Filed under: Art, Back In The Days, Inspiration, Ramblings | Tags: Fuck May 4th, Josh Squash, Joshua Squash Raine Laven, Rest In Peace, RIP Squash
Fuck. What can I say?… I hate May 4th.
Squash and Ozzy
2012
Every hexagon is a reminder. Even if something is missing.
Rest In Peace
Joshua “Squash” Raine Laven
9/23/1972 – 5/4/2012
Miss you bro.
Filed under: Art, Ramblings | Tags: Alone, AloneOne, Analog, Art, Digital, Drawings, Future Shock, Ludite, Ramblings, Writings
Pictures won’t.. open.
Movie won’t…..… load.
Music. Won’t. Do. Anything.
Pinwheel.
Dvd won’t load.
Remote won’t…. Mute that fuckin noise!
Smart phone. …“Smart” phone?
Cam won’t focus.
Map won’t load.
Text no send.
Wait.. No… “data”?
15 minutes to (re)start computer..
Pinwheel. Pinwheel.
Email lost in spam. Spam lost in email.
Click. Click. C’MON!.. CLICK!!
No. ..I don’t need iTunes update.
Pinwheel. Pinwheel. Pinwheeeeel.
Phone battery low.
No.. don’t upload those photos.
C’Mon… LOAD!
Memory.. full. Memory Full. Memories Full?
Dvd skip-skip-skipping.
Phone dead. Won’t charge.
Couldn’t receive text that you were outside.
File won’t save work.
“Ooh Baby!” …porn. won’t. mute.
Wrong password.
File corrupted. Goodbye time.
Pinwheeel.
Can’t read file.
Data corrupted.
Can’t read metrocard.
C’mon battery!… CHARGE!
100 photos. 1 awesome. 10 good.
“Exif data”?
Send. Send! SEND!!… No, wait!… Not to HER!!
1-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-0…
Sooooooo…
Interweb abandoned.
Smart phone kept ignant.
No apps. No data.
Separate camera.
Maybe iPod. nano. Maybe.
Sketchy polaroids kept at ———.
Catch me at ———. Or just write a letter.
Fuck it. I’m Analog.
“Yelling At The Future”
ink on paper
6 1/2″ x 9″
2017
Filed under: Art, Ramblings | Tags: Alone, AloneOne, Art, Drawings, Ink Running LOW, Words
Something I (mis)heard one day…
“Like Many. Trust Few. And Always Paddle Your Own Canoe.”
ink on paper
8 1/2″ x 11″
2016
Filed under: Art, Back In The Days, Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: 1980's, 2012, 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Boston, Drawings, Elementary School, Free Drawing Paper, Graph Paper, Not Guilty, NYC, Penmanship, Punishments, The ways I punish myself, The Ways I Torture Myself, Writings
So a while back someone gave me a blank book filled with graph paper. Seemed like some interesting paper to draw on. Hopefully it would get me over the “hang up” I have with that paper.. it is what my 4th grade teacher, Ms. Casey, made us use for our “Punishments”.
Do something wrong, and have to write your punishment.. on graph paper. One letter, per square… over and over… until the page was done.
Mess up once?… Start over.
Hand cramping?.. Massage it for 30 seconds, then keep going.
Not learn the lesson?.. Do 5 sheets.
Still not learn?.. The whole class had to do em.
And after they were all done and got a quick check for accuracy?… Ripped in pieces and thrown away.
I usually got good grades in elementary school, except for… conduct, effort and… penmanship. So I OFTEN had this one…
“Write Neater”
This was another common one…
“I Will Not Talk”
Decades later I realized that some of these punishments had really stuck. And not always in a good way. So maybe the same techniques could be used to “unpunish” myself or or for things that I would consider more positive uses.
“Fuck That. Go Talk To Her.”
“A Skateboard Is Not A Battle Ax”
“Be Nice To Her”
Oh, and how can I forget? For next level shit we would have to write ONE WORD PER SQUARE…
“Sorry”
I spent a lot of time almost filling that book. But eventually decided to stop punishing myself…
“Not Guilty”
Filed under: Art, Ramblings | Tags: 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Android, Art, Cell Phone, Emoji, Emojis, iPhone, Writings
Sometimes the creative urge can strike when least prepared. Like when on the subway.. but don’t even have a pen. So gotta use what’s available. Here’s some text message art/writings/stories I’ve been putting together on those rides…
“Me and My Demons”
“I Kill Myself”
“Crash And Burn”
“Me vs. The World”
“Thinking About You”
“We’re So Productive Together”
“Without You, Everything Is Shit”
“Puff Puff Pass”
“Constant HeartAche”
“Faded”
“Fuck That, I’m Out”
“See You In Hell”
“I’ll Haunt You”
“Finally Got Home and Found ___ Shitting In Our Front Yard”
Filed under: Politics, Ramblings | Tags: 2013, Brooklyn, courtesy card, Family Ties, Get Out Of Jail Free, It's Not WHAT you Know It's WHO You Know, New York, New York City, NY, NYC, NYPD, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, PBA, Politics
“It’s Not WHAT you Know…”
Filed under: Art, Inspiration, Ramblings | Tags: Alone, Alone One, Alone1, Art, Inspiration, Letter To Ex
“Letter To Ex”
pen on paper
2012
Filed under: Politics, Ramblings | Tags: Fuck You, New York, New York City, NYPD, Politics, Stop and Frisk
Old news if you live in New York City’s hoods…
“I wanted to help people. But civililian Population are being hunted. Instead of being protected by us, they are being hunted, and we are being hated” – honest NYPD cop (11:29)…
Out of 684,330 stops in 2011, roughly 1% are caught carrying weapons.
Filed under: Art, Photography, Politics, Ramblings | Tags: -Fuck, Alone, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Art, Free Drawing Paper
…more free drawing paper.
Filed under: Politics, Ramblings, YouTube | Tags: FIGHT BACK, police brutality
Pretty cool that we now have all these fancy video camera/cell phones to capture a fraction of the oppression served to us from our authorities. But what I like to see more than the video “evidence” is people just FIGHTING BACK…
Filed under: Art, Graffiti, Inspiration, Photography, Ramblings | Tags: 2009, Aakash Nihalani, Bushwick, Graffiti, Graffiti vs. Street Art, New York, New York City, NYC, Photography, Poster Boy, Posterboy, Street Art, Streets
If street artists want to co-exist and be accepted by the graffiti world, there’s an old graffiti rule that they should understand. “DO NOT GO OVER OTHER PEOPLE.” ESPECIALLY if it’s bigger, better, or old. Sure those tags and those filled in “throw up” letters DO make a nice looking background to your street art. But that graffiti was there FIRST. It might not seem like much, but those letters were done on the spot with risk of arrest, possibly by someone from another city/country , a king, or even a RIPed writer’s last artifact. Undoubtedly potential historic pieces in the graffiti world. You CAN NOT go over them. Go BEHIND them? Hmm.. Maaaybe? ..If it’s done respectfully. This is a pic I took in Bushwick back in 2009..
Posterboy and Aakash Nihalani playin by the rules.
“Give respect, Get respect.”
Filed under: Graffiti, Politics, Ramblings | Tags: A.W.R, Art in The Streets, AWR, Ayer, Deitch, Fuck Authority, Fuck You, Graffiti, LAPD, Los Angeles, M.S.K., MOCA, MSK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Police State, Ramblings, Revok, The Seventh Letter
“Revok”
$320,000 Bail for Graffiti? Is that a misprint? ..Nope, it’s true.. just double checked. They grabbed up REVOK at LAX boarding a flight to Ireland on Sunday. A real FBI style (and QUITE costly) takedown.
from the LA Times:
“Revok, one of Los Angeles’ best known graffiti writers, was arrested as he prepared to board a plane to Ireland at Los Angeles International Airport, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported.
Jason Williams, a.k.a. Revok, was taken into custody Thursday for an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to pay restitution, according to sheriff’s Capt. Mike Parker.
Authorities claim Revok is a member of the graffiti crew Mad Society Kings, or MSK. Officials from the sheriff’s department were notified that there was an outstanding warrant against Revok for failure to repay victims of previous vandalism incidents.
That led to his arrest, officials said.
Revok is being held in the Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of $320,000 bail.
— Richard Winton”
Here’s some other bails set IN the past 2 months, and also IN Los Angeles County (taken from Logan Hicks)…
San Gabriel Valley man arrested for allegedly molesting teenage boy he met online. Bail… $25,000
OC hospital worker is charged with raping sedated patient. Bail… $100,000
Man pleads not guilty to offering ‘dead or alive’ bounty on daughter’s boyfriend. Bail… $250,000
(more here)
and now……
“Artist charged with not repaying (in full) restitution for victims of graffiti.”… Bail… $320,000.
DAMN! Almost 1/3 of a MILLION $s bail for failure to repay “victims” of graffiti? “Victims”? Aren’t the “victims” of this graffiti the walls that had their COLOR CHANGED? Along with being an obvious counter strike against the rising graffiti art world and MOCA’s “Art in the Streets” exhibit, I’m sure Revok’s blog posts on the police don’t help. (MUST READS, if you can stomach them).
Revok’s very honorable dedication to AYER (R.I.P.) in the MOCA show
FREE REVOK.
*** UPDATE: Revok Gets Sentenced 180 Days (from the LA Times)…
Filed under: Art, Graffiti, Politics, Ramblings | Tags: Fine Art, Graffiti, L.A., Los Angeles, M.T.A., Politics, RTH, Smear
From the LA Times (thanks MAC)…
“Graffiti Artist’s Past is Tagging Behind Him
Cristian Gheorghiu scrawled ragged images and his nickname, ‘Smear,’ on L.A.’s lampposts, walls and riverbeds. Now that his gallery career is taking off, an injunction is threatening to bar him from profiting from art bearing his telltale ‘tag.’
In 2007, Gheorghiu’s problems came to a head with his first adult felony arrest. Responding to Smear’s graffiti on buses, L.A. County sheriff’s deputies raided his home. A graffiti vandalism conviction resulted in a 40-month suspended prison sentence, three years’ probation and about $28,000 in restitution for scrawling on buses.
Gheorghiu remains on probation because he has paid off only about $5,000 of his fines.
He says he stopped vandalizing property after his conviction. Today, he insists, his only artwork is created in a studio, with larger pieces fetching $2,000 to $2,500. Art “is my way of making amends,” he said.
But his trouble with the law didn’t end. When his old tagging crew was suspected of creating a quarter-mile-long MTA tag in the Los Angeles River, Gheorghiu was caught in the ensuing police sweep.
He spent three days in jail in 2009. Charges were never filed.
But in 2010, the city attorney sued him and nine others. The suit seeks at least $1 million in penalties and a civil injunction that would forbid many activities, including making money from work emblazoned with their street names.”
Read the whole story here.
“SMEAR”
photo: LA Times
Hmmm… tags no longer allowed in fine art? Wow. That’s pretty fucked up. What about signed pieces by other graffiti and street artists? Are those just criminal evidence now?
If you read a little further the real motive against graffiti/ graffiti art reveals itself (again)..
“Their suit also argues that Gheorghiu’s graffiti served as free publicity, giving him an unfair advantage over legitimate artists — a violation of state laws governing fair competition.”
…..Exactly. All about the $$$$s.
Filed under: Inspiration, Music, Politics, Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: "My timbs start feelin like they Nike Airs on me", BPD, Ghostface, LAPD, NYPD, Really Getting Sick Of Talkin To You Pigs Don't Be suprised If I Bounce On Yall One O These Times
Oh wait, this one needs a soundtrack…
* Pic obviously stolen.
Filed under: Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: Alone, Alone One, Alone1, Blogging
So the blog has been going slow. My bad. Just cause the blog posts are infrequent, doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. It’s just that..
somethings are in the works and I can’t show them yet…
something’s I just shouldn’t be sharing online at all…
… and sometimes I just don’t want to talk.
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