well just got back from a week in oregon not to long ago.. and here are some of my notes (from a few years ago) that i used to refresh my memory on what the book of nehemiah is all about.. - discovered through intense (about 40 hours) of inductive study.
well before missionary status.. this is the direction i was headed.. a few of these people in this article i have done business with and i thought that it would be a good introduction to those in question to where my life would of been if i had not been challenged to know God.
anyhow with that said enjoy the read....
link to article
and fyi, i used to sell invisible God to alyasha's old store "mathlab" and Chris Gibb's was the buyer at union nyc when i was inspired to open my very own store - flagship in SD with the help of a few i can't fail to mention: matthew avestro, melvin lumagui, and eric cross.
thanks for the belief. one's words in telling the truth can be tested by what one is willing to lay down their lives for daily..
(just made that up.. was it good?)
Peace + Godspeed.
ok this is lame.. i can add videos, but haven't quite figured out the whole llnk thing.. so here you go( cut and paste): http://hypebeast.com/2009/03/tough-times-a-look-into-the-current-state-of-streetwear/
4 years ago the graffiti artist, social vandal, prankster, and legendary art terrorist, Banksy, had his face revealed to the world by a Jamaican photographer, Peter Rickards.
Now Rickards has unearthed one of the only pieces of street art that Banksy had left in Jamaica. A wall Tagged with his signature of his a girl with balloons and his tag Banksy in stencil form.
Rickards met Banksy in 2004 while working on the cover art for a reggae/electronic album by the UK’s Wall of Sound. According to Rickards (who had never heard of the artist at the time), Banksy was ‘a rude little guy with rat teeth who apparently felt very superior because he was famous for stenciling bunnies and rats back in London.’ Consequently, Rickards (who runs the button-pushing Jamaican website, The Afflicted Yard) managed to capture a few photographs of Banksy at various locations around Kingston, including an old ship, a bridge, Buju Banton’s music studio, and a pub on Mona road in Kingston (where Balloon Girl stood for 4 years) .
Banksy has gained a reputation as a social vandal, taunting society with his illegal street pieces, which has thrust him into elite circles of contemporary art. Until Rickards revealed his secret identity he had clouded himself in myth and mystery like a super anti-hero.
Banksy’s stunts have been legendary. He brought in a life sized dummy dressed like a Guantanamo Bay prisoner and put him in a Disney Land and also put up several pieces of his own into famous museums. He also collaborated with Gnarls Barkley producer, Dangermouse, to remix and repackage Paris Hilton’s CD and put them in stores and also put up several pieces of graffiti on the west bank wall in Israel.
His work has been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions to people such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Christina Aguilera and Jude Law have all bought pieces from him. In an interesting new twist to what appears to be an ongoing history of the two artists, Rickards’ has taken advantage of Banksy’s notoriety by videotaping the removal of the wall in Kingston and has posted the item on Ebay as a ‘free bonus prize’ to the person who buys 10 original photographs of the excavation.
