Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Cities

Pow Wow Hawaii Preps for Round Two at Fresh Cafe

February 9, 2012
Exterior wall facing parking lot at Fresh Cafe in Honolulu

Tweet Design and graffiti; one would not ordinarily put those two skills in the same category, but when you boil it all down, doesn’t all art, no matter the genre, come from the same place? In anticipation of the year Twenty Twelve’s rendition of the Pow Wow art exhibition, Urban Mediums will briefly revisit the [...]

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Mouth Peace: The Words Behind the Pieces

October 30, 2011
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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 [...]

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Mind the Madness: Inside the Mind of Estria Miyashiro

September 30, 2011
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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 [...]

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A War Waged: California’s Battle to Smudge Out Street Art

September 24, 2011
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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 [...]

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2011 Estria Battle in Honolulu

September 5, 2011
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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, [...]

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The Writing and the ‘Aina: Meut, Final Installment

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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 [...]

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TAKI 183: Celebrating the Greatest

July 27, 2011
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Tweet From Audubon and Amsterdam Ave., NYC to now: How fitting is it that the earliest graffiti etchings can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece, the word “graffiti” comes from the Greek word “graphein” which means “to write” and that one of the greatest graffiti writers in the world is a kid [...]

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Blurring the Lines: Graffiti VS. Vandalism

July 23, 2011
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Tweet City officials all over the country are up in arms about how out of hand this so called graffiti is getting. As a supporter of art and especially graffiti, I’d like to finally take a stand and say: It’s not the graffiti itself, that creates the problems– it’s when wayward youth with nothing but [...]

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