"The Mother Of All Storms" heading for the Gulf Coast.

Mayor Ray Nagin of the city of New Orleans has issued a city wide evacuation of 239,000 residents due to the nearing of Hurricane Gustav that has torn its way through the Caribbean after hitting Cuba with winds of nearly 240km/h (150mph) and now making it's way through the Gulf Coast. Gustav was upgraded from a class 4 hurricane to a class 5 the highest possible classification twice as strong than Hurricane Katrina was when it hit New Orleans in 2005, killing some 1,800 people and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

The Mayor was qouted as saying "Anyone who's thinking of staying - rethink it, get out of town"

Read More and see video here : New Orleans told to flee Gustav

Stay Frosty Out There

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Fuckin Revs

Obama "America can be a better country"

45 years to the day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the Mall in Washington
Barack Obama accepted his historic Democratic Party presidential nomination for the White House Thursday night in Denver.

As he gave his speech he promised to keep the American dream alive

“America, we are better than these last eight years,” he said. “We are a better country than this.”

He went on to promise tax cuts for the middle class and pledging to wean the country from dependence on Middle East oil within 10 years to address high fuel prices.

"America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess."

Mr. Obama is the first African-American to be nominated for the White House by a major party
Read the Transcript of Barack Obamas speech and watch video here: BARACK OBAMA SPEECH
McCain Seething
Register to vote here: www.usa.gov
barackobama.com

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

Film by Matt McCormick
Rodeo Film Company

Diet est. 1987

Via current tv

DIET will be bringing some of his colorful works, some of which include nostalgic childhood cartoon characters along with a wall installation, to Stussy SF this month.
Curated by White Walls Gallery and sponsored by Montana Spray Paint, the show will open this Friday, August 29, 2008 from 8 to 11pm at the Stussy shop on Haight Street in San Francisco.

Fox News stirring things up at the convention.

Last Sunday

Fox News Reporter Griff Jenkins: (Wading into crowd of protestors) What’s your message? What are you upset about?

Masked Protestor 1: I’m upset about everything.

Masked Protestor 2: Fuck corporate media!

Griff Jenkins: (Aside) Well, I guess they don’t believe in freedom of speech. Let’s just work this crowd and see who we can talk to.

Griff Jenkins: (Reading sign) Defend Denver. Explain that to me. What does that mean?

Man in Sunglasses: I’m not going to talk to you.

Griff Jenkins: What’s that?

Man in Sunglasses: I said I’m not going to talk to you.

Griff Jenkins: Do you believe in freedom of speech?

Junior Melendez: End the war!

Griff Jenkins: What’s your name? Come here! What’s your name?

Miami Vices #2 (Banksy) EP

A new white label EP featuring cover art by street artist Bansky was released recently.
The record features Funky/Club House remixes of the classic George Kranz's track entitled "Sin Da Da" by artist Hot Chile and a electro-house version of the Sex Pistol's Anarchy the 2008 version by artist ANARCHIST.
For all you Bansky collectors you can check out the album and give it a listen at Turntable Lab.com

Since nothing turns up under any of the producers of these tracks who knows it just might be another pseudonym that Bansky is using to put out his music again.
Remember the Paris Hilton Album Prank?

Chicago Artist “Framed”

Upset photographer and all around wax poetic of the Chicago art scene, Oscar Arriola got a nice write up in a recent issue of Time Out Chicago along with several other members of the Chicago art community for their recent art show at 32nd&urban Gallery.

According to the Time Out review, "Framed" also highlights other great Chicago artists: "Erik DeBat (“RISK”), Blutt, and Revise CMW contribute enigmatic works influenced by their street art. Elisa “Pooper” Harkins illustrates a girl’s transformation into a cat. Arielle Bielak puts masks on the subjects of her photographs, which enables her to depict God and the devil sharing a bowl of Lucky Charms. Oscar Arriola photographs a lost-cat flyer, which he strips of any poignancy by replacing the pet’s image with a cartoon of a grinning feline."

Read more of the Time Out review of the show "Framed" here.

www.myspace.com/32ndurban

image "Lost Cat"  by Oscar Arriola

Disturbing Garfield Cartoons

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
www.garfieldminusgarfield.net

Member of GRL arrested and detained in China

James Powderly Co-Founder of the innovative Street art orginazation Graffiti Research Lab was arrested recently in China along with various other members of the NYC artist community.

James Powderly with the help of students for a free tibet had planned on projecting a laser-powered stencil that would temporarily illuminate the side of a building near Tiananmen Square with the words “Free Tibet.”

Brooklynites Samantha Corbin, Jacob Blumenfeld, and Lauren Valle — were arrested later that day after unfurling a light-up “Free Tibet” banner in front of the famed “Bird’s Nest” stadium


James Powderly has been in a Chinese jail since Aug. 19 — though the official charges are unknown.

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Free Powderly campaign on flickr.com

Welcome Baaaack!

Welcome Back Kotter on HULU!

Street Wise

www.maryellenmark.com

Real Deal

Just somebody snapping off on some real talk
"LIVING" in NYC YAYO HIPSTER TYPE shit... bananas!!
http://badadvice.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/benjamin-shih-is-the-owner-of-royal-oak-more-commonly-known-as--royal-coke-benjamins-number-is-in-my-cellphone-except.html

www.theburg.tv

Oh and F*ck some Real World.

Crisis in Georgia Bush On Vakay

Russia and Georgia have signed a revised cease-fire agreement, but Russian troops remained within 25 miles of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev promised French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who negotiated the agreement, that Russian forces would soon withdraw from Georgia.
In response to the crisis, President George W. Bush postponed a vacation trip to his Texas ranch by one day

You can see images from the conflict here ( caution very graphic ).

IT DONT GITMO BETTER!

After spending nearly six months in Ireland working on his Fulbright Steve Powers AKA ESPO has a new installation up in Coney Island entitled "WaterBoard Thrill Ride" that simulates the recently legalized torture technique

www.creativetime.org
www.firstandfifteenth.net/

All the MC's want to be puppets lately...

What's up with that?


That's cool but I like the OG sh*t

and props to Todd James for his puppets on Crank Yankers!

GRL: The Compl337 1st Trailer

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Tonight in LA: Neck Face

NECKFACE
“CANNIBAL CARNIVAL”
NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
www.newimageartgallery.com

Opening Reception Aug.16th, 7-10pm
Show runs Aug. 16th – Sept. 20, 2008

Don't Bogart The Yellow