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[VIDEO] launching of the angola 3 london chapter
Message from Baroness von Reichardt, founder of the London Chapter to Free the Angola 3:
Please watch a 8 min film about our latest mosaic and launching of the angola 3 london chapter.
watch it , rate it and pass it on
love the baroness
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TAXI GANG Painting ’Remixed’ by Another Artist
'Remixed' by Alexandra Silverthorne
As with several TAXI GANG street art pieces, this image keeps showing up in other's art. READ MORE
[DC] Saul Williams LIVE at Nightclub 9:30 on April 7, 2008
LIVE at Nightclub 9:30 on April 7, 2008
shirley temple staircase dance
Message from Saul:
eel the music. Son, we got you programmed like a beat. When I press snare, yo, guard your grill. Press kick, you move your feet. You can't compete. I got my hydrants parked on every street. I'm federal NGH. Son of Sun. Come close and feel the heat. I am the streets. The white lines only separate me from me. You hydroplane in false gods name and still crash into me: Sign and Tree; Mountainside; Guard Rail; into the sea. They thought they stole you from my arms then carried you to me.
Here's the key: DNA encoded in a beat. White rocks in a vial, NGH, ain't got nuthin' on me. BCH I'm free. Ask these editors at MTV. Far as they, know they're publishing some new school poetry. Let it be. 'Cause even that will do to turn the key. Doorways into other worlds. The Truth shall set you free. YOU are me, I am you, but also I'm (s)he. Shepherd of a bastard flock that grazes in the streets. Feel the beat. Nod your head. Lean back, yo, touch your feet. Let me see you pop that thang right thur girl in your seat. Feel the heat. Count this page amongst your whitest sheets. Comfort in my every word. Slide under. Countless sheep.
NiggyTardust!
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11.1.
The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of……………………….YOU!
ELSEWHERE
MARCH 2008
12 SXSW, Austin, TX [music]
13 SXSW, Austin, TX [music]
17 Plaza Club, Vancouver BC [music]
18 Aladdin, Portland, OR [music]
19 Neumo's, Seattle WA [music]
21 Slims, San Francisco, CA [music]
22 Club Mercy, Santa Barbara, CA [music]
24 Casbah, San Diego, CA [music]
25 Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA [music]
26 Clubhouse, Tempe AZ [music]
27 Chandler Gilbert Community College, Phoenix AZ [spoken word]
28 Estrella Mountain Community College Phoenix AZ [spoken word]
29 Launchpad, Albuquerque, NM [music]
31 The Loft, Dallas TX [music]
APRIL 2008
01 Warehouse Live Studio, Houston TX [music]
03 The Parish, New Orleans LA [music]
04 The Loft, Atlanta GA [music]
06 Ramshead, Annapolis MD [music]
08 Paradise, Boston MA [music]
09 Irving Plaza, NY NY [music]
11 Trocadero, Philadelphia PA [music]
12 Iron Horse, Northampton, MA [music]
13 La Tulipe, Montreal QC [music]
14 Mod Club, Toronto ONT [music]
16 Blind Pig, Ann Arbor MI [music]
17 Grog Shop, Cleveland OH [music]
18 Martyrs, Chicago IL [music]
19 Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis MN [music]
21 Fox Theatre, Boulder CO [music]
22 Belly Up, Aspen CO [music]
23 Kilby Court, Salt Lake City UT [music]
More dates TBA
[DC] Reminder: The Revolution Begins Saturday at 6!
SATURDAY
X
Saturday, January 19, 2008
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
BeBar
1318 9th St. NW
Washington, DC
View Map
The theme this month is Revolution....
Wear something inspired by Revolution and get in for only $5!
(regular admission is $8)
Get creative with your outfits, you can wear a t-shirt or button inspired by your favorite revolutionary, or you can go over the top and dress up like your favorite revolutionary - it doesn't matter how you do it, just find a creative way to go along with the theme.
Saturday, January 19, a creative amalgamation of LIVE art including 3 graphic designers, electronica music acts, tribal belly dancers, independent fashion designers and other local artists will take over BeBar (1318 9th St. NW) for a 4 hour, 21st century Live-Art 'Happening'.
At the event, a juror will provide the participating graphic designers with three words. The designers will have 4 hours to create a poster for 'X', using these words as inspiration for their designs. Their laptops will be hooked up to large displays, revealing their approaches and creative process to the audience.
At the end of the event, the curator will select a winning design. The winner's design will be used on promotional material for the next X as well as potentially incorporated into an art book.
X
Saturday, January 19, 2008
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
BeBar
1318 9th St. NW
Washington, DC
View Map
The theme this month is Revolution....
Wear something inspired by Revolution and get in for only $5!
(regular admission is $8)
Get creative with your outfits, you can wear a t-shirt or button inspired by your favorite revolutionary, or you can go over the top and dress up like your favorite revolutionary - it doesn't matter how you do it, just find a creative way to go along with the theme.
Saturday, January 19, a creative amalgamation of LIVE art including 3 graphic designers, electronica music acts, tribal belly dancers, independent fashion designers and other local artists will take over BeBar (1318 9th St. NW) for a 4 hour, 21st century Live-Art 'Happening'.
At the event, a juror will provide the participating graphic designers with three words. The designers will have 4 hours to create a poster for 'X', using these words as inspiration for their designs. Their laptops will be hooked up to large displays, revealing their approaches and creative process to the audience.
At the end of the event, the curator will select a winning design. The winner's design will be used on promotional material for the next X as well as potentially incorporated into an art book.
[FILM] ’Chocolate City’ debuts in DC late January
Some good friends of mine appear in this film (Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency and Damian Smith). Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KlJkPkc0Q
Washington DC is rapidly changing. Soaring property prices and widescale development are literally forcing local residents out of the city. Chocolate City explores the rapid gentrification of the US capital through the eyes of a group of black women forced from their city center homes to make way for massive reconstruction. With the symbols and monuments of the world's most powerful democracy on their doorsteps, their story calls into question the fundamental foundations upon which the USA claims to be based.
So, the film will be shown at these times:
- 24 January, 6.30 – 8.30pm, Festival Centre, 1640 Columbia Road, NW, DC 20009
- 26 January, 11pm, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009
- 31 January, evening screening to be announced, Continental Ballroom (Marvin Centre), George Washington University, 2121 I Street, NW, DC 20052
- 10 February, 4pm, Our City Film Festival, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009
Also, more info about the film can be found here: http://www.choc-city.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KlJkPkc0Q
Washington DC is rapidly changing. Soaring property prices and widescale development are literally forcing local residents out of the city. Chocolate City explores the rapid gentrification of the US capital through the eyes of a group of black women forced from their city center homes to make way for massive reconstruction. With the symbols and monuments of the world's most powerful democracy on their doorsteps, their story calls into question the fundamental foundations upon which the USA claims to be based.
So, the film will be shown at these times:
- 24 January, 6.30 – 8.30pm, Festival Centre, 1640 Columbia Road, NW, DC 20009
- 26 January, 11pm, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009
- 31 January, evening screening to be announced, Continental Ballroom (Marvin Centre), George Washington University, 2121 I Street, NW, DC 20052
- 10 February, 4pm, Our City Film Festival, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW, DC 20009
Also, more info about the film can be found here: http://www.choc-city.org
[BOOK] TAXI GANG in new book: Street Art and the War on Terror: The Images of Opposition
Good news! I just received this email:
Hi Alex,
That book on Graffiti that requested a few of my photos has
come out and yours is included.
I have to start with a few apologies since they actually
did not credit your work and I told them all the details.
Likewise the text that goes with all of the images is...
Well, not very good, like the book that is a bit
pretentious and simplistic. It is still a good selection of
street art but not the one it pretends to be and certainly
narrow in the selection. For instance my photos are the
only ones representing DC, which I find really limiting.
Anyhow, this is the pict that you will find there:
And the book is here:
Street Art and the War on Terror: The Images of Opposition: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War
I've also thrown a brief review (in Spanish) and may do an
English translation: http://daquellamanera.org/?q=node/337
Cheers,
Daquella manera
http://www.daquellamanera.org
Following is a poorly translated [babelfish] version of the above mentioned review:
"street Art and the war against the terror" is I title of a book that compiles global samples of street art during the administration Bush in the United States and critics with its policies. After the subtitle "as the best artists of the graffiti said not to the war in Iraq" it offers so much an interesting sample as some lagoons in his exposition.
In the book I am involved like author with the four images that I have donated of Washington DC. And while I feel been thankful whenever I have the opportunity to diversify the representations of this city and to offer something of its more complex and distant reading, also is certain that those are many that as much look for perspective common in their documentation of the city like in their artistic interventions. In fact it is a flattering but uncomfortable surprise that DC has been only represented through my photos.
Many cases of grouping to all the samples under a direct protest against the call "war against the terror" and the war and occupation of Iraq one becomes a heavy exercise of generalization. An exercise that hides obvious shades and not so obvious, as ramillete of protests that more are related to anticapitalist feelings, aspects of the American culture, or critics to the contemporary idiosyncrasy, that related explicitly to the effective American government. In the same way, the texts seem not to be writings in relation to the authors of works, nor in relation to the authors of the action as those of the photography in if. This generates therefore a text generic, often gratuitous that responds to the personal reflection of Xavier Tápies, publisher to the position of that aspect. They are commentaries that they often look for to illustrate images that do not need it and worse still many are the conclusions on the represented thing that they do not correspond with the local context. It is thus largely in the images of Washington and in that sense it would add to double value the idea of offering the image without other people's narrative instead of generating a filling forced.
The complica problem when it seems that the name of the photographer with the one of the artist is mixed in the credits who exerted the action, thing that in cases can represent the same person but who frequently it is not it. In the same way there are many anonymous works that with the suitable time and dedication could have been assigned to artists and local movements. It happens for example with this image that has been created by Gang Taxi, and thus I let it know to the publishers although the work appears finally like anonymous.
Perhaps these are publishing problems, but they comprise of a proud publishing strategy and until sensationalist who nonaid to which it would have to be the essential intention of the book: to approach the street artistic representations that look for a social trasformación, trasformación in the context of the answer to the recent global policy. But it is that arrogance the one that allows to read that we are before "the best artists" or like the publisher is been present "in all the significant magazines underground of London and Berlin" to the point of which it seemed that the one is he that legitimizes the magazine if it appears in them and the others did not have importance. In the same way that in the perhaps smaller aspect of the technique we are not solely before graffitti but before a quite diverse number of ways to make art in the public surroundings.
It is an unfortunate subject because the book in last instance is recommendable to give a look to an interesting selection of images, that although do not adjust to which the book tries to present/display, if it offers a sample of the energy and variety of voices of a political and dissonant art. An art that remembers in paper archives, and is more alive in digital surroundings but that there are to look for and to do in the street.
Hi Alex,
That book on Graffiti that requested a few of my photos has
come out and yours is included.
I have to start with a few apologies since they actually
did not credit your work and I told them all the details.
Likewise the text that goes with all of the images is...
Well, not very good, like the book that is a bit
pretentious and simplistic. It is still a good selection of
street art but not the one it pretends to be and certainly
narrow in the selection. For instance my photos are the
only ones representing DC, which I find really limiting.
Anyhow, this is the pict that you will find there:
And the book is here:
Street Art and the War on Terror: The Images of Opposition: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War
I've also thrown a brief review (in Spanish) and may do an
English translation: http://daquellamanera.org/?q=node/337
Cheers,
Daquella manera
http://www.daquellamanera.org
Following is a poorly translated [babelfish] version of the above mentioned review:
"street Art and the war against the terror" is I title of a book that compiles global samples of street art during the administration Bush in the United States and critics with its policies. After the subtitle "as the best artists of the graffiti said not to the war in Iraq" it offers so much an interesting sample as some lagoons in his exposition.
In the book I am involved like author with the four images that I have donated of Washington DC. And while I feel been thankful whenever I have the opportunity to diversify the representations of this city and to offer something of its more complex and distant reading, also is certain that those are many that as much look for perspective common in their documentation of the city like in their artistic interventions. In fact it is a flattering but uncomfortable surprise that DC has been only represented through my photos.
Many cases of grouping to all the samples under a direct protest against the call "war against the terror" and the war and occupation of Iraq one becomes a heavy exercise of generalization. An exercise that hides obvious shades and not so obvious, as ramillete of protests that more are related to anticapitalist feelings, aspects of the American culture, or critics to the contemporary idiosyncrasy, that related explicitly to the effective American government. In the same way, the texts seem not to be writings in relation to the authors of works, nor in relation to the authors of the action as those of the photography in if. This generates therefore a text generic, often gratuitous that responds to the personal reflection of Xavier Tápies, publisher to the position of that aspect. They are commentaries that they often look for to illustrate images that do not need it and worse still many are the conclusions on the represented thing that they do not correspond with the local context. It is thus largely in the images of Washington and in that sense it would add to double value the idea of offering the image without other people's narrative instead of generating a filling forced.
The complica problem when it seems that the name of the photographer with the one of the artist is mixed in the credits who exerted the action, thing that in cases can represent the same person but who frequently it is not it. In the same way there are many anonymous works that with the suitable time and dedication could have been assigned to artists and local movements. It happens for example with this image that has been created by Gang Taxi, and thus I let it know to the publishers although the work appears finally like anonymous.
Perhaps these are publishing problems, but they comprise of a proud publishing strategy and until sensationalist who nonaid to which it would have to be the essential intention of the book: to approach the street artistic representations that look for a social trasformación, trasformación in the context of the answer to the recent global policy. But it is that arrogance the one that allows to read that we are before "the best artists" or like the publisher is been present "in all the significant magazines underground of London and Berlin" to the point of which it seemed that the one is he that legitimizes the magazine if it appears in them and the others did not have importance. In the same way that in the perhaps smaller aspect of the technique we are not solely before graffitti but before a quite diverse number of ways to make art in the public surroundings.
It is an unfortunate subject because the book in last instance is recommendable to give a look to an interesting selection of images, that although do not adjust to which the book tries to present/display, if it offers a sample of the energy and variety of voices of a political and dissonant art. An art that remembers in paper archives, and is more alive in digital surroundings but that there are to look for and to do in the street.
[VIDEO] Polar Bear withdraws his money from B of A
Thanks to Nik for posting this originally.
Polar Bears for Solutions to War & Global Warming have decided to withdraw their money from Bank of America because of their continued support for the coal industry. Music by Joe Bataan "Chick-a-Boom" - (Chris Joss Remix) available on ESL Remixed: The 100th Release Of ESL Music. Filmed on location in Washington, DC in Adams Morgan and spliced with footage from a Citigroup coal demonstration.
did you see this polar bear clip yet?
Polar Bears dance by the door of the Longworth Building on Capitol Hill - October 22nd, 2007.
Polar Bears for Solutions to War & Global Warming have decided to withdraw their money from Bank of America because of their continued support for the coal industry. Music by Joe Bataan "Chick-a-Boom" - (Chris Joss Remix) available on ESL Remixed: The 100th Release Of ESL Music. Filmed on location in Washington, DC in Adams Morgan and spliced with footage from a Citigroup coal demonstration.
did you see this polar bear clip yet?
Polar Bears dance by the door of the Longworth Building on Capitol Hill - October 22nd, 2007.
[DC] DC51 Artist Collective this Saturday at X Party 6-10pm
DC51 Artist's Collective will be selling our one-of-a-kind clothing, ties and accessory designs and artwork at the spectacular X Party this Saturday at BeBar from 6 to 10 p.m.
Come check out the latest designs by TAXI GANG, DECOY, OWEL, and RVLTN. Even get one of your pieces of clothes 'live stenciled' at the event.
Support the arts.
-a
[DC] Bossa Brazilian Halloween this Wednesday (with urs truly)
Hope to see you! Halloween is always an excuse to play crazy records that I never get to play, so come hear the madness.
I will be bouncing back and forth between there and the invite-only Last Annual Porn Party at Bourbon. If you don't have an invite, sorry; but come to Bossa cuz you don't need one!
Luv
-a
[DC] Halloween Movie Night - Sunday! (Luv, Radio CPR 97.5FM)
Support your community.
Be a part of your community,
-a
The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: dj KerO!
Date: Oct 28, 2007 12:47 AM
Radio CPR is sponsoring a Rooftop Halloween Movie Night this Sunday!
In the mix is Charlie Brown's great pumpkin caper, followed by Shaun
of the Dead's crackup zombies ... atop one of DC's most loved
residential rooftops (with panoramic views galore)! *_*
What: Double Halloween Movie Rooftop Night-O
When: Sunday, October 28
Times: 6:30p It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (for kids of all
ages); 7:30p Shaun of the Dead (for big kidz)
Where: Rooftop @ 1736 Columbia Rd (rain/wind backup at La Casa in Mt
Pleasant)
Why: Radio CPR Fundraiser... and for Halloween!
Bling: $8 suggested donation
CPR Brings: Treats for all you trickers! Candies, cookies, popcorn, apples
You's Bring: Drinks/eats (donate goodies to our treat bar!), warm clothes,
warm blankets, seats/cushions, someone to cuddle, maybe some tricks of your
own too.
Hope to see you under the stars!
With luv,
Your Community Powered Radio Station
Radio CPR 97.5FM *_*
www.radiocpr.com
Be a part of your community,
-a
The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: dj KerO!
Date: Oct 28, 2007 12:47 AM
Radio CPR is sponsoring a Rooftop Halloween Movie Night this Sunday!
In the mix is Charlie Brown's great pumpkin caper, followed by Shaun
of the Dead's crackup zombies ... atop one of DC's most loved
residential rooftops (with panoramic views galore)! *_*
What: Double Halloween Movie Rooftop Night-O
When: Sunday, October 28
Times: 6:30p It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (for kids of all
ages); 7:30p Shaun of the Dead (for big kidz)
Where: Rooftop @ 1736 Columbia Rd (rain/wind backup at La Casa in Mt
Pleasant)
Why: Radio CPR Fundraiser... and for Halloween!
Bling: $8 suggested donation
CPR Brings: Treats for all you trickers! Candies, cookies, popcorn, apples
You's Bring: Drinks/eats (donate goodies to our treat bar!), warm clothes,
warm blankets, seats/cushions, someone to cuddle, maybe some tricks of your
own too.
Hope to see you under the stars!
With luv,
Your Community Powered Radio Station
Radio CPR 97.5FM *_*
www.radiocpr.com
[VIDEO] no war, no warming
The Polar Bears Arrive
The Polar Bears Get Pissed
The Polar Bears Get Arrested
The Polar Bears Get Pissed
The Polar Bears Get Arrested
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