Ronald Jenkees - YouTube musical superstar

Disorganized Fun. Tons more at the link above. CD and iTunes available.

Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson - TED 2007

For the ADHD kid in all of us. You'll be glad you watched it.

If you have trouble playing this video, go to the link above and download the video for smoother playback.

Interview with BLF in Belgium

BLF=Billboard Liberation Front

This interview has great pictures and explains the BLF philosophy and methods well.

Munk One X Barack Obama - limited edition prints

Upper Playground has a few signed limited screen prints of Barack Obama done by Munk One of L.A. and Sam Flores.

[Update: This is not the Munk who writes graffiti in L.A., but instead is the artist holding down Munkone.com. Confusing, I know.]

Scullphone billboards LA

Not sure I believe he paid for these, but I guess that would be the easy way to get up.

Persue in China

Mac Game Store

Fun characters in Brazil

I don't know who did these, so if you do, please let me know. I love how they fit into the destroyed buildings.

Interview with Vulcan

Vulcan's got a solo show at 111 Minna, San Francisco in April 2008 too.

Copyright for artists, in a nutshell

I get a lot of questions about copyright. This blog article at emptyeasel.com explains the basics and links to the US gov site for copyright details and forms.

Copyrights are for individual expressions. Trademarks are for goods and corporate identity. Some copyright law is international and some is for your own country only. This info pertains to the US but might also apply somewhat to you if you live in another country.

Tip: If you are printing your name on products, you need a trademark also to protect against other people using your name or making counterfeits, but it's $$$$$ to do it, and you might need one trademark per country of interest. If you need a trademark, you probably need a trademark attorney, if only because they can do the big database searches for you.

Speaking of Obama: The Mac's print

Nicely done, as are all The Mac's pieces. Sadly the limited editions were all gone instantly.

In related news, Move On is having a contest for voter-created Obama video ads.

Faux "News" smears Obama in desperate disinformation campaign

FOX: all hogwash, all the time

And that's not the only site of disinfo about Obama. The link goes to an Alternet article with more.

Winter Soldier 2008

Matt sent this alert:

For the next three days, an event taking place outside Washington, D.C. called "Winter Soldier 2008" will be broadcast live over the web at KPFA.org or at warcomeshome.org .

Winter soldier will feature dozens of U.S. veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars bearing witness to the war as they experienced it, minus the censorship or white-washing that often accompanies stories from the front lines.

A similar event was held during the Vietnam War and was captured in a documentary film. Pass it on. We are all complicit in the atrocities committed in our name using our tax dollars whether we agreed with the wars or not.

[If you only listen to one war program this war, make it this one. The streaming audio is happening right this minute. - Susan]

Banksy's new wall quickly covered in plastic

You know you would.

Web cookies: what, how, where - and why you should delete them

All cookies are not evil, but bad people can hijack your good cookies, and bad websites can track you across the web.

Trains of Western Australia

Underpainted, but on the upside you can honk some of the horns.

via goodexperience.com

Factory 311 - Art and Design Dream Team

Check this out. Factory 311 has assembled an amazing group of artists into an international design team. Way to go.

Parallel Strokes - New book by Ian Lynam

"Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.

Interviews within include conversations with pan-European type design collective Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design educator Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.

Softcover, 244 pages, printed in glorious Canada First 100 orders ship with a limited edition 17 in. x 20 in. two-color Parallel Strokes poster
us $25 + Free shipping worldwide.

[Check the link for sample pages and a full list of interviewees.]