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Buff Diss is an Australian who confuses authorities with his masking tape street art.


Posted by Ed Cotton A great film telling the story of Hatch Show Print, a letterpress printer in Nashville, that along with its rich tradition, celebrates the power of human craft.

 


Posted by Ed Cotton Sometimes art manages to express and sum up the situation better than any writer or analyst. Such is the case with Johnathan Schipper's slow motion video study entitled "The Slow Inevitable Death of America Muscle". Schipper simply takes two classic American muscle cars and creates a slow motion crash between the two vehicles. So slow, that the crash took 6 days.




Posted by Ed Cotton I was reading the story about British artist Damien Hirst doing an art bike for Harley. It's a one off and for a good cause, but I wondered if it was on brand and right for the bike icon.

Here are my thoughts on why it's wrong...

1. Art and bikes- everyone's adding plus art to everything. Harley's iconic and classic status surely means it doesn't to have to play that game

2. Hirst as relevant culture- If you are going to do art, shouldn't it come from the culture?

3. Hirst is a Brit- Harley is so USA, it's not even funny. It's almost unthinkable for the brand to going beyond these fine shores.

However, perhaps the current zeitgeist is forcing Harley to re-think its entrenched image and succumb to a broader view of the world; one that embraces other cultures and disciplines to become a brand that can think beyond the shores of the USA.


Posted by Ed Cotton
Slagsm "We now live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist lies helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow morning's newspaper"

Philip Roth-1961

This close to 50 year old quote is used by Gordon Burn in his amazing article on media saturation published by The Guardian.


Posted by Ed Cotton