In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC, artist Steve Powers takes us through his recent public and private art projects. He explains love-letters to the neighborhoods he painted on the sides of buildings in Brooklyn. He also talks about his one-a-day art “Daily Metaltation” pieces that he paints on 8×10 pieces of metal. When you’re presented with any day you’re presented with a blank slate he says and as an artist its his job to find some form and boundaries and distill his experiences of the day onto that canvas.

What we do around the office most of the time. Spraying a Walrus Pop Lighter with hairspray in super slow motion. Filmed at 1500 FPS on a Phantom camera.

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A major loss in music, art, activism today… the Beastie Boys’ Adam “MCA” Yauch passed away at the age of 47 from a long battle with cancer. He will be sorely missed.

A classic shot that our old friend Ricky Powell shot of the Beastie Boys, circa Paul’s Boutique.

A new Aesop Rock video just premiered today on MTV2, the track being “Zero Dark Thirty,” the track being very good, the video featuring some collaboration with SF-based artist, CORO. Very good all around. The track will be on the new Aesop LP, Skelethon

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Mexico City is the place to be. That is why we are spending our first week of May with our friends at FIFTY24MX Gallery as they are set to produce the heavy-hitting international street art festival, All City Canvas. For those of you who are not going to see the streets of Mexico City this week, we are going to bring the streets to you with a Mexican pop-culture micro collection: No Toque by Morning Breath featuring the iconic mini-guitar, the Luchador Familia by Dustin Canalin featuring the every day Lucha Libra family portrait, and Canalin’s Natually Flavored with traditional Mexican fruit soda pop. Kind of like being there in Mexico City this week.