On July 4th, NikeSB invites you to get patriotic with a pair of Dunks.
I’m sorry but all of you folks from the Mexican diaspora and assorted immigrantes can’t own these.
You have to be born in the U.S.A.
Archive for June, 2010
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Monday, June 14th, 2010Afro-Punk Is Coming To Town…
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Mark you calendars internets.
Afro-punk Festival 2010
June 25-27
@ Commodore Barry Park (directly outside of the Bklyn Navy Yards)
Cool Kids
J*Davey
NinjaSonik
Activator
Game Rebellion
Martin Luther
Bad Brains
and more…
A skatepark and BMX ramps
FREE SHIT!
Listen, it’s Afro-punk hotdammit and if you don’t know by now its because you don’t belong up in there getting down. This year is gonna be the most major Affro-Punk Festival ever but you gotta copp tickets.
One Day It Will All Make Sense…
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Just prA’li not in our lifetime tho’…
While the Gulf of Mexico will be fucked the fuck up for a long ass time there is some other shit we have been fucking up since the G Dubbz administration. Namely, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan seemed like a shithole to me. Especially when you looked at all those pics from the days of their war with the Russians. I mean yeah, they have hell’a poppy fields and that helps the heroin dealers move horse like a mother, but do we need to keep losing American lives so the Amy Winehouses and Lindsay Lohans can stay lifted? My problem was that I wasn’t using the molecular microscopes that the Pentagon has in effect.
Afghanistan looks like a land filled with deserts of sheepherders when in reality they might be one of the richest nations on the planet. All that bombing we have done to the Afghan terrain in search of, er, yeah, has uncovered a vast wealth of mineral resources that were previously unaccounted for. Something to the tune of trillions of dollars in mineral wealth. Iron, copper, gold, cobalt and LITHIUM. Wait until the Energizer bunny hears about all the lithium they have in Afghanistan. And you know that dude doesn’t stop beating his war drum for nothing.
He just keeps going, and going, and going…
The Gulf of Mexico? That shit will be clean enough to drink from in a few years and life will return to that region.
Afghanistan? Not so much.
Turn His Frown Upside Down…
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Talkin’ to myself and feelin’ old,
Sometimes I’d like to quit,
Nothin’ ever seems to fit,
Hangin’ around,
Nothin’ to do but frown,
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
-The Carpenters
If Sally Struthers were still alive she’d tell you to be this little boy’s friend for only pennies per day. Think about how much time you spend here learning about the shit you like. Some school would charge you thousands for the privilege of sitting with one of their top educators. You give a multiplex theater a dub for a ticket and snacks and they give you 4-5 hours of entertainment.
I’m not making this pitch to all of you that regularly send me shit in the mail or hand off packages to me [ll] when you come thru New York City. I make this appeal to all of you that have gained something of value on these pages and believe in letting the dollars circulate. I overstand your desire to get free shit and I need for you to understand my desire to keep giving it to you raw and unkut [ll]. There is the button right there on the sidebar looking you in the face.
prA’li
^ BTW, you can click on this also
If you can’t donate to the movement because this is your temporary recurring deficits week maybe instead of using the old mouf word ‘probably’, or even the ghey version ‘prolly’, you might could use prA’li in your speech and text with others. This movement won’t move without you.
If you refuse to say ‘internets’ or ‘prA’li’ but you still enjoy DallasPenn.com for your entertainment and pleasure at least be his Facebook friend.
Respect The Architects…
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Last night Chocolate Snowflake took me to the Japan Society for an exhibition they are hosting titled ‘Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi‘.
It’s a display of these incredible painting by this master artist in a style called Ukiyo-e. These are graphic depictions of myths and ancient parables that were cut into woodblocks for mass printing. The Ukiyo-e are totally the fathers to the comic books and the graphic novels we enjoy so much today.
As I walked thru the exhibition and viewed Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s prints and especially his sketchbooks I had total recall of Frank Miller’s graphic novel Ronin from the early 1980’s. Kuniyoshi was describing epic samaurai battles with mystical apparitions and mega beasts 150 years prior to Miller but Kuniyoshi’s work looked as contemporary as the comics he inspired.
Where Frank Miller was influenced by the Ukiyo-e art wasn’t just in the concept, layouts and paneling of the stories, but most importantly in the printing of the images. A Ukiyo-e woodblock template is a precision based item hand-carved by an artist. Can you imagine the technique you must have to employ in order to print text from the woodblock? You have to carve the characters in reverse so that when the woodblock is printed it reads correctly.
Frank Miller was unhappy with the production of comicbooks. Because the process was so assembly-line oriented things like color separations and penciling details would get lost in the sauce. Peep the pages from the Wolverine mini-series that Miller did with Chris Claremont. See how the page coloring bleeds thru the paper?
click on image for larger version
Frank Miller wanted to use a different technique for the presentation of the Ronin graphic novel. He wanted to implement the Ukiyo-e style of hand painting each individual page and then have these pages printed on a premium stock of paper. Frank Miller’s Ronin became the inspirational format for the modern graphic novel.
Go to the Japan Society and see the artist that inspired Frank Miller.