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How to Out Wait Time — Meut, Installation Two

July 8, 2011
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I haven’t been back through Urban Mediums to update anything in quite a while; life’s circumstances kept me away from feeling at all creative or worthy of writing anything. I needed time… time to step back and evaluate… time to be inspired and time to be focused enough to write a quality blog post. Time [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me … and Dondi White

April 15, 2011
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So I’m wishing myself a very belated 28th birthday to me and one of the foremost graffiti legends, Dondi White. He is the entire reason why I started this blog. Thanks to my brother, I’ve always had a love of graffiti that was piqued at a young age, but finding out that a young African [...]

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Good Reason to Rebel: Graffiti According to Meut, TDK

March 17, 2011
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Splashed on the hallowed walls and dingy alleyways of every city, they are the chosen griots of their people; they paint the stories that life tells.  They are the heroes of the underworld and the shunned step children of the art world. Meut from Bay Area crew TDK’s past isn’t a sordid one… growing up [...]

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Angry Woebots: Writing and Rhyming – Hip Hop’s Influence

March 2, 2011
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They came in the night. They came in the light. They came whenever they felt like…and they left only their legacy… “The music I grew up listening to was Hip Hop,” says Aaron Martin. The ideas, the inspiration; the thirst for learning and creating wasn’t anything Aaron could control. It was a mixture of the [...]

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Angry Woebots: the hard knock education

January 27, 2011
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The images in his head had to find some way to make it out alive; weather it be brick walls or school desks… “[In high school] I drew at home a lot,” says TIMER of his artistic beginnings, thanks to a book entitled, “Spray Can Art” by Henry Chalfant & James Prigoff, a lot of his [...]

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Fartsy Artsty: Angry Woebots Chapter Uno

January 18, 2011
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It often takes tragedy to see inspiration and that’s exactly what happened to his guy. Aaron Martin aka TIMER aka Angry Woebots has delivered a proverbial middle finger to the nay sayers. Never one to stay put in one city, his writing is a culmination of island life and West Coast flava. Born on a [...]

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Passion Rules – AM’s Art, Aesthetic and Inspiration

August 26, 2010
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Philosophy and philanthropy; to be an artist is to give of oneself. Every stroke of paint is a revelation of the artist’s mind and heart and to give candidly of one’s heart and mind is one of the most selfless acts of human nature. Every artist has their own source of inspiration, their own secrets [...]

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Graffiti in the AM – Alice Mizrachi Speaks

July 15, 2010
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She is the poet and the city speaks her prose. Alive and vibrant Queens, NY is the perfect dichotomy of artsy sophistication and uninhibited urban edge.  Alice Mizrachi, better known as AM fits perfectly into the social mores of Q-Boro. She is a graffiti artress whose creative inclinations cannot help but explode from her fingertips [...]

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the yin and yang of aerosol

May 23, 2010
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Like any artist, TOOFLY must adapt to the changing times in order to remain current and create art that is relevant. but she sticks to her philosophy and doesn’t compromise her art,”I enjoy people who evolve and try something different with it.” She must also strike a balance, ”It’s a full time thing to be the [...]

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pure he(art)istry

April 26, 2010
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Pure he(art)istry;  the center point of TOOFLY’s aesthetic is a narrative of triumphant women of color. an ironic twist to her current state of affairs, being that most of her influences were male “I was influenced by my cousins, and dudes at school who were writing on walls.” her interest in strong female figures, fictional or [...]

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