SEAK: Graffiti and Street Art Diary

English:

Here you have a little inside view of what happend during my 1 month invite to Guadalajara. Mexico.

Iwas invited there for a huge Graffiti and Streetart-Festival.

Someone more serious then me advised to absolutley not mention here all the decadent partys, crazy afterhours, scaringly huge amount of drugs ,the Mr.big´s and there Soldados, the big estates, police officers with black books, did i mentioned  the police officers with the great connections to even more high quality… (biting my tounge now), oh yeah all the crazy super fresh/hot lookin chula sabrozas, Mami Lindas, emo bunnys, and  crazy American locster who cant go back to the states for the next 13-20 years…

Instead my anonymous adivsor told i should focus on pointing out the great big hearts of the people ive met, which invited me, which i became friends with, and which embraced me into there family. Oops, iam almost sliding back into the whole Ubergangster talk.
And the amzaing character writers mexico, the best food in world, the fact that i had the chance to art direct and paint an early building of louis barragan with the local graffitikings.
Funny was although the situation where a certain entreprenuer was offering me seriously a Kilo of topnotch perico for painting a wall in his office.

Thanks: to Tekpatl/Vrs and cara for flying me in and taking care,
Redbull mexico for backing up my flight tickets, Nike.germany for the fresh gear.
Kenji, Erik and Matika for their Friendship, Tipex from Tribalgear Mexico for the good vibes, Hector Nagarro for the wonderful Photos, and Bernhard for the last minute support.
German:

Hiermal eine Auswahl einer Auswahl von Bildern meiner anderthalb Monate in Mexico.

Eingeladen war ich mit anderen Interntionalen Graffiti und Street Art Künstlern, alles alte Kollegen.

Ich sollte an dieser Stelle vielleicht nicht die dekadenten Partys, Afterhours, Frauen Geschichten, die Chula Sabrozas, die Mami Lindas, die Drogen, Dorgenbarone, die Cessnas, die vielen bunten Vögel, die ungwöhnlichen Angebote um an Leinwände ranzukommen, die Villen, die Anwesen, etc sowie die korrupte Polizisten erwähnen.

Stattdessen erwähne ich lieber die liebevolle Betreung, die leidenschaftlichen Menschen, die grosse Herzen, die beste Volkstümliche Küche der Welt, mal abgesehen von der bayerischen, Polizisten die ihr Blackbook für Autogramme dabei haben, die gute freunde die mich im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes in ihr Familie aufgenommen haben. Oder wie ich dazu eingeladen wurde eines der Frühwerke von Louis Barragan(Bauhaus) zugestalten.

Danke an Cara und tekpatl/vrs für die Einladung, Redbull-Mexico für die Tickets, Nike-Deutschland fürs Schuhwerk, Kenji und Matika für die Freundschaft, Hector Nagarro für die tollen Bilder, Tipex von Tribal für den guten Einblick, Bernhard für Rettung in letzter Minute.

quasi von lebender Legende zu lebender Legende.
zu Gast beim König des International DJ Jetset.
Ich war quasi indirekt das Geburtstagsgeschenk für Timo von einem Guten Freund, und habe gleiche neue Freunde kennen gelernt. Auetal, 2007 represent. Timo rock on!!!

It feels good to be a Birthday Present, this Time for the infamous Timo Maas and his Family on his Estate near Hannover/Auetal.
Timo is topranking the International Dj Jetset with House collegs like Sven Väth, Carl Cox, and Paul van Dyk since ever.
While i was Gun slinging the spraycans, and doing my lines, Skin from Skunk Anansie was keeping it real and kicking some live Vocals. great Party, great People.

In den letzten 3 Jahren war ich von Scion einer Submarke von Toyota in den Usa als Testimonial Künstler immer wieder für eine Skulpturen Tour angefragt worden. Nachdem, 2005 die Skulputren von einem Freund von

Mit  dabei waren so illustre Künstlerkollegen wie Rammellzee, Ron English, Estevan Oriol, Ricky Powell, Andre, Daim, Mr. Cartoon, Crash, Daze….

Die Abschluss Veranstaltung sollte dieses mal

the first time i became hooked into the whole Sneaker thing was thru the CoCurator of a Show i had in Portland Oregon. Someone in the Nike Headquarter thought SEAK would might like some brand new dunk low supreme`s. (really really rare, and super comfortable!!)

i think it was a year later when weve met here in Cologne thru a friend and ex graffiti writer the head guys of nike europe in Hilversum. a few meetings later the plan was to get a signature shoe.
well the show project never really became realized. But Nike didnt wanted to let me go either, being kinda friends now. In good company now with eisfeld, sido, harris, several very good artist friends of mine, oliver korritke, and other german hipsters: Please welcome the sneaker flatrate/crazy secret vip mansion partys/ invites to berlin!!

issued 2500 times, launch partys in barcleona @ montana gallery, cabaret club paris, vienna, stuttgart, and cologne
check ebay, you might still get one