Urika Boss

From down town Cape Town, Urika simply take shots from his daily life, from graffiti to street life he captures what ever comes across his path, nuf sad!

Delicious.

check his sweet site for more goodies: http://urikaboss.com/

Ron English

What can I say about Ron English that hasn’t been said before!? God’s knows. All I know is that I have lots of respects and admiration for his guts and creative force which never seems to slow down but only accelerate. working for many years, making fantastic mind blowing artworks and displaying on the street while fighting against main stream media and commercial manipulation, all hail the king Ron.

Here is what Wiki has to say:

Ron English (born 1959) is an American contemporary artist who explores popular brand imagery and advertising. His signature style employs a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, including comic superhero mythology and totems of art history, to create a visual language of evolution. He is also widely considered a seminal figure in the advancement of street art away from traditional wild-style lettering and into clever statement and masterful trompe l’oeil based art. He has created illegal murals and billboards that blend stunning visuals with biting political, consumerist and surrealist statements, hijacking public space worldwide for the sake of art since the 1980s.

Check his movie: POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English

And some wicked artworks!

Check his website for more goodies! http://www.popaganda.com/blog1.php

Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson  (American, 1968) is an Autodidact artist.

Using street posters and billboards gathered in NYC and other major cities around the world, Anderson makes super-sized collages, commonly 8 x 8 feet and up. He collects the posters at night, which seems like a dangerous thing to do, but he’s a big guy and didn’t seem to give a shit, just citing his birthplace as the Bronx.

from looking at his art and studio one can sense that Michael is a free spirit, living up to his own creations and expressing himself to the fullest, just as a true artist should be.

here is his statement taken from his website:

Artist’s Statement

»Advertising provides the material, appropriation is the mode of operation, and collage is the medium of my artistic creation/recycling. To create my collages, I use international street posters, taken from the streets of such far-flung places as Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Rome and, of course my hometown favorite, NYC. The fragments of thousands of posters are re-arranged in a painterly fashion to create the composition and imagery of an individual piece.

I attempt to balance abstraction and representation in composition to create a static/non-static effect in the over-all experience of the work. These collages develop non-linear narratives that capture the experience of contemporary life with dark humor. In taking posters from the street, which are super-saturated and obvious, I focus ideas together to create a collision of energy that allows for tremendous juxtaposition. When people see my work there is a pinprick of recognition, an unexplainable familiarity, that they’ve seen parts before, but never in that way. As a sort of puzzle map of the collective unconscious, I make art about the world we live in, a document to show what it’s like to be alive today.«

Ridiculously good! check his website for more delicious treats: http://www.chamuconegro.com/

Cem Ulucan

Cem Ulucan is an artist with a very interesting perspective on thing, check it out!

Check his site for more goodies: http://cemulucan.com/home.html

Swoon + Cat Solen – Levi’s Film Workshop

The Levi’s® Workshops are a series of venues dedicated to creative production and collaboration. The Film Workshop celebrates the craft of filmmaking and the other arts raised in the streets of Los Angeles. Like the exhibition at MOCA we are housed in, we champion a variety of styles and techniques; from super 8 to 3D, home movies to avant garde, amateur to professional. This Levi’s Film Workshop is a place where we facilitate and you create.

A Short Film Collaboration
directed by: Cat Solen
artwork by: Swoon
music: My Morning Jacket – mymorningjacket.com

Filmed at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in conjunction with the exhibition Art in the Streets
Made at the Levi’s Film Workshop – workshops.levi.com
producer: Jonathan Wells
timelapse specialist: Joel Fox
edited by: Aaron Morris
line producer: Cindy Thoennessen
much thanks: Tod Seelie, Jaime Caliri, Alex Juhasz, Red Light Management, Dragon Stop Motion

Here is another short film from their website:

check their site for more goodies: workshops.levi.com