Piece by Piece

San Francisco graffiti often plays neglected stepchild to its cousin to the East. Piece by Piece, a documentary showing this Sunday in New York as part of Vision Fest 2005 and on July 26th at Ocularis in Brooklyn, takes an in-depth look at the writers, styles, and history of the West Coast city. From New York, the flick goes on a Canadian tour sponsored by …

Assault’s Tiffany Dunk SB Poster

After a prolonged buildup Hypebeast reported today that the Nike Tiffany Dunk SBs have been spotted in stores in Europe and the US. Since we're fans of the shoe and have been following the buzz, it seems like a good excuse to throw up this limited edition poster by Assault that made its own debut a couple weeks back. Named for the color of Tiffany's …

Afke Golsteijn

Dutch artist Afke Golsteijn isn't the first to work with dead animals as her medium, but none quite achieve the same sweetly creepy aesthetic that comes from her joining of taxidermy and finely wrought details. Equal parts Edgar Allan Poe, Grimm's Fairytales (she calls them "Contemporary Fairytales"), and a more feminine David Altmejd, Golsteijn's work at times reads like a literalized metaphor, such as in …