Sometimes life throws you a fantastic Twist, and by life I mean Dave Schubert.  If you’re into a certain style of San Fran Graffiti from the 90’s (with a NY shot added), lucky you.

Photographer Julia Chesky dropped by Eric Haze’s opening at Level 2 last night and captured the scene.

Simple, and to the point. That’s minimalism isn’t it? Alberto Exergian understands that, and executes perfectly.

Our friend Richard Colman has got a new website, plus a killer blog.  You should visit both, and applaud the man who once had the gully to write his name in silver & black on the Exorcist steps.

I used to do this on paper cups using a red sharpie.  Cheeming Boey uses a black sharpie on styrofoam cups and the result is much better.

I never knew the name of this guy who’s work you seem to see in hair salon windows everywhere, Patrick Nagel.

Take a look at a slice of photos from the website There I Fixed It, user-submited photos of do-it-yourself fixes.

Bernie Madoff’s three boats, Bull, Sitting Bull, and Little Bull will be auctioned off in Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow.

See the lots here

Holy Shit. James Hopkins‘ work is amazing.

These on-location pictures are from the twitter account of MJ Day, a Senior Associate Editor at Sports Illustrated.  I’m sold.

Chris Jordan’s photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a  sliver of sand and coral deep in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.This is pretty disturbing work, and the reality of it goes unnoticed. Check out the video after the jump.

Alex Lukas opens a show of new work, The Eventuality of Daybreak, at Glowlab tonight.  Above is just a hint of what you can expect to see.

Glowlab is pleased to present The Eventuality of Daybreak, a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 pm.

Lukas’ work explores the existence of disaster, be it realized or fictitious, in contemporary society. Hyper-realistic motion pictures and unforgiving news footage depict seemingly identical – and equally riveting – facades of tragedy. The artist recognizes that relentless visual bombardment has resulted in society’s desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction.

For The Eventuality of Daybreak, Lukas has selected photographic spreads of well-known metropolises from vintage publications and uses them dually as canvas and unlikely subject. Through a deft handling of paint and carefully placed screenprinted passages, the artist pushes these aging illustrations in futuristic contexts. Submerging these cities conceptually and physically, Lukas inundates images of American cities with layers of media representing cataclysmic floods and crippling overgrowth.

Also included in the exhibition are works on paper depicting near-future scenes of devastated landscapes – crumbling infrastructure, overturned trucks and telling signs of human despair. As a counterpoint to the underwater cities, these darkly atmospheric and barren vistas signal devastation through an unsettling sense of absence.

Lukas’ intentional use of dated imagery presented in tandem with contemporary situations forces the viewer to reconcile two differing ideologies of urban space. The artist’s work calls into question society’s collective acceptance of the urban environment as an arena of destruction, once thought unthinkable and now seemingly inevitable.

The Eventuality of Daybreak is Lukas’ first solo exhibition with Glowlab. Lukas’ work has also been exhibited in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Stockholm and Copenhagen as well as in the pages of Swindle Quarterly, Proximity Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, The Drama and The New York Times Book Review. Lukas is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is a member of the artist collective Space 1026.

Brazilian Artist Highraff works both indoors and outdoors.  It is pretty awesome how his work translates seamlessly between the two, especially these wooden sculptures which capture the colorful energy of Brazil.  Thanks to Pablo Aravena for the heads up

I was doing some research on Japanese custom vehicles and came across these motorcycles which are commonly associated with the Bōsōzoku subculture.