Category: Street Art

Agenda Trade Show Brings Action Sports and Streetwear Together, Creating a New Platform for Contemporary Adventure and Heritage-Mod Brands and Designs—Label Networks Review

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Quiksilver’s sun-drenched fades and gradients on their new collection of board shorts. Story and Photos by Tom Wallace and Kathleen Gasperini Agenda fashion trade show held in Long Beach Convention Center, CA, August 1-2, 2012 has become the ideal platform for a new crossover of styles, brands, and retailers. While many traditional players in action […]

Denim Sculpture by Jeffrey Wang Inspires Personality in Fabrics and Recycled Art

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NeoCha’s latest artist highlight is Taiwanese designer Jeffrey Wang who created a unique sculpture series using Levi’s denim jeans in a show called “Persona” depicting a variety of different ways to use denim as art. Jeffrey Wang is a graduate from Parsons School of Design and described him project in a unique fashion: “The main […]

Banksy Strikes Just as London Cracks Down on Street Art for Olympics

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The London Games begins this week with the opening ceremonies on July 27, 2012, and the London police have been all over ridding the city of street art in preparation. Of course, this is the perfect time for notorious Banksy to strike and so far, two fabulous pieces have captured the attention of street art […]

Denim Round-up: Guerilla24 Selvedge Denim From Hong Kong; True Religion Goes Americana; Bread & Butter’s Denim Religion Show

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Introducing Guerilla24 Guerilla24, a unique new denim brand from Hong Kong featuring selvedge jeans, is taking an interesting marketing route of utilizing street art as the backdrop to the appropriately named Guerilla24. Debuting earlier this month in the downtown street art gallery Crewest, the brand collaborated also with Bullet Magazine for its opening show, attracting […]

Shepard Fairey’s Designs for Brand X, Russel Brand’s New TV Show Debuting on FX

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Designs by Shepard Fairey and Studio Makes sense that Shepard Fairey and his studio would be the ones behind the highly anticipated Russel Brand show called Brand X. Katy Perry divorce aside, Russel Brand is a smart guy, albeit with hang-ups. His commentary, as seen in a variety of magazines recently, including an incredibly insightful […]

Banksy Gets Busy With More Ironic Street and Contemporary Art

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Banksy’s been busy as illustrated through his latest releases on his website, illustrating the irony of art and communication. From the ballerina on a strong on the back of a picture, to font fatalities, it’s always fun and actually rather important to see what this notorious artist is up to. From advertisers, marketers, to filmmakers, […]

Transmission LA—Curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys and the Passing of Adam Youch (MCA) at the Age of 47

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The sad news May 4th that Adam Youch, also known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, passed away at the age of 47 years-old was devastating and inspired a flurry of tweets and Facebook messages that is still trending days later. Ironically, the weekend before, we’d witnessed Mike D of the Beastie Boys’ latest art […]

Sesame Street Street Art Show by Seventh Letter Crew and Neff Among New Crop of License Deal Collabs in Streetwear and Art

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Photos by Tom Wallace. There’s a growing number of cartoon or kid-show related licensing deals filtering throughout streetwear and street art these days, from brands creating collaborative apparel and accessories, to street artists creating new works based on cartoon, super hero, or in the case of this Sesame Street collab, old-school children’s entertainment. Last weekend, […]

Flashback to the Origins of Skate-Surf Culture: Venice Beach Surf and Skate Fest Brings-out Retro Boards, Decks, Classic Cruisers, and Memorabilia

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From old-school wooden Alva, Hobie, Sims, and Tenderfoot skateboard decks, to classic cruiser bikes like the 1965 Flightline, the Venice Surf and Skate Fest was a reminder of where the surfing, skateboarding, and beach cruiser crossover first took place. Retro surfing posters, Beach Boys music, and even classic Zipees roller skates rounded-out a scene that […]

Shepard Fairey Narrative Film About Origin of Obey Catching Attention on Kickstarter

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Similar to The Social Network movie about the origins of Facebook, 21-year-old film director Julian Marshall is creating a short film about the origins of Obey and Shepard Fairey back when he went to school at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  Based on the trailer, the film looks promising and is now on kickstarter […]