The feud between Banksy and Robbo continues, although the so called feud, seems to be heading down a one way street with Robbo continuing to modify all of Banksy’s work in sight. As Banksy’s mainstream success has sky rocketed with the release of his debut film, his street cred seems to be going down the drain. Will Banksy answer back? Hit the jump to see more modifications to Banky’s work.
The Times has an interesting interview with Banksy.
“There’s a problem with being in the public eye — you have to become very tough, to grow a thick skin and ignore other people’s opinions. It’s unfortunate because those are the traits you actually least want in your public figures or artists. ‘He who goes to bed in a suit of armour doesn’t get much sleep’ is an old Chinese proverb. People might ask — how can you demand anonymity while doing a six-page spread in The Sunday Times Magazine?” he continues. “But the answer to that is simple — you just have to be a massive hypocrite.”
Read the whole interview here.
To celebrate the partnership between MetroPCS and legendary artist Mister Cartoon, Snoop Dogg has contributed two new, unreleased tracks to the new Sanctioned by Mister Cartoon mobile phone.
Hit the jump to check out the phone…
Recently, the public got a taste of whats to come from the partnership of Sanctioned and MetroPCS. The communications provider allowed three titans of street art to leave their mark on retail stores in the Harlem and the Bronx. West Coast legend Mister Cartoon hooked up with two East Coast heavyweights, Cope2 and Sen2, to deliver a powerful message. Fully bombing the windows, the artists left their calling card for the morning commuters to marvel at. Take a look while you can: 115th & Lexington in Harlem; E. Fordham and E. Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx;3rd and E.151 in the Bronx.
This documentary explored the studios and methods of six of the top street artists in America: Faile, Skewville, Mike De Feo, Dan Witz, Espo and Tiki Jay One.
BENEFIT ART PROGRAM TO HELP RAISE MONEY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE HAITI EARTHQUAKE
SA Studios Global’s Film Marketing Division has joined with Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company to present, The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds. The art programs is to help raise money to benefit the victims of the Haiti Earthquake. All proceeds will be donated to the The American Red Cross.
The artists involved in this project are David Choe, Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Grotesk, Jeremy Fish, Patrick Martinez, Alex Pardee, Dora Drimalas, Munk One, N8 Van Dyke, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breath and Skinner Davis, and each of them where givin the opertunity to to create their own poster art based from their interpretation of the film, Inglourious Basterds. There will only be six prints of each poster, and each one will be signed by Quentin Tarantino. The prints will cost $300, and will be available from 6pm to 9pm on Thursday February 18th, 2010 at Upper Playground Los Angeles located at 125 East 6th Street in Downtown LA.
Hit the jump to see all the artwork.
Global warming is upon us! Take shelter my fellow humans.
Seriously, I’ve got no idea what this is or what this is from. All I know is it takes the cake if there’s a real SLR underneath all that. Although my guess is there isn’t one.
Derick Montez and Mike Giant bomb some roll down doors on Haight St. in San Francisco, with filmmaker Justin Gallagher in tow. Tunes provided courtesy of Minotaur Shock (Breaking Away).
