Ink drippin, liqour sippin, visual piffin, you know what time it is….
“Ksana Institute is a non profit organisation established to pursue research into the sonic capabilities of human beings. This is the first in a series of experiments we are undertaking on test subject WanDan.” I’m not sure what exactly the purpose of The Ksana Institute’s sinister new video, featuring UK Beatboxer Wandan, and cryptic press [...]
Returning to London for the first time since Artillery for Pleasure in 2009, Part2ism’s latest exhibition is currently running at Red Gallery. Titled New Horizons and Future Love Songs, it explores the relationship between sight and sound, something close to Part2ism’s heart as part of UK Hip Hop crew New Flesh. My favourite pieces are [...]
I’ve just got wind of a really cool new project called Secret 7″, a competition for up and coming creatives to design a sleeve for one of seven different artists. The main one that catches my eye is DJ Shadow who’s got involved and will be donating a track to be used. It seems like [...]
There’s so much incredible graff, design and artwork floating about at the minute that another injection to the eyes is long overdue. I don’t know much about most of the work here, hence why it doesn’t have individual posts. What I do know however, is that all these pieces makes me want to just give [...]
I´ve been in Rio de Janeiro for the past week and, as expected have been really impressed by the graff scene. Attitudes towards it seem fairly positive and as a result the city´s littered with lovely walls that never seem to get buffed. In fact, the only buff seems to be the weather, and there´s [...]
When I first saw the artwork Icelandic designer Siggeir Hafsteinsson, who goes by the name Sig Vicious, had produced for June Miller’s Converge/Neurosis 12″ on Horizons, I was blown away (also amazing music!). The whole vinyl and sleeve was designed to perfection and made a really nice product. Looking into him a bit more I [...]
Based in Vancouver, Indigo is quite possibly my favourite artists working with the medium of stencils and spray paint (not to mention her talents with acrylics oils and a camera). Technically, her work is absolutely flawless, combining multi layer stencils with incredibly skilled freehand shading, as well as absolutely beautiful. The photorealistic figures she paints [...]
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