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Artists RQM & REMED Collaborate on a unique 7″ experience

[ Posted on 08 February 2010 By Katya LaRoche ]

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British artist, RQM has paired up with street artist REMED to give a unique touch to a limited edition run of 84 7″ records containing his newest release entitled COLORS FADE. The select 84 of the 100 limited edition 7″ records are individual pieces that make a single REMED painting, outlining the entire life span of a relationship – the story was inspired by the song COLORS FADE. Each 7″ is available for pre-order with an equally limited edition t-shirt (preorder).

RQM may not come to mind for many of you, but in the UK he’s making waves. He’s had air play top national radio station BBC1 and played along side artists such as Missy Elliot, M.I.A., Buraka Som Sistema, The Stereo Mcs, The Rapture and Kool Keith. His music is electronic based alternative hiphop, a genre I’ve personally been attached to for a while, and between talent and recording quality there’s nothing but good things to come.

“This is a very important release for me – it marks a period of musical independence so I wanted to celebrate it with something very special and essentially give my fans a real gift. REMED is one of my favorite artists and I respect the brother for the soul he injects into his paintings so a collab was a natural movement. ” RQM

REMED is a French born-Madrid based artist and more specifically a street artist who switches his unique style from wall to canvas, legally, illegally and untethered. Especially respectable for his street loyalty, amidst offers from major galleries in New York, Paris, Madrid and Sao Paulo for their exhibits and personal collections, he refuses to leave the underground art world. The inspiration for the COLORS FADE painting, as stated in an interview, is that ” it came out after long talks with RQM about his songs and words….the idea is to tell the story of a human relation through love. Contrast, intensity, explosion, and the seed of the next contrast. So the painting is a chain of events in the love of two people.”

The colors expressive and meaningful to its purpose, REMED shows his opinion of light, color and art clearly in his work.

"colors don't exist...they are just a reflection of some light. It s perception transforming light into color...so colors don't fade ever, they just change from one color to another" - REMED

Here’s a little preview of some of RQM’s work as seen on his Soundcloud profile (here).

RQM – ATOMIC FUSION (PRODUCED BY SIRIUSMO) by rqmpropaganda

Learn more about the RQM here:
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Baby+Sumo/releases/
www.rqmpropaganda.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RQM-PROPAGANDA/87192163694
http://soundcloud.com/rqmpropaganda
http://twitter.com/RQM1

More about REMED:
http://remed.es/web/
http://www.myspace.com/remed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/remed_art/4315378731/

Buy the Shirt/Limited edition 7″:
Visit: http://www.hhv.de/

A Very Vinyl X-mas to you!

[ Posted on 16 December 2009 By Katya LaRoche ]

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I love Kidrobot, and particularly Dunny’s. I have about 30 – a meager collection really compared to some but I’m building. Every Christmas Kidrobot releases their x-mas dunny’s and of course I have 3. What I don’t have yet is this years x-mas Dunny, Krunk-a-Claus! He is probably the best one yet as far as holiday Dunny’s go, and WILL be a part of my collection soon, even if I’m on the road in the middle of Texas, far from a shop that carries Kidrobot toys.

Even so, mail order is an option for all of us of course and my favorite online vinyl shop has Krunk-a-Claus, Holiday Vinyl Packs for your friends & family who love vinyl toys and of course a huge selection of blank vinyl toys for you to customize! If you have a vinyl lover or are one yourself, check out www.myplasticheart.com.

Krunk-a-Claus

Some of their holiday gift packs include, the Holiday Food Pack, Tokidoki Pack and the Holiday Mongers Pack. For the picky person, just buy them a gift certificate and get it over with without worrying if you got the right thing!

Holiday Food Gift Pack

Mongers Holiday Pack

Tokidoki Holiday Pack

Enjoy the selection! Even if you dont want to buy anything, go look at the art, books and huge selection of great collectible toys at www.myplasticheart.com

Katya

Flying Mouse Designs

[ Posted on 14 December 2009 By Katya LaRoche ]

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I first heard about Flying Mouse (artist Hon Lam) when I bought a t-shirt with his design on it from Threadless.com about a year ago. Since then, he has started his own website and has partaken in a project most designers would call impossible. “The FM 365 Store is the result of Flying Mouse’s (Hon Lam) Project of doing one design per day for a whole year! Every week there will be 7 new products available! These 7 new products will be available for a quick pre-sale at a lower price for the entire week and once the week ends there will be 7 newer products to replace them and so on. These designs are printed on super-soft American Apparel tees so you can wear your favorite Flying Mouse designs in comfort everywhere you go!”

Hon Lam has won numerous Threadless.com awards such as 3 Threadless Bestees for “Most Printed Designer 2007″, “Newcomer Of The Year 2007″, and “Best Concept For A Design 2007“, making him more than the average Hon.

His website features a constant stream of clever and beautiful designs, backgrounds for your desktop and an archive of past designs.

His latest series of 7 has some great designs but you’ll have to check them out here. By the time you read this some of you may have missed the ones from this week! I’ll show you my favorites anyway but get on over to his site and sigh up for his newsletter to be kept updated on his limited time sales!

http://flyingmouse365.com