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RED BULL: CANVAS COOLER
I will be showcasing my work at this Red Bull event on Thursday nite!
Just retweet: #ManOne #CanvasCooler #RBcurates
I need your votes to win a trip to Miami for Art Basel!
Come down, it's free and will be a good time.
Arrive early, it will be a packed house!
Sneak peeks of my piece in the show below:
Slideshow below or click to my Flickr:
FUN WITH MOO
The good peeps over at MOO.COM sponsored me with some product and let me explore what I would do with it. Since I really dig the tiny stickers they produced, I ordered a whole mess of them covered in my designs, murals, art, and logos.
(Btw you can order your own stickers by clicking here!)
Now the fun part, what to do with them?
Obviously I can stick them up everywhere...always fun!
Or I can start customizing everything I can...cool too!
But I decided to work on some mini-projects like this one, transforming my
boring sunglass case into a mini portfolio of sorts.
This is how I did it:
Took my favorite stickers of this batch:
Carefully lined them up...
BAM! Instant mini portfolio sunglass case!
Almost feels like I got a new pair. Take that Ray-Ban!
Let's see what I do next with MOO!
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(Btw you can order your own stickers by clicking here!)
Now the fun part, what to do with them?
Obviously I can stick them up everywhere...always fun!
Or I can start customizing everything I can...cool too!
But I decided to work on some mini-projects like this one, transforming my
boring sunglass case into a mini portfolio of sorts.
This is how I did it:
Took my favorite stickers of this batch:
Carefully lined them up...
BAM! Instant mini portfolio sunglass case!
Almost feels like I got a new pair. Take that Ray-Ban!
Let's see what I do next with MOO!
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ICE CREAM LAB MURAL
I was asked to create a mural for the new Ice-Cream Lab in Beverly Hills. They create ice cream by instantly freezing the cream or yogurt base with liquid nitrogen which creates an awesome smokey effect. The result is a scientific approach to ice cream-making and its done before your eyes! Naturally the theme of a scientist in a lab came to mind.
They wanted the mural to have a graffiti aesthetic but not too hardcore so it would better appeal to their demographic. So this is what I came up with:
Needless to say they loved it!
Here I am with the happy co-founders of the Ice-Cream Lab, Tommy & Joseph:
The branding needed to be just right and they gave me a lot of liberty in playing with their logo and mural in general.
This was a fun gig and I look forward to painting up their other shops as the brand takes off, which I know it will.
Make sure you head down there, you're gonna love the ice cream and hopefully the art too!
They are located at: 9461 S. Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tell them I sent you!
Here's a cool video of the making of the mural and the initial tasting party. Check it!
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GETTY BOOK
I was invited, along with over 100 of LA's top graff artists, to add a page to the Liber Amicorum or "book of friends" for the Getty Research Institute.
The oversized, one of a kind book was just recently bound and it serves as a historical overview of this moment in time in Los Angeles. The cover has an elegant "LA" handstyle by the one and only Prime K2S!
I decided to create my piece purely in graphite like I do in my own sketch book these days.
I also decided to stay away from any of my characters. Letters are at the core of the graffiti movement so that's what I wanted to represent.
We got to actually put our hands on books that were centuries old!
It was nice to see some of the drawings first hand and get a sense of understanding that our modern day graffiti is merely a continuing exploration of these letter forms in art. In 200 years from now, when someone is looking through this book they will be able to appreciate the text based art that helped transform the world.
I also made sure to add my wife and kids names so that they too will live forever in the halls of the Getty.
That day at the Getty some pretty big heavyweights were in the room.
Here I am with Kofie Augustine, Chaz Bojorquez, and Seen.
I don't remember what the book curator from the Getty was trying to tell Seen, but it's obvious that Chaz wasn't buying it! Lol.
Hopefully the Getty will decide to exhibit the book and some of the art from it at some point. That would be the icing on the cake!
*Big thanks to Ed Sweeney who not only conceived this project but invited me and all these artists to participate in it.
The oversized, one of a kind book was just recently bound and it serves as a historical overview of this moment in time in Los Angeles. The cover has an elegant "LA" handstyle by the one and only Prime K2S!
I decided to create my piece purely in graphite like I do in my own sketch book these days.
I also decided to stay away from any of my characters. Letters are at the core of the graffiti movement so that's what I wanted to represent.
We got to actually put our hands on books that were centuries old!
It was nice to see some of the drawings first hand and get a sense of understanding that our modern day graffiti is merely a continuing exploration of these letter forms in art. In 200 years from now, when someone is looking through this book they will be able to appreciate the text based art that helped transform the world.
I also made sure to add my wife and kids names so that they too will live forever in the halls of the Getty.
That day at the Getty some pretty big heavyweights were in the room.
Here I am with Kofie Augustine, Chaz Bojorquez, and Seen.
I don't remember what the book curator from the Getty was trying to tell Seen, but it's obvious that Chaz wasn't buying it! Lol.
Hopefully the Getty will decide to exhibit the book and some of the art from it at some point. That would be the icing on the cake!
*Big thanks to Ed Sweeney who not only conceived this project but invited me and all these artists to participate in it.
SBS - KOREAN TV NEWS
SBS, a Korean TV news station, recently interviewed me while I painted a production with the homie HOZOI from Paris.
Here's the video of the news segment they ran with, wish I could freak it in Korean!
(OR CLICK HERE TO VIEW ON THEIR WEBSITE)
Check out more pics and the timelapse of this piece on an earlier post:
MAN ONE + HOZOI COLLAB
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Here's the video of the news segment they ran with, wish I could freak it in Korean!
(OR CLICK HERE TO VIEW ON THEIR WEBSITE)
Check out more pics and the timelapse of this piece on an earlier post:
MAN ONE + HOZOI COLLAB
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NIKE BHM
In celebration of Black History Month, Nike approached me to help them paint a mural to kick off an event at Gonzales Park in Compton last weekend.
They had a great image designed by Fuse Green and they asked if I could replicate it as a mural.
This was no easy task because of the level of detail especially in the background.
So I decided to create the mural using a combination of stencils, spray paint, and acrylic.
I had my boy Ando at search+resQ help me out with creating these mad stencils:
I hired the sign painting skills of the homie SINER LTS to help me out.
The result was pretty tight and seamless!
Along with the unveiling of the mural, I also led a community stencil workshop session with the kids in the neighborhood. I used some of the images from the mural as well as a few Man One specials. As you can see they ate it up!
*More pics on my Flickr
Slideshow:
They had a great image designed by Fuse Green and they asked if I could replicate it as a mural.
This was no easy task because of the level of detail especially in the background.
So I decided to create the mural using a combination of stencils, spray paint, and acrylic.
I had my boy Ando at search+resQ help me out with creating these mad stencils:
I hired the sign painting skills of the homie SINER LTS to help me out.
The result was pretty tight and seamless!
Along with the unveiling of the mural, I also led a community stencil workshop session with the kids in the neighborhood. I used some of the images from the mural as well as a few Man One specials. As you can see they ate it up!
*More pics on my Flickr
Slideshow: