According to some, the streets are at a crossroads. Not long ago, the art covering the bricks and blank spaces of the city was more likely to get you in trouble than in Christie's, but today's take leans more towards…
Continue Reading →Take some modern furniture, a liquor cabinet, and an endless supply of questionable ethics, and you have advertising in its heyday. Surround that with a white picket fence (and some very good bone structure), and you have Mad Men, AMC's…
Continue Reading →Streetwear is so hype right now. Thanks to sites like High Snobiety, Honeyee -- and jeez, even this one -- wild graphics and even wilder collabs have become as venerated as the celebrities that like to be spotted in them.…
Continue Reading →Ah, Chuck Anderson. Fresh, brave, and brilliant from all angles, we turned our sights towards this self-taught, Michigan-based designer in 2005, when the then 20-year old's portfolio was already competitive with those of players twice his age. Since then, Chuck…
Continue Reading →Josh Keyes is a tough artist to put into words. Initially, "painstaking" seems like the most appropriate term to describe his hyper-realistic paintings-- after all, the detail is above the average human being's level of artistic devotion. What else would…
Continue Reading →"Sure we've never been bears, but that doesn't mean we've never loved one," says Luke Chueh, the man behind some of today's more recognizable pop-surrealist paintings. That's one way that the SF-based artist tries to explain the world's growing affinity…
Continue Reading →If this were a celebrity gossip magazine, I would say this and call it a wrap: Mel Kadel lives with her boyfriend in an old Mormon stagecoach. Unfortunately, the just slightly higher journalistic standards of this site force me to…
Continue Reading →You can look at it one of two ways: Method was ahead of their time, or right on time. I tend to lean towards the former, because with a clear mission, a clear conscious, and a clearly obsessive attitude towards…
Continue Reading →When I was 12, I really liked reading women's magazines. A voice of wisdom in a world of tight-lipped adults, they offered up tantalizing life-lessons. Lessons like The #1 Best Sex Position to Try When on African Vacation, and How…
Continue Reading →The story of a rejected artist finally making it big time is as familiar as the tales our grandparents like to tell us: "I walked 17 miles, barefoot, through three feet of snow; I dog-walked in New York through rejection…
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