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With artist/skateboarder Ed Templeton’s show The Seconds Pass passing through Los Angeles tonight, I thought it would be apro-pro to point you towards WKE and Aaron Rose’s ongoing D.I.Y. America series which is currently focusing on skateboarding and creativity.

(click corresponding images to view episodes)

• Skate and Create: Part 4 The Artists features icons who’ve taken lessons learned from skateboarding into their respective crafts such as Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell, Andy Jenkins, Ray Barbee, Kevin Ancell, Thurston Moore, Tony Hawk and more.

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The brilliant Brazilian twin graffiti artists known as Os Gêmeos do D.I.Y. America for Aaron Rose’s latest installment for WKE.

Click here or the image below to see the twins in action in Episode five of D.I.Y. America.

An excerpt from the D.I.Y. America page:

“Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for “The Twins”) are identical twin brothers from São Paulo, Brazil. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a major influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil’s own style. Stylistically, Os Gêmeos are heavily influenced by the cryptic art of the São Paulo–based pixação graffiti movement as well as American hip-hop, which the twins grew up with in Brazil.”

Also…Flashback to 2008 for Cool Hunting’s piece on Os Gêmeos as they prepped their legendary Deitch Projects show beautifully filmed by the good man Tobin Yelland.

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Groundbreaking ad agency Wieden+Kennedy (Nike, Coca-Cola, EA) aims to break some internet ground with their own web-based television channel called WKE (WKEntertainment). Spearheaded in part by homeboy Aaron Rose, WKE is “an arts and culture digital content delivery platform, a subsidiary of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. Whose (sic) goal is to renegotiate the relationship between art, media, advertising and the consumer.” With a handful of videos already rolled out to the masses, new episodes will continue to be released every Tuesday at WKE.

Here’s the rundown of their current lineup of shows:

• D.I.Y. America

• Don’t Move Here

A series focusing exclusively on the burgeoning underground music scene in Portland. Using a combination of interviews and live footage we will expose the world to all the interesting bands, record labels and underground venues that make Portland’s music scene so unique. Featured guests include YACHT, Lifesavas, Marriage Records, Jackpot Studios and more. (Cinematography by the great Tobin Yelland!)

• W+K Tokyo Lab

Embracing the concept of hybrid, music and visual label W+K Tokyo Lab has been experimenting with new forms of creative expression to bring new experiences that can only be created in Tokyo. Twenty video works are the best selection of music videos made through the collaboration of W+K Tokyo Lab and our label’s artists, such as Hifana, Jemapur and Afra. Also added two of the latest works from “Chinza Dopeness,” a new artist we released in September 2009.

• How To

• Hits and Misses

Hits & Misses is a bimonthly podcast where W+K’s music supervisor, Shayla Hason (aka DJ Safi), tracks the latest releases in popular music.

• Story Time

Recorded readings of short stories by published young authors set to soundscapes.

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From WKEntertainment:

“Don’t Move Here is a new series that focuses on the fertile music scene in Portland.

Using a combination of interviews and live footage we will explore some of the bands, record labels, and venues that make Portland’s music scene so unique.

Featured guests include YACHT, Grouper, Explode Into Colors, Libretto, Rev. Shines, Mississippi Records, Marriage Records, and more.”

Directed by Aaron Rose, hosted by Shayla Hason.

Music for trailer: Strike Zone by Atole, out soon on Community Library.

Executive Producers: Aaron Rose, Janice Grube, Bill Davenport
Executive Creative Directors: Mark Fitzloff, Susan Hoffman
Camera: Tobin Yelland
Editor: Justin Lowe
Content Producers: Ava Hegedus, Shayla Hason,
Tech: Jason Roark, Mison Henly

See more at http://wk.com/wke

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Music meets design meets America as musician Orba Squara (a.k.a. Mitch Davis) went on a 10 city tour in 10 days via bus to promote his latest album fittingly titled The Trouble with Flying. And tagging along to document the magical mystical tour across the country was Random Collective designer and former Wieden+Kennedy creative director José Ricardo Cabral Cabaco. What came of this trippy trip was a truly unique multimedia tour diary featuring “a 430-ft. lateral scroll that takes visitors on the road through lyrics, musings, photography, illustration and typography.” From New Jersey to New Mexico, Pennsylvania to Portland, you could side scroll for hours on their site while virtually visiting the stops they made on their epic journey at the equally epic Orbasquara.com.

Also you can read the AIGA’s interview with José Cabaco here.

The following is a selection of stills from the incredibly impressive Orbasquara site.

*And where might have you heard Orba Squara’s music before? Maybe from this little diddy in a commercial for something called an “iPhone”:

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