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Taul “Toy Crusher” Waters is a Jacksonville, Florida–based artist whose practice evolved the way street knowledge usually does: illegally, obsessively, and with a sense of humor sharp enough to draw blood. He cut his teeth in graffiti and illustration, learning early how to communicate fast, loud, and without permission. That foundation expanded into graphic design, painting, digital illustration, and blogging—each medium treated as another surface to disrupt, remix, or interrogate. His work balances discipline with defiance, blending professional execution with the residue of alley walls, sketchbooks, and long nights spent refining ideas that refused to behave. Taul draws inspiration from hip hop culture, drum and bass rhythms, science fiction, horror, skateboard graphics, and the kind of absurd life experiences you only understand after surviving them. More recently, his exploration of synthography has pushed his visual language into stranger territory, where machines collaborate in the chaos rather than clean it up. Darkly comical and deliberately confrontational, his work invites viewers to laugh first, think second, and then realize they’ve been implicated the entire time.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Lissitzky Style Poster

Lissitzky Style Poster

I almost get the feeling I'm looking at a poster for an artist version of the movie Saw. Minus the ridiculous plot and immense amount of unnecessary gore. However, the digital aspect of design has proven to be a lot more fun than I anticipated. James Brown would be proud.

To my fellow geeks out there, it's that time again:

Perseid Meteor Shower Of 2012 Peaks Sunday, August 12th

From Space.com:



One of the most pleasant treats on a warm summer night is to lie out under a starry sky and try to see a few shooting stars, or meteors. Luckily, right now is a great time to try to see meteors in the night sky.

Any night this week you will have a good chance of seeing the annual Perseid meteor shower. These objects are tiny bits of rock and debris from an old comet, which is named Swift-Tuttle after the astronomers who discovered it in 1862.

Every year in early August, Earth passes through the comet Swift-Tuttle's orbit and sweeps up some of this debris. As the tiny rocks encounter the thin upper atmosphere of the Earth, the air is heated to incandescence and we see a rapid streak of light.

Read more here: http://www.space.com/16988-perseid-meteor-shower-2012-peaks-sunday.html

If you haven't heard of ROA, might I direct your attention here:


Image from Juxtapoz


I first heard of ROA's work when he did a campaign of his signature, larger than life animal paintings in Gambia. However, the original images I saw weren't of eviscerated rats. Even so, he's put a different take on the guerilla aspect of street art. Way beyond the WOW effect.

For all you minimal animals:

Akiko Kiyama Op.Disc Showcase Hub 2009 Liquid Room, Tokyo







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