The main problem with LV though is when men start using it as a ‘man bag’. Big was my surprise around 4 minutes ago when I finally saw a smart use of Louis Vuitton fabric: create bugs in LV design!.

Yes, bugs. Sculptures actually but what’s in a name?

Kyoto-based artist Mitsuhiro Okamoto set out and created 9 different sculptures, all made from fake counterfeit items. Five of those were made with Louis Vuitton products and for the other four Chanel, Gucci, Coach and Fender imitations bags were used.

The sculpture weres on show at the Kobe Fashion Museum but were removed after only some weeks as the multi-national company swimming in money coming from their highly over rated and even more over priced bags decided that they an endorsement of the illegal trade in counterfeit goods mean and thus damage the image of the company and its luxury products. The museum complied and removed the art works.

The museum removed the items to avoid a legal dispute stating that they weren’t sure whether the works of art represented a trade mark infringement. I’ll just throw my hat in here, and it’s no Burberry’s hat, but it is clear that Louis Vuitton wrong is in this case and their statement and attitude damage their luxury image more than anything else.

View images of the other sculptures in the picture gallery.

But rules are rules, so instead as a leadpic for this post you get…

… original ‘A New Hope’ Stormtrooper helmets.

If last week you received Slave Leia car-wash and Carrie Fisher sunbathing on set, today we have to speak business. Real business. I mean, why otherwise the [NSFW] tag? That’s right, Zeh Germans were at again and what does that mean? Boobs!

Hey, you! Yes, you at the back there! Behave, we already had enough of drool here at FG in last days!

Daniel Josefsohn, a German photographer is the subject of an exposition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany. Topic of the exhibition: naked women with Stormtrooper helmet.

Additionally the German photographer created a skateboard limited series with yes, you guessed correctly…

Only 50 boards are produced and all are numbered by the artist. Other than your visit to Germany, you’ll also have to bring some €350 to get yours. If you aren’t too late yet.

In the mid-90’s, during an auction from an old school, I purchased 3 metal lockers and to my surprise one of them held a real, full size articulated skeleton,” he says. “For years I had it displayed in one of the rooms in my studio and I often wondered what else I could do with it. Finally the idea came to me to explore the idea of disassembling the skeleton and rearranging the bones, and from that process came the series ‘Stop the Violence.’

The result is amazing art by Francois Robert a Swiss photographer.

More pictures after the jump and in the gallery (click any image).

More amazing art available at Francois’ website.

When you search a popular geek site for Banksy and your query returns you zero results, you know you’ve done it all wrong.

No.results.at.all. Zero, zilch, noppes, nada, null.

Of course our task as a great bunch of helpful geeks should now be to link you up with the necessary links to Banksy’s homepage and Wikipedia entry but we are not going to do that. We all know how that ends. When was last time you visited Wikipedia and 20 minutes later you had actually left the public encyclopaedia or did still remember why you visited the reference work?

Hey, you! Stop editing my entry!

But I digress. Banksy. He’s a legend. Even though he’s Brit. A legend among popular creationists, artists. A street artist. Provocative. He excels in his FTW! attitude.

Recently he hit San Francisco and there seems to be a background story to things. Not that long ago he had a piece removed in an Art Heist by the infamous Doug Christmas of Ace Gallery, Los Angeles.

Only some weeks later two new pieces by the infamous Brit now were spotted in San Francisco by 2cauldrons who uploaded them to his Flickr account. If you like street art, you definitely should follow 2cauldrons on Flickr btw. There’s is no doubt that the picture above a reference to the lifted piece in LA is.

The second piece was found in Chinatown SF and apparently not everyone enjoys Banksy’s work as can be seen on this note which was stuck next to the artwork.

Translation: “Please, before you remove this graffiti, rumors are that police are investigating, please wait until next week or the end of April“

Now you can visit Banksy’s website and his Wiki entry.

More blueprints at Mark Bennet’s online gallery.

Reaver’s Etsy listing.
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