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THIS POST ON ATCN WAS WICKED, PONIES PIMPED OUT TO LOOK LIKE CHARACTERS FROM FILMS AND COMIC BOOKS...CHECK IT OUT FOR MORE PONY-AVATARS!

AUZZIE, JAMES JIRAT PATRADOON, WAS QUOTED TO HAVE LEARNT TO DRAW BY WATCHING TOO MANY CARTOONS AND READING TOO MANY COMIC BOOKS...MY EVALUATION: I THINK ITS TIME I GEEKED IT OUT AT THE COMIC BOOK STORE

I SAW THESE CREATIONS AND WAS COMPLETELY MESMERIZED BY THE FACT THEY WERE PAPER TOYS. GRAFFITI ARTIST, SHIN TANAKA, WAS LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATE MEDIUM FOR GRAFFITI - HE CAME UP WITH TOYS; HOWEVER NO TOY WAS GOOD ENOUGH SO HE MADE THEM FROM PAPER...IT'S AN ORGASM CONJURED UP FROM ORIGAMI AND SREET CULTURE. YOU MAY THINK THAT WITH ALL THE NEW DIGITAL MEDIA, PRINT MAY LOSE IT'S PLACE IN THE FUTURE, ESPECIALLY DURING THE TIMES OF THIS RECESSION. HOWEVER, IF INNOVATIONS LIKE THIS KEEP CROPPING UP THEN BLACK MIGHT JUST BE THE NEW....BLACK? IF YOU GET THE ANALOGY...

IF YOU WANT TO SEE A VARIED PORTFOLIO OF WORK CHECK OUT KIKE BESADA'S PORFOLIO, WITH WORK FOR NIKE, NOKIA AND DIESEL!!! NOTE TO SELF: GOTTA GET PORTFOLIO GAME UP...

AS ALWAYS I GOT SUPPORT FOR ALL MY FELLOW FdA CREATIVES, LATELY A LOT OF THEM ARE KICKING THE PHOTOGRAPHY DUST IN MY FACE - LIKLE P HAS SPURRED ME ON TO GET MY OWN POLAROID CAMERA AFTER SEEING HIS AMSTERDAM PICS...UNTOUCHED, FRESH AND RAW - BRING BACK THE POLAROID STYLES! YOU THOUGHT HOUDINI WAS DEAD?...WELL THINK AGAIN, FdA HENRY HOUDINI PHOTOGRAPHY HAS EVOLVED IT'S OWN STYLE AND HAS BECOME MORE NOTICEABLE SO I EMPLORE YOU TO CHECK HIS FLICKR OUT...THERE'S MORE CONTENT COMING (ONE WORD...PANTONE TEES!!!!!) BUT WATCH THIS SPACE...HERE'S AN OPTICAL TASTER FOR YOU.

FOR ALL DAFT PUNK OR KANYE STRONGER FANS OUT THERE, YOU CAN NOW SAMPLE THE ANDROID VOICES BY USING iDAFT BETA 0.3 ONLINE!!! JUST WATCH THE CLOCK THOUGH...THIS ONE'S A TIME BURNER

FOR THE PAST YEAR OR SO IV'E BEEN KEEPING UP WITH VA-G FASHION MOVEMENTS THROUGH THE INTERNET, FIRST TIME I SAW ONE OF THEIR GARMENT PIECES WHEN A UNI BUDDY SPORTED THEIR GARMENTS AND WAS EVEN INVOLVED IN THE PROMOTION THROUGH A MUSIC VIDEO. VA-G BEGAN IN SUMMER OF '07 WITH TWO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, VIDAL BULL JR AND ALAN ADEWALE. THEIR EXPLOSIVE STYLE OF LUMINOUS AND VIBRANT COLOURS, AND GRAPHICS RANGING FROM ROBOTS TO VARIOUS MOTIF'S MAKES THEIR GARMENTS BURST OUT FROM OTHER INDEPENDENT DESIGNERS ON THE SCENE. ANOTHER REASON WHY VA-G STAND OUT IS THEIR PHOTOGRAPHY, IT MAKES THEM STAND OUT EVEN MORE AND GIVES THEIR GARMENTS MORE IDENTITY...CHECK SOME OUT HERE AND FOR MORE INFO ON VA-G FOLLOW THEIR MYSPACE

IF YOU SAW THE BILLIE JEAN POST THEN YOUR GONNA LOVE SOPHIE HENSON, HER ILLUSTRATION FINESSE HAS GIVEN HER THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH SUCH CLIENTS SUCH AS GQ, BLACKBERRY, CALVIN KLIEN, BOXFRESH, PUMA, H+M, TOPSHOP ZOO YORK, AMONGST MANY OTHERS! SHE'S A MAC WITH THE BIRO SO I URGE YOU GO TO HER FLASHSITE

THIS DUDE MIXES PHOTOGRAPHY WITH INSTALLATION DESIGN...CHECK CARL KLEINER'S WEBPAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS WITH AN AWE OF FUTURISM

BY THE LOOKS OF IT LEE COOPER APPAREL CAN MAKE YOU MELT APPARENTLY...AS FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY CHECK OUT MORE OF TROYT COBURNS WORK ON HIS FLASHSITE

(MONEY SHOT!)

UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN TRAPPED UNDER JIM ROYALE'S ARSE I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN THE THE ICONIC OBAMA 'HOPE' ARTWORK ABOUT. BEHIND THE STENCIL WAS GRAFFITI CREATIVE SHEPARD FAIREY, WHO IS NOW BEING SUED FOR HIS RECREATION OF THE ORIGINAL IMAGE! THIS WAS SOURCED FROM THE GUARDIAN ONLINE...


''Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist whose Obama Hope poster became the face of Obama's presidential campaign, was sued this week by the Associated Press, owners of the original photograph on which Fairey's artwork was based. Fairey filed a preemptive lawsuit against AP last month, claiming he had changed the image so dramatically it didn't violate copyright law. It'll be up to the court to decide whether Fairey's portrait is classed as an original work in its own right, or a copy made without permission''


...WELL MR. MANNIE GARCIA, THE GUY WHO TOOK THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE LEFT OF THE ARTWORK, FAIREY'S WORK IS A STENCIL RECREATION! HE IS NOT CLAIMING THE ORIGINAL IMAGE TO BE HIS OWN BUT THE ARTWORK THAT WAS MADE. EVERY CREATIVE KNOWS THAT RE-INTERPRETATION OR RECREATION OF AN ARTWORK DOES NOT MAKE IT ANY LESS LEGIBLE THAN THE ORIGINAL. I MEAN DAMN HOW MANY OF US HAVE TAKEN A IMAGE, SHOVED IT IN ILLUSTRATOR AND USED LIVETRACE? ITS THE EFFECT WE LIKE, WE'RE NOT BOTHERED ABOUT THE ORIGINAL IMAGE THAT'S JUST A REFERENCE! SO PLEASE, STOP CRYING ABOUT THE FACT THAT NO ONE TOOK NOTICE OF YOUR PHOTOGRAPH UNTIL IT WAS STENCILLED...CAPICHE?

MY TUTOR TOLD ME YESTERDAY THAT BILLIE JEAN WAS COMING TO OUR COLLEGE TO DO A LECTURE, AND ALL THAT WENT THROUGH MY HEAD WAS JACKO'S REPETOIRE IN THE SAME TITLED MUSIC VIDEO...SO I GOOGLED MR.JEAN AND FOUND HIS ILLUSTRATIVE STYLE TO BE FRESHER THAN HARKARMAL SINGH OFF A BANANA BOAT. CHECK OUT HIS ILLUSTRATIONS BELOW AND I EMPLORE YOU TO CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE

I HAVEN'T POSTED UP MUCH WORK AS OF LATE AS IV'E BEEN REAL BUSY WITH UNI WORK, BUT I'M GETTING ORGANISED WITH EVERYTHING SO LOOKOUT FOR MORE OF MY WORK! IF YOUV'E READ PREVIOUS POSTS AND KNOW ABOUT THE UBV SOCIAL, ITS NOW MOVED FROM THE 3RD OF MARCH TO THE 24TH SO IT COULD COINCIDE WITH THE LAUNCH OF THE UBV NEWSLETTER. FOR THE EVENT IV'E BEEN ASKED TO DO A POSTER TO PROMOTE IT...HAVE A LOOK FOR YOURSELF!