Last week REVOK was arrested at LAX.
REVOK is a notorious graffiti artist who has painted all over the globe and is currently featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s, very successful “Art in the Streets” show.
The Los Angeles Police have been complaining about the show since before it opened and the timing/methods used to apprehend the artist implies the two things are probably linked. I’m assuming this is intended to serve as a warning to LA graffiti writers but I really don’t understand how. No kid scaling a billboard with …

I have been having a borderline creepy staring contest with my unlimited ride metro card. Why the borderline creepy staring contest? Because the word “optimism” is printed on the back side of the card.
Why was the MTA printing the word optimism on the back of metro cards? MTA rides are far from being pleasant. Hell they are sweaty, crowded, dirty, and most times you get an arm stuck in the door. And the prices of a metro card went up and made people like me feel unpleasant. In short, the …

One of the great things about this industry is the number of talented creative people you’re constantly around who are continually doing interesting and creative things. Like my friend TJ Walthall, an art director at Ogilvy NY, who recently launched his New York Color Palette: http://tjwalthall.com/colors/
TJ (who’s also damn good with a camera) took photographs in several Manhattan neighborhoods, reduced them to thumbnails and compiled them on an interactive map. You get a sense just how colorful New York is, and how much it varies from neighborhood to neighborhood.
It would …

One of the nastiest creatures in the world just got a new job!  The German book edtior Eichborn has a fly as a symbol so they decided to use  some live ones to spread the word.
I don’t like them landing on me, but I guess if they had something to tell me like that I would make an exception. I’m sure frogs wont like that….

- Philipe Diao

Twenty years ago yesterday, the Berlin Wall essentially fell. Sure it came down bit by bit over the course of a few weeks, but November 9, 1989 was the day it was removed as anything more than a physical obstacle. This seems like it should have been a bigger anniversary in the US than it was, particularly given our tendency to create “anniversaries” before history places events in proper context (which in itself is a philosophical debate for another day for people far smarter than I). As the fall of …

This movie looks amazing. This is the story of Precious, an abused overweight 16 year old (and I think she has a child too?) If you’re anything like me bring 3 boxes of Kleenex to the theater.
On a positive note, I just found out that the mother of the actress who plays the roll of Precious is no other than Alice Tan Ridley. If you live in NYC you’ve probably seen her singing in the Herald Square subway station. I gave her money once. She’s a great singer.
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- Julissa …

The world has a lot to offer art wise, especially when you get off your ass and go outside. One of my most favorite things about living in Brooklyn was the embrace of the street art. Paste ups, stencils, knitted phone poles and just plan ol Graffiti canvased the streets. Definitely inspired my style and made me go outside of the computer for inspiration.
http://www.streetsy.com/40artists.php
- Keith Gibson

Things are busy in my neck of the woods. Which is why this post is gonna be a little stripped down.
This guy’s online comic = HAHAHAHA-HA
Name: Winston Rowntree
Funny Comic: Down at the Supermarket
They are brilliantly written, startlingly observant and insanely creative.
SUBNORMALITY!
Just keep hitting “previous” until you can’t take it anymore.
Then get yourself a juice-box, water that dead-ass plant, and get your face-plate to his BLOG.
Okay, back to work.
Sprinkled with random trips to my freezer for brief stare sessions.
- Jason Hopkins

I drove home tonight thinking about how I need to get better at time management.
Take this blog for instance. I turn my posts in on Monday night, and I am writing this on Monday night.  San Diego just kicked a field goal to make it 23-17, (which by the time I am done writing this will have proved useless).
But I was in my car thinking about how I need to get better at managing my time, and because I have no idea how to do that, my mind jumped forward …

A friend at work recently passed this on to me ­ he’s kind of my self-proclaimed mentor, which means he offers up advice and knowledge without me asking any questions or prompting him in anyway. It’s a regular reminder of my ‘junior’ status, but I don’t mind because he passes on good stuff and has given me some super helpful tips that I will probably use for the rest of my life. (Like: “If you don’t know what to say, just ask them to replay it.”) Anyways, he’s most recent …