The thing that most bugs me about this whole BLU mural getting whitewashed is not really the beauty or fantastic nature of the mural itself. To be honest, the mural was so straightforward that it almost bordered on obvious. But that’s not the point. When you ask an artist to paint you a mural — […]

As we reported last week, world class Italian street artist BLU’s controversial mural on the Geffen Contemporary was whitewashed after being up for only 24 hours. As a piece created to promote MOCA’s upcoming Art on the Streets “street art” exhibit, many assumed the buffing over of BLU’s work was a Banksy-style publicity stunt. Well, […]

You know how everyone’s doing really cheap post-production conversions of their crappy horror films to 3D now that Avatar‘s made more money than Dick Cheney at a sweatshop bomb factory? Well now you can do the cheap print version with the Holga 120 3D Stereo Camera. The camera is a medium-format plastic snapshooter that captures […]

Somebody should really pass these along to Dick Cheney. Designed by Japanese artist Mitsuru Katsumoto,  her “A Study In Green Grass” piece would do wonders for his ecological wraith mindset. And if they don’t change his outlook, at least it’ll keep him blind for the time being…