Recently, Meggs' art was in town.  Not him, unfortunately.  Just his art.  Cerasoli Gallery featured his exhibit 'Crime and Charity' (just closed this past weekend) and because Australia has such strict graffiti laws, a misdemeanor on his record kept him from gettng the necessary clearance to travel to the US for the opening.  Needless to say, he might know a thing or two about politics and art.  He skyped with art enthursiasts who did make it to his opening via a laptop Freddi Cerasoli set up in the gallery, so he could be a part of the party.

Kings Way, the book on the beginning of Australian Graffiti, was just released in July.  Melbourne is the Aussie hot spot for graffiti, and the book chronicles from 1983 - 1993.  Meggs is part of the next generation of Aussie street artists and his work shows serious strength and talent, as well as his story about the struggle of doing art in a society that incriminates it.  Here's a chat we had about his life and his art.

Extreamly talented illustrator, painter, animator, skater, father, beer swiller and all around class A #1 jerkface Darin Bendall has a shirt out via these fine folks.

Darin thinks he's tough.

Where the Wild Things Are blog.

http://weloveyouso.com/blog/

Spike Jonze and friends actually post stuff, outrageous.