In conjunction with the THIS IS (NOT) MUSIC, a festival in Marseille's La Friche la Bella de Mai combining 47 days of contemporary art, music, street art, urban sports, custom cultures, graphic art and movie screenings, The Last Wave focuses on the ways in which the cultures of surfing and skateboarding show in contemporary art. The exhibition features a hundred works by 58 artists including Thomas Campbell, ESPO, Mike Giant, Ari Marcopoulos, Ryan McGinley, Parra, Nathaniel Russell, Tom Sachs, C.R. Stecyk, Ed Templeton, and many more....

Assembled by hand and light enough to be transportable in a container, this micro house designed by Studio Liu Lubin is an alternative to ensure private housing under current Chinese lands policies The house is fixed with a resting, working, sleeping and kitchen area. Not sure if you can stand up in it but the design is sleek. 

This morning rebel/activist/dissident/badass Chinese artist Ai Weiwei released a heavy metal single and music video on his website. The video and song, entitled Dumbass, features re-creations from his 81 days of detention. Also portraying the rock star fantasies he imagines his guards having, Ai Weiwei told the Guardian that his country was one of "crazy menace and inhuman conditions" and that the video shows an "inch-accurate" recreation of the cell, down to the wallpaper. "...stand on the frontline like a dumbass, in a country that puts out like a hooker. The fields are full of fuckers, dumbasses are everywhere... Fuck forgiveness, tolerance be damned, to hell with manners, the low-life's invincible." - Dumbass

Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is one of those stories that is not bound by time, place, age or even nostalgia. Sendak's classic will be celebrating its 50 year anniversary at the Walt Disney Family Museum for the next six weeks. We visited the show last night and suggest that you hurry out to the Presidio to re-live the memories and see a very special collection of original drawings and illustrations for Wild Things and many of your other childhood favorites that you probably didn't realize he worked on.

This morning, the World Wide Web is winning. Artist James Harvey has proposed and is organizing a project seeing the complete re-telling of Otomo Katsuhiro's manga classic Akira using characters from The Simpsons. Inspired by fellow artist Ryan Humphrey's drawings, James is enlisting the help of 768 people to each create 6 pages each of all six volumes. The submission period is almost over but you can see the huge array of awesome submissions on Tumblr and try and squeeze yours in before the deadline! See Ryan Humphrey's drawings after the jump...

Adrian Landon Brooks' drawings are beautiful and nightmarish, utilizing the simple combination of gouache and pen on paper to create haunting illustrations of idols, icons and strange figures. Brooks is drawn to sacred art that emphasizes a "savior," and he speaks of his creative power as such, something that has brough him "freedom and redemption from everything that ails me." Brooks' handling of gouache gives his figures a glowing, almost lava-like appearance, propelling them through fields of dark space as if full of fire. These imaginings have a mysterious and powerful message, yet what that is feels slightly out of reach-- we recommend looking even closer, spending some time with these lovely drawings. 

Erdal Inci is an Istanbul-based filmmaker, graffiti artist, and photographer who has been experimenting with cloned motion in video since 2004. He has been converting these videos into GIFs and posting them online for our viewing pleasure! Take a look at some of them after the jump...

This morning we take a look at a series of photographs by Berlin-based, New York City-born photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz. Memory Loss was captured throughout the United States and "explores the social identification and how our ideas of self representation create instances of cultural disconnect."

Cayce Zavaglia is back with some new and impressive embroidery work. Done in a hyper-realistic for with incredible layered detail, Cayce uses crewel embroidery wool and has taken the qualities of oil painting by mixing her thread colors to mimic brushstrokes. Amazing.

We are enjoying the work of Kiersten Essenpreis this morning. Kiersten works as a freelance illustrator and gallery artist.