Fish Nets

The Main Attraction
Doors at 9pm
$5 - 18+
@ The Loft
1135 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, TX

Hip-Hop Expo (3/22/08)

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Wake up, take a shower to get rid of last-night's hang over, eat some tacos and head out to Ft.Worth for what I would say a huge jam. Artifacts Graf House will be holding it strong at the spot bringing us a whole day of all the elements plus some giveaways. This is an ALL day event, so bring your skateboards and bikes too.

Ghetto Palettes and Sour Grapes in the house!

Artifacts Hip Hop Expo
409 Kellis St.
Ft. Worth, TX
12pm - 8pm

Missing In Action

I know there has not been many post or updates lately and perhaps my excuses can justify a little.
I was busy working on a painting for the last few weeks that was showcased at a St. Patrick's Green Contest at City Tavern last weekend. I wasn't there for the event, but I found out my piece won the contest. More on that later...

School has been requiring more time out of my hands since mid-terms are coming along. There has been a load of homework too from Trig. and I really don't know what's the deal with my professor but he's picky about the homework layout???

Anyways, excuse my absence in this blog for the past week. I'll be posting later about a few projects that me (or/and Support The Hustle) will be involved in like: Deep Ellum Arts Festival (feat. Sour Grapes, Ghetto Palettes, and guest artists), BBoy City down in ATX later in April, the 'Concept' art show at the F6 Gallery next weekend, shirts, street art, and more Live Art events.

Javi.

SOUR GRAPES 13 X COMPLETE

Brand new t-shirt out from the Sour Grapes in collaboration with Complete Clothing down in Austin which is hosting the grapes for a week during SXSW for a special art showcase. This nice crafted shirt is 9 colors and only 20 bucks! Cop that!

Running Strong

Pacific Art Collective (PAC) is recognized for catapulting a collaborative arts movement. PAC is dedicated to presenting events that create awareness for International artists, art districts, venues & organizations through cross-cultural education and live performance. It is now celebrating 5 years on March 20th of running strong with their live art movement. These cats have dominated over the West coast for a while and now they are celebrating big. Here's some footage of their tour late last year:



Can Dallas step-up?

All About Content

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From the curator, Kerrie Conover:This event is going to be hosted on the same night as Fort Worth Gallery Night. If you don't know what that is, it is an evening hosted by the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association, in which many galleries and museums in Fort Worth (as well as UTA, Arlington Museum of Art) have their doors open to the public for free admission into the space for exhibitions. Thousands of people come out and "gallery hop" from place to place. This year, F6 will be listed as a "Friend of the Art Dealer's Association" in the Gallery Night brochure, that is exposed to the masses, and hopefully published as well in the Star-Telegram, Arlington Paper, FW Weekly, and Dallas Observer.

My good friend Mer and I will be doing a live art composition during this event. Please feel welcome to come out and check us out.

Live Art Outcome

Last Friday Ghetto Palettes thew a live art event showcasing their art and other guest artist. The turn out was off the chain. We had b-boys showing off their skills, a good crowd, dj's, and of course the live art. Above is an image of the project being done. Thanks to Joe from The Office for putting up the spot and the good drinks. Hopefully we can pull something off like this pretty soon.

Meanwhile @ ATX...

"Women Are Heroes" (via Wooster Collective)

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES"
by JR

It was about a year ago that JR first told us about his “Women are Heroes" project, a collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Taking his trusty 28 millimeter lens, for the last year JR has been traveling to such countries as Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Kenya, documenting the lives of a group of incredibly courageous women.

Now, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the full documentation of the Women Are Heroes project is being launched on the web. And not surprisingly, the work is absolutely breathtaking.

Reaction and Interaction

For over an hour, Jeremy Gibbs stood across the street from a fresh piece by Banksy on Essex Road and filmed people who stopped to look at the piece and take photos.

It is interesting to me the diversity of people who stop to admire the piece and the way they interact with it too. It's not surprising that Banksy would get this kind of attention, but at the same time I could never imagine this much interaction with street art would ever be possible coming from the audience. In this sort of scenario it makes me feel that street art does bring some values.

Jeru x Case Magazine

Jeru and Case Magazine came out this spring with a limited edition t-shirt with art from the artist himself. The graphic is bad ass and not just that but the t-shirt comes with a mini print of Jeru's work and some other info. You can buy one here or from Jeru himself.

Note:

Relay For Life^®, the American Cancer Society's signature event, is a fun-filled overnight experience designed to bring together those who have been touched by cancer. At Relay, people from within the community gather to celebrate survivors, remember those lost to cancer, and to fight back against this disease. Relay participants help raise money and awareness to support the American Cancer Society in its lifesaving mission to eliminate cancer as a major health issue.

Sign up today to become a part of the Relay For Life^® effort in your community, and you too can fight back against cancer. Donate here!

Speaker Series (via SaveDeepEllum.Org)

The Deep Ellum First Tuesday Speaker series continues. This week, we will have Brian Gibb of The Public Trust and Art Prostitute, along with Alex Bevil of the Town Square Project and Magazine. Alex and Brian have been working together on the Town Square website and newsletter/magazine. They will be speaking with the area about the project, as well as discussing marketing and event planning in Deep Ellum.

Brian Gibb has brought many a wonderful event to Deep Ellum from the ongoing Public Trust Gallery shows, to CADD events, to music nights with the likes of Ian MacKaye from Fugazi, to book nights with the fun folks of Found Magazine.

Alex Bevil along with the crew of the Town Square Project brought a number of great block party events to Dada, the Bone, and the Sunshine parking lot including art, music, poi (fire) dancers, fashion shows and multimedia events all in a central space. It was nice to see Elm Street alive for those.

Thanks again to Frank and Kirk of Kettle Art for hosting us at their gallery.

Brought to you by folks from Deep Ellum Enrichment Project and the Deep Ellum Association.

Do You Dress Like This?

The city of Santa Ana answers to what is tagging?

"Tagging is not an art form or about expressing oneself. It is vandalism and the destruction of private and public property. Tagging is any unauthorized marking, etching, scratching, drawing, painting or defacing of any surface of public, private, real or personal property."

For more of this non-sense go here

But who really wants to read that?

Ok so what is this really about? I guess the city is trying to get all the parents of teenagers to stereotype their kids because the way the dress? I mean seriously, a lot the clothes that are being worn by young cats are either street culture related or graffiti related, so do expect your sneakers to have some kind of tag on them now a days. Another thing in my opinion, a "tagger" really has to think about what kind of attention he/she will bring by the way they dress when they go out and tag. Perhaps "taggers" will start coming out and bomb the streets on suits, tuxedos, or prom dresses. Let's be serious here...this kind of shitty propaganda makes it more dangerous to people who dress like that who are being harassed by cops just because you got a bandana around your neck and some paint on your pants and backpack. Fuck that!

Royal Rumble

Broken down bus, change of location, sleepless nights, and perhaps a few gray hairs is what the Sour Grapes went through just a few hours before their big show in the heart of Deep Ellum. I have to give it up to these guys pulling this show off with so many unfortunate things happening right before the big opening. They truly made SOMETHING out of NOTHING. The show was a huge turn out with people close to the hundreds I would estimate. Nature was on the decks as people scanned through the art work and the smell of food coming from the restaurant made me feel like I was back in Mexico. Anyways...expect the unexpected from these guys in a near future and thanks to everyone for their support.

Oh yeah, Emily thanks for the paleta!