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Monthly Archives: March 2010
MAZE-VET-MONE TMC 2010
A Graffiti Artist Hides; Reporter Seeks
By JESSICA REAVES
Published: March 26, 2010
It came to me in one of those terrifying flashes of clarity that drive some people to drink and and others to gorge on pie: My life had become a cut-rate Samuel Beckett play.
I’d been waiting for snacki — an elusive graffiti artist who has developed an appreciative following in Chicago — for nearly four months. And on a recent Friday evening, I should have been triumphant: After endless negotiations and delays, the person whose work had begun populating my dreams finally had agreed to call me. Now I just had to be patient. And rearrange my schedule. And wait.
I’d first heard about snacki from an acquaintance who had been tracking his signature faces — droopy eyed and highly expressive — for more than three years. Linda Holland, a Chicago designer and writer, now owns several pieces of snacki’s art, each acquired via a painstaking (some might say maddening) sequence of e-mail messages, and, eventually, meetings with snacki’s “agent,” a 20-something guy who wore paint-splattered pants to their most recent rendezvous.
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Videograf 10 – 20th Year Anniversary DVD Coming April 10th.
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Spray Graphics Fashion Show and Exhibition at Crewest Illustrate the Origins of Street Art on T’s by the O.G.’s of the Scene, TC-5
While LA Fashion Week continues to evolve, especially in downtown Los Angeles where many new leading-edge designers and boutiques host various events, one of the highlight fashion events took place at Crewest Art Gallery on March 20, called “Revolutions.” The show featured live spray graphics on T-shirts by street artists TC-5, plus a fashion show illustrating the origins of how street art and fashion evolved into the graphic scene it is today.
What’s unique about the TC-5 crew is that they were the originators of street art and street fashion which started back in the ‘80’s. Using compressed spraypaint guns, they often performed live to create graphics on T-shirts, denim jeans, and jackets. And to have one of these pieces was a symbol of cool.
TC-5 artist jacket with spray graphics.read more here
