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Google Ads in Tokyo

Filed under: Tokyo — Supercore @ 6:47 pm September 2, 2010

We’re in Tokyo, Japan this week, where we stumbled upon these super cool Google billboard ad campaign in Shibuya Station. The design uses the “pin” graphic that’s part of the company’s “Google Maps.”

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Dragonfly

Filed under: Street Art 2010 — Tags: , , , , , , — Supercore @ 10:43 am August 30, 2010

Beautiful ephemeral artwork on Crosby Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City. The creator made use of a hole in the cast-iron wall on an old loft building and fashioned a dragonfly with tape and stickers. Full of awesome!

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Sticky Repetition

Filed under: Graffiti — Tags: , , , , — Supercore @ 8:08 am

Graffiti-tag stickers repeated on road-works construction barriers on Lafayette Street in NoHo, in downtown New York City.

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Kenton Hi-Fi

Filed under: Design — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 9:33 pm August 29, 2010

Ridiculous, yet strangely intriguing vinyl LP album cover design for “Kenton in Hi-Fi” from (we’re guessing) the 1960s. We found this tucked behind wine bottles among a stack of old records that decorate the end of the long bar at Lolita, a watering hole in the Lower East Side of New York City. Kenton? Never heard of him, until now. But he’s been immortalized in the decor of a downtown NYC bar. What more can you ask for?

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Fresh Spazmat

Filed under: Street Art 2010 — Tags: , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 5:18 pm

Welcomed wheat=paste street-art freshness from Spazmat. This signature skull-with-cellphone image  was recently put up  on a construction site hoarding at the corner of Broome Street and the Bowery, in downtown New York City.

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Echo Park Mural

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 4:38 pm August 28, 2010

Massive, beautiful, sun-drenched mural on the side of a building housing a “clinica” at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue in Los Angeles.

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Dennis Hopper

Filed under: Art — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 3:45 pm August 27, 2010

We recently went to the Museum of Contemporary Art ( MOCA) in Los Angeles to see “Double Standard,” the retrospective exhibition of assemblage, paintings, video, sculpture and photography by the late actor-artist Dennis Hopper. Included in the show was the work “Within a Man of Light, There is Only Light; Within a Man of Darkness, There is Only Darkness,” which is pictured below. It’s a sublime, beautiful piece of photographic work on a lightbox. It totally moved us.

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Dude, Where’s Our Car?

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 6:02 pm August 26, 2010

Los Angeles is a fuckin’ parking lot.  After a pre-video-shoot lunch at a large strip mall, we had a little trouble finding our borrowed gray Honda/Nissan/Toyota-Japanese-whatever-it-was car in the massive parking lot. We’re non-car-owning, non-driving New Yorkers, so the car culture thing takes a little getting used to when we’re on L.A time. ;)

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Bill Murray in Downtown L.A.

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 7:29 pm August 25, 2010

One among our group of favorite actors of all time, Bill Murray is shown here on a faded wheat-paste poster in the Little Tokyo section of downtown Los Angeles. The last time we saw Murray captured in street art was in Reykjavik, Iceland. The man’s image gets around. Love it.

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Shangri-La

Filed under: Architecture — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 6:33 pm

The Shangri-La Hotel in the heart of Santa Monica is a beautiful, wonderfully preserved piece of Los Angeles art-deco architecture dating from 1939. The building is across the street from Palisades Park and the cliffs overlooking the wide expanse of beach front and the city’s iconic pier.

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Mexican Jesus Mural

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 3:17 pm August 23, 2010

On the back of an old building in the Little Tokyo area of downtown Los Angeles is this large “Mexican Jesus” mural (is it Jesus or a saint?) The painting can be seen from across a parking lot adjacent to the Geffen Contemporary galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

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Sexed Up Convertible

Filed under: Design, Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 2:21 pm

Super sexy classic sports car parked at an Los Angeles strip mall.

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Beach Volleyballers

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , — Supercore @ 2:43 pm August 22, 2010

Volleyball players on Santa Monica Beach, in Los Angeles.

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Peds v Bikes

Filed under: Los Angeles — Tags: , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 2:30 pm

A Peds-Bikes sign on a classic Los Angeles art-deco lamp post on Santa Monica Beach.

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Je Deteste Les Lundis

Filed under: Montreal — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 11:48 am August 17, 2010

Big, pristine wheate-paste street art of graphic-novel-style illustration on Rue Saint-Laurent, the main thoroughfare running from from the old city through Chinatown and into Mile End, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The message is “Je deteste les Lundis,” which is French, we think, for “I hate Mondays.”

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Canada Border Inspection

The traffic and the sign at the Canada border inspection station, at the US-Canadian frontier between Quebec Province and Champlain, New York state.

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Of Montreal

From the 17th floor of Le Westin Hotel, a view of the western edge of downtown Montreal, Canada, and the Palais des Congres at Place de Jean-Paul Riopelle. Montreal is awesome.

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H&M Shibuya Ads

Filed under: Tokyo — Tags: , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 1:14 am August 7, 2010

The flagship mega-store of Swedish clothing retail giant H&M in Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan.

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Who is My Boss?

Filed under: Tokyo — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 1:09 am

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MoMA Garden View Reflection

Filed under: Spaces + Places — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Supercore @ 1:43 am August 4, 2010

View of garden at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) through light and glass on a recent summer afternoon.

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