January 26th, 2011
This Saturday San Francisco based designer Benny Gold will release a very dope project he worked on with Sean Desmond’s The Tenderloin Project. For those that are unfamiliar, The Tenderloin Project is a collection of photographs of the overlooked San Francisco neighborhood of the same name, shot by Desmond beginning in late 2008. The project toured the country last year and if you caught it then you know how powerful it is.
Back to the collaboration. Very limited quantities of the black t-shirt will be available at Gold’s retail spot in SF this Saturday.
Hit the jump for more shots from the lookbook featuring local artists that worked on The Tenderloin Project alongside Desmond.
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Tags: art, photography, san francisco, T-shirt, Tenderloin
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December 14th, 2010
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Check out this cool video recap of the Hundreds X Garfield pop-up gallery launch event. Lots of celebs were in the building and everyone had a great time checking out the offbeat collaboration.
Tags: apparell, art, Garfield, los angeles
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October 27th, 2010
To mark their 20th year,the Bay Area’s own Hieroglyphics crew are set to release a fine art piece titled “The Valley of Kings.” The piece will debut on November 1, 2010 at WAIL (When Art Imitates Life), with only 300 canvas prints available.
The process took 12 months to complete and entailed storyboarding, photography, greenscreen, and graphic art as well as tapping the talents of world-renowned aerosol artist EAZ ONE. The result is a masterpiece that will be numbered and signed by each member in the crew for every piece in the collection.
All 300 will be shipped with authenticity certificates. Upon purchase, an exclusive download link will also be sent to your email address containing a Hieroglyphics megamix by DJ Equal, and a never-before-heard Hiero posse cut, “Reputation”.
Hit the jump for the “making of” video.
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Tags: art, Hieroglyphics, hip-hop, painting, Sway
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July 22nd, 2010
Upper Playground is releasing a four piece capsule collection from the internationally renowned, Herbert Baglione.
The first part of the capsule is an extremely limited hand-made wooden night-stand box with a screen printed Herbert Baglione print mounted on the top. Master furniture designer and woodworker Francisco Robles’ handled the hand construction of the boxes. The Herbert Baglione print finishes off the box and is screen-printed onto thin archival cougar white paper which has then been mounted and coated with a light satin lacquer finish.
The rest of the capsule is features three of Herbert’s designs (Mulher, Crime and Cabeca) on UP’s premium slimmer fit t-shirts.
The box is available exclusively at Upper Playground’s webstore and the t-shirts are available at all Upper Playground retail locations and on the webstore.
Tags: art, Furniture, T-shirts
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July 15th, 2010
Upper Playground is releasing a limited edition hand etched 64oz stainless steel flask. The flask was designed and hand-etched by infamous artist MQ. The over-sized flask is big enough to fit two fifths of your favorite adult beverage and is available at UP’s online store.
Tags: art, Flask
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May 12th, 2010
Charming Baker, one of the UK’s most exciting artists will be showcasing his work in New York City starting this week. It is his first solo show in the United States. for the first time in the United States.
Noted music manager Pat Magnarella (Green Day) saw one of Charming’s shows and was so impressed he has taken over as his manager and been instrumental in bringing his brand of art to the States.
Charming has established a loyal international following with his darkly humorous oil paintings, which are a mix of beauty and brutality. He is as equally comfortable applying a paintbrush to his art as he is a blast of double-00 buckshot.
Charming Baker’s New York Show, STUPID HAS A NEW HERO, runs from May 14-30 (exhibition previews on May 13) at NYSG on New York’s Lower East Side (154 Stanton Street, at Suffolk Street). The exhibition will feature 15 new paintings and five limited edition prints.
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Tags: art, events, Paintings
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February 1st, 2010
CONS scored a major coup signing well respected skater and designer Anthony Pappalardo for it’s first signature skate shoe. This is also Pappalardo’s first signature shoe as a professional skateboarder. The first colorway, dropping in February, doubles as a (PRODUCT)RED initiative, driving awareness to the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and 10% of the net wholesale price of this shoe will be paid to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Tags: anthony Pappalardo, art, converse, skateboarding, Sneakers
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December 15th, 2009
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More details on the RZA Victory or Death project
Tags: art, hip-hop
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December 4th, 2009
Seattle based T.I.T.S. recently partnered with photographer Estevan Oriol to do an exclusive Wifey t-shirt inspired by his style and featuring the Justene Jaro. This is release that can only be found exclusively at SURU on Melrose (LA) or here.
Tags: art, model, T-shirts
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November 30th, 2009
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Upper Playground Walrus TV sat down musician/artist John Dwyer for a pretty cool interview. You can check out some of Dwyer’s music and artwork here.
Tags: art, music, punk rock
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