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Sep 04, 2015

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Dismaland is a "Bemusement Park" (or, dystopian theme park outdoor art exhibition) created by infamous anonymous British street artist Banksy. The elusive artist has curated new work of his own, alongside that of 50 other contributing artists he selected for the project. According to the press, the artist has described the Weston-super-Mare seafront exhibition as...

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Aug 28, 2015

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This week we were lucky enough to have our friend, artist & POW! WOW! founder and co-lead director Jasper Wong back in town, to paint a special mural project in Long Beach. It's great having another epic mural right by our office! I was able to check in periodically to document his progress. Final photo...

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Aug 17, 2015

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I met The Graffiti Hunter during POW! WOW! Long Beach as they were kind enough to spend lots of time in LB documenting the murals and leaving their signature calling cards at mural sites. It all started when they were living in DTLA and saw how much art appears on the streets, free for all...

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Aug 14, 2015

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Here's another great video recap of POW! WOW! Long Beach, this time from talented videographer Jordan Ahern. The footage mostly focuses on the giant Tristan Eaton & James Jean murals at The Varden Hotel, the colorful Madsteez + Hueman collab mural at J.W. Goodson's salon, the ornate CRYPTIK mural at "Alboni Temple," and the eye-catching...

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Aug 10, 2015

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We got to meet so many incredible people during POW! WOW! Long Beach earlier this Summer. That list includes incredibly generous local business owners, wonderful volunteers, hard-working politicians, enthusiastic community activists, and of course, the absolutely amazing artists who participated in the week-long mural festival. It was especially nice getting to know Long Beach-based participating...

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Aug 07, 2015

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Our good friends at San Diego-based sunglasses brand Knockaround recently teamed up with Hawaiian artist Aaron Kai for a colorful mural installation in their HQ. I'm looking forward to seeing it in person at some point hopefully! They also collaborated on this great T-shirt too. ...

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Jul 31, 2015

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POW! WOW! Long Beach is the gift that keeps on giving right now - it seems like great new content about the event comes out from another source almost daily. We were lucky enough to have Canadian artist / art blog curator Jeff Hamada of Booooooom fame on hand during the week of, documenting the...

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Jul 24, 2015

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As someone who is not overly fond of golf (yeah, I said it) and also someone who is constantly worried about the drought here and global warming in general, this news story from Japan really appealed to me. In short, Japanese mega corporation Kyocera recently announced plans to convert an abandoned golf course near Kyoto...

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Jul 17, 2015

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We have some photo content from our recent Imprint Presents "Deepest Depths of the Burrow" documentary screening and Q&A during POW! WOW! Long Beach. The event took place on Thursday 6/24 at the lovely Art Theatre Long Beach. It was a full house, with standing room only, packed with fans of street art and artist...

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Jul 17, 2015

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Just when I thought every conceivable flip of Star Wars-related art had already been done a million times over, the good people at Hypebeast come along and share one more effort in this space, and it's just great. These are not the result of the latest version of Illustrator, but rather, the efforts of true...