Museum Photographic Art Gallery's Opening Exhibition - The New Landscape

Museum Gallery recently held its opening exhibition (I'm happy to be in) titled THE NEW LANDSCAPE. Which showcased a bold array of works from a number of talented photographers surrounding the interpretation of new landscape both vague and classic. Tons of cats showed up from all walks of life, it was good to see people outside the art scene as well as some heavy hitters. The opening was packed when I arrived despite getting there just after the we-are-awesome.com photo peps' bailed (which is a good thing because most of the time they use me for a banner or something) they do slideshow/features of all the uber cool people that show up at big events. The kind folks at Sailor Jerry (Class Rum 'for those of you late to the ship!) hooked up the gallery proper to keep everyone smiling. It was a rad night to say the least; big up to Dylan Culhane for all his efforts and sorting everything out. The work will be up for a few more weeks so go check it out, this is the Museum-Gallery site for directions and contact info. Here are a few images

I shot at the opening.... Enjoy-

It was a bit of challenge to shoot candid images of people looking at my work but I got a few nice ones.

Greg Beadle the Museum Gallery's Big Boss Man

Tarjei Langeland with his work

Here are a few of the pics' for Sailor Jerry taken by Michael Ellis

Primo Hits South Africa For The First Time and DJ Just Be...? Gives You Free Daisies!!!

DJ Premiere played in Cape Town South Africa @ The Assembly last week. I was amped to be shooting Press/Media for the event, so a few hours before the show I put together a little mix to get hyped. I had seen him a few times before, the last was New Year's 2006 in Las Vegas but he was playing a corp. gig to less than 150 people and was dropping a lot of non HipHop tracks. This time I knew he would play classics, and he did. He dropped mostly his own production to a solid crowd. I shot some top class stills on celluloid and even a short video clip on this little digi' camera I normally use as a dictaphone for interviews. Primo finished around 4am and was still cool enough to let me shoot a portrait on his way out. Here is a link for some free Primo' Daisies and for those of you who missed it, check out the video clip...

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http://soundcloud.com/dj-just-be/primos-daisies

STR CRD w/ Cognito aka "The SHUCHEF"

OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, COGNITO HAS CONTRIBUTED VASTLY TO THE PROPAGATION OF HIP HOP CULTURE— FROM CONCERT PROMOTER TO FATBEATS RECORD STORE OPERATOR TO TOURING THE WORLD AS A MEMBER OF THE UNDERGROUND GROUP MASSINFLUENCE. IN ADDITION, COGNITO IS KNOWN FOR DOCUMENTING LEGENDARY HIP HOP ARTISTS SUCH AS MOS DEF, DE LA SOUL, TALIB KWELI, MF DOOM AND KANYE WEST ON BOTH STILL AND VIDEO MEDIA. AN AFICIONADO OF SNEAKER CULTURE SINCE 1982, COGNITO, AKA "THE SHUCHEF," HAS HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF CONSULTING WITH A NUMBER OF MAJOR SHOE BRANDS ON MANY LEVELS FROM MARKET RESEARCH TO COMMUNITY OUTREACH. OVER THE YEARS HIS COLLECTION OF RARE SNEAKERS HAS BEEN EDITED DOWN FROM A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT TO NOW JUST UNDER 50 PAIRS OF CLASSIC TRAINERS — QUALITY OVER QUANTITY. AFTER SEEING HIS ORIGINAL JORDANS DRY-ROT FROM NOT WEARING THEM, HE NOW VOWS TO STICK TO HIS MOTTO "SNEAKERS ARE MEANT TO BE WORN, NOT TO SIT IN A CLOSET."

Check him out @ http://frolab.com

These are a few South Africa 2010 FROLAB pics

Big up to DJ Bobbito for keepin' it True Vinyl...

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STR CRD Sneaker Event 2010

STR CRD was South Africa's first sneaker and streetwear convention. The event brought passionate streetwear lovers together from many avenues of Youth Culture. Visitors were treated to a promotional pop up village and displays of new sneaker collections from the likes of Nike, DC, New Balance, Adidas, Puma, Converse, 2BOP, Iron Fist and many other local and international brands.

Even the Skateboarders had something to do. Jamie O'Brien from Woodies Ramps made a big sick box complete with stairs, ledges and a kinked rail. The Boyz were killing it, with or without the commentary. I think Justus Kotze ended up winning and props to Will Twala for killin' it with a taped up busted wrist.

Graff artists, B-boy crews and hip hop groups were also on hand showing off their skills. It was great to see so many streetwear lovers in one place, many who flew in from places like Joburg, Durban and abroad.

One of the highlights for all the Sneaker Freaks was checking out the freshly customised kicks from Alex Nash, a renowned sneaker Artist. Some cats would have gladly bartered anything (even a family member) to go home with one of his highly sought-after sneakers.

Here are a few of the perspectives I came up with... Enjoy-

'Some-Ting To Peep' Vol. 1

I will put up 'Some-Ting To Peep' ever so often, this is the first of many to come...

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Seems like a good time to get the old Pin-Hole Camera I made dialed in again, it is very hard to use but when you nail the shot not much can touch it.

New Logo Done & Looks Too Fresh!!!

Check out my new logo made from a Hand Drawn Sketch by Tyler B Murphy,

Your sure to be seeing this around...

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Echo Ledge GoPro Skateboard Clip - Test Round

I linked up with the cats from Echo Ledge at Sports Unlimited after the African Vacation Tour Demo over the weekend. They asked me to help them test their new GoPro rig for the first time, it was a bit strange to skate but i got a few good runs. Check out this rad little video they put together with some of the footage...

They also have a surfboard mount that I am frothing to test. Not to mention I'm keen to get few more tricks and maybe some better angles on the skateboard, maybe the bowl in Stellie'...

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