Whoa man! I am freakin’ out! Those shrooms are turning on me man. They’re turning on me!
Credits:
A film by Daniel Britt and Joseph Pelling
Richard O’ Callaghan as The Coin
Sound design and score by Andrew KinneAr
‘I Can Achieve Anything’
Music by Martin Messent
Lyrics by D.Britt, J.Pelling
Performed by M.Messent
Some friends of mine including Aaron, who occasionally blogs for Changethethought, worked very hard on the relaunch of the Vision Street Wear website. They did a really great job and the site turned out fantastic.
A very long time ago, when I was in highschool, Vision was kind of the skater brand of choice for a while. I think I had a Vision t-shirt or something to that effect at one time, even though I never possessed enough athletic ability to stand on a skateboard for more than 5 minutes at a stretch. There was something kind of punk rock about Vision when I was a kid that spoke to my DIY ethic. I think they are kind of rekindling those roots with some of their new merchandise. There is also an interview with me on the site that gets into a little bit of what I do and why I do it. Thanks to the Vision crew and congratulations on a successful site.
What I really like about Lou Beach and his bizarro illustrations is how they kind of force you to reconsider something familiar and look at it in an entirely new way. Give yourself a little time to look all the way through his body of work. It’s worth it.
And is a Melbourne, Australia-based design studio that has some really slick work in their recently-released portfolio. They were kind enough to email in their work and I was impressed. Good stuff.
Move to Denver because it is just awesome. Plain and simple.
This is quite possibly one of the most horrible news stories to break in a long time. It is literally enough to make you sick. Just awful. Can’t even post details. Lets pray this is an insanity case.
Ryan Brinkerhoff has some really nice prints up for sale at Bandito Design Co. The print above kind of made my entire typographical day and you can buy it at Etsy for only $20 bucks.
Painter Amy Casey has generated some really unusual paintings. The thing you notice after getting over the interesting imagery and composition is the really controlled color palette.
Damien Rudd has some really nice imagery in his photography portfolio both at his website and in his Flickr-folio. There is a lyrical dreamy quality about his work that is like a warm summer breeze. That sounded so super duper cheesey that it was kind of awesome, but seriously that is kind of what it’s like.
Hugo Hoppmann has some really simple but considered work in his portfolio. There is some nice use of typography going on throughout his body of work and it’s pretty impressive considering his tender age of 21 years.
“Young Monster is an art collective based out of Chattanooga, TN, specializing in design and screen-printing.” They have some red hot gig posters in their portfolio. Pure bad ass.
Beautiful Decay has released their summer line of apparel. There are some really nice examples of contemporary design and illustration meets the tee shirt canvas but my favorite ones by far are the super simple illustrations of designer Chris Gray. Classic.
Ted Vasin paints some highly unusual imagery that I wasn’t entirely sure how to interpret. Although I like all of it very much. Beautiful use of color.
Via Human Resources.
Jonathan Bergeron refers to his work as crapalicious but it is anything but. The lush colors, texturing and attention to detail in his work is really beautiful. The subject matter and approach might be referred to as ‘lowbrow’ but the craftsmanship, technique and end result is definitely ‘fine’ art in my opinion. I’d hang that crap on my wall.
Jim is a ‘skull artist‘ pure and simple. I think a lot of people are over the whole skull thing but there is something more contemporary about Jim’s art that seems to draw more influence from ancient and even pagan ritualistic art.
Kirk Demarais does bad art good with some really funny movie-based celebrity portrait paintings that look like something painted by the girl from Napoleon Dynamite. They seem to be selling very well and they are hard not to like and would definitely be a talking piece. The family from ‘The Jerk’ above is classic.
Chris has some clever illustration work in his portfolio at Raid 71 (he works with a team of people at Source Creative).
