The full illustration will feature as the monthly magazines centre fold poster. The issue is due out next week so will post some photos when I have them. In the meantime, why not visit the Crack website? You love it.
26 May 2011
Crack Magazine Sneak Peak
19 May 2011
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry Bristol screening
Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a feature length documentary exploring the roots of American tattooing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins.
The project is touring and similar events have taken place in Australia, South Africa, America and Europe.
There will be a special private showing of the documentary film at the Cube cinema, Bristol on Wednesday 1st June. There will also be a whole load of free Sailor Jerry rum to help set the tone.
The screening is invite only so you need to get in touch with Sarah on feeney@sailorjerry.com and include ref. Ben
Don't delay as it promises to be quite an event.
For more info click here
11 May 2011
Commemorative Coca Cola boxset
To mark the 125th anniversary of Coca Cola, Coke have decided to launch a commemorative box set to mark the iconic brand's birthday. Coke have reproduced 4 of their original glass bottles and the set comes in a branded wooden box. The box set is only available through Selfridges and would make a lovely collectors piece.
10 May 2011
Fresh stuff from Blu in Poland
Blu's been at it again. On a recent trip to Poland the street artist Blu, renowned for his large-scale murals and paintings across Europe, completed this monster piece with a clear and direct message about the fundamental principals of religion. A powerful statement in an area of the world that has built its foundations on Catholicism. You can see more of Blu's work here.
6 May 2011
Fresh stuff from Todd McLellan
Disassembly by Todd McLellan is an intricate set of images taken of old items disassembled.
The Canadian photographer disassmbles old items such as cameras, lawnmowers and clocks and neatly displays them for shooting. The result is a nostalgic series of images from times past. You can see more of Todd's work here.
27 April 2011
Welcome to the Royal Easter Egg Hunt!
It's Easter, well it was, but due to some technical issues I wasn't able to launch this over the Easter weekend as intended. So better late than never I bring you the late, great Easter egg hunt.
The game is simple: there are 5 spotted eggs hidden within my site, each of different colour. It's your objective to find these 5 eggs. I will be dropping clues via twitter throughout the day incase your struggling as some of the eggs are rather well hidden.
Once you have found all 5 eggs send an email to info@bensteers.com with the location of all 5 and I will select 5 people at random to receive some special Easter goody bags which will include limited edition prints, postcards, stickers and more.
You have until midnight tonight to find those eggs, so get cracking.
Design your own Easter Egg character
For a little bit of fun I thought I would set up a gallery of Egg-pic proportions. I have created an Egg template for you lovely yolk to download. The idea is simple: download the pdf file from the following link, extract the Egg template, create your very own Easter Egg character and send it back to me at info@bensteers.com.
Every entry I receive I will post up on my blog and give a plug on the social networks. The best designed egg will also be sent a goody basket containing prints, postcards, stickers and more.
It's just a little bit of fun, so get cracking and if I get enough entries I may even put them together as a one-off downloadable wallpaper.
Bit late but happy Easter y'all!
13 April 2011
Digital Artist Positive and Negative Space tutorial
I recently completed a tutorial for the folks at Digital Artist magazine on how to use positive and negative space within your work to best effect. I wanted to try something a little different to what I was used to in the way of subject matter and style. I based my tutorial on the cranes of Bristol's harbourside and used the negative space created by the arms of these cranes as my subject matter. I was pretty happy with how the image came out and the issue contains some work by some great artists including Bex Glover,Marc Aspinall of Treehouse Press and Ollie Mundan.
If your in your local newsagents, why not go and pick up a copy...
11 April 2011
Final day of Berlin and Pictoplasma
So the final day's brought sun and exploration as head hit up the last of the talks and screenings and took advantage of the good weather by heading in the cultural districts of Berlin.
We visited the East Side Gallery where 1km of the original Berlin wall stands in the shadows of an O2 arena big enough to house all of Justin Bieber's twitter fans. I slightly ironic salute to the extent of development to the area in just over 20 years.
Following this we spent time wandering the streets of east Berlin, finding little bike shops and floating bars all drenched in the beautiful afternoon sun, a sun that we had been massively lacking over previous days.
The final night of the festival brought about the final performance, marking the end of the festival for 2011. A 2 hour show entitled The Missing Link focused on the subject of this years event. Beautifully crafted yeti's prancing and masturbating on stage were followed by some incredible live music visual displays as well as some not so incredible piano playing and singing (I say singing, I mean moaning).
The after-after party went on into the night and saw the big names mingling with the audience until the early hours. A fitting end to a mixed bag for this years Pictoplasma festival.
8 April 2011
Berlin and Pictoplasma Day 4
Day 4 saw an earlier start and feeling slightly fresher than the morning before. The morning kicked off with an hour long screening of some of the newest commercial and self-initiated animation. Shorts included work by the likes of H5, Jamie Hewlett & Pete Candeland, David Wilson and Mathieu Auvray.
Followed on from this was talks by the very funny Ryan Quincy, Motomichi Nakamura and SFA-Zentrale.
The afternoon brought sunshine and an excuse to ride bikes around the city and a ridiculously slow pace and visiting the Bauhaus Art Museum and East Side Gallery. Plenty more in store tonight but will have to let you know more about all that tomorrow.
7 April 2011
Berlin and Pictoplasma Day 3 con...
Photos from the uber talented McBess, Rilla Alexandra, Jeremy Dower and Bristol's own Gav Strange as part of the Lunartik tea cup exhibition
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