STEELERS!!

Legoized Hip-Hop

Readers of this blog would have to know by now that i'm a big old school LEGO fan. I'm impressed by anything creative and unusual done with these fantastic building blocks! I ran across this post on Format's Blog and it reads....
"After 50 years as an industry leader, LEGO has become a staple in any kids toy box. In more recent times the mini-figs and legendary building blocks have been used to recreate famous landmarks, classic photographs and now: 20 Classic Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO."

For More Pics of Legoized Album Covers click here!!!

R.I.P. Bettie Page 1923-2008

"With deep personal sadness I must announce that my dear friend and client Bettie Page passed away at 6:41pm PST this evening in a Los Angeles hospital. She died peacefully but had never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack nine days ago.

She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality. She is the embodiment of beauty."

Statement by Mark Roesler, business agent for Bettie Page

April 22, 1923 to December 11, 2008

A private funeral service is planned for Tuesday.

Page will buried at Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles, just a few feet away from Monroe.


Source: http://www.bettiepage.com/obit/index.html

The Garter!

The Red Garter....I use to pass this bar to and from the Marina del Rey Skate Park when I was knee high to a grasshoppers butt!!
We would always wonder what it was they did in a place called "The Red Garter"?? Sounded nasty! When I was high school we tried to get in but were shut down at the door making the interest even that much worse! "What could they be doing behind the closed door of "The Red Garter"? As I became of drinking age I quickly stopped in to see all the nastiness that lied all these years behind the door of "The Red Garter". Nothing....nothing....nothing....it was an oldman bar blue with smoke...not a women in sight...not a person under 60 years old. It was nasty all right...but not in the way I had imagined. Years later this became a sort of trendy dive hang out, mainly because of the 2 pool tables in the back. This was also one of the only bar in Los Angeles you could still smoke in years after the "No Smoking" law went into effect.

The bar has since changed hands, been fully renovated, and had the Red taken out of it's name! Now "The Garter" attracts a plethora of clients....from the ever so hip Hollywood "Hipsters" to the derelict drunk degenerates!
I met the Garter Crew through The Big Geezers art Crew form Amsterdam and beyond. So almost 30 years later the circle is complete and I was asked to paint the entrance door to "The Garter"!

Check out the animation here!!!

Scion Presents: Big Geezers

Like i said before...this is gonna be a great show!!
Don't miss it!!

Happy Samhain!!

Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31, they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.

The Big Geezers are coming!!

Amsterdams most creative crew will be in Los Angeles to open their show at the Scion Gallery on Nov. 8th!!
This will be a show NOT to miss!
Bring your camera and eat well before you come to the opening, cause these guys like to party!!
Skin Up!!!