If you're at all like us, chances are you grew up listening to Wu Tang. Therefore, we were excited to snag an invite to hear GZA in all his OG greatness perform last night at San Francisco's Elbo Room for a private Jansport x Huf party. We grabbed our video camera and walked straight to the front of the stage.

Andy Kehoe, one of the nicest and most talented Portland-based painters we know, has been busy. Fresh off a successful solo show at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City, Kehoe has been working, and just released five new prints. The story behind why he is releasing so many at once is worth a read.

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Shawn Stussy may have left the apparel game for a while, but he has made up for it in a few ways; most notably his upcoming new S/Double project (discussed at length in our current August 2009 issue) and his great blog.

If the thought of video game creators conjures up images of a solo developer hunched over a computer in the wee hours of the night, creating tools that speak only to the gaming world, think again. The developers of Spore Galactic Adventures have created a a game that doubles as an artistic pallete, giving users the ability to create their own universe, effectively bridging the worlds of fine art and digital media. These guys, the same team behind the legendary Sims series, have been working on Spore for over a decade. We caught up with the artists to discuss their vision, check it out here.

Liz McGrath just hipped us to some great behind the scenes shots of her husband and fellow artist Morgan Slade's recent photo shoot for his latest photography show. “We went out to Adele's the best costume shop in Hollywood and found a bunch of heads to brig to the shoot,” explains Liz. Girls in bikinis is fun, but a look at all the planning behind setting up a shoot is always intriguing and gives more depth to the final outcome.

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