Swear Jar Incorporated™

Scott Campbell | Prison Tattoo

2011-08-31T22:56:00.002-05:00

Scott Campbell
Video by Casey Neistat

José Parlá

2011-08-23T00:50:00.002-05:00

José Parlá
by Jeff Staple

Mister Cartoon | Art In The Streets

2011-07-27T01:31:00.002-05:00

Mister Cartoon
MOCA

OUTSIDE IN: The Story of Art in the Streets

2011-06-02T18:42:00.002-05:00

OUTSIDE IN

The Accidental Sea

2011-05-18T00:08:00.002-05:00

By Ransom Riggs.

Beastie Boys | Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

2011-04-25T01:16:00.002-05:00

Beastie Boys

Art in the Streets | MOCA

2011-04-23T15:40:00.002-05:00

MOCA

Invader | Hollywood

2011-04-23T15:30:00.003-05:00

Invader

Mars-1 + Doze Green

2011-03-27T01:16:00.002-05:00

Mars-1
Doze Green
Video by Colin M Day

ESPO: TEDxPhilly

2011-03-11T01:39:00.002-06:00

Video by TED
Steve Powers

Doyald Young

2011-03-07T02:24:00.005-06:00

RIP

To say that Doyald was a master of the written letter would be an understatement. His contributions to the industry of graphic design and typography were immeasurable, and he will be greatly missed.

Doyald Young

Sour Grapes | Rest In Power

2011-02-11T01:32:00.003-06:00

February 12th through March 27th.

Sour Grapes
The Dallas Contemporary

A Love Letter For You | Documentary Trailer

2011-02-09T18:37:00.002-06:00

Ghost Robot
A Love Letter For You
Steve Powers

Michigan Central Station

2011-02-09T01:16:00.001-06:00

Video by [PÅ::NU].

Barry McGee | São Paulo

2011-01-24T01:01:00.002-06:00

Video by Antonio de Paula Ternura
Barry McGee

Shepard Fairey

2011-01-19T01:03:00.001-06:00

By Gestalten
Shepard Fairey

Undercity

2011-01-12T01:03:00.001-06:00

Unauthorized urban exploration of New York City.

By Andrew Wonder

The Satorialist

2011-01-06T22:17:00.003-06:00

Video by Intel
The Satorialist

In The Field: Greg Hunt

2010-12-05T00:51:00.002-06:00

Video by Joshua Zucker.
Greg Hunt

Logonom

2010-12-03T01:17:00.001-06:00

By Optimus.

Aaron Rose: Portrait of the Artist as a Beautiful Loser

2010-11-29T15:01:00.003-06:00

By Gestalten
Aaron Rose

The Story of Eames Furniture

2010-11-29T12:21:00.002-06:00

By Gestalten
Buy the book here.

Abandoned Six Flags

2010-11-09T10:21:00.002-06:00

Linotype: The Film

2010-11-04T00:52:00.000-05:00

Linotype Film

Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul

2010-10-31T22:16:00.002-05:00

By Orlando von Einsiedel for Dazed Digital and Diesel.

Banksy & The Simpsons

2010-10-10T23:38:00.006-05:00

It was only a matter of time.

Banksy
The Simpsons

Sour Grapes | Paletas

2010-10-04T01:30:00.002-05:00

F R E S H !

Video by Loyal K.N.G.
Sour Grapes

A Love Letter To Syracuse

2010-10-02T23:18:00.002-05:00

Video by Faythe Levine and Samuel Macon
ESPO

David A. Smith | Sign Artist

2010-09-18T02:16:00.002-05:00

^{Run Time: 14:19}

"David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors.

In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists."

Video by Danny Cooke
David A. Smith

Retna + El Mac = Of Our Youth

2010-08-28T15:22:00.002-05:00

El Mac
Retna

Video by RVCA

Legacy of Letters

2010-08-27T13:55:00.002-05:00

by Luca Barcellona

Sour Grapes | Oak Cliff Bicycle Company

2010-08-01T01:32:00.002-05:00

Video by Carlos Donjuan

Sour Grapes
Oak Cliff Bicycle Company

Dancing Pigeons | Ritalin

2010-07-28T23:18:00.004-05:00

Video by Blink Productions
Music by Dancing Pigeons

Guerilla Art

2010-07-28T22:51:00.003-05:00

"International street artists are currently conquering the art market, with auction houses, collectors, and galleries demanding top prices for their work. This book and DVD package features interviews with key artists including Banksy, Futura, Ramm:ell:zee (RIP), Os Gemeos, Invader, Barnstormers, WK Interact, Zevs, Blek le Rat, André, Noki, and Eine. Graffiti-inspired street art pioneers Futura, Ramm:ell:zee, and Blek le Rat discuss their own work, how street art was born out of the days of subway train graffiti, spraypainting and tagging, and how the new movement of street artists are doing things differently.

Filmed in New York, London, Paris, São Paulo, and Tokyo, the accompanying documentary shows the artists at work: Zevs practicing his 'Visual Kidnappings' of advertising billboards, Blek le Rat sticking up outsized stencils, Os Gemeos painting their lyrical, folklore-inspired murals; and Invader putting up his unique mosaic wall tile images."

By Goetz Werner and Sebastian Peiter.

Buy the book/dvd here.

Mike Stilkey | Reminiscent

2010-07-11T21:46:00.002-05:00

Mike Stilkey
Video by Hurley

Blu | Big Bag Big Boom

2010-07-05T02:29:00.003-05:00

Blu

ESPO: PSFK Conference NY 2010

2010-06-29T01:53:00.005-05:00

By PSFK
ESPO

The Bowler

2010-06-29T01:30:00.002-05:00

"Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man. For the majority of his adult life, Rocky has hustled bowling for a living.

Here is his story. A short documentary about booze, broads and bowling."

By Sean Dunne

Up There

2010-06-11T15:08:00.002-05:00

The Ritual Project
Stella Artois

James Jarvis

2010-05-31T14:22:00.002-05:00

Video by Stussy
James Jarvis

Ed Templeton | "The Cemetery of Reason"

2010-04-16T13:22:00.002-05:00

Ed Templeton
S.M.A.K.

HVW8

2010-04-14T18:48:00.003-05:00

HVW8
Video by Upper Playground

Barry McGee

2010-04-13T20:49:00.002-05:00

By The Creative Lives
Barry McGee

Incarnation

2010-04-01T17:22:00.003-05:00

By Mark Ryden

Saber

2010-03-31T19:25:00.002-05:00

Saber
Video by Upper Playground

A Love Letter For You

2010-03-31T12:52:00.003-05:00

By Megawords Magazine
ESPO

Buy the book here

Cody Hudson

2010-03-22T11:22:00.002-05:00

Cody Hudson
Video by Upper Playground

Kelsey Brookes

2010-03-09T11:52:00.002-06:00

By The Creative Lives
Kelsey Brookes

Pink Terror

2010-03-09T11:26:00.001-06:00

By Mike Barzman

Futura: Berlin 2009

2010-03-07T00:28:00.002-06:00

Futura
SpineTV

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

2010-03-05T20:03:00.002-06:00

Video by Gestalten

Typeface

2010-03-04T15:49:00.002-06:00

Typeface

Logorama

2010-03-02T16:43:00.005-06:00

Logorama

James Marshall

2010-03-02T14:30:00.004-06:00

Dalek
Video by Upper Playground

This Too Shall Pass

2010-03-02T13:43:00.001-06:00

OK Go

Chris Pastras

2010-02-22T15:32:00.002-06:00

Chris Pastras
Video by Upper Playground

Jean-Michel Basquiat | The Radiant Child

2010-02-18T23:03:00.004-06:00

The Radiant Child

Evan Hecox + Arkitip + Incase

2010-02-18T01:30:00.003-06:00

Evan Hecox
Arkitip
Incase

Richard Thompson III | Abandoned New Orleans

2010-02-13T13:55:00.004-06:00

Richard Thompson III

Os Gêmeos | D.I.Y. America

2010-02-11T23:20:00.003-06:00

Os Gêmeos

Video by Aaron Rose for Wieden+Kennedy

SWOON | D.I.Y. America

2010-02-11T19:14:00.005-06:00

Swoon

Video by Aaron Rose for Wieden+Kennedy

And Now An Even-Tempered Apology from White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel

2010-02-09T00:03:00.003-06:00

SNL

Drift

2010-02-04T22:40:00.002-06:00

By Theo Tagholm

Kehinde Wiley | Of The Same Earth

2010-02-01T16:54:00.003-06:00

Kehinde Wiley
Puma

Mark Bodé

2010-02-01T16:26:00.003-06:00

Mark Bodé
Video by Upper Playground

Doze Green | Off The Wall

2010-01-30T22:53:00.002-06:00

Video by Friends We Love

Doze Green
Jonathan Levine Gallery

Exit Through the Gift Shop

2010-01-21T16:51:00.004-06:00

In the late 1990s, a hybrid form of graffiti began appearing in cities around the world. Enlisting stickers, stencils, posters, and sculpture and spread by the burgeoning Internet, it would be labeled “street art” and establish itself as the most significant counterculture movement of a generation. Los Angeles–based filmmaker Terry Guetta set out to record this secretive world in all its thrilling detail. For more than eight years, he traveled with the pack, roaming the streets of America and Europe, the stealthy witness of the world’s most infamous vandals. But after meeting the British stencil artist known only as “Banksy,” things took a bizarre turn.

Sundance has shown films by unknown artists but never an anonymous one. Banksy turns the tables on the only man who has ever filmed him, creating a remarkable documentary that is part personal journey and part an exposé of the art world with its mind-altering mix of hot air and hype. In the end, Exit Through the Gift Shop is an amazing ride, a cautionary modern fairy tale... with bolt cutters.

Sundance
Banksy Film

Copyright Criminals

2010-01-18T14:26:00.002-06:00

This documentary will be featured on the PBS series "Independent Lens" tomorrow evening, 1.18.10

Indiepix

CL!CK

2010-01-17T16:15:00.002-06:00

Lego

Lemonade

2010-01-16T16:06:00.005-06:00

^{Run Time: 35:57}

What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off? They get creative with their own lives. Lemonade is an inspirational film about 16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling, encouraging people to listen to that little voice inside their head that asks, What if?

Lemonade

Kevin Lyons

2010-01-13T16:36:00.002-06:00

Kevin Lyons
Video by Upper Playground

Rad Anthem

2010-01-13T13:35:00.002-06:00

Directed by Nicholaus Goossen
Rad Omen

The Burj Birdmen

2010-01-12T19:19:00.001-06:00

Buzz Films

One Year in 90 Seconds

2010-01-05T15:55:00.002-06:00

By Eirik Solheim

Dzine

2010-01-04T14:17:00.003-06:00

Dzine
Video by Upper Playground

Bigfoot

2009-12-28T14:17:00.002-06:00

Bigfoot
Video by Upper Playground

Techno Jeep

2009-12-28T11:35:00.003-06:00

By Julian Smith

Real Good Chair Experiment

2009-12-27T16:49:00.000-06:00

Blu Dot

The Known Universe

2009-12-19T17:17:00.002-06:00

By The American Museum of Natural History.

Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No

2009-12-17T22:19:00.003-06:00

Animation by James Blagden for No Mas TV.

Mag+

2009-12-17T11:46:00.000-06:00

By Bonnier

David Choong Lee

2009-12-14T17:22:00.003-06:00

David Choong Lee
Video by Upper Playground

Moments

2009-12-09T17:01:00.002-06:00

By William Hoffman for Radiolab.

Wes Humpston

2009-12-07T12:30:00.003-06:00

Wes Humpston
Video by Upper Playground

Smoke Somethin', Bitch

2009-12-04T13:44:00.003-06:00

Hard to believe it's been two years already.

Ball

2009-12-04T01:29:00.002-06:00

By Ries Straver

Billykirk

2009-12-03T14:42:00.004-06:00

"Brothers Chris and Kirk Bray have been producing leather goods for the last ten years. They launched Billykirk from Los Angeles in 1999, learning their craft from a third generation leather maker. A simple leather strap kick started the business, a decade later their collection has flourished into other offerings that consists of bags, belts, shoes, wallets, hats and other accessories. Since expanding and moving their operation to the East, they've employed a group of Amish leather makers to produce much of their line, while wrapping up production in their studio. We visited the brothers over the summer to observe their operation first hand and to discover the beauty behind the process."

Video by The Scout

Billykirk

PostSecret

2009-12-03T14:17:00.001-06:00

PostSecret

Mike Carroll | Hangover Flip

2009-12-03T12:21:00.002-06:00

Mike Carroll
Lakai

Sports Illustrated Tablet

2009-12-02T22:22:00.002-06:00

What's next, Science?

Wizard Smoke

2009-12-01T17:27:00.000-06:00

By Salazar

Carts of Darkness

2009-11-30T22:41:00.004-06:00

^{Run Time: 59:34}

"Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk. Shot in high-definition and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd of Little Sparta. "

Carts of Darkness

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