Jon Blackler, Kevin Proum, Len Carson and Daniel Avina decided to make carbon fiber Storm Trooper costumes. All in their spare time while working at San Diego Composites. They specializes in engineering everything carbon fiber related from missile canisters to aircraft structures. One of these might actually withstand a blaster shot from one of the Rebel Alliance. Unfortunately they are not for sale, but I’m sure they are going to get all kinds of offers from fans boys around the world.

More images of the boys having fun in their creations after the jump.

Check out the cool time lapsed video of Mike Giant working on The Skullz Press installation at The Hydrilla.

Video and images from the entire show after the fold.

Also seen on Upper Playground…. Los Angeles based artist Sage Vaughn, will be opening a show at FIFTY24SF tomorrow tonight, on November 19th. It’s highly recommended if you are in the San Francisco area.

Big flyer and a preview image after zee jump.

Check out this cool new domino set with artwork by Jeremy Fish. Black and gold, I love the skull and cross bones on the back side. On sale now at Upper Playground.

Detailed images after the fold.

Brooklyn based artist Aaron Johnson has release a new piece of art for sale on NOWhere Limited. Entitled “Now We Hunt Hippopotamus” he describes it as such:

Now We Hunt Hippopotamus is a convergence of disparate influences, specifically including The Hippopotamus Hunt by Rubens (one of my favorite paintings by one of my favorite painters), Indian firecracker graphics (which I discovered traveling in India in 2005, a trip that completely exploded my color palette), and the David Lynch film Wild at Heart (the title of this piece comes from torrid moment when Isabella Rossellini stares down the barrel of her pistol pointed at the camera shouting ‘Now We Hunt Buffalo!’) I liked the idea of telling a humanity versus nature story in which the human element is represented by miniature severed heads, clearly overwhelmed by the behemoth brute force of the animals raging around the composition

See the others on sale, along with the piece above, after the jump.

As judged by Complex. You have to go check it out on there site. An amazing collection of Paris writers. Worth the minutes spent.

There are few artist I enjoy as much as Blu.

Check out the new wall in Spain after the jump.

Check out the Death Spray Custom online pop-up shop. Lots of cool gear.

More t-shirt images after the fold.

Dale May will be opening a new exhibit at the Samuel Owen Gallery. Entitled “Lego Wars” it will run from December 15th – January 19th.

See more images after the jump.

As of this past Tuesday, a collection of 120 photographs of New York’s Lower East Side taken by Sol LeWitt in 1979 has been installed on the side of the Mondrian SoHo. It is a permanent installation, so you can take a stroll there anytime. The hotel partnered with the Paula Cooper Gallery on the project.

From the press release:

Sol LeWitt made photographs throughout his career, beginning in the 1960s
with serial works of images inspired by Edwaerd Muybridge.  Photography was
a means by which LeWitt incorporated narrative into his art, in a seeming
contradiction to the objective, conceptual rigor that define Lewitt’s wall
drawings and structures from the same period.  Beginning in the mid-1970s,
he published a series of books of photographic essays such as Brick Walls
(1975), Photo Grids (1977), and On the Walls of the Lower East Side, which
culminated in Autobiography (1980). The publications reproduce images that
are absent of people, sequenced in related groupings and arranged into grids
of uniformly sized reproductions that function like modular units with no
overt hierarchy.

On the Walls of the Lower East Side consists of 666 photographs in total,
depicting the decayed landscape of the neighborhood in lower Manhattan where
LeWitt then had his home and studio. (The door of his loft at 117 Hester
Street is included.) Graffiti covered walls were abundant in the area, and
LeWitt shoots mostly images of political scrawls, torn posters and
splattered paint in a straight-forward, almost deadpan, style that is in
essence social documentary.

Sol Lewitt believed that walls were public and large and that books were
small and private; that they each provide the same information through
extremely different formats. Sol Lewitt wrote, “When one sees a wall, it is
the impact of the whole that is understood at once-emotionally more than
intellectually. It is only by reading the wall that the viewer understands
it fully.” The installation of LeWitt¹s On the Walls of the Lower East Side
at Mondrian SoHo provides an opportunity for this work to be seen in the
context of the community that inspired it.

More images after the fold.