In China, there is a tradition of street art in which an individual uses a brush dipped in water to write out messages or poetry. This leaves a very temporary mark which disappears as it evaporates. Beijing-based artist Nicholas Hanna wanted to take it a step further and automate the whole...

Vice Cooler is a modern day renaissance man.Henry Rollins lists the guy as an inspiration. If the lead singer of Black Flag is inspired by you, you are definitely doing something. He started his first band,  XBXRX, at 15 years old and has since gone on to involve himself in countless...

You know how when you place two mirrors in front of each other and look in, a seemingly endless hall of mirrors appears? That’s called an Infinite Regress. The French artist, architect and theorist Serge Salat decided to manipulate this concept as much as he could, manifesting in an...

Battles will make you dance, but not really the style of dance you want anyone to see. Battles dancing is uncontrollable and awkward, you can’t help but lose yourself and freak out to the almost off-beat melodies; seemingly endless loops played over jangly synth lines and guitar riffs...

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter is no stranger to the world of directing, and the world of fashion is no stranger to the art of conceptual film (evidenced by our look at Gareth Pugh). Therefor, it’s a pleasant although not too shocking surprise Bangalter has directed the latest...

Sometimes art is offensive and loud. It can make you feel a host of emotions. I usually don’t look to the genre of child photography to be moved towards any sort of conclusion other than “aww, that kid with food on his face is cute.”  That changes with the most recent photo...

  This is what sound looks like when it’s painted. This project was put together by the design studio Dentsu and the photographer Linden Gledhill to help advertise for Canon Pixma Printers. They achieved these images using a small speaker with a thin membrane stretched over its...

I remember one day during my senior year in high school, I was sitting next to my friend Michael Burk in science class when he decided he was bored enough to doodle on his shoes. Burk’s the kind of guy that can do just about anything with flair, so when kids started freaking out over his...

Luzinterruptus wants to shine a light on our problems. Easily enough, they do this using light. The two-person anonymous art collective Luzinterruptus has been operating in and around Madrid for quite a while. One is a photographer and one is an artist, both are inspired by light. So light is...

I have a weak spot for Latin American street art. The graffiti movement in Latin American countries is one of the most expressive and colorful that I have ever seen. It speaks to me. This is why when my friend Bé from Bogota, Colombia kept telling me about a street artist named Stinkfish, I...

  Alex McLeod creates abandoned and desolate candy coated landscapes that don’t actually exist. When you look at his work, you imagine the painstaking process he went through to create each and every single detail of this world. How long it must of taken him to put each piece of...

Miranda July‘s art is really heavy. That might be why her newest exhibition at the MOCA Pacific Design Center is titled “Eleven Heavy Things.” Miranda July is an artist and a filmmaker. She directed the film Me and You and Everyone We Know.  She also wrote a book I enjoyed...

The Compact Disc was created and first marketed in 1982. Since that point, more than 200 billion have been manufactured. A daunting number when you consider they’re mainly made from petroleum. This is one of the realizations French artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard...

When Graceyy Mayer was only three, her mom innocently left her alone in the kitchen with some finger paint and hopped in the shower. When she came back minutes later, she found her daughter stripped down and absolutely covered in “warrior princess” designs. “I was...

  Iepe Rubingh is a Dutch self-proclaimed guerilla artist and World Chess-Boxing champion. He recently collaborated on a project with The Anonymous Crew in the streets of Berlin. Using bicycles with drop buckets filled with paint, they entered a major intersection and dropped it in big...