http://kevinbroome.com The Portfolio of Kevin Broome Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:32:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CLIENT: Change Advertising / Vancouver Skateboard Coalition ROLE: Art Direction / Illustration / Design This project came about as a result of the Vancouver City Council's proposal to shut down China Creek, one of North America's oldest skateparks. Being a pro bono initiative, there was a great ... http://kevinbroome.com/2010/09/condemnedskatepark-com/ http://kevinbroome.com/2010/08/self-portrait-with-la/ The Collection continues with 13 works from over at Regen ProjectsAlso of note, it was recently announced the Pettibon is the 2010 recipient of the Oskar Kokoschka Prize. As this year’s winner of the biannual prize, the artist will be awarded €20,000. Pettibon will receive the prize in ... http://kevinbroome.com/2010/02/the-collected-links-of-raymond-pettibon-4/ "Lately, I’ve been wondering if sitting quietly in a café, pretending to read a newspaper, and not writing is the most earnest expression in our age: no echoes of language, nothing to reblog, just pure unmitigated self sitting with self. I might, after a time of blank staring, find myself ... http://kevinbroome.com/2010/02/heres-to-more-true-mystery/ This struck me as very fresh. A mashup is, more often than not, the sampling of pre-existing media -- music, movies, even sport intervews-- to create something new. And yet in the case of the Adidas Originals Star Wars ad, the media being used here is entirely new footage shot ... http://kevinbroome.com/2010/02/a-new-take-on-the-mash-up/ Fugazi at the Wilson Center, Washington D.C. on December 29th, 1988. http://kevinbroome.com/2010/02/great-moments-in-american-hardcore-2/ "I like where we're going with technology and global integration but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of. This isn't the version of it that I saw when I was a kid..."District ... http://kevinbroome.com/2010/01/the-la-times-neill-blomkamp-interview/ Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Brilliant! http://kevinbroome.com/2010/01/cover-versions-by-littlepixel/ The influence of data system mapping is immediately apparent when first confronted with the drawings of Emma McNally. The complexity of lines could represent online chatter, the flight path of starlings, or a new global epidemic. But they are all pencil on paper and any system that is being plotted ... http://kevinbroome.com/2009/12/drawings-by-emma-mcnally/ Bad Brains at CBGB's, 1982. http://kevinbroome.com/2009/11/great-moments-in-american-hardcore-1/