German interview magazine The Talks chatted with Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash and as usual managed to dig deep. Check out a snippet from the interview here below.

“Mr. Brainwash, are you an art piece by Banksy?

What’s an art piece? Maybe I am. If you think about it, why not? I’m real; I am who I am. I’m continuing. What you see now is mine, Banksy has nothing to do with it. I’m here, it’s me. My life is my life; nobody’s going to take that from me. His life is his life. I mean, we have a connection, we have something that connected us for a movie, but life goes on.

Do you introduce yourself as Mr. Brainwash or Thierry Guetta?

Both names are the same – Mr. Brainwash a.k.a. Thierry Guetta. People know me as both names. It’s the same person.

What is the most important thing you’ve learned from Bansky?

If I learned anything from him, it would be passion. You know, two people meet each other and they connect. That’s why there is a movie about it because there was a connection from him to me and me to him. There is this connection that made something.

Were you ever tempted to tell people who he really is? A lot of people are interested in that and would pay a lot of money.

I don’t get bought out. I’m a real person with real trust and that’s how it is. You don’t need to know; it’s not going to make a difference if you know. It’s just going to serve a little problem in your head but it doesn’t make a difference.”

Read the full interview over at The Talks.

This is cool! Peter Stults has created this fantastic series of movie posters called Movies From an Alternate Universe. Stults re-imagines what popular movies of today would be like should they have been made in a different time with Hollywood stars of yore. Check out some insight into the project from the creator below:

Awhile back a friend of mine forwarded me a site where artist Sean Hartter made posters of films that, title wise, we were familiar with, but there was a slight difference; they were remade as if they belonged to a different era or a different genre, the name of the movie was there, but the actors were different, the style was different, and I loved the concept. So I went forward with this theme; what if movies we were all familiar with were made in a different slice of time? Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are…

Check out the posters after the jump.

We must admit we got a good chuckle from this. Winnie the Pooh has received a crazy tattooed makeover by Paris design studio GRAPHEART. Winnie Tattooh and his crew of familiar faces including Tigger, Piglet, and Eeyore all were recipients of some new menacing looks.

Check out this unruly crew further after the jump.

These could induce nightmares, so beware. Special effects makeup artist Kevin Kirkpatrick made some prosthetic models of MTV cartoon icons Beavis and Butthead and they’re pretty disturbing. The details and overall realness of them is pretty astonishing, though. Kirkpatrick pretty much captured them spot on, so kudos for that, but they’re still mighty scary to look at.

Take a much closer look after the jump.

Huf and Deluxe Distribution recently partnered with Japanese artist, Haroshi, on a sculpture series inspired by professional skateboarders Peter Ramondetta, Tommy Guerrero, Dennis Busenitz and Keith Hufnagel. Haroshi applied his signature sculptural technique to the project using old skateboards and components as his medium for design. Highsnobiety TV checked in with Huf and Haroshi the night before the exhibition’s opening ceremony to get the inside scoop on the project. Luckily there was a Japanese interpreter on hand to help us translate some of the finer details behind Haroshi’s incredible attention to detail and one-of-a-kind craftsmanship.

RIME of the legendary Seventh Letter crew got together with Zoo York on these pro series skateboard decks. The series pays homage to Zoo York’s graffiti roots with RIME’s dope pieces. Whether you skate these or hang them up, they would be great to own. Check for these at Zoo York retailers now.

See the other decks after the jump.

Artist Aaron Savage has recreated a selection of famous album covers in LEGO, and you already know we love a good LEGO art project. From De La Soul and Michael Jackson to The Smiths, Blondie and many more.. Can you identify all these covers?

More images follow after the click.

Illustrator Joseph Senior presents his new Pop Culture Hello Kitty Series, shining a different light onto the iconic Japanese cartoon character. Say hi to Hello Darth Vader, Hello Daft Punk, Hello Dark Knight, Hello Gaga, Hello Garfield, Hello Thor and many others.

The full series is featured after the jump.

We have shown you already Sponge Karl and Sponge Terry and Sponge Pharrell by illustrator Mike Frederiqo last week and while some of you might think that this is getting old, we do have to show you the new SpongeLouis, simply because the details on this latest work are so great.

Standing on a mountain of Louis Vuitton luggage, Sponge Bob also holds a LV umbrella in their classic monogram pattern.

Check out the details after the jump.

We’ve shared with you some pretty extensive coverage of the whole HUF x Haroshi x DLX project that has been going on and if you have yet to see it, please be sure to check it out. Although each piece created by Haroshi for this project has been stellar, one of the highlights was the “Middle Finger” piece. Real Skateboards felt the same, too, as they have released this extremely limited skateboard deck featuring that wooden sculpture. There’s only 400 of these, so act fast. (Via Radcollector)