Even Doze’s mecha-bot can’t stand the smell of the Lower Haight… 

Dropping in on the ever-frigid Bay Area (where summer doesn’t officially start till October and lasts exactly three weeks) for a millisecond, it’s good to see our favorite piece from DOZE GREEN is still livin large in the LOWER HAIGHT, even if our boy Doze is now officially a citizen of the world as he traverses the globe on the never-ending spiritual road trip that is his career. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

The black Republican’s street dreams come true…

To celebrate the release of his now-untitled new album (formerly named “Nigger”) this week and his product collab with downtown hipster sneakerhead hotspot ALIFE, last great rapper alive NAS threw down a rare private live performance in the shop’s back courtyard for a lucky group of friends and family Monday nite. Luckily, ever-present man on the scene MEL D. COLE was on the scene to catch some serious snaps of the quality honeys in attendance. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Unfortunately, no, this is not a new Butthole Surfers video…

When someone says the words “Mermaid Parade” one can’t help but imagine a street full of hot, young, half-naked women in forgivably bad costumes. Unfortunately, such was not really the case at the costumed perp walk that was last month’s 2008 CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PARADE which instead looked like the movie version of a Vice “Don’t” column. Featuring a staggering array of art-damaged revelers in various states of creative undress, the annual event once again proved to be one of the best people watching processions of all time. Technically the country’s largest art parade, the parade is actually an homage to Coney Island’s long forgotten Mardi Gras that was staged religiously from 1903 to 1954 and invites a stunning array of like-minded exhibitionists to converge on the boardwalk to display their pound(s) of painted flesh. Pour yourself a drink, smear some Vaseline on your computer screen and HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Phil Frost’s wheels of fury… 

The corner of Haight & Asbury was ground zero for San Francisco’s track bike & messenger culture when RVCA opened their “Pressure” exhibition of collaborative art bikes with esteemed Italian cycle maker CINELLI. On board to customize the premium two-wheelers was an all-star lineup of artists including BARRY MCGEE, ASHLEY MACOMBER, CLARE ROJAS, C.R. STECYK III, DAN MURPHY, DMOTE, JESSE GELLER, JOSH LAZCANO, KAWS, MADSAKI, PHIL FROST, PM TENORE AND STEPHEN POWERS who added their unique touch to an array of new and vintage Cinelli frames and components. While many of the bikes remained rideable works of art, some artists like KAWS, Clare Rojas, Josh Lazcano, and Ashley Macomber transformed their cycles into nonfunctional (or in the case of Lazcano, hyperfunctional) sculptural pieces. With artwork prices escaping the reach of most lowly city peddlers, RVCA created a limited edition series of T-shirts by all artists in the show and debuted some pieces from the new Barry McGee apparel and accessory collection set to drop this fall. Also up for grabs was the eagerly anticipated special Barry McGee production art bike. Available as an edition of 50 pieces worldwide in three frame sizes (54, 56 or 58), the cycle is available as 25 complete bikes and 25 frame-only kits with pricetags of $3,700.00 and $2,100.00 respectively. The run will be available for sale only through RVCA and LANCE ARMSTRONG’s MELLOW JOHNNY’S bike shop in Austin, Texas where the art show will make a stop in late September. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Katie shills for Jimmie…

In the street art riddled streets of London Lichtenstein-ian AgitPop artist JAMES CAUTY knows to get a little attention you have to pull out the big guns. In other words, Kate Moss. Such was the case when the young artist liberated a few East End billboards in the name of art, er, self-promotion (there is a website listed on there after all). Nicely done. Now that Kate’s advert campaigns are on the wane and retirement is looming large on the horizon these bombs may be the only daily doses of her we have in the near future. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Bo Peep gets a refund…

Yeah, yeah, more BANKSY news, but how often is it that you hear about one of his street hits getting buffed? At a point when lucky recipients of Banksy bombs are selling chunks of their walls and starting retirement funds it’s nice to see one go the way of the dinosaur. And that’s exactly what happened in NYC this month when a disgruntled shop owner wiped his store’s slate clean…

Some decisions…

… last a lifetime. That’s his kid’s college fund he’s painting out.

Next up… WK, you busy this week?…

ROCKSTAR GAMES‘ fourth installment in the GRAND THEFT AUTO franchise dropped yesterday to over a million pre-orders (at $60 a pop, mind you, do the math), but for one hard charging 7-year-old, the game’s got nothin’ on real life…

“Greetings From The Occupation: Wish You Were Here”…

In case you’ve been living in Hollywood with your eyes closed for the past week, Supertouch’s own Jersey Boy/master billboard liberator RON ENGLISH has been here bombing up the Lost Angles with a new array of his own trademark brand of Popaganda imagery right under your nose. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »