Classic silly Symphony produced by the Walt Disney Studio and a slightly different MGM feature with them Three Little Pigs.

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi  for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It’s long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

And what’s even greater, it stars Kurt Russel Lots of scenes shot by that I hadn’t seen in while …

Mentioned SupaKitch & Koralie a couple of times before and today another great ‘making of’clip for one of their wall paintings popped up. Their work is so nice, have a look yourself. In the meantime stay out of trouble!

 

Kid Robot & Swatch have been a favorites of mine for a while so I could not have been more delighted to see yet another collab as this take place. I had been longing for one of my own for a while … et voila

Its Frank Kozik‘s (his name by creating full-color silk screened posters for various legendary rock bands of the 90s) contribution to the collection. ”I wanted to make the designs as clean as possible,” he explains “I like Swatch for its plastic future sense.”

As Flava Flav‘s iconically states “What time is it?!”

Met A Squid Called Sebastien for the first time while organising Youthwatching several years back. He would join in with several others at the end of the day, expo some of his work, … 

Couple of weeks back we met again over some coffee at Ghent’s Vooruit. He had just returned from the 9000miles tour he did with several other artists. Told me I should check the following book I just remembered (*note to self*) and also come check out his expo at ArtSpace Leguit (which previously also hosted one of our #youngscum get togethers).

If you’re in Antwerp this Friday, definitely go check his guest expo + live painting by 9000miles featuring:

Steve Locatelli
Stanislas Lahaut
Jan Opdekamp
Nadia ‘Cymo’ Oussehmine
Digsville Music
Third Digit

The expo itself, which brings a collection of new works on wooden sufaces made in the course of 2011, will run untill the end of the month. Check the preview below & the facebook event for further details and go see them fatties!

Artspace Leguit

Leguit 23

http://www.artspaceleguit.com/

Images courtesy of 9000Miles

Young & Free is the most significant exhibition by Australian street artists ever seen in the United States. The show features fresh work by thirteen of Australia’s finest urban art guerrillas – from the already internationally acclaimed to the burgeoning up-and-comers.This tribe of artists comes from a variety of backgrounds: brilliant new work by notorious 80’s train painters through to the sublime subtlety of a modern day Rembrandt armed with a spray can. Young & Free is a reflection of Australia’s thriving street culture with a strong grounding in the past and a firm focus on the future. These are modern day bushrangers, patrolling the lanes from Melbourne to Manhattan. This show features a mix of direct sprays, stencils and paste-ups, representing the rich and varied groundings from which these artists have grown. No matter their age, medium or style, the Young & Free artists all share one thing in common: they want to give the urban landscape a fresh coat of paint.

(HT @JonasJanssens, cheers.)

There’s a new ipad app in town. For the natives, you can read all about it on Freaky.

“HeyHey Colors brings the colorful world of street artist Bue the Warrior in an amazing iPad coloring book to your child’s fingertips. Bue the Warrior’s iconic figures have been bringing joy and color to cities around the world. Now everyone has the chance to dive into his amazing universe.”

Nothing but love for this kids’ colouring app and the people behind it. I tested a beta-version of the app a while back and was blown away by its simplicity & great design. If you have kids, or to be honest even without kids, I would suggest you buy it and start colouring right away.

Each and every day I walk by this mural. Its en route to our offices. Peeps better have a good look as it might just be your last chance to see it as demolition work has started …

Update: seems this wall will remain intact till at least September.

Brazilian street art took over the walls of the prestigious MuBE Museum in São Paulo (Brasil) for the biggest graffiti showcase of the year. 65 Graffiti artists from 13 countries descended upon São Paulo for the 1st Biennial International “Graffiti Fine Art” Exhibition at the MuBE Museum. In an art world where semantics matter, graffiti artists from around the world wonder what exactly is ‘Graffiti Fine Art‘. After all, once graffiti leaves the street… is it even graffiti at all?

A Documentary by Jared Levy.

Remember hipster avant garde Napoleon Dynamite? Well, seems an animated series is heading to Fox Network as they ordered six episodes of an animated show with the voices of the original cast. Gosh, vote for Pedro!

Seems a few spare hours in Ghent and hooking up with Bue results in the following. Read all about it at Insaland.

Unfamiliar with Insa’s work? Have a look overhere.

Parra and Amsterdam’s Tom Trago released their latest Parra Soundsystem album. Great tunes declaring summer officially opened.

ParraSoundSystem | Von Smallhausen by ParraSoundSystem

Blockhead – The Music Scene

We only mentioned Metroplastique last week but we just have to share this animation work by Koralie & Supakitch.

The following clip (a concept and a realization of Alexandre Brakha) uses characters made by the illustrators crossing the snow-covered streets of Montreal.

[through Fubiz]

Raekwon’s new video for “Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang”, the title track for his upcoming album.

We mentioned it before, but a while back the city of Ghent organized a light festival for the very first time and Mr.Beam was part of this.

“The inspiration for this show is mainly based on the huge contrast that the building has in every way. Not only from an architectural point of view – the stunning aged exterior compared with the modern style of the interior -, but also the difference between the overall atmosphere that the building has in day and night. At night time the building gives you a quite dark and spooky feeling, while in broad daylight you will be surrounded by beautiful music that’s being played by students.

We created the content with these main elements as an inspiration point. Also the architecture itself was the foundation for both the audio composition and the animations which are inseparable from each other.”

Licht Festival Gent 2011 from Mr.Beam on Vimeo.

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE are two French street artists who are clearly influenced by Japanese art. This results in some great work. Have a look at their work which features  geishas, dragons and other elements of the oriental culture.

Strange we had not picked this up before. A great production showing the city we live & work in from another perspective.

Ever wondered how ink is made? Well, in the following clip a Chief Ink Maker shows us how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients: powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about the process, the challenges and joy of ink making and this in under 10 minutes.

An interactive architectural mapping by 1024 Architecture, projected on the facade of former Lyrical theater the “Celestins”. The building deformations and figures were controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm.

An unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end. A wall-painted animation by BLU.

Remember us mentioning Little Dragon? Well, this is the new music video for Little Dragon’s My Step.

New video for Before I Move Off by Mount Kimbie. Can be considered as one of 2010′s revelations for us.

The duo have developed a truly unique sound whose experimental rhythms lend themselves to the fringes of dubstep, wonky and hip hop, but ooze with emotion and echoing ambient soundscapes that take the listener to an entirely different place.

Their EP’s and debut album Crooks & Lovers was released on Hotflush in July 2010, and met with critical acclaim. If you digg this definitely check some other stuff by them.

PES is back with a new short video called “The Deep.” PES has been an OOTB favorite for a while now and a must see. Enjoy.

I finally folded and went for a PS3. After years of SNES I finally got a piece of modern technology fitted right under my TV.

Right now where hammering through GT5, but will pretty soon be needing some much needed diversification when it comes to the games department, so all tips are welcome.

You can find me under AndrewVassallo on the playstation network btw. Holla!

“If life is a catwalk, run like a dog.”

Pahnl is a UK street artist who has been stenciling since 2003 and actively putting work up on the street since 2006. ‘Nowhere Near Here’ is one of his stop motion animations in which he uses a combination of light with stencils & long exposure photography to tell us the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does.

According to Pahnl “It has over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting ‘Nowhere Near Here’, I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod.”

Prints and stills from the film are available on Pahnl’s website.

Awesome! If only online retailing had existed when I was a kid, I would have been a regular customer at Brickarms.

I’ve written about this in the past. Its an old fascination of mine: WWII and other animated propaganda from the 1940s onwards. Bored with the regular assignments at University and willing to do discover something unknown or at least have a good time while spending hours behind your typewriter doing research I even wrote a paper on the matter.

The following are a couple of those WWII and cold war propaganda films released by well-known studios. Household names which often are associated with fluffy clouds and gumdrop smiles. Kids stuff and nothing what you’d expect.  The “hidden messages” in them, the way the music plays an essential part, … is really interesting to analyse. I have spent hours looking at such animations and its surprising to see some well-known characters do their part for Uncle Sam.

Besides that its a discovery (for many), reading up on the matter, when you realise the big studios where able to survive the war by taking on these assignments.

Japoteurs, by Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman.

Hitler’s Children Education For Death, a Walt Disney production.

Even the Russians loved their cartoons.

Want to see more of this stuff, just run a search in YouTube on banned cartoons or cartoon propaganda and discover the dark side of animation throughout the 1940s to 60s.

Got any favorites of your own, please share

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