![]() This chronograph comes with an LED light display function, and is water resistant to 5 ATM. The silicone band is also olive and has custom stencilling. The olive dial displays the artist's interpretation of Roman numerals and his calligraphic 'C' logo. The other model, DMZC0002, has a more macho appeal. ![]() Mr Cartoon has also revisited Diesel's famous Mohican logo on its stainless steel back. There are custom engravings on the side of the case and embossed stencilling on the black silicon band. ![]() Based on his hand-drawn design, the clown is carved in silver alongside red accented time and date counters on a black dial. The DZMC0001 is a three-hand analogue which features the artist's signature clown face. The brand relied on Mr Cartoon's ability to make a free style art precise to each stroke a virtue they feel lends an unusual creativity to both their watches, which are designed for young-hip-casual watch wearers. Sepia-tinted images from the artist's lifeKorean boy band Beast, best known for their album Fiction and Fact (2011), in their studs-and-spikes look, reflected the overriding punk theme that the watches also embodied. The free will that he so effortlessly exerts has been captured and played out in the 2003 documentary Scarface: Origins of a Hip Hop Classic, which stars rappers like Ghostface Killah and Snoop Dogg. He began by airbrushing t-shirts and vintage lowrider cars when just eight and has since needled famous flesh belonging to stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake. In the harbour area of Los Angeles County, Mark Machado, or Mr Cartoon has been riding the crust of what is nonchalantly denounced as 'cultural perversion'. So, who's to say tattoo and graffiti arts don't merit a serious audience? Be it inserting a needle to leave a symbolic scar etched on skin forever or articulating a loaded narrative onto a subway wall, all is fair when the means is art, and the end, a bold assertion of identity. The latter are a bold sect, strong enough to stand up against stereotypes, often issued by those alien to the liberating concept of expressing differently. While most cling on to conventional routes like music and literature to give wings to their thoughts, others tread the road less travelled. Fortunately, expression isn't the only function that art serves, there's the greater question of asserting identity, at hand. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was right. ![]() But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself'. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. ![]()
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