Important Graffiti Art Found in SoHo Building

Taken from: iht.com - The Associated Press

It was the stuff of urban legend - rumors that a historic Manhattan building had important graffiti hidden in its walls. Except, in this case, it was true.

A large mural that was created by some of graffiti's earliest pioneers was discovered recently in a 10-story limestone building in SoHo just as developers were converting it into luxury condominiums. The artwork contains a variety of images and writing executed in spray paint, grease pencil, magic marker and whatever else was on hand - in silver, gold, pink and red. There are cartoonlike pictures of a bomber airplane, images of a heart and a cake, and several references to Quaaludes, a popular 1970s party drug. The mural was found in the eighth-floor loft owned by art critic Edit deAk in the late '70s and 1980s - a time when much of fringe art, including graffiti, was being validated.  There is also writing believed to belong to artist Jean Michel Basquiat "Obviously, it's a critical piece of history, SoHo history," says Lisa Dennison, the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The building's conversion by renowned architect Lee Skolnick was immediately halted in the former loft. Treating the site like an archaeological dig, the kitchen cabinets came down with the gypsum board behind it. Another wallboard and a white tiled wall hid a smaller section of the mural, found in what had become a bathroom.  Once freed, the graffiti will be mounted on a lightweight panel so it can be moved. Ultimately, the Namers want to donate the graffiti to a major museum and are currently in discussions with several. Few graffiti walls exist, as many were painted over or destroyed.

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I stumbled upon this at work and just thought it was really interesting. The fact that at the time these pieces were being done Im sure the artists had no idea that spray painting on the Apartment building walls would get them into an art gallery (or my sweet blog) 30 years later. Just makes you think.... What will be in Galleries 30 years from now?

Resume

Me posting my resume is more for my use. It just allows me to access this information from any computer without having to always carry my thumb-drive, but you guys can take a look as well. I kept it very simple, two color on white and accented with the maroon. I have always loved this color combination and the reversing of the colors. the icon I use as my logo is my signature I use to sign my work with.Normally I'm against the idea of making an odd sized resume or using tricks or gimmicks to sell your work but since I wanted to hand-cut my own business cards so I had full control over the bleeds and the color I thought I'd try and conserve the amount of paper I used and have them on one sheet. 

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years Everyone! As a special little treat here is a present from me to you. Save $20 and print out my "Where do we stand?" 2008 wall Calendar.

-Enjoy

Where Do We Stand 2008 Wall Calendar

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Christmas Cards

This Christmas I decided to buy mostly Gift Cards, Since Lugging large presents home is a pain and finding the perfect Abercrombie sweater for my sister never seems to work out. When buying the gift cards this year I was pretty disappointed with the card envelopes they put the cards in, S0 I took matters into my own hands and made these gift card envelope's each with it's own color. I've used this structure before on a school project but I really liked the unwrapping feeling you get when opening it, next year Id like to make boxes with the matching tucking flaps.

Dad AT&T Reach Out and Touch Someone Commercial

Along with Wedding's my dad also sings Jingles for commercials. This commercial aired during the 1987 Grammy's (Which is why it's ridiculously long)

Pal Joey Music Video

Most of you who are reading this probably know that my dad is a Wedding Singer and use to be in a 80's rock band (would I be making that up?) This aired in 1983 and The video is actually 1 of 2, In the second Video his record label wanted him to be a little less of a pretty boy and a little more bad ass, so he rocks a leather jacket with a popped collar and cigarette. I like this version better I hope you like it too.

São Paulo 6emeia Drainhole art

As some of you may or may not know in September of last year São Paulo, Brazil passed a law coined the "Clean City laws" banning advertisements or "visual pollution" as they call it. This includes all outdoor advertising from ad's on taxi's to store fronts.An estimated 13,000 billboards had to be removed. I have mixed feelings about this since I am a Graphic Designer but do agree with the removal of some of the excessive Billboards being used today. I Couldn't Imagine paying $4500 a month for an apartment in times square and having to look through a Calvin Klein models package (I'm sure some of you might not mind)

Either way the whole thing is interesting and surprising that it exists.

If you want to know more about it visit : http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070618_505580.htm

But.... what I seemed to enjoy more when reading about this was the street art that has emerged to bring some kind of art or "visual pollution" back to the streets. A few young artists who post under the Fotolog name 6emeia have been beautifying the city’s storm sewer openings with cleaver and fun cartoony paintings. Take that!

much more found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sao/sets/72157601458813225/

New Orleans, The Rockumentary

Two,Two page layouts on New Orleans and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Eminent Domain (In progress)

Two, Two Page spreads on an interesting article about Eminent Domain. Not sure what that is...then read it.

BOMBIN' MAGAZINE MAY '08

About 3 months ago I met the guys of Bombin' Magazine through a mutual friend and was asked to do some layout design for the next issue. I had fun pulling elements from the story to make the article look interesting. I really tried my hardest to avoid cliches or spoon feeding the reader with pictures that are obvious.

for more information on the magazine visit: www.bombinmagazine.com