Workwear brand Carhartt have teamed up with the peeps at ilovedust and Southsea skate store Bored to create a sweet limited edition tee-shirt. Looking to Southsea’s dockyard on the South coast of England for inspiration, the tee features artwork created exclusively by design agency ilovedust. The black on grey print pays homage to Carhartt’s industrial workwear heritage and is limited to a run of just 50.

Tara McPherson held a live painting session of this 48″ Dunny at the Kid Robot pirate store in NYC and this is the result. Pretty sweet.

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Regular usb memory sticks are just plain dull, drab, and wack. Mimobot came along to change all that, and now they’ve collabed with Tokidoki to bring us these designer USB flash drives. They are available in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. They are scheduled for release at New York Comic Con, with pre-orders shipping April 18th.

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The original VIL The Devil figures, which were designed by Furi Furi, came in either black or red, but now we have the exclusive white colorway crafted just for Artoyz. The smile and skull versions are limited to 80-pcs, while the eyepatch figure is limited to only 40-pcs. Cop them here.

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Some of you know this but I suspect most of you don’t. My homies, Trev, Texas, Melo-X & Jeffro all comprise the members of a online video boutique called THE NEW POP. Recently, Trev and I were asked to shoot a promotional video for the New Design High School (NDHS) to help them raise money to offset severe budget cuts that threaten to wipe them out of existence. NDHS is an art school for underprivileged kids in the heart of NYC’s Lower East Side (LES) area. They recently discovered the most incredible roof complete with basketball hoops and all. NDHS used to be a prison back in the day. Way back in the day. But now, it is home to several schools all occupying their own floor and in some cases more then one school on one floor. The roof is home of a really dope graff project called “Rooftop Legends”. An idea thought up by graff artist Jesse Pais, the Dean at NDHS.

Above: Jesse Pais, Dean

Yes, the teachers are themselves artists and also well known in art circles all around the city and in some cases the country. URB recently highlighted an art collective named “Trust Your Struggle” in their “Next 100″ issue and they have members teaching at NDHS.

Above: Erin, Member of Trust Your Struggle

So, this is real shit, with real heads doing righteous things. Something we should all be doing more of. Giving back to the community is a good thing. Ask yourself when the last time you helped someone was. I know I need to be doing it more myself.

NDHS teaches BBoying, Turntableism (not sure the correct spelling), Beat Production, Graff and so on. These are all things that growing up I had to learn from friends, but today you can be taught by some of the best and that’s dope. Many of the kids we interviewed told us that going to school at NDHS keeps them out of trouble and that the staff are down to Earth and fair. These kids are living mostly below the poverty level and good things like this are hard to find gems.

If you are interested in throwing an event on the roof which will help keep these great programs going, or if you are a graff artist interested in contributing to the Rooftop Legends series, please contact me: TONE @ PHOTOBY TONE.COM

Here are some photos of the space and of course, there is more at my web site, PHOTOBYTONE.COM and THENEWPOP.COM

The artist only known as Skullphone has been skyjacking Clear Channel Communications digital billboards and replacing them with his now infamous logo. This is a great way to say F U to “The Man”.

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From April 4th to April 30th the Metropolis Gallery will be hosting Alexei Vella’s solo show. The Canadian artist is quite talented. Check out more of his work here.

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Takashi Murakami has made his name thoroughly known throughout the art world and when his art speaks, people listen. Murakami will be holding a comprehensive retrospective exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum on April 5th. According to the museum, “The exhibition © MURAKAMI explores the self-reflexive nature of Murakami’s oeuvre by focusing on earlier work produced between 1992 and 2000 in which the artist attempts to explore his own reality…” Be sure to check it out.

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Some new tees designed for DEEP SLEEP of Philly
to be released in conjunction with the
EVIL SEEPS DEEP show on Apr. 4th