Design your own Banana at Eat A Chiquita.com. Kudos to the marketing mastermind at Chiquita Banana who was cool enough to recognize what their consumers were doing with the stickers on the fruit after they had finished eating the banana.  I’m sure we have all been guilty of this at some point, I’m partial to slapping the stickers on Drive-Thru intercoms and Taxi Cabs.  Created by Art Director DJ Neff, many of the graphic faces take their design cues from Japanese anime or skateboard culture each with their own fun personality.  Check it out and even design your own stickers.  I’m curious to see what other designs people create.

 

Los Angeles based Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight is featuring Castle Greyskull Under the Influence: Master of the Universe tribute art show.  By the power of Greyskull, don’t miss this show the art is disturbingly powerful.

 

Animal Collective & Danny Perez: Transverse Temporal Gyrus

This is surely something I would love to see more of: a collaboration by two artistic mediums to deliver an experience that surpasses their individual art.  Psychedelic science. Experimental visual artist Danny Perez and Animal Collective are going to manifest their theory through sound and colors in an already sold-out exhibit at the Guggenheim Museam.  Transverse Temporal Gyrus is inspired by the senses, elements that heighten & affect them, and our reactions.

For the Guggenheim’s 50th Anniversary, the band Animal Collective has collaborated with artist Danny Perez on a site-specific performance piece that will transform the museum’s rotunda into a kinetic, psychedelic environment. Transverse Temporal Gyrus will feature original recorded music composed specifically for the event along with video projections, costumes, and props, rendering the band members and performers into intense, visual abstractions. During the evening, guests are invited to freely explore the space in order to fully immerse themselves in the environment created by Animal Collective and Danny Perez.

 

Copyright Criminals explores the craft of music sampling from the rise of hip-hop to its current state.  The documentary provides interesting view points from various perspectives of the industry including Chuck D from Public Enemy to seminal D.I.Y producer Steve Albini.  The film questions, ‘Can you own a sound?’

Sample culture is ultimately pop culture and I think this debate is a very interesting one.  Can you own a sound? I’m still not sure what side I am on.  I don’t think you should prevent or inhibit artistic expression yet somehow the original creator should still be compensated.  I’m not saying we should only create art to make money but those that do should at least get the recognition and respect they deserve, ask the funky drummer himself, Clive Stubblefield.

What is even more interesting to me is where technology is taking us.  Sample culture, hip-hop and its cut-and-paste ethos are driving innovation and art beyond sound.  Pop culture is multi-media and we live in a multi-media world.  Audio and Video.  What we should really be asking is not ‘Can you own a sound?’ but what ownership of art for the creator really means?

 

The Situation just got remixed.  Two fist pumps for Eclectic Method.

 

Ronald McDonald, The Colonel, The King and Jack walk into a bar strip club, get down in the city and do it right.  The Rad Omen take Man Night to another level in ‘Rad Anthem,’ and it ends the way any good night of partying should – by covering each other with ketchup and mustard at Carney’s!  I can’t wait to check out more from these guys.    Can you guess who plays The King and what Hollywood rocker is under the Jack in the Box? (Hint: check the Tats).

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