I got an idea!

We're gonna do one of these very soon!!!
Keep your eye out.
I love when people do freakin awesome stuff, and then I get to read about it on the internet, and I get stoked on awesome people doing freakin awesome stuff.

more from last Sat.

May 24 experience

Here's the flier for the May 24th (saturday) evening situation.
Good stuff will happen.
Van installation.

Saturday in the Park (3)

We Love Long Beach has posted some more pics from Saturdays event!
This is what the mural looked like before we let folks paint it.
Also, the van got a new paint job (just on one door)

Saturday in the Park (2)

The We Love Long Beach event was spectacular this past Saturday.
I have pretty radical tank top sunburn lines.
We were all very pleased at the response to our community painting project.

I often feel like art can take the form of elitism or exclusivity when presented in a gallery or a museum. Galleries and museums are wonderful, but sometimes they are too far removed from the communities in which they exist.
My opinion is that art should create value, excitement, involvement, inspiration, and sometimes introspection, for the local community. Often times, art exists within the circles of other art makers, buyers, and collectors. While we like existing and operating within those circles, we are committed to investing in the circles that are often missed in receiving this enrichment.

I'm looking forward to developing more projects along these lines.
As always, our group has developed and is sustained by the relationships we hold with each other, not the art we make.

sneak peek for Saturday

Blu

Blu is a genius

ideologies

Wrote this yesterday on my personal blog regarding things I'm thinking about in regards to the Bro Futurists.

transportation (2)

We, at the Bro Futurists Institute of Pursuing Awesomeness (BFIPA - pronounced: bee - fippa), like to keep things on the move; on a roll, if you will.

One of the interesting things about Southern California, specifically Orange and LA Counties, is that we have really crappy mass transit systems. Well, it's not so much that they are crappy, as much as it has to do with the time period in which these cities were developed. These counties were developed after the time of the automobile; or, concurrently with the development of the automobile. So, there are these pods of cities that are all roughly 20 miles from each other.
Thus, most of us have grown very accustomed to having a car and working it in steadily to our lifestyle. And for those of us who have jobs in other cities, or are in other things in other cities, we kinda need a car. I know need is sometimes a dirty word, but allow me it for the sake of conversation.

What I'm really trying to get at is - if you're gonna drive, do it in style. And I'm not advocating an abandonment to the responsibility that we all have to steward our resources well, I'm just saying keep it real.

For instance, our friends at the Hobosoul are definitely keeping it real.
As I mentioned earlier, Sam Arthur is keeping it real.
Between our immediate group of artist and friends, we have quite a collection of awesome transportation: 73 Winnebago, 65 Barracuda, Sam's Mercedes (Year?), 86 Chevy High Cube, Chrysler Le Baron (Year?), O'Brien's kick ass Land Rover ('61, i think?), Countless beautiful bicycles, skateboards, and now an 8 foot wooden row boat!

transportation

My dear friend and fellow futurist, Sam Arthur, is racking up some sweet rides these days.
Dang!

May 17th.
1pm-4pm.
Life Size Coloring Book.
Belmont Shore.
More details forthcoming.