tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70898870674875465342024-03-05T11:52:35.907-05:00+BANDITTI BLOGSKI+BANDITTI BLOGSKI is an Independent think tank created to awaken the masses from their slumber...MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.comBlogger322125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-22551272492897776742012-02-21T19:54:00.001-05:002012-02-21T19:57:34.718-05:00OUTSIDE IN: The Story of Art in the Streets.A documentary about the Art in the Streets exhibition at <a href="http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?cat=84">MOCA</a> in Los Angeles. <br />
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End of Liberty exposes from a real life perspective how the U.S. is headed for a complete societal collapse. All Americans are now experiencing countless warning signs on a daily basis that a societal collapse is near. Taken from <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/end-liberty/">TopDocumentaryfilms</a>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-73256599032585008402011-12-23T12:27:00.000-05:002011-12-23T12:27:21.625-05:00Zonk Vision SonAnother set of classic videos from <a href="http://vimeo.com/zonkvision">Zonk Vision</a> aka <a href="http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/news/the_ultimate_writer_lush_breaks_it_down">Lush</a><br />
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JESUS VS SATAN ROUND 1<br />
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TAGGIN 101<br />
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"<a href="http://www.unlike-u.com/index_en.html">UNLIKE U</a> melts into a scene, which for outsiders, is hard to comprehend. The world of trainwriters, those spray paint artists who specialize in painting trams and underground trains. Extremely undercover. Extremely criminal. Extremely forbidden.<br />
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UNLIKE U portrais four generations of sprayers in Berlin, of which the oldest of the hardcore artists is already over 40 years old, while the youngest are around 17. All protagonists have one thing in common. Each one has sprayed countless trains in their lives, some of them even over a 1000."MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-15363180326578077922011-12-10T17:55:00.002-05:002011-12-11T10:46:53.274-05:00RIP Skateboarding1993 - <a href="http://www.411vm.com/">411 Video Magazine</a> Issue #1 - Brooklyn Banks Gathering. <br />
The footage is somewhat bobo but the content is priceless. The skateboarders tagging the bus is one of my earliest memories of any skateboard video. I had seen other videos before this 411VM but this minute long clip always stuck with me... <br />
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"The most highly anticipated episode, in our eyes at least, this video follows IRAK crew members <a href="http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/news/12oz-feature-interview-earsnot">Earsnot</a> and Nemel as they paint the Wynwood walls, and a couple uncommissioned works on some of the surrounding buildings. <br />
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These two take tagging to a level of high art. Never at a loss for words, Earsnot puts it, “murals and shit are dumb and pieces are stupid but tags are great!” <br />
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The building painted by IRAK for Wynwood Walls is inspired by Barry McGee’s tag-filled murals in San Diego, New York, and Sydney, which have been known to stir up controversy and push the boundaries of the grey area between graffiti and Art. <a href="http://banditti.blogspot.com/2009/11/artist-spotlight-mr-mcgee.html">Barry McGee</a> was a participant in the first installment of the Wynwood Walls in 2009, but was left with a bad taste in his mouth when the abandoned structure he painted was converted into <a href="http://www.panthercoffee.com/">panther cafe</a>, incorporating his work for their branding. Earsnot and Nemel build on Barry McGee’s tag wall concept by filling the wall with a variety of monochromatic shades of overlapping tags creating the illusion of depth." <a href="http://www.12ozprophet.com/index.php/news/video-here-comes-the-neighborhood-episode-6-irak">12OZ</a><br />
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Episode 5 - featuring Saner & Sego<br />
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<a href="http://www.saner.com.mx/">Saner</a> and <a href="http://segoyovbal.blogspot.com/">Sego</a> two Mexican artists paint the shit out of Wynwood!MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-91941035518838285942011-12-06T12:46:00.004-05:002011-12-06T12:49:59.686-05:00Art Basel 2011 FlicksHere are some Flicks I was able to snap in between drinking free alcohol and walking my ass off around Wynwood and the Design District of Miami..<br />
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29589320" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/29589320">American Juggalo</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/seandunne">Sean Dunne</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-46684082355092883102011-09-28T17:37:00.001-04:002011-09-28T17:39:41.688-04:00This is for you Stooley!<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KV2m36ACzxk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />When shit was still fresh. Channel Live feat. KRSone, Mad Izm.CARBON DIOXIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07026048898758596733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-32388293556488491922011-08-09T22:37:00.000-04:002011-08-09T22:37:27.884-04:00Grab your molotov cocktail London's BurningWord has it that on the other side of the pond London is burning once again. Looting and rioting continued for 3 days in London while the British Prime Minister was on summer holiday getting a tan in Ibiza. Multiple police stations and cars were burned and numerous stores were looted all in the name of Mark Duggan a young black male that was killed at the hands of police...<br />
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<a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201189105816840954.html">People riot because it makes them feel powerful, even if only for a night. People riot because they have spent their whole lives being told that they are good for nothing, and they realise that together they can do anything - literally, anything at all. People to whom respect has never been shown riot because they feel they have little reason to show respect themselves, and it spreads like fire on a warm summer night. And now people have lost their homes, and the country is tearing itself apart..</a>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-80105626318111830822011-08-06T22:46:00.003-04:002011-08-06T22:58:19.207-04:00The Aerialist aka Dean Potter<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BXT05R0WVQM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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<b>Dean Potter</b>, 39, is the modern master of risk-taking on rock, a towering physical specimen who speed-climbs the biggest walls in Yosemite, flies off cliffs wearing a wingsuit and a parachute, scales steep, technical rock faces without a rope, and walks on bobbing slacklines set thousands of feet above the ground—sometimes without any kind of safety device. Among climbers, he’s equally famous for his king-of-the-dirtbags ethos (he’s been known to live in a cave), his intense demeanor, and a rebellious streak that has made him a countercultural icon, irritating some and inspiring many more. Potter was married in 2002 to fellow climber Steph Davis, from whom he divorced last year, and these days lives just outside Yosemite Valley with his dog, Whisper. For our oral history, former Climbing editor Matt Samet spoke with family, friends, and the man himself to get a glimpse of a life lived way over the edge.<br />
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DEAN WAS TROUBLE FROM THE START<br />
Potter began climbing in 1988, at 16, doing most of his apprenticeship near his home in New Boston, New Hampshire, on the granite cliffs of Joe English Hill, a 1,273-foot mountain that sits on federal land controlled by a local Air Force base.<br />
DEAN POTTER: In the early days at Joe English, my friend John and I climbed a lot by pushing on each other’s feet and pulling on each other’s hands. Later, some older guys—the Adams brothers—ran into us and said, “Damn kids, you guys are going to die!” They told us to get a harness, and they said you can’t use a laundry line for climbing. We were doing top ropes with stuff we got from John’s father’s garage.<br />
PATRICIA DELLERT (Dean’s mother): I wasn’t aware of Dean’s love of climbing until his high school years, when he was going over to Joe English Hill. I didn’t know he was climbing on the cliff, because it’s a military reserve, a satellite-tracking station. He was in there illegally. I thought he was just climbing the boulders below. <br />
POTTER: My parents didn’t want to believe their son was 200 feet up, free-soloing. They liked to go on long walks and runs, and they would go right by Joe English. Later they’d say, “Hey, we saw someone climbing up there.” They would describe what they saw, and I’d be wearing the exact same outfit. And I’d say, “Oh… Nope, wasn’t me!”<br />
CHARLEY BENTLEY (early climbing partner from New Hampshire): The first few times I climbed with Dean, in 1991, I was on a different level, but he closed that gap quickly. At the end of spring, he moved to North Conway and was living in the woods between Cathedral Ledge and Whitehorse. He probably climbed every day on granite, which is a really slippery, technical rock that hones your footwork. By the fall, he was climbing 5.13’s. I don’t think Dean understood how shockingly fast he’d progressed.<br />
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READ the rest @ the <a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/dean-potter/The-Aerialist.html">OUTSIDE MAGAZINE BLOG</a>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-70549254688153111642011-08-06T22:36:00.003-04:002011-08-06T22:40:11.078-04:00Surf LodgeThe <a href="http://www.kingandgrove.com/">Surf Lodge</a> in Montauk, NY<br />
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<iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3sZzPkFUZyc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-39267068413406499852011-08-02T18:15:00.001-04:002011-08-02T18:18:28.142-04:00Fault Lines: The Top 1%<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XdVODFombco?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XdVODFombco?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="390" width="640"></embed></object>TURD FERGUSONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14225000548751527312noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-9130466807653894742011-07-30T14:59:00.004-04:002011-07-30T15:10:51.941-04:00Sun Ra- Pink Elephants On Parade<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bfLpnXQpjvw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Sun Ra's version of the song "Pink Elephants On Parade" from Dumbo.CARBON DIOXIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07026048898758596733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-60160935597839864742011-07-26T23:16:00.004-04:002011-07-26T23:24:55.336-04:00Geometry of Circles<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ch-R1aIM-C0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />Philip Glass composed this music for Sesame Street in 1979.CARBON DIOXIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07026048898758596733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-86640244383852611202011-07-11T19:18:00.000-04:002011-07-11T19:18:46.874-04:00Sk8boarding en India?<a href="http://www.oxeloskateboards.com/?lang=en">Oxelo Skateboards</a> presents India..<br />
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<iframe frameborder="0" height="224" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/25864666?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="398"></iframe>MYLES O'STOOLEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03796199058192255892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-26399310098117572622011-06-26T12:33:00.003-04:002011-06-26T12:41:34.841-04:00Cannibal Forefathers<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gSWjkYAjAzA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />More evidence that The Flintstones didn't tell us the whole story about cavemen. Our prehuman ancestors cannibalized one another for the "nutritional value" starting about a million years ago, finds an analysis of bones left in a Spanish cave.<br /><br />In the journal Current Anthropology, a team led by archaeologist Eudald Carbonell of Spain's University of Rovira and Virgili, report fossil evidence of continuous cannibalism - cut marks and butchering remains - as a way of life among the Homo antecessor inhabitants of the Atapuerca Mountains archeological site.<br /><br />So if you have a taste for human flesh don't worry its normal.CARBON DIOXIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07026048898758596733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7089887067487546534.post-43704381016937899102011-06-07T18:02:00.003-04:002011-06-07T18:08:16.387-04:00RAM ELL ZEE<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24481589?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24481589">The RAMM:ELL:ZEE</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/moca">MOCA</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br />One of hip-hop’s most enigmatic figures, RAMMELLZEE was a graffiti writer, rapper, and sculptor. Born in Far Rockaway. Queens, RAMMELLZEE began a brief graffiti career on the A train in the mid-1970s. By the early 1980s, he was creating paintings and three-dimensional sculptures of letters, many of which were shown in galleries and museums. RAMMELLZEE viewed lettering as a form of weaponry and believed graffiti could liberate the mystical power of the alphabet, as a theory put forth in the manifestos “Ikonoklast Panzerism” and “Gothic Futurism”. A reclusive artist, RAMMELLZEE all but stopped exhibiting his work in public and spent much of the last two decade of his life in his TriBeCa loft he called the Battle Station, where he was rarely photographed without wearing one of his handmade, science fiction-style masks. He died in 2010 at the age of 49.<br /> <br /><br />The RAM:ELL:ZEE<br />Battle Station, 2011<br />Courtesy of The Estate of Rammellzee and The Suzanne Geiss Company<br /><br />Installation at Art in The Streets, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.CARBON DIOXIDEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07026048898758596733noreply@blogger.com1