Show me an artists, watch me show you an ARTIST

Not wanting to spend my once-in-a-blue day off home, I opted to go visit my boy, Trey, over at his art studio at The Cooper Union. Trey who I've know for about 2 years now is a dope painter, originaly from Charleston South Carolina, or as I like to call it Gulla Gulla Island. He's currently in the process of gearing up for an art show on March 30th, which should be veryyyy interesting.






The way the work room is set up, is that you have 1 large room and in it, there's about 6-7 work stations. So being the nosey nigga that I am, I decided to wander. In me wandering off, I stumbled upon some dope, interesting and umm unmentionable references and artwork.


This shit blew my mind, mainly because it was done entirely w/ chalk, but looked soo life like...



A lil' later, I had the privilege of meeting and talking to Estaban, Trey's art exhibit potna...

Not wanting to step on his toes, w/ his permission, I was able to get a shot of one of his premier pieces!

Wanting to leave my mark on Trey's studio, I tagged it and left him some words of inspiration...

Some 10 mintues later, I found myself down a couple of floors at Awol's workspace. Awol, another dope artist.


In addition to making it down to his studio, I managed to make the "Awol of Fame!"



"Awol of Fame" process...

Awol also had an interesting collection of Pierre bottles, which made me somewhat hungery (weird? Yeah I know.)

Before I dipped, I went back upstairs to grab my coat and in the process I stumbled upon these...

Which look like this...

That are used to refill this...

But Trey said a lot of them, not him, use it to get high...i guess its what gets the creative juices flowing! who am I to judge?

I had been lost in the world of art for so long, that two things happened. 1, the sun has set and 2, it started snowing! WHEN WILL IT STOP!?

Despite my interesting day of artistic fun, half way home, I realized that my fucking toggle thingy had popped! GREAT!


***Also be sure to check Trey out at www.Fletcher3.com & Awol at wwww.thankucomeagain.tumblr.com

"I'm Out For Dead Presidents Presidents to Represent Me...!"

Happy presidents Day!

AS Good as GOLD!

Today I got a package from my friends over at Acapulco Gold, of some both classic T's as well as some new ones. I recently hit up my homie G over at AG, about getting a hold of a "Slick Rick" T, that i slept on and have been kicking myself about ever since. Being the dope kat that he is, he sent me a shit load of T's!!!

MUCH APPRECIATED G!!!



Also, be sure to be on the look out for the AG x Vans callabo!

Snow Who?

What a BUMASS blizzard! LOL na, who am I Kidding? Regardless of what our weather reporters are calling Tuesdays Nor' Easter, all I have to say is that, it was something serious...

Out kinda late as the snow began to come down, I managed to snap a couple of pics of the snow just as it was dusting the streets, at about 12:30am-12:45am-ish, but nothing else, cuz' at about 1am, it looked like a scene out of a book


You ever notice that when it snows, its EXTREMLY peacful out?

Often, we overlook the talented people that dwell, here, in our lil' crazy/sexy/cool city and only look to those that are either signed to a label or that have a big radio record, but half the time, some of those fuckers are as talented as a water bottle.

Last week, I had the privilege of checking out Shyvonne, a lonnnnng time friend (LOL-Inside joke) at The Local 269, and a couple of others, for an intimate and somewhat interesting acoustic set.


Be sure to support Shyvonne, in buying her current single, "Mind Reader" now available for download on iTunes.

Around 8:30 ish, after the second act, my best friend, Hunger decided to stop by and check the show out, but somehow I managed to dodge him and enjoy the show...


Until the 3rd act. Somehow Hunger had managed to creep back up on me, so giving in, I tapped this random girl, I had never met prior to that night and asked if she had any food. At first she gave me this blank stare, then digged in her pocket, only to pull out this...

As my body slowly began to eat itself away, I happened glance out the window and see, the one and only SUBWAY!!!

Not giving a flying fuck, I ran across the street during the groups performance and brought back, some well needed nutrients!

The final act, The last Act I stayed for, were kinda putting me to sleep, so I nicely walked out...(yup all 6'3 of me, sitting in the front row, but its cool...no one noticed.)

Reading is Fundamental

For those of you that follow me on Twitter, @RusAzal, you that I'm tired of Commercial blogs (I won't say which ones), because they lack originality and creativity and chances are if you see it on blog A, your more than likely to see it on blog B. With that said, I decided I was gonna buy a magazine, which? I wasn't sure, but staying true to my word, I bought Interview 1. because Hov the God was on the cover and 2. because I wanted to branch out and read something that was a lil' different than what I would normally read.

It was actually the first magazine that I bought in the last 6 months and was worth it, it was an interesting read.

Parisian Gifts

A friend of mine, recently went to Paris and before she left, I told her to bring me back something, that she thought I would really like and appreciate.

She came back today and gave me this...
Chocolate- Which makes me think, she thinks I'm a fat ass...LOL

Soap- Does she think I stink? Cuz' I've been told different...

A nail clipper/Swiss French Army Knife- *Draws Blank*

Despite, the weird combo of gifts, I'm very appreciative of it!

THANK YOU MUCH,
Rus

2/1- Rice n' Peas @ Sway

Last night, 2/1, tired and not really in the mood to party, I got dragged out to Rice n' Peas at Sway. Despite the frigid weather and the fact that it was a Monday night, the turnout wasn't too bad! DJ Gravy, who also DJ's downstairs at Santos, in the what I like to call...The Flatbush Backyard bashment, was spinning last night and lets just say, it was nuff buddy pon' bumpa!




Ok, so victim of the night, was this "More to Love""A Lot to Love" girl who some dudes tried to champion... it was funny at first, then she got brave and wet his crotch w/ Henieken, turning into pure histeria.



And lets not forget the Jop-pan-knees girls! LOL!!! Seriously, Ming Lee was getting it in, til' homeboy pounced on her and finished her...