(Marvin Gaye/James Nyx)
Hey baby, what’cha know good
I’m just gettin’ back, but you knew I would
War is hell, when will it end,
When will people start gettin’ together again
Are things really gettin’ better,
like the newspaper said
What else is new my friend, besides what I read
Can’t find no work, can’t find no job my friend
Money is tighter than it’s ever been
Say man, I just don’t understand
What’s going on across this land
Ah what’s happening brother,
Oh ya, what’s happening my man
Are they still gettin’ down where
we used to go and dance
Will our ball club win the pennant,
do you think they have a chance
And tell me friend, how in the world have you been.
Tell me what’s out and I want to know what’s in.
What’s the deal man, what’s happening
What’s happening brother
Ah what’s happening brother
What’s happening my man
Ah what’s happening brother
What’s been shaken up and down the line
I want to know cause I’m slightly behind the time.
Posted on January 30, 2008 at 10:24 PM | Comment (1 comments)
This is indulgent but we cant front on Pam!
Posted on January 27, 2008 at 07:15 PM | Comment (6 comments)
Mare139, Ali, Mandela, Quincy, Lionel
I found these images of a most important moment in my life. Its hard to believe it was me but I had dinner at Mandelas table along with Bob DeNiro and others. Then out of no where Ali shows up!!! Two of my heroes, I would have never imagined it but yes I was there. It was a room of big wigs and celebs but no one could eclipse the light and force of these two men, nobody, not Puffy, Leo, no one. I was blessed indeed so I wanted to share this with yall. The trip was also meeting Quincy another of my heroes and rapping to Lionel Richie about how as a kid I bough tix to a Commodores concert where Curtis Blow opened up and unbeknownst to me Bob Marley and the Wailers opened for Lionel!!!! He was like yo you were mad young! I was like- I had my Nickel bag spliff in the air, he told me Bob Marley got him so spliffed he wasnt sure he could perform, but he did and turned it out. Sometimes I forget how good its been to be me. Lets not take life for granted. Some legends come in from all parts of life and are equally important to me as one can see from my TFP entry.
Posted on January 27, 2008 at 06:56 PM | Comment (3 comments)
Butch2 and King Kase2 are the original members of the legendary Style Master crew TFP- The Fantastic Partners. Ive know and painted alongside these legends when I was a kid and can attribute my style writing in part to their innovative styles and whole cars.
Posted on January 27, 2008 at 06:50 PM | Comment (2 comments)
I was asked to write a pice for a forht coming book about how I became a sculptor and while considering this I had to really trace back how it all came about and here is my history in brief. Enjoy-
Regarding how I got to sculpture-
I can now point to how I specifically arrived at graffiti sculpture before actually realizing it was my destiny to be a sculptor. It was 1981 as a Fashion Design major at the High School of Art and Design in NYC. I was interested at the time in pursuing the application of graffiti on fashion design with a couture interest, I was doing silk batiking as a side job and realized that my designs could take fluid form through garments. It was ambitious and I was distracted by the possibility and pursued it during my pattern making and draping classes where I would learn to cut and shape muslin fabric on a mannequin. I used to cut arrow shapes and weave them around the mannequin, my initial interest was fashion not sculpture and although this was far ahead of its time my teacher didnt see it this way so she failed me. My second interest was to pursue Jewelry design when I got to university. While at Parsons School of Design, the graff culture was in full steam, writers were painting canvases and traversing the globe, I had been a part of the initial push of artist to do shows but didnt have a clearly identified ‘commercial’ style. While getting educated in art history at Parsons I found relevance and purpose with what my culture was producing and soon a deep conflict was to develop that clearly and decisively pushed me into sculpture. At the time many of my peers and friends where starting to paint very commercial and non related graffiti style writing paintings. This was to be the catalyst for me to challenge the best of my group for abandoning traditional wild style graffiti, at the time there were no examples of what graffiti sculpture could be other than True 222 (Phase2) breakthrough sculpture in steel, I looked at the new works of my closest friends and peers as an affront to the art and challenged them with the creation of true wild style lettering sculptures that where painted and folded out into space. It was my way of competing, being relevant and honoring them and those pioneers before us. This was 1985, I abandoned university, and soon after I laid down the ground work for graffiti style sculpture I moved on to more progressive and innovative approaches to the art form with more consideration and challenge to the history of constructed sculpture, no longer was my competition Noc167, Dondi or Kel1st, it became Picasso, Julio Gonzales, Frank Stella, Valdimir Tatin and a whole new culture of sculpture makers.
Posted on January 27, 2008 at 05:53 PM
Bends steel with his mighty hands.
Posted on January 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM | Comment (2 comments)
JUAN GONZALEZ: As voters head to the polls in Nevada and South Carolina Saturday, the economy remains one of the top issues for voters across party lines. Today, we’re going to spend the rest of the hour examining the growing income gap in the United States. Economic figures show that in 2005, the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the country’s population had nearly as much income as all 150 million Americans who make up the lower economic half of the country. Of each dollar people earned in 2005, the top ten percent got 48.5 cents, the highest percentage since 1929, just before the Great Depression.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/18/free_lunch_how_the_wealthiest_americans
Posted on January 22, 2008 at 02:08 PM | Comment (2 comments)
