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August 18, 2012
To be an artist means being a brave misfit in a world of convention and normalcy. Being an artist is seldom looked at as being a “legitimate” occupation and from my own experiences and stories I’ve heard, most artists spend a lot of time defending themselves. An un-artisic mind will never understand an artistic one and [...]
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July 9, 2012
Wrong place, wrong time is a predicament photographer, Jonas Lara is all too familiar with. Artists have always been considered among the “bottom of the rung” on society’s ladder. Beethoven and Van Gogh were considered eccentric and outcasts of society, but graffiti artists get backlash and then some…and their wrap is getting grimmer. In many [...]
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April 7, 2012
It was a little over two years ago that I cracked open a book given to me by an old room mate entitled, “Style Master General,” by Andrew Whitten and Michael White, about the life of one of the most legendary graffiti artists from New York. I already felt a connection, knowing he was Black, [...]
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November 22, 2011
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 traditional [...]
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