Free international drawings.


“Instant Drawing Machine(IDM) integrates art into daily life, and is designed to challenge the boundary that divides the seer from the seen. On IDM, the artists CRUST and DIRT broadcast live from their San Francisco studio and engage viewers globally using the Internet and a Web-cam by instantly drawing their dreams. IDM was created by Oliver Halsman Rosenberg and Clint Taniguchi, who have been working collaboratively as CRUST and DIRT on a variety of community based projects since 2003. IDM developed out of the desire and opportunity for Taniguchi to use Web-cam technology to communicate with gallery visitors at the Nakaochiai Gallery in Tokyo. Since its gallery debut, Julia Barnes has taken IDM to the streets of Tokyo and Shanghai. Coordinating with CRUST and DIRT, Barnes has taken on the mission of sharing IDM with communities around the world. ”



CRUST and DIRT: www.basebasebase.com

Julia Barnes : www.nakaochiaigallery.com

From Mike Mills


“Hello humans! Do you think it’s pretentious that this company is called “HUMANS BY MIKE MILLS”? I kind of do. What do I think? I made humans? I just wanted you to know that. This is my first blog for the humans website. Does anyone really need to hear me talk more than I already do? This is an open question. Maybe I should talk about a party I had, I didn’t take any pictures, but let me describe what happened:



My friend and awesome artist/photographer/person Mark Borthwick had a concert in my backyard on July 7th. Mark now makes crazy free music, just his voice and acoustic guitar. Mark is funny and bearded and strange and kind and pretty dang free. He made many dishes for people to eat in a wild but casual frenzy all day. Mark’s photos and music and food are all connected. He made his own chocolate with ginger and green tea powder on top, he made Bruchetta, and some salads. It seems like he’s not doing anything or just making a mess or just being a kid in the kitchen but then he makes the most delicious and surprising food. Everything is always in simple elements, easily prepared, big peices, you can see the ingredients but there is always a surprise, like the ginger and the green tea together. After he finished cooking and serving he climbed up the tree in my backyard. I’m not being metaphorical here, he climbed up the tree and sat on a branch and played guitar for about 50 people who all sat below. My backyard became like a theatre. He played for a couple of hours I think, most people seemed pretty into it, but some were confused. Confusion, especially when served with nice food, can be a very good thing. Okay, this is really strange, but a huge flying cockroach kind of bug, I don’t really know what it is, just landed on the back of my neck while I’m writing this. How odd. What do you think that means? Does it have something to do with me writing this Blog to you right now? This has not happened before why is it happening now? What is happening to you right now as you read this? What are you wearing? Why aren’t you playing outside or kissing someone? Are there any bugs near by? Is there a bug reading this somewhere with a tiny human sitting on the back of it’s bug neck? Did the bug crush the human in a piece of paper towel it just used to clean it’s desk and then did the bug just toss the human corpse and towel into the trash? If bugs have paper towels do they also have deforestation, consumer society, and impaired ozone layers? Do bugs struggle to find meaning in their lives beyond work? Do you think bugs ever get depressed? Maybe that’s why they were reading this blog in the first place. Do you like to have parties? My parents used to have parties almost every week when I grew up. My father was the director of the art museum and part of his job seemed to be having big parties. I grew up walking through these strange scenes with lots of strange and often drunk adults milling about all over the house. I wish I could go back to those parties now as an adult. I would follow my 10 year old self around and try to talk to him and tell him not to worry so much. Key things to learn from Mark: 1.Trust your most crazy ideas, trust your most crazy self. 2. Have fun, Mark is really good at not taking things too seriously. 3. Just do what you want and don’t worry if it’s freaking other people out – They’ll get over it or they might even grow to like it or you’ll probably stop soon and they can go on living. Whose life is it anyways? 4. Simple can be complicated 5. Cooking is as important as art.”

A shout out to all my Canadian homies, eh!!

ABSOLUT METROPOLIS (Campaign Site)

A girl who has a life size replica of herself. A guy who dresses up as a girl. A 50’s rock ‘n’ roll fan. And much more. See the eleven creations straight of the streets of Tokyo – influenced by ABSOLUT.

The underground scene in Tokyo is certainly bubbling with creativity. ABSOLUT wanted to capture some of this style in ABSOLUT METROPOLIS.



Nadav Kander shot the pictures for the magazine ads, and Great Works made the campaign website.

Subscribe to this hip hop podcast now. If you don’t believe me, check out their web site.

Audrey Kawasaki has some prints for sale at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. Part of her interview from soul:

Please tell us a little about your background – art school, family, etc. Any favorite teachers from art school you’d like to mention?

-Born and raised in west LA. My family is from Japan, so I grew up with strong Japanese cultures, language, television, manga, etc. In high school I took fine arts classes once a week. Tim Kaminski was my first real art teacher. After taking two years off after high school, I moved to Brooklyn, NY. to study fine arts at Pratt Institute. Professor Doug Whirls and William Sayler had a big impact on me.

Which do you prefer painting on most – wood, paper or canvas?

Wood, definitely! something about an empty white sheet of paper or canvas intimates me. too white. too clean. too bright… I love the wood surface too much. its natural organic patterns and swirls puts me at ease and excites me. I like to run my hands down its smooth hard surface before I draw on it.

You seem to incorporate the grain of the wood in many of your pieces. How did you come about this method? I would imagine this adds some added stress when it comes time to pick out your wood to paint upon. Do you already have a piece in mind when you go looking for the grain, or do you more adapt a piece to a nice grain pattern you find?
– I started painting on wood after I found pieces of scrap wood in the alleyways in Brooklyn to work on. I liked the idea of turning a piece of trash in to piece of art . Now, I purchase my wood, just because its more clean and bug-free. No stress when picking them out though. I just look for pretty grains and colors, and adapt my images to it. I usually do not have an image in mind. That comes after I cut the wood and sand it down and stare at it for a while…

You have a very unique look to your work that seems to be instantly recognizable by most. That is something to be very proud of. At what point did you know you had found your style?
– I am just comfortable with the girls I draw. There are certain lines and colors that feel good to me. Certain eyes and lips that I enjoy. – I feel like all my girls (and even the guys) I draw are all portraits of the same person. different faces and bodies, different moods, but ultimately they portray the same

Back to our originally scheduled programming—time to get a break from bunk ass Bush and his cronies. This is the new ad campaign from Sisley and photographer Terry Richardson.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Terry Richardson (1965–) is a noted photographer. He has been producing work since the late 1980s, and has shot advertisements for numerous fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi’s, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, and Matsuda. In addition to advertisement work, Richardson has also shot editorial photographs for a wide array of magazines, including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, The Face, and Dazed & Confused. He is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson.



Richardson’s published output is not limited to the contractual work listed above – the full body of his photography can be amusing, bizarre, and shocking to most. Much of it contains sexual elements of a kind not ordinarily seen in mainstream media. His trademark style is notably raw, direct, and amateurish, though he is not an amateur. A great deal of his photography can be viewed on his website.

Richardson also takes some topless shots of Kate Moss, while he’s nude. Does he think this gets her excited?

Kanye Katrina remixed. Remixed by The Legendary K.O, Words by Big Mon and Damien a/k/a Dem Knock-Out Boyz.

Five days in this motherfucking attic

I can’t use the cellphone I keep getting static

Dying ‘cause they lying instead of telling us the truth (...)

Screwed ‘cause they say they’re coming back for us, too

but that was three days ago and I don’t see no rescue(...)




Swam to the store, tryin’ to look for food

Corner store’s kinda flooded so I broke my way through

Got what I could but before I got through

News say the police shot a black man trying to loot

Link via Boing Boing via FWMJ .

Davin Risk, a designer living in Toronto, Canada is participating in Flickr Katrina Relief Auction.


About Katrina Relief Auction – buyers welcome, sellers please hold



Donate a print of one of your images to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. All proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross Emergency Relief Fund to assist those tragically affected by Hurricane Katrina.



DUE TO THE AMAZING RESPONSE WE ARE SUSPENDING NEW OFFERINGS UNTIL SEPT 16th, 2005. THE UNBELIEVABLE VOLUME OF DONATIONS HAS SWAMPED THE GROUP, THE POOL, AND ESPECIALLY THE ADMINS. WE NEED TO TAKE THE TIME TO SWEEP THROUGH THE POOL, MAKE SURE THE EXISTING AUCTIONS ARE FORMATTED PROPERLY, KEEP TRACK OF THE PLEDGES, AND KEEP UP WITH YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHALLENGES. WE CAN’T ADEQUATELY DO THAT WHILE CONTINUING TO ADD TO THE CURRENT INVENTORY OF OFFERINGS.

NBC tried to censor Kanye West’s blast of George Bush and his shiesty handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Kanye used his 90 seconds to break a new a-hole on the Prez—check out the video. Meanwhile, No Balls NBC left the blast on the cutting room floor for folks on the West Coast.


“I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, “They’re looting.” You see a white family, it says, “They’re looking for food.” And, you know, it’s been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I’ve tried to turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I’m calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help – with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way – and they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us!”



Then the truth…



“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”



MSNBC’s blog of the affair

Time Russert vid on MSNBC

Barbara’s Bush dumb-ass comments
Help contribute to Red Cross relief