Archive for July, 2009Evan Roth photographed more than 2,400 graffiti tags over a four-day period in April of this year in an effort to show the diversity of graffiti work in each of Paris’s 20 districts. His finished product is the video above. Here’s how Wooster Collective explained the process and purpose of Roth’s work: “Photographs were then archived, tagged and sorted by letter. The ten most commonly used letters by Paris graffiti writers were identified for further study (A,E,I,K,N,O,R,S,T and U). From each letter grouping, eighteen tags were isolated to represent the diversity and range of that specific character. Evan explains that the sets are not intended to display the âbestâ graffiti tags in Paris, but rather aim to highlight the diversity of forms ranging from upper case to lowercase, simple to complex and legible to cryptic.” Tetragram for Enlargement is an architectural installation created by Apparati Effimeri last month for Italy’s Itinerario Festival. Here’s how Fast Company describes the process: “The designers first mapped the facade of a castle, and then used that map to create light projections. From there, things get wild and wobbly, as the projection cycles through a series of tromp l’oeil effects that make the castle look, at times like its melting, blowing away in the wind, like a painted canvas, or another castle entirely.” Pretty amazing stuff! The Jailbreak is in the market for a new masthead. This isn’t like a hipster couple being in the market for a new couch, subsequently searching the streets of Williamsburg at night for a discarded last-season Ikea, and finally resigning to keep looking so the feng shui of their studio apartment remains immaculate and undisturbed by an uncouth sofa . We actually need one right now! We could make one ourselves, but we’d like to give the opportunity to Jailbreak readers, or anyone else for that matter, to offer their vision of what our website should look like. The only criteria is to include the words “the jailbreak,” “pop,” “politics,” “art,” and “counterculture,” in your creation. Go wild! Please send submissions to quincy@jailbreaktoys.com Thanks!
I’m speechless. These are so dope! Check out more from French clothing brand Hype Means Nothing here.
Artist and graphic designer, Bemodern (real name Paul Darragh), is a New Zealand native living in New York City. “He only lives in places starting with “New” because that is a very modern way to live.” Now that’s funny. Darragh has created advertisements for everyone from Nike to Fast Company (1st above). Cool Hunting recently caught up with him, and you can read their interview in entirety here.
It took Olympus 60,000 pictures–9,600 of which were developed and 1,800 of which had to be shot again–to create this awesome stop-motion montage of the history of Pen Cameras through the story of two people’s lives. It was also completed with no post production. Awesome!
The Cluster Series was painted by artist Michael Steele. I would’ve chosen just one if they all weren’t equally cool and different.   
Animator and Jailbreak amigo William Levin goes by the endearing moniker of “The Jewish Robot.” His short pieces range from PSAs about biking to clever and hilarious satires of pop culture stalwarts to pseudo-self-mocking Jewish comedy. The guy is seriously funny and his animation skills seem to be on the up. Enjoy these clips, and if you’d like to view more of Levin’s work head over to his website. We’re in the process of setting up and interview with him as well. So be on the lookout for that in the next couple of weeks.
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