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. Related: The Official Ty Web Site Leisure Lab’s Month of Ty Leisure Lab’s 2008 Interview with Ty

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 [...]