Tonights Simpsons intro directed and storyboarded by Banksy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo[/youtube]

I wonder how much the cells from the animation would fetch.

Unsigned, one of 10,000, and painted anonymously in a factory. Just like all his other work, probably go for about 15k.

He’s got it worked out.

In the 18th century a Shinto priest named Hideaki saw a Karakuri doll (a clockwork robot made of wood) and claimed that in the future we will create mechanical characters that will become so superior to our own intelligence and ability’s that we will subject ourselves to them as if they were gods.

AUJIK shares Shintos belief that everything of nature is animated, even those things that we consider to be the most artificial and synthetic which border the realm of the abstract. To them science and technology is considered as sacred as stones and trees and imbued with a universal sentience.

This is fundermental to AUJIKS doctrines which aims to represent the chaos of original nature (trees, metals, organism etc) in duality to the ordered nature of refined nature (computers, robots, DNA-manipulation, etc), it explores the relationship of the two and the nature of existence.

By reflecting on it’s doctrine through the creation of artwork of an organic/synthetic nature, AUJIK hopes to facilitate the evolution of mankind.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13567516[/vimeo]

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13885334[/vimeo]

“And the places they most haunt are the loveliest — high shadowy groves where the uguisu sings in green twilight, above some voiceless shrine with its lamps and its lions of stone so mossed as to seem things born of the soil like mushrooms.”

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14822511[/vimeo]

“This first fallen snow

is barely enough to bend
the jonquil leaves” – Matsuo Bashō

New video by Kami and Sasu who will be in Melbourne during November for a show at Backwoods.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1BGIrKR6EM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Stunning Tokyo time-lapse video by Samuel Cockedey that shatters the perception of individualism in the context of a great city, with ambient electronica by Paul Frankland, aka Woob.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14692378[/vimeo]

An interesting interview with Samuel on the process behind his time-lapse work can be found here.

Not like he needs any intro or plugging for that matter, but check Banksy’s reworked kiddies dolphin ride complete with crude oil and net, installed on Brighton Pier. This is why the man, or should I say enigma, is the king of social commentary art…engaging the public with plenty of satire, wit and sheer cleverness. Always one step ahead of the pack.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hjIuMx-N7c&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]More new works at his site here

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14489572[/vimeo]

Retna and El Mac are killing it.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14375730[/vimeo]

Found on Retna’s blog.

And…. the trophy for Worlds Most Adorable Graffiti Couple goes to…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDQC4WM8cgw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

We’re bringing Tokyo photographer Yone to Australia for a twin city tour of and exhibition. Starting at Backwoods on the 24th then Lo-Fi in Sydney on the 25th thanks to the help of Luca from Refill and the Halfsleeve guys. For the Melbourne details click here, Sydney details are right here. More news soon.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbEJu63KPUY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Tune into ZonkVision.

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