never->present

Nice Quicktime movie of Misternever's Walls

Fight Club/bollywood version + Yacht rock

Are you up on the bollywood version of fight club with songs and dancing? Judging by the music videos, they've added full on scenes from A Night at the Roxbury, hijacked part of theThe Flamingo Kid plot, and added the general level of motherfucking crunkosity in The Princess Diaries. Fellas, guard ya grill. Ladies, tuck ya chains.

Trailers and (FOUR!!!) Music Videos Here




Oh, and Yacht rock is pretty awesome too( especially if you like smooth rock jams...ya heard kem?)


And...Happy New Year!

remix resources

****DRUM RESOURCE ALERT**** John Henry Bonham's studio session tracks from Led Zepplin's "In Through the Door"(1979) album. Twenty three clean drum tracks in mp3 format. Between this and all the marching band drum line tracks circulating, you should be able to do a more organic Manny Fresh styled production. You probably won't be able to emulate his amazing ad libbed intros tho.

Bob from Puma hit me off with this site for acapellas:beansacapellas.co.uk. The Brits really do love eminem a little bit too much. The big find in this inventory was an acapella version of Bob Marley's "Long Time". Haven't heard a remix of that ever.

The next Streets album is going to be entirely recorded on garageband.

UNRLTD

• Kinda fresh


• Semi neat-o


• "How the king of NY gonna be wearing open toe sandals!?!??!"

wall snatchers show dc.

Feb 23-Mar 26, 2006/ Wall Snatchers::3307 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007

Open Feb 23rd, 6-8:30pm.
Exhibition Hours: Fri & Sat 6-10pm, & Sun 4-8pm
Bask
Eon
Faile
Mister Never
Nick Z
Tes One
There will be alot of other great suprises.

http://wpaconline.org//

hrn prstn

When was the "creative class" dubbed? Prolly five years running now. Heron's got a good take on the new breed of entrepreneurs around the globe forming "sophisticated street culture." I'm referring to the Nigos, the ALIFEs, the David Genslers, the Edison Chens, the Supremes, and all the poetic hustlers on the graveyard shift. There's a global movement going on. Metropop gets it, Fader gets it. Boston's bout to get it.


Check Heron Preston's site and get ya bidniss game up.

dave choe dispatch...chuck norris doesn't sleep: he waits

And is crazy…
I will be departing to central Africa. The congo . the heart of darkness, in about three weeks , I was there about 10 years ago , and I will return with a camera man(harry kim), a body guard, and the only missing equation, is a very suave speaking French man. Everyone there speaks french,No one speaks a word of English there (side note to all third world countries: if you don’t like being a third world country start teaching English , not French),so your level of communication has to be able to deal with this type of worst case scenario(also If you can use a camera, speak Bantu, or afrikans and have any martial arts or weapons training background, those would be helpful)
worst case scenario #36
Bandit holding machine gun: give me your fucking camera(in French)
Translator: ok I will give you my camera(in French)but before you take it. would you rather we film you, and you can
tell us your story and show us your life
and millions of people all over the world would see it, which would
mean you have to let us have the camera back and also let us return
home safely
or would you rather keep the camera which the battery is going to die
soon, and there's no adapters in your country to power it?

This country is poor , desperate, and corrupt, but it is not without it’s warmth and goodness. With that being said, the danger level is high, it’s more dangerous than going to Somalia or bagdad, civil war has been raging in the congo for decades, there’ are diseases and killer insects and snakes, there are bandits and hijackers everywhere, so there is a chance you will never come home, but if you can speak French and are crazy enough please e-mail me, if you are a woman I would highly highly recommend not applying unless the possibility of being raped by african men interests you.i need someone immediately or else the trip will be postponed. The trip is sponsored by vice magazine, tickets and expenses will be covered, and you will get a little money, I don’t know how much.
The last time I went it was 1995 and I was 19 years old, and nobody knew that I went , or where I was, this time if you don’t hear from me for awhile you’ll kind of know what happened.if you want to know why we're going
go to google.com type in "congo" and "dinosaur" and see what happens

Meanwhile in san jose......

I have had 10 year long history of paintings being stolen from my shows, I’ve had shows all over the place so I don’t think it’s one person. I want to stress once again, in this life if there’s something you really really want , like a painting, talk to me lets work something out, we can always work it out. Life isn’t just about money. Trade can work also. So I had a good year... year and a half where i had plenty of shows and everyone behave and no one stole, but my last two shows in San Francisco I’ve had paintings stolen. If you know who it is please have the painting mysteriously make it’s way back to me or the gallery, no questions asked, if the culprit is ever found out or you get caught, the consequences will be nah joo ga ee geh sek kee…
pleae Believe that. Most of the work sold in this last show, (thanks mysterious big spender who ever bought all the big ones),and I think this website might not be updated, but the show comes down tomorrow, so if you want anything last minute , check it.

before I go to africa.....
I guess congress just passed something that says January 13th or is it the 14th? Is officially Korean American day.
So I guess all you Koreans out there can skip school and eat galbee that day.(side note: to everyone who thought it was unfair that all the art in my last show was 10% off to all Koreans, don’t worry even a little bit. Korean’s don’t buy art.and they didn't)
I will be working on this day in los angeles, Q and A , it’s all about Q and A , just don’t ask stupid questions.here’s where I’ll be..

680 Wilshire Place, LA, CA 90005 and the building is the Korean American Education Center. And the date is Sat, Jan 14.
i'll be there from 1 to 3:30 bullshitting and answering your thoughtful questions

See you there, anyone can come.

Later that evening….

I totally forgot about this. The black market one year anniversary show is going down in culver city. This is one of the first galleries that showed my work in los angeles, and I’m always down to support them. Come check out some of my new work as well as some of my favorites.
Saturday January 14th 6 to 11 pm
6009 washington blvd. Culver city blkmrktgallery.com
doze, evan hecox, jeff soto, dave Kinsey, jose parla, dave choe, etc….
go check the website, I can’t type everyone, I’m too tired. blkmrktgallery.com

and even later on, directly from los angeles I will be leaving to spain for

BREAD & BUTTER EUROVISION - BARCELONA. 2nd edition

18 – 20 January 2006 autumn/winter, 2006/2007
Exhibition Site: Fira Barcelona

http://www.breadandbutter.com

I will be painting with rich Jacobs, matt Gordon, george Thompson, neck face, I think mickey Avalon will ride with us who knows
rvca is sponsoring us. . see all you euro kids out there.
Directly from spain me and harry will be leaving to the congo if we find the translator.

c’mon, cheer up kids 2006 is here, and it’s
your year, your shits gonna blow up this year. And everyone in a dead end fuuuuuucked up relationship for more than half a decade drop that shit tonight, it ain’t working he/she still might love you, but they really don’t. you know they don;t or else they would've ,could've should've. drop that shit and move on. Fresh start.
People that keep asking me to be their friendster, or join livejournal, or myspace, or thefacebook, or whatever.even though i appreciate the invite, I get hundreds of e-mails a day , to my regular email account, 70% from nut jobs, do you think I want to add more bullshit to the chaos? Fuck I think I need a manger or an assistant again. i have plenty of unhealthy habits and hobbies i don't need any new ones.

Here are some extremely helpful links about

Chuck Norris
(I think there over thousands of chuck stuff but this is the main 30 I keep finding)I’m proud to say I once met mr. Norris when I was 7 living in orange county, at the local chuck e. cheese.

Vincent gallo
(read the last item that he has for sale for 1 million dollars in his misc. items for sale section)

biggie smalls

and
dave chappelle(this will take some time to read)


That really gave me insight into them and made/wasted my day.
It’s all pretty useless information, you should read the bible instead.
God bless
I love you all
Your all fucking crazy
david choe.

ny excuse

The projects was good to us this past week. just sending a short thanks to all the creators we met. Nomas, Maharishi, BiJules, StillLifeNYC, Recon, Mishka, Coup D' Etat, Nossa Baile Funk posse, SSUR, MS. Claw(saved my life w/ pegleg), Riddim Driven, and the Vault. Under crown, aNYthing, and J money: we'll git to you an the don when we swing back up for some noodles.


Stingray skin breaks machines. Japanese sometimes win battles with resources(equalling exclusive dubplates). You can look at it but you can't buy it.

low art

Dun, are you up on this yet?

Dun, are you up on Andreas Gursky?

ny times: hat crime

January 13, 2006

NYC

Off With Their Hats!

By CLYDE HABERMAN

BAD enough that we have hate crime. But now we have to contend with hat crime as well.

Let's say that you want to take your baseball cap or fedora (also known as a real hat), paint something on it and sell it on New York streets as artwork. You can't do that. At least you can't do it without first getting a license from the city. Otherwise, you are breaking the law.

That's what a federal appeals court said the other day. It overruled a lower-court judge who had assigned constitutional protections to hand-painted hats adorned in graffiti style with words like "Unique" and "Uptown."

Now, a hat might not strike everyone as a work of art, even if it does have "Unique" sprayed on the front. But Judge Victor Marrero of Manhattan Federal District Court saw things differently in April 2004.

A painting does not have be a framed canvas hanging on a museum wall to qualify as art, Judge Marrero said. Two hat-decorating artists, he ruled, may sell their wares on the street without a city license because they enjoy the same free-speech rights as booksellers and others protected by the First Amendment.

Last week, an appeals court knocked that argument into a cocked you-know-what, saying in effect: Give us a break! These are hats, not art.

And the city has a legitimate interest in controlling their street sale through its licensing machinery, the appellate judges said. Sidewalks are already clogged enough in parts of town with people selling such items as fake Rolexes and photos of the World Trade Center.

For now, potential hat crime in New York lies in the act of selling. The hat itself is not automatically evidence of wrongdoing. That separates us from Washington, where a hat seems no longer to be just an accessory but an accessory to a crime.

Consider the case of Jack Abramoff, the wheeler-dealer lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal. Mr. Abramoff is destined to be fitted soon for an orange jumpsuit. But last week, still a free man, he left a Washington courthouse in a black fedora and a black trench coat. The fedora was all that some needed to decide the guy was no good.

"Dressed like a crime boss," a Washington Post writer said of him. "He could not have appeared more guilty, more menacing and more unsympathetic than if he had walked out wielding a baseball bat and muttering something about so-and-so sleeping with the fishes."

Mr. Abramoff is said to love the "Godfather" films. He is also an Orthodox Jew. There has been some debate over whether he wore the black hat to signal his religiosity in a sympathy ploy or, rather, to get in touch with his inner Luca Brasi. Either way, the fedora itself became an issue.

It was hat-ism at its worst.

DENNIS RIVERA, who leads the health care workers union in New York, is familiar with this form of bigotry. He, too, favors fedoras, and must endure suggestions that his hat is evidence of sinister motives.

"People say, 'That's your signature thing,' like I premeditated the wearing of a hat to symbolize an image," Mr. Rivera said. "There is no intent of a sinister look or anything like that."

So why does he wear a fedora? To keep his head warm, he said.

Oh.

Orlando Palacios sells hats at Worth & Worth, in a room three flights above West 55th Street. Of course, there is nothing sinister about a fedora, he said. John Birmingham, the editor in chief of DNR, a men's wear trade publication, agreed. But real hats on men are "so unusual now," Mr. Birmingham said, "that maybe people are thinking in terms of film noir, and that's the leap they may be making."

That leap is not entirely misguided, said Ida O'Toole, who owns J.J. Hat Center, on Fifth Avenue in the 30's. "This was always the hat that gangsters wore," she said. But it was also, she agreed, a hat favored by those with a sense of style.

Joseph Mohbat, a lawyer in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, suggested much the same in an e-mail response to an NYC column in October on rowdy Yankee Stadium fans. "It's the hats and duds," Mr. Mohbat wrote. Years ago at the ballpark, "the gents wore fedoras and boaters and shirts and ties," he said. "Made it hard to be a lout, wouldn't you think?"

We would. Hat crime may not be nice. But boorish public behavior is beyond the pale. Any cat in a hat knows that.

E-mail: haberman@nytimes.com

Katrina Destruction. New Orleans Today.

lower 9th ward



These were taken last week as a friend toured Nolia. Much devestation. Kanye was right. Full album here. Photos by Michael Miles.

nick + never updates

youlovenickz.com

For Download:
DJ Assault- Yo relatives.mp3

that is all.

pfp.writetoeat.peeps

Necro2 always got dem characters



Aderk's been painting

Was just a minute ago when we were all on the graffiti street hustle back on newbury street. We rented a courtyard space from the drunk skate dudes at the record shop and hung out with Faet and the rest of PFP trying to get that non-profit paper.

Now the gallery's bout to open. dang.

• Does the world need Bapefinder?
  


• The world does need an new Lemon-red mix(That last dj benzi joint is fiyahhhh).
  


• The world should check out Youtube.com while bored at work.