Black Roses In the City of L.A: This Saturday, March 12, 2011

Land Mark, Inc. & Opia proudly present:

I am also pleased to announce this art exhibition is being curated by my comadre, Opia FDS please come down and support all her efforts in putting this show together. This event is featuring different generations of female graffiti artists from Los Angeles as they get together in collaboration for this special event. There will also be all female DJ's mixing some tight beats  and vendors selling one of a kind merchandise. If you need supplies make sure to support Landmark shop pick up some stuff. Save the date! see ya there!


Saturday - March 12th, 2010

10:00am - 6:00pm

Location:
Land Mark, Inc.
6709 S. San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90003

"Black Roses...in the City of L.A."

A live graffiti art event showcasing blossoming female talent in the Los Angeles and surrounding areas. The title of the event is symbolic for the rarity of artists themselves within a male dominated sub-culture. Each artist represents her own mysteriously unique style that stands out as does a black rose within a throng of red roses.

Event photography by:

www.AmayzunLA.com

Eris (www.HuskeyRadio.com)

Merchandise Booths:

Ezabel Jewelry

Rotting Fresh

Rebourn Jewelry

Sand One Silkscreened merch.

Opening Set:

DJ Sweet (10 am - 12 pm)
DJ Madame X (12 pm - 2 pm)

Closing Set:
DJ Michelle Q (4 pm - 6 pm)


http://www.blackrosesinthecityofla.blogspot.com/

www.twitter.com/blackrosesla

www.landmarkinc.net

www.lagraffitigirls.com

www.huskeyradio.com

www.twitter.com/teamhuskeyradio

The Long Beach Experiment Art and Music Wed, Aug 25, 2010

Support my girl Opia this Wednesday in Long Beach for, " The Long Beach Experiment, Art and Music Show." There will be over 20 NFIA artists, music, poetry readings, performance art and much more!






When: Wednesday, August 25th
Time: 8 p.m. to 1a.m.
Where: The Cellar
201 E. Broadway
Long Beach Ca, 90802

Photos: Re-cap on Sunday's Picnic

It was a hot Sunday perfect weather for some carne asada and a cold brew!
Check out the photos from the Picnic....

Special Thanks to Strictly Family & Millennium Car Club for organizing the event.

Brace Your Self Sticker Art Show Saturday, July, 17th 2010

All you sticker fans come down and check out this all sticker exhibition presented by Sticky Rick!
This year there will large format stickers being displayed with a theme. Here is the what " Brace Your Self" stands for by Sticky Rick.

“BRACE YOURSELF!” speaks to the condition of our world both locally and globally through the eyes of the artist.  Economists, scientist, and environmentalists have given their warnings about the economy, jobs, healthcare, environment, etc.  As responsible individuals we feel it’s important to address what is going in around us and PEEL back the layers of Disinformation we are being fed by the media to understand the realities of the condition we are in as a people. 

Saturday, July, 17 2010
6:00 p.m. to 11 p.m

Self Help Graphics & Art
3802 Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90063 

Bring stickers to trade and put up!

"Residue" Opening Reception Saturday, March, 20th 2010

Check out fellow Slanguage member Raul " Spew" Vasquez on his first solo exhibit at the Slanguage studio this Saturday. Read the scoop below from Slanguage website.

Slanguage presents

RESIDUE


Featuring works by Raul "SPEW" Vasquez
Curated by Karla Diaz

March 20 - April 17, 2010

Slanguage, 640 N. Avalon Blvd., Wilmington, CA 90744


Opening reception: Saturday, March 20, 7 - 10 pm
Works and merchandise for sale, musical performances, and drinks


Graffiti artist Raul “SPEW” Vasquez, one of Slanguage’s first, young artists that worked at the studio, returns for his first solo exhibition, RESIDUE. The show is comprised of thirteen ink-pen drawings made between 2007-2008 while the artist was incarcerated. They are intricately detailed and weave a wide array of designs and shapes taken from calligraphy and gang-affiliated writing. They show the artist coping with solitude and isolation.


SLANGAIR (Artist in Residency)
This is the first exhibition part of Slanguage’s residency program, SLANGAIR (Artist in Residency), which annually invites two artists from California, including one from Los Angeles, a national artist, and an international artist to the studio. During their time at Slanguage, each artist builds a body of work to show at the studio’s gallery space.


Please email info@slanguagestudio.com for more info.

Swapmeet Chronicles Features: 4BITZ

 Check out the 4BITZ tonight at " Brutalism A dance Performance"  This is the final installment of the Slanguage residency don't miss out!

"4BITZ" is a experimental dubstep group comprised of three members Dj Ghetto ( Carlos Mendoza ) Dj Subdin ( Jason Manzaneres ) and Enuf Talk (Edson Vizcarra) "4BITZ" brings the dupstep sounds to a live forum where drum machines, sequencers and sintisizers are manipulated and distorted with persision to produce head splitting bass lines, glitchy drums and reggae riddims in a futuristic soundboy stylee that will blow your mind... The crew met threw mutual friends and the love to produce dubstep music both in the studio and live although each members style is very different from the next the the complete whole creativeness is captured In the soundscape..

Carlos Mendoza ..

Join SLANGUAGE for...

BRUTALISM: A DANCE PERFORMANCE

featuring Dub City Tribe, Slanguage's very own teen break-dance group!

THURSDAY, NOV. 5th, 7-10pm

at MOCA GRAND

250 South Grand Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90012


FREE + Cash Bar

After Party @

Miss T's BARCADE

371 N. Western Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90004

[Look for the Pacman ghost light...]

FREE

See you there...

More Music on

GHETTO'S MY SPACE

SUBDIN MY SPACE 

Update!! check out these videos of 4bitz at Brutalism

Slanguage Re-cap on “Dislexicon” & Walking The Streets of Wilmington

Thank you to those that were able to make it to ” Dislexicon” this past Thursday @ MOCA. Our little video turned out okay despite the fact it was homemade stilo and we only had a two week period.

Raul Vasquez and Karla Diaz appear in our movie as random characters. They came out and performed spoken word on stage immediately after the movie.

The movie is old history of Wilmington California as well as street history with an art twist check it out.

The narrative was old text from a brochure written by Wilmington Chamber of Commerce from around the 1960s’

We thought what they has wrote was awesome because they said some wonderful stuff about Wilmington which today sounds a bit obsolete.

Here are some kind words from the brochure.

Romance and adventure wind through the streets of Wilmington-touching the life of every resident, making Wilmington one of the most interesting and exciting communities on the West Coast (Wolfer)



Bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Wilmington is a sea-loving community…close to all beach and ocean activities. US Highway 101 (Pacific Coast Highway) runs through the city taking residents south to San Diego and north to San Francisco and beyond. (Wolfer)

We still had to keep it real and display some of the down-turns Wilmington took during more recent years.

During the 1980s’ and early 1990s’ Los Angeles experienced some of the toughest times with crime, gangs and drugs. In Wilmington it was no different the rivalries between the east side Wilmas and the west side Wilmas gangs was intense. Many lives were lost to bullets or drugs, a dark time for the “The Heart of the Harbor”

A gang injunction against the east side and west side Wilmas gangs was placed on March 19, 2004 which has worked at dramatically decreasing gang violence. With this and help of caring people in the community Wilmington has started to look up again.

Photos of War and Street Soldiers… death in the 90’s and 1800’s

Wilmington Cemetery
L.A. Historic Cultural Monument 414

 

22 civil soldiers buried here

The Wilmington Historical cemetery is not only a resting place for civil war soldiers who fought a war for freedom, but also for street soldiers who lost a war to violence.

Peace

Doña Junta

Slanguage presents "Dislexicon" @ MOCA Thursday Oct 1, 2009

 Join us



Thursday October 1st 2009
7 p.m -10 p.m

MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
FREE, Cash Bar

This is the second of a three part event which features a spoken word and song  performance by fellow Slangauge members as well as a mini homemade documentary I took part in about Wilmington. It  is kind of  like my blog Swap Meet Chronicles come to life so support the cause because it’s free!

There will also be Djs and an Aztec headdress making workshop!

See ya there!

Peace

La  Doña Junta

Fin De Semana Art Show!! Sat June 20, 2009

Please join us as LoveGalo & Jun-Keez proudly present:

FIN DE SEMANA

Art exhibit & photographic journal of an FDS Collaborative Piece Production


Featured artists
Envy, Krys, Kween, Opia,Perl, Secret, Suny, Swoe, Yikes


PhotographyEriberto Oriol

Music/Live Performance

DJ 215 aka Charles XThe Leeches (7PM)

When Saturday - June 20th, 20095PM - 9PM

Where Jun-Keez3908 Tweedy BoulevardSouth Gate, CA 90280

Info (323) 569-4020

A few events this weekend

Presha Drop: BBQ STYLEE
Sunday May 17 2009

BBQ and Beats!
First Dub Step Event in the Harbor Area

PURE FILTH SOUND SYSTEM

@ Sis Bar & Grill
326 N Avalon Blvd
Wilmington, CA 90745
2-10 p.m.

Click on Flyer to enlarge

Party With A Purpose @ Tropico del Nopal Gallery

Sunday May 17 2009

2:30-5:30 pm Free

http://www.ashgrovemusic.com/

Tropico De Nopal

1665 Beverly Blvd.(Echo Park)

Los Angeles, CA 90026

213.481.8112

Laced Soles Art Exhibition May 7th 2009

Slanguage and Harbor Town Barbershop Present "Laced Soles" and art exhibition of custom sneekers.

Thursday May 7th 2009
@ Harbor Town Barber Shop
461 W 6th St # 106
San Pedro Ca, 90731

7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Artist include:
Autoe
Benjamin Park
Chris Reynolds
Daddy Fonz
Danyel Madrid
Dred
Ghetto
Joanna Oster
Ron Lodevico
Spew
Steve De La Torre

After Party @ Crimsin Lounge
21+
345 W 6th St
San Pedro Ca 90731

LA Graffiti King "Chaka" First Art Show April 25 2009

In the graffiti world we all heard of ” Chaka LOD” the infamous tagger who killed LA and beyond. His tags and throw-ups where seen all over in the late 80’s early 90’s. Even everyday people have come across hearing his name. He made news back in the days with being sought after for fucking shit up. Almost twenty years later he is having his first gallery art show displaying his work.

Mid-City Arts

5113 West Pico Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90019

7 p.m -9 p.m

Juxtapose article

Chaka One Website

Mid City Arts Website

Check out the news article on " Chaka" circa 1990

Suspect in `Chaka' graffiti charged

Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) -
Thursday, December 13, 1990
Author:
Marc Igler

A man believed to be the
king of Southern California graffiti was
charged Wednesday with 20 criminal
counts of vandalism for allegedly
tarnishing thousands of buildings and walls --
including many in the South
Bay. Authorities say they believe Daniel Ramos, 18,
is responsible for
spray-painting the name "Chaka" on up to 10,000 locations
throughout
California, causing at least $500,000 in damage. "The extent of the
property
damage makes this the worst case of graffiti vandalism we have seen in
Los
Angeles or heard of anywhere else in the nation," said Los Angeles City
Attorney James Hahn. In the South Bay, investigators said Ramos' distinctive
graffiti stained several walls along the beach as well as overpasses and
ramps
of the San Diego and Century freeways. Wednesday's charges bring to 48
the
number of misdemeanor counts filed against Ramos since he was arrested
Nov. 28
in Lincoln Heights while drawing his name on a traffic pole. The
Boyle Heights
resident, who lives in a local housing project, allegedly
proclaimed, "I am the
famous Chaka!" when he was arrested, police said.
Ramos has pleaded innocent to
the 28 initial charges and is being held on
$10,000 GRAFFITI/A6GraffitiFROM PAGE
A1bail. Each count is punishable by up
to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Arraignment on the new charges is
set for Dec. 20. Hahn said prosecutors want
Ramos to be sentenced to jail,
then receive a substantial community service term
that would focus on
cleaning up graffiti. Deputy City Attorney Peter Shutan, who
is handling the
case, said Ramos is not a gang member but was part of a group of
teen-agers
known as a "crew." "They're basically a bunch of taggers who go
around
putting their names on everything they can find," said Shutan, who
specializes in gang -related cases. "That's what a crew lives for. It's
their
raison d'etre." "There's no question Ramos was the most prolific
graffiti artist
in that crew and is the most prolific we've ever seen. Most
of the sitings of
his handiwork are in central Los Angeles, but there have
been many from the
South Bay area." Ramos apparently selected the word
"Chaka" as his graffiti
nickname from a character on the television show
"Land of the Lost." "It's a
children's show. I guess he just liked the
character," Shutan said. "Chaka"
graffiti ranged from simple scrawlings on
utility poles to elaborate,
multicolored murals that took hours to complete
on the sides of buildings and
freeway retaining walls. One of Ramos'
favorite victims was Southern Pacific
railway cars because they carried his
moniker hundred of miles to distant
cities, Shutan said. Southern Pacific
officials estimate the alleged vandal
caused about $30,000 worth of property
damage. In addition, authorities in
Fresno are investigating "Chaka"
graffiti that caused $6,000 damage to a water
tower. The same name and
distinctive bubble letters also appear on fixed
locations as far south as
Orange County and as far north as San Francisco.
Section: NEWSPage: A1Index
Terms: NEWS; GRAFFITI. VANDALISM.Record Number:
0000318415Copyright (c)
1990, Daily Breeze, All Rights Reserved

His moniker is classic in graffiti and he remains a legend with
graffiti artist in Los Angeles. He now turns a new leaf with his art
displayed in his first show.

Constant Elevation Show:, Saturday March 28, 2009

( I could not make flyer bigger just click on it)



Check out video

http://vimeo.com/3511779

New Location!!!
KGB Studio
1640 N Spring Street
Los Angeles, Ca 90012
$10.00
7 p.m to 2.am
18+ 21+ Cash Bar