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admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:26:42 +0000

Northern Michigan

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:08:51 +0000

Nighttime in Northern Michigan

Newports and Street Sports.

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:17:41 +0000

Saturday Williamsburg was made a bit more clever then it is already. IN addition to the plethora of tight jeans, extra thick black rimmed glasses and ”i care so much about my appearance i pretend not to care’, style hair cuts there was some true Street hooligans in effect, bringing some of that old flavor back to Williamsburg, that hoes on the corner and needles in the gutter, type vibe, expect civilized and on good behavior. And like the willie b weve all come to know and despise, it was a day of not from heres, representing such far flung locals as Spain, france,Puerto Rico, Boston, Long island and even the Bronx. I with aid of the ever green idling car we rocked a block wrapped wall listing to jems ranging from audio two to U2, thats right straight hip-hop.

thanks to Kem5, Pun, Owns, Gusto, Sen2, Deem for the hook-up. DaveFoto Big up your self.

newports and street sports progress

Rath: newports and street sports progress

Rath Ups 3a Cod Fly•ID

Rath, courtesy of DaveFoto Mr Ny with a Lens

DaveFoto Aka Mr NY with a Lens

I know when to stop but choose not to

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:46:03 +0000

Clearly this is where i should have packed up the paint and walked away; But if youre not willing to ruin what you got to get something better well youre scared, or smarter then me or both.

But ive had this nagging desire to keep going with these letters on top, Ideas on top of finished thoughts. The way the truth is obfuscated by peripheral associations.

So you get your self some black and start to sketch on top of your piece. Its a little backwards; some reverse psychology on the wall . Learn it a thing or two.

this is not the last piece ill take down a bad road intentionally. And when i get there, well, ill be there, mark my words. I def went in more on the back on this one then i did on the white in the bacon piece and did a little more integration and layering. But i think it can go further, i should have gone further although i refer you to ‘testing the journeyman‘, and tell me you blame me.

Suzy Q, may your days be better

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:21:25 +0000

Suzy Q, was rescued from the Elmsford Animal Clinic (forget the real name). A horrid institution who didnt care well for its pets. When i took her for a check up a day after getting her the vet said to take her back, and that he didnt give her more then 6 weeks to live. Well I refused to think of Suzy as a lemon so she stayed and had a lot of ups and downs, but held on for 8 years. And Finally her spirit was called back to the beginning and this morning her body was reunited with the whole earth- which by the way we are doing a good job of destroying; but ill save that rant for a nother day.

Suzy Q may your days be better.

waterbrush on the train

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:56:34 +0000

Did this lil sketch on the train this morning and waiting for the train to leave the station this evening i added a little color. Moleskines, save the watercolor versions do not play well with water colors, or at least play in a specific way unlike water color paper. You end up with a sort of blotchy look and with a little water you can take off most of the color as it seems it just sit on the top of the paper mocking me.

One Four ALL X One4All

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:41:09 +0000

I recently was given the opportunity to get some support from Molotow, since Its winter and I was also expecting a new Edition to the house i figured id be spending the next little while more inside then outside. I asked, Im sure to the bewilderment of all involved for some One4All Molotow ink instead of paint. What writer would rather have some markers and ink over paint? I can answer that by posing you another question who has two thumbs loves to drawn and runs this site? Thats right This Guy, Hev.

No Im not accustomed to being offered products, so like a true rookie, i kinda picked a random set of colors that when i got them i realized they didn’t all make for a banging color scheme together; good good colors just not all in the same family or value. I was more taken by each color instead of thinking how they would work together. Well experience be dammed, i got what i got and am now scheming on getting the full line of the larger refills.

The first things I did with the ink was to play around with how it took to various surfaces, paper, plastic, metal, paint, cardboard; CHECK. Next up. They are Refills, dump ink out and use a brush; the smaller refills come with a little spouty deal so you can refill markers and or draw with various degrees of controlled drips. So with out much for thought minus a quick pencil sketch i then ignored i just started to draw with brush and black One4All ink on some record boxes i have. I always really dug the photos ive seen of old Jamaican mobile record shop trucks all hand painted and looking fresh, so i kinda moved in that direction with the boxes. The ink handled the brush real well, having a real good viscosity. The next best part of the brush experience was the ease at which with some soap and water, really just water, the brush was cleaned and ready for another color.

Pure 45 RPM Stereophonic KING UPTOWN SOUND

decorated 45 rpm box, painted with sumi brush and Molotow One4All Ink

Molotow golden yellow, zebster orange, Signal red paint, Black One4All ink Brushed on. Covered nice and solid, as did the white, although its not pictured here.

Using these Markers is almost like using gouache put into a marker for ease of use, the ink itself is super milky, and drips nice and opaque and matte. Covered All my under-drawing lines, which in some cases was Black Pen. Im stoked you can get empty markers, refills of standardized colors and replacement nibs; I’m pretty sure Im converted and my Oil based paint pens are not going to get much out of their box time anytime soon.

For some reason i decided i need to draw Johnny Chimpo, but didn’t have the right colors but was bale to mix some of the brown oranges and whites to vary the chimpo tones. Because i was jsut farting around i ddint mix enough of the browns so i had to water them down a bit to cover the area i had, instead of mixing more. Laziness combined with fear of finishing things i might need more of later can be debilitating; trying to get over it and use.

The best part about the matte and acrylic base of this ink is unlike oil based paint markers, it doesnt have its pigment loosen and get goopy in the heat. I have a tone of old black books whos pages are fused together after the sun loosed the oils based paint only to render it a solid mass once cooled; Some pages ive had to resort to putting wax paper in between the pages and even then the ink oil based marker paint transfers itself to the wax.

So Ive concluded i need at there very least All the Primaries Molotov makes in the One4All line and then as many variants in between. Once the weather changes ill be getting paint so im starting an Ink fund now, as there will certainly be some use of ink in future walls.

You can check out the full line of Molotow markers and inks here, of course they made this after i ordered my markers, but looks like there are better options than i first knew about. One of the coolest features is the nib system which looks like you can slap a Fine nib even on the medium sized markers.

Google streetview is here

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:11:02 +0000

Awesome find by Lars over at I love graffiti. It looks like google was street view capturing shortly after Rath visited CPH last spring.

Quote from; http://www.ilovegraffiti.de/lars/

Google streetview is here

Google streetview is here, covering the streets of Denmark. Besides covering pretty much any street in the country, its also features a zoom function and better quality images. But its photos are a few months older than the photos over at Eniro, which I blogged recently. Googles seems to be from summer 2009, where Eniro seems to be autumn 2009.
Get your Google streetview on here!

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back in the day when i was kid

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:00:15 +0000

back in the day when i was young i’m not a kid anymore but somedays i sit and wish i was a kid again…

Catapillar And Hieronymus

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:47:21 +0000

Hand made baby Icons from Boogers good friend Adriana. These are awesome! They are already enduring a custody battle….

Really feeling showered in Love thanks to family and friends. 2010 is off to a god start!