Avoid the Interstate

I was meaning to put out a new issue every weekend and got behind before issue 2 even came out. Thankfully I just got back from a big trip with more photos than I know what to do with. So here you go. Hope you enjoy this issue showing a cross-country road trip from Brooklyn to Reno with plenty of new pieces along the way.

OU mixtape vol. 1 issue 2

King 'O' Wings in East St. Louis.

 

10 Days

The below piece is in Santa Rosa, CA and illustrates the situation of my good friend who just served time in Jail for writing on the pole of a street sign. He was arrested by Reno cops who belittled and profiled the shit out of him, most of all for being Mexican. As you may have noticed, I deeply despise how categories make people blind to what is really going on. Despite the fact that it was his first offense (ever, not just graffiti-related) the judge found the sentence of 10-days in jail to be adequate and fairly lenient. Why is Reno so persistent to cleanse itself of emergent culture and consistently sanitize itself to the point of economic collapse?

Back from Open Walls Baltimore

Baltimore...what a place! Aside from being so fortunate to receive a big wall to paint for OWB and Station North Arts I made the time to get up some street pieces during my ten day stay. I'm not really sure where they all are as I was drifting like Debord and had some great hosts that shuffled me around the expansive city like a hockey puck. Big thanks to Gaia for organizing Open Walls Baltimore and putting in so much work in his own city as well as all over the damn place. Also couldn't have done it with out my man Nanook and Killian along with the overly gracious Annex posse (Rob, Luigi, Rusty, Max, Dylan, Monica, Peter, Molly, Heidi, and Ben)! Will post more soon on my mural.

'We ain't even sposed to be here' on a Neapolitan cast away downtown. 

'Brat it up' across from the Bohemian and up from my man Kevin's Station North Cafe.

'EBTSOSEBTSOSEBT' on one of Baltimore's many palimpsests while kids play football in the street to the right.

'Flat fix' ode to Jean Michel Basquiat. Pretty much destroyed this piece after having to relocate it from it's original placement.

With my man Gaia to the left in the drug heavy and sadly unpopulated Old Town Mall area.

'Auto tuned dog howls' with a shout out to the Greenmount Boys.

This is why I put work outside.

'Go stupid, go stoop id', two sides to every story, coin, and boxcar. And weird swanman stoop creature.

While putting this up I met the very interesting Simon Carey, who tried to convince me to carry that couch up into the abandoned building next to this abandoned building (between the other abandoned buildings). But instead we got to talking about the shelter up the way, the importance of ivy, why to stop doing crack, and a woman who gave him a fish that he takes care of in her pond. He asked so I gave him a little cash and he responded by asking if I had a penny in my shoe for Sunday. I said 'no' so he reached into his shoe and gave me his.

Shout out to my boy FISHGLUE

'Designer genes' on Howard st. downtown. Thanks to Nether for the photo.

'Turn over a new leaf' near Greenmount Cemetary.

'Whatever it takes. Or whatever'

'Peripheral' downtown with a happy new pup in the pack.

'Science' Kung fool, chow mang, ass gass or grass collab with my brother.

'Pushin mad weight' ding dong the witch is dead.

'Screw and chopped'. Just a small offering for me you with too much weight on my mind about the self-appointed martyr's taking offense at their friends/foes.

'Thems is just jokes' breaking and filling holes.

'NOS' ladies love it! Smoking on that newoldshit emerging from the gambling chips of long nights in Reno.

'Tuxedo knuckles' on the run from senses lost and archers galore.

'Wonder' in sowebo. Lil wayne inspired, wonder bread, communion wafer, goose approved, ebt accepted.

Man and the Moon

Man adores moon and sometimes even two-doors. Here are a couple of new pieces from a New Year's trip to the desert.

Two Herders

Ya heard! Or ya herd.
I'm slowly becoming a paperMAN. I received this crazy roll of brick paper and have been having too much fun with it. The line work got pretty lost in the pattern but stoked to sidebust my favorite long-running mural of my dear shepherd friend. 

Miami in December

Ballin' on a budget is one thing but Baselin' on a budget is something entirely different. White Cocoa and I made the trek to Art Basel Miami yet again, this time under the invitation of the Fountain Art Fair and the generous Greek, Samson Contompasis. Had a great time painting with the mega-talented, Canadian collaborators En Masse, midnight Atlantic swimming with Acacia and my new favorite artist Scott Ackerman, pasting with my man Gaia, Clown Soldier, and Jason Voegele, meeting up with the folks of Living Walls ATL, and enjoying the company of good friends new and old. Alright here's some pretty pictures...

So much going on in this big 12' wheat paste.

Made this the day of the great fires in Reno.

Everyone of En Masse was amazing! Here is Fred of En Masse laying down some line work.

Part of the collaborative wall with En Masse.

I have no idea what is happening inside my brain but apparently I want to go to a Ninja Megastore.

Most people at Art Basel passed out their business cards. I passed these out to newspaper racks.

Goat Curry, plantains, rice, and cafe con leche!

Clown Soldier placing a new piece.

Typical Miami scene with a Clown Soldier wheatpaste looking on.

Wish i got a better flick. Foreclosed, fiveclosed, sixclosed, sevenclosed wheatpaste.

Interesni Kazki from Ukraine absolutely killed it! So good and inventive!

Ruins ruined routinely VS battered buildings beautified

Part of large wheatpaste that was buffed after one day. C'est la ville et c'est la vie

Thanksgiving Visit

We had an awesome surprise visit by Doodles for Thanksgiving. Made this one for him. Shout out to all those hard workers with metal shavings deep in their fingers over at Cuddle Works.

Ceci est une post

While the ground is still dry you got to get that work up. Here's a few from this weekend.

Getting some height on the buff.

Staring at a leftover piece of scrap I couldn't help but see a pipe. Portrait of ND'A remixed to Magritte.

Have you ever seen Godard's Sympathy for the Devil? What is up with the random acts of tagging?

For Joyns.

Housing finger trap.