Dave's Blog

I'm a Philadelphia Resident, Art Director, Designer & Art Enthusiast. Here you will find Bits and pieces of the world that inspire me in my work and life.

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Inspiration at work today "The Diva Is Dismissed" Poster designed by Paula Scher for the Public Theater

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NYC Museum Debuts Historic Graffiti Collection | In the Air: Art News & Gossip | ARTINFO.com

In early February the Museum of the City of New York will mount its first exhibition drawing on the vast collection of graffiti and street art from the 1970s and ’80s gathered by the late artist and collector Martin Wong, which he donated in its entirety to the institution in 1994. The show, titled “City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection” and slated to run February 4-August 24, will include works by legends including FUTURA 2000, RAMMELZEE, LADY PINK, Keith Haring (above), Lee Quiñones (below), and more, as well as photographs by renowned street art photographers, among them Charlie Ahearn and Martha Cooper.

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Filmed in 2011, Marina Abramović prepares for her role in "The Life and Death of Marina Abramović", an opera based on her own life.

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Advertising that directly mentions a competitor is always a bit risky, but this daring creation from Pepsi's Belgian ad agency is pure genius.

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Smile by Sam Caunce, using a Brause 361 nib.

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These 14 Comic Sans Tattoos Are The Actual Worst

Bear witness to eternal regret.

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Fox station tells Romney supporters how to ‘beat the traffic’ to Canada

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I had to make a meme, just for kicks

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Reading Landscape by Kyle Kirkpatrick

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Ever notice how babes frequent museums?

Babes At The Museum celebrates the love for camouflaged looks and discreet flair that navigate through the world’s most exquisite museums.

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I'm planning for the future today. Digging a fox hole tonight.

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Protester Says More Artists Required at #OccupyWallStreet

Jon McCarthy, a Brooklynite and a graphic design student at FIT, has been doing his part, creating linocut symbols and striking graphics to define the movement and printing them onto t-shirts for people to take away for free (although donations are accepted). The graphic he is working with today is a bold black and white sketch of an iconic image of a fist rising up surrounding by overlapping leaves. McCarthy’s use of the fist, a symbol of several past rebellions of the disenfranchised such as the 1968 Paris protests, carries a profound history of the struggle of working men and women, while the leaves are intended to represent the masses united in peaceful dissidence.

Click to read the full text on hyperallergic.com

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9/19/11 Obama sells his new jobs bill while thousands of “Occupy Wall Street”: protesters March in NYC Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment

Watch todays events on Democracy Now!

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It's Finally here! The premiere of the Quay Brothers short film Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum.)

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