Buddy Esquire and Phase 2 old school party flier gallery: http://toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/
Originally blogged by Vargucci: http://vargucci.wordpress.com/
Posted on May 13, 2008 at 06:41 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Digg
One of my friends was recently working on renovations in the Pitkin Avenue Yard in East New York, Brooklyn.
He was kind enough to snap this Vinny piece with his camera phone and send it to me.
Photo credit: Marc Flowin
Posted on May 06, 2008 at 03:46 PM | Comment (6 comments) | Digg
From 1962 – 1972 George Lois created some of the most iconic Esquire covers of his generation.
The MOMA is currently honoring the New York advertising genius with an 11-month installation that
runs through March 31st 2009.
George Lois: The Esquire Covers
@ The MOMA
April 25, 2008–March 31, 2009
For more of George Lois’ work: http://www.georgelois.com
One of my personal favorites is the 1968 cover depicting Muhammad Ali as the martyred Saint Sebastian.
The year prior, Ali a devote Muslim declined to step forward during his induction to the U.S armed forces.
That very same day the New York State Athletic commission suspended his boxing license and stripped
him of his Heavyweight title.
Below: pop art icon Andy Warhol sinking in to a Campbell’s soup can.
Posted on May 06, 2008 at 02:28 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Digg
Here’s a small clip from Forbidden Rebels featuring G-Man, Delta 2 and Dez TFA.
Not included in this segment are Sharp and Spin, who also appear in the film.
Posted on April 29, 2008 at 05:08 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Digg
Earlier today - after two months of testimony by more than 50 witnesses, Detectives Michael Oliver, 36,
Gescard Isnora, 29, and Marc Cooper, 40 were found not guilty on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell.
Posted on April 25, 2008 at 02:30 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Digg
I checked out the Takashi Murakami @ the Brooklyn museum today. The show will be up from April 5th - July 13, 2008.
There is a no photo rule at the exhibit so don’t get caught taking flicks.
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Posted on April 25, 2008 at 01:37 AM | Comment (1 comments) | Digg
I recently finished a book with my good friend Sacha Jenkins. It’s called “Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers.”
Amazon will begin shipping pre-orders starting next week – Wednesday, April 30th 2008. I received an advance copy of the book
yesterday. The reproduction quality is exceptionally accurate. When compared side by side I found it pretty hard to tell the
difference between the original art and the print.
Some of the writers featured in Piecebook are: Dondi, Lee, T Kid, Lady Pink, IZ The Wiz, Kel 1st, Seen UA, Ali,
Daze, Skeme, Noc 167, Cey, Part TDS, Don 1,West, Caine One, Mare, Doc TC5, Sye TPA, Shy 147, Kaves, Weber, Freedom,
Wane COD, Dero, Reas, Erni and others…
To order through amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Piecebook-Secret-Drawings-Graffiti-Writers/dp/379133896X
Artist shown above: Weber, Lee, Super Kool 223, Duster, Dez, Dero, Sye TPA, Dondi and Noc 167.
Piecebook logo by Greg Lamarche.
Posted on April 23, 2008 at 01:12 AM | Comment (7 comments) | Digg
Camera phone pict - intersection of Bowery and Canal.
Posted on April 22, 2008 at 05:28 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Digg
Once again it’s on. I’ll post the rest of the pictures once the other walls are done.
To see last years walls: http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/chino/entry/roof_top_legends_update/
Posted on April 19, 2008 at 01:23 PM | Comment (8 comments) | Digg
More family programing. My man Mike Kaves kicks off the second season of “The Brooklyn Way” tonight making it’s
national debut on Fuse TV. Premieres APRIL 17th at 10:30pm on FUSE.
Fuse Website: http://www.fuse.tv
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Thank you Craig’s List.
Posted on April 16, 2008 at 12:08 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
There’s piece on Testify Books in the new issue of Missbehave.
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To order Mascots & Mugs: http://www.amazon.com/Mascots-Mugs-Characters-Cartoons-Graffiti/dp/0972592040
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Posted on April 14, 2008 at 05:25 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
My friends over at Ego Trip’s new show Miss Rap Supreme premieres TONIGHT on VH1
Monday - April 14th 2008 at 10:00PM ET / 9:00 C
For more on Miss Rap Supreme visit
VH1: http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/miss_rap_supreme/splash.jhtml?source=globalnav
Miss Rap Supreme on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/missrapsupreme
Posted on April 14, 2008 at 03:45 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Doc TC5 enters the national debate
T-Spoon by Doc, Long Branch, N.J. Politics as usual.
To see more of Doc’s work check him and the rest of the TC5 crew at: http://www.tcfive.com
Posted on April 12, 2008 at 01:33 PM | Comment (3 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Recent works by Team, BilRock, Whisper and KR.One
June 1st - June 30th 2008
Opening reception: Saturday June 14th 2008
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Posted on April 10, 2008 at 04:31 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Retired Subway Cars Used for Artificial Reefs
Source: NY Times
Sixteen nautical miles from the Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater,a building boom is under way at the
Red Bird Reef. One by one, a backhoe operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York subway cars off a
barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses,
walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog.
“They’re basically luxury condominiums for fish,” Jeff Tinsman, the artificial reef program manager for the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said as one of 48 of the 19-ton retirees from New York
sank toward the 666 already on the ocean floor.But now, Delaware is struggling with the misfortune of its own
success.Having planted a thriving community in what was once an underwater desert, state marine officials are
faced with the sort of overcrowding, crime and traffic problems more common to terrestrial cities.
The summer flounder and bass have snuggled so tightly on top and in the nooks of the subway cars that Tinsman
is trying to expand the housing capacity. He is having trouble, however, because other states, seeing Delaware’s
successes, have started competing for the subway cars, which New York provides free. Crisscrossing over the reef,
commercial pot fishermen keep getting their lines tangled with those of smaller hook-and-reel anglers, and the rising
tension has led the state to ask federal marine officials to declare the area off limits to large commercial fishermen.
As the reef has become more popular, theft and sabotage of fishing traps and pots has more than doubled in the last
several years, said Captain David Lewis of the Delaware Bay Launch Service.
“People now don’t just steal the fish inside the pots out here, they’ve started stealing the pots, too,” he said. The
reef, named after the famous Redbird subway cars of New York, supports more than 10,000 angler trips annually,
up from fewer than 300 in 1997. It has seen a 400-fold increase in the amount of marine food per square foot in the
last seven years, according to state data.
Tinsman said his department was doing everything it could to expand capacity, noting that last year, when subway
cars were unavailable, he sank a 92-year-old tugboat and the YOG-93, a decommissioned Navy tanker built in 1945
for the planned invasion of Japan. Fifty subway cars are due this month, he said. “The secret is out, I guess,” said
Michael Zacchea, the Metropolitan Transit Authority official in charge of getting rid of old New York subway cars.
Delaware’s prospects for expanding the reef look grim, Zacchea added, because the state of New York has said it wants
all of the city’s retired subway cars once the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers updates the state’s reef permit this summer.
Zacchea said he would soon stop shipments out of state, saving perhaps $2 million in transport costs. As a good-faith
gesture, the city probably will provide about 100 cars to Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey before out-of-state
deliveries are halted. While New York works to get its permit in place, other states are pushing hard to get what they can
from the city, Zacchea said. Last month, for example, New Jersey, which stopped taking the cars in 2003 because of
environmental concerns, asked the city for 600 of them.
Tim Dillingham, the executive director of the American Littoral Society, a coastal conservation group based in Sandy Hook,
New Jersey, said that natural rock and concrete balls are far safer and more durable materials for artificial reefs. “Those
materials also cost more, and we’re sensitive to the realities of budget crunches in many states,” Dillingham said.
The American Littoral Society and other environmental groups opposed the use of the Redbird cars because they have small
levels of asbestos in the glue used to secure the floor panels and in the insulation material in the walls. State and federal
environmental officials approved the use of the Redbirds and other cars for artificial reefs in Delaware and elsewhere because
they said the asbestos was not a risk for marine life and has to be airborne to pose a threat to humans. Dillingham said his
group had pushed New Jersey to use only New York’s stainless steel cars, which are more durable and have less asbestos.
Delaware, which oversees nine artificial reef sites in state waters and five, including Red Bird Reef, in federal waters, was
the first state to get subway cars from New York, in August 2001.
In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift, open- ocean fish, such as tuna and mackerel, that use the reefs as hunting
grounds for smaller prey. Sea bass like to live inside the cars, while large flounder lie in the silt that settles on top of the cars,
Tinsman, the Delaware official, said. States have experimented with other types of artificial reef materials, including abandoned
automobiles, tanks, refrigerators, shopping carts and washing machines. Tinsman particularly favors the newer stainless steel
subway cars to create reefs. “We call these the DeLoreans of the deep,” he said.
Subway cars in general, he said, are roomy enough to invite certain fish, too heavy to shift easily in storms, and durable enough
to avoid throwing off debris for decades."The one problem I see with them,” Tinsman said, “is that just like the DeLoreans, there
are only a limited number.”
Posted on April 10, 2008 at 03:17 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
April 3rd, 2008 at approximately 7:50am, Wayne “FROSTY FREEZE” Frost started his journey in to the next life. Our
condolences go to his family and friends and all who knew of his great legacy.
Posted on April 03, 2008 at 11:29 AM | Comment (4 comments) | Permalink | Digg
This Super 8 mm gem was captured by Tracy 168. I believe it was shot sometime
around 1974. The clip offers a candid look at some of subway graffiti’s early pioneers.
There are (youthful) appearances by original Wanted and Wild Style members: Tracy 168,
King 2, Chi-Chi 133, Cliff 159, Bot 707 and others - as well as some of classic subway graffiti
from Tracy 168, Phase 2, P-Nut 2, MR 6 (Riff 170), Cliff 159, Kindo, Zest, Bic 149 and Mico…
Posted on March 22, 2008 at 08:23 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
My pal Mike White stopped by today and dropped off a bag full of goodies including the new Montana Colors
limited edition Dondi White spray can. The collectable can is available at Bodega (Boston). Proceeds from the
sales will go to The Dondi White Foundation: http://www.dondiwhitefoundation.org/
and also help support God’s Love We Deliver: http://www.godslovewedeliver.org/
Posted on March 22, 2008 at 04:42 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
From Boston Dynamics - The leader in life-like human simualtion comes Big Dog.
The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth Big Dog is the alpha male of the Boston
Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough
terrain and carries heavy loads. Big Dog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a
hydraulic actuation system. Big Dog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have
compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next.
Big Dog is the size of a large dog or small mule, measuring 1 meter long, 0.7 meters tall
and 75 kg weight. In separate trials, BigDog runs at 4 mph, climbs slopes up to 35 degrees,
walks across rubble, and carries a 340 lb load.
Posted on March 20, 2008 at 04:57 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Pink / Aiko: Brick Ladies of NYC
Opening reception: Friday, March 21st 2008, 7:00 - 10:00pm
AD HOC ART
Unit 1G, Buzzer 22
49 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, New york 11206
http://www.adhocart.org
Show runs through April 20th 2008
Posted on March 18, 2008 at 05:10 PM | Comment (0 comments) | Permalink | Digg
MJ an unsung pioneer in the graffiti-music game. Check the song after Dancing Machine.
The clip is from The Jackson’s Variety Show which debuted on CBS in (mid) 1976 and ran
through March 1977. It was the first variety show ever hosted by an African American family.
Posted on March 16, 2008 at 06:54 PM | Comment (3 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Last Saturday MSG, NY featured a segment on graffiti hosted by fellow BMT bomber,
Lordz of Brooklyn frontman and star of the MSG network’s “The Brooklyn Way” Mike Kaves.
The piece includes canvases and interviews by T-Kid, Chain 3, Part, Ces, Serve, Kaves and Ghost.
I was just told a limited amount of work will be available before it heads to Europe. Interested
parties should contact:sbxc1000@aol.com for further info.
The new season of The Brooklyn Way makes it’s national debut on the FUSE network
April 14th 2008 - check your local listing for airtime.
Posted on March 12, 2008 at 06:39 PM | Comment (2 comments) | Permalink | Digg
Images taken from “Crosstown” by Helen Levitt.
Voice of The Ghetto tag by Stay High 149
OE 3 throw up by Old English TMD
Posted on March 12, 2008 at 05:19 PM | Comment (1 comments) | Permalink | Digg
