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patwicia: Confessions, public art project, The Cosmopolitan,...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 20:06:09 -0700

Confessions, public art project, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada by Candy Chang.

For one month, Chang lived in Vegas. Visitors could stop by, enter a booth, write whatever thoughts they wanted to share, and drop the confession into a box that mixed anonymously with other slips. Chang then took the anonymous slips and displayed them on the walls, painting selected responses in white against a larger red canvas background. According to Chang’s website, “This project seeks to create a cathartic sanctuary for this temporary community and help us see we are not alone in our quirks, experiences and struggles as we try to lead fulfilling lives.”

.THE BOMB DIGGITY #zlstogether#67/28/2012FACEBOOK EVENT...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:59:00 -0700

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THE BOMB DIGGITY #zlstogether#6
7/28/2012

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
http://www.facebook.com/events/251847774928685/

THE ZEALOUS CREATIVE .tri-monthly interactive/independent ART EVENT for progressive IE creativez & muzicianz showcasing together to sell, create, connect, perform and be inspired=)
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Ok yallz- this is going to be a FUN one! Our 6th TOGETHER show is a summer 80’z theme- calling you all out to buzt the jumpsuitz, spandex, sweat bandz, leather jacketz and BIG HAIR =)
Come dressed to impress and ready for ~ESPINOSA PHOTOGRAPHY~ plus video…

…also, come with cash$ to buy some original/hand made art and support the artiztic passionz of theze local Inland Empire Creativez!!!!!!!!!

HOZTED by: DUBL_A ~&~ bZ

[ Top 80’z • Hip Hop • Rock • DnB • Dubstep/Metal • Gallery/Live art ]

•BODY PAINTING CONTEZT for cash prize

•Bezt dressed grab bag giveawayz

•Artwork RAFFLEZ

•Freestyle BBOY CALL OUT

•Drink specialz • Beer Pong • Pool

[[- $5 ENTRY • 18 and over -]]

MUZIC PERFORMERZ:
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•Dj VAZCO
7:30 - 9:25
San Bernardino —Top 80’z ~&~ MashUpz

•MY OWN HOLIDAY
9:35 - 10:25
Lake Arrowhead
—Rock
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nWYCsEzjM
Fb: http://www.facebook.com/myownholiday

•TWIN TOWERS
=(Madd Doc + C-Kwence aka Kwency Jones) -(92 Fam)
10:35 - 11:00
Chino Hills
—Hip Hop
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfa__9KhpsI
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbsSoNi8vew&feature=player_embedded
Fb: http://www.facebook.com/twintowers92

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•BODY PAINTING CONTEZT WINNERZ announced on stage
11:00 - 11:10
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•MUSICAL MAMMAL
11:10 - 11:30
Rancho Cucamonga
—Beat Boxing with loop/pedal controlz
Video: http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicalMammal
Fb: http://www.facebook.com/MrMammal

•CUTTING EDGE -(special BURFDAY BOY set)
11:30 - 12:30
San Bernardino/Victorville
—Dubstep / Drum N Bass
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YgROSGrUU
Fb: http://www.facebook.com/CuttingEdgeDub
http://soundcloud.com/cuttingedgedub

•PROJ3KT CHIMERA
12:35 - 1:10
Chino Hills
—Dubmetal
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368SC3x0v24
Fb: http://www.facebook.com/Proj3kt.Chimera

•DJ VAZCO —clozing the night out in 80z
1:15 - 2:00

BODY PAINTERZ:
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•MEEZY
Victorville
http://www.facebook.com/Meezyperez
http://meezyperez.tumblr.com/

•MAEGAN BROWN
Fontana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkqkI0eM0rk&feature=youtu.be
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113561552

•JOSEPH MOORE
Fontana
http://www.facebook.com/JosephRamboMoore

•ROBERTO wildstyle FLORES
Chino
http://www.facebook.com/DarcsWildstyle?sk=wall

•IAWN the NRGetic
San Bernardino
http://www.facebook.com/amahNME?ref=ts

LIVE PAINTERZ:
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•RICK RODRIGUEZ
San Bernardino
http://www.facebook.com/rickrodriguezart

•JOE DED
Montclair
http://www.facebook.com/JoeDedArt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChsbFaXVJM

•PETE VELASCO
Riverside
http://sleepwalkersart.com/

•NICK BAHULA
YUCAIPA
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nick-Bahula-Art/330144850348817
http://www.nickbahula.com/index.html

GALLERY ARTIZTZ:
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•ALAN KOCHARIAN
Riverside
http://alankochariansart.com/home.html
http://alankocharian.blogspot.com/

•LAW CIRCUS
San Bernardino
http://www.facebook.com/lawcircus

•GABRIEL ARGUELLO
Rancho Cucamonga

•CECILY SKILL
San Bernardino
http://www.facebook.com/OpaqueFaculty

•DANIEL SCHROEDER
Banning
http://www.facebook.com/madmandanspaint

•CARLOS BRONSON
San Bernardino

ARTIZAN VENDORZ:
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•SNAZZY CRAFTZ —by Angela Rudh
Hand made Duct Tape- flower ringz, walletz & writing penz

•BLACKBIRD BOWS
http://www.facebook.com/blackbirdbows

•TBA

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@thezealouscreative #zealous #thezealouscreative

=)

.FACEBOOK event...

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:33:00 -0700

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FACEBOOK event pg:
http://www.facebook.com/events/419079484769836/

ZLS:TOGETHER is a once-a-month interactive, independent ART EVENT for progressive creativez & muzicianz of the 909 area code showcasing together to sell, create, connect, perform and be inspired.

The TOGETHER event iz a ‘pop-up-shop’ style art & muzic show at a Stinger’z in San Bernardino featuring live painterz, gallery art, live rock, house, hip-hop dubstep, d n b -& breakdancing —ALL AT ONE EVENT!

[ ELEMENTZ OF EVOLUTION ] = Show’z Theme Challenge.
each artizt will do a new original piece
conveying their interpretation of this theme/concept.

Fb Flyer:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=324954630904223&set=a.324954557570897.72883.154769411256080&type=1&theater
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•Photography by AMPED NIGHTZ
•BBoy freestyle call out hosted by Circus Runaways

View the lazt show here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.246646108761887.56377.100002494981886&type=3

•Also celebrating Intense’z -SUPA MAN’z- birthday
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MUZIC PERFORMERZ:
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•IINSPEK THE HEX
7:30 - 9:00
Riverside - [ZLS Creative] —House EDM
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inspek-The-Hex-aka-Hector-Gee/209640445766164
http://soundcloud.com/h_garcia

•COGITO
9:10 - 9:50
Claremont —Rock/Blues/Indie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmTL3X-MmH0
http://www.facebook.com/cogitomusic
http://cogitomusic.com/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cogito/id434665940

•MY OWN HOLIDAY
10:00 - 10:50
Lake Arrowhead —Rock/Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nWYCsEzjM
http://www.facebook.com/myownholiday

•D’zyl
11:00 - 11:20
Colton —HipHop
http://www.facebook.com/dzyl5001music
http://soundcloud.com/dzyl5k1
http://www.youtube.com/thedzyl5001channel

•MUSICAL MAMMAL
Rancho Cucamonga —Amazing Beat Boxer
http://www.facebook.com/MrMammal
http://www.youtube.com/user/MusicalMammal

•Dj ZENO —w/guezt MC
11:30 - 12:30
San Bernardino - [Bad Applez Crew] —Drum N Bass
http://www.facebook.com/znotednb

•DUBL_A
12:30 - 1:10
San Bernardino/Riverside - [ZLS Creative] —Dubstep
http://www.facebook.com/OMGITSDOUBLEA
http://soundcloud.com/dubl_a

•IINSPEK THE HEX= [back-2-back] =DUBL_A
[ZLS Creative] —EDM
1:10 - 2:00

LIVE PAINTERZ:
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•THE BLACK LIGHT KING
Los Angeles
http://www.facebook.com/blacklight.king?ref=pb
http://www.theblacklightking.blogspot.com/
http://theblacklightking.com/

•JOE DED
Claremont
http://www.facebook.com/JoeDedArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghw3QPoIbFM

•MAEGAN BROWN —Body Painting!!
Fontana
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113561552

•GRIMEG
San Bernardino
http://grimeg.tumblr.com/
http://anotherdayinthe909.blogspot.com/

•NICK BAHULA
Yucaipa
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nick-Bahula-Art/330144850348817

•RIGO NAVARRO
Moreno Valley

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GALLERY ARTIZTZ:
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•SPRFKR
Rialto
http://www.facebook.com/sprfkr
http://www.sprfkr.com/
http://sprfkr.tumblr.com/

•Robert Rios
Rancho Cucamonga
http://www.facebook.com/BCT.Robert

•Rigo Navarro
Moreno Valley
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001890283088

•Mike Sedano
Riverside
http://www.facebook.com/MikeSEDANO

•Flora Art
San Bernardino
http://www.facebook.com/flora.art

•Transinfinite -aka Roger Gabriel
Murrieta
http://transinfinite.us/

•Joe Ded
Claremont
http://www.facebook.com/JoeDedArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghw3QPoIbFM

•Maegan Brown
Fontana
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002113561552

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SHOWCASING PHOTOGRAPHERZ:
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•CECILY SKILL -[Opaque Faculty]
San Bernardino / Yucaipa
http://www.facebook.com/OpaqueFaculty

•BRYAN WEAVER -[Keen Eye]
San Bernardino

ARTIZAN VENDORZ:
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•Whims of Wanderlust
http://www.facebook.com/Whimsofwanderlust

•BLACKBIRD BOWS
http://www.facebook.com/blackbirdbows

•DUCT-TAPE-SWAG —by Angela Rudh
Hand made flower ringz and writing penz

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.EVENT Pg:http://www.facebook.com/events/146723282115099/ •AN...

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:47:00 -0700

Fb Flyer

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EVENT Pg:
http://www.facebook.com/events/146723282115099/

•AN ART SHOW BY ARTIZTS FOR ARTIZTS•

ZLS:TOGETHER is a once-a-month interactive, independent ART EVENT for progressive creativez & muzicianz of the 909 area code showcasing together to sell, create, connect, perform and be inspired.

EVENT INFO:
[ WILD @ HEART ] —is the theme for this show.

ARRIVE EARLY!!
•$3 before 10pm / $5 after • 18 and over event
•$2 bottled beerz before 10pm • $5 RedBull vodkaz all night
•Rafflez & Give-awayz = firzt come, firzt served

MUZIC PERFORMERZ:
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•REGISTRY
[US Dubstep] -Dubstep
http://www.facebook.com/REGISTRYdj
http://soundcloud.com/registry
http://www.facebook.com/usdubstep

•DUBL_A
[The Zealous Creative] -Dubstep / Drum N Bass
http://www.facebook.com/OMGITSDOUBLEA
http://soundcloud.com/dubl_a

•SPIRIT FANGS
-Rock
http://www.facebook.com/spiritfangs?sk=app_204974879526524
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAdd-h473S4
http://spiritfangs.com/

•ZenToniC
-Rock
http://www.facebook.com/ZenToniCmusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Jb32qEXlQ&feature=related

•Art Domain
[Peoples Genre][EDM Community] -TechHouse
http://www.facebook.com/ArtDomainOfficial
http://soundcloud.com/artdomain

•Dj ARVIN
-Progressive House / Mash-upz
http://www.facebook.com/iamDJarvin?sk=wall
http://soundcloud.com/arvins

LIVE PAINTERZ:
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•THE BLACK LIGHT KING
http://www.facebook.com/blacklight.king?ref=pb
http://www.theblacklightking.blogspot.com/
http://theblacklightking.com/

•JOE DED
http://www.facebook.com/JoeDedArt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghw3QPoIbFM

•SYMBOL Z
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.109753945798179.16701.100002907233900&type=3

•PETE VELASCO
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.102497836453629.4086.100000802383719&type=3

•RIGO NAVARRO

•ASLEEP

GALLERY ARTIZTZ:
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•LAW CIRCUS

•APPASSIONATO
http://www.facebook.com/iawNicNRG?sk=photos

•ADRIAN OLIVA
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.204693016223317.62027.100000478610831&type=3

•GILBERT GONZALES
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.102995473061950.7070.100000544924912&type=3

•JOE DED
http://www.facebook.com/JoeDedArt

•SYMBOL Z
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.109753945798179.16701.100002907233900&type=3

•RIGO NAVARRO

•MICHAEL SEGURA

•NICK RODRIGUEZ

•MARQ RULEZ

•RICH CASTOR
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.111855848935616.14664.100003336052720&type=3

SHOWCASING PHOTOGRAPHERZ:
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•CECILY SKILL -[Opaque Faculty]
http://www.facebook.com/OpaqueFaculty

•BRYAN WEAVER -[Keen Eye]

ARTIZAN VENDORZ:
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•BLACKBIRD BOWS
http://www.facebook.com/blackbirdbows

•Angela Rudh

PLEAZE ATTEND & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CREATIVEZ =)

http://www.facebook.com/events/146723282115099/

A MUST WATCH.OUTSIDE IN -is a celebratory and historical look at...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:22:23 -0800

A MUST WATCH.

OUTSIDE IN -is a celebratory and historical look at street art through the lens of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s groundbreaking exhibition Art in the Streets. The film features renowned artists Shepard Fairey, Lee Quiñones, Swoon, Futura, Mister Cartoon, Revok, Martha Cooper, Invader to name a few. Director Alex Stapleton (Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel) documents the artist’s creative process, their pitfalls with the law, the poetic impermanence of their craft and the artists’ evolution from the back seat of a cop car to the walls of a well-respected institution.

An amazing video work by California Is A Place....

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:03:56 -0800

An amazing video work by California Is A Place.
http://californiaisaplace.com/cali/

Accompanying the visuals is Charles Bukowski reciting his poem, Bluebird.

Talent!

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:52:03 -0800

Talent!

LEGENDS NEVER DIE.

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:43:04 -0800

LEGENDS NEVER DIE.:

AN AWESOME POST FROM THE HUNDREDS BLOG:
http://thehundreds.com/blog/2012/01/13/legends-never-die/

Bobby owns San Diego-based subcultural juggernaut, Tribal. Aly has paid his dues over decades of design for some of the most influential brands in youth culture. Together they have walked the expanse of Streetwear, from the underground movement of the ’80s to the mainstream urban blowout in the late ’90s. They’ve watched brands and designers rise bright like stars, explode and fade into the night. And still, Bobby and Aly are here. Strong and steady. Maintaining and contributing.

What does it mean to be successful? In 2012, especially by the youth’s standards, success is measured by stacks. Racks on racks on racks. Fat wallets over fat portfolios: Financial prosperity is sought over cultural resonance or creative and social impact. Yet, more often than not, the clothing brands and companies that grow into colossal empires and eventually sell for millions (or billions) take greedily from their dedicated customers and wave goodbye from their yachts and penthouse suites. Consider the hottest brands of yesteryear – the ones that all the rappers vouched for, the apparel that you emptied your earnings for – and where are they now, besides at the tail end of a punchline? What was the point, besides making a few people rich?

I hope to be as wealthy, financially. But even moreso, I seek to live a life rich with relationships, respect, and having harvested a legacy: something that outlives me. Bobby and Aly will. Almost 25 years after he started, Bobby is still at the helm of his ship, full-speed ahead, navigating stormy seas or cruising uncharted territory. Tribal has evolved into a global lifestyle brand in every sense of the word. His product pollinates the Southern California basin to the Philippines, supporting graffiti artists, lowrider culture, b-boys, rock stars. Tribal is still out there, living, educating, and enriching culture while most of his peers who chased $ucce$$ have fizzled or popped after big-money payouts. Again, what was the point?

Money is important. Size is valuable. To have both may keep you remembered.

But legacy. Legacy will keep you alive forever.

by bobbyhundreds

Awesome…

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:46:14 -0800

Awesome…

bobbyhundreds: This is Vance. At 10 years old, his mother...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:23:10 -0800

bobbyhundreds:

This is Vance.

At 10 years old, his mother kicked his dad out of the house for cheating. Alone with his brothers and sisters, Vance’s mom raised their family while attending school.  She met a new boyfriend who was a foot taller than her and arms twice as wide, a boyfriend who would smoke cigarettes in their living room and then brazenly graduate to smoking weed, in the face of everything the children’s father once stood for. Vance hated this man and he let his mother know it.  One day Vance stumbled upon the boyfriend and his friends rolling around the bedroom with needles sticking out of their arms, then chasing after and molesting his sisters. Vance’s mom told her boyfriend to leave and he answered with his fists.  He beat her.  Senseless. Of course the children lunged at the boyfriend as cubs to an elephant, but he wiped the floor with them.  None of ‘em, including Vance’s mother, would show their bruises at school that week.

This was the first time he had laid a finger on her but it wasn’t nearly the last. Every time the boyfriend would smack her in the kitchen or the hallway or the living room, Vance would hurdle the countertops and try with all his heart to get in at least one clean punch before landing back in unconsciousness.  And so it went, until one afternoon Vance came home to a police scene where he discovered the boyfriend had beaten his mother to a bloody pulp, dragged her into the street, picked her up over his head and tossed her like a ragdoll into oncoming traffic.  When Vance got to the hospital, his mother was unrecognizable due to her head’s swelling to a cartoonish degree, and all the tubes, and invasive apparatus.  Vance returned home, took a baseball bat, and also took the boyfriend’s kneecaps with him.

When she woke from her coma, she swore he’d never return. That she was over him, but after years of the same story, the kids knew better.  They also knew he was visiting her in the hospital (after all, he was in the same hospital with noodles for legs).  And so when his mother came home, no one was too surprised to see the boyfriend sitting in the corner with casts on.  The boyfriend initiated, “Although Vance is only 12, I’m scared of him, so either he goes or I go.”  His mom looked at Vance and asked – no, requested – that he leave.  He couldn’t believe it.  He left.

He slept on the street for a week. The next week, the roof of a nearby McDonald’s. Vance was scared, he was only 12 years old. He was a 6^th grader.  He had lost his father, his mother had abandoned him, she had chosen this stranger over her own flesh and blood and it ripped him apart.  After a couple weeks, his grandparents came and found him, and attempted to raise him – but as all grandmothers and grandfathers do — their hearts full but their will sapped and defeated from years of testing — they gave Vance a long leash that was just enough to reach the neighborhood gang.  Vance had finally found a family, or a perverted semblance of one.  He would die for his brothers, and so he was shot twice at age 13.  A couple years later, 6 more bulletholes drilled mercilessly into his teenage frame, as he lay there with blood spilling into the jaws of an unforgiving alley.  He knew he could walk, so he did, into a market and the arms of a Latino couple, the wife screaming, “Mijo! Mijo!!”  And when he woke up in the hospital room days later, the same two by his bedside.

Vance probably knew his life had to change, but he probably didn’t realize how much his life would the morning he was driving his girlfriend to the movie theater.  Parked on the side of the road, they witnessed two of his friends beat and mug a guy.  Then, as Vance’s friends walked away from the writhing body, one turned around as if he had forgotten something – as if he had dropped his hat or his wallet at the scene - pulled a gun and popped a couple rounds into the kid’s head.  Stole his life.  The gun returned comfortably and effortlessly into his waistline, disappeared by the shirt that cascaded over it like a curtain call.  The two glided nonchalantly down the block.  Vance’s girlfriend’s screams weren’t nearly as loud as his utter shock and bewilderment at what his friends had done.

I think Vance had played this part over in his head a million times because at that moment, 11am, noon, whatever it was – in broad daylight – the universe had unfolded a crossroads in his life.  He chose to catch up to his friends, give them a ride back home, and demand the answers to questions that had no answers.  His girlfriend would later make demands of her own, that they go to the police, but Vance was sworn to the code of the streets (the only family he had) and wouldn’t snitch.  She told the cops anyways and they lassoed Vance in.  He wouldn’t snitch.  They threatened him with jailtime.  He wouldn’t snitch.  He was only 16, ain’t no way they were gonna get him.

Vance was tried as an adult and convicted as an accessory to murder.  25 years to life.

The first day in, the inmates gave him a choice.  Either go and stab that guy or you’ll suffer the same.  He did as he was told and secured a permanent gig in solitary confinement – for 11 years.  His mother visited.  She came looking for him, but why, he asked, hadn’t she looked for him all those years before?  Before the streets had devoured him and robbed him of a future, before his body was pincushioned by bullets, before he woke up every day here in isolation and despair?  But she had, she cried, she had chased after him.  It was a misunderstanding, she never wanted him to leave, and she had slept on the streets those first two weeks also, not returning home, not relenting in her search for her son.

Vance broke.  He never knew she had looked for him, and that she had never really stopped.

And so they repaired their relationship over the years, and Vance’s mother swore to get him out of the hole.  She met Father Greg Boyle of the nation’s largest gang intervention program, Homeboy Industries, after seeing him speak and explained her son’s dire situation, and Father Boyle said he would help.  But Vance was skeptical, because his parole hearings were like begging forgiveness of a wall.  He was stuck in there forever, these men would tell him, their cold sentence lacerating him like razor wire. Nevertheless, Vance and his mother continued to write letters, correspond with the Governor, Vance and Father Boyle kept in touch….

Then he got the call.   He had 72 hours to leave the premises.  Vance cried again, he gave away his belongings, he sat in his cell scared to death now.  Frightened of the world beyond - the only world he had known for the past 29 years of his life.  Three decades from the same vantage point – what would life be like from another?

The morning of his release, he eagerly called his family, but their reception wasn’t as warm as expected.  They were crying.  Vance was confused, were the tears of joy for his return?  “Vance,” his sister sobbed into the phone, “Vance, mom died last night.”  This once-hardened gang member, a ruthless and dangerous python of the ghetto, was now no stranger to crying.  Vance, the accessory to murder, wept once more.

He had dreamt of beaches and skies but for a time, Vance wouldn’t leave his mother’s coffin at the mortuary. He would stand there, he would speak to her, he would write letters to her.  He then went on to work with his mother’s friend, Father Greg Boyle, at Homeboy Industries, where the patrons and fellow staff members would marvel at his oratory skills. Vance had become quite a speaker from years of watching awards show acceptance speeches, and now he continues to lead and instruct others with similar stories to share them.  He got his own apartment; it wasn’t furnished with much beyond a lamp, a couple milkcrates and a minuscule television set, but he couldn’t stop locking and unlocking his own door with his own set of keys. He’d walk around the block and then do it again, and again.

When asked what’s next for his life, Vance says, “3 things.  I want to graduate college.  I want to be a homeowner.  And I want to get married.”  He adds with a wry smile, “And it doesn’t necessarily have to be in that order.”

MAD FLAVA!!imjustjames: This is awesome in so many ways!

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:55:02 -0800

MAD FLAVA!!

imjustjames:

This is awesome in so many ways!

Producer AraabMuzik Kills It On The MPC

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:50:34 -0800

Producer AraabMuzik Kills It On The MPC

N-E-E-D…by wax.

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:41:19 -0800

N-E-E-D…
by wax.

READ THIS!! -BOBBYHUNDREDS: ABE.

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:44:33 -0800

READ THIS!! -BOBBYHUNDREDS: ABE.:

bobbyhundreds:

This may very well be the greatest The Hundreds story, never told.

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As many of you already know, The Hundreds was conceived while Ben and I were law students. Maybe it’s not the coolest chapter of The Hundreds’ history, and you probably don’t wanna believe that your…

MY BLOODY LAD• is the work of 4 ‘animateurs’, Cyrille Chauvin,...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:33:45 -0800

MY BLOODY LAD•
is the work of 4 ‘animateurs’, Cyrille Chauvin, Guillaume Dousse, Thibaud Petitpas and Pierre Rutz who are all students at l’Ecole des Gobelins.

WATCH THIS!!!HCTN EPISODE 1 : INTRODUCING THE WALLSIn the...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:17:22 -0800

WATCH THIS!!!
HCTN EPISODE 1 : INTRODUCING THE WALLS

In the first episode of HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD the stage is set for the Wynwood Arts District. Parking lots, loading docks and factory walls are transformed into “The Wynwood Walls”. Founder Tony Goldman explains his vision for a town center, while Jeffrey Deitch, Arts Manager Meghan Coleman and Co-Curator Medvin Sobio offer their insight into the project’s significance, taking us into the present day expansion. In addition, Photographer Martha Cooper and Miami based Mural Project Primary Flight weigh in.

Participating artists: Kenny Scharf, Shepherd Fairey, Kunle Martins (Earsnot), Gaia, Shie Moreno, and Patrick McNeil from the artist collective Faile.

Featuring Original Music from: Hanni El Khatib, Ducky, Tommy Mas and Clams Casino.

For More Information visit : HCTN.tv and vimeo.com/herecomestheneighborhood

Joe Rogan and The Momentum of Ideas

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:20:35 -0800

Joe Rogan and The Momentum of Ideas

Dr. No -Logo, Illustration and Package Design

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:35:10 -0800

Dr. No -Logo, Illustration and Package Design:

This line of identity design is awesome. Love seeing the hand sketched comps too!

True Story…bobbyhundreds: In a time where sensations are...

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:49:31 -0800

True Story…

bobbyhundreds:

In a time where sensations are bred overnight, where fame is bestowed upon anyone with an unrelenting online presence and accomplishments are measured by Youtube views and ReTweets, let’s not forget that true success can only be assessed through the perspective of time. Hype and hysteria are fleeting - by their very definitions, manufactured by marketing and packaging. Impact and influence, on the other hand, are substantiated by longevity, immutability, and persistence.

Life is a marathon. The fast to rise are fast to demise. But if you’re in this game to make a difference, you think 10 steps ahead, 10 years ahead, and you build your foundation accordingly. Be wary of the fast track because you’ll finish the race quicker. Take the long road, enjoy the scenery, and if all goes well, the ride will never end.

ABOVE:“GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:56:38 -0700

ABOVE:
“GIVE A WALL ST. BANKER ENOUGH ROPE AND HE WILL HANG HIMSELF.”

255 foot / 75 metre long word play painting in Miami, Florida. This controversial piece was aired nationally on CBS, NBC, and FOX nightly news. Click these media links to see their responses to the artwork.

CBS NEWS: miami.cbslocal.com/2011/10/26/local-artist-targets-wall-street/

FOX NEWS: nation.foxnews.com/wall-street-protests/2011/10/26/effigy-wall-street-banker-hung-noose-miami

MIAMI TIMES: blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/10/yes_that_is_a_banker_hanging_f.php