Archive for July, 2009
Upper Playground continues their monthly renewal of artist series tees and caps. Their most recent release consists of works form David Choe, Augor, Munk One, Alex Pardee, Jeremy Fish, and Estevan Oriol. All items, along with further product for Spring/Summer 2009, is now available through the Upper Playground online store so make sure you visit the online store and cop some gear.
I am feeling this releases keep doing it!
HUUMMMBBYYY!!!
What’s up readers! Let me start by apologizing for my absence from the blog world – not that I’ve been missed, especially with Rawbert and Basho holding it down. It’s no excuse but it’s the only one I’ve got: I’ve been working like crazy for the past couple of months and just haven’t been able to get to my computer and frankly have not done anything worth blogging about anyway. So enough of me apologizing, I’m back and that’s what matters! I don’t have any pics with famous graffiti writers or rappers or dope cars, but I will bring to the table today some good cultural stuff. Yesterday was the Bicentenary of the Independence of Latin America and anniversary of the birth of The Liberator Simon Bolivar. To celebrate, the Venezuelan consulate in New York Now curated an art show featuring South American artists. I’m proud of this for two reasons: One being that I am from a country in Latin America (Ecuador), the other because my brother-in-law was showcasing his art for the first time in New York City at this event. The ambassadors of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador were in the house, making for a pretty highbrow affair. My little sister is the one who put the event together, good job sis! I think there were even some potential buyers for her husband’s art. Wishing them mad love from the DADE fam.
Check out the painting of Prez Obama and the first family.
About the artist, Patricio Jijon:
“Influenced within an Andean volcanic city, the painter was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1976. In the 90’s he developed as a musician and audiovisual artist and in 2000, through different experimental audiovisual projects, he starts poetic drawing; mixed technique of poetic text and pictorial music. Specially designed compositions intended to create time intervals applicable to dance, paint, cinema, poetry, etc.
As a result of his migration to the States, he creates a new series combining airbrush, oil, acrylics, pencil and crayons. The meaning of this new work can be defined as the voyage of an immigrant in a cosmopolitan atmosphere filled with cultures, flavors, textures and colors. Filled with textual poetry, in each part a story free of commitment with styles, unfolds.”
So with this I open the gates to the blog world again. Get ready I’m bringing you guys all the new ish I can get my hands on!
HUUMMMBBYYY!!!!!
Old School to New School.. Still a bunch of jerking! But lets not forget the Eerk and Jerk crew responsible for another great hit “the over town hop”
CLICK HERE to peep the exclusive Gucci interview on the NO STATIC AT ALL scion channel
So check it out; I went to see my lady at her office on the other side of the building and guess what I find; YUUUP some DADE sticker I stuck on an old trash can like 3 years ago…craziness that it is is still riding out.
So the Live Strong FLOM dropped in selected stores nation wide today. But only one store had FUTURA dropping by. Thats rite, all the lucky mofawkas to win the raffle at shoe gallery today where surprised when they walked in one by one to see the legend himself hangin out and dropping autographs! Come on cuhhh you know how D.A.D.E. and Shoe Gallery get down!
Happy b-day shout out to Remmy!
Heres the flix and some footage of last weekends car show in ATL.
We showed up with Big Boi and got the back door performer access. That included free Red Bull, Free Chicken wings, Free Past, and a bunch of other FREE shit. Dam it must be nice!! Bet that up BB.
BIG BOI @ V-103 + WAOK CAR & BIKE SHOW 2009 from DADEFAMILIA on Vimeo.
A few people showed up.
I think she farted!
Big Boi doing his thing
SnortThis.com Heavy Chevy
Peep some of the other rides.
Allot of dope rides in the show got towed out on flat beds so dust wouldnt hitthe tires. That’s LAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Untitled from DADEFAMILIA on Vimeo.
Even though we didnt get Ron on the heat. Ron got the heat on him. Shouts to Artest we see you homie. Hit us up for that new new!
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