Our friends over at Beach have just launched their brand spanking new website.
It’s now a lot easier to see what’s happening at Beach, what’s happened, and to find out more about their recently-integrated agency. They’ve also added some new books, prints and artworks, including some beautiful new books by Lubok Verlag, prints by Nous Vous and Crispin Finn and much more.
A few snaps of the latest collab between Shida and TwoOne.. Completed over 2 days in East Brunswick, Melbourne.
The Jaunt is a new concept from The Netherlands, put together by Jeroen Smeets. The aim is pair up inspirational cities with talented artists to produce unique work.
“Stepping out of your comfort zone and experiencing new surroundings is often quoted as the main source of inspiration for artists. We aim to provide these inspirations to artists by organising jaunts. Short and pleasurable excursions or journeys.
For each jaunt we will send an artist to a new destination. Once arrived, the artist will soak up all of the local impressions and inspirations. From freshly brewed local coffee to small boutiques, neoclassical architecture, overcrowded tourist sights and whatever else falls in their way.
The artist will work all of these new impressions into a limited edition screen print, thereby creating a unique travel document. The limited edition screen prints are exclusively offered at sight unseen. You know which artist is going to which location, but the outcome is yet to be determined. This way you are part of the inspiration while experiencing the creative process. All at a very affordable price.”
The latest Jaunt to be organised is to the city of Porto in Portugal where artist Collin van der Sluijs will be producing art based on his experiences travelling to enjoy the atmosphere, culture and people of Porto. ‘Collin’s work is best described as the personal pleasures and struggles in his daily life, translated to his own visual language.’
Soulful Creative is a creative studio that brings brands to life through the magic of making authentic handcrafted & digital visual communications that are fresh, unique & inspirational.
For their first ad in VNA issue 22 they wanted to showcase their creative services in a fun way. Playing on the tag line, they mixed up illustration, graffiti art and traditional signwriting skills within the design; they then hand painted the ad very large on the side of their studio, before photographing it for use in the magazine.
Check out this video of the process.
New work from resident VNA designer Moose & Yeti
Long term Friend of ours and past VNA contributing writer Airborne Mark (Graffiti name The Pilot) is back once again with a new EP of his distinctive rhymes, this time entitled “CloudQuartered“..
The man with the unique sound and even more unique hair is back! as I have said before, I am a massive fan of people who grab life by the balls and make shit happen. Mark is no exception. Pushing to create a career in both his art and hip hop in his own way and off his own back is impressive and admirable.
The EP can be easily downloaded via www.airbornemark.bandcamp.com
“BeyondNess” Official Music Video (HD) : YouTube: http://youtu.be/XiMjXjOXX3o
Check out some of the Pilot’s graffiti HERE…
Sunday was kinda struggle street, hanging out with Days, Steve Cross, Dboe and the Phable jeans guys on Saturday night took it’s toll after we blazed through the Adidas party. There were a bunch of internationals in the house, including the 1xRun guys from the States and the UK’s very own Insa, who seemed pretty happy to scribble in Martha Cooper’s black book…
Andrew Montell kicked off the days proceedings with an account of his student-style living during the formative years of Acclaim and the subsequent trials and errors in the production process. It was interesting to see how he refined the product and led on well to Jeff Hamada’s speech about appealing to markets. Hamada was funny, inspiring and brilliant, giving a great insight into his creative ideas and personality, which is probably one of the main reasons for www.booooooom.com’s huge success.
Eddie Huang’s presentation was lively, informed and political. He came through with a few resonating messages about people power and disarming corporations through the removal of support – i.e. voting with your feet. His intelligent voice cut through a lot of the fluff that surrounded some of the other speakers, even if it did get a little Black Panthers at times.
The final forum of the weekend included two of the most hotly anticipated guests of the weekend, Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant. The seminal duo were joined by Crack & Shine’s Will Robson-Scott. The photographic trio were a great finale for the event and Robson-Scott really held his own against Martha and Henry.
His talk was lively, amusing and socially critical – touching on themes of unfair jail time for graffiti writers and an interesting take on film vs. digital photography: “It’s like the vinyl versus cd debate…” he quipped, when Martha tried to put him in his place with her obvious experience and current preference for digital (most notably her recent instagram addiction).
All in, Andrew and the rest of the Carbon crew did an amazing job pulling in such a great line-up and putting on an awesome event. Massive respect and big ups to Bella, Edwina and the guys for all their hard work. Definitely one for the diary next year.
Nice collab piece with Toasters and Thai artist Alex Face in Bangkok.
Barry McGee was possibly the highlight of the day; after bailing on everyone (including Acclaim) for his press appointments in order to get his daily dose of surf, the reclusive artist came through with a somewhat unorthodox presentation. Predictably focusing on graffiti, he skittered through a slide show that was basically the equivalent of a graff-heads porn collection, interspersed with wavy anecdotes and comments from an alternate reality.
The Q&A for Forum B raised some interesting notions on social media and new technology from Geoffrey Lillernon, which made his actual seminar presentation seem washy and self-indulgent in its focus, which was primarily aimed at his own personal, whimsically rebellious art-house projects.
Mark Drew’s passion for hip hop and little insights into his own personal life made for an entertaining show, focusing on his recent ‘Deez Nuts’ project and zine and the subsequent ongoing legal fallout – offering to give us some creative input further down the line, ‘from jail’.
Shawn Stussy was the star of the show in Forum A, with pretty much the entire room bowing in deference to one of the self-acknowledged O.G.’s of the streetwear. His verbose concerns of anyone wanting to be involved with his new S-Double label seemed to ring a little hollow. Like, I’m pretty sure it’s a safe bet NO-ONE will be interested in any new projects from one of the forefathers of the scene. After a 15 year break. It’s not like that’s a fashionista’s wet dream or anything…
We caught up with Booooooom.com founder, Jeff Hamada for a little sociological take on his own particular platform (more to come on this one)
Ronnie Fieg provided an amusingly anecdotal floor with his stories about growing up as a young, jewish kid from Queens, who now champions Asics after his mother failed to buy him the trendiest kicks of which he dreamed. The 30 year-old has sacrificed marriage and kids to follow his dream (but probably not skimped on fun and girls along the way, one suspects…)
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Sneaker Freaker founder, Simon ‘Woody’ Wood, was probably the most legit talker of the day. No doubt this guy has one of the most prodigiously in-depth knowledges of trainers in the world – both Ronnie Fieg and PM Tenore asked for his confirmation during their speeches – and his chat was definitely on point today; the main message being do what you love, the rest will follow…
Dabs Myla, the sole incarnation of two souls bound in love and creativity, were the epitome of a duo so profoundly intertwined, they made Batman and Robin look like enemies. The cute couple spent their time finishing each others sentences and providing an insight into what really makes a partnership tick – trust, honesty, hard work and knowledge. Keep it locked for a more in-depth update from these guys.
