Urban Art For Your Hands. Runway Gloves By Insiders1.

above: model wearing Brooklyn gloves

For fierce and fashionable phalanges, the Urban Runway Gloves from Brooklyn-based Insiders1 feature the urban and gritty city photography of Sigal de Mayo. Fun and afordable, they keep your hands cozy and turn them into little canvases. The gloves are made from Lycra with a soft, stretchy-suede feel and polar-fleece lining in the finger tops for warmth.


above: model wearing Barcelona gloves

Amsterdam:

Barcelona:

Berlin:

Brooklyn:

New York:

Paris:

Rome:


One Way:

Cyclone:

Change:

Imagine:

Model wearing Imagine gloves:


They make bags, clutches, wallets, bracelets and more, too!


Buy them here at Insiders1
Also available at Things We Love

Different Form Of Street Art - Beaded Graffiti By The Oeps Crew.

The Eops Crew of Copenhagen are two anonymous girls who've made their presence known with a new form of street art. Their 'beaded' graffiti (art literally made of small colored plastic beads) has marked the urban streets of London. Berlin, New York, Copenhagen and more.

Here are just a few examples:














Visit the Oeps Crew site here.
To see more, check out the Oeps Crew photo sets on flickr here.

The Street Beneath Your Feet: Japanese Manhole Covers

Art can be found anywhere. And manhole covers are no exception.

The Japanese have been creating and manufacturing ornate and decorative manhole covers for many years. Some with color (sand or enamel), and some just crafted of steel and or iron. There are thousands of photo galleries and flickr sets of these but here I pulled a few of my personal favorites and categorized them, first by color, then by subject, for you.

After the images there are links to many more images from around the web.

Color:




Living creatures:




Flora and landscapes:



People and Industry:



The majority of the above images were photographed between 1997 and 2002 and are from the online Japanese Manhole Art Museum (site is in Japanese) and can be found here.

Links for other japanese manhole cover art and online galleries:

• There are 302 images of japanese manhole covers on flickr, see them here.
• And a particularly good flickr set /collection of Japanese manhole covers here.
•Pink Tentacle has a great collection of links and some images of Japanese manhole covers here.
• And you can see some more images here.

More links to world wide manhole art, history and books:

• Links to other manhole covers from all over the world can be found here on Drainspotting.
• Manhole covers, etc.
• Manhole.ca (fine sewer art)
• NY manholes

Books About Manhole Covers

Beautiful Losers Boxed Catalog of Original Street Art & Urban Artifacts

Beautiful Losers is an exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip hop in U.S. urban centers.

The core of the project involves painting, sculpture, and photography, as well as film, video, performance, and product design by more than thirty individuals who have emerged in the last decade--some now established figures in the art world, but many receiving their first broad exposure via these projects.

Below are images from a boxed edition of the catalog that include signed original silkscreen prints, photographs, objects, vinyl toys, flip books, dvds..... even Terry Richardson glasses.



The limited edition Beautiful Losers boxed catalog includes the following works:


above: Mike Mills - The Architecture Of Reassurance, offset printed book, approx. 6 x 4 inches, open edition

above: Cheryl Dunn - C-4, San Francisco, Tenderloin Hallway, c-print, 6 x 4 inches, printed and signed by the artist, edition of 100 [featured in the Beautiful Losers catalog]

above: Evan Hecox - Chinatown NYC, woodblock print on Japanese rice paper, 10 x 8 inches, printed and signed by the artist, numbered edition of 100

above: Harmony Korine & Mark Gonzales - Adulthood, hand photocopied zine, approx. 8 x 5 inches, edition of 100

above: Tobin Yelland - Untitled, offset printed poster, 16 x 20 inches, signed edition of 100 [featured in the Beautiful Losers catalog]

above: Cynthia Connolly - Page, Arizona [from the portfolio Ice Machines featured in the Beautiful Losers exhibition], silver gelatin print, 4 x 6 inches, printed and signed by the artist, edition of 100

above: Rostarr - Untitled, silkscreen and spray enamel on paper, 11 x 13 inches, hand-painted, printed, and signed by the artist, numbered edition of 100

above: Ryan McGinness - Multiverse Sticker Pack, various stickers in custom package, approx. 5 x 5 inches, signed and numbered edition of 100

above: Ari Marcopoulos - I Might Be Wrong, offset printed zine, approx. 8 x 5 inches

above: Jo Jackson - States [5 different versions], approx, 2.5 x 3.5 inches, handmade flip book

above: Shepard Fairey - Untitled, silkscreen on paper, 10 x 8 inches, printed and signed by the artist, numbered edition of 100

above: James Jarvis - The Thin Blue Line, action figure, approx. 6 x 3.5 inches, signed edition of 100

above: Todd James - Alive With Pleasure, silkscreen on paper, 7 x 5 inches, numbered edition of 100

above: Phil Frost - Poster Marker, custom refillable ink marker, approx. 5 x 1 inches, open edition

above: Andy Jenkins - Untitled, 100 unique inkjet prints on paper, approx. 11 x 9 inches, signed by the artist, edition of 100

above: Chris Johanson - Love Not War, set of 8 buttons pinned to numbered placard, 4 x 7 inches, numbered edition of 100

above: Geoff McFetridge - Kemistry, 1 of 100 original pencil drawings on canson acid free paper with DVD of the complete animated sequence of the 100 drawings in custom packaging, 9 x12 inches, signed edition of 100


above: Barry McGee - Untitled, marker on various sticker papers, dimensions variable, signed by the artist

above: Steve Powers - Handy Signs, custom die cut vinyl sticker sheet, approx. 15 x 8 inches, edition of 100

above: Terry Richardson - Smilen glasses, pair of authentic Terry Richardson eyeglasses, approx. 3 x 8 x 3 inches

above: Craig R. Stecyk III - Untitled, 100 unique silver gelatin prints with silkscreen, 4 x 6 inches, printed and signed by the artist, edition of 100

above: Ed Templeton - Chris Johanson, Beautiful Losers, silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches, numbered edition of 100

above: Clare E. Rojas - Faint Humms, limited edition compact disk, approx. 5 x 6 inches

above: Mark Gonzales - Krooked Authentico, limited edition air freshener, approx. 6 x 3 inches

above: Thomas Campbell - T. Moe Wallet, limited edition Paul Frank wallet, approx. 4 x 4 inches

Below are images as to how the works are packaged in the crate:





and yes, it includes the catalog from the exhibit:

Approx 22 x 18 x 9 inches, Numbered edition of 100

The Beautiful Losers Catalog [Boxed Edition], 2006
Custom slipcased First Edition / First Printing catalog packaged in custom military grade wood box with limited editions and original works of art by the Beautiful Losers artists.
Approx 22 x 18 x 9 inches, Numbered edition of 100. $1,500.00
Buy it here.

About the Exhibit:
The exhibition also includes a concise overview of the work of a previous generation of artists who have had a direct influence on the aesthetic development of the artists in question; an environmental soundscape that traces the relationship between these subcultures and various genres of popular music; a selection of ephemeral materials (album covers, skateboard decks, toys, zines, etc.) produced in or related to this milieu; and a film and video program to be screened within the exhibition itself.

The exhibition is conceived and curated by Christian Strike and Aaron Rose of Iconoclast. Beautiful Losers opened in Cincinnati at the Contemporary Arts Center in March 2004 and then traveled to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in July of 2004. The exhibit will make stops at the Orange County Museum of Art and The Contemporary in Baltimore in 2005, and then travel to Europe in 2006 and Asia and Australia in 2007.

A fully illustrated 272-page catalogue published by Iconoclast accompanies the exhibition:



Over 250 pages of documenting a rising movement of artists across the world.
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in./272 pgs
Buy it here.

You can purchase several individual pieces by the artists mentioned above and many others, as well as do a virtual 'walkthrough' of the exhibit here.

Beautiful Losers has their own site here.

About Iconoclast:
Iconoclast Editions is a project-based studio working in collaboration with artists to produce a wide variety of multi-media endeavors. Iconoclast produces exhibitions, publications, and artist editions. Since 2002, Iconoclast has produced a multitude of exhibitions, books, editions and other projects including the widely acclaimed touring museum exhibition, Beautiful Losers.
information@iconoclastusa.com