Some cutted sheets of paper…

And then some­body came along with a piece of art like this… So i have to blog. Can’t denie… The blogging-monster won the bat­tle. For today…

The Montana Meth Project

As a big fan of the fan­tas­tic TV show Break­ing Bad I’m aware of the seri­ous dam­age a drug like Crys­tal­meth can cause. Sadly, the num­ber of drug addicts is high and the drug users start their careers in an age they should actu­ally care more about their home­work than doing drugs.

For this rea­son, some guys founded the Mon­tana Meth Project, to show the poten­tial young “cus­tomers” what this hor­ri­ble drug is really about:

Our goal is to arm the youth of Mon­tana with the facts about Meth so that they can make a bet­ter informed deci­sion when pre­sented with the oppor­tu­nity to give Meth a try.

The whole thing is actu­ally the first cam­paign against any form of drugs, which — in my eyes — really works. I’m deeply impressed by the offen­sive images used in the ads:

The research-based mes­sag­ing campaign—which graph­i­cally por­trays the rav­ages of Meth use through tele­vi­sion, radio, bill­boards, and Inter­net ads—has gained nation­wide atten­tion for its uncom­pro­mis­ing approach and demon­strated impact. The campaign’s core mes­sage, “Not Even Once®,” speaks directly to the highly addic­tive nature of Meth.

Here are some exam­ples: Read the rest of this entry »

Procrastination

Awe­some ani­ma­tion about the mean­ing of pro­cras­ti­na­tion.

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion — It’s color coör­di­nat­ing your shelves

Ex Libris Art

Ex lib­ris, mean­ing ‘from the library of’, or ‘from the books of’ is a Latin expres­sion attached to the art form of book­plates. These are stamps or labels that appear inside books to denote own­er­ship, and range from the sim­ple to the dec­o­ra­tive and elab­o­rate, to the obscure or even bizarre and surreal.

For tons of Ex Lib­ris head over to Darkroastedblend.com.

Died Young, Stayed Pretty

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a can­did look at the under­ground poster cul­ture in North Amer­ica. This unique doc­u­men­tary exam­ines the cre­ative spirit that dri­ves these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schiz­o­phrenic cul­ture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a car­i­ca­ture of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US econ­omy. The artists push fur­ther into the pulp to grab the atten­tion of passersby, plas­ter­ing art that’s both vul­gar and intensely vis­ceral onto the gnarled sur­faces of the urban land­scape. The film gives us inti­mate look at some of the giants of this mod­ern sub­cul­ture. Out­side of their own cir­cle, they’re vir­tu­ally unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, pub­licly argu­ing the aes­thetic mer­its of octo­pus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars. They’ve cre­ated their own visual lan­guage for describ­ing the spotty under­belly of west­ern civ­i­liza­tion and they’re not shy about throw­ing it in the face of polite soci­ety. Along the way, they man­age to cre­ate posters that are strik­ingly obscene, unflinch­ingly blas­phe­mous and often quite beau­ti­ful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivi­sec­tion­ists of America’s mor­bidly obese con­sumer culture.

See the trail­ers for some awe­some poster art:

News Headline Timelapse Painting

advertising understatement

Just found this nice series of car com­mer­cials in my email archive. Some years ago, the Brits already knew how to under­line their cars’ advan­tages:
BMW starts an ad:

The response of AUDI:

That’s  SUBARU’s contribution:

Finally the true player shows his com­peti­tors how to run the business:

RIP Dash Snow

All rights Dash Snow

Dash Snow, a very promis­ing New York based artist died last mon­day of a heroin over­dose. One more great artist to join the Club 27.

Here you can view more polaroids shot by him.