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A friend of mine sent me this. He thinks it's a riff on my Zapatista characters. I'm kinda on the fence, even though he did spot it in Pasadena...

I found these stickers over at the local dollar store the other day. I'm not sure if they're bootlegged or where the images come from, but I think they're fresh just the same. Word!

Laboratorios Margen just finished the homie Jorger's latest zine. This particular copy belongs to LeHumanBeing, but you can pick one up at the upcoming L.A. ZineFest through Pentagram Press.

* Courtesy of LeHumanBeing!

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP. *



* FIND OUT HOW HERE.

Dug around some old photo boxes this weekend for freight-related stuff to pass on to the homie EricBMW and I found this... 100% faked on MacDraw 1.0 in case they come a'knocking ;)

A friend of mine rolled through L.A. recently. She ended up at the MOCA to peep a much-publicized recent exhibit dedicated to "street" "art" or, more accurately, work by artists who may or may not have done work in or on public spaces that have been or are currently represented by a selection of galleries and moneyed interests. She was amazed at the quality of art "from the streets."

Don't get me wrong, I too dig art from the (literal) streets. These are some flicks from one of my favorite examples of creative work at the street level currently occupying L.A.

APRIL



Para el Japón (Detail) | 8" x 8"



We Heard The Fireworks | 8" x 8"



Sunbathing | 8" x 8"



Three Stars | 8" x 8"

At this point, the plan for the Dirty Dozen incorporated a 13th piece for a Japan disaster relief fundraiser. You know, good luck and all...






Stealth Typography Network

Work began on a collaborative piece designed by Tempt for the Art in the Streets show at MOCA. Due to gallerist politicking and maneuvering, the piece was not included, although the pamphlet for the exhibit clearly marked a space at the museum for it. This led to much confusion, but the piece was eventually unveiled at the Street Cred exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. I'll post more about this soon.





Stop | 8" x 8"

I did this piece for a Frank 151 / Minneapolis Fashion Week fundraiser for the Minneapolis Home for Children. Big shout out to C-Rocka for inviting me to contribute!






LeHumanBeing Pop-Ups

I featured some amazing work by LeHumanBeing with the participation of a group of pre-schoolers involving paper craft animals. Super rad!

• Peep the set here.






Street Team Ninjas

I pitched in on this humongous wall tribute to Tempt. A ton of people painted this wall in Dowtown Los Angeles, donated by the UTI crew, united in their respect for and solidarity with one of L.A.'s dopest graffiti masters. It was an amazing show of force and unity. The wall is still rockin', by the way.

• Check out flicks of the entire mural here.







Cache x Eyeone x La Mano Gráfica

Cache and I collaborated on a print for La Mano Gráfica, a really sick old school printer in East L.A. (peep flicks of their shop here.) For some reason the prints sorta got stuck in the "Coming Soon" stage, but I rather liked the collab nonetheless.






Sobriety Check-Point

I did this piece with some help from Midzt, Gorgs, Tanner, and Owen -and plenty of beer- for Street Brewed, a contentious exhibition at Angel City Brewery. The homie Tanner's piece and mine are still there!

• Nice Flickr set of the whole thang here.



...and that's that for April 2011. Stay tuned for more recaps. You can peep part 1 of my 2011 year-in-review here.

I did a little bit of work for Getting Up: The Tempt One Story, a film about my friend Tempt, one of Los Angeles' most acclaimed graffiti style masters.

Stay tuned for more details. The documentary premieres at the Slamdance Film Festival later this month.

My nephew made me this card a little while ago when he somehow figured out I liked robots... How did he ever guess? Hooray!!!

The homies Teal and Evol are having a show opening this Saturday. Info below:

Buckwild Gallery presents
Teal & Evol : Femme Fatale

Saturday, January 7, 2012
7-10 PM

New artwork by Evol (7th Letter) and Teal (Fame City) with special guests View2 (FC) and more.

Buckwild Gallery
12804 Venice Boulevard
Venice, CA 90066
buckwildgallery.com