Yeah, I’m really feeling the negative space cracked/concrete shit lately… And I’ve already seen quite a few poor imitations…

http://dcmacollective.com/

Cancer is fucking everywhere, I’m sure all of you either know somebody that has/had it, or even worse… have lost a loved one to it. -When i was visiting family over Thanksgiving, I met a really cool young writer who’s father has brain cancer. My father had a close friend pass to lung cancer last month, another close friend of mine’s Mother is currently battling breast cancer…. even my former love was terminally diagnosed with cancer when she was only 8… after 9 months of chemotherapy she miraculously beat it! -Now i just found out my Friend Justin Van Hoy  http://www.thedutchpress.com  -is battling Cancer for the SECOND TIME! -He won the battle the first round, but the doctors informed Justin that he had a 30% chance of a relapse… unfortunately 30% has happened and now Justin only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. Justin’s family is not a match for him so now he is forced to search for a possible donor…

-if you are a absolutely amazing-beautiful person and want to save a life, or maybe you are a complete piece of shit and seriously need to clear up your karma overdraft charges here is your chance… its REALLY easy…

Got a package in the mail today from my man Bobby at TRIBAL…. thanks Bobby!

-here is the latest tee i did for TRIBAL.

Hipgnosis is a UK design team from the early 70’s that did all of your(at least my favorite!) favorite album covers… Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Peter Gabriel… you name it. Some of the most powerful and impactful memories i remember from my early youth, were not only the awesome music my father would play for me, but the album covers of those records… most of which were created by these guys.

-check out their book; “For the love of vinyl; the album art of Hipgnosis”

-and the interview… the bit about how the cover for “Houses of the holy” is a great fucking story.

-For those that remember RELM(KSN) -and those that are too young to know, he was one a bad mother-fucker. -The piece he did with the 3 little ghoul/ghost/spirit dudes wiggling through the halo above his piece and all of the fire and shit is still to this day one of my favorite pieces ever done… i wish i had a photo of it! -anybody out there have a decent shot of it please hook me up! -info@REVOK1.com

-here are a few other gems i found on 50mmlosangeles.com

-peep the video… he did directed and did all of the animation.
-Check the Silverlake/Williamsburg-esque hipster getting eaten alive around the 1:58 second mark.

wow! -pretty fucking major. check the entire list here…

http://men.style.com/gq/features/moty/2008/portfolio

Defaced graffiti-styled mural restored
by Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune
Monday October 27, 2008, 10:22 PM

As anti-graffiti activist Fred Radtke awaits his day in court on charges of obliterating a Bywater artists’ mural painted on a cinderblock wall, the artists showed up this weekend and, once again with the wall owner’s permission, began a new mural that they completed Monday.

ELIOT KAMENITZ / THE TIMES PICAYUNE
The mural on the cinder block wall of Southern Coating and Waterproofing has been restored after it was painted partially over with gray paint. Monday, October 27, 2008.
The new design celebrates the Day of the Dead, with cartoon skulls, New Orleans-style tombs and interlocking graffiti-style lettering. As three artists applied wisps of spray paint to the wall Sunday afternoon, one of them, Clayton Nepveux, called special attention to the scales of justice in the upper right corner of the wall, near the corner of Press and Burgundy streets.

After the incident last week, the scales may be tipping in the direction of street art.

On Wednesday, Radtke, New Orleans’ most celebrated and scorned anti-graffiti activist, was in the process of rolling gray enamel over a newly finished painting when he was brought up short by a pair of National Guard Military Police officers. Though Radtke, known as the gray ghost, has long enjoyed the cooperation of the New Orleans Police Department, this time he had defaced art that was painted with the permission of the wall’s owner, Southern Coating and Waterproofing.

The mural was by most standards a well-composed and laboriously applied work of art, not a run-of-the-mill, hastily applied graffiti tag. But Radtke and his organization, Operation: Clean Sweep, apparently disagreed.

Radtke, however, had neglected to secure permission of the owners to blot out the mural, even though company representatives were in the building’s office when Radtke arrived.

Radtke was released soon after his arrest Wednesday. He was later issued a summons to appear in court on charges of criminal damage to property. If convicted, he could be fined up to $500 and/or spend up to 90 days in jail, plus pay restitution.

Radtke did not return a call seeking comment.

The three painters, Nepveux, 25; Jay Matthews, 33; and Gabriel (who declined to provide his last name), 28, paused in their work Sunday to discuss the never-ending New Orleans graffiti controversy. Though all three artists approve of some graffiti writing, they said they do not make a practice of illegally tagging themselves.

“We’re not just knucklehead kids running around, ” Matthews said.

Gabriel said he and others have repainted the Southern Coating and Waterproofing wall several times since 1999, suffering regular anti-graffiti blottings.

But graffiti writing, they pointed out, isn’t the issue here. By Nepveux’s definition, “graffiti is illicitly painting a surface in a public space.” It follows that where there’s permission, there is no graffiti.

At least one police car passed by Monday without pausing as the three artists donned air filter masks and returned to work.

BAH-HUMBUG.

Remix the Triple 6 Mafia x La Chat classic… “SMOKIN ON DA DRO’”

AMAZING! -found on…

http://ignoredprayers.blogspot.com/