Pharoahe Monch @ The Prince

No fatcaps needed

SWEATSHOPPE, 4spots, the landing extras from SWEATSHOPPE on Vimeo.

Stop start motion - freshness

This is the ESCP Europe stop motion!
316 actors
658 tee-shirts,
9m2 of cardboard,
4198 photos,
123m of gaffer tape for 3645 markers.

Mt first record case 1993 till....

Back in 1993 I came down to Melbourne to visit some family for a week. It was during this trip I hooked up with some of Melbourne's hip hop pioneers including REASON, MERMA, MAMA'S FUNKSTIKOOLS and DJ KRISY just to name a few. Anyways, they also took me round to a few record spots where I picked up a stack of hip hop vinyl. I needed to buy a record case to get these records home safe n sound durring the long trip home via train.

This record case has done the rounds and survived many a gig getting thrown around. I guess the stickers themselves have a story to tell aswell but that would take another page and a half....

Whisper - Stand Up Video Clip

Melbourne MC Whisper is back on the scene, here's the clip for his new single STAND UP. Expect alot more in 2010.

Brett Domino Stylophone master

I know some of you are gonna dig this...
Check the rest of his work via youtube.

Slug, Murs and Aesop save xmas?

it's true. 2009 has been a tough year for alot of us for different reasons but Slug, Murs and Aesop Rock are here to bring a little festive cheer

Art(h)writers

Rust-Oleum 243546 Standard Spray Grip

As you get older some of them "stupid" things become useful. Just like this nifty little SPRAY GRIP  from our friends at Rustoleum. You can buy one here 

Guido Mocafico likes snakes

Okay, get ya mind out of the gutter. Check these photos, more info and flix at featureshoot.com

White lightning

"It's a white one. Somebody made it an A train."

"So, What does that mean?"

"It means tonight after work it's mine"

taken from here Life of a trainspotter...word

THAT'S THEM - STAY UP video clip

That's Them are a Sydney based crew, make sure you check the album available through your local indi hip hop store or here

here we go

okay, so I been neglecting this for a while now. time to get into it. here's some pics from around the way...

I wanna shoot the whole day down

Make waking  up Monday morning fun again with Gun O'clock. !

Bloodshed Productions BMX stuff

One of my beats "Tellin it" used for this BMX segment.



Check out more from the Bloodshed Production crew here. Checkout their online hip hop TV show "Burning Underground"

GZA vs WALDORF vs SWAN ST

I went to check out GZA the other week and I thought he delivered the goods although it would have been way better if he brought another MC out with him to cover his back up vox and all that.

Before the show I hit up THE WALDORF (Fitzroy Street,  St Kilda, near the Medina) to say what up the lovely front of house crew and ever so talented chefs. After a few drinks and a sensational serve of the double cooked pork belly I wondered down the road and hit up The Prince to check out GZA

 

NICO189 - Pantonecans

NICO189

Personal project:Pantonecans

2009

There is no affiliation between Pantone, Inc. and the Pantonecans.

The project not intended to be a commercial product.

Mase presents KINGS WAY Melbourne graffiti

this was originally put together for the launch of KINGS WAY by Mase. Part 1 of this trilogy was removed from youtube so here's parts 2 and 3.

Converse with anonymous peeeps

A picture tells a thousand and somthin somthins...for real. Time to converse with the good people at analoguesanonymous

60 Minutes vs 1980s Sydney and Melbourne Graffiti

I remember watching this with my parents one Sunday night...

Don't Ban The Can vs Herald Sun

leeched from the Herald Sun website.... don't believe the hype.

ANTI-graffiti campaigners have slammed a street-art festival that will give free lessons to wannabe graffiti artists.

Those who want to paint murals will get free tutorials in the CBD next Saturday as part of the Croft Alley Project.
While the organisers claim they are "council supported" and promoting legal graffiti art, protesters say their students will practise their new skills illegally.
Residents Against Graffiti Everywhere spokesman Steve Beardon slammed the five-hour Don't Ban The Can workshop to be held in the Croft Institute in Croft Alley.
Zero tolerance was the only way to curb illegal graffiti: "What's next, a diploma in vandalism, and how to destroy private property?" he said.
"Graffiti is a gateway crime that leads to burglary, drug dealing, gang formation and violence. If this is all we have to offer our youth, it's time we brought back national service."
But Don't Ban The Can and Croft Alley Project directors Jeremy and Matt, who preferred not to give their surnames, said their lessons were for over-18s, "council supported" and would educate about legal graffiti.
"This encourages legal art. If you just do a zero-tolerance policy . . . all that's going to do is destroy the legal graffiti side of things. The only option then if a kid wants to express himself creatively is to go out and do it illegally," Matt said.
"We will be stressing the point of legal art, trying to convince those who come along how good the art can be if you produce it legally."
But Matt conceded they couldn't guarantee that any attendees had not been convicted of vandalism.
Graffiti Hurts Australia spokesman Scott Hilditch said there was no way to make sure the workshop's students would stick to legal spraying.
"The issue with legal walls is that they don't work," he said.
"We don't have an issue with spray cans. What we do have an issue is with how people use them against people's properties without permission."
Last month the Herald Sun revealed graffiti artists from all over the world would travel to Melbourne in January for a $250,000 street art festival being run by Don't Ban the Can.

Things to try this summer #3673

You know how every summer you get that buzz to try something new? Well, why not give the home made water slide a go.

Merda

I remember seeing this on my first visit to Melbourne in 1991. It was painted in 1989 and 20 years on is still fresh, just goes to prove that style is king. Props.

Check out Merda's blog

Don't Ban The Can - let the good times roll

When: 12:00pm - 3:00am, September 12th Where: Croft Alley/ Croft Institute, China Town, Melbourne CBD


September 12th We Make Stuff Good, in collaboration with the Don’t Ban The Can, are bringing Melbourne’s street-art culture into the the world’s view. With artists sourced from across Australia, acclaimed performers and a great inner-city location, 2009’s DBTC is set is make 2008’s event (and most other ‘arts events’) look puny. If last year’s DBTC was all about reaction, then this year’s event is one of action.

Don’t Ban The Can, along one of Melbourne’s most revered underground bars, The Croft Institute, will be holding The Croft Alley Project, Don't Ban the Can 2009. Starting from midday, Croft alley will transform from one of grimiest inner-city back-alleys into a street-art festival. For a gold coin donation, the residents of Melbourne are invited to hit the streets and experience urban culture at its finest as DJs drop the best in hip-hop, dnb, afro-funk and dub-step on the masses.

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Horrorshow - new video clip

Taken from their upcoming album Inside Story, out Oct 2nd on Elefant Traks. You can download it for FREE from www.horrorshowcrew.com Nice cameos from Muph, Illy and DJ Bonez.

Graffiti CLAYMATION - "Mayhem in May Lane"

NAS to tour Australia in October 2009?

Place y abets, will this happen? Let's hope so.

Legendary New York rapper Nas will head to Australia this October for his first national headline tour.
The 'low:fi' tour will also feature Chali 2NA from Jurassic 5, as well as Qbert and MC Supernatural.
To add the mandatory confusion needed for every hip-hop tour, the line-up will vary from city to city. Chali 2NA, Qbert and MC Supernatural will play the Summer Break festival in Adelaide on the 24th of October, while Nas will play seperately in that city on the 29th of October at the Thebarton Theatre.
The whole group will play Perth on the 25th of October at the Aberdeen Hotel.
In Melbourne, Nas will play his own show at the Palace Metro Theatre on the 28th of October, while the rest of the crew will play the Esplanade Hotel on the 30th of October.
Sydney will see the whole crew play together at the Enmore Theatre on the 31st of October.
As for Brisbane, Chali 2NA will play at the Island Vibe Festival on the 1st of November, while none of the other acts have QLD appearances scheduled

Big City Freaks

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