I’m starting a new series tonight, one of two new ongoing artist features that I aim to keep posting to in the weeks, months, decades that follow. Raymond Pettibon, in my opinion is punk rock’s answer to Andy Warhol, cynically stoking his work with such truly american made pop culture references as handguns and baseball, celebrity murder and mickey mouse. It is brilliant and dark and always provoking. But what makes me a fan most of all is his use of text and the hand drawn representation of design layout …

The Public Image Ltd logo by Dennis Morris and John Lydon.

The warped and uncalibrated state of the first 20 seconds of this video seems a fitting start to the contents that follow as though serving to open a portal into an entirely different reality, one hosting the clash of two titans of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll ethic.
It really does not get much more legendary than this. Amusingly, as one of the comments points out, it is Keith Richards that comes out seeming the most sober. But despite a good few moments of drug addled babble on …

A great collection of punk rock flyers from the early 80′s to the present.

“The first video news I watched on a cellphone was a smoke signal. I saw it in the back of a cab. The Pope had died, and CNN had its cameras trained on the chimney over St. Peter’s Square. Viewers were told to expect white smoke when the cardinals had elected his replacement.
The sight of this primitive signal on a screen the size of a Saltine in a taxi in New York City was mind-blowing. I peered into the machine in my hand. I could make out the image. I …

It started as a joke during the research phase of a current project, but I was just informed that my t-shirt design Puma Vs. Unicorn has passed the Threadless submission phase and is now up for voting in the public sphere. Help make this shirt a reality. Vote now. Or at the very least chime in on who you think would win a battle of such mythic proportions.

History has proven time and again that if the powers that be put up a wall, the people will eventually tear it down. Such was the case at last night’s Bloc Party concert at the Orpheum when 80+ fans, grown tired of the formal sit down theatre setting of the venue, rushed the stage for the final song of the night.
The Bloc Party is not a sit down kind of band. I caught their act two years ago at the Commodore when they came through town pushing their epic debut …

Canstruction is a fundraising event for the Food Bank where teams compete by building 10′X 10′X 8′ sculptures out of cans and non-perishable goods. The two day competition ended this afternoon with our team (Industrial Brand Creative and Legends Memorabilia) taking the top prize of Juror’s Choice for the third year in a row with our entry PiniCantics. More photos and our usual timelapse QT of the build are soon to follow in the days ahead. But in the meantime, if you are in the Vancouver area, I encourage you …

Can inspiration occur after the fact? Yesterday’s post, the first in a new series entitled “Art I Pass By On My Way To Work” could very well have been born from a website that I stumbled upon today. Written On The City, a project by the troublemakers over at Language In Common “celebrates the conversation that’s happening on the walls and sidewalks of the places we live.”