At it’s best art gets us to consider ourselves and others within the world around us.  With that in mind photography is a direct medium that can be used to hold a mirror up to the world around us.

Vitaly S. Alexius photo journal about the ship breakers of Chittagong, India does just that.  The visuals and the story stop you in your tracks and make you question how a person can live like that and how our world can allow a person to live like that.  It’s an amazing combination of photos, Google maps, and journal entry. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s exciting to see artist and designers break the boundaries of traditional media. These new and creative ideas do more than just entertain us they help humanity evolve. Ideas and creativity are at the center of what makes a society unique.

Recently I came across two videos that break through traditional barriers. The artist who created these pieces blurred and then broke through the lines that normally limit the medium they we’re working in. Both videos got my creative juices flowing and I’m hoping they will do the same to you.

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Skateboard graphics come in all sorts of styles and cover a broad range of topics - everything from social commentary on politics and race relations to juvenile cartoons, attractive women, and drug references. I’ve always loved these graphics because of the broad spectrum of subject matter that is compressed onto a single skateboard deck. Their influence has been so great that I even named this website after art produced by the legendary skateboarder Mark Gonzales. So you can imagine my delight when I got my hands on a new book on the subject by Sean Cliver titled Disposable. I was even more excited once I started reading the book to find out that he spends much of the 239 pages discussing the creative process behind the graphics.

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