DEDICATED TO MY HONEY DIPS BACK IN THE DAY, MAMI’S FROM DA BLOCK. BROOK AVE BABY!!!
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Women are Heroes- JR Photo Documentary
“Women are Heroes!” in honour of the fate of these women, both strong and vulnerable, who display extraordinary strength in all circumstances, including the most extreme.
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http://www.womenareheroes.be/?en
“Women are heroes!” proclaim Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the artivist JR on the occasion of International Women’s Day. JR has visited Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Kenya, returning with striking portraits of women taken with the help of his 28 millimetre lens. He wants to share their stories, first by exhibiting them in their country of origin, then in the framework of spectacular exhibitions hosted in several cities throughout the world. As from 8th March 2008, the faces and expressions of eight women will first of all be splashed across the walls of Brussels for a month. Their gigantic portraits will make their presence felt in the streets of the town centre reflecting how vital their role is in the daily routines of their countries. By asking them to pull a face, JR shows the spark of life… The expressiveness of their faces testifies to their strength, their courage and their will to fight which keeps them going, keeps them alive.
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Posted on March 08, 2008 at 06:34 PM | Comment (0 comments)
The illustrated Julio Granados
As often I do I like to showcase my friends who are talented artists, some you already know and some are new to you. I present to you the works of illustrator Julio Granados http://juliogranados.com he has an extremely accomplished style of his own and currently has some works like these posters available. They are really beautiful, Ive seen them up close. Peep his work. Let me know your thoughts.
Posted on March 08, 2008 at 06:09 PM | Comment (1 comments)
Though nothing new to us fashion design is still taking cues from writers!
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Mare139-New Drip Tag Art 2007-08
I started painting late last year after a 20 yr or so hiatus, among the work I have been exploring has been the Drip Wars of 1978 between my crew CIA and rival Crew TMT. We were Style Master crews that at the time would create some of the best wild style whole cars of the era. Being that a rivalry developed we recognized that it wasnt in our best interest to cross out Masterpieces so we kept the battle on the insides of the trains. Kade, Tean, Fed2 and the lot were notorious for flooding the insides with Flow Master ink tags that would literally cover panels, seats and the floors with ink. We, Duro, Dondi, Kel, Aeron, K56 and others would do the same and go over flood tags over flood tags, totally resulting in what you see in my new works. These were the days when you would go to the layup with pints of ink in a variety of colors and with a variety of Markers form Uni’s, Mini’s, Pilots, Mops and Flow Pens.
There is a tendency with the new generation of writers and artists to use the drip method as a design metaphor or an easy way to fill space, with this in mind my response regarding my work is that there is a vital differenced between todays tendencies and writing history. “These works tell stories and are not executed for the sake of technique.” My hope is that they are regarded as a testament to the years 1978-79 when it was an all out Flood War on the insides of the 2’s and 5’s. Each work begins with memories and tags and evolves into the end result.
This new piece of a series was executed in late 07 using Krink ink and the Strap Hanger added in 08 after the viewing of Spray Masters. It was called Shy147 but when I added the Strap Hanger it became - Monday Morning Commute. It reflects that early morning train ride to school after a long weekend of hitting up the insides.....more to come.
Posted on March 05, 2008 at 11:42 AM | Comment (4 comments)
Today, I was writing my talk for Focus the Nation, a nationwide teach-in about global warming. I know what to say, how to say it. I am in control, and I can see in my mind’s eye the audience’s response. I refer to global warming, not as a problem, but as a crisis. It is monumental, overpowering, without precedent. The language is dire: will the earth survive? Will we survive? If we act, we can beat extinction. I controlled it all, until Aleta called me and whispered those words that settle everything, that take everything out of our hands and levels us all. She said: Tony has passed.
Nothing matches the finality of death; but then again nothing should. Nothing touches death’s knack for settling issues, for turning all the heavy, insurmountable crises into, well, into nothing. I have no way of talking about Tony’s passing, except to talk about his presence then, rather than his absence now. And maybe the two are exactly the same. For I see him now, the Tony that moved at double time, the Tony that talked at bullet speed, the Tony that darted here and there with nine cameras, asking this person to stand here, no there, to hold this thing and that—to turn to the left and talk to that one.
Style Wars—that’s how I know him best. He came to my class and talked about the film and about the kids years after he had made the film. He spoke with such affection about the misbegotten—Cap and Daze and Dondi—he loved their craziness, their wildness, their sense that they could do anything, anytime, anywhere. Brooklyn kids threw up their names two stories high on the sides of trains, on the sides of buildings, on the sides of the world itself. Listen to me, you friggin’ world, pay me some mighty attention. For I am somebody, goddamn it! Their spirit rubbed off on him—my god, they were invincible, they would live forever. They would beat the game and the system and show the man for what he was—a damned fool.
That was Tony, that was the man who could, I swear, climb the trains or hang on the overpass and spray his name all over town. I think he would have loved that. He had that look in his eye, that spring in his step, that little ‘screw you’ in his get up and go. I’M WALKIN’ HERE!
Oh Tony, Oh my man, if there are blank walls where you are, give it a go. Write your name all over the damned place. Let them know Tony Silver was here. HI HO SILVER!
Barry Sanders was professor of History of Ideas and English at Pitzer College in Claremont, California and a prolific author. Sanders was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Harper’s magazine for his book Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man’s Land, 1619-2000.[1] In 1994 Sanders received his first Pulitzer nomination from Random House for his book A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word. He is also the author of Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History. Sanders is a member of the board of (Out)Laws & Justice.
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