Picture it: San Francisco, January 2009. A pre-skinny Alex Pardee had just opened an atrabilious art show entitled Letters From Digested Children. The concept: Missing children who’d been eaten by monsters were being
It’s been a minute (Pizza Victims!) since the inventive hues of Monstrehero [interviewed here in 2008] last graced these pages, but today, Sean and Cliff revive their Victim, and
I needed this. (The green juice and the laugh.) ThugKitchen.com is real talk, vegan-style. And it is hilarious. For further proof that vegans are hardcore, revisit their vegetable
I found this illustration by Danish artist HuskMitNavn on his Instagram feed (how appropriate). He’s right, you know. “Social media” makes so much sense for folks like me
Local graffiti and ink art legend Mike Giant came to East Oakland for the inaugural show at Paco Excel’s new Manos de Oro gallery. Entitled Metaphorical Suicide (though
There once lived an artist who really liked hats. He had hundreds of hats—can YOU believe THAT? Throughout his lifetime, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss,
Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about original art vs. derivative art and if/whether these qualities are mutually exclusive. (Over the last week, we had this
Super collector Selim Varol just revealed a new commission in the form of this taxidermy-style trophy. The wall-mounted plaque features the hyperrealistic head of Mr. Brainwash…and a nameplate
I can’t think of a toy I’ve written about recently that’s polarized collectors quite like the Banksy-inspired Rude Copper and Bomb Hugger by UK-based toymakers, Apologies to Banksy. After I