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Maestro Knows - Episode 6 (7th Letter) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

Enjoy, LBS

5 Minutes V.09/2009 from I Love Graffiti on Vimeo.

This is a new band from the UK that I am completely gay for right now. Great mellow, sexy as fuck pop music. Go get the album. Here’s a taste:

The Mural Arts Program has been working for weeks with the artist Stephen Powers, a West Philadelphia native, and many local painters to create a series of more than 30 huge, text-based murals, collectively called “Love Letter,” along a sometimes blighted stretch of Market Street.

As a teenager, Mr. Powers, was a prolific and notorious graffiti writer known as Espo. Now, as an established gallery artist living in New York, he has returned to Philadelphia to mount an ambitious urban beautification project, one whose odd, affectionate messages - like ‘“Forever Starts When You Say Yes” and “Pre-pay is on/Let’s talk/Till my minutes are gone” - are about love and reconciliation.

Click here to read the full article at the New York Times homepage.

Phish has been a constant obsession of mine second only (and for a time first) to writing. I hold them responsible for a patchy 90’s graff career and keeping me from a college degree until 31. 15 years and 130 some odd shows later, It’s nice to see these dudes can still have fun on stage and make magic for me. They brought the goods in Hartford in a way that I didn’t they could in 2009.

Major thanks go out to Spectr. The L was lovely!

REST IN PEACE TEDDY

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and a liberal ideology to the citadel of Senate power, died at his home in Hyannis Port last night after a battle with brain cancer. He was 77.

America is worse off with out you

one of the main purveyors of 3d graffiti (yeah, you can blame him) is a dutch master that goes by the name of delta/mess. he's been laying low the last few years, but pops his head up every now and then bringing something cool to the masses. this time it's tee-shirts bearing his signature style of architectural madness. grab one herebefore summer runs out and you have to hide it under your northface until next spring

if you're lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on how you look at it) to leave near 1 of these 3 places i suggest checking out the demos. it's not often you get to see 2 of the greatest teams in skateboarding killing it at your local park

so i get home after seeing funny people with the missus, and while we’re watching letterman this smirnoff ice commercial comes on. it’s all fairly standard stuff, then they whip out the fire extinguishers and start trashing what looks like an old gas station with purple paint. we both looked at each other and said “i wonder if a writer made this”. can anybody shed any light on this?