11-09-12. Virgin Free Fest and Kiyocera Shuji

Help Japan and your wardrobe.

Virgin Free Fest was in the woods this year! It was a good ol' festival in nature with ferris wheels, carnival tents and a skatepark! Kiyocera was one of the main sponsors of the event and they pumped it up with innovative sound/sight experience in form of outdoor dance party coupled with high tech camera/sound/sight bending non stoppable party dancing, space aliens dancing...



An alien in a suit!



A tree tall alien!




Twin Dancing GLOB Aliens!


... a solar charging stations with benches and lounge chairs AND shuji on tee shirts by masters/artists;
Mayo Kohama, Eiko Berkowitz, Yoshiko Komatsu, Yuri Shibuya, Asako Miyahira and me, Mike Ming!






Art is an expression and extention of ourselves. Yuri Shibuya and Asako Miyahira extending and expressing.




Japanese culture emphasizes subtlety. Yu-chan and Eiko-chan emphasizing.



Man on phone: ".. YES! SHUUUUJJJJIIIIII by masters!! I m going to get 'GAMMBARREE JAPAN!!! "



It was a non-profit $5 donation for a shirt with Japanese Calligraphy! As expected, this event was a smash! From the time the gate was open until even after the lights went out, there were people trying to scramble for tee shirts. It was a successful all day affair that saw throngs of people wanting to help Japan and get something special written on their tee shirts in return.



The Angels, the crowds and the shuji tent.






Lights out in our tent, party is ON at Kiyocera Sight/Sound Tent!


I would like to thank those who were involved and organizing this event and for allowing me to participate for a wonderful cause.

Kiyocera for making it happen, Virgin Mobile for the event, Mother NYC for production, Mayo Kohama for displaying amazing Shuji Power(!!!), Eiko-chan and Yu-chan for all the help in figuring the characters out and for dealing with all those customers who were 'outside the box' (I overheard more than 1 strange request coming from their direction), Yuri Shibuya and Asako Miyahira for traveling with me and having patience to deal with me, Charles Lahti for calling us out and envisioning this amazing event, Christine from Mother NYC to produce this event and trusting us to do the amazing job we needed to do, Kiyocera Angels for keeping the tent running smooth in the chaos of all those shirts getting written on and drying, all those who donated for an excellent cause and Hurricane Katria to wander away from the proximate seaboard and leaving us the beautiful weather to fill in for her insted!! Thank youses!!



Me with my custom Mayo Kohama shuji shirt!!

090409. Biweekly part One. Mother Couch Jam

The Couch Party @ Mother NYC. March 25, 2009. Wednesday. PM.


Where does all the days go and why does it go so fast? Time seems to travel faster and everyday the moments are all stolen away while I watch the grass grow. Well, it s done and here I am updating my blog again.. another two three weeks fly by and I recap some places I ve seen and some stuff I ve done. It was a very transitional few weeks as I find myself trying to turn a new leaf of personal responsibility. Sounds great. Always does. Doesn t really have much to do about much so let s just jump in and see what we gots... and what we have here is Mother NYC Couch Sessions! It was an evening of music, art creating and dancing mayhem! There was Consequence of Tribe called Quest out introducing his new album, about to drop. He was a new man of great skills as he also matured and progressed, always keeping the people on their toes. This was one of the events where I found myself more surprised at who ended up showing up. Crazy. He was billed but I don't even remember seeing his name on the mailer I got. Go figure. I don t pay much attention. For me, I was interested in one,
Tristan Eaton who was also billed to live Painting. I take interest in this genre because I always wonder what other artists do when they 'live paint'. That 'live' for me is always interchanging with live and live. Silly thing to think about.



Live Painting. Tristan Eaton. ThunderDog.

Of course on hand was the awesome group that is , Mother NYC. It was an awesome time and the music was super fine. I miss Moms sometimes... One of my most memorable highlights for me was to see mini Milo getting down. When I say get down, I mean, GET DOWN! He was probably having THE most fun. He had moments of great physical body convulsion expressions and the New York Break Attitude, it was phenomenal. Of course, you had to be there to witness the pure un-adult-rated body rockin, but Consequence had to GET DOWN with Mile, it was THAT pure and THAT TRUE! BLESS!! BIG UP, MILO!!!!!! note. Milo is four.





Mother NYC. Pierce. Part time Mother. Full TIME BICYCLIST(!!!)




Mother NYC. Proud Pappi.. er.. Mother NYC.. I mean Tom, double glasses. Heather, always with the smiles.. and .. sorry, I forgot your name... FUN PARTY!!



Jonny Santos and Kate of Mother NYC.



Head Moms with Jonny Santos. The hand coming out the chest.. looks painful.



Consequence!



Consequence!



Consequence!



Couch. Any Reason for a Party. A Couch? HELLS YEA!!!!



Consequence!! Did I mention, His album is about to drop!!



Andrew. Super Underground Yellow Head MC!

081209 San Francisco

The Three Artists in San Francisco. Tristan Eaton of Thunder DOG, Mike Ming and Guillaume Wolf.





Not in San Francisco, but what I saw on the way out to the airport on monday.
Old School Cop Cars, when police officers were Flatfoots and Crew cuts was the
hair du jour.



Naked Women body Skull Face Street Art.



Crowd Participation, Posca Markers, a five foot square canvas and a little booze.
Looks like a beautiful car wreck. I enjoyed doodling on it thoroughly.




Some more Street Art. Some more women. Always a good subject for art.



Dell Executive Arts and Commerce. Ed and Alex.



King Ikso and Mike!! looks like seattle again!

Last Nights events was a blast!! Not only was Tom Webster there, so was Tristan Eaton, Guillaume Wolf, Ed Boyd and DELL Team, my good friend , KING IKSO showed up! HECK YEAH!! Here are some images from my time in SF and now, I await to leave... It was a quick and warm trip. Big UP to Mosser Hotel! This hotel was quirky and was very cool!
Peace.

Labour NY! may 07, 2008

Thank you to Wyeth Hansen(right) and Ryan Dunn(left) of Labour NY represented by Greencard Pictures for the amazing job of promoting yours truly in the campaign for ART on the laptops of Dell, SUN!! Big UP!! Also, thanks to Tom@Mother NY and the whole crew of Mother NY for the ideas and Dell for making it happen.