Forty illustrations of Harrison Ford in his roles in the forty films in which he is credited. Full of awesome!
Monthly Archives: July 2011
“Tom Selleck Saved My Baby!”
Another installment by artist Dimitri Drjuchin of his “Tom Selleck Saved My Baby” series of wheat-paste street art posters, featuring the moustached face of television and film actor Tom Selleck. Drjuchin’s poster can be found on the exterior wall of the pizza restaurant Lasso at the corner of Kenmare and Mott streets in Nolita, in downtown New York City.
Moschino Display Window
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 7
The Entrance at Morimoto Restaurant
The entrance to the esteemed Japanese restaurant Morimoto in Chelsea, in New York City, has a design aesthetic that is contemporary yet firmly nods to its cultural roots. The epic-large curtain or noren (a cloth commonly found hanging at the entrances to kitchens, restaurants and baths in Japan) is a traditional decorative item that has been given a refreshingly modern twist at Morimoto.
Pacific Pirates
Love this. We can watch this over and over again, diminishing law of returns notwithstanding. It’s surfing porn. And it’s good.
Pacific Pirates from Billabong on Vimeo.
Last of the Moguls
Wall-Mounted Fiat Car as Conceptual Art?
The color-blocked Fiat by British conceptual artist Simon Starling, mounted on a wall at the New Museum in downtown New York City.
The artwork is part of an exhibition called “Ostalgia.” The red and white colors and composition on the car appear like the flag of Poland, where this Italian brand of car was completely rebuilt using parts made in Poland.
Much of Fiat’s manufacturing in the very late years of Eastern Europe’s Communist era was actually done in Poland. The car has become a symbol of Poland’s identity and of its pre-capitalist period of history.
Cover of China’s “Drink” Magazine
Elephants Stencil
Japanther Sticker
Sticker for the New York City indie-noise band Japanther on an Orchard Street door in the Lower East Side of New York City.
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 6
Yarn Bombed Piano
Two creative directions and artist collide in the form of this yarn-bombed grand piano: The acclaimed New York-based Polish artist Agata Olek has used her signature colors in a knit-up of this piano under the Archway of the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The piano is one of 60 installed in public spaces throughout New York City as part of “Play Me I’m Yours,” an art project by British artist Luke Jerram. Anyone is welcomed to play the pianos. Check out more work by Olek on this website on the artist’s site.
Been Down So Long Looks Like Up To Me
“Been down so long looks like up to me” is a commissioned art space on a storefront roller-shutter on the Bowery, the infamous and now fashionable – and arty – major downtown New York City thoroughfare. The artwork is part of a recent project called “After Hours: Murals of the Bowery” launched by the New Museum, which is itself on the Bowery.
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 5
WTF, Mismatched Shoes?
We’ve been working with an awesome brand strategist recently on a series of integrated marketing projects for a acclaimed luxury-fashion agency and their client.
The brand strategist a sharp dude, but has been working realy, really long, crazy hours lately and one morning it showed: He came to the office wearing mismatched dress shoes.
The fine Italian leather shoes were the same color, but clearly, as the picture demonstrates, were of a different pattern – the pair was comprised of a left and right shoe from two different pairs of footwear.
At a short distance (or in low-light, early-morning semi-darkness), one might not see the difference, but up close, it’s obvious.
Perhaps a new style is in the making? Uh … we won’t hold our breath just yet. 
(Thanks, J., for sharing!)
Video Screen in Hotel Elevator Loops Italian Film
We’ve been guests at a few of the Thompson hotels over the years. The Thompson LES in the Lower East Side of New York City has video screens built into the control panels of its elevators that show the classic Italian film La Dolce Vita (“the sweet life”) on a non-stop loop. Ride the elevators enough times and you may end up seeing the whole film in (albeit in non-linear way).
Urs Fischer’s 35,000-Pound Teddy Bear
Ace Hotel Turntable Decor
The famous red turntable and desert-chic interior of a room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, California.
Angry Birds Street Art
Eyes Wide Shut
Giant blown-up black-and-white photographic image of a Native American man’s eyes shut tight on the wall at the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery in downtown New York City. The wall is a commissioned art space curated by the defunct Deitch Projects art gallery and showed artworks by acclaimed artists such as Os Gemeos, Shepard Fairey, and the late Keith Haring. The artwork is by JR and part of the Inside Out Project.
Moleskine Notebook Project: Surfboard Drawings
Here’s our second post in Global Graphica’s Moleskine Notebook Project: Van Corsa holds up the notebook pages displaying felt-tip marker sketches of surf boards, one long board and one short board, he drew while we were sipping espresso. Van was supposed to go surfing abroad this weekend, but had to cancel his plans. We think we know where he’d rather be. 
Artwork by “Astro Naut” in Spain
Astro Naut in Spain sent us a pic of his recent massive street-art mural work in Madrid. Love it! Check out more of Astro Naut’s work on Flickr.
Copyright 2011 Astro Naut. All rights reserved.
Moleskine Notebook Project: Coffee Cup Drawings
In a new photo series, we’re launching the Moleskin Notebook Project. We’ll be regularly taking pictures of the notebook pages of our soft-cover Moleskine Notebook and the various casual drawings, doodles and sketches on these pages.
We always carry this notebook with us to jot ideas, make lists, write down bits of info, etc., and, of course, to draw.
In the first in the series of posts for the project, we’ve snapped pictures of two facing pages with drawings of the cups in which we were served coffee during brunch at a French bistro in the Lower East Side of downtown New York City.
BTW, this project is not officially associated with the Moleskine brand or company.
Mr. Brainwash’s Green Giant
Another massive piece of wheat-paste street art in Los Angeles from Mister Brainwash ( a.k.a., MBW, a.k.a., Thiery Guetta, who many readers will know was the subject of Banksy’s Academy Award-winning documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop). This pic of Mr. Brainwash’s recent artwork come courtesy of our dude in L.A., Josh. (Thanks, J!)
Copyright 2011 Josh Lucas Photo. All rights reserved.