Melbourne’s Cut/Copy celebrate the recent release of their new album Zonoscope (Modular Records) with this set-the-pan-to-simmer mixtape, A Tale of Two Journeys. Cut/Copy not only craft some great electropop but they’ve always excelled as DJs as well, as their earlier mixes like So Cosmic prove. The new A Tale of Two Journeys mix is a […]

Today in Moscow Karl Lagerfeld unveiled the first few calender images from Italian tire giant Pirelli — whose limited edition creation has been one of the most coveted calenders by straight men everywhere since 1964. As is the case every year Pirelli commissions a new photographer to curate the calender, and this year Lagerfeld takes […]

As I wound my way high up into the deep, dark Bel Air hills I thought to myself, “can’t these people splurge on a damn street sign or two?” It felt like a foreign country, and in a weird way reminded me of traveling around Costa Rica several years ago, where getting directions anywhere sounded […]

Once frowned upon by most of the free world outside of the taggers themselves, graffiti long ago grew into its own respected art form. While previously jailed and widely persecuted, some erstwhile underground artists are now collecting millions from their art. Burning Candy, a group of world-renowned artists in their own right, are working to […]

Sometimes you have to wonder what Tom Brady did in a past life to warrant the life he’s had. Did he lead an uprising of lepers from a remote island prison? Did he open a culinary institute for orphans in some lost favela of Brazil? Was he the guy that slipped Daedalus the supplies so […]

From Rodrigo Piza Levy, the filmmaker who taught us How to Paint a Giant Red Graffiti Elephant in under 2 minutes, comes the Ocupado video. Again employing the time-lapse video format, Ocupado shows Levy painting a large mural in a once-empty housing complex that had been taken over and squatted by some 120 families in […]

We’ve been big appreciators of Os Gémeos for awhile now — they’ve far outgrown the limiting graffiti artist tag (as they began years ago in São Paolo) and have progressed to the level of pure artist. Since first coming across their dream-like work in Brazil — and being blown away on the spot — I’ve […]

I really like this piece by Sao Paolo street artist Treco, and the time-lapse video by director Rodrigo Piza Levy of him creating it. I wonder what went wrong with the original trunk, why’d he have to change it? I suppose it’s something I’ll never know… DEU TRECO from rodrigo piza levy on Vimeo.