Check out the hand-painted artwork on these 12×12 vinyl records by artist Justin Tolentino. Tolentino has been a part of the hip-hop and graffiti scene since he was 15-years-old when he began bombing the streets of St. Louis.
His work takes from the worlds of high art as well as that of the underground art world. More of Tolentino’s artwork can be found at www.tolentinoarts.etsy.com.
Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings, which premiered at the Public Theatre in New York this past October, is now available in print. The compelling stage-memoir, produced by Spike Lee and the Culture Project, is recounts Lemon’s emotional coming-of-age tale detailing his gritty upbringing on his way to poetic success.
County of Kings is published independently by County of Kings Publishing, which also published Lemon’s first book Ready Made Real. The memoir promises to be the Down These Mean Streets for the hip-hop generation.
This is the kind of memoir that redefines a genre while telling a true tale of an all-American community from the 1980’s to the present.
County of Kings is currently available on Amazon.com. Check out Scribe Culture’s review of County of Kings here.
Check out these killer canvas paintings of five Big Apple Hip Hop legends by New York City-based clothing brand TWON dubbed “Borough Presidents.”
Each painting represents one of New York’s five boroughs with Nas representing Queens; Notorious B.I.G, Brooklyn; Ol Dirty Bastard, Staten Island; Big L, Manhattan; and Big Pun, The Bronx.
The images of these rap stars have also been made available on t-shirts as well and can be found at TWONNYC.com.
TWON’s designs are New York City-centric; taking influences from the cultural clashes taking place everyday in the city that never sleeps. The brand is small but steadily growing with retail accounts in REED SPACE, UNION NYC/LA, Memes, Premium Goods NY, Atmos NYC, Essence in Japan and In4mation in Hawaii.
Art collector Camden Noir has released his art book, Label 228: A Street Art Project, a compilation of street art created on United States Postal Service priority mail labels.
Noir launched his street project by reaching out to hundreds of artists, asking them to send him artwork on priority mail labels. In six months, he received over 500 labels from artists all over the world. At this point, he has over 1,500 labels from over 600 artists. This is a collection of the best of those labels, in a beautiful, full-color book.
It’s a remarkably popular method of featuring art by graffiti artists worldwide. These labels are free, portable and easy to exhibit, offering graf artists alternate canvases besides walls, vehicles, or public property.
Label 228 is available on October 20 at Powells.com and Amazon.com.
Driven by individuality and thriving on non-conventionality, artist and professor of jewelry & metalsmithing Frankie Flood breaks away from what he perceives as traditional industrialism. Through his masterful creations, wether it’s a tricked-out VW Beetle or a chopper-inspired pizza cutter, his rebellious perspective echoes nonconformity. ”The outlaw biker image is a break from the conformity that has taken over America since industrialization… The outlaw as defiant nonconformist, as well as social outcast, parallels being an artist who makes functional objects and being an individual who takes pride in the power of invention and skill.”
Scribe Culture recently had the privilege of chatting it up with the busy artist where we discussed his early influences, the lack of art programs in schools and focusing your artistic energy!
Everyone has probably read Maurice Sendak’s children’s’ classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” but now that Spike Jonze’s adaptation is hitting the silver screen, Urban Outfitters has helped spruce up Space 15 Twenty’s pop-up store in anticipation of the movie’s release.
Located in Los Angeles, the space is heavily adorned with branch sculptures, fiberglass oak trees and sprawled with early sketches by Sonny Gerasimowicz, art director of the movie.
The forest-inspired, interactive store was designed to give fans a sense of what it would be like to run through the wild with Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper who creates his own world, a forest to be exact, that’s inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.
The Wild Thing Pop-Up Shop also has special costumes designed by Christian Joy, as well as merchandise and artwork. A percentage of the profits generated at the pop-up store will go to 826 Valencia, a charity dedicated to supporting students with their writing skills.
Max and his motley crew of monsters charge their way into theaters October 16. In the meantime, take a look at this awesome trailer:
The human brain constantly processes visual information, unlike the eye that can only receive limited amounts of visual stimuli, but as the visual information is rapidly processed, it gives the illusion of continuous sight.
Due to the different cells and receptors in your eyes that distinguish images and colors at dissimilar speeds, the visual illusions below appear to move before your eyes, although some have gone cross-eyed trying to do so.
Driven by individuality and thriving on non-conventionality, artist and professor of jewelry & metalsmithing 
