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BELGRADE - After making his name designing and printing posters for Nirvana and other bands at the height of Seattle's grunge scene, American artist Jeff Ross has since been wandering the globe in search of inspiration.Now he is finding it in Serbia, where the 58-year-old recently set up studio outside of Belgrade and is taking part in the gritty capital's vibrant street art scene."I sense there is something here, there is a ball of something happening and I want to be here for it, and collaborate, teach people how to screen print, make art, make music, noise," he told AFP of the "energy" that drew him to Serbia.On a recent night Ross could be seen spray-painting loopy, brightly colored designs on the walls of Maniac, one of Belgrade's underground --...
August 16, 2019
Nirvana artist finds a new canvas in Serbia
August 16, 2019
Sprinting to the future: robo-shorts that help runners get ahead
LONDON - Three limited-edition bottles of Heinz Tomato Ketchup based on the tattoos of British songwriter Ed Sheeran, a dedicated fan of the condiment, sold at auction in London on Thursday, with one going under the hammer for 1,500 pounds ($1,816).Only 150 of the "Ed Sheeran X Heinz Tomato Ketchup, the Tattoo Edition" bottles, featuring a copy of Sheeran's own Heinz inking, will be available across the world.The first three were sold for 1,050 pounds, 1,100 pounds and 1,500 pounds on Thursday.Nigel Dickie, Kraft Heinz director of corporate affairs, said 150 of the bottles were made to mark Heinz 150th birthday."What's special about them is that they have his tattoos on the label," he said. "They're part of the label, so it's his sleeve on our...
August 16, 2019
Sheeran design Heinz Ketchup bottle sells for 1,500 pounds
August 15, 2019
Nigeria's divisive tradition of facial markings fades
August 15, 2019
Irishman, 99, competes at world tango championships in Argentina
August 15, 2019
Opera's 'New Callas' charts her life on Instagram
BUCHAREST - American heavy metal band Metallica has donated 250,000 euros to a Romanian association building the country's first pediatric oncology hospital, they said on Wednesday.The donation to Daruieste Viata (Give Life), founded in 2012, came ahead of the band's sold out concert on Wednesday, its fourth in the European Union state since 1999, the association said on its Facebook page.The donation was made through the band's non-profit foundation All Within My Hands, it said in a statement.Construction began in mid-2018 on the hospital in Bucharest, one of the few to be built in Romania over the last three decades. The project is expected to be completed next year, with donations from 260,000 individuals and slightly fewer than 2,000 companies so far.Romania has one of the...
August 15, 2019
Heavy metal band Metallica donates 250,000 euros for Romanian pediatric hospital
APIA, SAMOA - Oliver Fagalilo takes a labored breath and tenses his body before a sharp steel comb, dipped in ink, drives into his skin.Six hands keep his body still and his skin taut as a Samoan artist works on the traditional tattoo that will cover more than half of Fagalilo's body. It takes 35 hours over seven days to complete."Yeah, I'm going good, just trying to breathe, but it's quite hard to breathe," said Fagalilo, his uncle cradling his head."Just trying to push through. Trying to focus. Keep focus," he added.Dating back centuries, the Samoan "tatau", from which the word tattoo is said to originate, is regarded as a right of passage for many Samoans.Now a resident of New Zealand, Fagalilo, 39, and his sister Sharlene, 34 and living in...
August 15, 2019
Samoans ink painful bond with their motherland
August 14, 2019
Leave our graffiti on the walls, say Sudan protesters
August 14, 2019
Twitter to let users follow interests as well as people
