A new collaboration between artist/director Saam Farahmand and Absolut vodka. Taking place in London and running November 17th-27th, off London’s Brick Lane, with the grand finale December 2nd at Village Underground.

In short ABSOLUT BLANK Live is the unique digital concept of video
director Saam Farahmand, giving members of the public the opportunity
to create their own intimate artwork through personal visual
expression, as though their bodies are the paintbrushes – the bottle
their canvas. Open to London’s public from 17th-27th November, the
result will be a series of video portraits that form both an online
commission and a specially curated live a/v set by Jamie XX on
December 2nd. People will also be able to view their portraits or buy
tickets to the finale on Facebook. (www.facebook.com/ABSOLUTUK)

Check out the promo video after the jump. There are some pretty great images created using the 3D motion tracking technology and infrared cameras used in the capture process.

Hugh Leeman is an artist living and working in San Francisco. He is self taught. He is helping those that go unnoticed and overlooked to be remembered.

At 18, he grabbed his backpack and traveled the world, hopping trains to see as much as he could. Three years later, he was in the Tenderloin for a six-month stopover. He’s not quite sure why he never left. Inspired by the work that Shepard Fairey and others were doing at the time with wallpaper glue from the hardware store, a world of possibilities exploded in his mind. via: The Bold Italic

Watch the video recently created to spotlight his social mission and hopes for the future of the Tenderloin after the jump.

If you are in Los Angeles, I’d highly recommend coming out for this show. It opens November 12th at Known Gallery.

Traditionally oil and water do not mix. The surf, hot rod and motorcycle cultures that grew out of Southern California from the 50’s-70s however, were all connected by the idea of personal freedom and expression-not conforming to the standards of the societies they existed in. For this show we are bringing together dozens of artists and craftsmen from these respective backgrounds and beyond-from legends to rookies. Each artists will be provided with a particular canvas: a blank board from City Fog Surfboards, helmets from Biltwell, gas tanks from Lowbrow Customs among other items.

Via: Oil and Water

Video of Wes Humpston after the jump. And if it doesn’t get you excited about the show, I don’t know what will.

Have you ever been sitting around and thought, I wish I could get all the old time analog sound from a gramophone out of my iPhone? Well be still your nostalgic audiophile heart, the folks over at en&es have just given you something to pine over for the upcoming gifting season. Made entirely of ceramic, it does have an interestingly haunting and rich analog quality of sound… that is, if represented honestly in the video. Which along with more images, is after the fold.

Remember this? Ron Arad’s spring steel wheel bike might have been cool to look at and was built for a good cause, but did it leave you wondering if the bike would actually ride properly? Well now you can check it out in action in the video after the jump.

Filmed by Chris Mulhern, New York City based skateboard company 5BORO recently released their 2011 holiday clip. Things have come a long way, in terms of skateboarding short films. The video includes beautiful buttery footage from around various New York City neighborhoods. Oh yeah, and the skateboarding is pretty impressive, too. Check out the film after the jump. Thanks to our brothers at Rad Collector for turning us on to this.

In Ryan Hope’s debut film, Skin, he attempts to find high art in a low brow culture. Video on the other side.

In the late summer of 2011 David Choe found Pablo Escobar’s abandoned vacation home. What transpired afterward you ask? An invasion of topless girls and vandalism of course. Video after the jump.

Mark Jenkins makes human body casts out of saran wrap and packing tape. He then places them around the city for a variety of humorous and thought provoking effects. Watch an interview about his purpose and process after the fold.

A controversial mural/installation went up in Miami this past week. Directed at the Occupy Wall Street Movement, watch the artist Above create his latest work. Video after the jump.