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The art from tonight’s Upper Playground and Quentin Tarantino’s Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds art benefit for Haiti’s earthquake victims has been released and can be viewed in it’s entirety at Upper Playground’s website and in person at their downtown LA gallery. Details of the show’s extremely limited print run and show info can be found here.

*All proceeds donated to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

Here’s a look at 4 of the 13 prints that will be available tonight:

David Choe

Estevan Oriol

Alex Pardee

Grotesk

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Quentin Tarantino’s Nazi scalping masterpiece Inglorious Basterds gets the Upper Playground art treatment at their downtown Los Angeles gallery for the Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds benefit for Haiti’s earthquake victims. Limited edition prints inspired by the film will be on display and for sale and consist of original art by David Choe, Sam Flores, Estevan Oriol, Alex Pardee, Grotesk, Jeremy Fish, Patrick Martinez, Dora Drimalas, Munk One, N8 Van Dyke, Rene Alamanza, Morning Breath and Skinner Davis.

*All proceeds donated to the American Red Cross to help victims of the Haiti Earthquake.

From the Upper Playgrounders:

“Each print will be numbered and signed by Quentin Tarantino. Only (6) of each amount will be made. The prints can be viewed at www.upperplayground.com beginning on Tuesday, February 16, 2010.”

Read or click flyers below for more details.

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Another weekend, another great art show at Giant Robot as they roll out the group show Year of the Tiger at GR2 on Sawtelle. Click here for a tiger style preview of the pieces!

More from the Robots:

“Giant Robot is proud to host Year of the Tiger, a group art show celebrating year 4708 on the lunar calendar. Pieces will include illustration, oils, pencils, prints, watercolor, sculpture, and other media–all dedicated one of the most powerful but also most sensitive animal in the Chinese zodiac.”

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Yes, you read that right, free money! Courtesy of my bearded graphic designer buddy Keith Scharwath in commemoration of the grand opening of his blog Carwash, Keith will be giving away 100 free Gocco prints on dollar bills with a special message printed on each hand numbered bill. In addition to designing the beautiful poster for Beautiful Losers (which is always up on the left side of this site), Keith has worked on a wide variety of design projects ranging from album covers; logos corporate and non; good work for GOOD; and various Nike projects amongst many others. Please help welcome Keith’s new blog, Carwash, to the interwebs by clicking over for some visual stimulation, inspiration and a “free print (or a free dollar)” while supplies last!

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Apparently light paintings aren’t among Pablo Picasso’s 50,000 pieces of known artwork (seriously, he made 50,000 pieces of art! According to Wikipedia it breaks down as so: “1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs”). Add to that total these 14 photos unearthed by LIFE magazine of Picasso doodling with a small flashlight in 1949 when LIFE photographer Gjon Mili paid him a visit in Vallauris, France. Click this link or the pics below to see the entire gallery.

Click this link or the pics above to see the entire gallery.

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