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“Emperor” I Curtis has been playing piano for over 30 years, and teaching students of every age for the past 13 years. She is the co-founder of “The Humble School of Arts and Music in Boston....

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    Toy Soldiers

    Posted on: July 7th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

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    Put your foot sol­diers, snipers, cav­alry, and fighter pilots to the test in Toy Sol­diers. Poised to be a smash hit on Xbox LIVE® Arcade, Toy Sol­diers is an action-packed strategy-based game in which play­ers com­mand antique WWI toy sol­diers vying for con­trol of the trench-filled bat­tle­fields of Europe. Deploy an excit­ing arse­nal such as tanks, cav­alry, biplanes, and flamethrow­ers in vin­tage WWI toy dio­ra­mas. Devel­oped by Sig­nal Stu­dios exclu­sively for Xbox 360, Toy Sol­diers allows you to take con­trol of indi­vid­ual units or con­trol the entire bat­tle­field from a strate­gic view. Inte­grat­ing mul­ti­ple game gen­res and world-class visu­als, Toy Sol­diers is a unique and action-packed enter­tain­ment experience!

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    Left 4 Dead Posters

    Posted on: July 7th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Here’s a look at seven early con­cept designs for Valve’s Left 4 Dead, posters that blur the line between the 2008 orig­i­nal game for PC and Xbox 360, and Left 4 Dead 2, released one year later.

    Seen at a Valve game artist’s online port­fo­lio, they fea­ture envi­ron­ments famil­iar to Left 4 Dead 2 play­ers, like dank south­ern motels and trailer parks. Other poster con­cepts fea­ture looks at the sequel’s swamp and amuse­ment park lev­els, but each poster stars the orig­i­nal Left 4 Dead cast of Louis, Zoey, Fran­cis and Bill.

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    Mighty mural 6th & Perry

    Posted on: June 27th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Shogun G. Curtis

    A num­ber of years ago Shogun stood a top a lad­der on Perry street.  The west side of Tuc­son was no stranger to vio­lence. Stand­ing three sto­ries off the ground the artist found safe haven paint­ing his mural.

    Sud­denly loud voice shouted up to him.

    “Hey You! Get Down Here!”

    He was a small man with a large voice. His tat­tooed arms were like small trunks, and his pit­ted face would make you think he was the brother of Danny Trejo

    The hot Tuc­son air was no com­par­i­son to the heat of the mans eyes, yet Shogun ner­vously made his way down.

    “Where are your from!?” the man said.

    “I am from Rhode Isl.. I mean… I go to school.…art?” Shogun stuttered.

    “YOU COME INTO MY NEIGHBOR HOOD. WITH NO ONES PERMISSION.…..!!! ”

    AND YOU MAKE THIS PLACE A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE FOR MY KIDS!” the man said..

    Shogun was speechless.

    “I will ride by here EVERYDAY and ‚if ANYONE touches with this thing I will KILL THEM!”

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    Shogun knew he was seri­ous. The mans resolve was absolute. So much so that the mural painted more than 10 years ago still stands today.
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    Apple of My Eye-iPhone Film

    Posted on: May 31st, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

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    Apple of My Eye — IPHONE 4 FILM from Michael Koer­bel on Vimeo.

    Shot and edited entirely on the iPhone 4 / iMovie App (in 48 hours).

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    Shepard Fairey Hangs with Humble School

    Posted on: May 18th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Shogun Curtis and Shepard Fairey.

    Reunited after years, RISD grad­u­ates Shep­ard Fairey and Shogun Cur­tis show off the Obey grill

    “Sup­ply and Demand” opened at the Boston Insti­tute of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Feb. 3, 2009. Founders Shogun & Emperor got a chance to catch up with the pro­lific artist in an all access pass days before the shows opening.

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    FILM POSTERS OF THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE

    Posted on: April 7th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    The Russ­ian avant-garde film posters of the mid-1920’s to early 1930’s are unlike any film posters ever cre­ated. Although the period of artis­tic free­dom in the Soviet Union was brief, these pow­er­ful, star­tling images remain among the most bril­liant and imag­i­na­tive posters ever con­ceived. The Russ­ian film poster artists exper­i­mented with the same inno­v­a­tive cin­e­matic tech­niques used in the films they were adver­tis­ing, such as extreme close-ups, unusual angles and dra­matic pro­por­tions. They mon­taged dis­parate ele­ments, such as adding pho­tog­ra­phy to lith­o­g­ra­phy, and jux­ta­posed the action from one scene with a char­ac­ter from another. They col­ored human faces with vivid col­ors, elon­gated and dis­torted body shapes, gave ani­mal bod­ies to humans and turned film cred­its into an inte­gral part of the design. There were no rules, except to fol­low one’s imag­i­na­tion.

    The 1917 Rev­o­lu­tion changed life in Rus­sia polit­i­cally, socially and artis­ti­cally. Art became regarded as an impor­tant force in shap­ing the future of the new State. Slo­gans such as ‘Art into Life’ and ‘Art into Tech­nol­ogy’ expressed the pop­u­lar belief that art had the power to trans­form lives on every level. It was a time of artis­tic exper­i­men­ta­tion, a kind of spon­ta­neous com­bus­tion caused by the charged atmos­phere and the rad­i­cal changes in art and life. Diverse art styles, such as Con­struc­tivism and Real­ism, Ana­lyt­i­cal Art and Pro­le­tar­ian Art, devel­oped simul­ta­ne­ously and, seem­ingly irrec­on­cil­ably, together. Bold new direc­tions in art, includ­ing supre­ma­tism, non-objectivism and cubo­fu­tur­ism, emerged in this fer­tile period of change.
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    General Zato Studio

    Posted on: February 24th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    This is my art space. I con­verted a cedar closet I had in my apart­ment into this vault of awe­some. It has taken me a while to get to this point of orga­ni­za­tion and effec­tive­ness because the space is really quite small. As you can see every­thing is at an arms grasp. I can sit down and do my ink­ing on my wacom tablet, or I can grab a note­book and sit down and draw. Hope­fully this this will inspire other artist to trans­form their work­spaces into some­thing great. –Zato



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    Emmett Duggan

    Posted on: February 4th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Emmett Duggan Self Portrait

    Emmett Dug­gan Self Portrait

    Emmett is my coworker and I had no idea that he had some seri­ous skills. I was walk­ing around and found a lap­top open with his web­site left open in a browser win­dow. How could I not know this guy was a painter!!! Well I guess every­thing hap­pens for a rea­son. We got to talk­ing and I found out more about this great guy. Being an artists who has no com­mu­nity is some­thing I can totally relate to. I was there, and now I am so glad to have peers to inspire me and push my art­work for­ward. Just wanted to give Emmett a shout out, and let you know he is a force to reck­oned with. Props to Emmett –Zato

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    christian northeast

    Posted on: January 31st, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Chris­t­ian Northeast

    The January/February 2011 issue is CA’s inau­gural Typog­ra­phy Annual, high­light­ing the best in orig­i­nal type­face design and inno­v­a­tive uses of type in design. This annual is sure to be a favorite with typog­ra­phers, designers-anyone who uses or appre­ci­ates type. Addi­tional edi­to­r­ial fea­tures include San Fran­cisco designer Michael Osborne; Lon­don pho­tog­ra­pher James Day who finds soul in the world’s most banal objects; Cana­dian illus­tra­tor Chris­t­ian North­east; Austin-based ad agency McGar­rah Jessee; and New York’s Tronic Stu­dio. This issue also offers a wealth of insight­ful columns cov­er­ing busi­ness, typog­ra­phy, cre­ativ­ity, design cul­ture, design issues, adver­tis­ing and envi­ron­ment. Don’t miss out on our first-ever Typog­ra­phy Annual!

    Chris­t­ian north­east was brought to our atten­tion ran­domly. His work has a very dis­tinct style and we love his use of Machine Wash. Please check him out. here

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    Tim Basmits

    Posted on: January 31st, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Tim Bas­mits

    Look­ing at Tim Bas­mits work we can’t help think “man this guy is putting out some solid work” His use of tex­ture is unmatched and we just had to give him some props. Thanks Tim for the Mamajama.

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