One of the greatest Rube Goldberg machines I’ve ever seen! For more info, visit HomeDsgn.

By far one of the dopest shows I have ever witnessed, I would have to rate it #2, the #1 spot was Jean-Michel Basquiat’s show in LA. This show is so important on many levels! It was overwhelming to say the least! So much history and great energy all in one place under one roof, truly inspiring! It was really great to see some of my homies art hanging side by side with some of the artists that inspired me since a little kid. Everyone from Henry Chalfant to Lee Quinones, as well as FUTURA, BANKSY, MODE 2, Os Gêmeos and legendary Chaz Bojórquez. One of the best part of the gallery was seeing the homies RETNA and SABER, truly inspiring to see all of their hard work getting recognized, more importantly seeing SABER’s best creation, his little daughter, congrats again brother!

All in all, it was such a great pleasure to have been there and to witness another monumental moment in the history of our culture!

Shout out to my brother SUNNY PHONO for taking me for my birthday, best present ever!

So, if you are able to check the gallery out, I highly recommend doing so, you don’t want to miss this! I am going back later when the gallery is a little more peaceful so that I can really take the time to sit and experience the show again…
I know I have left out a lot of other great things that happened through out the course of the night, sorry, just too much to write about…so here are some photos that I took so that you can see…enjoy!

Last but not least the section that was dedicated to RAMMELLZEE…MIND BLOWING!!! Way ahead of his time! Rest In Power!

This is one of the RAMMELLZEE’s sculptures, this sculpture was at least 6 feet tall if not taller, super fresh!

I wonder if this is really how his bedroom looked, how ill is the skeleton head on the tiger print blanket!
—–> JUXTAPOZ captured his installation perfectly…check this out for more photos.

One of the first pieces you see when you walk into the show is Lee Quinones homage to their golden era, with Blade, Futura, Fab 5, Lady Pink and others…

Then to the left, they rebuilt Patti Astor’s Fun Galllery, check the link to find out its historical importance…also if you look closely, the piece that is hanging in the right window is a piece from Jean-Michel Basquiat…I tried to take a photo of the piece, but security wasn’t having that haha…

Keith Haring you remember this pack we did in honor of him?

This is a photo of a train that the late, great artist DONDI, rocked back in the day, the photo was taken by Henry Chalfant…as a sidenote, if you have never seen the movie that Henry Chalfant made titled STYLE WARS follow the link and watch it, or follow this link to buy the film, this is a film that you have to have in your collection!

Henry Chalfant’s contribution to the show, here is a photo courtesy of Os Gêmeos blog, to give you an idea of the scale!

Here was another dope moment from the event, while waiting to get in we were in line with Henry Chalfant, that pretty much kicked off the night for us!

One of the pieces that Chaz Bojórquez was showing, again the scale and the detail of this piece was mesmerizing…

Overview of the show, this only shows maybe a quarter of the show, in the background you can see Chaz Bojórquez pieces to kind of get an idea of the size of the works…

Another view…

One of RETNA’s pieces in the show, this piece was massive!

This photo is from RETNA’s installation, see this photo courtesy of Arrested Motion for the scale of the work…

SABER’s piece…

Os Gêmeos wall of sound…

Os Gêmeos drum set, also Seu Jorge rocked the spot with a little improvised session…

The late Margaret Kilgallen

This was just outside of the entrance of the gallery, RISK rocking an old RTD bus, here is a photo to show the whole piece, courtesy of Arrested Motion…

More of RISK’s work inside the gallery…another photo for scale courtesy of Arrested Motion, also little memorial piece for LA legend AYER Rest In Paradise…done by the one and only REVOK…

MODE 2…

TAKI 183…and what’s even doper is that he painted this tag right on the wall of the gallery…keeping it real since the jump!

Classics…

Tools of the trade…

Six million ways to bust…choose one!

Haters haha…

Estevan Oriol

Street Market by Steve “ESPO” Powers, Todd “REAS” James and Barry McGee aka TWIST…this exhibit in itself is a whole realm of its own, too many photos to post here, so check this link to see more…

Street Market Continued…

ALOHA!!!!

Directed by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in 1988.

The OST features music from Mike D and Ad Rock.

Spotted at Complex via Designaside. See more here.

“Innovation leads one to see the new in the old and distinguishes the ingenious from the ingenuous.”
-Paul Rand

Paul Rand is one of my favorite designers, the simplicity of his work is fresh…the ability to say more with less has always been very inspiring…enjoy.

“Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives.”