Just finished watching this documentary “Beautiful Losers” about the group of artists that rose out of the Alleged Gallery on the lower east side in the early nineties.  Some of them I knew by name, Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine etc., but I recognized the work of all of them.  It’s really good stuff and a reasonably interesting and inspiring documentary.  It chronicles how they grew out of the skate and graffiti scene to became influential artists and culture makers branching out into advertising, graphic design and film making.  Any way, check it out, it made me get excited about painting again. Incidentally, Beautiful Losers is also a beatnik novel written by a young Leonard Cohen, you can pick it up for $10 on Amazon, it’s been eighteen years since I read it but I remember liking it.

Oh and Beautiful Losers also led me to this pretty rad Mark Gonzales skate video, dig it:

Shepard Fairey worked his mojo on a photo by Glen E. Friedman of elder skater Jim Muir who was hurt earlier this year in a surfing accident. There are a limited press of 450 of these signed by both Shepard and Jim Muir. The proceeds are going to help Muir pay ongoing medical bills.

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