateboard video, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), that showcased the small group of skateboarders that he sponsored via Alternate Graphics.
UPDATED: Check out Part 2 of a 4 part video serieshere.
Seeing as we’re currently in the midst of a bit of a Where The Wild Things Are bent of late… I thought this installment of our Wallpaper’s section could feature said Wild Things! Well, one of ‘em at least. This is a photo I took of my McFarlane Toys Wild Things posed in front of a page from the book.
An ‘insider’ reports: “I wish I could be more specific, but because of how I saw it, I can’t offer any sort of real review. I can tell you that there’s something odd about the clip above. The Wild Thing in that clip is Carrol, played in the version I saw by James Gandolfini. That is most definitely NOT Gandolfini’s voice in that clip though. But it’s a very finished piece of film, because in the rough footage, none of the Wild Things have articulated faces. The costumes were all built to have immobile features that would be replaced in post-production by CGI, and it looks like this clip has had that work done on it…”
“…that was a very early test with the sole purpose of just getting some footage to Ben our vfx (visual effects) supervisor to see if our vfx plan for the faces would work. The clip doesn’t look or feel anything like the movie, the Wild Thing suit is a very early cringy prototype, and the boy is a friend of ours Griffin who we had used in a Yeah Yeah Yeahs video we shot a few weeks before. We love him, but he is not in the actually film. Oh and that is not a wolf suit, its a lamb suit we bought on the internet. Talk to you later.”
The film has been pushed back until 2009. Word in the hills is that Warner Bros is extremely unhappy with the finished product. Test screening audiences have complained that the film is too adult and even too scary for children. One audience member wrote:
“I don’t think it’s for young children. They’d probably like the video version from ‘The Children’s Circle’ better.”
Another test screener writes:
“And some kids at my screening began to cry and asked their parents to leave, so that should give you an idea.” “The things are not cute. Max comes off a bit weird and off-putting ‘He slaps his mom!’ and he seems confused and not charming at all.” “No rumpus, no big set pieces, no ’state-of-the-art’ lucrative sequences just some running around on some desert place and thats that.”
According to Spike Jonze’s younger brother, music producer Sam Spiegel, who confirmed it in an e-mail to music blog The Playlist, banshee-voiced Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O is writing “pretty much the whole” soundtrack to Jonze’s forthcoming film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.
With a gigantic budget of a speculated $80 million, the fiercely protective Maurice Sendak is enthused about the movie adaptation by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers.
‘Where The Wild Things Are’ will feature the voices of James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Catherine O’ Hara and Lauren Ambrose who recently replaced Michelle Williams.
Audience reviews from surprisingly early test screenings described the $80 million film as unapologetically melancholic, beautifully strange, and very ‘adult’.
From the opening blips and squeaks spewing forth from the retro game machines to your first viewing of the movie’s villain Billy Mitchell and his ego-maniacal delusions of grandeur – the first words that will come to mind are… “Are these people for real?” ‘King of Kong’ is the true story (honest!) of the battle to attain the world-record Donkey Kong high-score. You heard right. There’s people out there who really, really care about this stuff to the point where absolutely nothing else matters. God damn, we are witnessing the decline of Western Civilization before our very eyes and boy is it funny!
So what’s it all about then? Well, back in the 80’s, the aforementioned Billy Mitchell – who looks like a cross between Kenny Loggins and Nick Cave had set the world-record score for Donkey Kong. This record remained uncontested for years and years but in 2006 the film’s hero Steve Weibe breaks the high-score but his submission is denied by the official gaming commission (yeah, you read that right!) because Weibe racked up the points on a home based console. The only way the score can stand is that if it is completed inside a ‘Funland’ location. Yet, they commission quite easily accepts Mitchell’s video-taped record.
And this is where the lunacy really kicks off where we see a middle-school science teacher (Weibe) and a hot sauce mogul and (Mitchell) vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong.
Insane! Stupid! Moronic! But friggn hilarious at the same time! This is… the doco of the year! No contest!
Lathan McKay, the actor who will play late Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley in the upcoming movie ‘Get Born Again’ based on the biography of Layne Staley by Argentinean journalist/author Adriana Rubio – recently met with Rubio and they spent 10 days together working on the movie project. A local rock band, Motherweiser, played numerous Alice In Chains songs to assist Lathan in his vocal performance and character development. When Lathan took to the microphone, Staley’s presence “was definitely felt and acknowledged by everyone in the room,” according to a press release.
McKay shares an incredible likeness to Layne Staley, and has an inner ability to channel Layne’s energy.
Lathan has a tremendous respect for Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell’s music, and is very passionate about the opportunity to portray Layne as the beautiful, talented soul that he was.
Lathan McKay was born on January 10, 1978 in Austin, TX. He started his acting career a few years ago landing one of the lead roles in a coming of age story set in suburban Texas, premiering at 2003 Tribeca Film Festival.
I remember it as if it were yesterday! (And I was only feet away from the food-fight that took place!) Unfortunately the YouTube video above has only been posted in segments as this appears to be a 30 minute special edited and chopped down considerably. Major bummer but hopefully the rest of this footage will leak soon. Nonetheless, this brings back a ton of memories at what was a magic gig a lifetime ago!
They were great then. They are nothing but a Vegas act now! So sad!
Marky Ramone is helping to promote safe sex in the USA by launching a condom kit for sex education company Ready Two Go.
The Sun reports that the drummer is helping to spread the message about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases.
“The world has lost too many people to STDs of all types, and that is why I joined up with Ready Two Go for my signature series of safer sex tins,” Ramone explained.
The tins have a Marky Ramone emblem on them and include condoms and information on sexually transmitted diseases.
