Maya just send me something too good to leave in the 8hands offices and not pass along... The Wooster Collective recently posted pics of Joshua Allen Harris' inflatable bear, and now they've raised the bar and put up videos.

 

 

Harris takes plastic bags, transforms them into animal shapes, and ties them to subway grates in New York City. Just watch what happens when a train passes by (and how few people seem to take notice). Is it just me, or are we living in a golden age of street art? Enjoy...

 

 

When we decided to add flickr streams to the Caught 8handed blog, Dan Banda Lee was one of the first people I thought to feature. A few months have gone by, and today seems like the perfect time to feature his intimate stream. I have to admit I have the softest spot for the kind of work that Dan Banda Lee presents. Taking us in on the most personal level, we see the evolution of a life, from the first photos that he took of his wife, to their new baby, to their kids, to some of the best christmas cards I've ever seen - all taken with a sense of humor, honesty and style. Oh, and he shoots tons of great band portraits, like the Pipettes and Fujiya and Miyagi. Definitely a flickr stream that always keeps it on the real... Enjoy.

 

Swann & The Mini

 

 

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Enjoy The Silence

 

 

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Dimitrich and Swan North_Norfolk

 

 

Dmitrich and Swan

 

 

The James Kendall

 

 

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To view more of dan banda lee's stream, click here.

 

All images are copyrighted with all rights reserved by dan banda lee.

You can now add the Belgian ward_zwart to your list of underground-talent-that-you-can-tell-your-friends-you-knew-back-when-they- were-sweet-young-things-on-flickr-and-could-buy-their-work-for-$16. The kid works hard, churning out limited edition books of his portraits, flyers, illustrations for Bolshoi Gorod, Moscow's weekly city newspaper (I'd love to hear how that connection came about!), skateboards, and of course, the de rigueur tote bag and t-shirts. And he has that scratched out sketched out look down! Definitely worth a journey through his stream. Enjoy...

 

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To view more of ward_zwart's stream, click here.

Rock music has always been associated with electric guitars. that's why I found Headlamp to be a very courageous and extremely interesting band. You see, Chuck Criss, the main man behind Headlamp, decided to make a rock album without the use of an electric guitar.

Instead he simply recorded banjo, acoustic guitar, piano, bass, and drums which sounds great altogether. Without the presence of an electric guitar, the tunes are much more piano driven, which is always a good thing for piano suckers like me.

 

Criss and the rest aren't signed yet, but that doesn't stop them from working hard and preforming all over Manhattan. Their upcoming show will take place this friday at Piano's. Here's a sample of what you should expect to:

 

Glimpses, just glimpses of a life. Fjordscape's stream gives us moments: food just prepared or eaten, a cat lounging around the house, a walk in the forest,  sheets just used. People occupy this space too, but are never with us. Quite the opposite, they always seem to have just looked away, or are not even aware that we're watching them.

 

Beautiful and a bit unnerving, it is truly a voyeur's paradise. Enjoy...

 

Remember those vanished years.

 

 

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If you'd like to see more of fjordscape's stream, click here.