Sandra Butterfly stopped by the opening of the High Roller Society's new group show, Rising Stars of Bethnalhem, featuring works from Nylon, Aida, Tony Lee, Whom, Run, Luker, Rowdy, Jackie,  Zavier Ellis, Pufferella and Joe Becker, Paul Insect, Sweet Toof and Lucas Price. There is a video after the jump . . .
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We just met Robert Bowen recently at the Zerofriends Collective pop-up shop in San Francisco, and really found the work to be quite striking and well executed. Our resident blogger Jeben Berg wanted to do a feature, and as Robert is a profile in the magazine this month, we just posted the interview that Jeben did. More after the jump . . .
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Over the weekend I attended Last Gasp's annual Christmas Party.  Their office, located in San Francisco, is a massive display of vintage everything.  Accompanying the scenic oddities were some of the most eclectic and charismatic people around.  If you ever get a chance to attend this party, take up the offer. 



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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC has denied the request of Canadian photographer AA Bronson to have his famed photograph, "Felix, June 5, 1994," removed from the Gallery's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture exhibition. The point of contention after the jump . . .
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Has any artist had the type of year that JR is closing right now? Winner of the TED Award, film at Cannes, shows around the world, it really has been the year of JR. And he is much-deserving as well. Today, we look at an extract from JR's "Women Are Hereos" film that premiered at Cannes this year. See the clip after the jump . . .
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Parisian street artist LUDO just sent us a little holiday wheatpaste that he just got up in snowy, freezing Paris. We knew it got cold in Paris, and snowed at times, but wow, what a site. LUDO got the piece up this weekend. More angles after the jump . . .
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Regardless of your opinion on Mr. Brainwash, remember that it is all in good fun. If you saw Exit Through the Gift Shop, again, the creation of Mr. Brainwash was all in good fun. All the sky-rocketing values, whatever, draw your own conclusions. We have ours, you have yours, etc. But when you have momentum, and you can raise money for a good cause, you should do it. See where Brainwash donates after the jump . . .
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We preface this post with 1) we don't know anything about longboarding, and 2) we always appreciate a well-done web video, especially from Argentina. Hypebeast posted this video today called "Slowboarding," created by Motion Lights. As Motion Lights says, "This audiovisual explore longboarding as sport, from the slow motion perspective..." Video after the jump . . .
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Everyone who has seen is talking about how great and eerie and twisted Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan is. Not that Aronofsky makes non-eerie, great, twisted films, but this one seems to be gaining a lot of traction. One of the key ingredients that has always made Aronofsky's film's stand out are the subtle and at times hyper-surreal animations in his work, and the man behind that is Dan Schrecker. More about Schrecker after the jump . . .
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As you can tell, we really like French artist Dran on this site. There is a good spirit to the work, a good amount of humor and wit that resonates with the foundation of the magazine. Dran is a busy man at the moment, showing at "Marks & Stencils" and at Pictures on Walls in London, and he now has a new book out, I Love My World. More information after the jump . . .
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