The cover art to Ty’s new album Special Kind of Fool features an amazing sculpture by artist Benjamin Wachenje. Below we have a gallery of photos documenting the sculpting process, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at Wachenje’s work.
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The Official Ty Web Site
Leisure Lab’s Month of Ty
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Ad Hoc Art presents CRASH / DAZE, an exhibition of works from artists CRASH and DAZE that have never been seen before. The exhibition features the first collaborative projects by these legendary New York artists in over ten years.
DJ Shadow, Dr. Suzuki (credited as the inventor of the DJ slipmat), and Stokyo have teamed up to bring you the limited Shadow x Suzuki Mix Edition slipmats.
Get the Shadow x Suzuki slipmats here.
Madlib’s Quasimoto gets the Kid Robot treatment in yellow and blue. There will be fewer of these made than Kid Robot & Stones Throw’s Madvillain figure from 2007 which sold out in a matter of hours. Get Kid Robot’s Quasimoto here.
Also at Stones Throw, check out the history of Quasimoto.
Bisc1, rapper, wall painter, and designer asked ten producers and twenty visual artists to remix and interpret his 2008 album When Electric Night Falls. The result was The Strange Love Project. Featuring different visuals by a number of well known and accomplished visual artists for each song on the album, the Nightfall remix includes the [...]
Scott Hansen discusses the making of his Obama print at ISO50.
James Top, a controversial and legendary Graffiti Artist from New York City, will host his first solo show of the New Year, “Afrology” at the new Essex Street Gallery on Friday February 22nd, 2008, 6pm-Midnight. Afrology debuts as seventeen artistic variations of the 1970’s hairstyle, the “Afro”, and depicts controversial, nostalgic and historical messages of [...]
Back in November we featured artist Lichiban. If you’d like to learn more about her, check out this new interview by Garrett Heaney at Wishtank.
100proofTRUTH, issue number 4, is out now (pdf).
Bembe Segue and Mark de Clive-Lowe present The Politik Remix Album + Artwork Competition.
This competition is open to anyone and everyone who’d like to have a go at remixing one (or more) songs from The Politik’s debut album. The winning remixes will be compiled into the official remix album The Politik Remixed to be released [...]
