Director Karen Cai - The Kills video

When i did the K-Spray tour through Asia in 05, I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful director, Karen Cai.

Karen did three spots for K-Swiss that ran on MTV. One spot featured me, one featured Sixten, and one featured Phibs. Those spots ran on MTV throughout the winter of 2005, and ended up winning an Apollo award for Best TV Campaign, and another for Best Editing. It is always weird to see yourself on film, but I have to admit, she did a hell of a job showcasing us without making us look like complete idiots.

Over the past year or so, Karen and I have exchanged a few emails occasionally and she has kept me updated on her projects.

Last month she was in London for the Radar Music Video Festival. She did a video for The Kills and it was one of the finalist in the festival. The colors, lighting, editing- everything - is fucking amazing on this video. It makes me wish i was more skilled with the video camera, but with people like Karen out there, anything i do will pale in comparison.

Here is the spot she did of me:



Here is the video she did of The Kills. This is one of the sexiest videos i have seen. Sorry it is so small, but i dont know how to resize this thing.

HaHa, Nails, Deb and Phibs art tram in Melbourne Australia

Just got this link for an art project that happened in Melbourne Australia.The project was curated by my favorite gallery in Melbourne - City Lights. The project included some of my favorite artists in Australia. here is the description given:

"In December 2006 Citylights was commissioned by Foxtel to curate and coordinate a new art tram to celebrate the return of the St Kilda Festival.
Over three days in mid January 2007, six artists collaborated on this massive artwork, painting onto large panels of vinyl sticker medium that were then applied to the tram.
Citylights selected a mixture of emerging and established Melbourne street artists - Phibs, Deb Nails, and HaHa, complimented by visiting Swiss duo Pascale Mira Tschäni & Michael Husmann Tschäni. The resulting collaborative artwork can now be seen hourly on the No.16 Tram, Kew/Cotham Road to Melbourne Uni via St Kilda, St Kilda Road and Swanston Street. ... (more) (less)"

MADE U LOOK whole train

I came across this post on RazorApple.com a little while ago and i just had to repost. at the end of 2006, the madeulook crew painted an ENTIRE train. 750 feet of train. Can you imagine how pissed the NYC MTA is?

Here is the original posted text from RazorApple

"After yesterday’s teaser photos of the Made U Look “Cash is King” whole train, we got a much better look to share. Although the photo is missing the ‘M’ and ‘A’ it’s probably the best around because the R line, which this was painted on, only runs a maximum of 8 cars per train. Because of this it’s likely the whole thing was painted in two parts: two cars with ‘MA’ and an 8 car whole train, with “DE U LOOK” and Mr. Monopoly.

Clocking in at 750 feet of painted steel, this is a major feat for the so-called clean train era and a possible record for biggest whole train painted in history. It’s just too bad that Darius McCollum, the metrophile arrested nearly two dozen times for joyriding subway cars and attempted theft of a locomotive, was too locked up to help move a couple subways cars so the Made U Look crew could paint a continuous piece."

for more pics check out http://www.razorapple.com