An open letter to Warner Brothers Re: “Where the Wild Things Are”.
Say it brother! Say it!
Archive for February, 2008
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…
Mashing it up with Al and Deicide! Turn it up droogs!
The mighty Coheed & Cambria are heading to our shores! Yeah! We’ve been a long time supporter of Coheed so this particular bit of news certainly brought a smile to the face of yours truly. I’ll be at the Melbourne show on April 1st at Billboard but for all you fellow droogs around this great continent of ours, here are the full tour dates:
SUNDAY 30 MARCH BRISBANE, THE TIVOLI – 18+
ticketek.com.au 132 849, Rockinghorse & Kill The Music
MONDAY 31 MARCH SYDNEY, UNSW ROUNDHOUSE – Licensed All Ages
ticketek.com.au 132 849
TUESDAY 1 APRIL MELBOURNE, BILLBOARD THE VENUE – 18+
ticketek.com.au 132 849, billboardthevenue.com.au & Missing Link
THURSDAY 3 APRIL PERTH, METRO CITY – 18+
bocsticketing.com.au 78 Records, Planet & Beat Music & Moshtix
This one’s gonna go down real well at work tomorrow as our entire operation in PC, Mac and Linux based.
Anyway.
Gabe Schwarzer, the video creator who brought us the original Mac vs. PC “South Park” style parody ad is back with a sequel. Gabe wrote in to tell us his Mac vs. PC vs. Linux video is up on his website.
In the credits, Gabe notes that he used the South Park Studios app to make the characters. He also says he created the video on a PC and a Mac “because one just isn’t enough.” I guess that tells us exactly how he feels about Linux — presuming the video doesn’t settle the issue in the first place. (via)
Welcome to the Jungle.
The modern-day Rock memoir…
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 series here.
Check out Part 1 of a 4 part video series here.
And whilst we’re at it, here’s a recent interview on YouTube at the ‘Rise Above’ Exhibition @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery: (via)
Here’s the last photo ever (right) taken of John Gotti, the murderous degenerate who once headed the Gambino crime family. Gotti, the so-called Dapper Don, posed for the below Bureau of Prisons photo on October 17, 2001, less than eight months before he died, at age 61, at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri. The Gotti image was released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Smoking Gun. According to a BoP letter, the color image was Gotti’s “institution commissary photo.” The once-robust Gotti appears frail in the prison photo, which was snapped more than two years after the convicted killer was operated on for head and neck cancer.
Sixty pieces by the beloved graffiti artist Banksy will go on show this Friday in what will be one of the biggest exhibitions of his works so far, and will include six pieces that have never been shown before. Among the offerings at the Andipa Gallery in Knightsbridge will be a drawing Banksy made for a band called Onecut in his native Bristol in 1999/2000: a black-and-white picture of something resembling a gramophone. Apparently, he didn’t have time to make a stencil for the piece, called “Underground Terror Tactics,” so he had to use white-out and pens on the picture. This is one of Banksy’s earliest commercial works, and its price is a cool £35,000 (about $69,500). Previously unseen works include “Lenin on Roller Blades,” from 2003, and “Roadwork Rat,” from 2006. Prices start at £7,500 (nearly $15,000).
More of Banksy unmasked after the jump
Continue reading ‘Whole Lotta Banksy’
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.
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Advanced episodes of Underbelly pirated on net.
…I’ve got the first episodes myself, now to find time to watch them. I for one don’t feel sorry for the Nine Network in the slightest. Remember the contempt they treated ‘Sopranos’ and ‘Six Feet Under’ by broadcasting them in ungodly hours and often missing episodes. Thank fuck for Torrents!
Henry Rollins; provocateur, renaissance man and, let’s face it… really funny guy, returns to Australia this April for his umpteenth Spoken Word tour. (And the umpteenth time I have seen him - but it is always a great night out!)
Henry was last here in January 2006 as part of the travelling Big Day Out circus - the first performer to appear on the BDO in such a capacity - enthralling thousands as only Henry and his sense of truth, justice and the humorous can.
“A hard-core renaissance man who clocks life with military precision,” said the Boston Globe. “The 47-year-old former Black Flag frontman rants, raves, reminisces, opines, and editorializes…during his latest and well-titled show, Provoked.”
TOUR DATES:
