Hit + Run is a unique TShirt silkscreening enterprise operating out of Los Angeles.
They throw killer parties where TShirts are hand printed right on the spot.
Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello act as curators, selecting from their network of artists to compile a collection of single-color silkscreen designs.
Guests personally select their unique combination and placement of the designs, each one solely available during the single night exhibitions. Party goers interact in the process on -site with Flower and Crivello to create pieces of one- of-a-kind wearable art.
Tonight is the big 2nd year anniversary event.
I just had a screen made of an image that I sketched way back in the early 70's.
I'm looking forward to printing it on a few shirts at the event.
"Another Infallible Spokesman for the One True God [ Vestments (circa 4111) excavated from the archeological site of the Church of Industrial Pig Worship, from a time when clerical fashion reflected the prevailing idea of an ideal life...a time when young celebrity mothers had their cake and ate it too.]
Steven thought that with the full title people might realize that it is basically a fashion piece and that the additions to the skull and torso are all fashion accessories i.e.hat, earrings,necklace,bustier,dental appendages,etc.
For those that don't know, Unification Theory is a band of cutting and edgy artists conceived by artist/writer Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca, MTV graffiti artist ManOne, Terrence Mclain (aka DJ JoyFanatic), and myself.
The concept of Unification Theory is street futurism: visualizing the possibilities of the future through the prisms of Graffiti, Hip Hop, Spoken Word, Digital/Video Artwork, Techno, Funk and Jazz. The unification of these diverse creative minds builds new visual and sonic structures.
However, this time internationally acclaimed artist, Fumiko Amano stood in for ManOne who was busy facilitating an
Sept. 13th heralded a stellar opening exhibition @ Meltdown Comics in Hollywood.
The show is called Sonic Entrance, featuring artists who are heavily influence by sound, music and all other forms of rhythm piped in from the universe.
I was so busy cranking out digital paintings for our upcoming PFunk music video that I actually arrived late for the event.
Fortunately, the exhibition will be up until the 30th of September, so there's still time to hustle down to 7522 Sunset Blvd. and peep the show! Oh, and I promise to be on time.
Memewhile, here are a few clips of Sonic Entrance, provided by D.J. JoyFanatic:
The first image that you see in this clip is a small print featuring Sativa riding a dragonfly, superimposed on one of Gustavo's photographic backgrounds. Here's a still image of it below:
Holy Toledo - This next clip makes learning to draw, well worth the effort!
... and yes, she was so hot - I got scurred....
Brandy Flower of the Hit & Run crew taught me how to silkscreen my very first limited edition PShirts. This is sure to be a popular collectors item. If you're interested in acquiring a shirt, let me know. If enough mugs are interested, I just might make them available.
My T1 line was down for quite a bit but everything is running smoothly once again.
At the moment it's hot as hail in L.A. but I decided to go ahead and work up sweat, uploading a few clips from an event that happened back in July.
Artist MearOne and I were challenged to paint on buildings with lazer lights in Downtown L.A. as part of a "Yo What Happened to Peace" exhibition, curated by the "Peace Generator" himself - John Carr.
Sketching with the lazer pen was both madd-fun and extremely difficult at the exact same time.
The lines are pretty darn shaky because the lazer light was super-sensitive to the slightest tremor of the hand. Plus, after making a mark on the building, it was nearly impossible to know where to begin the next mark without screwing up the image.
Luckily FUNK transcends all of the above challenges.
Anyway, here are the first couple of clips (more coming later), lemme know what you think!
I just received a photo from the iphone of my friend Jim Mitchell.
Jim is an extraordinary production artist for film and TV. It's worth checking out his phenomenal work at creativetalents.com, as well as his flickr-photo-journals.
He just sent this neat shot of another prolific artist pal, Bill Stout.
If you visit Bill's website williamstout.com, you may find yourself familiar with his work.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share this photo for those that may be wondering about the quality of your average iphoto.
Just ran across "Do Fries Come with that Shake" on youTube.
Some of the animation for this video was rendered on my cutting edge computer at the time. A Commodore Amiga 1000! Boy, was I ahead of my mind or wut??
It was directed by Fisher & Preachman in April of 86, featuring a gang o' Funkateers as extras.
Peep (project coordinator) Archie Ivy as the genie and cameos from Angelo and Norwood of Fishbone!
Pharmaka Gallery held an informative event on Tues. the 10th, hosted by Fumiko about the challenges of Online Marketing.
Fumiko is an artist/community leader of the highest order.
She lectured on everything from the proper protocol for emerging artists entering the industry, to registering and promoting art using the vast resources of the internet.
In fact, she spoke of everything but online journaling.
I tried to warn everyone that soon all websites will look like blogs but no one was yet ready to confront being slapped with another learning curve.
At any rate, I'm glad that I lingered a bit after the event to ask Fumiko a few questions.
Not only was she extremely generous in sharing information, but I met 3 talented artists that I found quite interesting.
One such artist was Yvette M. Brown, who creates amazing paintings of people floating in air.
She has a history in fashion, so she's a natural when it comes to painting flowing fabrics.
Mark is a former musician who finds himself immersed in his paintings. He's inspired by the emotionally charged work of artists such as Picasso, Modigliani, Basquiat and Giacometti.
The most intriguing conversation was with Lucy Jensen who paints murals for people's homes.
She excels in a style called trompe l' oeil, which just means the objects of her paintings look real enough to reach out and touch.
After giving her my card, Lucy kept saying that my art seemed familiar. When she returned home she realized that she actually owned my watercolor print of a figure sitting in a subway car, called "Last Minute", LOL -- go figure! Glad I stuck around...
Lately I'm doing a lot of Life Drawing outside in real life, as opposed to a studio or classroom.
While sketching at a Tropico de Nopal party to some serious ol' school hip-hop, I a met the infamous Sticky Rick who was raving about his 19 year old son, Jeff.
It seems that Jeff went to the Greek to see the Chilli Peppers concert all alone at age 16. When PFunk slithered onto the stage causing chaos, he freaked out and phoned his dad shouting that he just couldn't take it!
The story goes, he quickly vacated the premises screaming in a panic.
Needless to say, after being completely turnt da' funk out by the "P", today he sings in a band called Leaf Blowers and is a bona fide clone of Dr. Funkenstein.
You can tell by his eyes that there's no turning back for Jeff.
Jeff's dad happens to be the one & only Sticky Rick.
