3 day weekend of art- body painting, art fairs and new acrylic on canvas!

Thank goodness for 3 day weekends! I got so much done and even had time to play and have some fun too.<br />....I have a lot of photos to share but i am going to start with what i am most excited to post: my new body painting photos:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765616983/" title="Wise Woman by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Wise Woman" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4765616983_6370b6d01a.jpg" width="335" /></a><br />Wise Woman<br />(body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose<br />Model:Suzanne Owens-Duval )<br /><br />I feel blessed to have been able to work with Suzanne and include her in this growing women's study art project of mine.<br />A few weeks back i realized that my body painting project had a lot going for it: a wide rang of body type, ethnicity and culture but was missing a nice range of age. With this realization in mind i posted a craigslist ad asking for elderly women who might be interested in participating in my project. I only got one response and that was from my model Suzanne who turned out to be a super vivacious and skilled professional actor for screen and stage!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4766258934/" title="Wise Woman by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Wise Woman" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4766258934_dd32cefe90.jpg" width="357" /></a><br />Wise Woman<br />(body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose<br />Model: Suzanne Owens-Duval)<br /><br />We did the body painting in the loft of <a href="http://www.truthartspace.com/">T.Ruth Artspace gallery</a> on Sunday- walking down the stairs to stand in front of the backdrop on the main floor of the gallery. As always it was wondrous getting to know my model and it was uncanny how much we had in common in thoughts, feelings and intention. She seemed to have a real love for life and was well equipped to roll with life's punches through the years. We both agreed that everything happens for a reason and there is little point in regretting things. We also seemed to think that the body is a person's temple and that as women age the beauty matures and changes anew- our bodies becoming road maps showing the signs of a life lived well and to the fullest.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4766248732/" title="Wise Woman by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Wise Woman" height="500" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4766248732_8bb392631e.jpg" width="335" /></a><br />Wise Woman<br />(body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose<br />Model: Suzanne Owens-Duval)<br /><br />I took over 500 photos of Suzanne in little over an hour and a half and i have been having a wonderful time in my spare moments this past weekend sifting through the shots and polishing the keepers. Needless to say, there will be more coming soon!<br /><br />Now, jumping back to Friday...i wanted to share a quick snapshot of our simple set up for Craft In the Village:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765797782/" title="July-Craft in the Village by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="July-Craft in the Village" height="276" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4765797782_576f648c32.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />Danny picked me up early from work so that we could drive on over to Vancouver Washington to participate for our second time in their "Craft in the Village" art vending event. It was predicted to rain but that sure didn't stop us! Our lil fair still went strong with live music and a dozen or more vendors braving the storm. It did rain buckets for an half an hour but we survived and were rewarded with blue sky and sun for the rest of the day. We did pretty well on sales considering! And as always it was wonderful fun to meet and hang out with all the other local artists.<br /><br />On Saturday Danny and I watched T.Ruth Artspace gallery ( since our dear friend and the gallery owner is re cooperating from surgery.) Of course we had a blast greeting the people who walked in to enjoy the art. While i was there i did a lot of painting- which Danny had fun documenting:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765189387/" title="faeWIP1 by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="faeWIP1" height="485" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4765189387_9fa316466f.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />The night before i had painted this basic background and inked a faery onto it using my fabercastell India ink pens. I brougth the canvas in and set up my tote easel and got to work.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765835660/" title="faeWIP2 by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="faeWIP2" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4136/4765835660_b7cb741596.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />I always start with the eyes!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765847866/" title="faeWIP3 by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="faeWIP3" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4765847866_c20ef6421d.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />can you tell my favorite things to draw and paint are lips and eyes?<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765854700/" title="faeWIP4 by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="faeWIP4" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4765854700_0c213bfa37.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />....i like this photo- it shows how much my dreads have been growing!<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4765222445/" title="faeWIP5 by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="faeWIP5" height="335" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4765222445_8a5ca450f1.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />....almost done! just working on the wings and then i need to go over everything again with another layer of shading and highlight!<br />goodness....this post is picture heavy...<br /><br />On Sunday we had a surprise visit from two dear friends who have been living in southern Oregon on a beautiful stretch of land. We all made dinner together( fresh herb salad with home made pesto sauce and tortellinis)...then we all hung out on the patio as the sun set. Then they baked the most delicious cookies and we sat around watching episode upon episode of Avatar the Last Air Bender as i dreaded one of the dear fellow's mohawk!<br /><br />All in all it was a wonderful few days!<br /><br />Now that the new week is here i am looking forward to finishing up the painting i started on Saturday and hopefully beginning a new one. More photos from my "Wise Woman" shoot should be up soon.<br /><br />Best wishes and much love,<br />-Chelsea Rose

3 day weekend of art- body painting, art fairs and new acrylic on canvas!

Thank goodness for 3 day weekends! I got so much done and even had time to play and have some fun too. ....I have a lot of photos to share b...

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PRESS :: LLIC love!

<a href="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-1.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a>I came home exhausted from AFROPUNK last weekend after a whole day of painting in the sun to have my neighbor ring the bell at 11 pm hand-delivering this! It was such a beautiful treat, especially because it was supposed to have arrived on Wednesday, so I thought it got lost in the mail. I am psyched and honored to be featured in LLIC, the first volume of Erik Simmons' new art, design & music zine.<div><br /></div><div>It made me kinda nostalgic about the days of my Samurai show, when I did that shoot with my galaxy riders fam, the ninjas from the A.L.I.E.N collective -some of the freshest faces of Brooklyn, Soul, Quan Luv, Mega, Dorjan, Lou Diamond &Bentley of Kings of Genre...I really miss those guys. The other photos of me featured are by one of my favorite photographers, my good friend <a href="http://www.amirnyc.com/">Amir Ebrahimi</a>. Thank you, Erik!<div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-4.jpg" /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-5.jpg" /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-2.jpg" /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Lucida Grande';"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/LLIC-lichiban-3.jpg" /></span></span></span></div></div></div>

PRESS :: LLIC love!

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MAGIC ROOM 777 presents: KIVA on the Beaterator

<div style="text-align: left;">Close friend & fellow creator, <b>KIVA</b> was the last guest to come through my old studio for an informal interview this past winter. <b>KIVA</b> is a true renaissance artist, he produces and plays several instruments, DJs, teaches music production and is also an adept painter. I invited him to come trough and talk about his dope new album, <b>BTR8ION, </b>which he produced entirely on a revolutionary new device called BEATERATOR. BEATERATOR is a portable mixer software that allows people to make music on the go -subway, park, airport, you name it- by using their good-old Play Station. I hope this will be seen by a lot of folks, especially those who are into making music (or considering exploring making beats)...it's one of the best inventions I've seen out there, that could completely revolutionarize the way music is made by giving <i>access</i> to the latest technology at an affordable price (20 bucks!!) to folks who might not be able to afford studio work otherwise. No excuse for wasting time on a lot of mindless media brainwash when you can experiment & create. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Check out <b>KIVA</b> giving a mini demonstration about how the record was made...we even made a track on the spot. True inspiration!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Big shout to Rob L. Sims of Black Whole TV who edited this.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCebrLMOY8k&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eCebrLMOY8k&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4dYG6DfSoLM&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4dYG6DfSoLM&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></div><br />Brooklyn based artist/producer<b><a href="http://www.adiosbabylon.com/"> </a><a href="http://www.myspace.com/adiosbabylon">DJ Kiva</a></b> is the founder of <a href="http://www.adiosbabylon.com/">Adios Babylon Studios</a> & record label. Producing for over 15 years, he has released numerous full-length albums & remixed for many soul, broken beat, reggae, & dance music artists. His sound combines the best of soulful live performances blended with futuristic electronic music production techniques. DJ Kiva has performed at countless soundsystem events from Brooklyn to Berlin, ranging from grimy warehouse parties, to swanky uptown NY hotels, to blasting thousands with his street-based soundsystem at NY's annual West Indian Day Parade; always exposing ears to upfront & underground sounds of Stuttastep, Broken Beat, Future Soul, Dub, and beyond. His productions have been released on such labels as Adios Babylon(USA), Bagpak Music (USA), King Tubby Heritage (USA), Tommy Boy(USA), Kindred Spirits(Holland), Goya Music (UK), & Sunshine Enterprises (Austria) and he has appeared as a guest speaker & performer on Public Enemy founder Hank Shocklee's Producer Panel at Remix magazine's "Remix Hotel NYC" event. He teaches music production at <a href="https://www.dubspot.com/do/news?dispatch=view&ref=79480995032268869&type=Instructors">Dubspot.</a> A veteran live musician with over 20 years experience, he is also a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, drums, keys, trumpet, & percussion. As the live guitarist for hip hop projects "Shape of Broad Minds" & "Willie Isz" featuring Jneiro Jarel & Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob, he tours internationally performing at clubs & festivals worldwide.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><br />Now check the album, <b>BTR8ION</b> produced entirely on the Beaterator.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fdj-kiva%2Fbtr8ion&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=00ffe5"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fdj-kiva%2Fbtr8ion&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=00ffe5" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-kiva/btr8ion">BTR8ION</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-kiva">DJ Kiva</a> ::::</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Beaterator</b>: Beaterator for PSP system and PlayStation Network puts a world-class mixer at your fingertips - enabling easy, powerful and innovative creation. Featuring original music and a sound-kit which includes thousands of loops and sounds produced by <a href="http://www.rockstargames.com/">Rockstar </a>and multi-platinum producer and entertainer a Timbaland exclusively for Beaterator.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><embed src="http://media.rockstargames.com/products/rockstar/media player/RockstarMediaPlayer.swf?skin=beaterator/EN/embed&vidID=101&legacy=no" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" menu="false" width="480" height="300" name="RockstarMediaPlayer" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></div>

MAGIC ROOM 777 presents: KIVA on the Beaterator

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SARAH WHITE & DON CUCO are back! and they need your help

<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:11px;">My dear friends, Sarah White and Rico Mendez aka Don Cuco are in the lab cooking up not one but two new albums, and they started a Kickstarter to raise some money for the projects. Sarah and Rico are not only partners in music but also in real life...the two live in Brooklyn with a beautiful little girl and are only a couple of months away from the arrival of their second baby. All you have to do is watch the video below to get a sense of their life and spirit, and get inspired. They are two of the hardest working peoples I know who deserve all the support they get. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12447168&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12447168&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/12447168"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Sarah White's Kickstarter Plea</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> from </span></span><a href="http://vimeo.com/sarahwhite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sarah White</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />Hello Beautiful People! First off, I'd like to thank EVERYONE who has been so supportive and given us so much love since the beginning. We are sending love to our people from our city of Minneapolis/St Paul and to our new home in Brooklyn, and everyone worldwide! Besos!<br />Now, we are excited to share more and more big news of changes coming on our horizon. </span></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Since our release of our debut EP, Hiding Blind in 2008, we have been working hard on new and more challenging music. Digging deeper into our souls and capabilities, we have been grinding away, but have been experiencing many road blocks as Independent artists. Without a label supporting you, all fees must come out of pocket, and rent and raising a child in NY can be tough as is! Wowzers. Anyways...we have finally reached the home stretch and we have not only 1, but 2 amazing projects to share with our fans, supporters and the world! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The first project will be a full length, the followup to the EP, and will deliver a eclectic package of soul, rock, experimental electronic, world, hip hop and new sound. No simple way to describe it, but its tasty! There will be some special guests on vocals and maybe even a few remixes depending on funding. This album will be pressed up with artwork on an ecofriendly sleeve with only limited amounts printed in the physical. This will be your chance to get it first!</span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The second project, Via Barcelona, is like our new musical love experiement. After winning last years Scion Vocalist Competition, I took the check and bought tickets to Barcelona, where Rico and I rediscovered the beauty of acoustic guitar and romantic beach days. With nothing but a guitar and garageband, we began to map out what now is an EP that we cant wait to get into the world. All acoustic tracks with soulful, raw, heart gripping vocals. We found a top engineer with 40 yrs experience, right by our house who has agreed to help us get an amazing recording of the project at Royal Blue Studios. He has mastered the likes of Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals), Santana, Chicago, Bob Marley, Barbra Streisand, Charlene (Motown), Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, and hundreds more. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then, more big new!. The arrival of our second lovechild this fall. Yes, I'm very pregnant as I type, so the clock is ticking. We are ready to release both of the projects together before I pop! (or should i say the baby pops?) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank God for </span></span><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(29, 172, 246); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; " target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.kickstarter.com</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, right in time to kick this into gear! We need your help! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Any and everything helps so pleeeeease spread the word, pass this on, and spread love!</span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We will take the money raised on kickstarter.com to MIX, MASTER, PRESS and PRINT both limited CD's and VINYL of both releases! We will also use the funds to pay any fee's to artists and musicians involved (other than ourselves), put together a high quality digital download, website and also promote the music.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here's the catch, if we don't raise the full amount (every penny), we don't get any of the money and your account will never be charged. So dig deep, and we will give you our love and amazing gifts in return!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank you from the whole White-Mendez family! </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sarah, Rico, Iza and unborn bean in my belly..</span></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Listen to "Hiding Blind" here: </span></span><a href="http://sarahwhite.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-blind" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(29, 172, 246); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; " target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://sarahwhite.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-blind</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FREE "FADE" Remix EP: </span></span><a href="http://sarahwhite.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(29, 172, 246); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; " target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://sarahwhite.bandcamp.com/</span></span></a></div></span><p></p>

SARAH WHITE & DON CUCO are back! and they need your help

My dear friends, Sarah White and Rico Mendez aka Don Cuco are in the lab cooking up not one but two new albums, and they started a Kickstart...

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BROOKLYN DIARIES :: AFRO-PUNK 2010 wrap-up & flix

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNTLzwDxLBPhEMEgh1Y2bUbX_aCaFDP4xc0Vr5i8KubGf7BgciamzSLTW36elfkL4EIaMein1rqr7QKrEuVsV3SYdH22koXBi-G2OwOcqpY2PAMSJztkgnRR0y8K3WkObR5xfF5UF7VQ/s1600/montana_logo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanmural-logo-600.jpg" /><br />Took me some time to gather all the pics from last weekend's <a href="http://www.afropunk.com/">AFROPUNK 2010</a> festival in the Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn. These photos can tell the story of the amazing two-day marathon of dope music, art & skateboard & bmx virtuosity better than words. As expected the event brought out New York's flyest people, the vibe was beautiful...the artists were really feeling this summer's energy, which is about coming together and creating hot shit (the year of the Tiger, baby!). This is the Brooklyn Renaissance in the making and I'm counting my blessings every day that I'm surrounded by some of the dopest artists of this generation and that I can do what I love. I'm inspired by their love and creativity every day. </div><div style="text-align: center;">::::::</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>My piece is called </i></div><div style="text-align: center;">"<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">THE RETURN OF THE FELINES : Fire Liogon Has Come" </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This is the first public piece of my new <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">LIOGON</span> series, introducing Fire Liogon, the feline life-transformer "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">lion-dragon</span>." It's one of a species of Planet Citraka, sent to Planet Earth to open up portals of fire element to spread a color-specific energy transmitter intended to raise the frequencies of earthlings by introducing them to Citraka vibrations. Lotus spacecrafts are carrying feline messengers of different Citraka tribes. </span></span><a href="http://lichiban.blogspot.com/search/label/BODDHI"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#00CCCC;">BODDHI</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> is one of the seven avatars of Mt. Golden Blossom is on his way to connect. He is behind the scenes getting used to his terrestial manifestation and trying to get accustomed to the conditions that the combination of the four elements his shell is subjected to have produced. He finds that the only palatable thing to eat is <a href="http://www.danielwinkler.com/matsutake___other_mushrooms_of_the_tibetan_plateau.htm"><i>matsutake</i></a> grown at high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />Beautiful catwoman, KHAY was hosting the party on stage on Sunday...I'm thinking she is going to be one of my new muses<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichiban-Khay2.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My beautiful friend, designer ZEBI of Born As A Raggamuffin...and I'm flinting my catface</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanmural-Zebi600.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mr. SOLID GOLD, Livingroom Johnston, one of my best friends and one of my favorite artists also. Stay tuned for some new collabos we are working on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10px;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK_Livingroom-Lichiban2fire.jpg" /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanmural-fenceLivingr.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">my girl, Alice Mizrahi with her signature fly piece</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanAM.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The homie, Rob Focused-...loved it<img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanRobFocused.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These guys were killing it on the other side! Amazing work by Baja Ukweli, Optms, Coby Kennedy and Borish of the Trust Your Struggle collective</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanBajaOptmsCoby.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">water break with See One...loved his mural with the animals escaping the oil spill, coincidentally had same theme as Ibrahim's piece.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichiban-seeone600.jpg" /><br />The oilspill...This was one of the illests! My boy, painter/model Ibrahim Yaqut really outdid himself on this one...attacked the wall with a marker! Check him in action in the video below.<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanmural-IbrahimYaqut.jpg" width="600 px" /><br />Thanks for the shout, Ibi!!<br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/auEyZoxNknY&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/auEyZoxNknY&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br />My girl, photographer/fashion designer Mari J Brooklyn represent ..one of the freshest ladies of BK.<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanMaryJ-600.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here are some of Mari J's shots...</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK_marij-Lichiban-IbrahimY-1.jpg" width="600 px" /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-mariJ-khay.jpg" width="600 px" /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-marij-brian.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-mosdef-marij.jpg" /></div>Beside Game Rebellion my friend old neighbor Netic & his crew were on point, ripping the stage with fire energy. They always do an amazing show. I only had footage of them. The big surprise was K-OS, whose performance blew everyone away. Alice, Jemal & I were building with his band, who are really good peoples & brilliant musicians.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichiban-K_OS.jpg" /><br />Some of my homie, Tono Radvany's dope shots...Ninjasonic was killing it<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/20865_401160731378_725266378_455106.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">so did Bad Brains...epic! <img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/20856_401158661378_725266378_455093.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ok, this shot is going down in history. Livingroom Johnston magic skate board tricks.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.frank151.com/files/u1833/_MG_7024.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600 px; " /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Alice and I getting our hands dirty on day two. Next to me Rimix & See One were getting it in (photo by Yoshimi Sanada)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK_lichiban-yoshimisanada1.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Coup d'Etat Brooklyn's founders Rasu Jilani and Daoud Abeid stylin with photographer, Richard Louissaint, and painter Toofly...creative power crew! Big shout out to Rasu Jilani of Coup d'Etat Brooklyn for putting me on! Luv y'all </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre;font-size:10px;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/35762_1536689657271_1235733482_3157.jpg" width="600 px" /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">DJ/artist Charm capturing me capturing Zebi:)<br /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-Zebi-LichibanCHARM.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here it is...she is stunning</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanZebi1-600.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">more KHAY... definite feline power..</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichiban-Khay1x.jpg" /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanmuraldetail.jpg" width="600 px" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Toofly (middle) with her fresh piece and Mel D. Cole, getting ready to shoot Ninjasonik on stage. I realized that all the stage media I had was footage, I didn't take photos of the acts. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-toofly-meldcole.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">my beautiful mamas, Liz, Suzi and Laura Dee represent!! George aka G4 was making a custom pair of jeans while I was painting. Stay tuned for the two of us joining forces. He also made the warrior belt I wore </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-LizSouziLaura-Georgee.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Reina and Liza! I love them</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichibanLizareina600.jpg" /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/APFROPUNK-lichibanmural4-600.jpg" /><img src="http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q202/licsi777/AFROPUNK-lichiban-mural1copy.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNTLzwDxLBPhEMEgh1Y2bUbX_aCaFDP4xc0Vr5i8KubGf7BgciamzSLTW36elfkL4EIaMein1rqr7QKrEuVsV3SYdH22koXBi-G2OwOcqpY2PAMSJztkgnRR0y8K3WkObR5xfF5UF7VQ/s1600/montana_logo.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498829405876360818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRNTLzwDxLBPhEMEgh1Y2bUbX_aCaFDP4xc0Vr5i8KubGf7BgciamzSLTW36elfkL4EIaMein1rqr7QKrEuVsV3SYdH22koXBi-G2OwOcqpY2PAMSJztkgnRR0y8K3WkObR5xfF5UF7VQ/s400/montana_logo.jpg" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 205px; height: 156px; " /></a></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Much love to everyone who came out and supported. please do connect, I'm always down to collaborate, build & make shit happen (my facebook</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/lichiban"> link</a> & <a href="http://afropunk.com/lichiban">afropunk.com</a></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">).</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Also, special thanks to our sponsor, <a href="http://www.mtncolors.com/">Montana colors</a> for providing us with the best colors!!! This was actually my best live painting experience, with all the paint provided in generous quantities.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Also shout out to the organizers of AFROPUNK for making it happen. Thank you!</span></b></div>

BROOKLYN DIARIES :: AFRO-PUNK 2010 wrap-up & flix

Took me some time to gather all the pics from last weekend's AFROPUNK 2010 festival in the Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn. These phot...

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Many Armed Goddess Body Painting and Ebru Marbling demo

Its July and its Friday, already- time is such a shifty slippery thing.<br /><br />Check out this photo manipulation that danny made from my most recent body painting photos:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidrose/4745233821/" title="Queen Omega by lucidRose, on Flickr"><img alt="Queen Omega" height="327" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4745233821_6eb3e50e98.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />(Body painting and photography by Chelsea Rose<br />Model: Deonte<br />digital editing and manipulation by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/lucidrose"><strong>Danny</strong></a> )<br />Danny also just recently finished designing and coding a website dedicated to offering our photographer portrait services. check out <a href="http://www.lucidportraiture.com/"><strong>Lucid Portraiture</strong></a> to see a good portfolio of our various portraits, styles and price ranges.<br /><br />Last night was very fun. We hosted an artist demo inside <a href="http://www.truthartspace.com/"><strong>T.Ruth Artspace gallery</strong></a>and it was a major success thanks to the amazing and wonderfully talented artist: Reza Antoszewska-she specializes in a fascinating Turkish paper marbling technique called Ebru- a monoprint technique using a thickened medium on which the artist places the paints by various methods, then works the colors in the medium with stylus, combs, and other methods to develop the designs. The print is then carefully transferred to the treated paper or fabric to capture the design.<br />Her Demo was amazing and everyone who was there got to make their own first Ebru artpeice:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidopticlab/4755727184/" title="marbleing by Lucid Optic Lab, on Flickr"><img alt="marbleing" height="306" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/4755727184_5aa882f0c9.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />You can see the demo set up in the first photo while the second photo shows Danny holding up his successful Ebru piece while Reza proudly smiles in approval. See his finished Ebru <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucidopticlab/4755727322/"><strong>here</strong></a>.<br />She is standing infront of the wall where she has a spectacular body of her Ebru work up. Now that i have seen the process she is undertaking to create her art it truly is fascinating looking at the work and realizing how much control and skill she harnesses over this process. Reza's artwork will be up and on display till September so there is plenty of time to come visit the <a href="http://www.truthartspace.com/"><strong>gallery</strong></a> and see the work in person. If you are not in the Oregon area feel free to click <a href="http://data.fineartstudioonline.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=6613&page=Works"><strong>here</strong></a> to see some of her work.<br /><br />In other news i am leaving work a bit early today so that we can drive on over to Vancouver Washington and set up a booth to sell our artwork at "the craft in the village" which happens every first Friday of the month. So i will have a full report with photos on how that goes.<br /><br />Also- on July 4th i will be doing another body painting live inside t.ruth artspace gallery( and NO! i will not be painting her in stars and stripes*gag reflex.*) This will be my first "elderly" woman to enter into the project and i am super thrilled about it! Feel free to come on over and hang out, drink some tea and watch as the art project unrolls.<br /><br />So yes....expect a photo heavy blogpost for Monday.<br /><br />I do hope everyone enjoys their 3day weekend while managing to not burn anyone’s home down or explode away any limbs.<br />Much love!<br />-Chelsea Rose

Many Armed Goddess Body Painting and Ebru Marbling demo

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someone please get me one of these...

<a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/29/lightcycle.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/29/lightcycle.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 450px; height: 299px;" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">a TRON Lightcycle!!! "The Parker Brothers team is building 5 custom one off "Lightcycles" to the exact specs of the movie bikes. Each bike will be black with an accent color - 5 bikes with 5 different accent colors (red, blue, yellow, green, and orange). There will only be one bike made per color so if you must have a certain color...Disney designers built a "movie prop" of this bike for the TRON Legacy promotions and not a running version so these will be the only known running versions to exist. The engineering behind a fully functional version is mindboggling to say the least." You can get yours for $35K on <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Custom-Built-Motorcycles-Pro-Street-LightCycle-Tron-Lightcycle-Light-Cycle-Bike-Full-Size-Running-/220627957724?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item335e7377dc#v4-33">ebay.</a></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[source : </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/shop_that_built_batpod_replica.php">geekologie.com</a> via Gosub</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">]</span></div>

someone please get me one of these...

a TRON Lightcycle!!! "The Parker Brothers team is building 5 custom one off "Lightcycles" to the exact specs of the movie bi...

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