In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I have always been interested in painting vehicles and scenes that have defined the evolution of the American landscape. 

In this particular series, I commemorate commercial vehicles inundated with graffiti and rust, working vehicles, and well-traveled recreational vehicles. I find that there is so much character in old delivery trucks and vans—especially when covered with graffiti—and in the old RVs parked in someone’s yard off a main road. Removing them from their everyday context gives them portrait-like importance. I paint with devoted attention to every imperfection and sign of age. 

Painting and drawing these objects gives me a chance to document a time and place, and to make still a part of the ever-changing environment.

Illustrations by Kevin Cyr. Brooklyn, New York. www.kevincyr.net

The Jordan brand have designed another great pack, this time consisting of two Air Jordan 5 sneakers.

The Air Jordan 5 “Toro Bravo” Pack is inspired by Michael Jordan’s achievements while wearing the Jordan 5 and comes in a customized wooden box packaging.

The highly anticipated “Toro Bravo” is available, May 23rd at all Air Jordan retailers. The Air Jordan 5 “Toro Bravo” Pack will be priced at $310.

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Infinitely influential to contemporary pop music and generations of musicians, The Beatles continues to change the visage of pop culture and contemporary culture for decades on end. Their uber famed single ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ anchored top of the charts in both the U.K. and U.S. immediately after its release in March 1964.

SILLY THING proposed the ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ 1000% Kubrick project to Medicom Toys and The Beatles around two years ago, and it is not until winter 2008 that it has come to its final stage. The plan sees the four members of The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) shaped into stylised creations of 1000% Kubrick oversized figures. With the 680mm height, they could be the biggest Beatles collector’s toys ever. At a time when the crossover of pop culture and art are more and more recognized, The Beatles ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’ 1000% Kubrick Set makes a delightfully light-hearted investment.

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Here's a look at the official Teriyaki Boys figures featuring all four members: MINUTES, Ilmari, Ryo-Z and WISE. The vinyl figures features the Teriyaki Boys draped in BAPE from head to toe, look for these to be available al BAPE locations.

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Since her debut in 1992, Jenny Saville's focus has remained on the female body, slightly deviating into subjects with "floating or indeterminant gender painting large scale paintings of transsexuals and transvestites.

Her published sketches and documents include surgical photographs of liposuction, trauma victims, deformity correction, disease states and transgender patients.

Her painting Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face) appeared on the cover of Manic Street Preachers' third album, The Holy Bible.

Further to this, Stare (2005) features as the cover of the ninth Manic Street Preachers album Journal For Plague Lovers (May 2009).

Saville works and lives in Sicily, and is a tutor of figure painting at the Slade School of Art.

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