Exciting news! Monster Cutie reader David Reimer has a solo gallery show that opens June 5th at the Flying Monkey Arts Center in Huntsville, AL. The show is called “Mechanical Victorian Dopplegangers” and showcases Dave’s amazingly cute robot illustrations.
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This series of eight video clips is from an episode of “Comic Book Greats” which must have been a video series back in the early 90’s. Stan Lee interviews Jim Lee who at the time drew the highest selling issue in comic book history, X-Men #1 which sold 8.2 million copies in 1992. Two comic book legends together just hanging out and talking comics. It doesn’t get much better than this!
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Entering your work into juried competitions is one of the best ways to connect with potential clients.  Communication Arts is one of the most recognized names in visual communication publications and hosts five such competitions.  Getting your work into one of the five Communication Arts Annuals can kick your career into high gear.  Are you ready?

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To advertise its new hybrid car, the Insight, Honda commissioned advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy to create an ad campaign centering on the belief that everyone “wants to be good.” For this first spot, “Shine,” Weiden + Kennedy’s Amsterdam created a grid of Hondas and used their headlights as pixels to create a sort of giant LED screen. By turning the lights on and off, they created an animation that speaks to what Honda believes is our inherent desire to be good.

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I’ve always looked at graffiti artists with a measure of admiration. Here’s someone with something to say and the only way anyone will listen is if he or she throws it up on a wall. It takes a lot of dedication to pursue an artform that can land you in jail. But these days, it seems that art transcends crime. A number of graffiti artists have found patrons in the fine art world and have gone on to have exhibitions in some of modern art’s finest galleries. David Choe is one such artist.

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There are times when I walk through a contemporary art exhibit and view the work that I ask myself, “What the hell am I looking at?” I am an artist and yet I rarely understand modern art.  I certainly enjoy visiting modern art museums and exhibitions, but honestly, I just don’t get most of it.  I certainly don’t understand how some of these things get hung and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Does the value of art depend on context?  The group at Klara decided to find out.  With the help of painter Luc Tuymans, they set out to discover if art taken out of context holds the same meaning.

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