Grindhouse Trailers

A double-bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers' favorite exploitation films. "Grindhouse" (a downtown movie theater in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies) is presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. "Death Proof," is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while "Planet Terror" shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak. The films are joined together by clever faux trailers that recall the '50s exploitation drive-in classics.
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In the states Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's grindhouse films where released as a double bill, intersected with these spoof trailers, as an original grindhouse double feature would have been. A american audiences didn't respond well to this so, for its foreign release each of the films were re-edited with extra footage and given a separate release, losing these trailers in the process

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FLYING FORTRESS Teddy Troops

The Teddy Troops had been around in the streets for a while before they also turned into a 3D vinyl toy in 2004. First of all Flying Förtress started in 2002 to get up with his chrome Trooper icon. Trying to use an easier readable illustrative symbol instead of doing the classic coded graffiti letters and tags that he had been doing before since 1989. Together with the chrome pieces there have stickers also been seen around in the streets since 2002. Handpainted or silkscreend ones with a hand-drawn finish on "free" post stickers and series of offset printed stickers
THIS BIO WAS TAKEN FROM THE www.teddytroops.net WEB SITE

Card Boy

Known for creating branding, packaging and artwork for high-end fashion and entertainment clients, Mark James is a London based designer and graphic artist. However, what his clients might not know is that he is also the genius behind the “99% Is Shit” standup model, Chinpira: The Sweet and Tender Hooligan (banned in the UK), and the Cardboy Series. CardBoy takes place in an urban wasteland, known as Cardboard City, populated by cardboard/vinyl hybrid beings.
A few years after its creation, Mark felt that the city was getting a bit lonely so he released some SneakerBox playmates for the other CardBoys, so now they can all shoot hoops, grind rails and maybe rob a few banks, together.
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Grind House cinema posters

Exploitation style cinema is making a comeback. From remakes of classic B-movies like The last house on the left and The toolbox murders, to homages and spoofs. Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez Grindhouse double bill, and Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders blaxploitation send up Black Dynamite. The great thing about this renaissance is that it gives a whole new generation of small film makers a credible new genre to explore. I am working at the moment with a local production company to produce the story boards, promotional material for a short "grind house" feature. As the film makers will be aping the style of film i feel there is little option than to follow suit with the style of poster. According to Rodriguez, "The posters were much better than the movies"

Doze Green

Doze Green was born and raised in New York city. He is an original member of the infamous Rock Steady Crew, he is a pioneer of hip hop culture and a graff legend - the king of characters. he is a fusionist, a symbolist, a figurative painter and an artists artist. His work defies definition.
Doze Green is a humanist first and a artist second. as art critic Anjee Helstrup said. "his work is raw yet refined, emotive, highly symbolic and has a complexitiy that looks not only past the present state the world, but also alludes to a future that is guided through a convergence that is not limited by conventional religious forms" Although Doze uses esoteric symbols not easily interpreted to explore the human condition, his use of "street symbols" from his New York up bringing keep him connected to the underground culture and community he helped create.
over the years, Doze Green's paintings have progressed from the streets and into the gallerys. in the same spirit of graffiti they tell the stories of the oppessed which continue to be largely untold. His art career began an the walls and trains of New York in 1974. by the mid 80's he was exhibiting his work in art spaces such as the OK Harris Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and the Fun Gallery. Doze Green's work is in many public and private collections throughout the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia
THIS TEXT WAS TAKEN FRO THE DOZE GREEN WEBSITE

Doze Green is a legend in the graffiti word, and with good reason, his style is very much like some of the Emory Douglas illustrations for the black panthers with a touch of Basquait mixed in there as well, but thats what hip hop is built on, the reimagening and rearranging of what has gone before, in that sense it is the true post modern sub culture in the world today. In the history of hip hop Doze Green will go along side the likes of Kool Herc, Run DMC, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster flash, and Afrika Bambaataa.

Buff Monster

Bio First known for plastering thousands of hand-silkscreened posters throughout Los Angeles and in far-away places, when Buff Monster’s original and only wheat paste brush was no longer usable, seven years of poster missions came to an end. Giving up a very productive street art career, he now works on fine art paintings, collectible toys and select design projects. His artwork has been published in magazines, newspapers and books, and his paintings, which are usually accompanied by large-scale installations, have been shown in numerous galleries around the world. His introduction to vinyl art toys was his 3-inch figure in the LA Dunny Series.
Buff Monster currently lives in Hollywood, CA and cites heavy metal music, ice cream and Japanese culture as major influences. The color pink, as a symbol of confidence, individuality and happiness, is present in everything he creates.
THIS BIO WAS TAKEN FROM THE KIDROBOT WEBSITE

Buff Monster is in nearly every street art book i own, his work is very provocative, and works on every scale ether on a small dunny or on the side of a building, i am not a big fan of the pink and he only uses that colour, but the design of his characters is first rate, it would be nice to see then in other colours.

kid Acne

Bio MC and graffiti writer, Kid Acne, was born in Malawi in 1978, grew up in England and is currently based in Sheffield. His career as an artist began with an appearance on the UK’s Rolf's Cartoon Club at the age of twelve and within a year, he'd started painting graffiti and was in the hospital recovering from a bad acid trip. Neither incident was related to Rolf in any way.
Since then, he has gone on to design record sleeves, skateboards and apparel for some of the most prominent companies on the planet in his signature 'Blood & Sand' aesthetic. He has exhibited in galleries throughout the world and his work can be found in the streets of Sao Paulo, Vienna and Brooklyn. He doesn't use stencils in his art and he still has acne.
THIS BIO WAS TAKEN FROM THE KID ROBOT WEB SITE http://www.kidrobot.com

KID ACNE is one of the illustrators ive seen around but never really got into, and for no good reason i might add, because his work is great. He also gets kudos from me because he lives in sheffield and had is photo taken out side the Hendersons relish factory.
Ive got an kid acne illustration of MF doom which also really good when i find it i will post it up.

Jon Burgerman

Jon Burgerman

During my trip to New York, I hunted out a small shop called giant robot, it sells t-shirts, designer toys and other products which are related to the art/design/illustration. The shop also doubled as a exhibtion space for small shows. At the time I was lucky enough to catch one of my favourite illustrators Jon Burgerman. What I find really interesting about Jon is how he applies his style to a broard range of media and products. From pepsi cans to plush dolls his style is unrelenting, fun and intriguing. It draws you in and has that special quality of depth, in which the viewer can find something new in the work even after multiple viewings.
above are some of the free wall papers you get when you buy his book Pens are my freinds.