Possessed. 5/29/09

Rime Ceaze MSK

Suicidal tendencies Mike Muir listens to the radio not to see whats out there but to be reminded about what he hates. Kinda like why I do this blog. (via streetboners)

Dave Choe discusses his experiences painting the offices of Facebook – images (via bloomberg)

a Cool video from the Generation one show in LA in which they brought out alot of westcoast legends to do some bodypainting and hang some canvas. But for real it’s all about the Duster segment. (via WYW)

A Photo diary from the ArteBA art fair in buenos Aires. It looks like Street art is really overtaking the South American art scene. (via Interview)

I can think of plenty of empty paperboxes that could use some of this. Street artist Posterchild gardens in the city. (via Good)

Puerto Rico, Whoaa

Rhymes with Sex 5/27/09

Multi Plex

Repurpose : Hardware hackers

I’m not much of a justice fan but this video rules

Ceaze Mad Society King Doing it Large

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SF Meets Tokyo Inna Neon Chamber

Old School Freaks Get Ready To Rock

Cock Knee Trans Lation 5/26/09

Journaux Mary Virginia Carmack

A look back at the precipitous ledge (called the art market) that some jumped off of and others are holding onto for dear life ( via artloves$$)

A lil insight into the mind of Ray Potes, Hamburger Eyes (via Citrus report)

A studio visit with Ron English (via arrested motion)

“I am the custodian, the curator of the images that live in my mind. Every image has first entered my mind, travelled through my heart, my blood – arriving at the end of my hand. Everything has come through me.” British artist Tracy Emin runsdown her favorite 5 drawings, exploring the moments she recorded. (via guardian uk)

Robbie Conal Gives us 11 reasons why he gets up everyday to do the do. (via Blackbook)

I put a spell on you……

Social Living 5/22/09

Ataxic Reversal James Roper 2008

When you want to talk about hot sauce there is only one I care about ……SriRacha. (via PSFK)

“The processes of achieving this in an integrated way required a level of layered delicacy and subtleness which was frankly new to our music. I wanted the visual aspects and packaging designs to capture this element as well and this required a lot of breathing time with the various ideas to see how they settled, in the longer term.” SUNN 0))) discusses the effort made in presenting a visual component to their heavy drone metal (via crblog)

“Fine art is fun, but only if you have rich parents.” A review of the new book “Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art” (via Hrag Vartanian)

Sometime Samurai’s

‘Burque stylee

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Yeti mistake 5/21/09

Troy lovegates a/k/a Other

These are definitely not the Lego’s I grew up playing with. Check out the new Frank Lloyd Wright collection. (via psfk)

Reminiscing about High school ( a certain school with an amazing Alumni list) with Rime (via jersey joe)

“It has always been a joke in the family. People would always say: ‘Are you any relation to Bob Marley?’ and I would say: ‘Yes, he’s my cousin’. We would laugh about it. Now it turns out it is the gospel truth.” Meet the white marley’s (via daily swarm)

“In Maputo, alleged criminals are killed by necklacing – putting a tyre around their neck, filling it with petrol, and setting it alight – a method used in South African townships in the 1980s against alleged apartheid spies.” The brutality of extreme poverty in Mozambique (via gold coast)

Germans do the darndest things

Sub Liminal 5/19/09

Revs Sculpture via WYW

Iggy Pop sells car insurance in the UK. I believe that is the signal to burn your house and move to the woods. (via Daily Swarm)

NY Skate/Streetwear company Supreme talks to Malcolm McClaren about the subcultures he has mined. (Via highsnobiety)

I dig the work of some of the artists in Paper Magazine’s “Rebranding America” project but is it really an issue with branding that is Americas problem? (via OAR)

“I was one of those kids who absolutely hated school. I always felt that I didn’t quite fit into the education system as it was and yearned to find a place to belong. I started the Make Something!! program to be a home for kids who feel as displaced in school as I did.” Aaron Rose’s “Make Something” workshops have found some deep pockets in Kanye West to help it continue growing (via Wooster)

Barry McGee will go on forever with his cop evading tips if you let him (via art21)

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Back In Stride 5/18/09

Images from the Desmadre : Fresh latino Perspectives In America opening

In These Trying Economic Times. Henry Moore sculpture gets cut up and sold for scrap by Gypsies (via AFC)

Why does this bug me so much? Why place “Street Art/ Graffiti” in a hall full of old dead white guy furniture? Do they expect the respectability will some how rub off on it? Bah!!! (via Jux)

“to call that the end of pop reminded me of white, male post-structuralists moaning ‘didn’t you know the author is dead?’ when in the 1980s for example black feminists promoted and claimed authorship in the name of identity politics.” A discussion about the changing definition of what makes Pop culture pop. (via Frieze)

NYC Scrap Trains Circa 1997

Desmadre arte and Posting Notice

Hey There
I am super busy getting ready for the show I am curating at Vermillion Gallery. If you are in the Seattle area on the 14th please drop in and say hey. Unfortunately in the meantime I am not going to be able to post with any regularity so please bare with me and as soon as I can will be back in the saddle with the bloggage.
In the meantime please enjoy the video teaser we created for the show -
Desmadre : Fresh Latino Perspectives in America

Vermillion Gallery and Desmadre Arte presents
Desmadre:
Fresh Latino Perspectives in America
May 14 – June 6, 2009
Artist Reception Thursday May 14 6pm – 10pm
featuring a performance by
Jaime Torres and Rafael Barrios
and comida provided by
Los Desmadrosos
Vermillion Gallery 1508 11th Ave Seattle Wa 98122

Featuring the work of -.
Ana Serrano
Jaime (Germs) Zacarins
Antonio Pelayo
Xico González
Albert Cerritaño
Michael Alvarez
Jeaneen Carlino
Carlos Donjuan
Victor Marka
Pedro De Valdiva
Julio Guerro
Mario Campos
Manuel Rios
Vicente Pacheco
George Estrada
Robert Santiago
Marco Zamora
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Albert Reyes

Vermillion Gallery in conjunction with Desmadre Arte present “Desmadre: Fresh Latino Perspectives in America”, a group show of emerging artists who are incorporating Latino cultural themes within urban contemporary works. This exhibition is a view into the rich, yet subtle manner in which Latino culture exists in modern American life. The artists participating are influenced through a multitude of references showing elements of the Mexican social realism of Orozco and Rivera, the pop of Warhol and Cuban agit propagandist Rene Medeiros, saturday morning cartoons, paño art, tattoo’s, and graffiti in all of it’s manifestations.
There has been a growing underground for Latino artists, centered mainly in the West Coast, that has become increasingly tied with the contemporary Urban art community. These artists have been incorporating imagery and themes that relate to their Hispanic heritage and the American experience. While for many the Spanish language has been sacrificed in efforts to assimilate, there are other ties to a shared past that consistently appear in many of the works included in “Desmadre: Fresh Latino Perspectives in America”. Many of the artists explore the strong family experiences that factor heavily in the Latino community, ranging from the mundane family celebrations that mark the calendar to the strong female presence that anchors so many families . These experiences are what connect the past to the present and on to the future
As we head into this 21st century there has been a departure from the old cultural identities. We are seeing what curator Nicholas Bourriard calls the “Creolization” of culture, a blending of various traditional cultures with some local specific contemporary elements. This show is equally about this moment in history, a time in which America is living up to it’s promise to be the worlds melting pot, as it is about any given culture. There is a sense of reinvention present in much of the work by the artists participating in the show, an urge to respect the past while pushing forward to forge new means to celebrate their heritage.

Desmadre Arte – Desmadre Arte is a collective effort by curators Jose Tapia and Damion Hayes and artist Julio Guerrero to showcase emerging artists who are incorporating traditional latino cultural themes within contemporary works. Our goal is to shed light on a growing movement amongst latino artists who are exploring and incorporating cultural roots while creating work that expresses the 21st century realities and complexities of life. To do this we are producing art shows that revolve around these themes as well as maintain our website to showcase the artists we feel best represent these Ideals.

Viva Mexico 5/05/09

Viva!!!!!

1991 : The Year Punk Broke. Read an interview with director David Markey

Collapsed 5/04/09

Punks del Barrio William Dunleavy

For all of you who think that If you can find it on the internet then it should be free for you to use, Gary Taxali has something for you (via drawger)

Philly has the coolest Garbage trucks around (via visual culture)

“If you want to be able to draw a decent looking circle, you need to imagine it like a clock. If it looks a little bumpy at around 3 o’clock you have to correct it. Try and draw it as smoothly as possible and use the left edge of the tip of the marker as a guide.” Some tips from The London Police (via UKadapta)

“These are things that I believe in, I’m not afraid of my truth. I’m not bullshitting, I don’t have ulterior motives, I’m not trying to get more commercial work, I’m not trying to get more friends, I don’t like to get more enemies, although I do seem to get more of those than I do friends.” Glenn Friedman discusses how he feels about stuff and things (via Jux)

You better Simma Down and do The Obama Rock

Agnostic Front

Tacoma’s Steve Olson