Sam Jones excels at mostly everything he does—except staying static. “I just could not sit around on an afternoon and smoke pot and watch TV—that was just never gonna be me.” With every new project he takes on, Sam approaches it with a skateboarder’s mentality, dating back to his days growing up in Fullerton, California. […]Read Post ›
Since the days of watching Celebrity Death Match reruns on MTV, I’ve always had a real fascination with claymation. It’s almost as interesting imagining the work that went into creating these little animated puppets as it was to watch Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman fight to the death. That’s why the second I came across the Instagram feed […]Read Post ›
A lot can be said about the work of Phoenix-based contemporary artist Colin Chillag. One might be quick to label his art as hyperrealism, but his pluralist approach to painting blends techniques from across the art spectrum. While his almost-photo like portraits and depictions of the mundane qualities of everyday life are so beautifully authentic, […]Read Post ›
It’s always nice to find other people in the world who enjoy television as much as you do. That’s probably why at least a quarter of the people I follow on Instagram are artists specializing in the new Pop Art style of TV-inspired graphic design. A perfect example of that style is Australian artist Twyla […]Read Post ›
If you’ve scrolled through Instagram’s “explore” section recently, odds are you’ve likely come across the artwork of Sam Cox, better known as Mr. Doodle. Known for his mixture of characters and loose, black and white scribbles, Mr. Doodle’s work has shown up all around the world, from apartment walls to high-profile clients like Adidas and […]Read Post ›
The list of accomplishments associated with Seymour Chwast is almost impossible to fit into one small blog post. So naturally, when he agreed to speak with me for this site, which barely even has an official domain name, I was pretty elated to say the least. Even if you don’t know the name Seymour Chwast, […]Read Post ›
There’s a big difference between “fake news” and fake news, and Matt Saincome thinks he’s cracked the code on the latter. With his punk rock satirical news site The Hard Times, Saincome—along with co-founders Ed Saincome and Bill Conway—has found success writing what he knows best—comedic news stories taking on the likes of Minor Threat […]Read Post ›
Let me paint a picture for you—no pun intended. There’s a guy who spends his days painting Subway and Pizza Hut storefronts in painstaking detail, and—according to his Wikipedia page—“gives in-depth investigative reports on various topics such as the history of the Frito-Lay corporation, PepsiCo and the NRA” on the radio. To the casual reader, […]Read Post ›
