"Best video of the year"
-Kanye West
"I'm a hot and bothered astronaut
crashin while jackin off"
-Earl Sweatshirt
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...third verse, Earl Sweatshirt puts on a strait-jacket!
Viva Los Treps!!!
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
BONUS!!! (late pass for you slow-heads)
"Best video of the year"
-Kanye West
"I'm a hot and bothered astronaut
crashin while jackin off"
-Earl Sweatshirt
...third verse, Earl Sweatshirt puts on a strait-jacket!
Viva Los Treps!!!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Re:Form School, a REDU project - Screenprinting x HipHop Workshop = Creative Heaven
A few weeks ago I signed the kids up for a screenprinting workshop taught by the art duo known as FAILE. The day of the workshop Lil Charnier, Jasmin, Deandre and I jumped on the train and trooped to the Mott Street location.
We arrived and were welcomed like VIP attendees, the kids were really impressed by the setup. And I saw that look in their eyes.
On October 9-11, an old school that was no longer in use, was transformed into an art gallery/creative space. The Re:Form School included the artwork of over 150 artists. In the old principal's office was a giftshop in which old children's books had been reshaped into sketchpads. There were also drawings and prints on sale by some of the artists featured in the show. Each purchase from the giftshop was accompanied by a toy from the artist team FriendsWithYou (the young lady working the register gave us a box to split between the kids, thanks again).
The artists FAILE, along with the couple who run one of my favorite blogs about street art, WOOSTER COLLECTIVE hosted the screenprinting workshop in the old cafeteria. The kids were shown screenprinting techniques by FAILE and their magnificent assistant. The kids were able to create a poster to hang in the space and a poster to take home, along with a gift bag that included pencils, notepads, a sketchbook, tshirt, stickers and other creative projects.
While the screenprinted posters dried, we walked around the school and saw the whole exhibit. There was really a lot of work in the space. WK Interact showed some sweet skateboard sculptures in the room with a wooden bus sculpture and floor to ceiling drawings.
Marc Ecko put some presidential busts in the show and the kids knew who all the faces were. There was even art hung in the stairwells, and the neon piece with words from one of my favorite Eric B. and Rakim songs stole the show for me.
I'm into Bruce Nauman and the piece was very reminiscent of his work. A guy told us about all the activities going on over the course of the exhibit, including a breakdance class taught by the legendary Rock Steady Crew, a party hosted by BlackThought and ?uestlove of the equally legendary Roots crew and a hiphop class taught by recording artist Lupe Fiasco was being held on the 4th floor.
We ran up to the room and the session was just starting. The class was for teens but the good people from WorldUp let the kids attend the workshop. I enjoyed everyone but watching Jasmin, Dee and The Boy was a real treat.
They all seemed to be relaxed and participating in the discussion about music with older kids and adults. The group was split into teams for "production" and "writers". Charnier, Dee and Jasmin stayed with the production crew, led by the phenomenal DJ SpazeCraft and were shown how to use different instruments, the computer and other beat making machines to produce the track for which the writing group created the lyrics.
The young people in the writing group were so gifted and Lupe Fiasco worked with them to create lyrics to illuminate and showcase their musical talents.
Extra special shout out to all the people involved in putting together such an impactful event. I was in creative heaven and I was there with my lil ones enjoying all the energy flowing through the Re:Form School.
Viva Los Treps!!!
We arrived and were welcomed like VIP attendees, the kids were really impressed by the setup. And I saw that look in their eyes.
On October 9-11, an old school that was no longer in use, was transformed into an art gallery/creative space. The Re:Form School included the artwork of over 150 artists. In the old principal's office was a giftshop in which old children's books had been reshaped into sketchpads. There were also drawings and prints on sale by some of the artists featured in the show. Each purchase from the giftshop was accompanied by a toy from the artist team FriendsWithYou (the young lady working the register gave us a box to split between the kids, thanks again).
The artists FAILE, along with the couple who run one of my favorite blogs about street art, WOOSTER COLLECTIVE hosted the screenprinting workshop in the old cafeteria. The kids were shown screenprinting techniques by FAILE and their magnificent assistant. The kids were able to create a poster to hang in the space and a poster to take home, along with a gift bag that included pencils, notepads, a sketchbook, tshirt, stickers and other creative projects.
While the screenprinted posters dried, we walked around the school and saw the whole exhibit. There was really a lot of work in the space. WK Interact showed some sweet skateboard sculptures in the room with a wooden bus sculpture and floor to ceiling drawings.
Marc Ecko put some presidential busts in the show and the kids knew who all the faces were. There was even art hung in the stairwells, and the neon piece with words from one of my favorite Eric B. and Rakim songs stole the show for me.
I'm into Bruce Nauman and the piece was very reminiscent of his work. A guy told us about all the activities going on over the course of the exhibit, including a breakdance class taught by the legendary Rock Steady Crew, a party hosted by BlackThought and ?uestlove of the equally legendary Roots crew and a hiphop class taught by recording artist Lupe Fiasco was being held on the 4th floor.
We ran up to the room and the session was just starting. The class was for teens but the good people from WorldUp let the kids attend the workshop. I enjoyed everyone but watching Jasmin, Dee and The Boy was a real treat.
They all seemed to be relaxed and participating in the discussion about music with older kids and adults. The group was split into teams for "production" and "writers". Charnier, Dee and Jasmin stayed with the production crew, led by the phenomenal DJ SpazeCraft and were shown how to use different instruments, the computer and other beat making machines to produce the track for which the writing group created the lyrics.
The young people in the writing group were so gifted and Lupe Fiasco worked with them to create lyrics to illuminate and showcase their musical talents.
Extra special shout out to all the people involved in putting together such an impactful event. I was in creative heaven and I was there with my lil ones enjoying all the energy flowing through the Re:Form School.
Viva Los Treps!!!
Friday, November 26, 2010
Arch Collective Pop-Up Shop
The three guys who run Arch Collective NYC are doin things the right way. Fly over to 18 Wythe Ave in Bushwick to check out their Pop-Up Shop if you don't believe me.
Viva Los Treps!!!
Viva Los Treps!!!
Friday, June 18, 2010
Fahamu & Yun-Woo
I like to visit art galleries during my lunch. It gives me some time to see art and feed my creative soul before I finish my day like Mr. Cee (...and he finishes like the true champion he is...-Larry Merchant's voice). One of my favorite galleries is the Lyons Wier Gallery. It's located fairly close to my job so I can bring lunch, eat at my desk (yes, like a beast!) and be out with like 45 minutes to one hour for art viewing! I saw Fahamu Pecou's aspirational work at Lyons Wier before the opening because I strolled in during lunch while they were hanging the work. I like Fahamu because he did not wait for the artworld to "annoint" him. His campaign let everybody know he was "The Shit" from the beginning. You wanna talk cajones...start with Fahamu! His work is all about power, who has it, who gives it, and who wants it? I think it is very Warholian of him, in the way he questions the power and lure of fame in our society...I heard he even hires women to attend openings with him to further project his "myth" of fame and status. Fahamu Pecou is claiming his SHIT whether anyone smells it or not.
Another gallery I recently found is the newly opened Volume Black gallery in the Historic Flat-Iron Building. The gallery is in a great location and I look forward to attending many more shows during my lunch breaks. I went to the gallery a couple weeks ago because there were some sculptures I wanted to see for a second time. They were really organic looking, almost bee-hive like structures created with pages from magazines and a poxy, then arranged into different forms. Sometimes jettisoning directly out the gallery wall...sometimes hanging above head like some honeycombed chandelier. I asked the gallerist who created the work, she said "Yun-Woo Choi" and pointed me in the direction of the gentleman who held the door for his mother and me when I walked in the gallery that day. We spoke and he explained that the work was all about "dimensions" and "possibilities". I asked a few questions and he answered always very diliberate and carefully talking about his process and how he doesn't know before he starts what form will be produced. I knew that I was having a much needed conversation with an artist whose work I admired very much but I also knew I was stretching the limits of my hour "recess". So I had to split but it really felt like one of those "right-time, right-place" moments!
Viva Los Treps!!!
Another gallery I recently found is the newly opened Volume Black gallery in the Historic Flat-Iron Building. The gallery is in a great location and I look forward to attending many more shows during my lunch breaks. I went to the gallery a couple weeks ago because there were some sculptures I wanted to see for a second time. They were really organic looking, almost bee-hive like structures created with pages from magazines and a poxy, then arranged into different forms. Sometimes jettisoning directly out the gallery wall...sometimes hanging above head like some honeycombed chandelier. I asked the gallerist who created the work, she said "Yun-Woo Choi" and pointed me in the direction of the gentleman who held the door for his mother and me when I walked in the gallery that day. We spoke and he explained that the work was all about "dimensions" and "possibilities". I asked a few questions and he answered always very diliberate and carefully talking about his process and how he doesn't know before he starts what form will be produced. I knew that I was having a much needed conversation with an artist whose work I admired very much but I also knew I was stretching the limits of my hour "recess". So I had to split but it really felt like one of those "right-time, right-place" moments!
Volume Black artist series '10 - Yun-Woo Choi from Adam Berman on Vimeo.
Viva Los Treps!!!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Downshift Session 2008
So here's the 411.
Staple Design + Gran Turismo present Downshift Session 2008.
A Celebration of Automotive Design, Music, Art & Gaming.Thursday, October 16th 8pm-11pmWhere: The Classic Car Club of Manhattan250 Hudson Street. NYC.Art presentation with Eric Haze and Lotus Exige. Eric has hand painted a Lotus Exige for this event and it will be auctioned for charity to Studio in a School. Live performance by Kid Sister!with DJ Soul and DJ Neil Armstong on the wheels! Gran Turismo will be hosting a live time trial competition. Fastest lap times will win some serious prizes. (PS3, PSP, Sparco GT Cockpit and more!)
RSVP: downshift@ltdplus.com
Proudly Presented by: Staple Design x Lotus x Polyphony Digital x Sony Playstation 3 x Gran Turismo
Don't drink and drive.
See you there.
(from http://www.todarrinhudson.com/)
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Get Seduced!!!
THE ART OF SEDUCTION Thursday, October 16th, 2008.
The Sound of Art x KING Magazine x Jacques Cardin Cognac.
BATH HOUSE STUDIOS
540 E. 11th Street
between Ave. A and Ave. B
7-11pm
RSVP: rsvp@soundofart.net
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