Some fresh wheatpaste from artist Karl Addison in Seattle, Washington recently. It's a good thing we are fanatics for mustaches, vintage bikes and properly dressed polar bears.
Via Unurth
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
It is rare to see a company put out a commercial that actually makes us feel both nostalgic and crack a smile.
Many companies tend to try too hard to be viral or hire hip/trendy people and artists and what not to sell their products. We understand the nature of that. It's business and you want to reach a specific/certain market. But, most of the time it is not pulled off and leads to a giant FAIL within the community that you tried to connect with.
But, when we ran across this commercial, it really did make us remember the days in Venice that we would wake up to palm trees and telephone wires and grab a board and just skate the day away. Granted, now we can't enjoy those moments as much as we wish we could, but to watch this, gave us the nostalgic feeling that "Hey, that is so us back in the day" (before we became old farts who blog and watch youtube videos).
Good to see NIKE SB actually put out something that, for a change, made us leave the Youtube window open to the very end.
Enjoy:
Many companies tend to try too hard to be viral or hire hip/trendy people and artists and what not to sell their products. We understand the nature of that. It's business and you want to reach a specific/certain market. But, most of the time it is not pulled off and leads to a giant FAIL within the community that you tried to connect with.
But, when we ran across this commercial, it really did make us remember the days in Venice that we would wake up to palm trees and telephone wires and grab a board and just skate the day away. Granted, now we can't enjoy those moments as much as we wish we could, but to watch this, gave us the nostalgic feeling that "Hey, that is so us back in the day" (before we became old farts who blog and watch youtube videos).
Good to see NIKE SB actually put out something that, for a change, made us leave the Youtube window open to the very end.
Enjoy:
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Heelbruise Love and Guts Artshow
Saturday night, Abztract hit up the Heelbruise Love and Guts artshow presented by Crewest Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. We had the pleasure of attending the event alongside Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Craig Stecyk, Jeff Ho, a bunch of Z Boys.... and Daryl Hannah (WTF was our initial thought too).
Was definatley fun to be out in Downtown LA with all those cats in one room. The event was rad and featured some great work by some amazing talents. We had a really good time (plus, who doesn't love Daryl Hannah? The chick was a sword wielding pirate woman in KILL BILL for Christ sake!)
Enjoy some photos from the event
Saturday, August 1, 2009
MOM & POPism : A day with friends
If you have been following our blog, you may have recently read that Abztract Featured Artist BILLI KID is curating this great event along with James and Karla Murray named MOM & POPism which is an interpretation of J&K Murray's book titled STORE FRONT: The disappearing face of New York.Today, Abztract artist Shai Dahan, along with Billi Kid and many other talented artists such as Blanco, Chris (RWK), Cycle, Enamel Kingdom, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Royce Bannon, Ticky and Under Water Pirates and many others joined together (on what must have been the hottest day in NYC) on one roof at the Gawker Artists Studio.
Each artist got their own area to paint over one of James and Karla's photos of the NYC Mom & Pop shops from their book. The prints were near life size and were wheat-pasted beautifully across the rooftop.
It was a fantastic day with some amazing talents gathering on one roof to create, build and explore the beauty in street art and graffiti.
Enjoy some of the images below* (we will have more soon). We also encourage you to visit the exhibit on the Gawker Artists rooftop during the public opening. You can view the public invitation by clicking: here
* To respect the artists, we chose to not feature any photos with the artists in them. Instead we gathered a collection of images featuring their work only.
a tribute to IZ the WIZ as well as a little New Yolk appearance by artist Shai Dahan
a SACE tribute was also given
The art work of artist Shai Dahan (bottom left)
artist Shai Dahan
artwork by Billi Kid
artwork by Blanco
David Cooper
David Cooper
artist duo Peru Ana Ana Peru
RWK (Robots Will Kill) right, Golden Mustache on left
Robots Will Kill
Ticky
Under Water Pirates
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