Format Magazine has an interview they just posted with the creator of Kidrobot, Paul Budnitz. In it, he claims his Yale education was crap, discusses his clothing philosophy, and elaborates on art vs. toys.

“As far as I’m concerned, traditional education is crap, and it took me ten years, most of my twenties, to undo the damage that I’d done to myself by listening to people who thought they knew how reality works.”

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David Pu’u was raised in Santa Barbara, CA. A former career athlete and corporate CEO, he terminated a twenty year career in the Surf Industry to pursue Photography and Cinematography in 1996. With a background in competitive surfing, cycling, swimming, auto racing, literature and art, he brings a broad range of talents to whatever project he engages.

Check out more of David Pu’u’s work right HERE.

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Above is a Hawaiian ice cream truck that was customized and painted by David Choe in collaboration with EWOK and REVOK. The only catch? You have to fly to Honolulu to peep it live.

Choe was born in Los Angeles. Today he is currently homeless, wandering the Earth, making good art and bad music. Choe wants to retire early, illustrate the entire bible, and paint the Great Wall of China, but who knows anything with this guy. Check out his website http://davidchoe.com/. This guy is super talented!

Above: The Kurt Vonnegut ‘Kilgore Trout’ GelaSkin For iPod’s & iPhone

GelaSkins envisions all iPods, laptops, and phones as portable canvases for art and individuality. Their focus on music, art, culture and personalization has created a stylish way for musicians, DJs and artists to become closer to their fans while providing a low profile alternative to bulky cases. From Hip-Hop to Country, Art to Fashion, and everything in between, there’s a GelaSkin to suit every taste.

GelaSkins offers an enormous variety of iPod and iPhone cases from multi-talented artists from all over the globe. My favorite artists they currently carry are: Bob Dob, Colin Thompson, Dave White, Dolla Lama, Ralph Steadman and of course Kurt Vonnegut.

To see a complete list of the iPod and iPhone cases, and the GelaSkin Artist Family click HERE.

Sydney based artist Andy Uprock headed to Melbourne, AU for his debut exhibition on Wednesday, May 28th, at Section 8. Andy transforms streets into walk-by galleries using ordinary plastic cups and existing wire fences. He calls it Cuprocking. Huge shout out to all our OZ peeps at Campus East/Trenchtown, U.O.W.,  and all the goon heads!

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These are two brand new colorful pieces by Brazilian artist Guilherme Marconi. Check out more of his amazing work on his website entitled “My Schizophrenic Brain“.

Muto is an ambiguous animation by the artist Blu. The video depicts rough sketches of different figures melting into a fast paced environment. Painted on public walls in Buenos Aires and Baden, this video combines graffiti, rough sketchy figures, and trippy animation in a real world street setting. Overall, Blu did an incredible job with the animation by giving it the “acid trip” effect.

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Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali. The town is located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the island’s central foothills in the Gianyar regency. One of Bali’s major arts and culture centres, it has developed a large tourism industry. The specialty in Ubud is the nasi babi guling (roast suckling pig), which can be found all over the island. This dish is an all-in-one platter of rice with pork meat, fried pork skin, pig intestines, gizzet, and vegetables and apparently the best place to get it is Warung’s Ibu Oka.

Babi Guling at Ibu Oku is considered a Balinese delicacy for locals and tourists. The food stall has stood there for the past 20 years, serving up what many say is some of the best pork in the world. Half a dozen live pigs are housed at the back of the compound, snuffling, eating, sleeping and generally enjoying life before the pre-dawn kill that will have them cleaned, gutted, stuffed and spitted by 4 a.m., ready for the Warung’s 11 a.m. opening.

For those of you who are curious to what Babi Guling actually is, it is a roast suckling pig packed full of Balinese herbs and spices, such as shallots, garlic, chili, ginger, galangal, turmeric and bay leaves, then roasted over an open fire for at least five hours while continulously being lathered with coconut milk. This is five hours of hot, heavy work for the cooks who rotate, non-stop, the wooden spit by hand, regularly dousing the flames with water to maintain the perfect cooking temperature. Getting the temperature right is an art that has been handed down from generation to generation, the suckling pigs slowly developing that warm golden sheen that makes for the best crackling, the inner meat cooking slowly until it is utterly succulent. Prominent chefs like Jamie Oliver and Anthony Bourdain say this is the best pork in the world.

Ibu Oka learned this art — along with the business — from her parents-in-law 25 years ago. She adds that her in-laws had been preparing Babi Guling for 33 years before she took on the business.

“The family has been making Babi Guling for almost 60 years. Two generations of us. Originally, the business started at the market. I ran it there for the first five years after my parents-in-law died, and then moved the warung to Jl. Suweta 20 years ago,” she said of the business that now involves her whole family.

For pork eaters, this is the mother of all pork dishes. The pork meat is nicely marinated and very tender. The fried pork skin is very crispy and delicious. The atmosphere is very casual, everyone sits on the floor, sharing a long low table while Ibu Oka, the owner of the stall I presume, shaves the tender juicy meat off the pig hanging on the kitchen. Ibu Oka is highly recommended just for the experience of a local food stall, and also for the lovely pork dish.

Upon release of Atmosphere’s 6th official studio album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, a website was created with it: Paint That Shit Gold / Tag The Web. At this website you can enter any URL address in the Gold Bar and graffiti the site any way you like using cans, markers, and stencils. Above is a visual of our homepage tagged. IF YOU CAN DO BETTER, LET’S SEE IT! Attach the link in the comment box and we’ll post the best one.

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Juxtaposing nature with man-made objects, Pennsylvania-based artist Lee Stoetzel uses woods chosen for their natural flaws to make large-scale sculptures.

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A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
By: Jeff Chang

“Hip-hop is the voice of this generation. Even if you didn’t grow up in the Bronx in the ’70s, hip-hop is there for you. It has become a powerful force. Hip-hop binds all of these people, all of these nationalities, all over the world together.” - DJ Kool Herc, from the Introduction

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation’s worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told like this. From the gangs of the late 60s to the icons of the new millennium, from the Ghetto Brothers and Universal Zulu Nation organizations to the hip-hop activists, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop presents the hip-hop generation in all its grime and glory with breadth, wit, and style.

Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop’s forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation’s rise from the ashes of the 60s into the new millennium. Here is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.

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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death — a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity’s tendency toward violence.

Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut’s trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II — an essay that is as timely today as it was then — to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut’s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author’s son, Mark Vonnegut.

Today we pause to take a look back at the masterful photography of a lesser known Chicago resident, Wayne Miller and his epic series of images chronicling the Midwestern metropolis in the late 1940s. A vaunted Magnum photographer, Miller captured some of the most gripping images of life on the city’s gritty South Side—the home of northern blues and the 100 hour workday.

One of the most prolific and well known designers around, resident nice guy Benny Gold offers up this video interview with the San Francisco Gate’s Art Adventure. The feature ranges from his past projects with Huf and Nike, the background behind him choosing Benny Gold and upcoming projects on the go. Definitely a good look into the personal life of a designer who’s had a big influence on many in more ways than one.