090409 Afternoon and Morning Later

Good fun mushy waves in beautiful New York City. One lucky winner gets the prize.
Submissions are always accepted and the chance of winning depends on the number of contestants.



Milking it.




On the road. The journey is the whole adventure.
Anticipation or not. Morning Look-See



Beautiful Morning with Side blown winds. Lovely Sun Rise, out to greet the sun.
Well worth the trip. Even if it means spending time on the boardwalk, because
I gotta get to work 20 minutes from this.
In summer, a quick dip.
In winter, long time getting in and out of suit.




A close up of one of the lovelies.

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!

Training Facility 090311

Brooklyn Bridge.

Last weekend was a visit across the river to Pier 40. This is just one of many soccer training facilities in new york city, let alone, America. Soccer is big, Very Big. This one felt like the Island of Han.. secret training headquarters for SOCCER! One of many different activities to be involved in on this little island whose name was New Amsterdam. Pier 40 is on West End and Houston. Enjoy.



generator?



Westside, Manhattan.



Field of Balls. and fences to keep them in.



Training Grounds. One.



Grey Skies. Just like in England, no?



Training Field. Two.




Training Field. Three.



Many a balls have been tossed over the wall by a too powerful shot.

Post Envisioning Diaspora 090306

Ken Chu and Alexandra Chang.

Last night was the book launch of Envisioning Diasporia at A/P/A NYU. These are some of the images from the show. It was an interesting evening full of optimism and hope. There were three artist collectives represented, Godzilla, Godzookie and Barnstormers. The mind set of each group and the way each group formed and how they are motivated by collaborations was some of the topics being discussed for the event. Most of the book deals with asian-american artists and asian american collaborations. It talks about the emerging asian in new york city from the 1980s. It is a historical book of explaining asian americans and asian artists in america. Particularly the question of identity. Check it out! It is being sold at finer bookstores.




The artist, CheJen.



The author , Alexandra Chang.



Godzilla, Godzookie, Barnstormers, Basement Workshop and A/P/A Represent. 03/2009 NYC



Chris Mendoza and Gion. Discussing the fine points of arting.

envisioning diaspora 090304

BOOK TALK AND CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR ALEXANDRA CHANG

THURSDAY
MARCH 5, 2009
6:00-8:00 PM
A/P/A Insitute
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor Gallery
FREE to the public.
RSVP by March 4, Wednesday
to apa.rsvp@nyu.edu
or 212-992-9653.
For more info or to
RSVP online, visit www.apa.nyu.edu.

The talk will be followed by a conversation with Alexandra Chang

and artists featured in the book:
ON megumi Akiyoshi • Tomie Arai • Bing Lee • Ken Chu • Che Jen
Skowmon Hastanan • Arlan Huang • Chris Mendoza
Mike Ming • Athena Robles

Author of the new book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives
(Timezone 8 Limited and project partner A/P/A Institute at NYU) and A/P/A Institute Director
of Public Programs and Research Manager, Alexandra Chang investigates “Asian American
Art through the formation, membership and artwork of three important post-’90s Asian
American artist collectives: Godzilla: Asian American Art Network, Godzookie and the
Barnstormers.

Winter AGAIN?! 090303

Winter Bike Project. Get the bike on the road.



After last year's Broadway Bomb in october, I thought I can ride this thing into first place next year... Eye of the Tiger!!





Statue of Liberty doesn t really look out the bay, she looks at Red Hook. The apple of her eye. Ahh.. I love her so... all green and tall.



This was the full moon in feburary, taken from a cell phone. That bright blob was the moon!! can you believe it?! I mean, the photo is really sucks, sorry.



haha.. it is still march. I don t know why people get shock.
After all, this is New York City. It s not like Rochester, NY.
It snowed one day in May! All my rochester, lake erie people, do you remember that?




The snow covered vehicle, a winter wonderland. I really do enjoy these days. It is amazing. It is too bad, it melts in two days and it looks like nasty when its going away.



Better than war! FUTBOL, FOOTBALL, SOCCER. Indoors in the winter!!




Did you know there is an old armory in Teaneck NJ,
an indoor soccer facility? I didn t. But, here it is. GO GJOA!!

090209Tuesday. LastWeek

This is an image of the Statue of Liberty from Red Hook. Brooklyn.


Winter Surfer and trusty Sea Gull.


Winter Wonderland.


Neighborhood Snow.


Sunset. Red Hook.



Pablo Powers. He is having an amazing Photo show at Focus Studios. 499 11 ave. Manhattan. corner of 46th street. 'strange attractor'. Its about Reno, NV. Check It Out!


My friend, Koji. Surfing will change the world.