Rap Quotes...

Come find me at G1988:E this Friday night.

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one of those nights...

 April 13th, no one was available to play with me, but that doesn't mean I won't have an adventure on my own, especially on one of those nights in Culver city where all my favorite galleries are having an opening at the same time. I started at LeBasse Projects for Trusto Corp's "The Future is Blight" show featuring an installation that blanketed LA county with care packages for poverty.

 Polaroids of the care packages spell HELP across Los Angeles.

 Trusto Corp collaborated with Shepard Fairey, London Police, and David Flores for Trusto Cereal flavors.

 Next door at Thinkspace was Meggs' "Heavenly Creatures," filled with bold colors in motion.

 Of course, I loved the phoenix.

 Blum and Poe, around the block was exhibiting in their expansive space "Arhat" by Takashi Murakami. I originally thought I missed opening night since I saw posts from the VIP opening, but I was very happy to discover I was wrong.

 I was obsessed with this metal sculpture. For an idea of how big it was, the smallest skull was a little bigger than my own head.

 At Corey Helford Gallery, Kazuki Takamatsu's "Japanese Ideology of Puberty" show was mind blowing.

The details and textures and size of everything very much made my jaw drop.

 After all that, I treated myself to some Cool Haus ice cream.

Hush mural...

Can anyone in San Francisco give me directions to see this mural by Hush?

Art in the Streets...

On the absolute last day possible in LA, I made it to the Art in the Streets exhibit at the MOCA Geffen. After getting mochi ice cream at Mikawaya with my sister, we made it through a rather fast moving line to be greeted by Roa animals at the entrance.
There was an entire installation area of possible graff scenes.
The Banksy work covered a good sized corner of the gallery with plenty of eye candy.
Os Gemeos had a colorful, gravity defying installation.
I loved the alphabet in every style by Risk.

My favorite section was the walls covered in Retna's signature calligraphy.

This exhibit is moving to New York at the end of March next year.

elephant parade...

in honor of my best friend i had to post this; it's art and it's elephants!
250 life-sized baby elephants will take over the streets of London this summer, May 3rd-June 29th. they're all hand painted and decorated by all kinds of artists.isaac mizrahi's bright elephant.
3 of the 250 elephants on parade!

official elephant parade site.

tape art contest...

mark jenkins has an entire portfolio of creatures and creations made of tape left all over the world...now 3M who makes Scotch brand tape is having a contest with a $5000 cash prize. The deadline is February 28, 2010. Jenkins will be on the panel of judges for the tape creations too.

info from arrested motion.

inflatable bag monsters...

joshua allen harris creates ephemeral sculptures using subway air and other public ventilation systems to give life to his plastic bag creatures!