Sunday, December 30, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Hanging out with bug eye bandit
Bug Eye Bandit and his lady moved back to the states from Spain.
We decided to go hang out and work on outlines at a local coffee shop, but they had some Gypsy's performing.So we then went to look for another spot found it but it was closing in 10 min. After figuring out "bucks" might be a good choice...it was close. How come coffee shops in San Diego close early? That makes no sense. After trying another coffee shop called "Cream" which closed early for the holidays. We finally found one open.This cafe is called " The Other Side" after almost searching for two hours we finally get to sit down and work on some art. The notorious B.Eye .B was working on some stylish drawings he is definitely on to something sorta like a Nick Whitish type of art work. Yeah I admit O'l Bug Eye impressed me.....well not really stick to dancing son!
The master at work!
Ferd and Niki doing some tagging.
The final piece!
I was blown away by it!
Sol was either disgusted or confused!
1985 Article
(my mom is the one who scribbled on the article)
This article is from the San Diego Tribune sometime in 1985. We were trying to be apart of the mural program that was planed to be painted near Euclid ave and other destinations around the city in 1986. We didn't fit the bill. I think because of our lack of experience and a non professional presentation. we were going up against older artists like Gau which consisted of Quasar, Wizard, System they also had help from a New York graffiti artist named "Phyz" (sota) who helped put together presentation for the metro transit system.
Back in 85 the graffiti movement in San Diego was more of a mystery then a eye sore for the community do to there were probably no more than 20 kids doing it and probably no more than 5 crews in the city. I had the balls (or stupidity) to give my real name admit that I did illegal-graffiti and even told the press what high school I went to...oh brother!
Friday, December 28, 2007
Painting is fun!
Shots of me painting a few piece a few years back. I need to get out of the yards and get back into the studio!
Writers Block.
This piece was painted a on Dec 13th and 14th i took a total of 4 hours. Bookum painted the piece on my left, like classic sake style I bummed a few cans from the lad. Thanks bookum!
Sumo and Pose2 (fx) watching......well they were looking elsewhere in this shot..
During the night
News to me?
After some narcissism Google searches. I found this recent news (oct 5th 2007) article from New Mexico.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Don't worry kid! Santa's coming!
Mr cranky pants Mr. Miles!
After we told him Santa is on his way.... he relaxed!merry x mas everyone!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
I need new cards
I'm starting to design some new cards for my self I haven't had a new card for some time now.
I will post the thumbnails and the final card once finished. i'm also going to go through my stock pile and show you some of my older biz cards.
I will post the thumbnails and the final card once finished. i'm also going to go through my stock pile and show you some of my older biz cards.
Here is my last biz card I designed:
Paris piece.
This is a piece I did for a writer named Paris from San Diego that passed away a few months back.
What's the deal with Stolen Art!
In the graffiti world it is expected for your piece to get gone over, crossed out, slashed, dissed, hot 110, capped,peed on etc,. I had 100's off piece end up this way even worse just finished and gone over the next day with some wack style and booty turd fill in and no flick of it. In the so called "fine art world" granted these piece weren't in a fine art establishment. You still hope people would have the same respect! street art is street art but once it goes inside rules do apply. When your trying to go forward in your art career you figure people will leave you alone.
not really.... this is the 3rd time I had a piece stolen from me at an art show. Yeah I guess I can take it as a complement,but still it is frustrating especially to the curator.
maybe its my Carma sneaking up on me from all the year I did no good stealing spray paint and racking art supplies! So part of me can't be that angry you know the saying!
My third piece I had stolen was at landlord jims. I had 20 piece showing some were on loan from collectors. I even had some of my early work that hasn't sold (luckily they finally sold at this show) I also had 10 piece from my new series called "House Of Ill Repute"..... HOIRr for short. get it? its based on a murder mystery of hookers I have 6 more to complete. The show was over and I collected my art. Its is a bar so you expect some shenanigans with your work. Sara did her best to protect the piece's that weren't protected by glass and actually had some one come in a put up a Plexiglas glass over one of my larger drawings. (Sara is a really cool person thank you landlord Jim's fam!) well one of the frames did get ruined during the show. someone bumped into it during the night, the place does get packed. I also notice a huge snot run on one of my piece I realise their is a few haters of ol' saratoga sake that do frequent the bar. fair enough I'm sure I pissed a few people off in the graff world these past 25 years or it could be some drunken idiot! regardless of what i did art is art and should be respected.
Cream:
City Beat had an art show at Cream as the story goes some one bought two of my piece she came in to get some coffee and notice that the frame was not looking right so she had one of the workers take it down and put it in the back so I Can look at it and fix it. It turned out while being in the back room or behind the counter some one took the piece. All I have is this crappy flick never got to scan the piece in!
In the late 90's I was working with kurtis blow and crew. they were throwing parties at a place called rockers/world beat center on Hancock street in San Diego and they had me paint a mural inside the building. They also had artist hang up some work.This one graffiti cat named "che" who I knew personal was actually walking out of the club with one of my pieces I said "what the fuck man!" he said "oh man I didn't know it was yours" Lucky for him I lost my fighting ways and said "man! what the hell are you thinking its not right stealing art!" the nerve of that guy. funny thing I think now he is some big time artist in nyc going by an alias.
A few years back up in Oceanside I was in art show. I didn't go the show but I got a call around 1am in the morning from the curator saying "your piece was jacked" the piece they stole was my wife's my first oil painting I ever did.
So I was upset. How does someone just walked out of the venue with a painting!
Chor Boogie who was leaving in a car and he see some crack head on the corner with my piece trying to sell it! hahaha they got the piece back from ol cracky!
I was supposed to paint one of the banners that was hanging outside the front of the new extension of the MCASD that was being built. I wasn't able to make it to writers block to paint one of the banners. They hung up the finished banners before we started painting inside the museum. After I was finished with my piece inside the museum I had some scrap paint and I should paint one of the blank banners. The banner I painted was stolen a week later along with a "skeme" banner painted by evolve. I never did get flicks of the piece.
Also being apart of the MCASD show I was supposed to be getting a share of the cans that was left over we figured it was about 250 cans per artist. I wound up with about 15 scrap cans! Some one stole the paint!
not really.... this is the 3rd time I had a piece stolen from me at an art show. Yeah I guess I can take it as a complement,but still it is frustrating especially to the curator.
maybe its my Carma sneaking up on me from all the year I did no good stealing spray paint and racking art supplies! So part of me can't be that angry you know the saying!
My third piece I had stolen was at landlord jims. I had 20 piece showing some were on loan from collectors. I even had some of my early work that hasn't sold (luckily they finally sold at this show) I also had 10 piece from my new series called "House Of Ill Repute"..... HOIRr for short. get it? its based on a murder mystery of hookers I have 6 more to complete. The show was over and I collected my art. Its is a bar so you expect some shenanigans with your work. Sara did her best to protect the piece's that weren't protected by glass and actually had some one come in a put up a Plexiglas glass over one of my larger drawings. (Sara is a really cool person thank you landlord Jim's fam!) well one of the frames did get ruined during the show. someone bumped into it during the night, the place does get packed. I also notice a huge snot run on one of my piece I realise their is a few haters of ol' saratoga sake that do frequent the bar. fair enough I'm sure I pissed a few people off in the graff world these past 25 years or it could be some drunken idiot! regardless of what i did art is art and should be respected.
Missing piece:Last seen at Landlord Jims.
Cream:
City Beat had an art show at Cream as the story goes some one bought two of my piece she came in to get some coffee and notice that the frame was not looking right so she had one of the workers take it down and put it in the back so I Can look at it and fix it. It turned out while being in the back room or behind the counter some one took the piece. All I have is this crappy flick never got to scan the piece in!
Missing pieceLast seen at Cream.
Other stolen moments:
In the late 90's I was working with kurtis blow and crew. they were throwing parties at a place called rockers/world beat center on Hancock street in San Diego and they had me paint a mural inside the building. They also had artist hang up some work.This one graffiti cat named "che" who I knew personal was actually walking out of the club with one of my pieces I said "what the fuck man!" he said "oh man I didn't know it was yours" Lucky for him I lost my fighting ways and said "man! what the hell are you thinking its not right stealing art!" the nerve of that guy. funny thing I think now he is some big time artist in nyc going by an alias.
Kings and Queens:
A few years back up in Oceanside I was in art show. I didn't go the show but I got a call around 1am in the morning from the curator saying "your piece was jacked" the piece they stole was my wife's my first oil painting I ever did.
So I was upset. How does someone just walked out of the venue with a painting!
Chor Boogie who was leaving in a car and he see some crack head on the corner with my piece trying to sell it! hahaha they got the piece back from ol cracky!
Museum Of Contemporary Art San Diego:
I was supposed to paint one of the banners that was hanging outside the front of the new extension of the MCASD that was being built. I wasn't able to make it to writers block to paint one of the banners. They hung up the finished banners before we started painting inside the museum. After I was finished with my piece inside the museum I had some scrap paint and I should paint one of the blank banners. The banner I painted was stolen a week later along with a "skeme" banner painted by evolve. I never did get flicks of the piece.
Also being apart of the MCASD show I was supposed to be getting a share of the cans that was left over we figured it was about 250 cans per artist. I wound up with about 15 scrap cans! Some one stole the paint!
what the hell is wrong with people!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
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