but it feels like flying in an airplane using a reciprocating engine

I can’t tell you how peaceful it is.”
Shinya Kimura

EPIC video via one of my favorite site TSY

Twist is one of my favorite artists of all time.
Enjoy this dope little overview of an installation the Oakland Museum commissioned Barry McGee to create.

UPDATE: I found this really cool B Roll clip shot in Super 8. I like it more…

Its been pretty cool watching 2 new JR pieces go up on the side of Ampal HQ and the adjacent wall.

This one is a piece with Vhils.

ReVIHLing the almost 100 year old brick…

It should be done by saturday.

JR and Vhils are part of EuroTrash an upcoming up at the Lazarides Gallery.

My brother, Nick Potash, has been crafting some amazing jewelry lately and was picked up by one of the premier jewelry boutique/tattoo parlor in New York – New York Adorned. They recently featured an interview with him on their site and its worth reading – heres an excerpt:

“Where do you draw your inspiration from: Old things have always been better in my mind. I like to think that someone could pick up one of my pieces and think it was really ancient and wonder what it had seen in its life. That’s one thing about jewelry which drew me to working with metal, my creations are going to outlast all of us, no question. They might be lost to the sea or time but they will take millions and millions of years to decompose. This brings up thoughts about mortality, how a ring could have seen ten lifetimes before finding its way onto your finger…. these ideas make my mind wonder and imagination fire. I recently became aware that Nietzsche, Jung, and Freud all talk about archetypal symbols speaking to a primitive part of peoples’ mind. I’ve experienced this before at a museum as a kid, I remember seeing these old masonic crests and relief carvings and being completely fascinated by them. The skulls, eyes, pyramids, and weird symbols I’d never seen before made me go crazy with thoughts about secret societies and ancient wisdoms. I try and tap into that same vein when I work. I like to think that on a beach somewhere out there a vacationing hipster lost one of my rings and it was found by some local kid who thought he’d found pirate treasure and always told the story that way.”

Nick crafts everything by hand, here in Venice Beach, using traditional 100% hand crafted methods.

This was my belated birthday present – well worth the wait!!! 1/1 Poseidon’s Posse Bronze Pendant set with an antique scrimshaw and 2 black diamonds. Silver Chain.

Check out his website to see some new work and order/commission pieces.

Keith Haring was one of my favorite artists as a grom. Something about his art always seemed so positive and “radiant.”
The Carmichael Gallery is going to be opening a show – May 8-29 – with over 20 original works on canvas, paper, vintage street signs and a rare vinyl blow up “Radiant Baby Doll.”

“Wolfe came in ‘66.
Warhol came in ‘68.
Twist came in 2010.”

Twist aka Barry McGee in LJ!!!
The pumphouse in La Jolla, rich in history, I spent a lot of my formative years here…

via RK’s amazing journey @ HYDRODYNAMICA

Sorry, Ive been in paradise lost aka Byron Bay aka the land of lords, swords and sport for the last 11 days with no internet. Its been refreshing and frustrating. I have a wealth of pics and vids to share with you soon. Until then, check this pic of Kevo, in the TAC, and Joaquin both lookin pretty creepy at the Banksy premier. Of course this went down – literally across the alley from Ampal HQ – when I was gone, but glad some of da boys made it out for it.

Epic stream of visual candy @ HRStudio+