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Alexander Melamid: Holy Hip Hop!

Check out these candid portraits of hip hop’s most famous; they are life-size oil on canvas by Alexander Melamid, a Russian-born American artist best known for his satirical portrayal of Soviet Russia by infusing Socialist-Realist propaganda and traditional Russian iconography. My personal favorite: Snoop Dogg surfing the web in his comfy chair. Compelling.

Artist’s Website: Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid

Tarantino Remix!

Check out this Tarantino Mixtape made by Eclectic Method, a London-based DJ/VJ collective specializing in audio-visual remixes. Jules (Samuel L Jackson) delivering his biblical monologue / death sentence in Pulp Fiction = most epic. You can check out more of Eclectic Method’s videos here.

Poster Boy via Chief Mag

Check out Chief Magazine’s feature article on the nyc street artist Poster Boy, best known for reconfiguring subway ad posters into his own artworks.

*image via Flickr

*link via Chief Magazine

HBO Voyeur Project

Check out this theatrical/dioramic video directed by Jake Scott [it was originally made for HBO promotions, thus the title]

Wiki article: HBO Voyeur Project

tiny people in glass cases

If you are the type of person who can get down with snow globes (like me), you’d probably drool all over these dream-like diorama sculptures made by a Brooklyn-based artist known as Thomas Doyle. The guy works with micro-scale 3D landscapes in glass-sealed containers and stages dreamlike scenarios (many of them are pretty twisted too, like this one) with intricate models of tiny village people. Earlier this year, I had a chance to see some of his dioramas at an NYU gallery and the level of intricacy behind these things are more than impressive. You can check out the rest of his diorama series on his website here.

*image courtesy thomas doyle

*props to boingboing.net for the post