Before any of you start crying out “political insensitivity!”, I’m not trying to advocate anything in this post. I found this stencil just outside the Puduraya bus station yesterday evening on the way back from work. Many might not be familiar with Rashid Maidin, but to those who remember, he was in effect #2 down […]

Let me back track to the canal now, after all that Banksy-worship, I can’t attribute these works to anyone since I don’t recognise the artists but thought I’d share ‘em anyway. The first left makes me laff. Partly because it does try hard to be scary, but also I have the distinct feeling I have seen this […]

207 pages of words and colour pix from Banksy. This subversive, witty, visual commentary on war, religion, poverty, surveillance and more follows his Existencilism, Banging Your Head Against A Brick Wall and Cut It Out mini-books. Wall & Piece will set you back between RM80 and RM140 if you order it off Amazon, but is possibly one of the best things you can […]

Considering Banksy’s work stays up approximately 15 minutes before it’s erased, I feel fortunate to have even seen these three pieces. This is the final slice of Banksy for today. All of which you can check and more in Wall And Piece. Why the TV? Well, actually it’s more about the broken window, which was the […]

It’s been a while. Sorry. I’d like to say I was off finding a cure for cancer but the reality is far more mundane. I was working. But it’s good to be back. This piece is located in a parking lot and is visible from across the road, at the tail end of my canal walk, […]

Okay, I cheated. I did the walk twice and the first time round I failed to spot this. I nearly fell over when I did. I mean, mebbe it was the poor quality of the light the first time round, mebbe I didn’t look hard enough,  or mebbe it’s the nature of the piece, in its asbo-baiting hoodie, skulking […]

Not a Banksy, but it is English.

Battersea Power Station is doomed. Its roof is gone, its long glass windows shattered, its cavernous heart empty, except for its iron ribs and red bricks. And today, sunshine, long shadows and the queues which have lined up for a last look at an imposing monument to industrialisation before it gets turned into an indoor playground for adults with expense accounts. It takes me 45 […]

I’ve just stumbled upon an excellent site by artist Luke Chueh, who came up with the idea for these decidedly edgy yet cute little critters. Subversive misappropriation of children’s icons is almost old hat (remember the Happy Tree Friends?) but Chueh’s takes on the subject matter is a lot, lot darker. Check out his massive […]

There goes the neighbourhood. Li Wei is a Beijing-based artist who specialises in shock performance and visual art. Born into a farmer’s family in a Chinese village, he travelled to Beijing to explore his artistic ideas, and has now had exhibitions in Milan and Madrid. His signature Mirror series has him walking around with a […]

Pretty heady stuff, this site has. Having been around for a little over 5 years, the Wooster Collective is an online repository of urban art - graffiti, installations, videos, Banksy-style pranks - from all across the globe. The New York couple who started the collective weren’t artististically inclined until… but wait. i’m not going to […]

Every Saturday after I’ve disposed of the laundry I try to do something different, just to throw a spanner in. So far I’ve worn my underwear inside out, customised a tee I was going to trash anyway and last Saturday I went to Feed Me! An Exploration of Appetites. An art initiative by WWF it […]

Sure, we here at JUICE take a lot of pride in our cover designs (tirelessly crafted with tender loving care month after month by our resident vector vigilante Davis Kam), but we admit that some other mags have neat fronts too. The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) compiled 40 of the best covers of […]

It’s a Hello Kitty exhaust pipe. What else can i say?

We’re grinning from ear to ear, we are. UK graffiti legend Banksy teamed up with superproducer Danger Mouse of Gnarls Barkley and Danger Doom fame to fling a little doo doo on Paris Hilton’s face when they decided to buy 500 copies of her debut album, Paris, and actually replaced them with remixed versions - […]

As someone who went to design school, I’m a little ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Vaughn Bode ’til about an hour ago. From his birth in 1941 to his untimely death only 34 years later, Bode was part of the spearhead of the underground comic, avant garde graphic design and graffiti […]

David Friedman is a photographer. David Friedman is a Game Boy fanatic. Put those two traits about David Friedman together and you get this website dedicated to David Friedman’s Game Boy Camera Colour Photography Project. While the ancient, yet trusty GB does have a rickety digicam add-on, our intrepid photographer-slash-inventor was having none of the […]

This reinterpretation of our Jalur Gemilang was courtesy of Wheel Love, a collective of action sport lovers, sk8rs in particular, who hope to promote their interests to a wider audience. Their efforts include Stunts 4 Swag and stickering KL with the rallying cry, ‘Jom Skate!’. It is always heartening to see patriotism alive and kicking […]

Sometimes I wonder why people don’t customise their belongings more often. Driving along the roads and highways of KL I see rivers of blank canvases just waiting for a rad paint job and an owner daring enough to execute it. When I spotted this scooter in Bukit Bintang, I couldn’t help but admire the artist. […]

If you’re a fan of design, whether graff or digital, like me, then point your browsers over to Mojizu. Taking a page from the proliferation of social network websites, it’s a community of artists who create characters and their fans. Whether you draw characters for a living or as a hobby, Mojizu’s an outlet for […]