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The Shift Bicycle helps children learn how to balance on their own.
The Boxfresh x Pete Fowler collection has finally been released. The artist has created a series of product for the UK brand, including a lightweight windrunner jacket and a series of t-shirts. We reported about it a while ago.
The collection is now exclusively available at Shotgun.
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ARTS BRIEF: WRITING ON THE WALL
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At first glance, you might not realize the Keith Haring mural on Houston Street at Bowery had recently been bombed. “I walk by that spot all the time, and just the other day I noticed the new paint,” commented Jed Silverman, a nearby resident.
Anyone aware of the local graffiti writers or the history of the neighborhood’s art scene might recognize the style and scrawled letters of LA Rock (also known as LAII)—the signature tag of Angel Ortiz, a street artist from the Lower East Side whose flurry of added lines fit right into the piece. This telling detail begs the question: Was this an act of vandalism or a renegade artist’s statement revealed?
For those unfamiliar with the mural in question, it is the recreation of Haring’s Houston Street and Bowery mural, painted by Gotham Scenic and based on extensive photographic documentation of Haring’s original piece. It was unveiled on May 4, what would have been the artist’s 50th birthday.
Ortiz’s involvement with the artist can be traced back to the summer of 1980 when, at 13 years old, he met the 22-year-old Haring in a Lower East Side schoolyard, working on a wall.
Their partnership lasted nearly six years, during which the two often met in Haring’s Broome Street studio, producing hundreds of pieces of art. Their signature styles mingled on canvas, pieces of metal and found urban surfaces, and were hung in joint shows in New York, Tokyo and Europe.
In the years that followed their collaborations, Haring became a cultural icon while Ortiz struggled to navigate the art world on his own. Frustrated, Ortiz contends that the Haring Foundation accrues millions from sales, licensing, and exhibition of Haring pieces, including many of their collaborations, yet largely ignores Ortiz’s role in the timeline of Haring’s work. Nonetheless, Ortiz bears witness to his own past, scrawling his name on the slabs of urban history, for anyone who will take notice. “I saw LA Rock up there,” Silverman remarks, pointing out the familiar tag. “Then I knew it was the real deal.”
Is Ortiz to Haring what Basquiat was to Warhol? History has yet to confirm. “Keith is dead, but LAII is alive and maintaining,” explained Clayton Patterson, who was on the scene with Ortiz to document the event. “So we took over the wall today. It’s a long story…but they hooked it up.”
With the Olympics happening in China, fashion lifestyle brand Giordano has recently invited 12 artists from around the globe to participate on their latest project called “World Without Stranger - Giordano Tee Project.”
This collection consists of 16 printed t-shirt design for both genders that are created around the theme “World Without Strangers” that duly echoes this year’s Olympic Games 2008 slogan - “One World, One Dream.”
Featuring works by Phunk Studio, Saiman Chow, Benny Luk, Rex Koo, and more.Via: Tongue Chic
The Franc Superligero Skeleton Tourbillon merges design with new materials.
Franc Vila experimented with new materials for this watch – Lightnium.
The Taking of Christ (Or, The Kiss of Judas), Caravaggio, 1573-1602
A painting by the master artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ (Or, The Kiss of Judas) was reported stolen from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the Ukraine. Thieves were able to sidestep the outdated alarm system, and escape through the museum’s roof. Originally purchased by a Russian ambassador, the painting had come into the museum’s hands last century.
Caravaggio Stolen From Odessa Museum [Artinfo]
Caravaggio’s Christ Painting Stolen [Abc News]
Ukraine Laments Theft of a Caravaggio from museum [Reuters]
Caravaggio Work Stolen from Ukranian Museum (IHT)
The thieves evidently entered through a window with by removing a pane of glass in lieu of the traditional smashing thereby avoiding the alarm. The frame of the window itself was rotting and in ill-repair making the pane quite easy to remove. Upon entering the room with painting, the thieves proceeded to cut the painting from its canvas, rolling it and escaping through the roof. The robbery took place sometime between the museums close Tuesday evening and Thursday morning (the museum is closed on Wednesdays). Although the London auction houses neglected to estimate a price for the legendary piece, experts estimate it to be worth more than $100 million. A picture of the stripped canvas is above.
Originally the painting was purchased a Russian Ambassador to France as a gift to a Russian Prince. The painting was most recently restored in 2006 and a duplicate exists in the National Gallery of Ireland. Odessa Police had been urging the museum to upgrade their alarm system since the 1990’s.
They purport to show the back of the new laptop’s lid, and the screen housing (without the LCD screen in place.
Falling into line with recent rumours, the new design is made out of aluminium, and looks very smooth indeed, if a little chubbier than we’d imagined.
What’s notable, is that the shell clearly carries the name “MacBook” rather than MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, falling in line with predictions of all-new aluminium notebooks that’ll match the Air and Pro models, but without the high price of the latter, or featherlight frame of the former.
There’s no sign of the rest of the body, however, so we’ve no idea if rumours of Apple’s plan to include glass trackpads is true.
Are they legit? Are they optimistic fakes?
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