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KOLLAB HIP HOP & LAUGH-OFF
Date: Friday, June 12, 2009
Time: 8:30PM
Venue: Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd East
Hollywood, CA 90068

Kollaboration is founded by this guy:

some vsion21 students and i have made backdrop paintings for Kollaboration hip hop and laugh off. they were 12′ x 4′. we used tempera paint, which would probably melt if the weather’s too moist.

met aaron yoo

its your birthday
not for real real
just for play play

Portrait of Leila Claude Anet by Pierre Bonnard

my sketch of above painting at the norton simon museum

my painting inspired by the above images: death and shit

dog: why are you standing on me? ow!

another sketch from the same museum trip

inspired by the Brazilian tribal males who believe that before becoming a man, one must prove himself worthy by enduring major pain and risking death. in order to allow for americans to better relate to this ritual, i have paired the act with charlie brown. charlie as a boy goes through the ritual of the ant glove to progress into manhood. he is yelling out of pain and frustration, just as he does in the comics. then fast forward to charlie as a man. adults in the charlie brown comics dont speak coherently. all they say is wah wah, therefore man charlie can only say wah wah. he has ant bite scars and now has married, probably to lucy. he must provide for his family by working at the office, selling muffins and mufflers, and use the money earned to bring home bacon fresh from oscar mayer’s farm. he uses the left over money to buy more yellow with black zigzag shirts to last him the rest of his life.

aaugh! koreans eat live octopus to gain strength. aaugh! aaaaugh!

octopus eating behind the scene from Oldboy

spoon + fork = spork. people sure do love their hybrids

this was a one day assignment, which was completed in one day. it didn’t take the whole duration of that day, but we had quite a short time to come up with a subject and concept and then execute it. the most interesting mundane object i thought of initially was rice. it’s plain in color and taste. but somehow someone figured out how to make it interesting through the art of song. i wanted to explore the idea of rice being such a staple to asians and it in turn making us the superior beings. But no. Then on the topic of food, i thought of tin cans from eaten canned foods. andy warhol campbell’s soup. can bean shakers. can telephones with string and tape. I’ve always wanted to make one of those. but also no. then i thought back to when i was a kid. in elementary school, i always had school lunch and ate it with plastic sporks. They were the awesomest plastic utensils ever. i thought it a good object to glorify since it is so glorious. space man. the future. cheese moon.

i’m not quite sure myself.

if you rub its belly, a red rocket pops up and milk comes out. but you can only milk it once every few hours. It doesn’t work if you beat it off again right away.

What would become of our children if they went to get their education
from three people who paint their bodies an electric blue?

We’d get a Tobias Funke : Analrapist.

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