Art Basel 2010 Day 4

Alright everybody here is my final post for Art Basel 2010. Man I took a million photo during the last day. This awesome Sunday started out with me and Robert going to the Nike Destroyer tour stop at Mr. Sports on Lincoln Road. After Robert copped a Destroyer Jacket and got it customized we grabbed some food at Paul's and headed to the Sanrio Small Gift Pop Up Store in Wynwood. The pop up store, tattoo parlor and gallery exhibit was put on and curated by Zio Fulcher and Roger Gastman who you might know from Banksys Exit threw the gift shop Documentary. Super cool guy. After checking out the whole exhibit we grabbed some shaved ice and headed to see our friend Tatiana's mural that she did for Primary Flight. Saw a lot of dope productions on the way.













Dedication right here. The pop up store was giving away free tattoos, and this being the last day of the store these girls had been waiting since 5 in the a.m. to get a tattoo. Crazy.















































After we play some of the fresh carney games we headed to Scope and Art Asia in Wynwood.


























Scope and Art Asia were not as good this year. I was feeling last years work better. We ended the night by going to Bar for a dope Adidas event that had performances by Aloe Blacc and Peanutbutter Wolf. The event also gave away free custom tees created by these guys called Hit + Run who do silk screening events and parties.







This Art Basel was probably the best Art Basel I've ever participated in. Even though I had a lot of headaches this year it was filled with good times and friends and to end it all I got to have a conversation with one of my biggest hero's Shepard Fairey aka OBEY. Its always an awesome feeling to meet one of your biggest Idols and there not an asshole. This guy was so polite and humble, I now have even more respect and admiration for him which I don't even know how that's possible. Next year I'm taking the whole week off. Basel is getting way too big to see it all at night and during the weekend. I hope everyone enjoyed these past couple of post. Peace.

Currently listening to Stretch & Bobbito 20th Anniversary on WKCR

Art Basel 2010 Day 3

So Saturday was a pretty lax day. Me and the homies went around the Design District and Wynwood catching up on all the small gallery exhibits and the productions and murals going on in the streets. No pictures from the day sorry I didn't have my camera on me. I went back during the week though to photograph all the finished pieces and I'll do a post on that soon. That night the crew went to the Art Basel Castle put on by Overthrow. The venue was in a warehouse complex in Wynwood that looked like a castle from the outside. Pretty dope. The event had work from Mike Giant, Claw Money, Ron English, Mike Bode and a bunch of other artist, and performing at the event was Theophilus London. This was the second time I saw him live and i was pretty dope bc I was right in the front. Another dope act that performed before Theophilus was this chick from Baltimore called Rye Rye. She put on an Awesome show. Mad energy, I loved it. Almost more then Theophilus. Anyway below are some photos from the night.


The night was sponsored by Pabts. Yeah!


Man of the hour. Mr. London.



I always liked that Krink looking Chanel tee

Good times!


Currently listening to "Much More" by Lupe Fiasco ft. Yummy Bingham

Art Basel 2010 Day 2

On Friday as soon as I got out of work I headed to the Mondrian to head to the Island but when I got there at dusk they said the boats stopped going at 4pm because the Island was over capacity, but I wasn't stressing bc the Mondrian had an open bar. On my way out I met Dante Ross. I can tell I made him happy bc I think I was the only person there that recognized him. He was grinning from ear to ear after I told him I was a fan.lol. After wards Me and Alex headed to the Standard for the Kaws book signing. Cool guy, he told me Wonderwall was designing his new studio in Brooklyn. Can't wait to see that completed. After the Standard we headed to Lincoln Road to the Taschen Book Store for the Trespassing book release. We arrived to free champagne and Shepard Fairey spinning some hip hop classics which is always good. Inside I got the book signed by mad artists. Peep the photos below.










Obey on the wheels of steel.

Dude was drunk of his ass.


Ron English X Robet Llera X Deuces X Round 2



Spencer Tunik X Ron English

Martha Cooper

FWY X Building Blocks X Rainbow City X Art Basel 2010

First and foremost I want to give a shout out to my boy Edwin over at
Friends With You. Without him this post would of never been possible. So to Edwin good looking out homie! So Thursday night was the first night of Art Basel for the common folk. But the treatment I received didn't make me feel so common. That night was dedicated to the wonderful world of Friends With You. If you weren't there that night you were nowhere.

Before going into Rainbow City I ran over to the FWY store/studio to check out the Building Blocks Exhibit that they had created for Art Basel. Awesome works as usual. After checking out the works i got my free Mojito on and proceeded to Rainbow City. Once we got in we ran into a bunch of friends, and Shepard Fairey. When I was done catching up with some friends I headed into the Gift Tent that FWY set up that sold a bunch of their products along with a bunch of Natives shoes who'd they'd partnered up with for the event. FWY also partnered up with WESC and designed these really cool stripped blankets/scarfs that they were giving away for free in three different color options blue/white, red/white and green/white. I got all three color ways, don't ask me how. Later on that night I found out that they weren't even suppose to be for free. Only people with VIP cards were suppose to get one. Lucky me. Lol.

At 10 N*E*R*D came on to perform a free show that kicked ass. At the beginning of the show I noticed my boy Julian was at the front of the crowd and I knew he was going to get on stage. It's like and N*E*R*D X Miami tradition. I've been to 4 N*E*R*D concerts and out of those 4 show Julian has made it on stage 3 times to jam out with Pharrell, Shae and Chad. Tonight was no exception. I'll let you watch the video at the end to see how it went down. All in all it was a great way to start off Art Basel.

All photo are from Friends With You and World Red Eye.