Goons remind us to Clean It Up

Happy Thanksgiving! Last night I was perusing some of the street art photostreams on flickr and found this. Chi-town paster, Goons (who recently launched an updated website), has created a new video for Orbit gum.... and if you know me, you know I'm not normally one to stand behind corporate-artistic partnerships, but this video is damn good... and finally the midwest street artrists are getting their well deserved props! Check out their video, Clean It Up:




...and for those who don't know, graffiti k-i-n-g REVOK was arrested in Cali recently... we'll see what charges actually stick when all is said and done, but for now... FREE REVOK!

Evidence and Brother Ali @ Skully's

Last night's show was great. Illogic and Ill Poetic warmed up the crowd with style and made me even more excited for the Blueprint/Illogic show in two weeks. It was my first time seeing Ill Poetic live and definitely not the last... great skills.

Toki Wright and BK-One had a good set and then Evidence stepped to the stage and brought an intense performance (as usual) mixing his solo stuff with Dilated Peoples tracks. Ali took the stage last. He showcased a good number of songs from his new CD, US, and gave some good new interpretations of his classics, starting the show with one of my all time favorite Ali songs, "Room with a View".

Picture: Illogic
Video (not uploaded for sound, so mute it!): Evidence

Mural on Magnolia Thunderpussy

Local High St. record shop, Magnolia Thunderpussy, is getting a new mural on its parking lot wall. The mural is an evolving conversation between many contributing artists and has continued to have new elements freestyled into the overall project for the past several weeks. These are the most recent pictures I have of the project:

Fresh in Bustown:

Respectively: RILA; "SUCK" by Sucko; ENDER; LEVEL; LOAF,??,DESTO

Bustown's November Hip Hop

Last night Talib Kweli shut it down at Skully's. Even though the show stalled and Kweli didn't take the stage until sometime after midnight, the crowd was PACKED and excited. Energy on both sides of the stage was high and we got all kinds of classics (tracks from Reflection Eternal, Quality, and more) plus a hint of whats to come on his upcoming album with Cincinnati's DJ Hi-Tek (yayeah!)

Opening last night was local group 3RD (pronounced Three Are Dee). Being new to the underground Bustown hip hop, I was glad to see these guys for the first time. Great stage presence and dance-able beats with MCs who know how to hold and use a mic.

While in line to see Talib, I saw flyers for (all happening at Skully's):

- Ghostface Killah, in town tonight!

- Brother Ali and Evidence, who will be here on the 14th (Nov)

- Blueprint and Illogic (collectively Greenhouse)are promoting their new album, Electric Purgatory on the 28th (Nov)

AND... (fingers crossed) there was buzz from the guy who brought Talib in town that De La Soul might be here soon!

DON'T MISS THESE SHOWS!
Also, you can download the new Greenhouse album for free starting on the 24th. Check it out, here.

Worth the Watch: Neozoon

I know I've posted before about Neozoon's street art - their upcycled installations made from discarded fur coats. Here's an interview with the duo, and some footage of the construction and installation of a series of pieces.



(via Wooster)

More Body Tagging

Earlier this year I posted a video of WorkmanJones, a duo out of Melbourne (and NYC) who do a performance-based street art, "body tagging." They create interesting shapes using the physical/structural form of the body that engage the built and natural worlds around them. Last spring some of us got together in Cincinnati to try this same concept. Here's the video/post on that.

A couple weeks ago I went down to Cincy for a second go at body tagging. This time the concepts were based around themes, where as the first time we were going for bright colors and random positions. The results were great! Ethan has put together two videos from the experience with his own original music as the soundtracks. Here they are:

soft bodies/hard bodies from Ethan Philbrick on Vimeo.

chiquita headquarters-- cincinnati, ohio from Ethan Philbrick on Vimeo.