Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill

Banksy's pet store, it is closed now. But this video gives a nice impression, and it's hillarious!


NOTCOT: Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill from Jean Aw on Vimeo.

Great little prints..

A nice little shop for great prints, our little friends of printmaking. Check out some of their new stuff!

A waterboard thrill ride

At the moment we are working on an exhibition on tortures for Museum GoudA. And so we come across a lot of examples of torture on the internet. We stumbled upon the artist Steve Powers, who made an waterboarding installation in Coney Island. For just one dollar you can see an animatronic torturer waterboard an orange jumpsuited prisoner. Pouring water over the cloth covered face, and up the nose and mouth, the prisoner experiences the process of drowning and struggles at his restraints. This is of course done with a robot. But Steve also did a real live waterboarding for the sake of art.


Steve was an New York graffiti artist who wrote in Philadelphia and New York under the name of Espo. Nowadays he claims no longer to make graffiti but he does murals, designs clothing, books and makes installations. Here is some of his more (seemingly) cheerful work.

Appealing art

Appeel is a virus spreading through interacting individuals.

Surfaces are covered by thousands of coloured stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, people hence start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be sticked somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people, they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.

Appeel inherits basic principles of interactivity and generativity applied to purely analogous means. Its immanent potential of penetrating regulated public and private space counterpoints its apparent plainness. The dot spreads with the promise to ironically mark its carrier as a symbol of sale and possession.

A health tip

Who said that wine is good for your arteries? I think these designer agree!

Clean grafitti

Alexandre Orion from Brazil makes beautiful graffiti without using paint. He scrapes, cleans and rubs the dirt of the walls until the original color appears. It has an unexpected beautiful result and this kind of graffiti isn't illegal so, the police can't charge him with anything.

THE most elaborate stopmotion

Wow! This is THE most elaborate stop-motion we've ever seen! It's a moving wall-painting, painted by Muto an animated by BluBlu. Great stuff!


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Super shirts

Antistrot, a Rotterdam based artist collective has a new website and webshop, great artwork and super shirts.

Prints for sale

Check out the limited edition silk screen prints and lithographs from Sanna Annukka, they are beautiful!

Damien Hirst Interview

Green drinks all around!

Every month people who work in the environmental field meet up world wide for a beer at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. This installation was made for Aucklands inaugural 'Green Drinks' event.

I'm feeling a little tipsy...

Just a great ad from Guinness...

Always handy to look sharp

Always handy to look sharp and keep things clean during diner
You can order them at Spoon Sisters.

More stop motion madness; 100% paper

Great stop motion from Rogier Wieland, a very good friend of ours! Made of 100% paper!
You can see more of his work on You Tube.

Home of twisted films

The guys and girls from eatPES have come up with another brilliant stop motion animation. For those of you that are hungry, watch closely...

Bizar optical illusions

Wow! Felice Varini really makes great optical illusions, check the site for more images.

Polish Movie Poster

The poster gallery in the tram tunnel in The Hague now shows Polish movie poster. A nice collection of classics.

The 'Scala Mercalli' Street art exibition in Rome

Here are some pics from the Scala Mercalli exhibition in Rome that we visited this summer.







Scala mercalli Backstage from ArtKitchen on Vimeo.

A Fresh Pack of Gum Blondes

Artist Jason Kronenwald has made painting from chewing gum, the portraits are from modern blond icons like Hillary Clinton and Paris Hilton
"Each Gum Blonde is 100% chewed bubble gum on a plywood backing. No paint or dye is used. The colour is inherent to the gum–the mixing of colour takes place inside the mouth during chewing. Kronenwald has a dedicated team of chewers and prefers the texture of Trident. However, he does not chew gum himself unless he must."