Before we land the captain shows this to you for your veiwing pleasure

We've reached our destination, My Mind. Watch your step as you exit. My Mind has so much to offer so... explore and stay tuned.

One last stop before we get to our destination

Sneaker Art has to be one of the biggest influences on my artwork because most of the artist i love who do it are so loose and conceptual. Move over Dave White, there's another sneaker freaker on the horizon. Meet Daymon Greulich, a Melbourne-based artist who specializes in cartoons and character design. Having worked at Disney Studios, he has now opted for the more unpredictable life of a freelancer. Just as a sneakerhead praises their favorite or rare shoes, analyzing all the special details, these artist do the same when depicting their favorites. His favorite kicks include the Air Jordan III, the Air trainer III and the Sneaker Freaker Blaze of Glory! They seem to show up a lot in some of his sneaker art. Not only does Daymon do highly acclaimed sneaker artwork but he also does gig and tour posters for musical artists, animation, illustrations, and random cartoon characters. All his work is portrayed in the digital world which gives him more of an influential beam towards me. I still sit to this day when he has a new piece trying to pick at all the little details he adds in his pieces just to try and get how he does it.

STAGES

Lance Armstrong and Nike have been sharing their passion for life and sports together through a combined effort STAGES, a global art exhibit aimed at raising worldwide awareness and funds for the LIVESTRONG® Global Cancer Campaign. Capturing the spirit that survives in Lance, more than 20 artists donated their time and creativity to put across a message on behalf of LIVESTRONG, Armstrong’s foundation committed to inspiring and empowering people affected by cancer. With a strong debut in Paris, STAGES launched at Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery with a team of the world’s most accomplished and promising international artists, including Ed Ruscha, Cai-Guo Qiang, Richard Prince, Catherine Opie, KAWS, Eric White, José Parlá, Christopher Wool, Tom Sachs, Dzine, and Rosson Crow. The second part of their journey took place in New York City hosted by Deitch Projects where the team picked up four extra members with new works: the Os Gemeos twins, Futura and Dustin Yellin. The finale will take place at one of the art world’s biggest global events: Art Basel Miami Beach. To create an even louder voice for the LIVESTRONG message, STAGES calls in Los Angeles based Christian and Rob Clayton, aka the Clayton Brothers, the furious paintings from Erik Parker and the black and white portraiture genius of artist Tomoo Gokita for a high energy show full of talent and spirit. All artwork on display as part of STAGES will be available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting LIVESTRONG.



Contributing Artists:
Cai Guo-Qiang, Rosson Crow, Jules De Balincourt, Dzine, Shepard Fairey, Futura, Andreas Gursky, KAWS, Geoff McFetridge, Yoshitomo Nara, Catherine Opie, Os Gemeos, José Parlá, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, Eric White, Christopher Wool, Dustin Yellin, Aaron Young

Futura Interview from Adam Bryce on Vimeo.

K.R.E.A.M.

New graphic piece I just finished a few days ago. "K.R.E.A.M. Kicks Rule Everything Around Me" The entire piece is a Illustrator pen tool drawing.... with a comic font. Its shows what my obsession is actually doing to me.

We did some silkscreening and here are a few of the products. I wanted to print on things that we have to look at to use in our everyday lives.
USPS Envelope. Kinda want to send it empty to someone without telling them its my art and see what they do with it... will they keep it 'cause my arts on there or will they throw it away?
one of my favorite magazines.. COMPLEX and one of my favorite brands of kicks.. Jordan. This just adds to the concept of the piece.
Paper towel.... I have a sick idea for this now. When we come back from break I want to bring a roll of paper towels and unroll it so i can print on each one then roll it back up, wrap it in an individual plastic package... K.R.E.A.M. I think that'd sell!!!! lol
Oh and here's the song that pretty much inspired this piece.. CREAM get the money dolla dolla bills ya'll

"Hey you can't copy me!" "I'm not copying you. Your's is red and mine is maroon."

As an artist we all somehow want to protect our artwork once we put it out in the world, but in actual reality we definitely can't. We can do all these copyrights, trademarks, and whatnot to keep people from stealing their ideas. What some of us new upcoming artists don't understand is that our work is for the public. If you want to protect it you might as well make art in your own personal space and never let it reach the light of day. How do you think we are able to move from era to era of artwork? We study the previous era and try to do something different by modifying different techniques just a bit or extremely. SUPERFLEX's concept is in a way an explanation of my most recent piece "The World is my Gallery". I know that I want my work to be displayed for all the public to see. I dont want it to just be cramped up in the gallery for other artists and collectors to only see. I do upload some of my artwork on different social networking sites because that is one of my quickest ways of connecting to my true audience, everyone. I don't mind because I know that I am a bridge for other artists I may inspire to grow, as we all artists are. The sooner we realize that and stop trying to protect our pieces from people to get inspired by, the sooner we can start back up the era movements again.

SUPERFLEX is a trio of Danish artists who explore the boundaries of an original piece and a direct copy. The artists played around with the best-known brands and trademarks to create their own logo, which ran the risk of many legal problems. Some of their pieces that have caught a lot of heat are:

FREE BEER - An open source beer.

Black spot sneakers - Anti corporate sneaker power.

Guaraná Power - Soda trying to use global brands as raw material

Mecca Cola - The clash of colas.

Social Pudding - Copy pudding

All of these pieces frame the concept of SUPERFLEX's vision "to challenge intellectual property."
Their motto that I love so much is "If Value, Then Copy". I love artists who actually tests these types of boundaries that are so sketchy to touch on. I guess I just have a love for guerilla artists because those are the people who are actually making the art that inspires me so much. They are basically at the top of the pedestal of controversial art playing with people's emotions, making people interact with their pieces. I so upset I didn't get to see them speak when they came here to Tyler because I would of had so much to ask, talk about, and get inspiration from them. AHHHHH I'm just getting that "stuck for words" feeling that I love getting when talking about an artist. I could go on and on about SUPERLEX, but you have to have a taste for guerilla art to appreciate them like I do. Just go to their site http://superflex.net/.

Here's a video of one of their pieces that still has me in amazement. Oh and FYI this is a life-sized paper replica of McDonald's!!!

Flooded McDonald's from Superflex on Vimeo.

Who wants a $100 bucks??

There's a Grit & Beauty Blog Contest

10 students will win $100 each. (Open to all undergraduates.)
Like any very real place, Philadelphia is sometimes beautiful and sometimes gritty. Most of the time it is a little--or a lot--of both. Post text, images, audio, video expressing the mix of grit and the beauty that can make our city so interesting.
The contest ends October 30, 2009.


... yeah I got it!! (confidence, cockiness, whatever I know... but once you get into competition mode you have to be to survive) Now Im just waiting on the results, but no really I am pretty humble. I just love this piece Im submitting... Im submitting me.

F the police that's how I treat 'em

This piece is a mixture of a few things. It started off as one of my tourist series sketches (check out the post a little further back). I took it into Photoshop and painted the skin and boots of the correctional officer a.k.a. POEPOE and drew the little character in Illustrator. Lastly I put them in the setting of one of my photos down at LOVE Park. sweet huh??

Here's a couple of musical artist who feel the same way about the police...

Kanye West- All Falls Down (skip to 2:05 to hear it)





Public Enemy- F... The Police (explict... starts off with the general message lol)