Banksy is ubiquitous. This week-end he was in Madrid, London & on the Simpsons. It Inspired Jboy (see image above).
Ana Botella crew
Ana Botella is the wife of the former Spanish President José María Aznar, the one who started the Iraq War alongside Bush and Blair.
Currently she is also in charge of the department of the Environment in the City of Madrid. And it´s quite ridiculous because her husband is one of the most prominent Spanish neocons arguing publicly that the weather change, and the environmental crisis are not real. He has been organizing master lectures at universities talking about the the weather change conspiracy ,and adding that all this thing is a fake created by a new communism! Ana Botella follows this trend, and at the local level has carried the disdain for environmental practices to her own department at City Hall and has expanded this repressive policies to include social and cultural practices.
She is also a member of the right religious organization called OPUS DEI (The right of the right in the Holy Fucking Catholic Church)
She said that GRAFFITI is not an ART, and that Madrid spends 6 millions per year erasing graffiti, demagogically concluding that “with this money, we could have built 6 hospitals”
“I´ll destroy GRAFFITI“, she added.
For all these reasons, and as a reaction to the stupid letter that she sent to every madrilian with her signature arguing among her measures for “integral cleaning of the city” that all graffiti was going to be removed, we had the idea of doing this open action using her own medicine! In fact, with so many politicians proposing recently to use municipal money to hire forensic graphologist to identify taggers and other street artist, we though it would be a nice touch to use her own signature in this project. And that action became really popular in Spain and also in other countries. For instance The Independent of London talks about us…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anabotellacrew/
Skate boards (part I)
A selection of skateboards designed by active & retired graffiti artists.
123 Klan for Mousse skateboards
http://www.123klan.com/
Andre for STM
Dave the Chimp for Mob
http://www.davethechimp.co.uk/ – http://www.hessenmob.de/
Chor Boogie for Zazzle
http://www.chorboogie.com/ – http://www.zazzle.co.uk/
Delta Inc for Mekanism
http://www.deltainc.nl/ – http://www.mekanismskateboards.com/
Flying Fortress for Mob
http://www.flying-fortress.de/ – http://www.hessenmob.de/
Gomes aka Hornchen aka Stefan Marx for Mob & Burton
http://www.livincompany.de/ – http://www.hessenmob.de/ – http://www.burton.com/
Kev Grey for Spacejunk & Logo
http://www.kevgrey.com/ – http://www.spacejunk.tv/
Special thanks to Rastapopulos
Part II will be posted tomorrow,
feel free to suggest some boards in the comments.
45 record covers (part II)
Another selection of record covers designed by active & retired graffiti artists.
AKROE – http://www.akroe.net/
C100 – http://www.c100studio.com/
CALMA (Stephan Doitschinoff) – http://www.stephandoit.com.br/
DELTA – http://www.deltainc.nl/
Eko/TCF – EH?/Bristol – http://www.myspace.com/rev_urine
ESPO – http://www.firstandfifteenth.net/
FUTURA 2000 – http://www.futura2000.com/
HoNeT – http://www.aventuresextraordinaires.fr/
INKUNSTRUCTION – http://www.inkunstruction.com/
HAZE – http://www.interhaze.com/
JIWEE/SDK – http://www.jiwee.fr
Kid Acne – http://www.kidacne.com/
LKSIR – http://www.lksir.canalblog.com/
TWIST (Barry Mcgee) – on Wikipedia
Have your checked the 1st part of this selection of record covers.
25 record covers
AKROE – http://www.akroe.net/
BANKSY – http://www.banksy.co.uk/
DELTA – http://www.deltainc.nl/
FLYING FORTRESS – http://www.flying-fortress.de/
GOMES – http://www.weareshit.com/
GREMS – http://www.grems.eu/
Sheppard FAIREY – http://obeygiant.com/
POPAY – http://popay.free.fr/
SUPAKITCH – http://www.myspace.com/supakitch
UPWEHR – http://upwehr.net/
Any suggestion of other albums designed by street & graffiti artists for a second selection ?
edit: January the 3rd : 45 more record covers
Summer Playlists
** 3615 **
http://3615.ekosystem.org/
Black sabbath : the 1st six albums (with ozzy) (black sabbath, paranoid, master of reality, vol.4, sabbath bloody sabbath, sabotage, technical ecstasy, never say die)
Cannibal corpse : the bleeding
Agent orange : living in darkness
Danger Doom : sofa king
Black sheep : a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Frustration : full of sorrow
Queen : don’t stop me now
** La Muerte – Jeanspezial **
http://www.jeanspezial.com/ – http://ekosystem.org/tag/jeanspezial
Public enemy : dont’ believe the hype
Egyptian lover: egypt egypt
Newcleus : destination earth
Eazy e : real muthaphukkin G’s
Chromeo :fancy footwork
** Elfo **
http://www.ekosystem.org/tag/elfo
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
The Velvet underground – Venus in fur
King Crimson – 21 st century schizoid man
Sex Pistols – No fun
Gogol Bordello – Harem in tuscany
** ZonenKinder **
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zonenkinder – http://www.ekosystem.org/tag/zonenkinder
Lee Perry and The White Belly Rats: Panic in Babylon
Little Richard: you keep on knocking (but you can´t come in)
Adrian Sherwood: becoming a cliché
Toumani Diabaté: the mandé variations
dj Muggs presents soul assassins V
** Silencio **
http://silencio.ekosystem.org/ – http://www.myspace.com/silenciowarfare
Bob Marley and the Wailers: “Kaya” and “Trenchtown Rock” (from the album Kaya and Confrontation)
Jon & Roy: “Thanks for that” and “Another noon” (from the album Another Noon)
Dj Krush: “The Kinetics” (from the album Kakusei)
M.I.A/Diplo: “Bingo (Diplo remix)” (from the album Piracy fonds terrorism vol 1)
Melk: “Rookies on Tracks” (from the album Sports)
** Just **
http://just.ekosystem.org/ – http://just.blogsport.de/
Stars – 10 Bitches in Tokyo
Juri Gagarin – Presidator – Buran
Men are Djs – Make it Reverse
Made in the Dark – Ready for the Floor
At the Drive in – One armed Scissor
The Smiths – Ask
Lezzies on X – Sisters in the Struggle
Partyline – No Romantic
** Tristan Manco **
http://www.tristanmanco.com/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/tristanmanco/
DJ Nuts – Cultura Copia (Artwork by Nunca)
One Drop – Black Gold of the Sun (artwork by Mode2)
All I want – Tim Maia (album Tim Maia ’78)
Os Mutantes – El Justiciero – Album Tecnicolor
Donald Byrd & The Blackbyrds – Mysterious Vibes
** C-Monster **
http://www.c-monster.net/ – C-Monster on flickr
Buena Vista Social Club – El Cuarto de Tula
I’ve been spending a lot of time with my parents, and this song has come up a lot. It’s about a woman whose house burns down because she forgot to blow out a candle. You’d never guess how tragic the lyrics are by listening to the up-tempo nature of the music.
the Beastie Boys – The Move
Love the lyrics on this one, particularly the line that goes “I’m intercontinental when I eat French toast.” Plus, I admire any song in which the band thinks to rhyme the words “neck” and “Toulouse-Lautrec.”
Molotov – Chinga tu madre
It’s one of the band’s earlier songs. A total classic. I never get tired of it.
Run DMC with Fat Joe – Ay papi
The perfect soundtrack for a hot summer in NYC.
the White Stripes – Icky Thump
I was listening to this through my most recent airplane landing at JFK and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since.
** eko **
http://www.ekosystem.org
KW Griff – In The Club
The Pharcyde – Passin Me By – Hot Chip Remix
Marc Romboy – Ey mind (feat. Mr.K-Alexi)
Findlay Brown – Promised Land (Joe Smooth Cover)
The Social Services – The Final Countdown (Europe Cover)