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Today bee wraps up street art becomes gallery art week with a discussion of artist and designer Luke Chueh. bee also reveals that we’ve been listening to IAMX as our theme music this week. This is podcast No. 35: 16November2007.

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bee shares with us the story of how designers David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim created Ugly Dolls (found of course at uglydolls.com). These dolls have move from the street to their very own Wikipedia entry to their very own Ugly Doll Internet shop. We actually don’t think the dolls are very ugly at all. This is podcast No. 34: 15November2007.

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Today we look at street and gallery art from a team called kozyndan. kozyndan consists of kozy and dan, who, when working together, elide the spaces between their names. bee likes kozyndan so much that she put their art on her arm. Permanently. This is podcast No. 33: 14November2007.

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We wonder about the names of these street artists, like the feature of today’s show, Buff Monster. bee finds unexpected delight in the buff monsters placed randomly around Los Angeles, and shares with us some of the history of this fine artist. You can find your own Buff Monster here. Don’t be scared. Buff Monsters are quite cuddly. This is podcast No. 32: 13November2007.

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bee calls it street art. Older folks may call it vandalism. But this art movement is real and moving from street corners to galleries and boutiques. This week bee talks through a handful of artists and designers who started on the street. Today: evil design. This is podcast No. 31: 12November2007.

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