Category: Pop Art/Culture
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Weekly Rewind Vol. 1
I’m trying something new. Here’s my Friday round up of my absolute favorite posts from last week in Fashion, Music, Art, and Food. All posts are inspired by Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. So let’s jump in! 1. Kara Walker-Indypendant Article The Kara Walker Domino Sugar Factory exhibit has closed, and I have to say I had mixed feelings about this particular…
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The Art of Storytelling: Havana and the Wrinkles of the City
Storytelling plays such an essential role in our lives because they create a level of connectedness that’s achieved through relatable or shared experiences. Great stories provide the bridge between our imagination and reality in remarkable ways. When I have a strong emotional response to art it is usually associated with a story that I immediately attribute to a piece.…
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Mike D X Clare V
My love for handbags and hip hop have been mutually exclusive up until this moment, but now these two worlds have collided in a collaboration that I had to shine a spotlight on. As part of the release of their next issue, the Australian lifestyle magazine Monster Children has enlisted the editorial styling of Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys.…
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The History of Music in a 90 Second Rube Goldberg Machine
“You’re the one thing that always remains, Music.“ What’s a Rube Goldberg Machine? MusicRemains.org taught me something! I honestly didn’t know what a Rube Goldberg Machine was until today. I just thought of them as intricately engineered chain reaction mazes, and I loved them when I was a little kid, especially the ones with dominoes. This…
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2013 “Rewind”
Whew! Before I look forward to 2014 (and I must say, it cannot come soon enough), I thought I’d take a quick look back on my digital footprints and share my favorite CultureShockArt moments of 2013. So I picked 5 posts from Twitter, Instagram, WordPress and Pinterest that were either popular, or made me squeal, “Eep…
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DesignerCon 2013
I am forever on the lookout for new graphic artists and animators to follow, so we headed to DesigerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center on Sunday. DCON has been around for 8 years, and is a convention that fuses urban, underground, pop art with animation, vinyl collectible toys, and clothing. The result was a mass…
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The Sphinx and the Cronut: Why We Love Being Haters
In music, fashion, food and art there’s pop cultural phenomena so ubiquitous and so pervasive that I feel duty bound to write about them. Or hate on ’em.. Like roaches and bad heartburn these things just keep on returning eliciting both our collective ire and fascination. Really, they’re train wrecks and we can’t look away.…
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Awkward Moments in Art with Jay Z and the LA Times
We interrupt my dream vacation travel series to bring you news from today’s Twitter feed! Headline #1: “I’m the New Jean Michel!”: Jay Z Raps “Picasso Baby” for Six Hours at Pace Gallery Some call it the end of performance art while others bemoan the death of hip hop; I just call it awkward. Part…
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If I Had Gone to the Met Gala
If I Had Gone to the Met Gala by cultureshockart featuring charm jewelry –——————————————————————————————————————– I wasn’t a fan of the sartorial choices at the Met Gala where the theme was “Punk: Chaos to Couture”. So of course I started thinking about what I would have done. I would have tried to channel the NY Art Scene between…
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