“I knew that when kids started playing basketball in $250 sneakers that America was finished”

Found this interview with Ralph Bakshi where he talks about his career making a stand against meritocracy. And also his opinions on art. For me its encouraging, at a time when we see street artists merging with the established art scene there seems to be allot of tension as the academic artists reluctantly give space to the emerging field.

Its cool to hear the opinions of someone like Bakshi to remind us that despite the tension and the potential benefits from the cross over, in reality established scene can get fucked. While we might not have their audience and the money that they are throwing around, we do have creativity, art and a strong culture. Which for all the long winded explanations and theory behind every piece that they sell, it is the one thing they’ll never have and at the end of the day the only thing that matters.

As a testimony to this view, while other studios cashed in on garbage, Bakshi’s career includes greats such as Fritz the Cat, Wizards and Fire and Ice.

Check it here.

THE king of the Asian Wild Style Connection Drew has just put load of new black book style prints and artwork on Nice.

WildStyle Fishing Print, 1 of 10, signed and Numbered. 

Double Happiness 1 of 10, signed and Numbered. 

Check the rest out here 

new by Mc Macca and Mr Wonderlust.

Caledonian lane, 1st June 08.

More shots up on the NiceProduce Flickr

Acorn is super talented force.
He arrives in Melbourne at the end of the week for a 3 month residency at Wardlow on Fitzroy.
look forward to murals, books and shows whilst he is here.
He’s originally from Vancouver, though i met up with him in Edinburgh before we traveld to Vienna and Belrin togther last year for some shows.

his flickr here

A very cool guy from London, who´s one of the masterminds behind the SRK website / studio / shop and author of a dope book + dvd called Rackgaki, about the greatest artists of the japanese graffiti, which some will be participating on the NO COMPLY show also, just sent me some news about another cool project they´re launching now, the customed sketchbooks by DARBOTZ/ ESOW/ JIMI CRAYON/ DALEK for the SRK.

See the  release .

Big Up , Big Hug, Big Thanks to Shaz !

Keep it Positive !

Havent been able to post as much as I want lately but have been doing some nice things that Ill be telling all about it here soon!

For starters…looking for a job the other day I just ran into it at a gallery I didnt know about…and saw these works by DAVID HAINES -who I also never heard before but it didnt take a second to make me become an admiror of his surreal (so real!) artwork!

Surprised as much as shocked ! Amazing big canvases, a work of m agic with a pencil on paper, much respect and admiration!

My awful, but still worthed to, shot from my cel phone of my favorite piece.

A nice detail from this one.

Not all of these works are at the Luisa Strina Gallery, where the show is happening here in SP until June 21st.

See the works in exhibition here.

Keepin it on ! Peace !!!

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