Mark Jenkins: Meter Pops

Posted on January 18, 2006 Under Art

The wild tape-artist and DC-based street prankster Mark Jenikns is at it again. Last year he placed "tape babies" around the city for his STORKER project. This time around he wrapped parking meters with colored tape to resemble lollipops, or…

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Peter Mitchell Updates

Posted on January 18, 2006 Under Art

Peter Mitchell has some new intriguing work up. If you're not familiar with Mitchell's work, he's a freelance illustrator for clients like the LA Times, Boston Globe, Saturday Night Live and several other major media outlets. I really adore the…

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Tembokbomber

Posted on January 9, 2006 Under Art

The great thing to me about the whole "street art" scene is how it is a truly global phenomenon. Language barriers are virtually non-existant because all communication is made via the art itself. And in that sense it's always interesting…

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Space Invader Goes Big in Paris

Posted on January 6, 2006 Under Art

I've been covering the progress of the crazy French guy with an addiction to the Space Invader character for quite some time. The Rubikcubism pieces were amazing, the mosaics are great, even the sneakers were hot. Wooster Collective has some…

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Best of JoshSpear.com ’05: Art

Posted on December 27, 2005 Under Art

Time to kick off the year in review. Here are some of the most popular Art posts on JoshSpear.com as well as some of my favorites! They're in no particular order... Acquired Art Crusade Jason Thielke Meet The World Dee…

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AmoebaCorp Scrapbooks

Posted on December 26, 2005 Under Art

Besides AmoebaCorp's impressive portfolio as a design studio, their virtual Scrap Books are awesome. They're full of "personal experiments, sketches, finished pieces and epherma of all-sorts." It's always really fun to see the unfinished and sometimes private work of a…

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Interactive Films

Posted on December 21, 2005 Under Art

This new project I found reminds me of the 'build your own mystery, choose your own ending' novels I used to read when I was younger. The site, anyfilms.net is calling it 'the future of entertainment'-- An enormous claim, but…

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Live Artwork for Adidas

Posted on December 20, 2005 Under Art

I received some great pictures of an event AM-Radio recently did for adidas. They had several artists creating live murals to help promote the launch of their Muhammed Ali line. The paintings were created by an artist collective which goes…

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Acquired Art Crusade

Posted on December 14, 2005 Under Art

Acquiring real artwork shouldn't be about whether or not you can stomach the huge price tags on good and inventive artwork these days. This project called the Acquired Art Crusade is about being lucky enough to come across art in…

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Scott Rench: Try Walking On My Shoes

Posted on December 6, 2005 Under Art

Scott Rench needs little introduction on my site, his work continues to amaze us all. He has what looks like an amazing show up at the Dubhe Carreno Gallery in Chicago. I've got some exclusive photos of the show courtesy…

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