I recently came across a couple paintings by SF based artist Matthew Palladino on Chris Kahle’s blog. I dig his simple, lo-fI style.
In the deck leading up to his recent interview on Fecal Face, his work is described as being “familiar yet horribly unique and fresh”. I would agree; and as noted by Chris, [...]

Chinese performance artist Lei Wei uses mirrors, metal wires and scaffolding to create mind-bending illusions of life threatening realities.

I spent last Friday night sipping on import tall boys with Chris Kahle; a Vancouver based advertising creative, at his coal harbor apartment. We discussed the crème de la crème of the industry, interactive strategies, his obsessive-compulsive tendency to switch up his blog and where things are going with web 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. He [...]

In no particular order:
1. Dennis Brown
Whip Them Jah Jah
I first saw/heard this song on the Heartland Reggae DVD. The footage is classic, everyone is grooving with the rhythm while Dennis does his thing. Suddenly, some old man dressed in a Dixie hat and tattered clothes hops up on stage and starts to mash it up [...]

Thud, Slurp, Kliong, Boom, Splonk, Ffizoom!
El Estratografico’s Flickr set Retronomatopeya, documents the simple yet creative language used in comic books to convey sound.

Created by intermixing purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice with local green-leafed tsugaru-roaman variety, imaginative farmers in rural Japan grow mass scale rice paddy artworks in their fields.
According to Pink Tentacle, “In recent years, a growing number of local governments around Japan have started organizing rice paddy art projects as a way to attract tourists and [...]