#kid hazo

[eleni-cherie]

Translation of the Greek in WWDITS s5e4

Hellooo, I'm back! Since y'all enjoyed my last translation I figured I could do another one for the latest episode :)

*Nadja and grandma sitting at the table*

grandma: ela. ela! apo to fourno zestes einai. fae! - come, come! they're warm from the oven. eat! [typical greek grandma lol]

*Nadja introducing Laszlo to the family*

Nadja: yiayia! - grandmother/grandma!

*after Laszlo greeted the dog instead*

Nadja: ohi - no [can't comprehend what she says after that, sorry. either the pronounciation is off or the word just doesn't exist]

hazos - fool/idiot

hazoulis - little fool/idiot [basically the cute/lighter version]

*song Laszlo was singing*

skotose antipaxos - kill antipaxos [the greek isn't grammatically correct here tho, it should be 'skotose tin antipaxos']

*Nadja explaining in the interview what was wrong w the song*

Nadja: nisitha Moggonisi - islet of Moggonisi [the greek is a bit off again, usually you wouldn't add the 'island/islet of' in greek, especially since the name 'Moggonisi' already contains the name 'island']

[Moggonisi is a small greek Island that belongs to Paxos, the neighbouring island of Antipaxos. Paxos is the big island and Antipaxos its small neighbour. Basically Antipaxos means 'opposing Paxos'.]

nisitha Moggonisans - islet Moggonisans [tbh this part confused me a lot, bc she wanted to name their enemies and habitants of that island, so idk why they also added the 'nisitha' in the front. also 'Moggonisans' obviously isn't very greek and rather how an english-speaking person would refer to the inhabitants. The correct greek name for the inhabitants would probably be 'Moggonisii']

*after Laszlo held his monologue*

Nadja: panayia mou - holy Mary [Mary being Jesus' mother, it's an exclamation of surprise or frustration like "oh my God"]

grandma: the to pistevo! - I can't believe it!

ine o vasilias yourounion - it's the king of pigs

irthe o vasilias yourounion - the king of pigs came

[i swear I've never heard of this tale and I extra googled and only found a kids book but the author wasn't greek, so I'm pretty sure they invented that for the show]

it's not that much, bc Nadja & Lazslo were talking over the family, so most parts weren't audible and also sometimes the grammar/pronounciation was just so off, that I simply could not understand it. e.g. when they were throwing food at Laszlo for that song and Nadja yelled something, I listened to it like 20 times and I still don't no what she yelled. it could be 'skotoste auton ton malaka - kill that asshole' but it doesn't really sound like it.. idk sorry

like @FX hire me for actual correct greek dialogues haha

anyway i hope this post still helped a little tho😅

[evablueblanket]

what kind of music do YOU listen to

I’ve kind of realized that i’m mildly picky about what I listen to? Either that or it’s just bc I am extremely dependent on what kind of vibes I’m in the mood for + if whatever song fits said vibe

According to spotify my top genre was broadway, which I don’t completely agree with bc I have a friend who would 100% say ‘no you loser you aren’t that into broadway’ but also she’s just into show tunes way more than anything else. Ig it’s a vibes thing more than an actual ‘this has been shown on broadway’

Though I do love musicals, i’m kind of basic since I’ve only ‘watched’ hamilton (disney+ version when it was turned into a movie). But i’ve listened to some of the more popular songs from Dear Evan Hanson, Heathers, Be More Chill, Legally Blonde, and others that are just popular songs. A few years ago I watched a TON of animatics so I think that’s kind of where it came from.

Another thing that’s not as vibe specific is orchestra/band stuff. I love love LOVE when a live orchestra and/or wind ensemble gets incorporated into music. Cody Fry was my top artist this year, and basically all his songs have an orchestra in it minus his older albums and ITS SO COOL. I play clarinet (and bass clarinet) so that’s where that appreciation comes from. I also just like, wind ensemble music. Gustav Holst (second suite in f major) is a piece I played last year and I absolute fell in love with it. Samuel Hazo is also a super good composer and he has a gigantic roster. I played two pieces of his last year, ‘Arabesque’ and ‘Solas Annes (Yesterday’s Joy)’ Going back to Holst I can 100% appreciate his planets suite.

For that kind of music though, it helps if i’ve played the piece cause then I’m like ‘hehe I know this and THIS SPOT WAS SUPER HARD ARGHHHH’ but music is super fun.

OH ALSO I’m a choir kid (basically just a fine arts kid in general) so i’ve listened to some choral pieces too just cause I like how they were performed and I like how they sound. I’m a band kid first and foremost though.

Also I listen to a lot of game soundtracks, bc instrumentals are just peak, and they vibe pretty easy since I mostly listen to soundtracks that i’ve played before. (Minecraft, Omori, Stardew Valley, Breath of the Wild, Undertale, Deltarune, etc)

OKAY I’VE EXPLAINED MY VIBES I’ll give you some stats tehe

Top Artists:

1. Cody Fry (this man has such an array of songs, he goes from funk to pop to overture-esque songs and he’s just kinda epic)

2. Omori (video game that has my entire heart, the story is so AHXISJJXD and the music is awesome. Nowadays I listen more to the breakcore side of the soundtrack but all of it is peak)

3. Bluey (LMAO I forgot about this one. Like the albums on spotify? Crazy good. Taxi is just super fun bc there’s a lot of saxaphone where there’s a GROWL solo and I love that stuff fr)

4. Coyote Theory (vibes, that’s pretty much the only reason. Yeah ‘This Side of Paradise’ is good but THERES MORE THAN THAT.)

5. Toby Fox (Video gAmes. Fun fact I think it was last year or two years ago that I was in his top 0.01% of listeners xD)

RANDOM FUN FACT: Choir kid = I know my range, and my best range is alto/contralto range and the two artists that actually do the lyrics part of music are in that so it’s also bc they’re super singable for me. (ofc I can go higher than that, but I don’t like the sound of my head voice :’) )

Top Songs.

1. Snakes (Arcane)

2. Flying (Cody Fry)

3. You Only Live Once (Yuri on Ice)

4. Fix You (Cody Fry’s cover of Coldplay)

5. Before I Met You (Cody Fry)

Snakes is just super angry, which is fun for me cause I get to go AHHH with it. Everything else kind of fits what i’ve already said.

[xen-void]

A little warning about Hazo.

That's James' kid.

Oh I saw

[torahtantra]

31. Parsha Emor. Part 2.

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

Unacceptable Sacrifices

17 The Lord said to Moses, 18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: ‘If any of you—whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel—presents a gift for a burnt offering to the Lord, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, 19 you must present a male without defect from the cattle, sheep or goats in order that it may be accepted on your behalf. 20 Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. 

21 When anyone brings from the herd or flock a fellowship offering to the Lord to fulfill a special vow or as a freewill offering [done contemplatively], it must be without defect or blemish to be acceptable. 22 Do not offer to the Lord the blind, the injured or the maimed, or anything with warts or festering or running sores. Do not place any of these on the altar as a food offering presented to the Lord. 

-> Don't kid yourself.

23 You may, however, present as a freewill offering an ox[d] or a sheep that is deformed or stunted, but it will not be accepted in fulfillment of a vow. 24 You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land, 25 and you must not accept such animals from the hand of a foreigner and offer them as the food of your God. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and have defects.’”

English-Hebrew Testicle (ש"ע) אשך

The testicle (from Latin testis, meaning "witness", plural testes) or ballock is the male generative gland in animals. This article will concentrate on mammalian testicles unless otherwise noted.

-> Gossipers, hearsayers, liars, fuckers, losers, they are not able to be in the company of a sojourner. They can't confess, they cannot be blessed.

26 The Lord said to Moses, 27 “When a calf, a lamb or a goat is born, it is to remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the Lord. 28 Do not slaughter a cow or a sheep and its young on the same day.

Calves can be "worshipped", as they are producers. Golden calves are idols and they do nothing. Calves are future leadership roles and skills, golden calves are dead ends.

Lambs are baby rams, but they listen, they can be made into productive members of society provided they are not led astray. The tzav says we can't lure it away from its mother too soon, well who are the Mothers in Judaism? Are they the nation, the faith, the temple, the Torah, AKA Mommie Dearest?

Here is a list of Jewish Mothers, let's see what they tell us:

Eve, Milcah Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, Bilhah, Miriam, and Dinah.

Their sons are:

Eve [breathing]: Cain and Abel "breathing in and breathing out".

Milcah + Nahor [the Queen + Scorched Free]: Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.=

Uz= counsel and contemplation

Buz=to make light in the sense of

Kemuel= the Congregation, God's Grain

Chesed= the Protective Spirit

Hazo= the Seer

Pildash= flashing steel

Jidlaph= he drips, he weeps

Bethuel= the house of God

="The union of a Queen and a free nation makes sense. This creates the House of God where the Protective Spirit resides and remits people from the threat of flashing steel."

Sarah [princess]: Isaac "laughter".

Rachel: [purity]: Joseph and Benjamin "prosperity and righteousness."

Leah [leadership]: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.

Dinah "the government" is first mentioned in Genesis 30:21 as the daughter of Leah and Jacob, born to Leah after she bore six sons to Jacob, the Follower.

"The friendly government leader who is lawful, unifies the people with his honor, good judgement, willingness to confront evil, and the ability to bring out prosperity and happiness in the people."

Zilpah [a drop]: Gad and Asher "Treasure and happiness."

Bilhah [the calamity princess]: Dan and Naphtali "Judge and Struggle".

GOATS are produced by "mothering".

29 “When you sacrifice a thank offering to the Lord, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. 30 It must be eaten that same day; leave none of it till morning. I am the Lord.

31 “Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord. 32 Do not profane my holy name, for I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites. I am the Lord, who made you holy 33 and who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord.”

This Parsha...shall continue.

[ask-the-elden-lords]

*eyes go hollow*

You've got to be kidding me.

@hazo-the-drone

*solvar walks to evy her cell* hi evy your being moved

(@solvar-the-drone

Ok...

*gathers up her stuff and follows*

[a-dozen-moderate-fragments]

y'all

y'all're missing out on the benefits of listening to classical (and "classical") music

like not only do you get the benefits of:

aesthetic

them's some serious bangers

look like an intellectual when really you're just a depressed band kid silently rocking out to Arabesque by Sam Hazo

and the drawbacks of:

fuckin' none

you also get shit done

like try being depressed and listening to Farandole because psych bitch you're not depressed anymore it's time to fuckin party

got no motivation? listen to the colas breugnon overture. BOOM. within the first twenty bars you're absolutely cranked, get to the end and just point me at a god and I'll fight it

go ahead, name a classical piece that uses tambourine and doesn't slap. that's right you can't because there aren't any because classical tambourine slaps ass

go listen to some 1812 overture. treat yourself right

[shhhhyoursister]

hi i was tagged by @navollidiot​ to put my music on shuffle and list the first 20 songs that play!!! im gonna kinda copy leaf and do my top songs 2016-2019  and im gonna try to avoid repeating artists/themes!!!!! ty leaf this is exactly what i needed to do after finishing my finals ily (also enjoy my commentary cause i cant not say things)

juice - lizzo (okay i definitely had one of those “listen to a lot of lizzo and love yourself” summers and lizzo hypes me up unlike no other artist seriously....)

crush - david archuleta (okay okay....so a lil backstory on me i had a roommate for three years who is also like my best friend we are basically soulmates but ANYWAY me and them tried to make this song our most played song of 2018 but i also loved it as a kid and this song SLAPS)

the gospel truth - hercules (guys this movie is so underrated and this song is so good in particular and “HONEY YOU MEAN HUNK-ULES” is an iconic line)

wrong way - sublime (lmao so in 2016 i went through a phase where i tried to listen to different types of music and idk why but this song stuck)

dont wanna fall in love - green day (haha so yeah i listen to a lot of green day and this song may have vaguely inspired a certain fic of mine.........)

everybody wants to rule the world - ninja sex party (okay im a HUGE nsp and gamegrumps fan and i listen to their cover alubums....frequently)

american pie - don mclean (i mean idk dude im a white american and this song is fun to play on guitar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

arabesque - samuel r hazo (its honestly hilarious that this came up this was just a super fun song i played in band yes im a band kid like one of those band kids but i am proud of that fact)

deepthroat - cupcakke (this is something me and my friends would listen to a lot but somethings going on with cupcakke im worried about her...)

pynk - janelle monae (yall i could go off about janelle monae for LITERAL hours i watched dirty computer for the first time in a fucking gender utopias class and it really just rocked my entire world and specifically this song?? iconic)

finish her! - aja (im a big fan of drag and im an extremely critical viewer of ruauls drag race, but aja is radical and WAY more than drag race at this point)

the schuyler sisters - hamilton (i am also a giant big loser theater nerd and really loved (still kinda do ngl) the music from hamilton and i saw it in 2016!!!)

hawaiian roller coaster ride - lilo and stitch (okay one of my fave all time kids movies makes me feel LOTS of things and this song is just so GOOD)

love shack - the b-52s (okay this is probably one of my top 3 songs i dont know WHY it just hits me right and its such a bop you cant not sing along)

reflections - misterwives (this song just has a very specfic energy and vibe to it and i heard it the first time and i just loved it?? once the chorus hits i like JUMP)

heirloom - sufjan stevens (one of my fave artists, one of my fave songs of his, honestly just so good, like?? how can he do that???)

pillow talking - lil dicky (okay so me and my ex used to listen to this stupidass song all the fucking time, and now i know all the words and i hate it sdfgsdf)

suburbia - troye sivan (lmao leaf im copying you but highkey this might be my fave all time troye song?? hard to say but this one just hits harder)

boasty - wiley (only druck song im allowing here just cause WOW this song fucking slaps hard and i cant not move when i hear it thanks druck)

rose-colored boy - paramore (im not necessarily a big fan of paramore but this song and a few others of theirs are just super good and boppy?? idk i like it!!)

[pwbi]

Ghost and magic healer for the ask meme!

Ghost- Favorite song. 

Oh boy, that’s tough. I honestly cant narrow it down to more than a few... dozen. I listen to a wide variety, so I’ll list a few of my favorites by genre. 

EDM: Tech Thieves (Fake, Enough, and Love), OSRSBeatz, Unlike Pluto, The Glitch Mob (Head Full of Shadows, fortune days, palace of the innocents, animus vox, take me with you, and of course- 7 nation army)

Rock/Metal: Foo Fighters (The Pretender), Blue Stahli, Avenged Sevenfold (Hail to the King), Three Days Grace (entire Outsider album). I also occasionally listen to Skillet, Starset, and some really heavy rock / metal when I go lifting.

Rap: Tom Macdonald (I Wish, Castles, Dear Rappers, Politically Incorrect), GoRemy (Call of Duty, Mario Kart, Arlington, etc.)  Eminem (Lose Yourself, Venom, Killshot, Till I Collapse, Not Alike, The Ringer) - all good workout music 

Classic: Beethovens 5th, Moonlight Sonato, Mountain King, Hazo (Ride), Fur Elise, 

Other random stuff I forgot to mention- CRX (Broken Bones, Slow Down), Siames entire album, Riot Games LCS music (Warriors, Legends Never Die, Rise), Pentakill (Lightbringer and Mortal Reminder), Bassnectar, Aviators, Falconshield (Rise Again, Unstoppable, This is War 2, 3, 5, and 6), Fall Out Boy, 全职高手 OP, Gan Lan Shu, OSRS music (Cellar Song, Attack 2, Dogs of War, Barbarianism, Trade Parade, Trade Parade, Autumn Voyage), The Score, OVERWERK (Toscata and 1230), Disturbed Sound of Silence, and finally APC 10. Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of of the war drums

Magic Healer- Pets

I do not currently have a pet, though I may be fostering a rabbit from the local ARL soon. As a kid my brother and I had 2 fancy rats though, named Crash and Squeeknibbles. Ironically the IGN I used for many years is a reference to them. Great pets! Absolutely loved both of them. 

They would often hide out around our big CRT, soaking up its warmth when they napped. It was super cute. 

[stantalentstansk-archive]

Stray Kids as Songs I’m Playing in Wind Ensemble (Hyung Line)

Chan:

Parkour by Samuel R. Hazo

Parkour is an intense piece where you expect one thing to happen but the exact opposite happens because that’s Hazo for you, doing the complete opposite of what’s expected. Chan is just like this piece simply because of all the work he does. The piece starts off super intense with sixteenth notes going into eight notes and half note triplets, there’s even a half note quintuplet which we don’t see often. There’s a ton of stuff going on in this piece and it really reminds me of Chan. He’s super intense and all over the place when it comes to his personality but who am I to contradict that when I’m the same way? There’s also a part in here where you expect that because it got quiet it’s going to slow down but no, it stays at the same speed and gives you a slightly less intense passage. That part I feel is just like Chan and his sleeping schedule because you think that he’s going to sleep and that he isn’t going to use that time he could be sleeping to work but no, he’s up making music since he believes working is better than rest. He’s just super intense and keeps going even when he’s tired and this piece sort of sums it all up.

Woojin:

Greensleeves arr. by Alfred Reed

Woojin to me has the gentleness that this piece has and honestly, I feel like a lot of you would agree on this. It has its own kind of gentleness that is perceived in the emotional passages but along with that, it gives the intensity of a caring feeling in it too when it starts to get louder and the key changes. To me I feel that Woojin has his own caring personality that is unlike others and this piece greatly showcases it because it has such an odd sound that is strangely calming. Woojin is the type to care for anyone and he cares for them all in so many different ways which can be signified by those key changes that I mentioned before. He also has these quirks to him that is really just addicting to watch or listen to and I don’t think I can ever say this enough but my god this piece just represents him in so many ways that it’s astonishing to me. All in all Woojin is our oddball, caring, and intensely gentle person that we keep coming back to just because of the type of person he is.

Minho:

Lincolnshire Posy: 6. The Lost Lady Found by Percy Grainger

Now the reason I chose this piece for Minho is a bit odd but I guess it’s because this piece is just as odd as he is. Out of all the pieces we have everything is so intense in its own way and then we have something like Lincolnshire Posy and no one can really figure out why we enjoy it so much, it’s just like how I feel with Minho. Honestly there’s a lot to him that I know of yet there’s still more that I need to find out but all I know is that I enjoy Minho for everything that he does. I specifically chose the sixth movement for Minho because of how simple and lovable it is and I feel like this is true for Minho. There’s just things that are so simple but yet it feels like he does them in the most extraordinary way which makes us love him so much. He has that simple lovability and it’s one amazing aspect of his but even so under all of that simplicity is a hard worker who has done so much to get to where he is now. It’s so true for this piece as well because of the simple sounds you may think it isn’t that hard but my god it’s the blending that you have to get down and all of the counting. There’s just a lot hidden by the simple exterior but that’s the exact feeling I get from Minho.

Changbin: 

Minor Alterations NO. 2: Carols from the Dark Side by David Lovrien

Okay, Minor Alterations NO.2 is literally taking holiday songs and putting them into its minor key and they sound amazing. The reason I chose this for Changbin is that with him his look obviously says that he has a dark personality but really it’s super fun once you get to know about him better just like with this piece. In the beginning, it seems all dark and mysterious but as the piece gets going you can hear how it changes into this really nice upbeat piece although it isn’t necessarily a happy one. We all know Changbin can be intense or really soft when it comes to performing and talking with people so in general, Changbin is literally this piece. He just exudes the kind of aura this piece has and it goes really well with him just like with the other two minor alteration pieces. All in all, let’s just say that looks or even in this case with sounds aren’t always going to be what you expect them to be, it’s the surprise factor that really keeps us loving him.

[toad-gay]

SAMUEL R. HAZO CAN SUCK MY DICK

Sincerely, every fucking band kid in america

[creativinn]

Street artists from Spain to India featured in Navy Yard’s new outdoor art exhibition

A 1984 Ford Thunderbird Elan is parked in front of one of the Navy Yard’s grand brick buildings, now with its doors and windows boarded up. The car has its back axle dropped like a low rider and is decorated from front grill to exhaust pipe with small strips of vinyl that shimmer in the breeze.

It’s been “piñata’d,” said artist Justin Favela.

“I started using the piñata as a medium about ten years ago,” said Favela over the phone from his studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. “A few years ago I started making lowrider piñatas to scale. This is the first time I’m making one out of an actual car.”

Lowrider piñata in the colors of the Guatemalan flag by Justin Favela (Peter Crimmins/WHYY News)

The car resembles the Guatemalan flag: white on top and pale blue on the sides. A green quetzal bird adorns the hood. Favela’s mother, originally from Guatemala, offered design ideas between her shifts as a casino worker in Vegas. She inspired Favela to use shiny mylar strips in place of the Thunderbird’s chrome.

“My mom wanted it to have some shine, some glitz to come through,” he said. “Lowrider culture is seen as a very masculine thing. But when I see lowriders, I see high drag. They are the most beautiful drag queens ever.”

Is the lowrider piñata full of candy? Favela gets that question all the time. The answer is no.

Favela is one of seven artists contributing work to an annual show of public art in the Navy Yard. This is the third year PIDC — the organization overseeing the development of the former military shipyard — has used contemporary art to draw visitors to the bottom of Broad Street.

Previous years have seen monumental-sized art events: a gargantuan sea monster emerging from a warehouse, and a giant cocoon made of duct tape. This year the works are smaller-scale and more plentiful. Six pieces are scattered around the historic core of the Navy Yard.

“We encourage people to walk around, or ride a bike, and explore the art installation,” said PIDC spokesperson Jennifer Tran. “While not hidden, some are smaller and require keen eyesight to find.”

Around the corner from the lowrider piñata, half-hidden by foliage, a cardboard troll appears to be crawling out from underneath a footbridge. The Philadelphia-based street artist Kid Hazo, working with the retailer of Philly kitsch South Fellini, adapted a monster from Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” turning it into a Philly fan dressed in Eagles green.

A floral cross-stitch by Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo on a building at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

A stone’s throw away is a small, unused building near the Chapel of the Four Chaplains. Among the English ivy, crawling over its brick, is a rose bush made from yarn cross-stitched into wire mesh by Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo. If you don’t look twice, you might miss it.

This content was originally published here.

[rikebe]

Hazo and Jesse's kid can speak fluent japenese the only problem ? They obly speak with a southern draw like pop-pop . Btw what is their name ?

She got Jesse’s drawl and Hanzo’s resting bitchface, they’re both very very proud

Her name is Sachiko Joséfina McCree. Han + Jess decided against having her last name include Shimada since they don’t want their kid tied by name to a crime empire for the rest of her life so they just went with McCree, but to compensate for that Hanzo got to pick a first name. The second name is the name of Jesse’s mum!

She speaks Japanese, Spanish and English fluently and bits and pieces of a bunch of other languages because of her very international arsenal of uncles and aunts 

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Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

December 16, 2018

(Photos by Conrad Benner and Streets Dept Contributor Eric Dale)

Welcome to Streets Dept’s annual wrap-up of all the most talked about, engaging work created by artists around Philly’s public spaces!

Over the last two years, I started breaking this yearly list up into two separate lists, one with the top street art (aka non-commissioned/ “illegal” work) and one with the top public art and murals (aka commissioned/ “legal” work.) But for this year I’m going back to how I used to do it when I started this blog, and I’m not going to break up these lists. I’m doing this after some thought about how all this work is viewed by you and I in the public space. In retrospect, it seems more appropriate to view all the top artwork together on one list just as you’d see street art next to murals on the street.

This list and its order were primarily decided by you and your engagement with artists and artworks’ related posts on StreetsDept.com and Streets Dept’s social media channels (aka clicks, likes, comments, and shares,) with just a pinch of curation from me. So without further ado, here’s Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018…

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First up, this stunning abstract mural by artists Brad Carney and Michael Konrad. Created in October with Mural Arts Philadelphia, the mural is titled Expanding Perspective: Infinite Movements and is located at the intersection of 12th and Walnut streets in the Gayborhood!

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In April, Sean 9 Lugo installed this series of life-sized wheatpaste tributes to Philly creatives all around town! “It was based off people who motivated, inspired, and showed me love.” Sean responded, when I followed up about the series over email.

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This powerful installation by YOMI advocating for greater gun control took place little more than a month after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

“It’s my hope that this piece will continue the conversation between students, teachers, and parents about stricter gun laws and school safety,” YOMI commented. “That students will continue to be passionate about making a change for the better and not be intimidated by greedy politicians and their ineffective and inadequate policies supported by powerful gun lobbyist such as the NRA.”

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Absolutely loved this temporary mural homage to James Baldwin by artist Nilé Livingston outside The Fillmore on Richmond street at Frankford avenue in Fishtown: “Painting a portrait of the iconic James Baldwin felt fitting amid our present cultural and political climate. Baldwin reminds me that maintaining benevolent curiosity for fellow humans is how we hold on to our own humanity.”

(One quick note: while this mural was technically completed in late 2017, it stayed up through winter and spring 2018, which is when I was able to see and photograph for this blog and my social media. And the reaction this mural received in terms of clicks and likes was so positive that I’d feel silly leaving it off this list, and I can’t go back and add it to last year’s list. So here we are!)

Another interesting thing about this roll gate is that it used to be curated by Mural Arts Philadelphia, who created this mural with Nilé, as well as other rotating murals over the years by NDA, Diego Romero, and Nether, but it now just seems to be an advertising space that The Fillmore uses to promote shows they’re having. So, that sucks a bit. The rotating murals before gave up and coming public artists a chance to work commissioned at a larger scale than wheatpaste or canvas. I like what they had going on, and I’m not sure what happened. I reached out to The Fillmore Philly, but didn’t get a response back.

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By far the most recent artwork on the list, this wheatpaste by Marisa Velázquez-Rivas gave us the Kenzinger bearing Santa that Philly needed and deserved in 2018, the year of our Gritty.

And Marisa has had quite a year herself, quickly becoming one of the most talked about street artists in Philly after only starting to wheatpaste this year. Check out our summer 2018 interview with Marisa here to learn much more about her life and work!

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In anticipation of the Philadelphia Eagles heading to the Super Bowl to play against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, artists Meg Saligman and Lizzie Kripke painted this temporary mural outside the Meg Saligman Studio on Bainbridge street between 8th and 9th streets in Bella Vista.

After the Eagles won the Super Bowl, a crowd funding petition was created to paint a version of the mural permanently somewhere in the city. And even while the petition never reached it’s stated goal of raising $60k, it was painted in September on the Hale Building near Broad and Chestnut streets with funding from the Eagles themselves.

——————————————————————————————————–

In May, nationally acclaimed graffiti crew The CDC organized this two-day outdoor exhibition in Fishtown with High Art Productions​, a Philly-based arts organization who specialize in pop-up art events and installations.

The exhibition marked the official book release of ​Create Destroy Conquer, ​a 12-year retrospective based on CDC! “[The book] will highlight the art of lettering in graffiti culture, give depth to the crew’s history, explore their relationship with freights and showcase their growth as individual artists,” High Art’s director and curator Terasina Bonanini emailed me. “This 200 page narrative tells the stories of young vandals – the friendships they develop, and the troubles they encounter while painting freights.”

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This wheatpaste from street art newcomer Symone Salib stood in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill. Pasted at the hight of the Brett Kavanaugh vote and hearings, the installation stood for weeks at Broad and Wharton streets in South Philly where it was photographed and Instagrammed a ton and even attracted this collaboration with another street art newcomer before it was ultimately buffed.

Symone’s installation and the love it got on the internet ultimately worked to help inspire this article by Bethany Ao for Philly.com about Philly’s female street artists who got political in 2018. The article also included Marisa Velazquez-Rivas (who’s on this list as well) and Blur (who we interviewed for our Streets Dept Oral History Project this year!)

——————————————————————————————————–

As a longtime fan of NDA, it was so exciting to see him experiment this year with what non-commissioned street art can be by creating this series of mobile street art sculptures!

“The idea of sculpture came to me and it leant itself to a bit of improv,” NDA explained about his new series. “A lot of these pieces were pre-planned a bit, but the real excitement for me was the idea that I really didn’t fully know what the end result was going to be. Cutting and gluing pieces together would then give me ideas on colors and patterns. And when one was completed it influenced what happened with the next one. The idea was to create as many different shapes, colors, and patterns between each side of each piece so I could maximize the amount of possibilities the sculptures could produce together.”

I found this work so bold, so refreshing that I wrote a very long post breaking down why I thought it was truly unique. A post that ends with a long interview with NDA. So if you want to check that out, you can here!

P.s. NDA’s sculptures ended up catching the eyes of some folks at the Barnes Foundation where they were temporarily installed on two different occasions this year.

——————————————————————————————————–

I guess it should come as no surprise that things that reflect the zeitgeist will earn a lot of love an attention on the internet, and this ongoing series of tile installations from Mpeachhim reflect the hopes of many in this Red State’s Blue City of Philadelphia.

“While I dabble in mosaic murals, this is my first street art,” the artist responded over email about her installations. “The ‘Mpeachhim’ tile project is an act of political desperation. Over the past winter after each morning bout of reading the newspaper sent me, like many, into anguish, I began to fantasize about making and placing these tiles. Everyone around me was depressed and the despondency was contagious. We know that genocides and lesser evils happen because decent folks, feeling hopeless, quit paying attention. So, I wanted to do something that was part of a circulating script about alternatives to the present, that this dark moment is not something to adjust to, that we must keep vigilant against numbness.”

——————————————————————————————————–

This surprise installation by world-renowned artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas at the Navy Yard was not only the first time the artists installed on the East Coast of the U.S., but it was also the largest inflatable tentacle sculpture they’ve ever created and installed anywhere in the world!

The first collaborative partnership between Group X, a newly form group of anonymous Philly-based arts curators, and the Navy Yard, the installation was the talk of the town for weeks, even earning nation and international press like being published in the Wall Street Journal.

——————————————————————————————————–

Truly, could this year end any other way than with Gritty? This spooky Halloween Gr-“IT”-ty installation by Kid Hazo caused so much excitement. Honestly, I saw so many comments from people tagging their friends on Instagram eager to hunt down the installation to see and photograph it in real life. For a day or two Hazo’s installation became like a proxy for the real Gritty, which I imagine few of us will likely ever get too close to. Hazo’s Gr-“IT”-ty was brilliant and creepy and weird and fascinating and it just encapsulated this year for Philly in a lot of ways, just like Gritty himself.

At this point it also deserves to be mentioned that Kid Hazo is apparently unstoppable. As Philadelphia’s premier (and only?) self-described comedic street artist, he’s always had the ability to tap into Philly’s local culture, as well as our broader national culture at times, to grab people’s attentions and make them laugh. This is far from an easy task, but he does it with the kind of perceived ease that can only be accomplished through great thought and effort.

When Kid Hazo first popped up on the scene in the spring and summer of 2013, he was creating and installing a LOT. (Examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here!) But in recent years, he’s seemed to take a more considered approach of installing just a couple times of year, while making those fewer installations more unique. As a conscience, despite incredible work by many, many fellow artists creating in Philly’s public spaces, Kid Hazo has topped Streets Dept’s end-of-year list for now a third time!

Hazo first topped this end-of-year list in 2013 when he ticketed the PPA, then again in 2014 with his take on those Visit Philly XOXO ads. And he’s not alone in topping the list more than once, as Joe Boruchow did in 2016 and in 2017, and Ishknits did in 2011 and in 2012! Holy shit I’ve been running this blog a long time! 

Congrats to Kid Hazo and all those who did and didn’t make the list this year. I feel so grateful to live in a city with such skilled and thoughtful artists, and I can’t wait to see what y’all bring in 2019! By the way, if you’re an artist or writer reading this post and you’re interested in having your work featured on this blog, please reach out.

Now, last but not least, there was SO much great work this year that my Top 10 list ballooned a bit to a Top 12 list, almost becoming a Top 20 list, but to avoid an endless scroll I’ve decided to include this list of honorable mentions, including a few (more) projects I’ve worked on this year!

——————————————————————————————————–

–Art at Mission: The Streets Dept-curated ongoing series of art exhibitions opens GLOW, neon light installations by Amberella –Trashcan Takeover: Philly artists replace those “Cheap” Barbera ads with art –To the Polls: A mural exhibition I organized and curated this fall with Mural Arts Philadelphia and 10 local artists to inspire the electorate ahead of the 2018 Midterms –Santiago Galeas and Eva Wǒ: Awesome new mural that celebrates queer femme identity –Inphltrate and Nicole Nikolich: Collaborative street art installation about hope and growth –Glossblack: A series of Phila Unite neighborhood murals for the Philadelphia 76ers –Amberella: Artist’s new Fortunate wheatpaste series addresses anxiety and depression –My Dog Sighs: Eye-catching new mural on South Street created with Haha x Paradigm –Artes Ekeko: Families Belong Together mural created with Mural Arts Philadelphia pops up amid the scandal around the Trump Administration’s regressive immigration policies and separating and imprisoning families at the U.S./Mexico boarder –Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig: Artists create an interactive public art installation advocating for criminal justice reform with Mural Arts Philadelphia –Pussy Division: Feminist activist group creates a newspaper exclusively for men in the #MeToo Era

from → Graffiti and Tags, Murals, Street Art

Source: https://streetsdept.com/2018/12/16/street-dept-presents-philadelphias-top-12-street-art-moments-of-2018/

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Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

December 16, 2018

(Photos by Conrad Benner and Streets Dept Contributor Eric Dale)

Welcome to Streets Dept’s annual wrap-up of all the most talked about, engaging work created by artists around Philly’s public spaces!

Over the last two years, I started breaking this yearly list up into two separate lists, one with the top street art (aka non-commissioned/ “illegal” work) and one with the top public art and murals (aka commissioned/ “legal” work.) But for this year I’m going back to how I used to do it when I started this blog, and I’m not going to break up these lists. I’m doing this after some thought about how all this work is viewed by you and I in the public space. In retrospect, it seems more appropriate to view all the top artwork together on one list just as you’d see street art next to murals on the street.

This list and its order were primarily decided by you and your engagement with artists and artworks’ related posts on StreetsDept.com and Streets Dept’s social media channels (aka clicks, likes, comments, and shares,) with just a pinch of curation from me. So without further ado, here’s Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018…

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First up, this stunning abstract mural by artists Brad Carney and Michael Konrad. Created in October with Mural Arts Philadelphia, the mural is titled Expanding Perspective: Infinite Movements and is located at the intersection of 12th and Walnut streets in the Gayborhood!

——————————————————————————————————–

In April, Sean 9 Lugo installed this series of life-sized wheatpaste tributes to Philly creatives all around town! “It was based off people who motivated, inspired, and showed me love.” Sean responded, when I followed up about the series over email.

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This powerful installation by YOMI advocating for greater gun control took place little more than a month after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

“It’s my hope that this piece will continue the conversation between students, teachers, and parents about stricter gun laws and school safety,” YOMI commented. “That students will continue to be passionate about making a change for the better and not be intimidated by greedy politicians and their ineffective and inadequate policies supported by powerful gun lobbyist such as the NRA.”

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Absolutely loved this temporary mural homage to James Baldwin by artist Nilé Livingston outside The Fillmore on Richmond street at Frankford avenue in Fishtown: “Painting a portrait of the iconic James Baldwin felt fitting amid our present cultural and political climate. Baldwin reminds me that maintaining benevolent curiosity for fellow humans is how we hold on to our own humanity.”

(One quick note: while this mural was technically completed in late 2017, it stayed up through winter and spring 2018, which is when I was able to see and photograph for this blog and my social media. And the reaction this mural received in terms of clicks and likes was so positive that I’d feel silly leaving it off this list, and I can’t go back and add it to last year’s list. So here we are!)

Another interesting thing about this roll gate is that it used to be curated by Mural Arts Philadelphia, who created this mural with Nilé, as well as other rotating murals over the years by NDA, Diego Romero, and Nether, but it now just seems to be an advertising space that The Fillmore uses to promote shows they’re having. So, that sucks a bit. The rotating murals before gave up and coming public artists a chance to work commissioned at a larger scale than wheatpaste or canvas. I like what they had going on, and I’m not sure what happened. I reached out to The Fillmore Philly, but didn’t get a response back.

——————————————————————————————————–

By far the most recent artwork on the list, this wheatpaste by Marisa Velázquez-Rivas gave us the Kenzinger bearing Santa that Philly needed and deserved in 2018, the year of our Gritty.

And Marisa has had quite a year herself, quickly becoming one of the most talked about street artists in Philly after only starting to wheatpaste this year. Check out our summer 2018 interview with Marisa here to learn much more about her life and work!

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In anticipation of the Philadelphia Eagles heading to the Super Bowl to play against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, artists Meg Saligman and Lizzie Kripke painted this temporary mural outside the Meg Saligman Studio on Bainbridge street between 8th and 9th streets in Bella Vista.

After the Eagles won the Super Bowl, a crowd funding petition was created to paint a version of the mural permanently somewhere in the city. And even while the petition never reached it’s stated goal of raising $60k, it was painted in September on the Hale Building near Broad and Chestnut streets with funding from the Eagles themselves.

——————————————————————————————————–

In May, nationally acclaimed graffiti crew The CDC organized this two-day outdoor exhibition in Fishtown with High Art Productions​, a Philly-based arts organization who specialize in pop-up art events and installations.

The exhibition marked the official book release of ​Create Destroy Conquer, ​a 12-year retrospective based on CDC! “[The book] will highlight the art of lettering in graffiti culture, give depth to the crew’s history, explore their relationship with freights and showcase their growth as individual artists,” High Art’s director and curator Terasina Bonanini emailed me. “This 200 page narrative tells the stories of young vandals – the friendships they develop, and the troubles they encounter while painting freights.”

——————————————————————————————————–

This wheatpaste from street art newcomer Symone Salib stood in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill. Pasted at the hight of the Brett Kavanaugh vote and hearings, the installation stood for weeks at Broad and Wharton streets in South Philly where it was photographed and Instagrammed a ton and even attracted this collaboration with another street art newcomer before it was ultimately buffed.

Symone’s installation and the love it got on the internet ultimately worked to help inspire this article by Bethany Ao for Philly.com about Philly’s female street artists who got political in 2018. The article also included Marisa Velazquez-Rivas (who’s on this list as well) and Blur (who we interviewed for our Streets Dept Oral History Project this year!)

——————————————————————————————————–

As a longtime fan of NDA, it was so exciting to see him experiment this year with what non-commissioned street art can be by creating this series of mobile street art sculptures!

“The idea of sculpture came to me and it leant itself to a bit of improv,” NDA explained about his new series. “A lot of these pieces were pre-planned a bit, but the real excitement for me was the idea that I really didn’t fully know what the end result was going to be. Cutting and gluing pieces together would then give me ideas on colors and patterns. And when one was completed it influenced what happened with the next one. The idea was to create as many different shapes, colors, and patterns between each side of each piece so I could maximize the amount of possibilities the sculptures could produce together.”

I found this work so bold, so refreshing that I wrote a very long post breaking down why I thought it was truly unique. A post that ends with a long interview with NDA. So if you want to check that out, you can here!

P.s. NDA’s sculptures ended up catching the eyes of some folks at the Barnes Foundation where they were temporarily installed on two different occasions this year.

——————————————————————————————————–

I guess it should come as no surprise that things that reflect the zeitgeist will earn a lot of love an attention on the internet, and this ongoing series of tile installations from Mpeachhim reflect the hopes of many in this Red State’s Blue City of Philadelphia.

“While I dabble in mosaic murals, this is my first street art,” the artist responded over email about her installations. “The ‘Mpeachhim’ tile project is an act of political desperation. Over the past winter after each morning bout of reading the newspaper sent me, like many, into anguish, I began to fantasize about making and placing these tiles. Everyone around me was depressed and the despondency was contagious. We know that genocides and lesser evils happen because decent folks, feeling hopeless, quit paying attention. So, I wanted to do something that was part of a circulating script about alternatives to the present, that this dark moment is not something to adjust to, that we must keep vigilant against numbness.”

——————————————————————————————————–

This surprise installation by world-renowned artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas at the Navy Yard was not only the first time the artists installed on the East Coast of the U.S., but it was also the largest inflatable tentacle sculpture they’ve ever created and installed anywhere in the world!

The first collaborative partnership between Group X, a newly form group of anonymous Philly-based arts curators, and the Navy Yard, the installation was the talk of the town for weeks, even earning nation and international press like being published in the Wall Street Journal.

——————————————————————————————————–

Truly, could this year end any other way than with Gritty? This spooky Halloween Gr-“IT”-ty installation by Kid Hazo caused so much excitement. Honestly, I saw so many comments from people tagging their friends on Instagram eager to hunt down the installation to see and photograph it in real life. For a day or two Hazo’s installation became like a proxy for the real Gritty, which I imagine few of us will likely ever get too close to. Hazo’s Gr-“IT”-ty was brilliant and creepy and weird and fascinating and it just encapsulated this year for Philly in a lot of ways, just like Gritty himself.

At this point it also deserves to be mentioned that Kid Hazo is apparently unstoppable. As Philadelphia’s premier (and only?) self-described comedic street artist, he’s always had the ability to tap into Philly’s local culture, as well as our broader national culture at times, to grab people’s attentions and make them laugh. This is far from an easy task, but he does it with the kind of perceived ease that can only be accomplished through great thought and effort.

When Kid Hazo first popped up on the scene in the spring and summer of 2013, he was creating and installing a LOT. (Examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here!) But in recent years, he’s seemed to take a more considered approach of installing just a couple times of year, while making those fewer installations more unique. As a conscience, despite incredible work by many, many fellow artists creating in Philly’s public spaces, Kid Hazo has topped Streets Dept’s end-of-year list for now a third time!

Hazo first topped this end-of-year list in 2013 when he ticketed the PPA, then again in 2014 with his take on those Visit Philly XOXO ads. And he’s not alone in topping the list more than once, as Joe Boruchow did in 2016 and in 2017, and Ishknits did in 2011 and in 2012! Holy shit I’ve been running this blog a long time! 

Congrats to Kid Hazo and all those who did and didn’t make the list this year. I feel so grateful to live in a city with such skilled and thoughtful artists, and I can’t wait to see what y’all bring in 2019! By the way, if you’re an artist or writer reading this post and you’re interested in having your work featured on this blog, please reach out.

Now, last but not least, there was SO much great work this year that my Top 10 list ballooned a bit to a Top 12 list, almost becoming a Top 20 list, but to avoid an endless scroll I’ve decided to include this list of honorable mentions, including a few (more) projects I’ve worked on this year!

——————————————————————————————————–

–Art at Mission: The Streets Dept-curated ongoing series of art exhibitions opens GLOW, neon light installations by Amberella –Trashcan Takeover: Philly artists replace those “Cheap” Barbera ads with art –To the Polls: A mural exhibition I organized and curated this fall with Mural Arts Philadelphia and 10 local artists to inspire the electorate ahead of the 2018 Midterms –Santiago Galeas and Eva Wǒ: Awesome new mural that celebrates queer femme identity –Inphltrate and Nicole Nikolich: Collaborative street art installation about hope and growth –Glossblack: A series of Phila Unite neighborhood murals for the Philadelphia 76ers –Amberella: Artist’s new Fortunate wheatpaste series addresses anxiety and depression –My Dog Sighs: Eye-catching new mural on South Street created with Haha x Paradigm –Artes Ekeko: Families Belong Together mural created with Mural Arts Philadelphia pops up amid the scandal around the Trump Administration’s regressive immigration policies and separating and imprisoning families at the U.S./Mexico boarder –Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig: Artists create an interactive public art installation advocating for criminal justice reform with Mural Arts Philadelphia –Pussy Division: Feminist activist group creates a newspaper exclusively for men in the #MeToo Era

from → Graffiti and Tags, Murals, Street Art

Source: https://streetsdept.com/2018/12/16/street-dept-presents-philadelphias-top-12-street-art-moments-of-2018/

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Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

Streets Dept Presents: Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018

December 16, 2018

(Photos by Conrad Benner and Streets Dept Contributor Eric Dale)

Welcome to Streets Dept’s annual wrap-up of all the most talked about, engaging work created by artists around Philly’s public spaces!

Over the last two years, I started breaking this yearly list up into two separate lists, one with the top street art (aka non-commissioned/ “illegal” work) and one with the top public art and murals (aka commissioned/ “legal” work.) But for this year I’m going back to how I used to do it when I started this blog, and I’m not going to break up these lists. I’m doing this after some thought about how all this work is viewed by you and I in the public space. In retrospect, it seems more appropriate to view all the top artwork together on one list just as you’d see street art next to murals on the street.

This list and its order were primarily decided by you and your engagement with artists and artworks’ related posts on StreetsDept.com and Streets Dept’s social media channels (aka clicks, likes, comments, and shares,) with just a pinch of curation from me. So without further ado, here’s Philadelphia’s Top 12 Street Art Moments of 2018…

——————————————————————————————————–

First up, this stunning abstract mural by artists Brad Carney and Michael Konrad. Created in October with Mural Arts Philadelphia, the mural is titled Expanding Perspective: Infinite Movements and is located at the intersection of 12th and Walnut streets in the Gayborhood!

——————————————————————————————————–

In April, Sean 9 Lugo installed this series of life-sized wheatpaste tributes to Philly creatives all around town! “It was based off people who motivated, inspired, and showed me love.” Sean responded, when I followed up about the series over email.

——————————————————————————————————–

This powerful installation by YOMI advocating for greater gun control took place little more than a month after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

“It’s my hope that this piece will continue the conversation between students, teachers, and parents about stricter gun laws and school safety,” YOMI commented. “That students will continue to be passionate about making a change for the better and not be intimidated by greedy politicians and their ineffective and inadequate policies supported by powerful gun lobbyist such as the NRA.”

——————————————————————————————————–

Absolutely loved this temporary mural homage to James Baldwin by artist Nilé Livingston outside The Fillmore on Richmond street at Frankford avenue in Fishtown: “Painting a portrait of the iconic James Baldwin felt fitting amid our present cultural and political climate. Baldwin reminds me that maintaining benevolent curiosity for fellow humans is how we hold on to our own humanity.”

(One quick note: while this mural was technically completed in late 2017, it stayed up through winter and spring 2018, which is when I was able to see and photograph for this blog and my social media. And the reaction this mural received in terms of clicks and likes was so positive that I’d feel silly leaving it off this list, and I can’t go back and add it to last year’s list. So here we are!)

Another interesting thing about this roll gate is that it used to be curated by Mural Arts Philadelphia, who created this mural with Nilé, as well as other rotating murals over the years by NDA, Diego Romero, and Nether, but it now just seems to be an advertising space that The Fillmore uses to promote shows they’re having. So, that sucks a bit. The rotating murals before gave up and coming public artists a chance to work commissioned at a larger scale than wheatpaste or canvas. I like what they had going on, and I’m not sure what happened. I reached out to The Fillmore Philly, but didn’t get a response back.

——————————————————————————————————–

By far the most recent artwork on the list, this wheatpaste by Marisa Velázquez-Rivas gave us the Kenzinger bearing Santa that Philly needed and deserved in 2018, the year of our Gritty.

And Marisa has had quite a year herself, quickly becoming one of the most talked about street artists in Philly after only starting to wheatpaste this year. Check out our summer 2018 interview with Marisa here to learn much more about her life and work!

——————————————————————————————————–

In anticipation of the Philadelphia Eagles heading to the Super Bowl to play against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, artists Meg Saligman and Lizzie Kripke painted this temporary mural outside the Meg Saligman Studio on Bainbridge street between 8th and 9th streets in Bella Vista.

After the Eagles won the Super Bowl, a crowd funding petition was created to paint a version of the mural permanently somewhere in the city. And even while the petition never reached it’s stated goal of raising $60k, it was painted in September on the Hale Building near Broad and Chestnut streets with funding from the Eagles themselves.

——————————————————————————————————–

In May, nationally acclaimed graffiti crew The CDC organized this two-day outdoor exhibition in Fishtown with High Art Productions​, a Philly-based arts organization who specialize in pop-up art events and installations.

The exhibition marked the official book release of ​Create Destroy Conquer, ​a 12-year retrospective based on CDC! “[The book] will highlight the art of lettering in graffiti culture, give depth to the crew’s history, explore their relationship with freights and showcase their growth as individual artists,” High Art’s director and curator Terasina Bonanini emailed me. “This 200 page narrative tells the stories of young vandals – the friendships they develop, and the troubles they encounter while painting freights.”

——————————————————————————————————–

This wheatpaste from street art newcomer Symone Salib stood in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill. Pasted at the hight of the Brett Kavanaugh vote and hearings, the installation stood for weeks at Broad and Wharton streets in South Philly where it was photographed and Instagrammed a ton and even attracted this collaboration with another street art newcomer before it was ultimately buffed.

Symone’s installation and the love it got on the internet ultimately worked to help inspire this article by Bethany Ao for Philly.com about Philly’s female street artists who got political in 2018. The article also included Marisa Velazquez-Rivas (who’s on this list as well) and Blur (who we interviewed for our Streets Dept Oral History Project this year!)

——————————————————————————————————–

As a longtime fan of NDA, it was so exciting to see him experiment this year with what non-commissioned street art can be by creating this series of mobile street art sculptures!

“The idea of sculpture came to me and it leant itself to a bit of improv,” NDA explained about his new series. “A lot of these pieces were pre-planned a bit, but the real excitement for me was the idea that I really didn’t fully know what the end result was going to be. Cutting and gluing pieces together would then give me ideas on colors and patterns. And when one was completed it influenced what happened with the next one. The idea was to create as many different shapes, colors, and patterns between each side of each piece so I could maximize the amount of possibilities the sculptures could produce together.”

I found this work so bold, so refreshing that I wrote a very long post breaking down why I thought it was truly unique. A post that ends with a long interview with NDA. So if you want to check that out, you can here!

P.s. NDA’s sculptures ended up catching the eyes of some folks at the Barnes Foundation where they were temporarily installed on two different occasions this year.

——————————————————————————————————–

I guess it should come as no surprise that things that reflect the zeitgeist will earn a lot of love an attention on the internet, and this ongoing series of tile installations from Mpeachhim reflect the hopes of many in this Red State’s Blue City of Philadelphia.

“While I dabble in mosaic murals, this is my first street art,” the artist responded over email about her installations. “The ‘Mpeachhim’ tile project is an act of political desperation. Over the past winter after each morning bout of reading the newspaper sent me, like many, into anguish, I began to fantasize about making and placing these tiles. Everyone around me was depressed and the despondency was contagious. We know that genocides and lesser evils happen because decent folks, feeling hopeless, quit paying attention. So, I wanted to do something that was part of a circulating script about alternatives to the present, that this dark moment is not something to adjust to, that we must keep vigilant against numbness.”

——————————————————————————————————–

This surprise installation by world-renowned artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas at the Navy Yard was not only the first time the artists installed on the East Coast of the U.S., but it was also the largest inflatable tentacle sculpture they’ve ever created and installed anywhere in the world!

The first collaborative partnership between Group X, a newly form group of anonymous Philly-based arts curators, and the Navy Yard, the installation was the talk of the town for weeks, even earning nation and international press like being published in the Wall Street Journal.

——————————————————————————————————–

Truly, could this year end any other way than with Gritty? This spooky Halloween Gr-“IT”-ty installation by Kid Hazo caused so much excitement. Honestly, I saw so many comments from people tagging their friends on Instagram eager to hunt down the installation to see and photograph it in real life. For a day or two Hazo’s installation became like a proxy for the real Gritty, which I imagine few of us will likely ever get too close to. Hazo’s Gr-“IT”-ty was brilliant and creepy and weird and fascinating and it just encapsulated this year for Philly in a lot of ways, just like Gritty himself.

At this point it also deserves to be mentioned that Kid Hazo is apparently unstoppable. As Philadelphia’s premier (and only?) self-described comedic street artist, he’s always had the ability to tap into Philly’s local culture, as well as our broader national culture at times, to grab people’s attentions and make them laugh. This is far from an easy task, but he does it with the kind of perceived ease that can only be accomplished through great thought and effort.

When Kid Hazo first popped up on the scene in the spring and summer of 2013, he was creating and installing a LOT. (Examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here!) But in recent years, he’s seemed to take a more considered approach of installing just a couple times of year, while making those fewer installations more unique. As a conscience, despite incredible work by many, many fellow artists creating in Philly’s public spaces, Kid Hazo has topped Streets Dept’s end-of-year list for now a third time!

Hazo first topped this end-of-year list in 2013 when he ticketed the PPA, then again in 2014 with his take on those Visit Philly XOXO ads. And he’s not alone in topping the list more than once, as Joe Boruchow did in 2016 and in 2017, and Ishknits did in 2011 and in 2012! Holy shit I’ve been running this blog a long time! 

Congrats to Kid Hazo and all those who did and didn’t make the list this year. I feel so grateful to live in a city with such skilled and thoughtful artists, and I can’t wait to see what y’all bring in 2019! By the way, if you’re an artist or writer reading this post and you’re interested in having your work featured on this blog, please reach out.

Now, last but not least, there was SO much great work this year that my Top 10 list ballooned a bit to a Top 12 list, almost becoming a Top 20 list, but to avoid an endless scroll I’ve decided to include this list of honorable mentions, including a few (more) projects I’ve worked on this year!

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–Art at Mission: The Streets Dept-curated ongoing series of art exhibitions opens GLOW, neon light installations by Amberella –Trashcan Takeover: Philly artists replace those “Cheap” Barbera ads with art –To the Polls: A mural exhibition I organized and curated this fall with Mural Arts Philadelphia and 10 local artists to inspire the electorate ahead of the 2018 Midterms –Santiago Galeas and Eva Wǒ: Awesome new mural that celebrates queer femme identity –Inphltrate and Nicole Nikolich: Collaborative street art installation about hope and growth –Glossblack: A series of Phila Unite neighborhood murals for the Philadelphia 76ers –Amberella: Artist’s new Fortunate wheatpaste series addresses anxiety and depression –My Dog Sighs: Eye-catching new mural on South Street created with Haha x Paradigm –Artes Ekeko: Families Belong Together mural created with Mural Arts Philadelphia pops up amid the scandal around the Trump Administration’s regressive immigration policies and separating and imprisoning families at the U.S./Mexico boarder –Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig: Artists create an interactive public art installation advocating for criminal justice reform with Mural Arts Philadelphia –Pussy Division: Feminist activist group creates a newspaper exclusively for men in the #MeToo Era

from → Graffiti and Tags, Murals, Street Art

Source: https://streetsdept.com/2018/12/16/street-dept-presents-philadelphias-top-12-street-art-moments-of-2018/

[miraculous-band-nerd]

92 Truths and a lie! (kidding about that, these are all truth)

rules: Write 92 truths about yourself then tag 25 people (you’re funny.)

I was “tagged” by @crashtacular

LAST… [1] drink: Water [2] phone call: My mother [3] text message: “I’m coming Friday” to my friend [4] song you listened to: Arabesque by Samuel Hazo (I’m a classical music kind of guy!) [5] time you cried: I dunno. I was close to crying a few weeks ago.

HAVE YOU EVER… [6] dated someone twice: Nope. Every single time has been once only. [7] been cheated on: Nope. [8] kissed someone and regretted it: No. As in I have not kissed anyone [9] lost someone special: Um, I haven’t lost anyone super close to death or anything. I’ve had friends come and go, but that’s about it. [10] been depressed: No, fortunately. [11] gotten drunk and thrown up: No, and no.

LIST 3 FAVOURITE COLORS: [12] Red (Scarlet) [13] Dark blue [14] Purple? I don’t really have a third favorite.

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU… [15] made new friends: Yeah, I have. [16] fallen out of love: Um, I think so? I don’t know tbh. My mind is a mass. [17] laughed until you cried: I don’t remember, but it was pretty recent I think. [18] found out someone was talking about you: No, but I’ve found out people were talking about other people, and people have told me that I said things that weren’t true. [19] met someone who changed you: Hell yes. My life kinda took a huge turn when I met this person. [20] found out who your true friends are: I think so? My biggest concern is losing them, and then being disappointed later. I always make an effort to at least talk to or hang out with them. But I think I have found some of my true friends, and I have about 5 or 6 of them [21] kissed someone on your facebook list: Well... no.

GENERAL… [22] how many of your facebook friends do you know in real life: Nearly all of them. [23] do you have any pets: Black Beauty is my cat, but we call her Beauty for short. [24] do you want to change your name: No, but if I did, it would be Riley. [25] what did you do for your last birthday: I went out to the Chromatic Dragon and then watched Rogue One with some awesome people. I appreciate them for that. [26] what time did you wake up: 4:30 AM. [27] what were you doing at midnight last night: Working on pre-calculus. I’m miserable from that. [28] name something you cannot wait for: Summer, so I can actually actively hang out with my good friends and I will have my license by then too. [29] when was the last time you saw your mother: earlier today. [30] what is one thing you wish you could change about your life: I don’t live to please others, but to please myself. [31] what are you listening to right now: Festivo by Vaclav Nelhybel [32] have you ever talked to a person named tom: No. [33] something that is getting on your nerves: People being fake as hell snakes and talking behind my friends’ back. Hell no. [34] most visited website: YouTube and Facebook? [35] elementary: Pretty much everyone hated me and thought I was really annoying. One person threatened me, so that’s fun. [36] high school: It’s been a rollercoaster, but I am also ready to get out. [37] college: Hopefully not too stressful. [38] hair color: Black [39] long or short hair: Short. [40] do you have a crush on someone: I don’t know. I get anxious when thinking or talking about my crushes, so tbd, I guess. [41] what do you like about yourself: I always find a way to get things done. I think of myself as a loyal person who tries hard to make time for people, and I play the clarinet. [42] piercings: No for right now, but my friends said I should get studs in my ears, so idk. [43]blood type: I don’t know. [44] nickname: DJ, Dave (no.), Oreo, Elmo (very special cases) [45] relationship status: Single as hell. [46] zodiac sign: Capricorn. [47] pronouns: He/Him [48] fav tv show: I don’t really watch much TV nowadays. [49] tattoos: Again, no for right now. [50] right or left hand: What kind of question is this?

FIRST… [51] surgery: Tonsils and atinoid removal. Is that a surgery? [52] piercing: Being in the same room as a piccolo tuning. [53] best friend: This kid named Seth from when I still lived in Kansas. I don’t know where he is now, and I’m kinda sad about that. I miss him. [54] sport: LEAGUE OF LEGE-no. Tennis or soccer. [55] vacation: I do not remember. [56] pair of trainers: what

RIGHT NOW… [57] eating: about to eat some sweet potato casserole [58] drinking: Water [59] i’m about to: get some sweet potato casserole and work my life away. [60] listening to: Baba Yetu [61] waiting for: Junior year to be over. [62] want: Assurance of my future that it won’t be fucked over. [63] get married: No plans for it; it isn’t a necessity for me. [64] career: Some geeky, nerdy thing like data science or stats

WHICH IS BETTER… [65] hugs or kisses: I love hugs. I’m also kinda self-conscious, so yeah, hugs. [66] lips or eyes: eyes eyes eyes, omg I love eyes. I think that is one of the first things I notice in a person. [67] shorter or taller: Anything taller than me makes me feel sad, xD. So, shorter. They also seem more approachable. [68] older or younger: Older, yeah. [70] nice arms or nice stomach: Stomach; sometimes people can have TOO NICE of arms and it gets weird. [71] sensitive or loud: Sensitive. [72] hook up or relationship: Relationship, I think. [73] troublemaker or hesitant: I’m a lot of the last one, so the last one.

HAVE YOU EVER… [74] kissed a stranger? No. [75] drank hard liquor? No. [76] lost glasses/contact lenses? Nope! I almost did though. [77] turned someone down: No. I don’t get asked very often. [78] sex on first date? Nope. I’m not attractive. [79] broken someone’s heart? I hope not, no. [80] had your own heart broken? Not yet. [81] been arrested? No. [83] fallen for a friend? More often than you would think, yeah. Although, only one of those times it kinda worked out.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN… [84] yourself? I try to. [85] miracles? Ehh, this is a hard one. Sort of? I’m atheist if that means anything, so not in a religious sense. [86] love at first sight? No. [87] Santa Claus? hahaha......okay. [88] kiss on the first date? I mean, yeah. I don’t think it’s a rule that you should or should not kiss, it could just happen. [89] angels? No.

OTHER… [90] current best friend’s name: I’ll just name them here: Andy, Evan, Tobias, Michael, Sierra, Samantha [91] eye color: Dark Brown [92] favorite movie: Zootopia. Yep.

I’ll tag @mortimer-smith @itsagreatdaytobeacantalope @7chainsaws @heyitscalli @king-kael @mousester @whvtapunk @dandellionprincess