Gering & Lopez Gallery: Todd James
The Gering & Lopez Gallery will be exhibiting a new Todd James show starting March 1st and running through April 21st. The gallery will also being show a Ryan Mcginness show starting in May that looks to be far out.
For more information, you must learn.
Rammellzee: The Equation
The Suzanne Geiss Foundation will be having their inaugural exhibit starting March 8th with the work of New York graffiti mystic Rammellzee. The elusive artist, to me, captures the essence of a true New York creative. Pre internet, pulling from sources not of this world, and for Hip Hop standards on some real/other shit.
The collection of Letter Racers is being shown for the first time in New York.
For more information, you must learn.
Makin With The Freak Freak
I once DJed an opening in Houston Texas that was to showcase Ramm’s work. His work showed, Ramm didn’t make it. I was incredibly excited to get a few words in with the myth, but our paths never crossed. His work lives on, and it looks like we will finally start seeing more of it soon.
“Rammellzee’s Work and Reputation Re-emerge” - Via The New York Times. Learn you something about this dude!
Ghost Stance
Bodega Face
This American Life: Cat and Mouse
Pretty great episode of This American Life featuring the work of Earsnot + Revs.
Cost + Revs
Walking The Highline this weekend for the first time ever, I didn’t realize this historical roller was along the way. Thank goodness they kept it! The wear on this is beautiful.
I can’t tell you how much of an influence both Cost and Revs were to me and my friends back in Texas. It made us want to go bigger and crazier.
Keith Haring at Pace Prints
When I was heading back out into the cold, windy streets this weekend I stumbled across a Keith Haring show at Pace Prints. Just a block or two away from Aperture, it wasn’t a hard sell on me to go see some Haring work for free!
The show focuses on the more attainable pop work Haring believed so strongly in. Though there were some larger pieces on display, it was centered around the printmaking and smaller limited edition works.
The show runs through January 7th and is highly recommended to anyone that is a fan of New York’s artistic history.
For more information on the show, you must learn.
Fingernails
This guy basically looked black and white. He looked like a walking lounging Robert Frank photo.
Modern Cave Writing
This series was captured purely coincidentally. The heyday of New York Graffiti is definitely dead, but random street/subway scrawling is still as active as ever.
B O W E R Y W A L L
The infamous. I always seem to shoot these days before the new wall goes up. My subconscious draws me to the history of the neighborhood as change is about to come.
MJU-II
Another few shots from my first roll ran through new camera. On my way to pick up the camera from the Ebay seller, he apparently thought it was cool to run to the store to get film and a battery for it and then charge me half of what he paid for them.
Olympus Stylus Epic DLX
I have been scooping up cameras quite a bite lately and this is my newest purchase, the Olympus Stylus Epic DLX or MJU-II in Japan. Though I have been shooting with the Stylus Epic Zoom 80 for a few years now, this has been the one I have been trying to get for awhile.
The lens is fixed to a 35mm focal length and it has a sharp/fast 2.8 on it. Some of you might notice the blown out colors on one of the photos up top, but I can assure it was the film speed not the lens.
Though I still want a Yashica T4 Super, this is the cutty camera you can still get sub 200 dollars because a hip photographer hasn’t co-signed it.
I can’t wait to run some black & white through it.
Helping Hand
I caught this while walking around Chinatown BK the other day and I am surprised I never noticed it before. I love it! I actually later saw the same image on a Coney Island billboard on our way to the Rockaways.
Anyone know this person? Would like to meet them.
Renegades
