Audio- Curator Franklin Sirmons discusses Hip Hop and High Art
Really good lecture about Graffiti and the high brow art world by Franklin Sirmons who curated several important shows on the culture of Hip Hop which include- cocurator of Basquiat 2005-2006: Brooklyn Museum, One Planet Under A Groove: Contemporary Art and Hip Hop (2001-2003: Bronx Museum of Art.
http://multimedia.boston.com/pub/m/19092254/franklin_sirmans_driskell_prize.htm?col=en-all-pod_bcom-ep&q=driscoll&match=QUERY
Posted on March 31, 2008 at 12:46 PM | Comment (0 comments)
1968-2008 Same shit different year!
Barack Obama’s March 18, 2008 speech, “A More Perfect Union,” focused attention issues of race and class in America today. Forty years ago race and class was on the minds of Americans too — when The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders released its report on the urban riots of 1967. That report, more commonly known as the Kerner Report, with its stark conclusion that “Our nation is moving towards two societies — one white, one black — separate and unequal” — was a best-seller. It was also the source of great controversy and remains so today. Peep the Bill Moyers Special, if you dont want to at least view the stats below.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03282008/watch.html
Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today.
Posted on March 30, 2008 at 11:47 PM | Comment (5 comments)
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03282008/watch2.html
Jam of the Week 3-27-08 Aretha!
Its a Funky Low Down Feelin’...Need I say more!
Posted on March 27, 2008 at 12:56 AM | Comment (1 comments)
Just to put my works in context for those who are not familiar with the thread.
Posted on March 27, 2008 at 12:06 AM | Comment (0 comments)
By Carlos Mare139 Rodriguez
I’ve come to understand the meaning and purpose of these actions over the years as a result of being influenced by train writings in the mid 1970’s. At first I was aware of the obvious, the environment around me which was a disabled New York City, it was a city torn apart by the divide of the civil rights era, as well as the financial neglect from State and Government. The conditions around me were both hostile and electric, the South Bronx and many of the minority neighborhoods were in a state of urban decay, buildings were being set ablaze by landlords to collect on insurance money, Police corruption was at an all time high and the effects of the Vietnam war were being handed down to the next generation. Drugs and violence were all around me, there was nothing to shelter me from it and nothing my parents could do about it because we were too poor to move elsewhere. Being so young and living in a place where you were forgotten and marginalized it is no wonder we had to invent an alternate reality for ourselves. Initially I recall little of my personal expression or individuality I existed as most ghetto kids, poor and disconnected. My childs play were street games and running around abandoned burnt out buildings and playing in the brick lots of broken dreams. I knew very little of the world outside this existence except for the occasional trip into Manhattan which was a marvel to me.....
Posted on March 26, 2008 at 09:08 PM | Comment (2 comments) 
Download PDF Format to read whole piece. http://www.stylewars.com/PDF/sofarremoved.pdf
So Far Removed
Published by Dokument Folag 2007 Berlin
One could have never considered the consequence of one persons scrawling on a cave, wall, or train many years ago, how these gestures would ultimately hold so much power and individual meaning forevermore.
Download PDF Format to read whole piece. http://www.stylewars.com/PDF/sofarremoved.pdf
These are the latest books that have published me or my writing. I will post them and share my writings in a pdf format so it will be better to read.
Posted on March 26, 2008 at 09:05 PM | Comment (0 comments)
Heres a study Im working on that is merging all the latest processes Im going thru. Still working out the sculptural aspects but the concept is getting tighter. It actually started as a “W”.
Posted on March 26, 2008 at 08:57 PM | Comment (0 comments)
08 New Work- There Will Be Floods!
“There will be floods! As part of my new series on the Flood Wars I had to Spike! it down for good measure. There was something really satisfying and poignant about the action almost as if I were driving a stake through the old ideas about graff writing. Maybe its about me killing off old tendencies to make room for newer ways to express myself. The resulting piece is the next post where I really shift gears and return to what I do best, form in space. The new works are on Stainless Steel using KRINK.
Posted on March 26, 2008 at 08:38 PM | Comment (0 comments)
“CECI N’EST PAS GRAFFITI”
A collection of new paintings and sculpture by SLICK.
Artist’s reception: Thursday April 3rd 7-9:30pm
Showing: April 3rd - May 1st 2008
FIFTY24SF GALLERY
248 Fillmore St. San Francisco / 415-252-9144
Posted on March 24, 2008 at 10:29 AM | Comment (1 comments)
Posted on March 21, 2008 at 09:26 AM | Comment (0 comments)
Two of the greatest soul music talents remixed. Nice job editing this piece, whoever did it. The Voice is David Ruffin who was an original member of The Temptations of the Legendary Motown Sound and of course the amazing Jackson 5 breakin it down.
Posted on March 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM | Comment (0 comments)
For those that remember ‘walking’
In true B-Boy fashion Big Up to The Mock Kneck and the Puma Suedes and the crisp LEE Shorts.
Posted on March 17, 2008 at 11:50 PM | Comment (1 comments)
