Miami graf artist Typoe kills it on the streets both inside and outside the gallery walls. Check out this stand-out piece titled Confetti Death created from a skull and shards of plastic spray-paint caps. Absolutely incredible. I couldn’t dig up an official site for Typoe but click here for his full flickr feed. Enjoy.

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Look, we’re human beings……and we are weird as fuck. What a beautiful universe that would produce a creature capable of taking a piece of toast and meticulously simulating bread mold by needlepoint. Most living creatures of this planet take action based on survival, reproduction or a titillating mix of both. We twist the top off an Oreo and carve reproductions of classic Roman portraiture. This is who we are. We’ll cross-stitch a sexy-time whip on a grid of Chex Corn mix with a cryptic war message and call it a …

When I was a rat-tail sporting, Def Leppard admiring young lad my mother offered to cross-stitch the Guns-N-Roses logo across the back of a size extra-small jean jacket. Without question I was ‘sign of the horns’ psyched about the prospective project. Unfortunately by the time my Mother was able to complete the project I had grown almost three sizes out of the diminutive denim. To her credit, she did finish it…. and it did kick cross-stitching-ass. Now that my daughters are getting bigger I need to dig up this unused …

“He’s a pretty serious guy but once you get to know him, he’s a real kid at heart“. You ever take the time to think about what the hell being a kid at heart actually means? It seems the phrase is tossed into the description of someone like a consolation prize for being pretty dickish. Besides, the heart is where all our painful and powerful yearning takes place whereas our brain is where all our hair-brained, risk-taking, double-rainbow appreciating takes place. So what good is being young at heart when …

Everyone talks about how “dialed-in” we are as a culture and how increasingly difficult it is to “unplug”. As technology has evolved it is always the “next big thing” that will be the undoing of life as we know it rendering the old ways irrelevant. Each new development being demonized by the paternal attachments to the innovations that defined the generation previous. I consider myself someone who is extremely plugged-in. Between my time spent online, checking emails, social networking, text messaging, checking-in, researching, blogging, reading feeds, managing my calendar AGHHHH! …

Friendship and family are the fabric of life. So when a friend is in need I say we take that fabric and stretch a canvas.

In a few hours I will be bound for Brooklyn, USA. I am visiting a very close friend of mine who will be training me on some technical Flash projects. I am very excited to get back to the city the still pulls me in like a bad relationship. I miss New York terribly and Brooklyn in particular. In honor of this great Borough and my impending weekend I have collected some shots from a larger set by photographer Danny Lyon that detail Brooklyn during the summer of ’74. …

Paint can be explosive and paint can be contained. Artist Colin Chillag has found the path that runs right through the middle. His portfolio has a wide array of varied content but his stand-out material are his collection of portraits. Big fan, big man.

When I was growing up we would often play in the open expanse of vacant lots (in Detroit) and lush tree-filled lots that would act as “filler” between the houses in the neighborhoods (in Philly). In the cut of these unclaimed urban areas would often be the final resting place for all sorts of wild and domestic critter. As kids we would stumble upon these often half-decayed carcasses, with skin erosion exposing weathered bone yet still clinging firm to patches of fur and stench. Each kid would deal with these …

The great Lenny Bruce once said, “Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.” If this is in fact true, where do the dead neon cadavers specimens of the sea go to live? Silly question. They go to the same place pregnant pig computer hackers go to get famous. The interweb! This “New World Transparent Specimen” project has me transfixed and reinforces my belief that there is no end to what shinanigans human beings are up to across the globe. While I was out assistant coaching my daughters t-ball …

Contemporary Art is typically digested in two ways by the common populace. Either, 1. “My kid could do that. It ain’t art” or 2. “What the fuck is that? It ain’t art”.  Both expressions of the same negative, belittling attitude attempt to neuter creative expression that difficult to categorize or quantify. As the years pass I find myself more and more attracted to the odd and contemporary. I rolled through the Philadelphia Art Museum last weekend and found myself  giddy and giggly standing next to some Warhol “Brillo Boxes” and …

Yarn is out of control!! I haven’t seen such an unexpected explosion of creative material since the Oregon Highway Department decided to get into the business of detonating dead sperm whales on the beach. For realz. Check out Etsy vendor and needlework veterinarian Emily Stoneking and her lovable “aKNITomy” line of dissected crafty critters. Not only are they the most adorably eviscerated plush varmints you ever laid eyes on but they are also made to order. I gotta get mine, you gotta get yours!

Art imitates life. And your face is going to imitate a Jackson Pollock if you step to me the wrong way when I am up to my chin in Yeungling. Now I’m a peace-loving chap for the most part but there is never a time when I am not ready and willing to break out the Bud-Chucks and reprimand a party-foul!! These cement-filled 12oz cans of Bud created by Brooklyn based industrial designer Chen Chen and Kai Tsien Williams kicks ass as fast as Tango and Cash. The only thing …

If Toy Story were non-fiction I imagine the social and cultural interactions between toys would be far less like ours and much more like a warped, pseudo-society of chaos, acid-inducing violence and desperate awkwardness based on the perverted observations of our own disfunctional behavior. Enter the assemblage and photography of Diana Thorneycroft. (Awesome name for an artist for what it’s worth.) I have a sample here but you should check out her site and submerge yourself into a world where bald eagles snatch up chained moneys, lonely voyeuristic lumberjacks gaze …

Life is all about the journey, right? I talk a lot about the “path”. Finding the path, uncovering the path, looking back on the path, baby got path, pathamatics… Unfortunately the path we take is one that can only be traced back with the help from our fleeting memory. We don’t leave a tactile trail and even if we did our paths would be crissed and crossed by the millions of other paths that are left behind as people grind on making it virtually impossible to rediscover the trail. We …

Sometimes it’s just that simple.

Wayne White is dirt nasty with it! The artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer was also a jaw-droppingly awesome set designer for Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Damn. The resume is gold but completely unnecessary when filing through his incredible set of word paintings. The colorful three dimensional block letter-forms that seems to playfully integrate into the conservative landscape painting is super-duper fresh. Take a few and check out his site. Legend level livelihood.

While upper-class society is obsessed with body and facial modification artist Hyung Ko Lee has found a shortcut that can reduce the wrinkles around your eyes and enlarge your lips puffier than diddy dirty money. Social commentary art that looks this weird is so damn fresh to me. There is a lot of work that goes into making a crazy ass helmet like this. Respect due my man.

I try to ride the line when curating content for my blog balancing the intriguing with the digestible. Every now and then I uncover a project that runs a bit unsettling. This is one of them. Artist collective Dorothy created a project speaking on the devastating psychological effects that war has on soldiers returning from the horrors of the battlefield. Quoting from their site: “The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on …

What’s the time?!?! It’s time to disassemble expensive watches and meticulously reassemble the pieces into surprisingly detailed and accurate motorcycle sculptures! Either that or it’s time to get ill. Whatever. When it comes to recycling watch parts and banging out mini-choppers, artist Dmitriy Khristenko knows what time it is. Aint that right Flav? Yea Boooyyyy!

For generations, potholes in the skid row streets of Paris have sat solemnly empty and alone only grabbing the fleeting attention of a slam-bam-thank you-ma’am confident & cocky Good Year or an over-bloated braggadocios Bridgetone. Well no longer. Thanks to artist Juliana Santacruz Herrera these physical and emotional voids in the streets of Paris will now be filled with color, creativity and fabric art. That’s right I said it. You know why? Cus’ it’s as true as the nephew of a tattooed gnu from the bayou chewing a see-through kazoo. …

New Jersey based, Koren born artist So Yoon Lym has put together an absolutely gorgeous body of acrylic on paper paintings that detail the intricately bound and tightly woven braid styles of her fellow Paterson New Jersey residents. These highly detailed paintings reflect the complex social, cultural and ethnic paths and experiences the subjects exemplify. Check out her site and make sure and read her description of the project. I’m loving her work.

Whether you like it or not, we as creative people are a community and when one of our soldiers falls in the line of battle we have an obligation to band together and take particular observation and show remembrance for someone who gave his life to the honest art of telling the genuine story.

One of the many things that amazes me about New York City is that the people occupy it vertically. I know it is only logical but when you allow yourself to conceptualize how strange it is that we stack up so high and dig down so deep to maximize the footprint of our occupancy, it’s odd. Similar to the many layers of our Earths crust, NYC has uniquely distinct layers in of itself buzzing with ant-like anxiety, pumping harder than the heart of Pig Pun eating all-you-can-eat brunch buffet at …

We are intrinsically connected to every living creature on this planet. Artist Kate Clark is bent on making us feel uneasy while observing her literal interpretation of this philosophy. Crossing humans and animals will finally allow me to ask and get answers to the questions I have been dying to inquire upon. For instance, I would ask Mr. Bear-face, “Hello Mr. Bear-face. I have always wondered what the habitual dietary differences are between large brown bears and grizzly bears?” At which point he would claw out my juggler, devour my …

This is the kind of dollhouse that would inspire a young Jame Gumb to keep guests in a hole in the basement and take up lampshade sewing. Fantastically detailed and hauntingly manicured, these “miniatures” created by French artist Marc Giai-Miniet are hardly pint sized and demand super-sized respect. I’m pretty sure this is where Polly Pocket goes if she disobeys the commandments of her God. In a somewhat related note, I’m pretty sure I signed a lease in the mid 90′s to rent a room in one of these joints …

I never understood why hotel rooms have notoriously bad artwork hung in their rooms. I mean, they have to pay for the art either way and there isn’t really a market for people who like shitty art anyway. It is aesthetic half-steppin’ at its worst. Enter the “Secret Wall Tattoo” movement reportedly started by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. The concept is as simple as it is crushing.

Artist Kate MccGwire takes air and makes water. In aesthetic experience, it is just that simple. By pairing two polarizing elements (air and water) and frankensteining their respective iconic symbols of method (feathers and flow) she makes quite an engaging tactile experience. It is amazing how captivating a polarizing pairing can be.

For every ten cute little kitties we’ve had the luxury of petting over the years there has been one that had a little of the devil in her. Relax ladies, I am far from obscurely referring to your sexuality. I’m referring to candles. Yep, check this cute little devil candle out! Created by Royal College of Art graduate Thorunn Arnadottir, this petite polygon persian purrs perversity. Pussycat please!

Creative collective Creative Democracy adds just the right touch of paint that turns the urban mundane into playful terrain. Good work good people.

With the sharp rise in digitally influenced installation and video game art there has been a few gems that have reached out and fragged me in my digital grill-piece. One in particular is the fabricated 80’s style stand-up arcade game, “Jeff Koons Must Die“. For a mere 25 cents you are armed with a rocket launcher and can traverse a gallery featuring the work of the polarizing Koons with the choice of pleasantly enjoying the work or sending it to Timbuktu. Pretty cool until some psychopath goes postal in a …

Stacks of money got you bored? Call up Scott Campbell and he’ll take care of that problem dumb quick. Stacking up your greenbacks, cutting them down and revealing their true complexion. Scott leverages tattoo art and smashes it with a contemporary vision creating these laser cut stacks of Washingtons.  I am all about this “subtraction” art lately.(here and here) Retraction for creative expansion. Scott Campbell is pure nasty with it.

Every now and then I cross paths with an artist who had refined a process so intense that it blow the cap off my skull. Check out the absolutely incredible sculpted book-work of Brian Dettmer. It may take you a few moments to orient yourself but once you do you will see one of the most implausibly crafted works of art created from existing material you have ever seen. The process is described quite simply. A book is chosen, nothing is added and only chunks of pages are removed. Once …

The year is 1718 and you have just celebrated your 23rd birthday on the main deck of Queen Anne’s Revenge. You have been living in your parents clay hovel rent-free with the agreement that you would help fix the thatched roof over the summer. Needless to say you spent the majority of your days recovering from long nights drinking ginger beer and imported bourbon while your nights were choc-full-o karaoke night at the local tavern singing “Soldier, Soldier Will You Marry Me“. Before you knew it, your folks have thrown …

What is cooler than handcrafting a highly detailed replica Hasselblad pinhole camera from cardboard? Sharing the comprehensive instructions on how you did it with the rest of us. Hell yea. Check this thing out! It was created by artist Kelly Angood who has since created a website for others to share the fruits from their collaborative labor. She comes up with a killer concept, skillfully executes, open sources the process(instructions available for  download) and provides a forum (dedicated site) for participants to share their photos as well! Damn. I wish …

For the Grandma who likes to knit after a long crack smoking session.

I’ve seen a lot of startling work created with a lot of outrageous materials but from time to time even I get rattled. I’ve sat on this story for a few days unable to clearly classify my feelings about this project so understand that this one is particularly unsettling.

When government censorship reigns supreme and art studios are reduced to rubble it seems only logical that the creative community would form a retreat and prioritize their safety over their freedom of expression. In an act of artistic brilliance Chinese artist Liu Bolin has managed to take cover through an act of harmonious aesthetic execution. A truly creative act of social resistance by painting yourself invisible. Wow. With the help from a few assistants Mr. Bolin is painted to seamlessly blend in to the setting in which he stands motionless. …

If your lady keeps insisting on buying one of those tiny yappy Paris Hilton puppies when all you want is a Turner & Hooch bulldog it may be time to remember that relationships are about compromise and give a call to Sokoblovsky, Russias finest perveyors of Petite Lap Giraffes. Word is that they eat bonzai tree leaves, can be trained to use a litterbox, and will “make tears” if they are not showered with hugs and kisses. They prefer the sound stylings of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and don’t bite children. I …