Ahh, my fellow Malaysian showing off some artistic skills and effective/ quick thinking when it came to a lack of ladders. Btw, Tebabo is the sound your car makes when it crashes, falls off a cliff, rolls over a bunch of rocks, lands on it’s back, and just before you get out it explodes. Tebabo!

The who’s who of street and sticker art can be found here. Awesome stuff. Trust me, you’d wanna look at this one supersized, so click on the image above. Courtesy of Billy Kid’s Flick’r.

Design and image by Jim Darling.

First up, sorry for my long hiatus from the scene. A combination of work and a shift in mindset played a strong part in it, but I’m back now. And this colab had played a big part in it. I felt lost in the swarms of gallery invitations and the amount of events flying in from everywhere: left right and center. It wasn’t overwhelming, but it became too much of a norm, and my site was turning into one big gallery event post board, and less and less about street art and design. I’m making things right today, and what better way to do it than with this stunning piece of work from Sam 3, San and Liqen. Things were getting a little murky and dark, so thanks for pointing me back in the right direction guys. Seriously breath taking work.

Edit: I forgot, there’s more pictures here.

Some nice visual’s from my man JR in India. You can see more at my Flick’r Account.

Early this month, Spraygraphics.com held their first Mini Mini Art Show at Cartel Coffee Lab in Tempe, Arizona. They had asked artists to work within a 4inch by 4inch format. At the show they had 12 panels consisting of 49 pieces of art each. Totaling 588 pieces of art from all over including UNITED KINGDOM, SPAIN, FRANCE, GREECE, MACEDONIA, RUSSIA, SLOVENIA, FINLAND, BRAZIL, CANADA, SCOTLAND, HUNGARY, AND MORE…50% of the art were from international artists.

Yep, that’s right. Fresh new limited AND special edition prints are ready in Above’s shop section. And like all things that are good and tasty, it might just run out soon. VERY SOON!

*ABOVE DESIGNED AND SCREEN PRINTED EVERYTHING HIMSELF FROM START TO FINISH. EACH PRINT IS SIGNED, DATED IN NUMBER BY ABOVE. ENJOY!

To those who don’t know, Tony’s the master printer at Modern Multiples Studio in LA, who’s done work for the likes of Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Revok and so forth. And now in his spare time, he’s come up with this very rare collection of artwork that is self produced. You can only get it here.

Haha, this is freaking brilliant. By Jim.

Yes… it’s a loan shark. Work by Blu.

Nice mural by Jeremy Fish.

A palindrome by Above. Read this backwards…

One of my utmost favorite street artist is at it again, this time with a huge site update that will keep you entertained for hours on end. Update includes great videos, previously unseen work, stuff from the past and beautiful words by the man himself to really make each picture come to life. My personal favorite? The palindrome Above. See what I did there?

Go Above

Time for you guys to start calling out real life fail situations, mates. I forsee a lot of mayhem in the streets. Make your own fail photo’s people, DO IT!

Still on Earth Hour, Shepard Fairey has contributed to the WWF Earth Hour cause by designing a special poster for it. You can download it by clicking on the picture.

Earth Hour is the worlds biggest climate change initiative. On March 28th 2009, at precisely 8:30pm, people around the world will turn off their lights for precisely 1 hour: The Earth Hour. About 1000 cities  and a targeted 1 billion people are taking part, and if you don’t already know about it, then it’s time you did. This is a worldly effort to fight global warming, so mark your calendars.

I’ve been lucky enough to be selected to design a desktop wallpaper or two for Earth Hour Malaysia, which you can download here, or just by clicking on the image above.  Please show your support by downloading the wallpaper and using it, at least until the date of action. And more importantly, please share this information with anyone and everyone. Thank you.

I freaking am inspired with this one. It’s one of those, why the hell did’nt I think of it situations. What do you get when you merge the most powerful and knowledgable search engine and a brilliant street artist? Sheer Fuckin’ Brilliance.  This is already the best fuckin’ inspired website design of 2009.

I somehow missed this in my e-mails and want to kick myself, but I’ll hold back and hope that this is new to some of you. Some fresh new AMAZING work from JR in Kenya. A lot of us are comfortably numb the way we live our lives, just sitting around while the current of movement gushes by. JR is not one of said people. He’s always on the go, constantly looking for a place that he can help out, or touch the lives of others, and make aware that in fact there are others that share this world with us. He brings them in our living rooms, on our walls, project them on our houses, and put them on our buildings. He takes us out of our comfortably blinded positions and thrust his realistic blowned up images of everyday people in our faces. It’s like you have been an immobile Neo your whole life, and then one day Morpheus comes to you. JR is the Morpheus of the photography world.

I’m not leaving anything out, this will be a rather lengthy post, so brace yourself. Here’s some words about the movement:

Finally, more than a year after he took the original pictures, JR has returned to Kibera, Kenya. He was reunited with the women who had accepted to be part of the project at the end of 2007. Whilst some of them had had to leave the slum during the post election riots of 2008, others were still there and are now helping implement. The art performance will be ready for Friday 30 January 2009 and is taking place in the heart of Kibera, one of the largest slum of Africa.

2000 square meters of rooftops will be covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. Most of the women will have their own photos on their own rooftop and for the first time the material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. It will be interesting to see what other uses the photographs will be put to come the 31st January. Before that though, they will be on view from Google Earth and the railway line that passes above them.

Meanwhile the train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day will be covered with eyes from the women that live below it. It will also be pasted with eyes of the women of Brazil, India, Cambodia, and other parts of Africa whose stories and image continue to travel. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces will be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.

Yet more amazing pictures of the action here. JR’s Website.

Street artist Above hits the streets again, this time just in time for the dreaded Valentines Day. His stencils should remind everyone about what this day really means, and not all the commercialized bullshit that surrounds it. Happy Valentines Day to all.

Something that’s pretty interesting that’s going on over at Spraygraphic.com. They are curating their first show over at Arizona State University’s Graphic Design Conference, and are still accepting submissions, so if you are an artist, please feel free to submit stuff. I’m considering sending something myself. Details inside.

Spraygraphic.com is calling for MINI works of art that are exactly 4in by 4in (10.16cm x 10.16cm). Submissions can range from a mounted sheet of paper to a sculpture but it must be able to be hung flat on the wall. Submit paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, graphic design, fibers, clay, etc. We expect to end up with a gallery full of diverse, compelling, and exquisite little pieces of art.

A $3.00 digital printing plus mounting service will be available to allow people from distant locations to easily participate.

ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE FREE

DEADLINE MARCH 5th, 2009
For All Submission Details go to www.spraygraphic.com/minimini or contact minimini@spraygraphic.com