Rudy Ray Moore 1927 -2008

May there be no Rat Soup Eatin’ Motherfuckas in the sky, Motha-fucka.

While trolling the internet, I came across this site, where a person was asked if they knew the source of imagery of a certain ‘Faile Dreams’ print. The writer did not but, a commenter directed them to the font source which was an issue of micronauts.  Apparently finding out the origins of Faile’s images is pretty huge amongst some.

“Not unlike tracking down the sources of audio samples in hip-hop records, a ‘game’ that ensues for Faile enthusiasts is to try and determine the origins of the many visual ‘samples’.”

Which explains this thread in Faile’s Forum. Pretty interesting stuff.

Hurt You Bad indulges us with Espo vs Jack Nance

And thankfully, Puff Daddy is nowhere in sight.

Read about it here

I was in Moma the other day and came across this great piece by Jacques de la Villeglé.  A french artist born in 1926, Villeglé created this piece, 122 rue du temple in 1968, using Torn-and-pasted printed paper on canvas.  Very reminiscent of how Faile is working today.

Read more about the piece here

If you’re in NYC and can get away from nightly bullshot for a second, the proud parents of internet street art fame, Marc & Sara Schiller are moderating an event at the New Museum.  Go listen to some wisdom.  Info after the jump.

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Advertising agencies can get real lazy.  The ad above is for beef (actually “Powerful Beefscapes”) and looks strikingly similar to Nicolas Lampert’s series of Meatscapes.  Weak Sauce.

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Radar has a great piece by Jessica Pilot titled, Secrets of a Hipster Hooker.  Delicious.

photo by Jessica Craig-Martin

If you have the time, you should do this.  All of the details here.

This is days late but, worth every moment.

Italians know how to live the life.

Saw this on Uncertain times, nice bit a video.

I came across this photo by KnickerbockerNY yesterday on the Gothamist.

Very well put. Now, can they pull that off with a pigeon?

I was searching for some videos on moshing and after watching a bunch of weak walls of death, I thought this one would be legit. Biggest Circle Pit Ever. I don’t understand.

So let’s say your girlfriends mom has been hearing all about this ‘Urban Art’ from publications like Time and whatnot.  She knows your hip to it and she wants a piece of the action. What do you do? You buy her this print above by Blek Le Rat, fit for moms, soccer moms and whomever else stays in the confines of prudishness.  It also comes in three other colorways.

via, hurtyoubad

I am a little sleepy from seeing The Dark Knight last night, bear with me.  Heath Ledger needs a post-humous Oscar for this.  That’s all I’m saying.

Have you ever woken up in the morning to a brand new album on your itunes and wondered how it got there?  This happened to me just the other day. Thankfully it was one of my favorite albums of all time, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien’s, I wish my brother George was here.  At least I know now that I have great taste (in music) while time-traveling.  After the jump are two more albums that I would like to wake up to.  And by the way, I think these three are the best albums ever made.

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