Dead Squirrel Girl video inspires art

Posted: May 23, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Art, California, Internet | Tags: , , | Leave a comment »

Well, it’s chalk art, but still art nonetheless.

From Ukiah Daily Journal’s “Pastels on the Plaza” by Tiffany Revelle -

But not everyone drew flowers, butterflies and rainbows.

Artist Calvin Turnwall rendered a chalk drawing of a still photograph he captured online from a YouTube video of a little girl playing with a dead squirrel. Passers-by knew the one he was depicting. His prior works for the event included mummified cats, he said.

“I’m an artist; I like to shock people a little bit,” Turnwall said.

Orbit's new viral ad campaign features Chicago street artist 'Goons'

Posted: December 15, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Chicago | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »

Orbit’s new viral ad ( which debuted last month) features  local street artist ‘Goons’:

Stemming from a line of generally well-received “Dirty Mouth? Clean it up!” TV commercials for Orbit, Wrigley has embraced artistic simplicity and quaint design for its latest viral video experiment. The stop-motion, 90 second spot includes no CG or rendering – all footage was captured with still cameras by hand to emphasize the artist’s homemade art style.

via Adland

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A New York Times piece states “if there is a positive response to the video, more could be produced”.  Well, the youtube video has over 1 million hits and the comments have been fairly positive, the most recent coming from daothaweaponx20:

wooow, id never thought i would see this a commerical on youtube that people like!? LOGIC ERROR any way im chewing some orbit right now         -____-  5/5

All good news for ‘Goons’, who has been silent on the matter.  Read my interview with him here.

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