INSA collaboration with Pepsi Max

We tend not to plug any commercial stuff on this site but we are happy to do this time since the end result is pretty kick-ass.

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Pepsi MAX asked people to tell them about the Pepsi Max Cherry and then got artist INSA involved in order to bring to life their words and opinions – we will focus here on the animated GIF outcome and not on the taste of that drink 🙂

British musician Charli XCX made the soundtrack for this animation

How they produced the video below?

A 360 degree camera rig was built around the installation using 90 cameras, allowing every angle of the art to be captured simultaneously.

Each artwork was painted twenty four times over, layer upon layer, so they would animate when put together using stop motion.

Millions of people have watched the video now. That is part of what speaks to youths about such collaborations, INSA tells Marketing: “The young people that are Pepsi’s audience are so used to engaging with things so flippantly and getting instantaneously satisfaction, but knowing that that instant took a whole load of time and effort to make gives that human element within the digital stuff.”

This form or art is called “Gif-iti”, Gif- what sorry?

In this other video below, INSA tells us about how what it’s called GIF graffiti (“Gif-iti”) came about and shows us the “behind the scenes” of another project he was involved with involving a satellite from space.

If you cannot be bothered to watch the video, here is how “Gif-iti” is created – GIF-ITI is made via a laborious physical process involving numerous layers of painting and meticulous planning.

Starting where most artwork ends, GIF-ITI entails photographing each layer the artist paints by hand. These images are then uploaded and overlaid to create the final piece, a looping GIF file which comes to live when released to global audiences online.

Read more on Insa & GIF-iti

Halloween zombie takeover event in Camden by Backyard Cinema

You do not know what to do for Halloween. How about some zombie actions along with some pop corn and a good old classic horror movie?

Backyard Cinema Presents APOCALYPSE- a 3 day immersive iconic Zombie cinema takeover of Camden Lock Indoor Market. You should expect some live action zombies & swat teams. The courtyard will be stacked with zombies faces.

6 iconic zombie films are on the menu – ZOMBIELAND // EVIL DEAD // THE CABIN IN THE WOODS // 28 DAYS LATER // WORLD WAR Z // I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

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BACKYARD CINEMA APOCALYPSE EVENT LISTINGS:
WHAT: Backyard Cinema Presents: Apocalypse – an iconic Zombie film takeover
WHERE: Camden Lock Indoor Market
WHEN: 31st October – 2nd November
PRICE: Early Bird Tickets – £12

Full information here: http://www.backyardcinema.co.uk

After show at Scream

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The beginning of the year is always a great opportunity to start a fresh page and discover what’s new. In this spirit, we would like to invite you to join us for our upcoming group exhibition AFTER SHOW PARTY.

AFTER SHOW is a transition from our Winter Exhibition, kicking off our new exhibition season in 2016.

You can come and view works of our long-terms collaborators, like Remi Rough, Shuby, Collagism and William Blanchard.

We are also really excited to showcase for the fist time the latest additions to the Scream family – Cassandra Yap, Jimmy C,Joe Cruz, Malarky, Mark Petty & Schoony.

Here are some the artists you will see in the show –

Jimmy C

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Mark Petty

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100,000 LED lights to light up the Sumida River

Tokyo has always been a mistery to me, one of these cities that will you blow away for sure. What follows would certainly water my eyes. At the occasion of the Tokyo Hotaru festival that just happened, one of a kind of installation was made where LED lights were the main ingredient. LED lights are awesome, aren’t they?

100,000 LED lights, that is what it took to give to the onlookers an astonishing spectacle. The aim here was to suggest hotaru (fireflies) with those lights that floated down the Sumida River through central Tokyo.

Beyond the purdy effect, let’s note that the LEDs were  designed to light up upon contact with water and were 100% powered by solar energy. Let’s also mention the reference to a long gone practice were people used to to gather, it seems,  around clean, running water, searching for these luminous creatures.

First seen on www.spoon-tamago.com. All credits to the pictures below can be found on this website

ART-PIE - Hotaru festival

ART-PIE - Hotaru festival

ART-PIE - Hotaru festival

Loos with some style at Far Rock Away

There is a new boozer in town, located on Curtain road to be precised, and should you fancy having a drink while looking at various pieces from emerging (mainly) street artists, well this is your kind of place.

Ben Oakley’s Gallery acts as the curator along with Kevin Martin from Hoxton Gallery. Currently on display are Xenz, Above, Lucas Price, Cranio, Cept and Guy Denning. We are not talking just a few spread pieces but walls covered of stuff and I am not even mentioning the toilets, the best we have seen in a long time, so long that we have included a few shots below.

WHAT – Far Rock Away
WHERE – 97-113 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3BS.

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Nikita Nomerz, street at from Russia

What Nikita Nomerz needs to make his art are walls but not just any wall. His preference goes towards dilapidates ones with broken windows or any sort of holes which he will use in his compositions often depicting a laughing face.

Along a few pictures of his work, I have included below a time lapse video which shows Nikita Nomerz painting one of his now recognizable face somewhere in Russia

He says: “I started in school with classic hip hop graffiti but became more interested in street art and began all sorts of experiments. Now basically I like to play with space and objects. I am inspired by the place itself. I love watching the city and finding an interesting point. Usually I do not spend so much time to create one work, sometimes less than an hour. But it all depends on the size of the object and my ideas. (source: The Telegraph)

Nikita Nomerz

'Air I breathe' – the new Gazelli Art House show

I have been looking forward to this new exhibition by the guys at Gazelli Art House, not just because of the promising line-up of artists but also about the venue this show is held at – Rochelle school. This is one of those venues any artist would love to have at disposal for shows – it is on two floors, airy, high ceilings, great light, several rooms. It just works for art shows and shall leave up to the expectations for this show which is installation based sculpture focused.

‘Air I breathe’ is the 4th show of a series of 5 exploring the classical elements, and in particular the contradictory nature of air.

Mila Askarova, curator of this show and founder of Gazelli Art House has gathered top talents for this show and John Wynne’s sound installation(whose speaker installation in Saatchi’s ‘Newspeak’ exhibition was critically acclaimed) will resonate throughout the venue . Hyper-real sculptures of people from the duo Little Whitehead (AKA Craig Little and Blake Whitehead) will also provoke reactions

Add to this, Kate Terry‘s work of dramatic, tense, thread installations and Yoonjin Jung‘s site-specific installations marrying oriental painting with a desire to explore the idea of ‘Seeing the Unseen’ and you know you will be up for a fine evening of must-seen art.

PV 8/9 6-9pm | Show: 9 till 7/10/11
Rochelle School, Arnold circus, London E2 7ES

RSVP at RSVP@GAZELLIARTHOUSE.COM

John Wynne
John Wynne
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The Rebel Journey, a book by Hogan Rebel

The Rebel Journey by Hogan Rebel | Art-Pie

Hogan Rebel recently released his book Rebel journey: Dream-Believe-Create
, narrating the career of a dozen of famous modern rebels, and defining the founding values of the Hogan Rebel lifestyle collection.

We were asked to look closely at one of these artists, Paola Pivi, to come up with a quote for an upcoming video. You can see the video below.

Here are a few words from the artist herself –

What’s your definition of rebel?
Not a sheep, not a wolf.

Who do you consider rebel?
Somebody who creates their own system.

What’s your dream?
Freedom and peace, which I lost the day I saw somebody was about to abuse a person I love and I started a trial to try to defend him.

In what you believe?
Now that I see on my own skin how unbelievably hard it is to try to stop bad actions in other men, I respect whoever did something like this.Why man creates?To develop our brain.

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The Rebel Journey, a book by Hogan Rebel

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