Hip Hop Icons Stamps
The artist Mark Culmer has developed a series of stamps featuring portraits of America’s greatest rappers, annotated by their initials. J Dilla, Notorious BIG or 2Pac are to be discovered through monochromatic stamps which are available online via Madina website
The Rise of Hip Hop Photography
Native from Bronx where she grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, Lisa Leone has been surrounded by the hip-hop rise community. With her passion for photography, the woman began to capture portraits of men and women who today are hip-hop iconic musicians. This touching series is actually the subject of an exhibition The Bronx Museum of the Arts till 11st of January. To discover.
JAY-Z – Smile
Jay Z’s track/video for “Smile” tells the personal story of his mother, Gloria Carter’s struggle with relationships, and hiding being gay, all while taking care of young Jay Z in the Marcy Projects back in the 70’s.
Breakdance Light Painting
Polish photographer Joanna Jaskólska gives us great shots mixing breakdance and light painting. Energizing and magnifying the movements of the dancers, a selection of images are to be discovered in the article.
Hip Hop Blending
Renaissance Art
Kehinde Wiley Kehinde Wiley is a painter based in New York. As the contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, he appropriates the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic that he integrates in black urban youth representations : power, opulence, majestic and sublime associate with the dress codes of hip-hop.
IRC dance movement
Check out this mesmerizing short featuring Dutch break dance collective, Rockaz. The piece was shot by filmmaker Shueti, and the song is “Signal the Captain” by Of Porcelain.
Scluptmojis
By Ben Fearnley
Ben Fearnley, a New York-based designer and artist from the UK, recently created the concept of Sculptmojis. The principle ? Mix new art forms with traditional sculpture with modern emojis.
