Eddie Martinez’s strong show of “painted drawings” is on view at The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn through April 28th

Here is the full short film “based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992.”

Ballet Skate Decks by Henry Leutwyler

Every morning Bill Plympton wakes up at six, goes to his drawing board, gets a piece of bond and a No. 2 pencil and sits down to the business of animating the indelible, noirish figures that have garnered cult status as Plymptoons. What began in high school with drawings of bugs and plants for the Portland Yellow Pages has grown into an empire that encompasses political cartoons, animated shorts, features, advertisements, music videos (his first for Madonna; his latest for Kanye), and a forthcoming Rizzoli book (Independently Animated: Bill Plympton) with a Terry Gilliam forward. Along the way he’s filled his shelves full of awards, not to mention earned two Oscar nods. On the eve of the release of his latest feature, Idiots & Angels, we caught up with the industrious illustrator at his Chelsea studio to talk about the new feature, working with Kanye (vs. Weird Al), and what’s really going down on the animator groupie circuit.

—Michael Slenske

photographs by David Potes

A Public Service Announcement in the form of a Daily Metaltation from Steve Powers

This Week…

We were nominated for a Webby

Ian Mackaye put together two hours of tunes for Henry Rollins’ radio show

We looked through turn of the century portraits of Native Americans

We checked out the opening of Andrew Kuo’s new show

and

Marlijn Hoek was our Muse

25 Grams is a feature that culls pictures from some of our favorite instagram feeds.

JR is a photographer and artist working across the globe.

He can be followed on instagram at @jr

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Hyperbolic by Matt Leines at Beginnings

Sleazy McCheesy has a new print out referencing one of the better bar jokes ever made.

On view at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp until May 4th, 2013.

Kehinde the First by Wyatt Mason

Great piece with a lulz line here:

“Despite large tortoiseshell aviators, there’s no question that Wiley’s eyes are on the boys—but not creepily. Professionally. Purposefully.”

and some wisdom here:

“A painting might seem like a quaint kind of immortality in 2013, when more people see, in an afternoon, some trending meme than will see, in a lifetime, a great painting.”

photo via, hs

The movie about the early life of Shepard Fairey.

Directed by Julian Marshall

Releasing on April 15th

A film by Craig Stecyk III

A new photographic print by SWOON detailing her carving process.

In an edition of 100

A new t-shirt by Ken Kagami for AFRICAN APPAREL

Andrew Kuo’s new exhibition of acrylic paintings opened to a packed house this past Thursday at Marlborough Chelsea. Christos Katsiaouni was there to capture the scene.

A recent profile of Marcel Dzama

via, AM

OR bandanas. Whatever you’d like to call them. Made by The Hill-Side for ICA/Boston

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Published by Morel Books, Hester is Asger Carlsen’s latest monograph focusing on his disturbingly lovely series of nudes.