Did U Cum Yet / I’m Not Gonna Cum:
Art direction and design for a collaboration between the Choreographer, MC and performer Blackhaine and artist Richie Culver.
Promotional Instagram stories
Approach
Did U Cum Yet / I’m Not Gonna Cum, a collaborative work from Blackhaine and iconoclast artist Richie Culver. Taking its name from Culver’s now infamous canvas work ‘Did U Cum Yet?’, itself a wry reference to the inherently masturbatory act of posting art on social media, in Blackhaine’s video work we see the coming together of two artists that share working-class roots and a commitment to low culture, as well as a belief in the transcendent potential in creative expression.
Did U Cum Yet / I’m Not Gonna Cum will be released on Participant Records and is available to pre-order now. For more information about Richie Culver and his work you can visit his website and follow him
on Instagram.
Scope of work
Sleeve Design
Motion Graphics
Social Media Assets
Project Credits
Concept: Richie Culver
Writer & Producer: Blackhaine, Micheal-Jon Mizra
Film: Blackhaine, William Markarian-Martin
Camera: Patric Kuo, Joseph Reay-Reid (Bruxism) and Louis Ellis
Design: Chris Curran
Participant is a record label and creative studio run by
William Markarian-Martin and Richie Culver
Video Credits
Did U Cum Yet / I’m Not Gonna Cum
Concept: Richie Culver
Writer & Producer: Blackhaine, Micheal-Jon Mizra
Film: Blackhaine, William Markarian-Martin
Camera: Patric Kuo, Joseph Reay-Reid (Bruxism) and Louis Ellis
Design: Chris Curran
Richie Culver – Did U Cum Yet
“After I posted the ‘Did U Cum Yet’ work it was reposted about 15-20 times. I looked at the followers reach of the selected Instagram pages that posted it, and the combined follower reach went into the five million area. The comments about the painting covered everything; religion, my family, my sexuality, racist stuff, it being the worst painting of all time, but also love as well. I decided to destroy the work and make a book featuring the social media comments. It felt better to leave it as a conceptual piece, that no longer exists physically.”
Richie Culver
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