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Molly — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:33:51 +0000

Cinemagraph by Brainwomb

My Shirts for Red Bull and Chinashop

Molly — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:27:36 +0000

Chinashop, Red Bull’s culture blog, recently launched a series of music events at LA’s Viper Room. To celebrate the launch, they had me design a shirt. Pics this ‘away

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Me x Stoya x Dirtee Hollywood

Molly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:26:38 +0000

Behind the scenes with Stoya and Dirtee Hollywood from Brainwomb on Vimeo.

Video lookbook by Brainwomb. Very NSFW song by Kim Boekbinder

Back from Paris! Dirtee Hollywood just released a new season of shirts with my designs. Stoya of the mathematically perfect features was kind enough to model them for me. All photos below by Aeric Meredith Goujon

You can buy two shirts from the collection HERE and HERE

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Week in Hell in 360

Molly — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:36:49 +0000

by Andras Frenyo

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Thank You Urban Decay

Molly — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:19:59 +0000

Dear Comrades,

I write to you from an undisclosed location in Manhattan, where I have covered one half of one room with more lines than humanely countable for Week in Hell

Kickstarter funded Week in Hell, but I also have to thank my incredibly sponsors, including Urban Decay, the badass makeup brand that is responsible for me looking vaguely human this week.

They sent me an astounding selection of loveliness, including their 15 year Anniversary Palate, Stalker coloured eyeshadows for all my visitors, golden glittery, cerulean eyeliner, lip gloss that tastes like honey, and all other matter of marvels

Here are some pictures by Steve Prue. Thanks, Urban Decay

and one more bonus of The Wall

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Defacing Moleskines at Bloomingdales

Molly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:05:33 +0000

Moleskine hired me to draw Giovanni James’s dapper likeness on their covers for a product launch at Bloomingdales. A bunch of my reprobate friends showed up and drew

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Live Art at Sonic Union

Molly — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:35:19 +0000

I recently creating a giant drawing live for a party at creative agency Sonic Union. Steve Prue of Team Rockstar took these pictures. I love drawing live.

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Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell

Molly — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:01:04 +0000

What is Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell?

To celebrate my 28th birthday, I’m renting a room, locking myself inside for five days, covering the walls with paper, and filling every inch of that paper with art. I might go insane, or it might be awesome. I’m inviting you along for the ride.

I’m interested in what happens when an artist leaves their studio, their cliches, and their comfort zone and draws beyond the limits of their endurance. I also want to see what tarts and squidbeasts look like frollicking on a massive scale.

During the week, amazing photographer Steve Prue will be documenting the art created, my increasing insanity, and the cast of muses, musicians and miscreants that comes to keep me company. We’ll wrap this up into an art book, Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell, with a forward by Transmetropolitan creator Warren Ellis.

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PEN Festival

Molly — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:07:56 +0000

From April 25-29, I took part in the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, one of the world’s most prestigious literary festivals. Devoted to helping writers in countries that are not particularly friendly to writers, PEN is chaired by Salman Rushdie and brings in authors from around the world

This year, PEN’s home base was the preposterously beautiful Standard, New York. For every day of the festival, I created a different 4 foot tall painting, on the themes of War, Truth, Revolution, Labour and Money.

This being my work, I illustrated these concepts with lots of tentacles and funny hats.

Painting that much was a sort of artistic martyrdom, an alchemy that you emerge stronger from. It also helped that I had a crew around me: Melissa, Shad, Foley, Dennis, Lauren, Kate, Samantha, Fred, Steve Prue…. thank you for smuggling me champagne, singing me Bobby Sands, taking photos, hauling my massive easel in and out of that bell closet

Also thanks to Joey Jaello, Scott Meriam, and the rest of the saintly crew at the Standard, for letting me totally take over their plaza and living room. And to the sleepless saints at PEN, Jakab Orsos and Beth Weinstein.

The paintings will be auctioned later this month to benefit PEN’s human rights work.

More photos of the actual art to come, as well as interviews with Raw Story, PmC and GritTV

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PEN Festival

Molly — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:03:35 +0000

photo by Flavorwire

So… I haven’t updated the site with my many lovely Star. St Germain photos from Stumptown, because I have spent the last week at the PEN Festival painting giant paintings on the subjects of Labour, Truth, Revolution, War and Money.

And now I’m a little bit broken.

They’re getting auctioned off at PEN’s closing gala to raise money for PEN’s work with writers who don’t live in particularly writer-friendly countries.

Here’s an interview I did for Flavorwire, and a truly terribly shot video of crazy Molly and her paintings after it was all over.

More photos coming up. Promise

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