Posts tagged TV

Awesome-cool ‘Game of Thrones’ Street Art of the Day!

Our favourite Game of Thrones character, Tyrion Lannister has been painted against the exterior wall of a terraced house on Herbrand Street, WC1 with the line (P)IMP - a reference to his mocking epithet, ‘The Imp’.

Just brilliant.

The Simpson’s Lady Gaga Guest Appearance.

Here is pop culture ‘icon’ Lady Gaga’s cameo in the 23rd season of the longest-running primetime scripted American television program to date. Due to appear in the finale of the show which recently reached its 500th episode, the question is, who will feature in the next two seasons to meet if not surpass the fame of the American singer.

Make your guesses known.

INSA – ‘Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places’ Short.

British graffiti writer and artist INSA has teamed up with Protein as part of five original short films on Random Acts for Channel 4 with a two minute short film entitled Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places.

Set to air tonight at 12 am GMT (Feb 14) it will also be available on demand via randomacts.channel4.com

Lady Gaga & Terry Richardson at Access Hollywood.

After recording an interview for news and entertainment programme, Access Hollywood at The New Museum last night, Lady Gaga and cult photographer Terry Richardson were accosted by a load of crazy fans - commonly known as “Little Monsters” - here are the pics that don’t feature crying men and nuts girls with the ’Born This Way’ singer tattooed on their thighs. Ok, admittedly we had to feature that one…

Check out www.terrysdiary.com to see the full collection.

“Muscle Man Marc” Jacobs South Park Cameo.

American fashion designer Marc Jacobs is the latest famed pop-culture figure to feature on the cult adult animation, South Park. 

The cameo sees Jacobs adding the voice to a doll on the episode, “Ganging Up On The One Percent.”  in which Cartman hosts a tea party with his other toys to discuss the whereabouts of his favorite stuffed animal, Clyde Frog. 

Coincidently, Marc Jacobs actually has a Clyde Frog tattoo on his forearm, as well as one of Cartman’s other stuffed toys, Rumpletumskin so it kind of makes sense for him to feature.

Head to www.southparkstudios.co.uk to see the whole episode.

‘Street Tag’ iPhone App.

As Channel 4 continue to roll out their Street Summer campaign, the latest part of the strategy is the ‘Street Tag’ iPhone app that turns you smartphone into a can of spray paint.

Allowing the user to ‘virtually’ graffiti the street in real time without fear of being arrested, you can adorn everything and anything, even those buildings you never thought possible to tag.

Once you’ve finished, you can showcase your work by geo-tagging your images via the app or Facebook, Twitter and email.

Create tags by using the spray mode, use the spray options button to change paint colour, size and wetness. You can also create tags using your finger in the Create A Tag mode and save in your own personal gallery for use later.

The campaign which culminates in a season of programmes celebrating street art, hip hop and urban culture in the UK. Highlights include the TV premiere of Banksy’s movie, Exit Through The Gift Shop.

Available for the 3GS model and above you can download the app here.

www.channel4.com/programmes/street-summer

Channel 4’s Street Summer.

Don’t Panic and Channel 4 have joined forces to find the best street artists and graffiti writers that the UK has to offer. 

Celebrating British street culture Channel 4 have some quality new programmes dedicated to the different elements of street-level genius, focusing on: street dance, urban sports, spoken word, hip hop and street art.

Street art and graffiti is going to be represented by the TV premiere of Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop and a new documentary focusing on the UK scene which will include writers like Robbo. Channel 4 wants to find new talent too, to help promote Street Summer across the UK in the only way which makes sense; with massive pieces!

In this competition artists of all ages must submit pieces representing one of the five elements of street culture which feature as part of the the Street Summer season.

Ten entries will be shortlisted defined by the volume of votes then put to a judging panel including Channel 4 a mentor local to your area.

There will be seven winners, one from each region of the UK with each working with their mentor to render their work agains a high profile wall, get £300 to put in their wallet and their design will be made into a poster and put in all of the Don’t Panic flyer packs.

Culture Junkie’s street art contributor JIVE has entered the competition, take 30 seconds out of your day and vote for him here…

www.dontpaniconline.com/street_summer/entry/216