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Starting Pitcher: You, Sucka!!

Cam Hoff — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:27:03 +0000

Fantastic animated piece, the wild story of Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No. Really a landmark event in the history of drugs and baseball (and their long sordid relationship): Ellis pitched a no-hitter on June 12, 1970 (while high on acid) versus the Padres.

Brought to you by No Mas and artist James Blagden. Enjoy!

Ron English: Art Basel Miami

Cam Hoff — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:35:07 +0000

I’ve long been a fan of Pablo Picasso’s epic painting Guernica, so I was quite impressed with Ron English’s tribute mural recently completed at Art Basel Miami (The world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation). Check it out in it’s entirety here.

For more on Art Basel Miami, check out this roundup on Fecal Face.

A Love Letter For You

Cam Hoff — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:02:21 +0000

Stephen “Espo” Powers has struck again, and with one of the most ambitious art projects of the year to be sure. Love Letter is a series of over 50 murals completed by the artist (with the aide of other artists) in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, in what has been described as a love letter to the city, all over the city. The murals feature typical Espo themes and typographic flair, beautifying the reputedly downtrodden city of brotherly love. We can only dream that one day an artist would take up residence here in Calgary and throw down a project of this scale. But then again, Calgary doesn’t have the same street cred as Philly…so keep dreaming nice dreams.

For more information visit the project site at: A Love Letter For You.

Blu + David Ellis

Cam Hoff — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:50:00 +0000

If you haven’t seen any of the animated time lapse mural pieces by Blu it’s time you check his work out. Amazing. Here he teams up with another great artist, David Ellis for a new piece. Enjoy:

For more Blu animation check out his YouTube page.

Mike Giant is a Beast.

Cam Hoff — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:30:28 +0000

One of my favorites in action. It should be noted that’s all freehand with a Sharpie… that’s how he rolls! No one draws a better snake, no one. Enjoy!

For more info visit: mikegiant.com or rebel8.com

Calgary Graffiti Project Bombs

Cam Hoff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:59:43 +0000

A graffiti mural was set to liven up Shaw Millenium Park, and mentor young artists over the next few months. Instead it’s become a giant PR nightmare for the City of Calgary, who supplied that paint (but not the proper supervision and guidelines) that was subsequently used to vandalize most of the park. Downtown Alderman John Mar (pictured) is calling for blood after touring the site yesterday. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and if the project will ever go on as intended, or if the budget will be eaten up with what’s sure to be a hefty clean up bill.

Twitter user @RyanPopowich probably sums it up best:
City gives skate-punks spray paint. Skate-punks spray paint the shit out of skatepark with F-Bombs. Wow, did not see that one coming

You have to feel for Dave Brunning (a great local graffiti artist), who helped to coordinate this project with the purest intentions, but sadly it looks like this is only going to end up pushing back street art as a legitimate artform in Calgary. It’s always been an uphill battle cleaning up graffiti’s public image: now it’s clear all it takes is a few bad apples, and some really bad planning by the City for things to go completely south.

Full story at Calgary Sun and to see street art done right visit Wooster Collective.

Smile On Your Brother

Cam Hoff — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:56:39 +0000

There’s a fantastic looking skateboard art show travelling across Canada right now (Calgary September 4-6 at Livestock) called “Smile On Your Brother”.

Conceived by Mike Giles and Annie Lam and co-curated by Bob Kronbauer of www.clubmumble.com fame, “Smile On Your Brother” , is an art show centered around the original shape of skateboards when they first hit mass production. This seemed the perfect canvas to launch the contributor campaign. The idea behind not only the show, but also overall project is to hopefully inspire people to think about their first skateboard and what it meant to them. For many skaters, this still represents a pivotal moment in their lives, with every last little detail, fresh in their minds. Bringing together contemporary artists both in, and affected by the skateboard industry to help raise funds to go towards the first goal of Contributor which is to donate 100 skateboards to disadvantaged youth across Canada in 2009/2010

There’s some real heavy hitters in this one such as Don Pendleton (pictured), Travis Millard, Mel Kadel, Andy Jenkins, Jim Houser, Parra, and Porous Walker among many others. Be sure to check it out, as we rarely get the opportunity to see this kind of artistic talent come across Canada. Plus all pieces are available for purchase with proceeds going to the Contributor cause. Good stuff.

For more information visit: Smile On Your Brother @ Contributor