Tag: art

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 […]

The Denim Religion Show at Bread and Butter Berlin Brings Performance Art and Streetwear Together

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As Bread & Butter Berlin ramps-up for their leading-edge fashion trade show, they’re also releasing invites to a variety of interesting art shows, music, and various unique performances that combine fashion and movement. One that we found especially appealing is The Denim Religion Show to take place each day, July 3-5, 2012 at the Tempel […]

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, […]

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 […]

Journey, Video Game of the Year, Likened to Pixar Film, Musical Concert, Art, and Changes the Game of Gaming

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PS3’s latest downloadable game created by developers thatgamecompany, creators of flow and Flower, have created an online game called Journey that’s absolutely stunning critics and creating a buzz not heard in video gaming in years. It’s a minimalist game, no talking allowed although it’s an MMORPG game, forcing players to communicate in other unique ways. […]

Culture Jamming Round-up: The Red Ball Project by Kurt Perschke, and Manifest Destiny by Mark Reigelman

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The crossover of street art into inspiring creative advertising is a subculture we define as culture jamming and one that not only provides a sense of relief and humor to the trials of everyday life, but clever ways of reusing urban public spaces to be seen in completely different ways. One of our favorites currently […]

Ice-T, Mayor of Sundance—How Hip-Hop Redefined A Generation

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Sundance Film Festival is underway and one of highly anticipated documentaries at the scene is “Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap: co-directed by Ice-T and Andy Baybutt. Taking a look at rap’s evolution including insider interviews with some of the best over the past 30 years including NAS, Dr. Dre, Run DMC, Chuck D, […]