Artists We Love :: Joe Iurato
We've been a HUGE fan of Joe Iurato's art for a while now and in fact, we bought one of his pieces for own daughter's room before she was even born. It's been both inspiring and uplifting to see Joe use his kids as his muse and see his art continue to evolve and bring smiles to all who come into contact with it.
We've been a HUGE fan of Joe Iurato's art for a while now and in fact, we bought one of his pieces for own daughter's room before she was even born. It's been both inspiring and uplifting to see Joe use his kids as his muse and see his art continue to evolve and bring smiles to all who come into contact with it.
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Joe Iurato is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are built on a foundation of stencils and aerosol. Falling somewhere in between simplistic and photorealistic, his multi-layer stencils offer a distinctly clean and illustrative aesthetic.
While Iurato’s murals have adorned neighborhoods along the east coast United States for years, he’s more recently become noted for the unique placement and photography of miniature painted wood cutouts in public spaces.
Utilizing the outdoor environment to create site-specific installations, Iurato creates windows into a narrative formed by personal experiences. Each individual work of art highlights the potential for interaction and storytelling within public space and transforms common land/cityscapes into carefully crafted scenes.
Before leaving each installation behind, he documents it with a photograph. The photographs offer specific and intentional viewpoints of the artwork in relation to its surroundings, manipulating our perception of scale and dimensionality.
Shorts We Love :: Blank on Blank | Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
In 1994 Tupac Shakur sat down with Benjamin Svetkey of Entertainment Weekly for a candid interview where he broke down his artistic evolution, social politics, struggles & pitfalls of fame and being a black man in America.
In 1994, Tupac Shakur sat down with Benjamin Svetkey of Entertainment Weekly for a candid interview where he broke down his artistic evolution, social politics, struggles & pitfalls of fame and being a black man in America.
That interview was then handed over to the creative animators at PBS Digital Studios who brought it to life for their incredibly addictive series called Blank on Blank.
"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur
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Mixes We Love :: Buscemi Music Series ft. Dante Ross
Dante Ross is a NYC based A and R man and record producer. A rare breed Ross was actually raised on Manhattans Lower East Side. A long time student of culture, Mr. Ross is a multi Grammy award winning record producer (Carlos Santana / Supernatural), and one of the architects of the so called Gold Age of Hip Hop having helped discover De LA Soul, Latifah, Brand Nubian, House Of Pain and Old Dirty Bastard amongst others.
Dante Ross is a NYC based A and R man and record producer. A rare breed Ross was actually raised on Manhattans Lower East Side. A long time student of culture, Mr. Ross is a multi Grammy award winning record producer (Carlos Santana / Supernatural), and one of the architects of the so called Gold Age of Hip Hop having helped discover De LA Soul, Latifah, Brand Nubian, House Of Pain and Old Dirty Bastard amongst others.
Mr. Ross grew up loving disco music, skateboarding, punk rock and graffiti which combined with his warped point of view lead him down a long twisted creative road in the music industry. Having been an A and R person for close to 30 years, Dante currently works at ADA Music, a subsidiary of the Warner Music Groups, where he has helped usher on the careers of Macklemore, Lil Dicky and Made In TYO.