SXSW 2008....

SXSW is a film and music festival that happens every year in Austin, Texas. This year my crew and I got involved in helping organize a few music shows and parties. Our main event was showing some art and producing a limited edition shirt with our freind Zaul, owner of Complete Clothing. Complete Clothing hosted many events over the SXSW week bringing many djs and performers for some in store performances. Here you will see a video of some Chicago perfomers at Complete Clothing. You can see our art hanging all over the store. We even painted the Complete Clothing logo on the wall...

Graffiti Lifestyle

The bad can be pretty harsh, but I have been lucky enough to overcome a lot of these obstacles. The reason is that I found a group of artist that were just as passionate about graffiti as I was and together we watch out for each other. This group of friends then formed as the graffiti crew known as the Sour Grapes and we have been together for 8 years now. We know each other so well that we are like a family and we help one another through our struggles in life. This is a video of our crew painting and old abandoned building that is a home to a lot of drug addicts in one of Dallas ghettos. We have been well received by the people of this hood, so we have never experienced any trouble here.

UTSA Student Art Show....

It almost time for the UTSA student art show, and I have some new stuff that I want to submit. Since I won the competition last year, my paintings will be used for the postcard. I always think its great to know that people recognize my work...

SXSW....

SXSW here we some!!!

Here is one of the events that my crew and I will be supporting. SXSW is going to be really fun this year...

New Painting....

Hey, here is a new video that I made of me painting my friend Alpha. A lot of people always ask me how I paint my portraits, so here it is.

The Royal Rumble

The Royal Rumble was this past weekend and it was crazy. We had around 300 people show up, so the place was jammed pack inside and out. Friday, the day before the show was one of the craziest days ever. We woke up that morning and found our crew on the cover of The Dallas Mornig News Quick publication which is ditributed all over Dallas. People were calling us all day talking about us making the cover. Later that night we headed out to install the show and we got some terrible news. The guy that owned the place decided that we could'nt have the art show at his place anymore and he gave us some lame reason. It sucked because we spent months of promoting this event, our freinds Day19 had it promoted on swindlemagazine.com and we even made a nice postcard to go with the show. So 24hrs. before the show we are running around like crazy looking for a spot because we did'nt want to cancel the show. Finally the nice family that owns Omegas Restaurant agreed to letting us set up the show at their place which was right down the street from the original spot. We took some measurements of the place and went home to design and build 3 big walls for the show. We were up until 3 in the morning building walls and up at 6 am the next day to continue the work. We show up to the restaurant around 10 am and all of artist are there ready to work. We set up all the walls and hung all the work until 6pm, 1 hour before the show started. I had just enough time to go home and shower and get back. I get there and find a lady there from WFFA chanel 8 news who was very interested in making a story about the show. She did some filming and got some interviews from us. The venue quickly filled up and people were buying Sour Grapes shirts like crazy and looking at the large amount of work on display. There were people there from all over DFW, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and our boy Heroin flew in from New York. It was good to see a large amount of young people in attendance because now we know that we are also reaching out to a younger generation. When I was a teenager, I would have never dreamed of going to an art show to see and meet artist that I was influenced by. I didnt have any art heroes as a teen. The Royal Rumble will go down as one of Dallas most succesfull underground artist show. The Sour Grapes Crew is only beggining, so you better believe there will be more....