Regular Level-online readers will remember the review of the Banksy exhibition that occurred last summer here in the massive that is more officially known as Bristol City. I’m guessing it was a firm success—over 350,000 people swamped the city’s medium-sized museum during the one-off season when Banksy took over the place with his take on art. It was, in a nutshell, bloody brilliant. Now you’ve seen the graf, watch the movie: yes, Banksy’s gone and made a movie. I for one can’t wait.

, 05 March 2010

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To Haiti With Love is a worthwhile cause with a slight difference: when you donate, you actually get a piece of artwork as a digital file. You can send this on to a friend or simply use the image as your own desktop wallpaper. Each piece of work will be sold as a digital postcard for £1 to raise money to help the situation in Haiti.

There are artists from around the world donating work, with more getting involved daily as this project snowballs. So far, the list includes David Shrigley, Genevieve Gauckler, Bob Kronbauer, Rob Ryan, Simon Peplow, Alex Trochut and Anthony Burrill with photographers Ye Rin Mok, Cass Bird and Valerie Phillips recently signing up.

, 06 February 2010

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Those cafe racer-riding photo-nerds at Olympus have churned out another iteration of the E-P-series, this time one for the masses. (That is, the masses that would have bought an E-P1 or -2 if only it weren’t for their fiddliness and pricey price tags.) The new E-PL1 is the iMac of the bunch, it doing most of the things its fancier brothers do—take quality shots, shoot 720p video, feel P-R-O-hip while you swap lenses—only more simply, for a few hundred quid cheaper, and with the backup of a built-in flash.

And you can get it in red.

, 05 February 2010

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Michael Leon (him again) has moved from Portland, Oregon back to LA to start a skateboard company. Rather than start a brand from scratch, he’s reusing the good name of his long-running, somewhat mothballed, as-seen-in-print-Level, pet project clothing company Commonwealth Stacks—Stacks for short.
“It will be a departure from where Stacks has been in the past, toward a more clean/refined approach with maximum attention to detail when it comes to product design, graphics and packaging,” says Leon. “I guess we just want to up the level of craft you would usually associate with a board company.”
Product arrives in autumn.

, 18 January 2010

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Pro whizplanker Patrick Melcher has teamed up with BMX shred-vet Jon Peacy to make a new TV series—or at least the firing-off point of one. If it comes to fruition, Good Times Roll will feature the two shredders’ travels around the country from spot to spot. Along the way they’ll enlist locals as guides and live that life on the road, all in front of the cameras.
“This is gonna get sooo loose!” says Peacy. “Straight killing spots and pumping the revolution is what’s goin’ down!”
All they need now is a TV network with the vision to kick it into gear.

, 08 December 2009

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VBS TV continues its output of quality programming with a look at the dark realities of Blackpool. The partially-subtitled 30 minute documentary on England’s “Las Vegas of the North” focusses on how the city is faring in the modern world. Sad and funny in equal measures.

, 02 December 2009

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We mentioned the amazing low-fi Digital Harinezumi camera a little while ago. Superheadz have just released its successor—the Digital Harinezumi 2—with higher resolution images and the ability to record in black and white and with sound. To mark the simultaneous release around the world they have an exhibition at Logos gallery in Parco in Shibuya to explain the history of the camera and its evolution from 110 film camera to its current format.
The all star exhibitors include Charlotte Gainsbourgh, Miranda July, Spike Jonze, Nick Waplington, Harmony Korine, Michael Stipe, Bruce LaBruce and Jens Leckman.

, 17 November 2009

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Type fancier site Typographica has put together a simple website showing an exhaustive collection of photos of classic logos and letters in (mostly) chrome and steel. Mid-century cars make up the bulk, with old fans, fridges, cameras and bicycles all getting a look in.

, 13 November 2009

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Gizmon, a Japanese camera company that makes add-on lenses for various compact cameras, have just released two new external lenses for the iPhone. There’s a fisheye and a wide/macro lens which both use a magnetic attachment to connect on top of the built-in iphone lens. Prices start at £23 for the wide/macro and £45 for the fisheye.

, 06 November 2009

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The guy never stops making stuff—and this interesting short is one of the bits he managed to squeeze in between the cracks of Wild Things. One of the things I love of about Spike’s work is that they provoke thought. Happy 40th my man!

, 22 October 2009

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