Tweet The Collaboration Collaboration defined as working together to achieve a goal. On a more intrinsic level, it’s shared passion, skills, pasts, presents and personal histories. “Reaching an identical objective” (the Wikipedia version) the theoretical definition of collaboration as demonstrated through graffiti is somewhat, if not all together a different animal. Mixed in with the [...]
Tweet All great men get inspiration from the masters that came before them. Artists of today have the great privilege of admiring old world painters like Gauguin and ground breaking painters like Picasso. Many graffiti artists break ground by extrapolating what moves them in nature, works of other artists and infuse their findings into their own [...]
Tweet A self proclaimed mad artist, he can be found painting well into the wee morning hours on any given day. Sprung from O’ahu, bred by the ‘aina, schooled by California’s graffiti movement and seasoned by time, graffiti veteran, Estria has lived enough life and emptied sufficient spray paint cans to know how to make [...]
Tweet His art is powerful, his words even more so. Estria is known around the world and his nationwide Estria Battle that takes place in New York, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Oakland. Born and raised on O’ahu, Estria is a member of the old school class whose interests lie in a very unique type of [...]
Tweet On Memorial Day weekend, Honolulu Academy of the Arts invited the community to an urban affair: the 2011 Estria Battle in Honolulu… And the winner is Katch One Second runner-up was uber talented artists, Ckaweeks. All competing pieces featured the word, ‘Hanau’ which means ‘birth’ in the Hawai’ian language. Some other artists included: Scarz, [...]
Tweet For anyone whose grown up in the culture knows how important pride is for one’s city. If Hawai’ians can relate to one thing, it’s love and respect for their sacred islands, whichever one they may call home. For Meut, the love of the sacred lands of the Hawaiian islands transcends to the kama’aina or [...]
