The legend of Escif grows... with this sickeningly simple, yet beautifully executed, work "Liberté, Egalité and Fraternite" which has just recently popped up in Montreal. via SA

On July 18, 2013 Detroit became the largest city in the history of the U.S. to file for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. What you will be seeing now is a city do everything it can to get out of having to pay all of it's municipal workers their pensions and any other benefits anyone who is not a big conglomerate supposedly have coming to them. It shall all be played out in the courts - but pay close attention kiddies - because this is going to be the test case. If Detroit gets out of having to pay their workers...

"He is the scariest most horrifying looking human being I've ever met, but at the same time the guy is one of the funniest nicest dudes I've ever met." -David Choe; on Danny Trejo It was 2010 when world-renowned street artist and multi-multi-millionaire (thank you Facebook stock option) David Choe first informed us that while growing up his burgeoning artistic interests began for him by drawing superheroes: Superman, Batman, etc. But then one day the inevitable happened, David Choe drew his first female. From then on Choe never had an interest in any studies of the male form ever again,...

Recently we took a look at Wham Bacabac's illustrations, one of which included an extremely bad ass tiger. But have a look at this. It's Nychos' new mural in San Francisco - which is a sight to behold indeed: A six-story high tiger jumping out of its own skin; sweet baby Jesus that's so bad ass. via JUX

You can't fuck with the bad ass illustrations of The Phillipines' Wham Bacabac. You can't even fuck with his name. Wham Bacabac? Really? Come on! That almost sounds as dope as that tiger looks. The vibrancy contained within Bacabac's work infuses an electric realism within the abstract psychedelia of his subject matter. The vision and flair present in Bacabac's illustrations really stand out as the optical suggestions of the color palette in use, coupled with the subject matter brings with it a subtle suggestive discourse on the transitional quality inherent within real life and the "Twilight Zone." Check out more...

Brooklyn's KC Burney reaches down into the deep dark moist and mushy places of the collective human sub-conscience in producing his works. As one looks at at Burney's work and hears that he is "self-proclaimed necromancer" (according to some reports), you find yourself more and more wishing you could have a night to talk reality and the possibilities over a bowl of the devil's cabbage and the sacred fire. via Jux

Fernando Reza's dope series of four World War II-themed Super Mario Bros. propaganda posters prints. Through Death. Through Pain. Victory! via LS

Has anyone ever given any thought to what Jay Z's 99 problems are that he does have? Well Ali Graham has. Ali's tumblr blog is featuring a daily illustration detailing a new one of the Jigga Man's issues and they are serious. Just have a look at a few here. As we can clearly see, Ali certainly has his finger on the pulse. Hipster Jay Z does stick out like a Waldo in a South Beach discotheque. Jay Z's net worth of something in the realm of a gajizillion dollars (that's the number I believe I last heard) is certainly...

South Korean artist Kim Shin Hye has taken the use of gold pigments and ink to new heights. Here we see just one example of the hypnotic work Hye has been producing which seems to almost be topographic surveys of our dreams on one level - and visionary studies of forms on another. Timeless and haunting, Kim Shin Hye work is certainly that of a next level artist. via JUX

"Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And as their tasks over the years have become less informational and more expressive, their individual voice as artists becomes all the more critical and beautiful, revealing an exciting and awe-inspiring age of illustration."

Check out the latest video of Spain's legendary street artist Laguna as he creates his latest mural masterpiece - all to the sick psychedelic sounds of Jimi Hendrix' "VooDoo Chile." via JUX

For their June issue Beastie Boys: A Visual History + Tribute to MCA, Juxtapoz Magazine pays tribute to Adam Yauch with the inside stories behind the designing of each of the group's album covers, from the artists themselves. via Dvr