A new collaboration between a baverage brand and an artist. Tom Gauld, known for his comic art, has created several designs for Diet Coke to raise awareness for The Heart Truth. Overall there are 3 different cans and they are being released only in the US.
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Keith Haring’s 1985 Mural is currently on display at Deitch Projects Wooster Street location in Soho. On show until February 16th 2010, the 70-foot-long mural was painted in 1985 for San Francisco’s South of Market Childcare Center (SOMACC), a non-profit childcare center that serves pre-school children from the SOMA neighborhood. One of 16 public works painted at hospitals and children’s centers around the world during Keith Haring’s lifetime, the mural was painted in one day, incorporating cartoon characters and animals inspired by the artist’s childhood drawings. A must see before this legendary gallery closes it’s doors.
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Presenting the Silver Mega Mao Bust ~ the final Mao in the Bronze-Silver-Gold Mao Trilogy from Frank Kozik. Available in an edition of 25, the bust is a fiberglass mixed media sculpture, and measures 30″ H x 20″ W x 18″D. Currently distributed by DKE Toys, the bust has a SRP of US$1,000 each. Now that’s one hefty pop-culture-”homage”! Do check with your fav retailers for availability.
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French photographer/street artist JR has announced a new must-have book. “Women are Heroes” follows JR through his international exploits and wheatpastes, and also offers personal testimonials from the women of Africa, Asia and South America. “Women Are Heroes has enabled JR to share this experience and keep the promise he made to the women: to take their stories on a journey around the world.” Now available through Crakedz.
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The Skeleton Ornament by Original Fake returns in time for Halloween 2009. This season the Japanese brand presents the Kaws skeleton in an orange colorway and it is now available from L’Intrus.
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“Street Artists – The Complete Guide” is a new book from Eleanor Mathiseon and Xavier A. Tapies, the authors of “Street Art and the World on Terror”. A fully illustrated tome on some of the biggest names in street art including Banksy, JR, Invader, Blu and many more.
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Upper Playground teamed up with legendary West Coast artist Mister Cartoon to create a t-shirt and Montana Colors Artist Can. The first in a series of four artist cans, the Mister Cartoon MTN x UP can depicts a stylized vision of LA, complete with downtown storefronts and the Virgen de Guadalupe. In addition to the Montana collaboration, Mister Cartoon has designed his first t-shirt graphic for Upper Playground with an image that combines his classic iconography with impeccable lettering. Mister Cartoon will be in San Francisco for an in-store signing this Friday, August 28th, from 5 to 7 PM, at the San Francisco store located at 220 Fillmore Street. The items are now available at UpperPlaygroundStore.com.
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Tim Tsui presents his latest figure – Da Sturm. Da Sturm is once again a monkey, this time a spray painter, which comes with a mask and spray paint can. The figure is limited to 180 pieces worldwide. Furthermore the artist presents several “Da Sturm” paintings in acrylic on canvas.
Furthermore Tim Tsui also worked on a couple of custom figures these past months – Da Fighter comes in the after battle version and finally there is also Darth Big Foot. Both custom toys come limited to only 18 pieces. All new toys and paintings are now available in the Team Zero online store.
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Currently on display at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris, is this Kanye West x Takashi Murakami aluminium sculpture featuring the bear mascot – who by now is synonymous with Kanye (seen in-action with his “Good Morning” music video circa 2007).
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First there was 1/1-scaled GUNDAM Statue in Odaiba, Tokyo – now Kobe’s Wakamatsu Park will have their very own giant robot = a 18 meters tall, 50 ton TETSUJIN 28-go! Don’t worry it is not Japan’s evil plan to take over the world with these giant robot, as the Tetsujin 28-go statue will be a permanent installation with no moving parts unlike the Gundam we saw earlier. The Kobe Tetsujin Project’s statue is intended as a symbol of the city’s revival after the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. It is being build in Nagata Ward, the city’s hardest hit neighborhood which has since been rebuilt and revitalized. The statue also celebrates the life of one of Kobe’s most well-known native sons, as Yokoyama not only created the Tetsujin 28 manga and anime, but also Giant Robo and Sally the Witch.
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