blackenstein

Back on my Grind

2008-09-05T09:39:00.000-07:00

there is a ton of work i need to catch every one up on. So stay tuned for newness.

teaching

2008-04-15T16:08:00.000-07:00

picture

2008-04-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

i went to an Erik Brandt lecture @ MCAD about the typographic virus.

Screen printing and events rule the planet!!!!

2008-04-01T17:52:00.000-07:00

Back to back blog session GIT SOME. As an artist Ive always wanted to learn about the craft of screen printing. Finally my home skillet Danny I-swizzle hooked me on the knowledge. S o i made this totally ill poster for this show(hip-hop) i had at BIG V's. I am a hip hop artist and the show went well. I hooked up with this group the Bumpin uglies (who where awesome by the way) and rocked the house. But back to the poster a decided to jump in head first and did a five color print. I made a collage and did some hand style and was excited and pleased with outcome.

ART SHANTY PROJECT POSTER

2008-04-01T17:42:00.000-07:00

WOW sorry i haven't updated in a while but i promise to all my faithful that ill get on top of it. So the last project i blogged about was a hip hop rant so ill try to bring it back to the art realm. So here is a poster i made for the art shanty project i made this in the snow out of stuff that the shanty's are made out of the stuff shanty's are made of. I tried to make a nice composition that expressed the feeling of the event.Check out MN art shanty projects for more info.

Special thanks to ALEK and WILL D.

2008-02-01T15:21:00.001-08:00

Scott La Rock It !

2008-02-01T14:29:00.000-08:00

How do you afford your rock and roll life style? What happened to hip hop in the park? Who shot ya? Can you say my nizzel and not be racisizle? These are some of the questions that we are faced with today in young, urban, contemporary culture. Have all of the influences of the past siphoned us to this mundane sound that "blazes on pop radio"? I hope not, did old school, trip hop, gansta rap, dirty south, Reggeton and all of the other gene's of hip hop lead us to the notion prefabricated cookie cutter emcees. I mean really Solja boy dose he even have lyrics, or is it all just one big hook? is this the evolutionary step that our hip hop four fathers wanted there ideas to spawn into? Is new hip hop a generic blob of fragmented ideas sewn together with the broken threads of society. Well i leave it up to you. //////////////////////////////////////////////

PLEASE POST A RESPONSE.

2 To 3_D

2008-01-28T15:18:00.000-08:00

How can i switch off my left brain and kick flip to my right? I think if i think of the signature as like layers there is a way to brake down the different values of color. I found some mesh type material and started draping and layering the fabric at different lengths and depths to create value. I don't think the type or icon are very important to literally represent, just the shape and texture and the content.I felt this signature had some sort of cross combination of industry and femme fatal. I think fabric and some industrial bit's I scrounged up should do the trick. Wow its fun to experiment with space and the mores patterns this fabric makes.

webtastic

2008-01-24T22:47:00.000-08:00

I was experimenting with new ways to show work online. Next time your making a portfolio website consider these new options.

"I pitty the fool"

2008-01-24T11:59:00.000-08:00

My Pops: Black belt, Ninja, Mr. T's Uncel

I was organising the old studio and came across some stuff the I deem web worthy. It got me sifting through my collection of artist book/indie mags. Ive been brainstorming some new ways to approach a book/mag idea .been tinkering with a few concepts. One idea is a collaborative effort in which web people such as "yall" submit a picture of your dad (or a dad looking dude) and tell your best my dad can beat up your dad story. You know the legend of the old man battling the elements, wind, snow, rain, in a suit, to show up exactly on time to put a Chuck Norris style smack down on some one who totally deserved it,(like Dain Cook.) But didn't get there because he saw your mom who loved him, and they hooked up to make you as to end his quest of supreme ass kickery,type of story.The other idea, well that is top secret so don't ask or I will be forced to kill you. Or possibly i will save it for another post.

2008-01-18T13:31:00.000-08:00

Creativity is a state of mind.I find it so interesting that that ones creativity can be jogged by the weirdest things. For example this week my grand father pasted away. I have gone through every emotion on the chart, sad, lonely, confused, humbled, honored. I could not find a outlet to express these feelings or work on any sort of projects. And almost as soon as i felt that desperation that longing to vent my frustration through the creative process, it came to like a beacon of creative expression. My idea meeter just kind of peaked and i feel that all of these emotions came together to give me a new out look on who i am as an artist. A fresh start on the limits of my expectations as an /designer/writer/person/communicator. I think the epiphany came when I recognized how closely related our emotional cycles are connected with our creativity. Its all a state of mind.

wassup bloggers

2008-01-16T10:56:00.001-08:00

After checking out the Aesthetic Apparatus website and your totally hilarious blog i think I've got a good idea of the genera of artists and music that inspire you to work. I am totally stereotyping the artist you might know/like by what's on your web shit. But who ever said a little research and an "I don't care what you think" attitude dint help. Even know you know Banskey real name and Shepard Fairy dose the Andre the giant wheat paste, there are still allot of street artist out there that don't get cred where cred's deserved.

The artist I choose that has recently inspired me to think of new ways to approach what I do is. Steve powers a.k.a. "espo". I ran across his work browsing over the Wooster collect(a totally sweet graff/art web site).He started as a gate painter(like the silver gates that business pull down after closing) in NYC. He began to add his own little flavor on to the gates by making them typographic or graffiti. Well to make a long story short the business owners didn't really give a shit and thus he was allowed to pretty much crush the entire city legally.

Creating controversy and the question of is graffiti public space and its legality. After building a rep as a graff artist he started his own sign business and became more of a part of the landscape of NYC. He is still coming up with new inventive ways to challenge the medium and idea of public art/graffiti(check out the link ). I dig the notion of changing the process of srteet art and stick it to the man legally.how some times as an artist if we just shift the approach to a problem the new solution can breath life into a great idea.

2008-01-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

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