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KR and Krink were profiled in this Sunday’s NY Times (finally a story with sources). Having made the transition from street punk to mega ink peddler, congrats to Craig are in order! Keep it messy!

Dondi White is a NYC Worldwide legend. His art work during the subway graffiti movement inspires people to this day. Unfortunately Dondi passed away a few years ago and can’t be here to grace this world with his beautiful work anymore. We will forever be able to hold on to his legend and spirit, and if you want even a pair of sneakers. Converse has introduced the Converse(Red) Dondi White sneakers. The Dondi shoe is the first in Converse’s 1HUND(RED) artists program. 10% of all Converse PRODUCT(RED) sales will go to The Global Fund to help Fight AIDS. The shoe was designed with the help and inspiration of Dondi’s family and with images direct from the mans original journals. Get your pair at www.converse.com and be as close as you ever will to walking in the shoes of a legend! If you want to know more on the great Dondi, pick up this book at www.amazon.com

The main event is over. Hollywood has finished patting themselves on their backs and let us know who they think is better than us! I know I may sound a little bitter, but this has nothing to do with my annoyance of celebrity following and worship rather than people living their own lives, but instead the taste of defeat in my mouth. You see this now marks my second year in a row losing in my Oscar pool that I do with a few friends. Not only did I lose, but I must face the tormentuous gloating of one friend in particular. But, hey we can’t be perfect all the time (like I usually am)! Anyway, excuse my ranting. Here are your winners:

Best Picture: No Country For Old Men
Directing: No Country For Old Men
Screen Play – Original: Juno
Screen Play – Adapted: No Country For Old Men
Actor – Leading: Daniel Day Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Actor – Supporting: Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men)
Actress – Leading: Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose)
Actress – Supporting: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)
Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd; The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Costume Design: Elizabeth; The Golden Age
Documentary Feature: Taxi To The Dark Side
Documentary Short: Freeheld
Foreign Language Film: The Counterfeiters
Original Score: Atonement
Original Song: “Falling Slowly” (Once)
Short Film – Animated: Peter & The Wolf
Short Film – Live Action: Le Mozart Des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
Make Up: La Vie En Rose
Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Visual Effects: The Golden Compass

For the details on all the winners click here for the official Oscars Winners List.

With this Sunday marking the 80th Annual Oscar Awards, Movie Poster Addict has assembled the movie posters for all 79 previous Best Picture Winners for your viewing pleasure.

In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose…

…Forty-six years later, Stern has revisited his classic shots with Lindsay Lohan, another actress whose prodigious fame is not quite commensurate with her professional achievements. Stern, who shot the photos on film rather than digitally, told me he was interested in Lohan because he suspected “she had a lot more depth to her” than one might assume from “those teenage movies.” Indeed, many in the film industry believe that Lohan has yet to pursue projects equal to her gifts. Without putting too fine a point on it, you might say Lohan has, like Monroe, a knack for courting the tabloids and tripping up her career. (Readers will remember that Lohan had her own Billy Wilder moment two summers ago on the set of Georgia Rule.) Stern said the project also grew out of his interest in “controversial women,” or “bad girls,” like “Britney, Paris, and Lindsay.” Monroe was, in a sense, the original tabloid queen.

Read more and see the photos at New York Magazine.