Last month (June 6), Endless Grind and FM Goods of Raleigh had a collaborative show and benefit called “Drawing Blanks.” A bunch of blank skateboard decks were painted by local artists, and then they were all silent auctioned on the First Friday in June. The auction benefitted The Disabled American Veterans of NC.
The show was [...]

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Similar to the BMW fabric car Aly wrote about a few days ago, these Lamp Girls by Marianne Maric combine textiles with product design to give structure to the fabrics. Fortunately in this case, artistry and iconic culture are also added in.
Kind of the sexual inverse of “where the sun don’t shine.”
source: elitalice.com

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“What if We Could All Be Friends?” by Jordan Perry (k thru 3rd grade group)
If you use Google as your homepage like I do, then you get to enjoy the different “special occasion” Google logos. Each year for the past 4 years, Google has had a competition for school age kids to design a Google [...]

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See the new Louis Vuitton store at the Brooklyn Museum, IN THE GALLERY.
Pop-art, Pop-branding, Brand-art or Art-cute. My favorite part is the
counter-counterfeiting that was on the street with actors playing hustlers selling
the real thing (@ real prices, $1500 ) at the gala… The art of business, the new war zone,
Sun Tzu would be [...]

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You can study history and cultural anthropology in any number of different ways. One incredible area of historical documentation: pinball machines! From movies and tv shows to music to popular games of each era like bingo, pinoccle or space invaders, pinball themes capture it all.
We ran into this little artistic gem over the weekend and [...]

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