butcher + Bruce Lee + 007 + Alien? Was I delirious ?!? Or it might just well be!

North Carolina artist Scott Avett was once referred to as an “Artist Hobo” for his methods of collecting subject matter, inspiration, and time to work, expresses his ideas through multiple artistic mediums. These mediums include illustration, printmaking, painting, sculpture, songwriting, recording, and performing.

From 1985 the Fat Boys were hungry bastards up on the downtown Brooklyn Sabarro buffet, but also they were prescient with the whole cityspk thing in the film Krush Groove, featuring a whole slew of up and comers like Russell Simmons, Kurtis Blow, RUN DMC, LL Cool J, UTFO and Sheila E. Actually, a very wicked ass type of flick both if you like Hip Hop or just olden day smutty type NY. And respect goes out to Buffy the human beatbox who died of a heart attack a few years back - originators. He is the one with the sparkly glasses.

And here they are back in the day rapping with Freddy Krueger, testing the waters for a potential film collaboration… Like the man with the severly disfigured wax face says - freddy has got soul now, freddy is urban, he is street… thank god that this is one film that never got beyond the development stage.

 The photo is Cory Booker who is the wonder kind Obama like incumbent mayor of Newark - and the one the  people have attached their hopes to. It is one of the poorest postal codes in the USA. Brick city.

The video is from the artifakts who were coming out of Newark New Jersey in 1991 with this one. On top of rhyming they were also writing all over the train yards and all those things the kids still do today…

This last video is from the film clockers that documented the suffocating project life of Newark in 1995, and as most of you know an instant spike lee classic. Harsh. Based on the 1992 novel by Richard Price who deals almost singularly in cop crime new york grit pulp. You have to love the score by New Orleans’ own jazzman Terrence Blanchard.

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a eulogy from the getto boys…

and the incomparable one… who also passed too soon. mr. marvin gaye takes us to church.

LuckyMe, a family of artists, illustrators,
writers, DJs, vocalists and producers in Glasgow, were invited to explore their home city by exposing the spaces where connections were formed, influences absorbed and experiences shared, and so provide an insight into the city’s role in the formation of their distinct creative group. Music by Mike Slott.

This is a little thing where we listen to the two lads i think are the best this country has right now… for those that aren’t up here in downtown Canada - they probably never heard of them. So share it with your friends in all parts, it deserves it… in the meantime lets just call it a tie and hope that they keep with the good stuff.

SHAD

and 

K’naan

shot in and around Toronto’s Rexdale neighbourhood…

– But then for the more commercially minded there is always also DRAKE.

La beauté avec les idéogrammes chinois demeure la facilité de les transformer au dessin ou motif sans souci. L’exemple qui suit est créé par la ville de Guangzhou. Mot par mot, les caractères 文明 廣州  s’expriment:

文明 wen ming - c’est-à-dire civilisé

廣州 Guangzhou

Il suffit d’un petit peu de votre imagination visuelle pour interpreter d’autres messages portant dans ce panneau d’affichage.

You got a couple of long haired chaps riding around the streets of LA in an ice cream truck spreading the good word like it might have been a bus packed with all the good sounds of olden day and future time Jamaica. Black Shakespeare is the name of the thing. Capital D destiny…