Pichi & Avo

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Pichi & Avo

Pichi & Avo

The explore page of Instagram has GEMS!  Often I click it to see what artist abroad are doing. What's styles seem to be overly used, under used, or being used in different ways. Then I stumbled upon PichiAvo . They're a Spanish art duo who are able to merge centuries of style in to an epic art compilation with each mural/piece of art. It's literally classic Italian Renaissance mixed with Contemporary, over and under graffiti. It's insane work, most of which is on a huge scale. I not sure often graffiti artist and muralist are able to keep such accurate proportions when transferring the art from sketch to wall but whatever.

 

Minimal, Green & Assembled with a screwdriver..... Just not in the US.

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PopUp House  is an architecture and design innovative with the goal of making cheaper, yet high quality buildings with less carbon footprint in mind. Saw their video floating around Facebook and decided to do some research.

First discovery I made was.... They aren't from the US. Typical, seems many European countries are leaps and bounds ahead of the US when it comes to taking wasteful construction and energy practices seriously. 

My second discovery was..  This particular home takes four to eight weeks to build in factory and a few days to fully assemble. The frames, insulated blocks, and panels are prefabricated in a controlled environment. This allows materials to go un-wasted. 

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My final finding was; the builders were actually only using power drills not screwdrivers to assemble the structure. Screwdrivers seemed cool but I was a bit skeptical. I live in Texas. Will a house held together by hand tightened screws stand up to a spring storm? 

The "Passive" house is customizable allwoing the owner to increase space or add a floor.

The "Passive" house is customizable allwoing the owner to increase space or add a floor.

After poking around on the PopUp House site , more details about cost emerged. The PopUp "Passive" House cost between $1200 & $1900 per meter. That's roughly $130k for a modest 93 square meter (1000 square foot aka all I need for me and the dog). This is just the home cost.  There's of course a design and assembly fee. You are also responsible for your land, landscaping, and utility setup which varies by location, personal preference, and technology used to make your project more energy efficient. By eyeball estimation I would guess I'm this would run an American about $200k but could have some green energy tax exemptions. 

Still a cool idea. 

The 4 times Michael Jackson tried to tell our ass!

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Hey, change starts individually...

Hey guys.. Let just respect each other..

Oh shit... Black and White didnt work! They still dont care about our Black asses!

Hey guys!! We're fucking up!!

He was more than a glittery glove and dance moves. He warned us bruh. He truly tried to deliver messages through music. The media frenzy surrounding persona kinda over shadowed the music's intent. He was talking to us.

Brand New Scrambler with Customization or Used Stock Monster?

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Every time I think I make my mind up about which Ducati bike I want to purchase, someone shows off their customization of their motorcycle, or Ducati releases something totally insane. When the Scrambler was released last year.. Wasn't feeling it. They people added creativity to something I felt was eh and now I want one.

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And then there's the Monster. It's just bad ass. Sounds beastly. Looks cool, has all the top of the line features. Etc etc. Still my top pick in the Ducati family. It just cost more than the Scrambler and I'm poor. 

Only difference is... The Scrambler needs some dopeness added.. The Monster stands as is..badass. Would you rather make something uniquely you, or have the perfect bad ass ? Sighhhhhhhhhhh.. 

Guess the decision could be much harder if you threw in the new Xdiavel Cruiser.

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Whatever Ducati. Disstewmuch. 

Learning to ink..

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TheGf: as Black Panther

TheGf: as Black Panther

​One of my goals for 2016 was to create a comic book. I honestly didn't grow up a comic book guy. I always had a football or basketball in hand. My comic book interest wasn't sparked until I started going to all of the Marvel movies and found myself lost in the back stories and origins of some of these characters. This required me to go back and read a few comic books. I fell in love with the art work instantly. I started by copying a few covers but felt I was missing something. Asked a friend who is basically a Marvel expert and he told me I was missing the inking process. So I purchased fancy pens. Attempting to learn the art of inking has taught me:

  1. Don't sketch so heavy​
  2. Buy better erasers​
  3. Re-learn light sources​
  4. Re-learn perspective​
  5. Don't sketch so heavy​
  6. Re-learn shading techniques ​
  7. Practice more​

Guess I'll use this site since it's drafted from my account monthly lol

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I could sift through mountains of excuses, but none would validate my laziness. Tomorrow is my problem. We all seem to feel tomorrow will roll around. While today it did, Wednesday March 2nd may not be granted. So today I got my ass up and said, "YOU'RE GONNA UPDATE YOUR WEBSITE BEFORE YOU CAN EAT". I am hungry as fuck! Hungry but I'm working. My new challenge is to work on today, everyday. 

 

Here are some new paintings bruh.

"Militant"  38"x44"x1.5" Mixed Media on Canvas

"Militant"  38"x44"x1.5" Mixed Media on Canvas

 "Internal Fight" 24"x36" x.75" Mixed Media on Canvas

 "Internal Fight" 24"x36" x.75" Mixed Media on Canvas

 "Fervent" 48"x72"x1.5" Acrylic on Canvas

 "Fervent" 48"x72"x1.5" Acrylic on Canvas

Help Cultivate Local Talent!

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*taps mic* this thing on?

So 2013. I was given the chance to learn/help in THE GALLERY at The Fairmont. I fell in love with a dream. The dream was to use the knowledge I gained from a great mentor to help my art friends get where they wanted to be career wise. I scrubbed floors, sanded and spackled gallery walls. High walls, on a shaky ladder. To be given the chance to have a show. MY first art show was June 21, 2013. I had zero pieces of art work in the show. I used my relationship with the gallery to help others. The first Random Art show had $5000 in art sold and 300 guest.

Random Art 2. Was planned just 4 months later on November 22, 2013. We had about $4000 in art sold 500+ guest. Random Art Three. November 1, 2014. 657 guest, $2,000 in art sold, with 3 big sponsors.

 Jason Sanders & I have dedicated hours, days, weeks, months, hell an entire year into FOOT WORK, shaking hands, networking to craft this. We have out grown being just a pop up art show. We have been given the opportunity to own a physical gallery. I have swallowed 110% of my pride and launch a gofundme campaign.

Support our dreams here! 

I need y'all to overly support it. We have built a brand friendly to local artist. THIS IS NEEDED. We need your love and support to make this work. We CANNOT let this chance pass us by. I've put everything I have into helping other artist get where they want to go. We want to grow that idea by 1,000,000.