Tag: graffiti

• 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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  November 12, 2013

  Art/Culture, Collecting, Design, Fashion, Pop Art/Culture, Street Art, Style

  123Klan, DCON, DesignerCon, Dissizit, graf, graffiti, Graphic Design, Klor, Martin Hsu, Miyazaki, OG Slick, Pasadena Convention Center, Rogue Angel, Scien, sriracha, Street Art, Supahcute, Vinyl Toys

• 6 Kings…

  I frequently fall into internet Rat Holes… Yesterday I heard about an exhibit featuring paintings by Hip Hop Ambassador Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite).  It’s part of a group show called 3 Kings featuring Freddy, Lee Quinones and Futura 2000. Rat Hole #1 While looking up the dates for the exhibit at Subliminal Projects on…

  cultureshockart

  September 25, 2011

  Pop Art/Culture, Street Art

  3 Kings, Agents of Change, Art in L.A., Basquiat, Dondi White, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000, graffiti, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Revok, Sever, Street Fights, Subliminal Projects

• The “Awesome Bears”

  Part of what makes street art so fascinating is when it appears in very unexpected ways.  When I was stuck at a light looking around at some boarded up storefronts on an economically challenged street between Silver Lake and Echo Park, I was greeted by the morning pleasantries of two bears in dialog.  A white…

  cultureshockart

  March 8, 2010

  Contemporary Art, Pop Art/Culture, Uncategorized

  Awesome Bears, graffiti, Phil Lumbang, Shepard Fairey, Street Art, The Standard Hotel