4/30/08

How cool is this? It's more confusing than the original Escher painting.

This was lifted from some chap in Sydney who has a very cool blog with lots of other very cool things. Check out gravestmor

All the best,

Flat

4/28/08


This is something brilliant I found on Wieden + Kennedy's website. It's a map of the world made out the relevant stamps from each country and they've got it in their STAIR WELL!
I don't want to lick their arse too much but W+K are great-big-American streets ahead of any other London ad agency at the moment. Always creating simple, effective work that most of the time has F all to do with traditional advertising.

Dog bless them for giving the rest of us hope.

Flat

4/22/08

RUBBISH MILAN DESIGN


Well i know this is supposed to be another rubbish art blog but i have to post this seat/pillow design thing that some bloke from Glasgow had made and displayed at the 2008 Milan design fair.I wonder, Just where do the boundaries of art and design lie?
send answers on a drinks carton (cos its creativly different) to someone who thinks they know alot about art and design...like this bloke from Glasgow.

4/21/08

Fake American Apparel?







Okay, so these have been around for a while now and if you live in NYC you may even have been fortunate enough to see them. But if not... basically they're fake American Apparel poster that have been slapped all over the city by some rogue wheat paster. As yet I don't think anyone knows who's doing it. Apparently not the work of slightly sleazy founder Dov Charney because that would, I suppose, just make him sleazy but then he does have this to say to L.A...

... A big fuck you statue outside his front door point directly at downtown L.A. ...Nice.

Anyway, back to the gratuitous use of vag in posters... Aren't they nice ads? They make me want to dash out and get togged up in a bit of ethical kit right now.
Job done Dov... Now you can own up...

Thanks to copyranter for the photos. As of Friday he's quit blogging so he won't be needing them any more. R.I.P copyranter.

All the best,

FLAT

4/17/08

subnav on mount kilimanjaro

altho delirious from altitude sickness subnav top boy matt had the presence of mind to get a sticker at the top of mount kilimanjaro

good man!

4/14/08

ONE NATION UNDER CCTV




Here's the latest piece from Banksy which just turned up round the back of my work in the Royal Mail post depot. It's a big piece that would have taken a lot of prep and/or a lot of back handers.

For more info read: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=559547&in_page_id=1770

(For some reason it annoys me that you have to read about it on a Mail on Sunday website but what the fuck... Banksy's all about irony... Isn't he?)

All the best,

FLAT

Toilet shots

WORK TOILET

HOME TOILET

How ‘bout these two photographs to really challenge the question: What is art?

The fact that everybody who has a phone now has a camera has made these images possible.

Because, they were taken while sitting on the crapper. And the interesting thing about them isn’t the subject, but the fact that I’ve taken them with my pants down. How many photographs are taken like that? Surely the fact that these images, although seemingly dull, have a story, makes them art?

Pants down these are the best photos I’ve ever taken.

Next time you visit the Armitage Shanks why not join me and see how liberating it is to take photos with your knackers out, dangling in the porcelain. Odds are when you’re framing your shot you won’t be squeezing one out but why not? If you can manage it, it might add a whole new level to it… At least in your head. The viewer of the picture will be none the wiser…. But you’ll know.


All the best

FLAT

4/12/08

Trans 1


Just met this terribly nice writer, Trans 1, outside my house, in the Borough, London.

To see more of his amazing photorealistic graff just go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12574907@N04/


Enjoy,

FLAT

4/11/08

Toy world

Toy Nedaz, Valais, Switzerland.

Toy Southbank, London, England.

Found this way in Photoshop to turn everything into toyland.
In the real world without the use of digital tools the technique is called tilt-shift. But that seems far to difficult in this day and age.

It's a good way of turning photo's you thought were crap, with no real subject, into quite interesting pictures.

FLAT

kinky barbie & ken


hayes valley, san francisco

4/10/08

COME AND RELAX

CHRISTIAN HOSOI

I Found this pencil sketch of Christian Hosoi the old skool skateboard dude from America…he had it all, rock star life style, Fame, girls, constant party boy, money and he was fucking good at skateboarding.

Then at the age of 32, he got caught with a large amount of crystal meth coming into Honolulu airport and was sent down for 5 years in prison. He apparently found god in there and is now free, out on the streets, preaching to all who will listen. I used to like his Japan airs, so stylish.

INTERNET IS ART

This is what the facebook website looks like as a graph...


This is what the porn site redtube looks like as a graph...


And this is what the ARAB site looks like as a graph!

Conclusive proof that this site really is all about art. The redtube site is nice but the ARAB site is much prettier. Which is ironic really because the actual redtube site is so much pretty in the flesh than the ARAB site. But who am I to argue with the mathematicians.

If you're bored shitless and find this remotely interesting you can make lots of other wonderful pretty patterns at: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/

All the best,

FLAT

AMSTERDAM ALLEY



4/9/08

LONDON


After removing a board from a wall in my office I came across this piece done by Mode 2.
It was done for the opening party of the ad agency, along with another whole wall which has subsequently been removed.
Do you think I should get the hammer and shanizzle out and start chipping away? Get it on ebay or Pictures on Walls?

Flat

CACTUS BUNNY

ITALIAN WALL

NICE COMB OVER

ITALIAN WALL

ITALIAN WALL

ITALIAN WALL

SNAIL SHELLS

ZURICH WALL

ZURICH WALL

ZURICH WALL

ZURICH WALL

ZURICH STREET

UK BIRMINGHAM WALL

UK BIRMINGHAM WALL

UK BIRMINGHAM WALL

TOYS GET FUCKED

BLOD & CUTS



ITALIAN TRAINS.