Brazilian Artist Stephan Doitschinoff - Novo Mundo

I have to say that I kind of see the whole skull thing in Latino art as played out, but this piece really strikes me as fresh. I especially like the sinking ship in the brain area of the head. The color sky blue and earthy colors combined with wall paper patterns and iconography, I get a sense of natural vs processed, and old vs new. Cool stuff. You can check out more of his stuff at is website



http://www.stephandoit.com.br/

The Yes Men - NY Times Fraud

For those of you who haven't heard of the "The Yes Men", they are definitely worth checking out. They put out a movie, in 2004, titled "The Yes Men", that is super low budget, creative and hilarious (beware hamburger lovers). Here is how this group of artist describe themselves on their website:

"Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of everything else."

So the yes men pulled another brilliant stunt as described on Wired Magazine Blog:

"In an elaborate hoax, pranksters distributed thousands of free copies of a spoof edition of The New York Times on Wednesday morning at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street stations along Eighth Avenue, and Pacific Street in Brooklyn, among others.

The spurious 14-page papers — with a headline “IRAQ WAR ENDS” — surprised commuters, many of whom took the free copies thinking they were legitimate...read more

Here is the website of the paper...enjoy

Yes Men Site

Shepard Fairy - New Barack Obama Poster

I missed out on this one. A special edition by artist Shepard Fairy, the artist who created the HOPE and CHANGE Barack Obama Poster just sold 5000 on moveon.org for a 20.00 donation.

http://pol.moveon.org/shepposters/

Oh..Shepard does it again!

Banksy - Thomas the Tank

This is another piece from Banksy that I just love. Two guys tagging "Thomas the Tank"... it is just brilliant. Suburbia defiled.

Juxtapoz Magazine - Worth Checking Out

For quite some time now Juxtapoz Magazine has been one of my favorite resources for checking out some hip art. If you into getting some prints for under 40 bucks check out their prints section

Shepard Fairly - Henry Rollins Interviews him

For those of you who don't know, Shepard Fairy is the artist who gave us the famous Obama image that we have seen everywhere.

In this video you can learn a little more about him

Salvador Dali - Ok This video you gotta see

The more I find on artist Salvador Dali, the more I like. This guy is over the top. Kind of reminds me of David Bowie on "Ashes to Ashes" video. I love the you tube comment on this that says, "if i'm ever rich and have no job this is what i'd do all day". Watching this made me more creative today.

Salvador Dali - Strange and Loving it

The thing I do like about Salvador Dali, is he went for it. He was totally committed at the risk of people possibly committing him. I am convinced he just got a kick out of tripping people out. What a great way to make a living. Here is a video of some of his antics

Mark Ryden - Amazing Artist

Mark Ryden is one of my favorite artist. His combination of childlike images, goth, fantasy and traditional painting techniques are very cool. I would highly recommend checking out his site at markryden.com/