It's been a big snowy and freezing winter this season. Snow is almost fading away completely from the streets and getting back to our regular scenery although we had a little more it yesterday... I love when we get snow like this. It makes the city completely a different place. I Guess I can say that since I don't have to shovel and dig out cars.. But it really showed us some of nature's beauty that you don't get to see very often..
I finally made to Noguchi Museum which I have been wanting to go for the longest...
I definitely would love to go back there for the garden once the weather gets better.
It was a such a film week for me. I went to another film screening. This time it was for "Who is Bozo Texino?" by Bill Daniel. It all starts with "Bozo Texino" which is a drawing seen on boxcars for more than 80 years (a long time before kids started painting colorful pieces on sides of boxcars with spray paint). It has been a mysterious secret society with its underground world of hobo and rail worker drawing/writing on them.I guess the Hobo culture has inspired a lot of the freight writers.
They don't hop on trains but their pieces travel through America (depending on the lines, some go to Mexico and Canada as well). Many of them know which yard and which car to paint so it gets travel. And nowadays, you can even track the car with the car numbers online or call the company.
This film makes me want to hop on a freight train! Great film!
先週はなんか映画週間になってしまいました。二日目はBill Daniel製作の"Who is Bozo Texino?"の試写会へ。アメリカの貨物列車に80年以上前から描かれてきた謎のキャラ"Bozo Texino"から始まり、スプレーでカラフルなグラフィティピースが描かれるずっと前から、貨物列車に飛び乗り旅するHoboや鉄道ワーカー等がオイルステックで描いてきた落書き。この謎めいた秘密の世界が覗けます。必見♪
貨物列車の醍醐味はアメリカ中(線によってはメキシコやカナダ)を走ることで、どの車庫のどの貨物に描けば何処へ行くとかちゃんと知っているライター達も数多くいます。今は便利な物で貨物の番号を問い合わせれば何処にその貨物がいるのかもわかっちゃったりします。多分,旅するのは自分じゃなくて描いたピースですが貨物列車への魅力はHobo文化から受け継がれているのかもしれません。
貨物に飛び乗ってどっかへ消えちゃいたい症候群発病で現実逃飛行。したい。。。
the smiley face is one of the key element in Philly hands. Here is a mix set of some traditional and not-so-traditional Philly smiley faces done by AGUA. This is a great example of Philly hand. Big up AGUA!
I went to a movie screening for Joey Garfield and Steve ESPO Power's "a love letter for you".
It documents Steve as he paints a series of murals on 50 rooftops along the Septa EL train line in West Philly. It also mixes in the fictional story of FIRE (a character based on one of the great Philly writers, AGUA).
There always comes a time for a graffiti writer to rethink how he balances his life and graffiti. Everybody has different answers for that but whatever you become (mainstream, artist, sell-out..), that's what you decide and earn. It doesn't matter what people say because all the missions you went through, the most energetic, exciting and shining moments of your life- that is graffiti.
It's a great film to check out the history of Philly graffiti as well. Big up Steve!
The Guérewol is an annual courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Nomadic Fulani people in Niger. They are traditionally nomadic cattle-herders and traders in the Sahel, They travel from southern Niger, through northern Nigeria, northeastern Cameroon, and the western region of the Central African Republic. They are known for their beauty, elaborate attire and rich cultural ceremonies. In the Fula language, Woɗaaɓe means "people of the taboo".
The space race is on again. USAF has been playing with X-37B since last year, Russian industry has outlined the craft's design, We will soon see something from Russia. However, when they were still Soviet Union, they had a space program called Buran from 1988 to 1993. It looks very smiler to American Space Shuttle, but the structure and system are completely different than the American's. Buran also succeeded an unmanned flight test, going around the orbit for a duration of 206 minutes and return to Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1988. I wonder if it looks like X-37B..I guess we'll see it soon..