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  OZ///PUBLIC ART///LANCE PATTISON SKATES ?THE GREAT PETITION?

  Posted: 19-May-2009, 9:33am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  

  Created in 2008 as a monument celebrating the 100th anniversary of women?s right to vote in Victoria, Australia, “The Great Petition” sculpture was designed by artists SUSAN HEWITT and PENELOPE LEE to resemble the giant petition of 30,000 signatures offered to the Victorian Parliament in 1891 as evidence of widespread support for equal voting rights for women. The list of names ultimately led to the passage of the Adult Suffrage Act there in 1908. Flash-forward to 2009 and Aussie skater LANCE PATTISON can be found enhancing the artwork’s fluid lines with ones of his own, as evidenced by this tre flip within the flowing scrolls of the endless feet of flattened white steel. Sometimes life does imitate art?

  

  

  

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  LA///UNDFTD PAYS TRIBUTE TO SHAWN MORTENSEN

  Posted: 19-May-2009, 9:42am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  

  We recently paid sincere homage to our dearly departed amigo SHAWN MORTENSEN in the pages of ST, and Hollywood institution UNDFTD has just unveiled a fitting tribute in the Hollywood skyline with this image of Shawn on one of his many trips to Africa. Rest in peace homie. You are gone, but not forgotten…

  Photo by Jupiter

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  ITALY///NEWS///LANCE ARMSTRONG PUTS HIS CUSTOM SHEPARD FAIREY ?DAILY DRIVER? TREK ART BIKE TO WORK IN THE GIRO D? ITALIA

  Posted: 12-May-2009, 1:18am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  

  Supertouch buddy LANCE ARMSTRONG has added his custom SHEPARD FAIREY-designed TREK Madone cycle into rotation as he rides in the 100th edition of the legendary GIRO D’ITALIA race in support of teammate LEVI LEIPHEIMER. With a matching Shepard Fairey-designed brain bucket to boot, Lance is sporting a coordinated ensemble that even Bruno would give an enthusiastic “Ach ja.”

  *Watch live feed of the Giro daily HERE…

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  HAPPY MOTHER?S DAY

  Posted: 11-May-2009, 8:29am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

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  ITALY///NEWS///LANCE ARMSTRONG RIDES KENNY SCHARF?S CUSTOM TREK MADONE TO 3RD PLACE WITH ASTANA ON GIRO?S OPENING DAY

  Posted: 10-May-2009, 3:28am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  
  Tex warms up with airy mags in place…

  Rolling through Venice, Italy, on the opening day of his first-ever run in the country’s legendary GIRO D’ITALIA race, LANCE ARMSTRONG helped bring his ASTANA team in third place atop his new Supertouch-curated KENNY SCHARF custom-designed TREK TTX cycle in today’s time trial. Recovering from his recent broken collarbone, Armstrong has stated that hopes of winning the centennial edition of the Italian race is out of the question while he strives to regain race shape in support of teammate LEVI LEIPHEIMER in the three week tour of Italy. SHEPARD FAIREY’s custom Trek Madone hits the pavement tomorrow, keep an eye on ST for first looks…

  
  Kenny’s art wheels in place for today’s time trial…

  
  Just another day at the office…

  
  If you want something done right…

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  ITALY///NEWS///LANCE ARMSTRONG SETS UP HIS KENNY SCHARF AND SHEPARD FAIREY ART BIKES FOR THIS SATURDAY?S KICKOFF OF THE GIRO D?ITALIA

  Posted: 8-May-2009, 10:14pm CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  
  Lance inspects his Kenny Scharf-designed Trek TTX time trial bike (sans art wheels for now) with legendary coach Johan Bruyneel…

  Stationed in Venice, Italy for the kickoff of this year’s GIRO D’TALIA on Saturday, Supertouch buddy LANCE ARMSTRONG has just gotten his new KENNY SCHARF and SHEPARD FAIREY-designed TREK art cycles up and running and ready to hit the hills in the grand tour’s epic centennial run. The 2009 Giro d’Italia celebrates the race’s 100 year legacy?from Ganna to Contador?with a spectacular and unexpected route. It lacks the massive, mythical mountain passes and its final stage ends in the south for the first time in years. Riders will visit all of Italy’s great cities including Venezia, Trieste, Milano, Torino, Firenze, Bologna, Napoli and Roma, and delivers deceptively difficult stages in the second half of the event. Stay tuned to ST for updates throughout the three-week run…

  

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  INKWELL///NYC///SCOTT CAMPBELL?S MOTHERS DAY TATTOO DRIVE

  Posted: 7-May-2009, 10:16pm CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  

  In Honor of MOTHER’S DAY, Supertouch’s resident tattoo godfather SCOTT CAMPBELL will be doing “Mom” tattoos for $100 each on a first come first served basis this Sunday, May 10th at THE SMILE (SAVED TATTOO’s second location in Manhattan). He will have a set of 5 designs to choose from that he drew up specifically for the occasion, and he will not tattoo these designs again after Sunday. Inking starts at 8am and Scotty will take as many people as he can until 6pm. Don’t sleep!

  THE SMILE: 26 Bond St, between Lafayette and Bowery, NYC.

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  ITALY///GIRO?S NEW SHEPARD FAIREY HELMET FOR LANCE ARMSTRONG?S RUN IN THE GIRO D?ITALIA

  Posted: 7-May-2009, 6:49am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  

  As if LANCE ARMSTRONG’s Supertouch-curated custom SHEPARD FAIREY-designed TREK MADONE road cycle wasn’t enough to snap necks at this month’s GIRO D’ITALIA race, helmet company GIRO has just created a matching lid to up the ante. Incorporating swaths of graphics from Shep’s race bike the helmet might just see the light of day on store shelves as an incredibly limited-edition run with proceeds from sales going to benefit LIVESTRONG. Keep an eye on ST for more updates in the coming week, including the chance to win one of the coveted brain buckets…

  

  

  
  Where your brain could end up without one of these lids…

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  NEWS///THE MAKING OF LANCE ARMSTRONG?S SHEPARD FAIREY-DESIGNED TREK MADONE

  Posted: 5-May-2009, 10:55pm CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  Creating SHEPARD FAIREY’s new TREK MADONE racing cycle for LANCE ARMSTRONG’s run in this month’s GIRO D’ITALIA was no easy task. Luckily, Trek artist SHANE SIEDSCHLAG is nice with a blade and a decal sheet…

  
  When pressed about Shep’s new bike in Rome today, Lance told an AP reporter: “I’m a fan of his artwork. I collect his artwork. The bike that he did for this race I think is pretty stunning.”

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  NEWS///WTF?!? FILES///NEW RESEARCH SAYS GAUGUIN CUT OFF VAN GOGH?S EAR

  Posted: 5-May-2009, 6:02am CEST by J O'Shea/Editor

  
  Van Gogh’s “Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear” from 1889 tells the story…

  VAN GOGH’S EAR WAS CUT OFF BY FRIEND GAUGUIN WITH A SWORD
  By Henry Samuel in Paris, Telegraph UK

  He is known as the tortured genius who cut off his own ear as he struggled with mental illness after the breakdown of his friendship with a fellow artist. But a new study claims Vincent Van Gogh may have made up the story to protect painter Paul Gauguin who actually lopped it off with a sword during an argument. German art historians say the true version of events never surfaced as the two men both kept a “pact of silence” ? Gauguin to avoid prosecution and Van Gogh in a vain attempt to keep a friend with whom he was hopelessly infatuated.

  In Van Gogh’s Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence, Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans claim it was the sword attack, not Van Gogh’s madness, that led him to commit suicide two years later. The prevailing theory is that the Dutchman, who painted Sunflowers and the Potato Eaters, almost bled to death after slashing his own ear with a razor in a fit of lunacy on the night of December 23, 1888.

  He is said to have wrapped it in cloth and handed it to a prostitute in a nearby brothel.
  However, the new work from experts in Hamburg offers a very different version.

  Gauguin, an excellent fencer, was planning to leave Van Gogh’s “Yellow House” in Arles, southwestern France, after an unhappy stay. He had walked out of the house with his baggage and his trusty épée in hand, but was followed by the troubled Van Gogh, who had earlier thrown a glass at him. As the pair approached a bordello, their row intensified, and Gauguin cut off Van Gogh’s left earlobe with his sword ? either in anger or self-defence. Click HERE to continute reading?