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If you're into the graffiti scene then you may have heard of Insa. He has a unique style that has been seen on many walls worldwide to cars in the Gumball.
Now he has started his own custom one stop shop and wants to create a piece of his unique artwork on your car, boat, tank, or space shuttle...
http://www.fueltopia.co.uk/forum/topics/get-you-vehicle-customised-byIf you're into the graffiti scene then you may have heard of Insa. He has a... more
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This week we feature Uprok and the man who holds it down, Street Jesus. Uprok has help keep the culture alive here in Utah. By supplying emcees with a place to lay down tracks, bboys with a place to battle, records for DJs to spin, and paint for Graffiti writers to continue writing.This week we feature Uprok and the man who holds it down, Street Jesus. Uprok has help... more
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This week we feature Higher Ground Learning and their Urban Arts Program at the Utah Arts Festival.
Higher Ground Learning provides an alternative method of learning and incorporated urban culture into their curriculum through their Urban Arts Program. The program takes place every summer and kids are able to learn graffiti and stencil skills and feature their work at the Utah Arts Festival.This week we feature Higher Ground Learning and their Urban Arts Program at the Utah... more
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Jessica & Shannon just got engaged over some graffiti street art made by Ack! Video by PR!MO of ShootEditSleepJessica & Shannon just got engaged over some graffiti street art made by Ack!... more
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Street artists BLU, create their second massive video project
"BIG BANG BIG BOOM: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end."Street artists BLU, create their second massive video project
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Will Chris Brown’s BET Performance Revive His Career? PR Experts Weigh In
‘The question is: Do people think it’s real?’ one expert asks of Brown’s tearful BET Awards Michael Jackson tribute.
MTV.Com
Jun 28 2010
By Gil Kaufman
Only Chris Brown knows what caused him to choke up on Sunday night at the BET Awards during his tribute to Michael Jackson. Was it paying tribute to his late musical and dancing idol? Was it the emotion of performing on a major TV event for the first time in over a year in front of his peers? Was it the song’s lyrics, which are about staring in the mirror and willing yourself to make a change?
Click to see Chris Brown 2010 BET Awards: From Beating a Woman, To Being A Woman…BREAKDOWN VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/chris-brown-2010-bet-awards-from-beating-a-woman-to-being-a-woman-breakdown-video/Will Chris Brown’s BET Performance Revive His Career? PR Experts Weigh In... more
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An exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.
We are bringing in the works of an international selection of artists who typically make use of the streets to showcase their work. We have also sought artists that re-appropriate the public realm, attempting to take charge of their media space.
Artists will be asked, along with submitting artwork, to present some form of documentation of their other works as well as their process in order to illustrate via pictures, video, sketches, words, etc, the scale and context in which the artist typically works in public space.
Logistics:
First in order to understand why we need to raise funds let us provide you with more specific logistical information regarding our project.
The project will be divided into three components: a component devoted to public murals involving poster art, a lecture series which the Georgia Tech architecture department has agree to host for us, and a that of a gallery opening taking place at the Eyedrum. The poster art show will precede all other events the prior to August 13, 2010. On Friday August 13th, the event will consist of a lecture series held at Georgia Tech. On Saturday August 14th, the event will consist of an exhibition and Pecha Kucha-style presentations held at Eyedrum. The gallery exhibition will be on display in Eyedrum's galleries from August 13 through the end of September and will commemorate the various public walls around the city blanketed by the wheat pastes.
Poster show:
Inspired and aligned with the open source and free culture movement, driving many poster art (wheat pasting) shows that have happened internationally: Benevento, Turin, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, etc. These other poster art shows have been pieced together by colleagues of the curators of the Living Walls conference. The intentions behind our show are aligned with the same set of values. This alignment has embedded us in a network of street artists who willingly support our efforts. Thus we know there is a critical mass of street artists engaged in poster art all over Europe and South America willing to answer an open call to submit to our show. Along with all this we have three artists contributing to our event who have agreed to act as our liaisons over seas in Berlin, Brazil and Australia. Our liaisons have agreed to collect submissions from around the world and ship posters from over seas to us. An open call for artists will soon be put out asking for poster submissions. These posters will be wheat pasted blanketing a few public walls around Atlanta which we have gained permission for. All these public works will be thoroughly documented for display within the gallery component.
Lecture series:
We are very thankful to the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech who have agreed to support this conference through hosting a lecture series and providing space for other activities. We intend to have a series of lectures the day before the gallery show in order to promote the gallery show itself as well as to engage and inform a different audience that would otherwise not attend the gallery show.
Gallery show:
Select artists, along with contributing to the poster show, will display their work within eyedrum. All artist are asked present some kind of documentation regarding their specific artistic process. This documentation itself will be on display within the gallery and is intended to illustrate all that is entailed in the act of making street art. Also on display will be the documentation of the prior week's events, the wheat pasting of the submitted posters. On the opening day of the gallery show we will have a pecha kucha* like event, where selected artist and lecturers will present 20 slides. Each slide will be displayed for 20 seconds, yielding a total presentation of about 7 min in length. The pace of these presentations has a unique way engaging an audience with an entertaining, yet informative slew of ideas.
more info at link and can be found on facebook
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacki/living-walls-the-city-speaksAn exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public... more
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From The Cortinas to Lunatic Fringe and Disorder, Bristol had a huge Punk scene that has influenced, affected and stimulated a vast range of artists that operate in the city. Many of these artists produce music that wouldn’t necessarily suggest a Punk heritage but scratch beneath the surface of a lot of the major players in the Bristol milieu and you will find a fondness for the times of `spikey barnets’, limited musical ability, a `F*** You’ attitude and disrespect for the music industry and its poseur hierarchy. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/album-rewievs/398-dirty-hc-punkFrom The Cortinas to Lunatic Fringe and Disorder, Bristol had a huge Punk scene that... more
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While walking the streets of San Francisco, it is easy to come across an intricate graffiti mural painted on the side of a building. Vivid colors blend together to make obscure fonts and shapes, all done with a can of spray paint and a lot of attention to detail. Even if you can't make out what it says you still know it is art.
SF is an open place. People are more open to new ideas, new forms of expression and has has a lot more character-driven stuff. People are more interested in collaborating with different types of artists. It's really easy to insult somebody you don't know. If you have friends that are really into something and you've seen it from their angle, you start to realize the ties between those things. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/section-blog/365-san-francisco-graffitiWhile walking the streets of San Francisco, it is easy to come across an intricate... more
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Graf artists: ADEK, JADE, and FUCT painted over Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston in Manhattan.Graf artists: ADEK, JADE, and FUCT painted over Shepard Fairey's mural on Houston... more
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About a week ago a world famous graffiti artist tagged the white metal lock box under the old View Alcatraz sign next to the Red and White Fleet ticket booth on Pier 43½. Since that time, people have been coming by in great numbers to take pictures. Why? Rumor has it - the work is worth lots of money and is affiliated with the promotion of “The World’s First Street Art Disaster Movie…now screening at Embarcadero Center’s movie theater. Curious? Come on down and take your own photos and check out http://www.banksyfilm.com/ for more information.About a week ago a world famous graffiti artist tagged the white metal lock box under... more
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There's always a guerrilla undercurrent with graffiti, but the Facade Printer, which uses a computer-enhanced paintball gun to tattoo images onto buildings, really makes that aspect explicit. Judging by its work, it appears to have pretty good aim.
The German contraption, which is comprised of an pressurized barrel mounted on a two-axis turntable, can blast pictures onto walls from a distance of 20 feet. It's controlled by an on-board industrial PC running a custom touch interface.
Images can be loaded onto the machine with a USB stick, and they're printed by paintballs of many colors traveling over 100mph.
The Facade Printer is an especially cool embodiment of the push to make art, not war. Of course, it's hard not to imagine how much havoc it could wreak in your local paintball league.
Pics and video at the link . . .
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/10048/facade-printer.htmlThere's always a guerrilla undercurrent with graffiti, but the Facade Printer,... more
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masterpieces indeed.
Keep painting so we have beauty to stare at verses the trash on the streets.masterpieces indeed.
Keep painting so we have beauty to stare at verses the trash on... more
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Not quite sure how this was done fully, I suspect some well designed printer/scan work went into it. Whatever method, changing a snickers advert to Read Some Chomsky wins in this book of internet wins.Not quite sure how this was done fully, I suspect some well designed printer/scan work... more
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Time lapse of a street artist (though looks like he's indoors) creating an amazing piece of 3D graffiti. It goes to show with time, effort and an insane talent graffiti can create great artistic illusions. [via b3ta]Time lapse of a street artist (though looks like he's indoors) creating an... more
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With 8 days and counting until the opening of "It's All Back On" at Guy Hepner, the streets of Hollywood have been overrun by Jason Alper's guerilla art campaign.
http://guyhepner.com/pages/news/jason-alper-street-artWith 8 days and counting until the opening of "It's All Back On" at Guy... more
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"Nipples" The banksy of Bracknell who has been nippliing all the bins in Bracknell and causing controversy in the local newspapers, has finally spoken to an interviewer(well with a mask on and a fake accent) The people of Bracknell are still none the wiser, but at least they wil understand about Nipples interest in the breast."Nipples" The banksy of Bracknell who has been nippliing all the bins in... more
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Rockin' Tha Spot! Vol 6
Video Music Box
What’s happening peoples? This week we’re going to take a look outside of the box by taking a look at the box itself. My old school NY heads know exactly what is meant whenever someone says “The Box.” No, not The Box, that video show on cable that you could call up and request a video and then stare at the screen for hours watching videos you don’t want to see just waiting to see if your pick ever gets played. No, The Box That Rocks; Video Music Box.
Yo! MTV (got) Raps. Word? But who got MTV? On the real cable didn’t even hit Brooklyn until the mid 80’s and when it did the buildings and projects around my way didn’t get it. Honestly, I didn’t get cable until I was like 16 but you know crafty New Yorker’s always get their exclusives one way or another. Well since 1983 “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels and his partner Lionel “Vid Kid” Martin have been bringing the NYC area Video Music Box, the first video show focusing on “urban” music and culture. It’s time to give credit to a true pioneer.
I remember jetting home down the block after school every day so that I wouldn’t miss a second of the hour-long show that blasted off for an hour at 3:30. They even had the Friday episode replayed around noon on Saturday’s if you foolishly missed it the day before. Shooting hoops in the schoolyard? Dead it, the playground was a ghost town until 4:30. From the second the show started rolling with that boombox popping up over the skyline with the loop from Whodini’s “5 Minutes Of Funk” playing you knew it was about to be on, literally. This show was the best ever to do it and here’s the multitude of reasons why.
First off, they were the originator. Ralph McDaniels, an aspiring DJ, had recently graduated college with a degree that would lead him to a lifetime spent both behind and in front of the video camera. We’re talking an hour long, 6-day a week show back in 1983. Bear with me a second youngins this might seem crazy but this is back in the day for real. I mean like back in the days where you were ballin if your TV had a remote, cable was more hearsay than a reality. Shit, TV’s still had knobs and dials on those joints! Some of you probably have no idea what I’m talking about (get ya Google on) but some of you know you had to switch the knob from VHF where the “normal” channels were to UHF where all the bootleg/low-budget stuff was. Then spin that dial to channel 31 and let’s get it rockin! New Yorker’s knew who Fab 5 Freddy was for the longest but the rest of the nation didn’t truly get exposed to him until Yo! MTV (finally decides that money is more of a motivator for them than racism and starts to play) Raps.
Second, VMB was, “the streets” way before the first rappers with IQ’s between 79-83 starting screaming it like manholes magically double as subwoofers on Nostrand Ave. This show wasn’t formatted to be broadcast from a studio set or somebody’s fictitious mom’s “bassment”, no this show was shot on location around the way. Which way? All of ‘em. You might catch a segment being broadcast from in front of Beat Street Records by downtown Brooklyn’s Albee Square Mall. (For my MTV generation cats, it’s a few store down from where Diddy sent those herbs on that long walk to Junior’s to fetch him cheesecake.) It might be footage taped from underground club spots like the Ark or Kilimanjaro (buck,buck,buck!) of performances from artist that you might know from around the way or at least you would know very soon. Some of raps biggest names got there first bits of exposure on VMB, like Nas, Fugees, Biggie, Wu-Tang to name a few.
Third, they did it for the people. It was a common occurrence for Ralph or some of the co-hosts (Chuck Chillout, Crazy Sam, Ray DeJon, Tuffy) over almost 30 years to just turn to regular people in the streets or at the parties and clubs to let them speak their piece. Sometimes they commented on specific artists music or videos and sometimes it was just good old-fashioned shoutouts to their peeps. Hell, you watch enough episodes and you’re bound to see someone you know, and I’m not talking about a musical artist, I’m talking about homeboy who posts up all day across the street from the corner store where you yourself are doing the exact same thing. As far as the hip hop culture is concerned, this always was OUR show. It spoke for us because, well, it let us speak!
Fourth, it wasn’t just about rap. It was about the representation of the culture. Whether it was the non-rap videos they would play like R&B, reggae, or dancehall, or features of local black businesses and community awareness movements, there was diversity. It was “deeper than rap” unlike the tall-tales and entire livelihoods based solely off of rap and rap only, as so many of today’s shallow rappers could truly attest to if they stopped lying to themselves and the public. It wasn’t farfetched to see Super Cat’s “Ghetto Red Hot” video and Brand Nubian’s “Slow Down” played within the same 10 minute stretch. Oh yeah, no commercials. In later years they would adjust the format at times to reflect certain themes for certain days ( Tasty Tuesday’s R&B, Old-School Wednesday’s, and Nervous Thursday’s.)
Fifth, they never “sold out”. Over the years Ralph McDaniels has received numerous offer and opportunities to have the program scooped up by larger networks but one main roadblock constantly prevented this from occurring; the loss of creative control. So yeah, if you weren’t from around the way you probably have never heard about this program let alone have seen it, but I doubt if this program went national we would have had the same experience. They name would be the same but surely the show would be different. Worst case scenario is VMB would wind up in the graveyard for video shows that most programs are now eternally buried in.
Video Music Box is still around today. The show still gets played on local cable access in NY, the same as it started back in 1983. It has also adjusted and adapted to the changes in technological times. VMB footage can now be found on the website www.onfumes.com. There are tons of classic, as well as recent footage to be found here, a true goldmine. In 2008 Manhattan’s Central Park played host to its annual Summer Stage concert series of which a featured show was the Video Music Box 25th Anniversary concert where some of New York’s greatest hit the stage to spread love. I wish I was there but the pics and video clips due it a bit of justice. McDaniels and Martin formed Classic Concepts Productions, a video and film production company and have been responsible for producing over 300 videos, commercials, films, and documentaries in their careers. Uncle Ralph might have shot one of your favorite videos and you don’t even know it. I’m not going to name-drop any; yall can go diggin in the internet crates on your own. C’mon son, a little hard work won’t kill ya, it’ll build character.
I’ll leave yall with this interview of the man himself, Ralph McDaniels dropping jewels. For my sneaker fiends out there, peep the kicks at the end of the video. Fire. In addition, here’s a link to a nice interview with him around the time of the 25th Anniversary.
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/40541/and-it-hasnt-stoppedRockin' Tha Spot! Vol 6
Video Music Box
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