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Jongleurs Lock 17 and Radfax collectively create a great new music event raising money for War Child

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Happy Choppers

Spraypaint on canvas

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Game Developer Creates Paper Model of His Head for Halloween

Game developer Eric Testroete wanted to be creative this Halloween when selecting his... more

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Kay Weber, artist

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Tegan And Sara Interview: Gay Rights, Public Service And The Music Industry

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Photographic Remakes of Famous Sites

Remakes, reboots, whatever you want to call them, are all the rage in the... more

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Depp Named Sexiest Man of All Time

Okay I have some real issues with this list, but here it is in all it's glory.... more

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Underground Art Chicago

An insightful look at what's happening now in the land of Chi's vibrant and often... more

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How I Became An Artist and Environmentalist: Blog Action Day

How my art helped plant 1,000 trees in Senegal, Africa

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Augmented Reality Finger Billboard Prods, Destroys Passersby - Augmented reality billboard - Gizmodo

The GIANT FINGER that destroys the people of London

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Pavement Picasso, AMAZING artist

The above image is a chalk drawing on a flat surface. Check this out:... more

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Carhenge

Everyone is familiar with Stonehenge, one of the great mysteries of the ancient world.... more

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Edgy Theatre Edged Out By Audiences

"Art for art's sake, goes the saying. But the UK's radical theatres are increasingly... more

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$10,000 LPs Now Playing at the iTunes Store

Introduced by none other than Steve Jobs at the Apple Music Event last month,

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2009 Navajo Lutheran Mission Rock Point, AZ: Volunteers from Pittsburgh area churches paint murals

(Rock Point, AZ) - Videos produced by two Pittsburgh area churches led by Pastor Susan... more

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The Beasts of 9 Creature Contest WINNERS!

" Wow, this is such a great design. It's a unique concept unlike any of the other... more

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There's a man in this picture. Can you see him?

Not only is there a man in this picture - if you click through you'll see (or not) the... more

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The bittersweet legacy of Jack Kirby

"You’d be hard-pressed to find a recent comic book that didn’t have the stylish scrawl of the artists somewhere on the cover, but that was not the case when Jack Kirby was making pop culture history back in the 1960s with his wildly kinetic drawings of the X-Men, Hulk and the Fantastic Four. “I think I have a highly unique and unusual style, and that’s the reason I never sign my drawings,” the proud Kirby told an interviewer in 1987, seven years before his death. “Everybody could tell any of my covers a mile away on the newsstand, and that satisfied me.”

The satisfaction was fleeting. The artist may be reverently referred to as “King” Kirby by the pop scholars and younger artists who celebrate his genre-defining work but Kirby is, in some ways, an overlooked figure in the broader view of American culture. He didn’t live to see his creations fly across the movie screen over the last decade and his four children made nothing from those lucrative films, although they are now pursuing legal action to claim some of the future Hollywood wealth. “There is,” daughter Lisa Kirby says, “a bittersweet legacy to my father’s work.”

On a recent afternoon, in Beverly Hills, a different man was autographing a giant lithograph reproducing one of Kirby’s classic Fantastic Four covers. It was Stan Lee, the writer who was Kirby’s most famous collaborator until they became estranged over creative credit, artwork custody and money. An art dealer had brought stacks of limited-edition lithos, some to be priced at $850, to Lee’s Santa Monica Boulevard office along with a check in his pocket to pay the 86-year-old Lee for his autographs.

Lee had written the stories for the classic comics, of course, but considering all the history, it was still odd to see his name etched on the cosmic Kirby tableau from 1966.

“Yes, there was a time when there was some hard feeling on his part ... but he got over that and we were friends,” Lee said. “It really is sad that he didn’t get to see all the big movies. None of us could predict that we would get to this point with the films. I don’t dwell on it too much because I’m always so busy doing what I am doing today. Unfortunately the guys back in the day did not make as much as they do today. Years ago also you had artists doing these comics who, well, there was nothing else they could have done. Their style wasn’t right for advertising or magazines like Saturday Evening Post or Collier’s. And as for us writers, well, we weren’t qualified to write for the New Yorker. Comic book writers were considered hacks, and artists weren’t really thought of as much beyond that.”

Lee studied one of the other art pieces, a dazzling revisiting of a Kirby cover for Captain America. "Wow, look at this one." The pieces are being sold by the Santa Monica gallery called Every Picture Tells a Story as part of a new licensing deal with Marvel to create high-end wall art from illustrations that were, in their day, the most gaudy and disposable entertainment imaginable. “As far as I’m concerned,” Lee said with his endless zeal, “it is fine art."

The story of two “hacks,” as Lee would frame it, will be scrutinized much more considering recent events. Last month, the Walt Disney Co. paid $4 billion to scoop up Marvel Entertainment and its vault of florid characters who over the last decade have become Hollywood box-office heroes. Many of the most valuable properties in that vault were created by the wildly prolific tandem of Lee and Kirby in the 1960s; there are two big-budget movies now in the pipeline for Marvel Studios that are based on Lee-Kirby creations (“The Mighty Thor" and “The Avengers”) and a third (“First Avenger: Captain America”) based on the work of Kirby and writer Joe Simon. The Kirby brood watched the Disney deal happen and within days were conferring with new attorneys."

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