So, when we decided to drive over to Downtown L.A. one afternoon after getting a sunburn in like 30 minutes at Venice Beach (L.A. sun ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!), we got there not knowing, what to expect really. My homie Cenk, who is right now doing a year in high school in Santa Barbara only told me, that it would get unsafe at night. Well, you could tell, because all of the jewelery stores already had their windows emptied at around 6:00pm.

But we had some good timing as the Downtown LA Art Walk was going on on this evening! It’s a monthly showcase of the best galleries, artists, restaurants, bars and shops located in Downtown Los Angeles – mostly on Spring St. – and happens every second Thursday of the month.

Yay, we were going to check out some art!!!

This right here is mostly some art, that I only knew from The Hundreds blog so far. The art scene must be really big out there in L.A.

This location – the first one we checked out – was in the basement of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building as they had many former financial company buildings and offices open for the Art Walk. And DJs everywhere.

They had the silk screen thing going on outside. Party was postponed until later though, I guess.

This shooting was also going on.

Over here, they also had a live singer. Overall a very relaxed atmosphere all over the place.

The Spring Arts Tower also featured lots of good art. This tower was formerly the headquaters of the Citizens National Bank and the Crocker Bank and offers now work space for artists among other things.

This one right here is by Carolin Kewer. Somehow I like it!

They also had these photographs of Tokyo/Japan by Jake Thomas.

I also liked this photograph, that he entitled ‘Even Stars Need Help to Shine‘. True dat!!!

But my favorite one by him is still this, because this simple picture of this man get such a strong message across: ‘Moving Forward, Wrong or Not – Your Own Path‘

Also these bunches of food trucks were not missing here as they were taking up whole parking lots.

Also some Döner. But didn’t wanna try it!

On other parking lots there were also this little booths selling all kinds of art as well.

Really liked those graffiti-spray-can-lamps!!!

But then it was time to drive home, homie!

Beverly Hills coming up next!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

As for my usual routine these days, while I’m still sick a little bit, I went for a walk today.

While I discovered some art randomly last week, this time around I intended to go check out some graffiti art, but as I also tested out the video function of my iPhone 4 you can see what I discovered in the following video or VLOG or whatever…

And as I said, more stuff: comin’ soon…!!!

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Today, I was going for a walk to help me get over my cold and I went all the way at the riverside of the Main in Höchst (like I alreadyyy did here) just to discover these great pieces of art. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any tag or something, but still R.E.S.P.E.C.T. to the artist.

[UPDATE 19/10/2010: Thanks to StadtkindFFM, who posted a comment under this post after he got a comment posted on his flickr pic, we now know, who the artists are: It's Herakut (formed by Hera & Akut out of Frankfurt), who did this and lots of other cool paintings, always with their unique style. Thx, Stadtkind...!]

By the way, by staying home I get to do some important stuff, but I really miss ballin’ with my new teammates. Can’t have everything, I know.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Did you notice how Chrishimself’s posts all contained some cool art recently (proof here, here, here and here) and mine are all about material things (proof here and this very post)? But who would argue that sneakers aren’t art themselves, right?? Right??? So, here we go again, because I promised you more gear to be featured.

It’s already been a while now, since I stopped by AZITA and got me these NIKE Air Maxim 1 Torch+ ND to rock this summer, but summer’s still M.I.A.

Also have a look at their new store design. I think that definitely counts as art without any doubt!

On my way out, I was also handed a copy of the latest Sneakers Magazine, that contains a sneaker store guide for New York City (including our favortie NYC sneaker boutique atmos) besides many other interesting articles.

A pic like the last one also never hurts and that way I can be sure to have squeezed as much art into this post as I possibly could. ;-)

If you’d like to the visit the nice people from Azita, which you should, here’s all information needed:
AZITA Store, Münzgasse 10, Frankfurt, Germany – www.azitastore.com

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Almost everyone I know at least played the Nintendo GameBoy once and I am still a big fan of the original “brick” that moves pixels on a greenish black and white screen. I still remember my birthday when I first got my GameBoy good memories !

The french design studio zim and zou seem to take their memories of the GameBoy a step further and designed an all out of paper GameBoy.
Check out the pictures even the game cartridge is made all out of paper!

All pictures via. designboom

Zim and Zou Design Studio

peace,
Chrishimself

While shooting some footage around the Tokyo streets last August I kept recognizing these “sumo face” decals almost everywhere around Tokyo, alot of them in Harajuku and Asakusa somehow, streetart still seems to be big in Tokyo. I even saw a little documentary about these “sumo faces” if I can find it again I will post the youtube link below aswell.

I hope you enjoy this video its just a little compilation of streetart in Tokyo.

Chrishimself

Jason Paparoulas from The Bakehouse (Australia) shot these pictures and they are really amazing. Of course, I only posted them because you can look at some really rare sneakers. ;-)

All pictures belong to Jason Paparoulas. See more of them on his blog and flickr account.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

P.S.: Model is Jarrah Flemming Gardiner and to be honest with you: I didn’t only post them because of the sneakers.

This is just in between and the video is already older (alreadyyyyy), but other than that I don’t think any words are needed. You just have to watch.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

(via: Michal Plata)

If you happen to be in NYC during the 22nd of November 2009 and April 26th 2010 I would recommend you this exhibition by filmmaker Tim Burton.

Check out the video interview with Tim Burton by The Museum of Modern Art.

Chrishimself

Hey everyone,

just a quick reminder for RUN FFM supporter Florian Steinl‘s exhibition titled Liveshots. It opens tomorrow at 18:00 in the offices of Seippel & Weihe.

Here are some pictures of his exhibiton.

Liveshots – von Florian Steinl
opens 13.11.2009 – 18:00
Seippel & Weihe Kommunikationsberatung GmbH
Bernardstraße 14-16, 63067 Offenbach

Check out all of his projects on his site and also his blog.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

That’s handicraft work for sneakerheads. David Brownings does these paper shoes of NIKE Dunk Highs.

You can even ask him for your own pair in your own colorway via his site.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

(Thanks to Flo for the heads up/via:Popwhore)

I’m sure the dog liked this the most.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

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