Melbourne’s Rowena Martinich: Colouring outside the lines
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Mummy and daddy told us to try and draw inside colouring book lines while growing up. Rowena Martinich’s parents must have been an exception. The Melbourne-based artist is an abstract expressionist with a difference, blurring Greenbergian formalism with edgy street art practices. She has a love affair with making her mark known in everyday public [...]
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ABICUS: The best of fashion and music in Newcastle
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Ever since it opened back in 2000, ABICUS has been my favourite store. Run by husband and wife duo Tim McPhee (yes, of Firekites fame) and Tiffany Minell, ABICUS brings the best of fashion and music together and serves it up on a shiny slab of amazingly polished concrete. We caught up with Tiff to [...]
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Grungy urban landscape paintings by Valerio D’Ospina
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Italian artist Valerio D’Ospina painted this fantastic series of oils which all focus on the lost beauty of urban life. Each monochromatic piece resembles the feel of street photography. The use of implied motion is extremely effective. Between the blurring of brush strokes and the strong use of linear perspective, each piece has the feel [...]
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MUTO: street art animation by Italian artist Blu
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Blu is an Italian street artist of incredible skill and patience. This stop-action video of his ‘graffiti’ isn’t new, but it is impossibly cool and deserves to be viewed by all. This guy expresses more raw creativity in this piece than most studio artists get across in a lifetime. Watch with the volume up: the [...]
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Documentary about Organized Chaos: the new work by CYRCLE
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CYRCLE is a two-man collective of multi-disciplinary artists born out of Los Angeles in 2010. Through street campaigns, design, fine art, and murals their work blurs the lines within the contemporary art world. CYRCLE’s second solo show, titled ORGANIZED CHAOS!, opened in Los Angeles on November 30, 2012. Here we have a short documentary, directed [...]
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Zanerobe releases singlets in time for the Aussie summer
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If you live anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere and feel as if the summer heat is starting to get to you, you should probably take off that t-shirt and chuck on a singlet. Luckily, our favourite Sydney streetwear brand, Zanerobe, have released some stylish slugger singlets that are wardrobe staples for everything from days at [...]
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Lost At E Minor explores Wellington, New Zealand
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Lost At E Minor had the chance last week to re-visit Wellington (nb… the two founders of the site are originally from Wellington), the picturesque capital of New Zealand, and as more people are finding out, it’s not exactly one of those stuffy, pretentious capitals full of cold monuments. No. It’s far cooler than that.
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Logitech’s UE 9000 Headphones: Perfect sound on the go
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Logitech have just released an amazing new range of audio solutions called Ultimate Ears, and with that line comes their show stopping headphones: the Logitech UE 9000.
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The Promised Land Cottages near Bellingen, NSW
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There’s staying in an amazing location, and staying in beautiful accommodation. When the two combine it makes for a memorable get away. The Promised Land Cottages near Bellingen sure live up to their name. Architecturally designed and built almost entirely from hardwood and with rare skill, these boutique luxury cabins are perfectly set-out for a weekend (or week’s) break.
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Blu’s incredible new mural on an abandoned building in Rome
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Italian artist Blu just threw down an amazingly huge mural on an abandoned building in Rome. Keeping it simple with just black on white, Blu depicts the obvious and not so obvious evils that plague today’s global society.
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Papergirl: a community street art project
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Papergirl is a street art event which started in Berlin in 2006 and is happening this summer in many cities around the world. Papergirl invites anyone and everyone to show their art in a week long exhibition, after which volunteers will roll up the art and distribute them via bicycle to random people all over the city.
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Austinspace: a cultural guide to Austin, Texas
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I’m an East Coast girl with a growing lust for Austin, due in no small part to the incredible discoveries and adventures of Mirgun Akyavas, photographer extraordinaire. Austinspace takes you on a troll through the back roads, eating and drinking establishments, street art, and music scene of this colorful blue sky town.
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275 streetlamps in Amsterdam park to emit blue light
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I’m really looking forward to seeing this. Steve McQueen, artist and filmmaker, will transform Vondelpark in Amsterdam by swapping out the white street light bulbs and replacing them with blue ones, transforming the ordinary into a work of art with the simplest of touches.
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Mentalgassi: a blog documenting street art in Spain
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Mentalgassi is an amazing blog documenting street art in Spain. The art is blunt and showcases people in an unusual light. The Public Intimacy Series, for instance, shows a man doing mundane activities in public. There’s a bathroom set up in a photo booth, a living room set up on a subway platform, as well [...]
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San Francisco is teaming with inspiring artists
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My most recent video featuring footage on the streets and in the studio creating portraits with rust and chemicals. The video includes interviews with White Walls Gallery owner, Justin Giarla, as well as my friend and subject, the homeless street musician Blue.
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