12ozProphet

Courtesy of Slickster

Nice video of what the creative mind is capable of regardless of ones disability. Thanks to Jeff Newelt for sharing this.

Volvo debuts “Blind Preview” video of the still-secret S60 car.
The Swedish car company hired blind painter Esref Armagan to depict the car, which won’t be fully revealed until 2010 and is described by Volvo’s design director Peter Horbury as having “a much more dynamic and sculpted form than any previous Volvo.”

Photos courtesy of Matt Tucker

If you happen to be on Allen and Delancy Street look up and you will see my artwork for the Red Bull BC-1 Battle. I had no idea where it was going to be painted until Haze sent me a wk in progress shot. I went down to take flicks and it looks amazing, what was more amazing was when I turned around and I saw these two dudes all painted up and I recognized one of them and lo and behold it was Baby168 TVS and Charlie his partner who were painting my piece! Man I was floored, these cats were so spot on with this and they put in a lot of love on this piece.

Baby168 knew it was my work too so he was stoked about working it. It was an honor for me to have these guys translate my work, they really went all out, and unlike MTA they put my tag in as it was in the original artwork (more on me versus MTA to come), I was glad that someone like Francisco (BY168), who in his own right made a name for himself on the trains took his talent to loftier heights. This supports my argument about the current discrimination and prejudice regarding practitioners of the art and the institutions and media business that overlook the gift that graffiti is to many kids interested in artistic expression. You never know how far it can take you nor what or who it may inspire. More to come as all this is hitting NYC real hard right now in every station and boro. This is the new Style War!

I joined Lil Ernie and Cassidy on Unfiltered which airs on CBS Radio. We kicked it about my work, graff and other stuff.

My interview starts at about 28:30 on the clip-

http://www.chataboutit.com

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On the occasion of the publication of the book, From style writing to graffiti, a street art anthology, the gallery organizes a Graffiti and Street art exhibition which get together the masters of the 70s as well as their most important successors and the renovators of street art. An event which is in line with the commitment taken by Magda Danysz, for already more than 10 years in support of Graffiti and Street Art.

Proud to fight for the recognition of Graffiti and Street Art as a major artistic movement, Magda Danysz publishes this fall an anthology about the History of this key artistic movement.

photo @149st.com

http://www.molotow.com/english/magazine/blog/read/article/rich-patterson/

I caught this interview on http://www.ilovegraffiti.de with Jürgen Feuerstein about the paint brand Molotow. Interesting read I wanted to pass along. Also found a dope piece on Rich 2 RTW ROC and his role as a teacher. You make me proud brother! Good digs for today…

http://www.ilovegraffiti.de/en/2008/11/02/funk-colors-and-the-mk2-1#more1443

Commentary: ‘But what’s a Latino?’
By Raquel Cepeda
Special to CNN

This is a recent piece by Raquel published on CNN.com. Powerful and thought provoking…

NEW YORK (CNN)—Let’s all pretend to be the astrologer Walter Mercado for a moment. Say we predict that the Obama administration’s master plan to engage people of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish origin proves to be effective.

Let’s say that along with strategic partners Telemundo and the Census Bureau, they somehow manage to corral the millions of “Latinos” into filling out the 2010 census forms in April. Say the idea of plot-kneading the message into an already half-baked yet inexplicably popular telenovela, “Mas Sabe el Diablo,” wins over the hearts and minds of “Latinos” everywhere.

But what’s a Latino?

More at http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/22/cepeda.latino.census/index.html
Editor’s note: Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker and former editor of Russell Simmons’ Oneworld magazine. Cepeda wrote and directed the feature documentary, “Bling: A Planet Rock,” about hip-hop’s obsession with diamonds and its effect on the decade-long conflict in Sierra Leone. Cepeda is based in New York, where she was born to Dominican parents. Find her at http://djalirancher.com/blog/.