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ROCKSMITH FALL 08 video

My lovely amiga, Jenn of <a href="http://www.rocksmithtokyo.com/">Rocksmith Tokyo</a> & <a href="http://www.kilointl.com/">Kilo Intl</a> aka Diamond Girl., just showed me their new Fall 08 promo video starring Masahiro Ito & Theophilus London, who is also the one singing over the beats of Machine Drum. Kilo & Rocksmith are some of my favorite peeps in the streetwear industry...they've got the best team, and they are taking the world by storm. They just returned from Barcelona's Bread & Butter Trade Show and are getting ready to drop the hottest Fall gear. <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4twu59IwGGM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></object><object height="344" width="425"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4twu59IwGGM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object> Diamond Girl teamed up with Handshake to host an OBAMA fundraiser and they booked me for August 9th, 2008 to do some live painting at the event, which I'm very much looking forward to. Make sure to check back for details. Among the many talents will be the peeps responsible for the soundtrack of the new video above. Rocksmith will be selling their super fresh Obama T's to raise funds, so this is the time to show your support and go home with a dope tee. Check 3 of my favorite T-shirt Rocksmith designs which you can buy at the <a href="http://www.karmaloop.com/vendor.asp?VendorCode=RKS&bysex=1">Karmaloop.</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTyflF6Hb7bYomz3S2ysbigkIgPokIRBuMV40GKYXxumNkZzEIn4LI6GDqU7t5bE9Pov7JUAEhXSent3nmPW4WmD7ZN5h_a_sXHXbQ-2OGv6JNTL1MvDaoZ4SvHyCPPPA22EdTGBWg85U/s1600-h/RS-2100-BLKzoom1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223503567583272338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTyflF6Hb7bYomz3S2ysbigkIgPokIRBuMV40GKYXxumNkZzEIn4LI6GDqU7t5bE9Pov7JUAEhXSent3nmPW4WmD7ZN5h_a_sXHXbQ-2OGv6JNTL1MvDaoZ4SvHyCPPPA22EdTGBWg85U/s400/RS-2100-BLKzoom1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 285px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaD_uCgm2YWXFksy6godGCDvO8N5UkoOZfVlSYZVCRZlMNHEcUojjgs7szthVrM1Tgnbbq2TiecyjuMGf1qL2yvgGDqD_-zv3uZ3-y99JElkE8HoAgbSCwv3R8TSbApUGesbU76LqDTdM/s1600-h/RS2059-WHTzoom2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223503564629252626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaD_uCgm2YWXFksy6godGCDvO8N5UkoOZfVlSYZVCRZlMNHEcUojjgs7szthVrM1Tgnbbq2TiecyjuMGf1qL2yvgGDqD_-zv3uZ3-y99JElkE8HoAgbSCwv3R8TSbApUGesbU76LqDTdM/s400/RS2059-WHTzoom2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 276px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwtw4GYOxXsCmYCEvdkDY0d_14iyI-2lfkMQZ-QlFztClUWcY2LAY69wQeQIhXxYUJpQ-LC2Ss5F3XABfWjDTzvPp8jQvkaurS-Q09ryd_n9GdMmwvCFtREh9qWlUaPjylihnelNqIRU/s1600-h/83RS0708-Blkzoom1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223503563707218226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwtw4GYOxXsCmYCEvdkDY0d_14iyI-2lfkMQZ-QlFztClUWcY2LAY69wQeQIhXxYUJpQ-LC2Ss5F3XABfWjDTzvPp8jQvkaurS-Q09ryd_n9GdMmwvCFtREh9qWlUaPjylihnelNqIRU/s400/83RS0708-Blkzoom1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 188px; height: 284px;" /></a>

ROCKSMITH FALL 08 video

My lovely amiga, Jenn of Rocksmith Tokyo & Kilo Intl aka Diamond Girl., just showed me their new Fall 08 promo video starring Masahiro...

10:10 PM

WATER-FUELED CAR.... Imagine that!

Imagine a world of no pollution, no war for oil, no blood spilled for drops of liquid black gold. The future is here...let's hope that the ecologically aware half of the world will demand that this miracle car will actually gets to be produced safely and sold around the world, instead of remaining a wild utopian dream vehicle. "Developed by Genepax in Japan, this commuter vehicle is able to travel at 80km/h for one hour on just a single liter [approx. quarter of a gallon] of water. The concept is much the same as other fuel cell vehicles, except you don't need to feed the car with straight hydrogen. The Water Energy System (WES) and Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) are used to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in water. Details are slim by they say this is accomplished through some sort of chemical reaction. Genepax is currently shopping around its technology to various automakers, so we're not sure when (and if) these water-powered cars will ever make it into production." <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eb9urNUFzAM&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eb9urNUFzAM&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="344" width="425"></embed></object> via <a href="http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C15557/">mobile mag</a>

WATER-FUELED CAR.... Imagine that!

Imagine a world of no pollution, no war for oil, no blood spilled for drops of liquid black gold. The future is here...let's hope that t...

5:09 PM

BRINGING THE REAL SEXY BACK: PPP droppin new album in Fall 2008

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdx4ZBOYUliwBuNw7uUC2pHxOEjVu376UQuChoO0Obyu1pTjQTJXA-OQPmhYb7Pu3x1kEK8I5qeV0flf6gl7iGZOewhNIzVphIelIET5N10GAKIazTh0Fvp_DzQ7HBvvF1cqsqjj9BNK8/s1600-h/waajeed_dustin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219310617787349410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdx4ZBOYUliwBuNw7uUC2pHxOEjVu376UQuChoO0Obyu1pTjQTJXA-OQPmhYb7Pu3x1kEK8I5qeV0flf6gl7iGZOewhNIzVphIelIET5N10GAKIazTh0Fvp_DzQ7HBvvF1cqsqjj9BNK8/s400/waajeed_dustin.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>One of the most memorable days of June was my interview with <a href="http://www.myspace.com/waajeedandthebling47group">WAAJEED</a> of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/platinumpiedpipers">PPP</a> and <a href="http://www.bling47.com/">BLING47.</a> Waajeed's complete dedication to music left me inspired to say the least...inspired to further push the boundaries and to keep refining the craft. I had a chance to listen to the complete new PPP album, ABUNDANCE scheduled to drop in October, just before it was sent off to their record label, Ubiquity (apparently only Ge-ology and the PPP fam had a chance to listen to the album fully)...all I can say is that this album is going to be HUGE! Not sure how to express my excitement about this record...enough to say that I've been listening to it for the last two weeks pretty much non-stop (alternating with other PPP & WAAJEED <a href="http://www.bling47.com/store/categoryDetail.cfm?cat=11&pcat=2">gems</a>). By the way, Waajeed is also a dope painter, though making music keeps him too busy to get down with the paintbrush these days. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZ8SC40vEVbu6dtUQf_dOGhy73ootRUCt1vot3s8NxpUADSkDQea-ozHXn6EmJUddX9B7hMy32hPrHtnU0kUPu6HQn5b0cxNoNXLVNDGCBIzWNb29S0BhyphenhyphenfY1EA-0UZnQg2DwmrWzUGk/s1600-h/l_7ef826efe0a20e7fef0ae16d285bfe03.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220891280087464898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimZ8SC40vEVbu6dtUQf_dOGhy73ootRUCt1vot3s8NxpUADSkDQea-ozHXn6EmJUddX9B7hMy32hPrHtnU0kUPu6HQn5b0cxNoNXLVNDGCBIzWNb29S0BhyphenhyphenfY1EA-0UZnQg2DwmrWzUGk/s400/l_7ef826efe0a20e7fef0ae16d285bfe03.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" /></a> Hands down, ABUNDANCE set the bar for new music. Breaking all boundaries, PPP's new album defies labels and forced categorization; it is what great soulful, sexy music should sound like, comparable to the quality of music produced by giants such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool and The Gang, or Prince back in the days when popular music had SOUL (something that is so desperately missing from today's overpolished and formulaic pop music.). With incredible musicians, Coultrain and Karma Stewart (whose powerful voice evokes Aretha Franklin's spirit), added to the core of PPP consisting of Detroit-bred Waajeed and Saadiq, you can be assured that these guys will take the world by storm. Long-time PPP friends, Invincible and Jamila Raegen, among others, also blessed the record with their vocal skillz. Carrying on Detroit's Motown legacy, PPP's ABUNDANCE is a future classic. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpefU_UWOp9YxktHq8OWEuqRKQdPdF8Ty4SgvtjclK0n1i_xfBmvtMsJSrAlz8FoO9QVdmdJeJVGEPy6nJ8coHO_LJIn5BDl0jq8ysf9C0H21E5eEnWg8ff6ss2GzkXKGn4rmYgJZTis/s1600-h/Fantastic+Flyer+Final.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219315030789252034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpefU_UWOp9YxktHq8OWEuqRKQdPdF8Ty4SgvtjclK0n1i_xfBmvtMsJSrAlz8FoO9QVdmdJeJVGEPy6nJ8coHO_LJIn5BDl0jq8ysf9C0H21E5eEnWg8ff6ss2GzkXKGn4rmYgJZTis/s400/Fantastic+Flyer+Final.JPG" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 335px;" /></a>They have already begun touring with the album, so if you're lucky, you can catch PPP killin'em softly at SOUTHPAW, as they will provide the highlight of the <a href="http://www.brooklynbodega.com/internal/bhf/labels/brooklyn%20hip%20hop%20festival.html">Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival</a> at the Official Afterparty. I'll be painting live at the VIP tent during the day at the festival! You can peep the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/platinumpiedpipers">PPP page</a> for the concert schedule. I can't give away much now, but make sure to check back later for the reference to my interview with WAAJEED about his musical journey from Detroit to Brooklyn, about the birth of the new album, finding the new cast, future directions, and everything else in between. Also, WAAJEED fans are in for a double-treat next week: come check out FANTASTIC, featuring WAAJEED and old-time friends, T3 of Slum Village and DWELE at this special event at Sutra (16 1st Ave, NY) on Thursday, July 10th. <div style="text-align: center;">This just came from Waajeed...get a taste of the making of the album </div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CQ-2-fcVnmo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CQ-2-fcVnmo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object> </div> <div style="text-align: center;">Music hasn't felt this good! </div><div style="text-align: center;">The new PPP crew:Coultrain, Karma, Waajeed & Saadiq </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/?action=view&current=l_fc589f543546ec73f45a50e7657b5c89.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/l_fc589f543546ec73f45a50e7657b5c89.jpg" style="width: 594px; height: 890px;" /></a> </div>

BRINGING THE REAL SEXY BACK: PPP droppin new album in Fall 2008

One of the most memorable days of June was my interview with WAAJEED of PPP and BLING47. Waajeed's complete dedication to music left ...

4:28 PM

KON & AMIR Digging 101 with XLR8R

KON & AMIR Digging 101 with XLR8R

A few weeks ago XLR8R TV asked my homies Kon & Amir to take them around for a round of crate digging. Above is the result...if ...

4:20 PM

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: Jamel Shabazz

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7kOgh9PiQooJAE0lu5hIitGuj-q01G0muNXHafGbxf06ZOOpprMU-U9p2o6fzUu7HDxRjyk7zLXe4sgsC7iem6xjNdhNKKujtyBlkcSC5xaoqYbF7WSOk-62HyyBefATF7xrDyIlqJ0/s1600-h/53012376.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219284539864419570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX7kOgh9PiQooJAE0lu5hIitGuj-q01G0muNXHafGbxf06ZOOpprMU-U9p2o6fzUu7HDxRjyk7zLXe4sgsC7iem6xjNdhNKKujtyBlkcSC5xaoqYbF7WSOk-62HyyBefATF7xrDyIlqJ0/s400/53012376.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>I have been a fan of JAMEL SHABAZZ for years. As an activist myself and firm believer in the responsibility of artists to give back and to raise awareness about issues that matter today, I have enormous respect and admiration for Jamel Shabazz's extraordinary work that has always been about celebrating the community and capturing the human spirit with a loving lense. He documents life in its ephemeral beauty not simply for the sake of recording history, but because he has a genuine love for his subjects...images that inspire and make you want to know about the lives of people in his photographs. His photography is a lesson 101 into how to capture flavor, soul, intimacy, playfulness, style and simply realness. [photo source: <a href="http://www.jamd.com/image/g/53012376">jam.com</a>] <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgtwze6SZizhcQSOy5Oh88ExQQ0srgY9lvkzm65UDoTXN9dgfw0OBLk8aFS7-YxAcPaGUDn8sdK26oq-Qv8-9zwnXwuLT9avz1otCagmIEe8-NQXOuFuwAPipGLjNN8nUupvPLSDZgJE/s1600-h/Jamel+Shabazz.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219288940666358242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgtwze6SZizhcQSOy5Oh88ExQQ0srgY9lvkzm65UDoTXN9dgfw0OBLk8aFS7-YxAcPaGUDn8sdK26oq-Qv8-9zwnXwuLT9avz1otCagmIEe8-NQXOuFuwAPipGLjNN8nUupvPLSDZgJE/s400/Jamel+Shabazz.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 207px;" /></a>As the excerpt from his new collection of photo memoirs states, SECONDS OF MY LIFE, "Exposed at an early age to provocative images (Leonard Freed's Black in White America) of both Southern and urban life, Shabazz has long been committed to documenting his community and the people who gave it life;to counteract the damage society can wreak on self esteem. Shabazz has been an inspirational force in black culture since 2001: his photoraphic essay Back in the Days, a 20-plus-year documentation of urban life and hip hop culture, from fashion and performance to verbal and visual languages." <a href="http://www.jamelshabazz.com/Jamelsite/extras/kidjumping_800.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.jamelshabazz.com/Jamelsite/extras/kidjumping_800.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 641px; height: 476px;" /></a> This past month, I had several occasions to watch the 'master at work'...my admiration grew even bigger as I watched him interacting with those in front of his lens. His love for people I could intuit from his work was completely confirmed in real life. First, on June 8th, I had a chance to participate in the realization of the project called "A GREAT DAY IN BROOKLYN" that my organization, <a href="http://www.dopeswan.org/">DOPE SWAN</a> had been working on for months. Here is an excerpt from our press release. JUNE 8, 2008 Shooting A GREAT DAY IN BROOKLYN at the Brooklyn Museum <a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK5.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" /></a>"Brooklyn, NY – June 17, 2008 – On Sunday, June 8, community arts organization DOPE SWAN launched Brooklyn, Stand Up!: Documenting the Brooklyn Renaissance with “A Great Day in Brooklyn,” a historic photo event shot by renowned cultural documentarian and Brooklyn native, Jamel Shabazz. “A Great Day In Brooklyn” follows the footsteps of Art Kane’s iconic image of jazz aficionados, “A Great Day in Harlem,” and will be the cornerstone of Brooklyn, Stand Up!, a year-long study into what has been called the Brooklyn Renaissance. In addition to the photograph, the Brooklyn, Stand Up! project will consist of several components, including: monthly arts programming in and around Brooklyn, an online archive of interviews collected from Brooklyn’s self-made leaders, and a scholarship fund for Brooklyn students wishing to pursue an education in the arts. <a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 254px;" /></a><a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 255px;" /></a> Left: Rock of the Boot Camp Click, Cynical & Mos Def...Right: BK represent (Lichiban & Sarah White=<a href="http://wronglips.blogspot.com/">WRONGLIPS</a> in upper right corner)! <a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 225px;" /></a><a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/GDIBK3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 340px; height: 223px;" /></a> Several amazing artists, activists, and entrepreneurs whose lives and works breathe the essence of Brooklyn were in attendance, including the owner of New York City’s first eco-eatery Sean Meenan, Michael K. Williams from HBO’s “The Wire”, hip-hop emcee, actor and community activist Mos Def, Black Girls Rock! founder DJ Beverly Bond and Tony Award winning Def Poetry Jam artist Suheir Hammad. Read more and check more flix on the DOPE SWAN site <a href="http://dopeswan.org/2008/06/18/historic-photo-events-celebrate-the-brooklyn-spirit/">here</a>. JUNE 20, 2008 The follow-up shoot of A GREAT DAY IN BROOKLYN at the Manhattan Bridge, DUMBO + book signing with Jamel Shabazz at Powerhouse Arena <a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AGDB.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AGDB.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 386px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwnMIQrOOE0ZzNwiNE6Ajn-9etwcWE8VS2p4NKaA64YEEegM2Kalg5-x3DmV5f661gy-velkJbJo5WDMSj-wkpWRIz7BkkACX_KXeLOI9aaI1SFXuMv8aebHS4W1P88GRVANtiT3JjA8/s1600-h/IMG_8714.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219290336592653202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwnMIQrOOE0ZzNwiNE6Ajn-9etwcWE8VS2p4NKaA64YEEegM2Kalg5-x3DmV5f661gy-velkJbJo5WDMSj-wkpWRIz7BkkACX_KXeLOI9aaI1SFXuMv8aebHS4W1P88GRVANtiT3JjA8/s400/IMG_8714.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 387px;" /></a> JUNE 21, 2008: AVANT YARD at MOCADA <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WzjM97lGBJBtcLfsZ3qbi1GzcNZUMZeRUejermKhFcrXCWZndhV1FUtdahuwIAEbqMYA5JAogTZNX3J-hcQ9IBnYEWWwrbOt_3KiaQSxmdrlYK_ppt7xO6Azxt_z_3LwX2v54q4amg4/s1600-h/l_d4a95258e34fbcf36973ba704c0db027.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219291619345388082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WzjM97lGBJBtcLfsZ3qbi1GzcNZUMZeRUejermKhFcrXCWZndhV1FUtdahuwIAEbqMYA5JAogTZNX3J-hcQ9IBnYEWWwrbOt_3KiaQSxmdrlYK_ppt7xO6Azxt_z_3LwX2v54q4amg4/s400/l_d4a95258e34fbcf36973ba704c0db027.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>On June 21st, one of NYC's underground art collectives, AVANT YARD had opened its door to Ancient Futures: The DNA of Cultures and Civilizations curated by amazing photographer, <a href="http://www.mywerkz.net/">Malik Yusef Cumbo</a> at <a href="http://www.mocada.org/">The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA).</a> "A revival of the critically acclaimed 1990s Avant Yard underground art movement in Tribeca, that took the New York art world by storm, the exhibition Ancient Futures will feature work from several of the previously exhibited artists that started the revolution, as well as newer, emerging artists that are continuing the tradition of pushing the envelope." You can check some of Jamel Shabazz's work, as well as other talented AVANT YARD artists here until September 7, 2008....not to be missed. To get a taste of the art, check <a href="http://wronglips.blogspot.com/2008/07/brooklyn-diaries-art-from-heart.html">my post on WRONGLIPS</a>. JUNE 22, 2008 <a href="http://who-will-kiss-the-pig.blogspot.com/2008/06/sunday-at-danny-simmons-corridor.html" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Sunday @ Danny Simmons' Corridor Gallery: Artist Reception & Opening for POSITIVITY, Curated by Jamel Shabazz</a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTd9h3LD_eBtMsTK8vnA88aBBg6sEsOU6EUYwtij4ndg-r7JV_L0JaK2ZcA3DlVVIR7RXdndqRvGL0rRmrcQTeTaATW4N0jkNB5vebfYjrY_2cmWAoYJLgBLyVQf_VI4iMQguyPNhSAlg/s1600-h/Positivity-Fcopy-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219294273099683170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTd9h3LD_eBtMsTK8vnA88aBBg6sEsOU6EUYwtij4ndg-r7JV_L0JaK2ZcA3DlVVIR7RXdndqRvGL0rRmrcQTeTaATW4N0jkNB5vebfYjrY_2cmWAoYJLgBLyVQf_VI4iMQguyPNhSAlg/s400/Positivity-Fcopy-1.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" /></a>Then, to finish off the month, I had a chance to see his work the forth time and express my admiration for his relentless work in supporting community empowerment and artistic growth as a mentor, inspiration and photographer extraordinaire. POSITIVITY, a group exhibit curated by Jamel Shabazz "explores photography beyond its subject matter highlighting the POSITIVITY represented in the definite moment when the lens captures and shines on an individual or object."<o:p></o:p> On View: June 22 July 26, 2008. Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday, June 28 4-5pm. Moderated by Danny Simmons & Talib Kweli <u1:p></u1:p> Danny Simmons Corridor Gallery, 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238Check the flix from the reception of one of the talented photographers, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn (right) <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nightqueen/2603239952/in/set-72157605765685931/">here</a>. Stay tuned for her show at MOCADA opening on August 3, 2008, entitled KINDRED COOL that captures some intimate moments from the life of contemporary jazz musicians. I had a chance to design Laylah's flyer for the show, so make sure to check back for details at the end of the month. 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