Pure Thinking

Scraper Bike?

Here is a creative endeavor for you. The Scraper Bike! Don't ask me why they're called this (I have my assumptions), but with over 3 million combined hits on YouTube these Trunk Boiz have hit on something interesting (and hella funny). Maybe it has to do with everyone going green these days, or not. I think I saw one of these made out of our Schwinn cruiser bike that went missing driving by our office. - Todd

Shepard Fairey speaks

Shepard Fairey Interview

From the mean streets as a graffiti artist to winning Presidential campaign artist, Shepard Fairey talks about his influences, inspiration and DIY attitude that got him where he is today. An outlook and attitude that continues to evolve and influence generations to come. - Todd

Needs For Sale

Came across a site a while back that some NYC artists put together, presumably to keep from starving.  On wantsforsale.com, you'll find a series of paintings, each of one item they want, priced exactly at the price of that item.  A pepperoni pizza slice painting for $3.  An IPod painting for $300.  Get it?  According to them, when they sell the painting, they go out and buy the item.  Kind of a "paint it and they will come" style of commerce.

But their latest idea is even cooler.  Needsforsale.com.  Same idea, but the proceeds go to charity.  100%.  A warm coat.  Food for the hungry.  A new toy.  Well, you get the idea.  Nice.

Every Minifeg Ever

It's almost better than trick-or-treating, definitely better than spending $100 on another costumer, and not better than a DB8 but sort of maybe potentially as fun.... and you can find it at Giz, where some lucky writer worked with Lego to collect and catalog almost every minifeg ever produced. Booyah. Like I'll need five pounds of candy after this.

SToW

If you've yet to check out the goodies created in honor of this years Some Type of Wonderful, go. Jesse Hora, Si Scott, Alex Trochut... need I say more?

Curated @ Arkitip

Newly curated at Arkitip: An incase macbook/pro sleeve by Dutch artist Parra. If you missed the first installment, that shiny, sexy thing down below (by KRINK), there's still some of those there too.

Tinker Street

Tinker Street, from what I can tell, is a photography collective. But if it's not a collective, it's still something super, because each of the artists represented (including Thobias Faldt, featured) on the site is remarkable.

Olaf Breuning @ Lifelounge

Great collection of the NY-based Swede's work at Lifelounge (or, for a less cultivated selection, hit up his personal site here).

Jennifer Daniels

Jennifer Daniels is an illustrator who consistently turns our amazing work for guys like The New York Times, Print Magazine and AIGA. Be forewarned that a lot of her stuff is political... but you're a grown up and only sanely partisan and all that, so you can handle it. Check her out here.

Nicholas Haggard

There's a lot more to this hipster than keytars and camera lenses.