There’s always beauty in the smallest places. This was a macro shot of a broken frame.
Natural and organic shapes.
Following the successful Simpsons campaign, 7-11 launched the Wolverine Slurpee promotion for the May 1st release. In the store, you could pick up a new slurpee flavor called Mutant Berry in a customized cup, displaying one of the three mutants (Wolverine, Gambit, and Sabretooth). On the Slurpee site, fans could connect with the profile for updates and provide feedback.
A more in-depth article could be found on CNBC.
Dabbling with figurative sketches–birds and decor. You could View Larger
Postcard-esque image of the Palace of Fine Arts/ Presidio area.
Selection of urban shapes from the Moscone Convention Center.
The Watchmen movie has been all the rage lately, especially with Clay Enos’ coffee-table book, “The Watchmen Portraits”. The black and white images are incredibly detailed, catching every wisp of hair, freckle, and glimmer. He has brought pop-culture into it own art form.
I’m a few years late in checking this documentary out, but Next – A Primer on Urban Painting by Pablo Aravena is a great homage to modern street artists. It tells of graffiti going beyond the streets into galleries, and what’s more interesting–street culture in a global context–document of visual expression, politics and history at a primal level. One segment which really stood out was an interview with a Brazilian graffiti artist and his perception that unauthorized graffiti in Brazil wasn’t as persecuted as it is in the US mainly because of the social climate–how the Brazilian authorities have larger crimes to attend to. Art was a source of escape from their daily lives.
Here are a some artists:
-Scrawl Collective: http://www.scrawlcollective.co.uk/
-Pure Evil Gallery: http://www.pureevilclothing.com/
-Faile: http://www.faile.net/site/
-bo130: http://www.bo130.org/
-Fafi: http://www.fafi.net/
-Dalek: http://dalekart.com
-Delta: http://www.deltainc.nl/indexdeltainc.html
-DFace: http://www.dface.co.uk/gallery
-Doppel: http://www.doppel.to/home.html
-Hisashi: http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tenmyoya/
This is a random vector illustration on the phrase “Life on the Edge”. You could view the shirt here.
This random shot was taken while I was waiting at the San Bruno Bart station, as the San Francisco Airport was close by.