HOW TO BE A BLACK MAN IF YOU BORN WHITE
Posted on November 30, 2007 at 10:44 AM | Comment (1 comments)
WK INTERACT SHOW IN BROOKLYN TOMORROW
Posted on November 29, 2007 at 08:47 AM | Comment (0 comments)
EARSNOT DOWNTOWN FAB CIRCA 2000
I was cleaning my archives yesterday and I found this set of flicks I shot when I was working on Lafayette Street in Soho in 2000. Like I said before I am not a graffiti expert neither a graffiti artist. My graffiti posts are from a strictly observasionist point of view. I have to say that in the year 2000, Snoty owned downtown big time. Every day for that entire year, I would come to work and see a new tags, etchings, throwies from him. I am sure graff heads will disagree on that statement but as a non graffiti expert, I have to say that his work was standing out of the melee.
Posted on November 25, 2007 at 08:42 AM | Comment (3 comments)
MEXICAN SUPERMARKET HAND STYLE
I have been going once a year to Mexico for the past 6 years. I amazed how people over there have a genuine sense for type. From restaurants, to bodegas, to Doctors, they have the dopest hand painted advertisement.
What really killed me is when I went into a Supermarket like C-Town and I found out every ads for food were hand written. I am talking about 100’s of them. I wish I met the senior who draw them. His hand style was iller and much better than tons of toys you see on the NY walls.
Posted on November 21, 2007 at 09:59 AM | Comment (1 comments)
I have the chance to work with one of the most talented graphic design team in the industry. As if it was not enough, they are also killing it on skateboards. This is what happen when you ask them to work late at night… They do stupid youtube movie shredding desks, stairs,etc… instead of getting stuff done. I don’t know if you ever skated on carpet but that shit is challenging. Peace to Dan and Pete for killing the new office. Dan,I don’t know about the music selection…
Posted on November 20, 2007 at 12:09 PM | Comment (0 comments)
1971 NY SUBWAY CAR ADVERTISEMENT
I found this picture in perfect shape in a flea market on 7th Avenue in BK last year. It’s a 1971 advertisement picture from the MTA that shows their new car interior.
Anything missing on the walls? Mare? Chino? Psycho?
Posted on November 19, 2007 at 10:26 PM | Comment (6 comments)
Couple of years ago I saw the amazing work of an artist online but his name was not mentioned at all. Yesterday I found some old magazine in a trash and “bang!!!” 2 spreads about him: Brian Jungen. He is a Canadian artist with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations roots. Here is what wikipedia has to say about him:
Jungen’s art draws upon the tradition of “found art,” espoused by such twentieth-century artists as Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. Instead of presenting objects “as-is,” however, Jungen often reworks them without fully concealing their original meaning or purpose. For instance, Jungen’s series Prototypes of New Understanding consists of aboriginal masks assembled from parts of Nike Air Jordan shoes and hand-sewn. Jungen writes: “It was interesting to see how by simply manipulating the Air Jordan shoes you could evoke specific cultural traditions whilst simultaneously amplifying the process of cultural corruption and assimilation. The Nike mask sculptures seemed to articulate a paradoxical relationship between a consumerist artefact and an ‘authentic’ native artifact.” The Nike footwear that Jungen had employed incorporates in their unmodified forms similar colours to traditional First Nations artwork and wood carvings: red and black. However, other projects, such as a series of wooden pallets, painstakingly crafted out of red cedar, a First Nations tent made out of “11 leather couches” and Jungen’s large “whale-bone” sculptures made out of plastic chairs (some still with Canadian Tire price stickers on them) seek to defamiliarize even members of Western society that are unfamiliar with First Nation themes by placing familiar objects in unfamiliar positions or situations and vice versa.
Posted on November 18, 2007 at 09:36 AM | Comment (1 comments)
This is what happen when greedy real estate developers come and speculate on a Brooklyn popular amusement park. Attractions closed and hours of creativity are waisted. Big up to Espo to try to keep up local traditions alive…
KR, Sorry Homey.
Posted on November 16, 2007 at 07:10 PM | Comment (3 comments)
PHASE 2 EVOLUTION AND HIP HOP FASHION CIRCA 1984
What’s up people, I am back in business after a little time out.
I love stoops sale… Especially in Brooklyn. You find all types of memorabilia from New York History. I got this one for $5… Just amazing…
Posted on November 16, 2007 at 11:47 AM | Comment (4 comments)
LAME SELF-PROMOTION AKA NEW WEBSITE
I just shut down my website and put a slide show instead… Hope you will enjoy it!
Thanks to mister PK Militia. Grotesk Website
Posted on November 06, 2007 at 02:23 PM | Comment (6 comments)
BUY THIS DVD AND BECOME STREET WEAR DESIGNER
Fashion Hustler is the must have DVD for this week. If you have no talent, no taste and no friend this is the piece you should own. Looking at the street wear market today, I believe mad cats have bought that DVD.
Big Up to Mister Raven… Without him I would have miss that brilliant tool.
Posted on November 05, 2007 at 07:27 AM | Comment (3 comments)
