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Building on GM Fundamentals I – Plot Structure
The first in a (probably very) short series of suggestions for a GM planning a tabletop or PBeM RPG game. Oooh, acronyms!
When planning a new RPG campaign, you should start with having a goal for the game. What are you hoping to achieve?
In most games, the goal is to have a lot of fun playing characters while taking part in a good story.
There are two parts to consider here; players enjoying playing their characters, and players experiencing a good story.
To accomplish both of these goals generally means a single storyline campaign will last several game sessions, covering weeks and maybe even years.
Your mission as GM? Prepare a story that will provide your players with short term enjoyment of playing their character each session, medium range enjoyment by giving them opportunities to advance or improve their characters over time, and long term enjoyment by giving the players a feeling that they have taken part in a rich saga with a fulfilling conclusion.
Sound impossible? Not really.
When you plan your plotlines, think in terms of a triple layer of overlapping plotlines.
A) Short Term Plot.
B) Character Growth.
C) Multi-Episode Story Arc.
Short Term Plot
Each game session should be considered a single encounter. For the players? No, for you! You have your own mission for every game session; that the players be presented with a challenge, work to overcome it, and then enjoy the results so they have a sense of accomplishment prior to tossing the empty pizza boxes in the trash and going home.
The short term plot is nothing less than your plan for the very next game session. You should think of it in terms of having a start, middle, and ending. It takes place within the overall story arc, and drives the overall story forward, but is in all respects a mini-adventure.
The short term plot can be so many things, and often will be driven by the players themselves as they take the initiative to play their characters. Your purpose in this is to keep in mind that it is rewarding to have a sense of completion at the end of each game session. If the party has to travel over long distances, plan on having each game session start with traveling to set the scene, take them over a portion of the journey rapidly, and then engage them with whatever encounter you have planned, and deal with the conclusion before the end of your session. If at the end they are still traveling on, they will still feel a sense of accomplishment at having completed the mini-adventure.
Likewise on searching a city for information, or chasing a villain, or shopping for items in the bazaar. Plan for something short, brutal, surprising or urgent to happen that can be resolved in one session.
The purpose of the short term plot is to provide an obvious short term goal for the characters to achieve, and the characters should be able to defeat the villain/solve the problem using pre-existing capabilities.
In the Character Growth portion of your plot, plan in advance on building in specific minor challenges targeted directly at each character. Your players are actors in an ensemble cast, but every player wants to feel like a true star in the spotlight now and then.
Start by having your players write some backgrounds for their characters, and encourage them to put down a little soul searching as to the hopes and dreams, and fears, of their characters. You won't want to plan to fulfill their every hope in the way they would expect, but you CAN use it as a starting point for finding ways to really give them opportunities to grow their own way.
During the course of the game, take the time to let each player feel that there was a special moment where the success or failure of the group rests on them. Put the burden on them, let them feel that pressure, and give them a chance to either succeed or fail on their own. Either way, it usually results in that player feeling a deep sense of inclusion in the group.
For you, the purpose of the Character Growth plots are to encourage each character to develop a unique personality. They should not regularly be life threatening, or always play a major role in the Short Term Plot, but they can lead to bonus abilities, new contacts, or special knowledge if properly handled. If the player fails, it can often lead to new short term plot hooks for you!
Some examples of character growth planning are to provide times when special skills are needed to advance, and opportunities to learn new skills are offered… for a price. One character may dream of being presented to the royal court, and will pursue that goal if given half a chance, while another might wish for nothing better than to study under the greatest swordsmaster of the age. You have to tailor each character growth opprotunity to the character, but it is incredibly fulfilling when a player's character becomes such a core part of the story.
Multi-Episode Story Arc
The final portion of the triple plot is the Multi-Episode Story Arc, also known as the big quest. What is the huge adventure everyone is on? What is the big goal?
This is usually the easiest part of the process. Most GMs have some idea of what they want to do for a big, awesome campaign story, in general terms. What you want to do is break that huge story up into episodes, in segments, the venerable bite-size pieces.
It can help if you think of your campaign as if it were a TV series, not one of those cheesy ones, but something brilliant like J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5.
Each night's episode should be enjoyable all on it's own in repeats, taken out of the story and made to stand cold and lonely under the spotlights of harsh examination. But if you put the whole thing together, there is a larger story that continues to grow, and gather meaning. Something your players move towards. Or away from. Or around in circles. Or blow up. Or join and become evil overlords and worry about changes to their tax base.
Best yet, along the way, each character has an opportunity to grow, and develop a richer, more interesting personality.
However you like to run your own campaigns, I hope that this has given you a few ideas to think about in planning ahead and making your own life just a little bit easier. And if you've already developed this technique on your own as an art form and never saw some git put it into words before, well then, I've done my bit to show that you can set rules to anything.
Stay tuned for my next exciting episode, where I explore the joys of recurring NPCs… the good, the bad, and the just plain annoying.
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9 thoughts on "Building on GM Fundamentals I – Plot Structure"
Rauxis | October 27, 2010 at 7:23 pm
My 5 cents – do not plan too much story from the start. It lets you start thinking "players have to do A, then I will do B which causes them follow with C…". In my experience players will always do Z when you want them to do A. At that point you have 2 options. Either stonewall or let have it. As player I felt never really happy with an unclimbable wall (oh how I hate those in WoW), so my solution ended up with "there is no preplanned plot".
Instead I start with a world, create my important NPCs and decide which goals they have. During the first few sessions a number of plot hooks will turn up – without really showing the strings attached to them. Simple example: a travelling artist is attacked, group manages to save her but in the end no one has a clue why someone went to a great deal of trouble to hunt down a girl who has never harmed anyone. Much later the group will discover a lead via a painting, and suddenly notice the girl might have painted something else….
Another thing I try to do is "create challenges, not solutions". Put on the table a problem you yourself have no idea how to solve. I admit this works only in very creative groups, but suddenly all the NPCs can be real advisors, and even as GM you can play along and try to find a solution.
Rauxis, chosen of CAT
jinkx | October 27, 2010 at 1:34 am
BBB, Thanks mate. I'll take your advise and try to work from that point of view. It sounds so logical i cant believe i havent tought of it 🙂
bigbearbutt | October 26, 2010 at 9:24 am
Jinkx, that could probably be a huge series of posts all by itself, talking about working through all those issues.
What I did was start with what kind of setting I wanted to eventually have, and then worked backward. Just in general; medieval cultural situation for humans, the existence of other humanoid races, even other biologies.
Then i worked backward, starting with the soul and the existence of life after death. For your world, does the soul of a person exist after they die? Can it return? Can the living still find ways to communicate with the spirits of the dead, and if so, what would those spirits say? What IS an undead? Is it a corrupted soul returned to a body, or is it dead flesh given animation by an external powr that has nothing at all to do with the soul, an empty vessel?
Was there a "creator", or a pantheon of creators? Are there beings that take the place of gods such as a pantheon of some sort, and are they truly gods, creators that are possessed of cosmic power and can see everything, know everything, and do anything at their whim, or are they merely very, very powerful beings? If they are very powerful beings that people look upon as gods, can they interact with your world directly, interfereing however they wish, or are they limited in some way and can only "interfere" in the real world through mortal agents? If they can interfere only with mortal agents, can they appear directly to anyone? Can they only appear in dreams? Can they grant some of their power to their followers? Ifd so, what do they get out of it? And if they are not the creator (or creators) of reality, do they even KNOW who is? And again, when a person dies, does their soul pass beyond the reach of even these immortal gods, to wherever the true afterlife is?
Figuring out the answers to these questions can, themselves, form the history of your world and shape how the races came into being and how the civilizations formed and grew, or fell. If you even go back to Tolkein, he had the fundamentals of the immortals and the creation of the world worked out, and the drama and conflict from the creation of Middle Earth, and the first race, the elves, informed everything else that came after. And what was one of the most important aspects of the story we read in Tolkein? That here there was a race, arising as if from nowhere, these hobbits. And all the great and mighty ignored them, for they had not been created during the initial conflicts and rising of the world. But Gandalf looked at these hobbits with wonder, for he asked, if the other immortals did not create the hobbits, from where did they spring? It influenced his interest in them, because they did not fit in with what any of them knew about the formation of the natural world.
Once I had answered for myself all of these questions, I had one hell of a creation story of the earliest years of the world, and the foundation of the origins of the elves. I built from there, and every once in a while I pick a different era and delve into it in more detail.
If someone were to travel in time in the world, it should be consistent. If someone were to travel to other areas in the world, it should be consistent. And if someone were to do what explorers love, and delve into archealogy and the fall of ancient civilisations, well, the details need to be there.
One of the most fun aspects as the GM for my current story, is knowing not just WHO Gavin the Hammer is in Jessie's story, the being who is in the back of her head, and the other soul as well, but WHEN they are from in the real world. And what they are, and how they tie into a far larger story than even they would dream. I've alluded to it a little, in sharing with Jessie Gavin's confusion that the worship and communion with Tyr that Gavin is familiar with from his own time is so utterly absent from Jessie's memories of modern day life. Gavin knows that something momentous had to have happened, that Tyr no longer interacts directly with his followers, and that even the champions of Tyr that travel the land do no more than act as learned Judges or Marshalls to administer His justice to the best of their understanding.
And yet, it was a throwaway line in their conversation, buried under other more pressin matters.
That's where a lot of the fun for me comes from. Having such an incredibly rich history as a foundation for story hooks. Layer on layer of bad shit, AND good shit has happened, and much of it stems from human pride and greed. And heroism and selflessness, as well.
BBB, how did you start at developing a world? i have been trying for several months now and have the physics,, astronomy, terra-layout and stuff like that figured out, but i have no idea how to start the social culture, races and stuff besides the obvious dwarf/elf/human stuff. I have this project planned as something that can take years for all i care, but i hit a brick wall now.
I already tried to implement a few core concepts and go from there but i find myself going haywire on the powerlevels of my races. They either have no reason to have survived and be top-of-the-food-chain, or are so over the top they can go bicker with the gods 🙂
That got posted because I made a critical fail of my own last night. I have this "game" folder, wherin I had nested folder after folder of RPG stuff.
Whenever I had time during lunch at various places of business, I would write about the RPGs I was running, I would write guides, just stuff about my hobby. Things to help me, things to help friends. PLotlines and background and histories and such. The vast majority of it was for the current world environment.
Sometimes, heck frequently, I would copy folders and bring to work, update stuff there, email files back and forth. When I'd leave a place of employment, I'd take the folder of all my stuff with me… and place it nested in my overall gaming folder.
About 20 years worth of work. I've got typed transcripts of handwritten notes that Cassie made for me from notebooks over 12 years ago.
Last night, I went into that folder thinking, "Why not see what's in there?"
Several hours later….
It's interesting trying to compare 10 files of the same name when you can't trust the last saved date as to which is most current. Why? Because some that are older might have different information in them than newer ones, especially my "History of Felwaithe" series and timelines that span more than 50 pages and 8000 years of drama across, oh dear lord HOW many files?
Anyway, as I was opening each file to read and see if it should be saved, sorted or tossed into oblivion, I came across an old "triple plotline" reminder to myself I wrote long, long ago, and thought, "Hey, that could be posted."
So, I did.
I didn't start writing with this blog. Before I had a blog, and wrote about my hobby as a Bear druid, I wrote extensively in notebooks and on my computer about role playing games and my world environment. I have no intention of posting all that stuff here, but some of it ought to be fun.
kattrinsaa | October 26, 2010 at 7:38 am
I messed around with paper and pencil games a few times long ago. Never very seriously though. I always had more fun making the characters than I did playing them. I do fondly remember one session we had in the dorms at the juco i went to. I hung out with the theater troupe.. (big shocker there, I know.) and we had one plebe that was as bright as an infra red LED. I still can't believe that the moron "filled" the water fountain with the bucket we provided him.
Anyway, we were playing one night, and as usual he was being a complete tool. (He played a paladin if I remember right.) I've always preferred dual classing mage and rogue. Somehow we ended up in combat against some nasty critters and he critically failed to the point of his protective spell ended up on the critters.
The rogue side of my character became dominant in that moment, walked over and shanked him. We left him lying there on the floor.
Khalar | October 26, 2010 at 5:10 am
Very nice description! I can totally relate to the sessions I've had, not as GM but as a player. Our GM really pushed character development, which is the best part of an RPG according to me. An awesome and exciting plot always helps, ofc.
TyphoonAndrew | October 26, 2010 at 1:22 am
I tend to start writing campaigns based around an overall concept or saying. The "best" game I had was one called The Downward Spiral, which was themed on the slow but steady corrosion of personal values of the players and npcs, until they found themselves acting against the principals they began with. Being that the theme was well understood I gave the players a vary large amount of latitude to pick the starting points of a personal moral code, and then how deep they wished to go, and how early they'd be corrupted. Short (1 to 2 page) backgrounds formed the basis for the codes, and also for points where story hooks could be drawn into the game. Typical stuff.
Some players proved to be solid and never really took a bite from the apple. Others ate the apple, the fruit basket, and then went shopping at the supermarket! It was of course both in public display and at other times very personal. I knew the players personally in real life so we both knew which social triggers would snap them to attention, and which were for kicks; and they seemed to respond well.
An unhappy side affect of this is that beyond the odd random event, or prolonged stroy arc from early in the campaign, there was very little in the game that was not directly related to a particular character's background. Their character lives became why we played each session, and the side affect was some sessions were not exciting for everyone involved. Game ran for about 1.5 years, playing once every 3-4 weeks.
I'd do it again tomorrow if I could get the time.
oooh recurring NPC's!
A friend of mine who dm's regularly has an npc called by all of us: Habib. He is always a tradesman of sorts and usually appears in a helpfull, tough annoying fashion. He is one of those types you meet ingame and go "Ruuuuun!".
The weird part is that one day im driving trough Brussels (outgame, IRL) and see that they are opening Habib's bank of commerce and insurance two blocks from the buildings of the european parlement. Let me tell you for a moment there i really had the shivers.
When i DM i have an NPC called Jeeves, always in a servants form, be it a butler, a steward,…
He is always ready to hear the wishes of the people he serves and interpret them in his very own way 🙂
Every DM needs a recurring villain… euhm NPC

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The Boys Varsity Soccer Team has made a huge comeback from the start of the season, pulling back a League-leading 3-1-4 record and beating La Jolla High to take the League Championship, and made it to the second round of CIF play.
Second-Year Head Coach Chris Tolles is once again working magic along with the two attacking standouts, Junior Mohammed Hassan and Sophomore Jack Amos, who netted nine goals each this season. Tolles said, "There is always a chance a team can have a let down following a very successful season like we had last year, winning League and a [Division 3] CIF title. I figured we could struggle to find our way after losing 11 seniors, eight of which were starters."
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The team also benefited from great chemistry between the players. "Because we are all good friends off the field as well as on, we are able to be on the same page when we are playing on the field," said Hassan. He then added, "Our seniors and captains have also contributed great leadership to our team, and we have benefitted from that greatly." Amos also shared how comradery helps the team and said, "The team got better by getting to know one another each and every day and learning how each of us play."
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Despite the team being deprived of the win, the game was a display of their tenacity and athleticism. Tolles added, "The ending to that game was completely wild, and I have never seen or been a part of something like that before. I was very proud of how the boys fought back so hard and I was very disappointed that they were robbed of the victory."
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Tolles was also keen to share his optimistic outlook on the soccer program, stating, "The future looks very bright. The freshman and sophomore classes are very strong and I'm looking for them to contribute heavily next season. It will not be easy replacing our seniors, but I am hoping the underclassmen can step up for us."
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American Animals DVD and Blu-ray release date was August 28, 2018. American Animals Netflix rental release date is August 28, 2018 and Redbox release date is August 28, 2018.
Spencer and Warren have been best friends since they were little children. Now that they are teenagers, their boredom with their suburban lives has grown extreme, and they decide to combat it by plotting a heist. Recruiting two other students, they plot to steal several Audobon paintings and rare books. It all feels very exciting, but in their eagerness to inject some thrills into their lives, they forget that they are not living in a movie. Their irresponsible actions could have very serious real-world consequences. Will the four young men be able to recover from this youthful lapse in judgment?


The same was true at the Wacker Drive rally site. Views View Edit History. Biedron, the former mayor of Chicago's Traffic Woes Surpass Los Angeles Traffic in the Chicago area is getting worse, according to new data released this month showing drivers spend an average of hours a year sitting in traffic. Please also be civil in your dialogue. List of speakers to be provided before event.
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AMAs 2020: Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes and Billie Eilish Offer Show-Stopping Performances
Raising the heat at the 48th annual American Music Awards is Jennifer Lopez, who takes the stage to offer sensual performances of 'Pa Ti' and 'Lonely' alongside Maluma while donning a sheer catsuit.
AceShowbiz - The 2020 AMAs had the best performer line-up to help further give more excitement to the show. Among those who hit the stage at the event, which took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 22, were Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes who debuted the live performance of their new song "Monster" at the award-giving event.
The song, which was off Shawn's forthcoming fourth studio album "Wonder", saw the pair singing about dealing with society's expectations as a public figure. Prior to the performance, Justin kicked it off with a solo performance of his single "Lonely". That night marked his return to the AMAs stage after skipping the event for four years.
Raising the heat later that night was Jennifer Lopez. Donning a sheer catsuit, J.Lo took the stage to offer sensual performance of "Pa Ti". The dimly lit stage intensified the sensuality of the performance as back dancers were trapped in cages. Maluma then joined her on stage to perform "Lonely" before the 51-year-old could be seen hopping on top of a table and getting hot and heavy with her collaborator.
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Billie Eilish also returned to the AMAs stage this year to perform her new track "Therefore I Am" alongside her brother Finneas. Staying true to her fashion, Billie donned a cardigan and long shorts. However, the young artist successfully made fans hot and bothered with her incredibly sexy and confident dance moves.
"BILLIE EILISH RUN ME OVER CHALLENGE #AMAs," one fan reacted to her performance. Echoing the sentiment, another fan wrote on Twitter, "anyways billie eilish supremacy."
Another notable performance that night was from Katy Perry. Instead of wearing her usual over-the-top costume, the new mom hit the stage while rather dressing down. Belting out "Only Love" with Darius Rucker at the 48th annual American Music Awards, the 36-year-old opted to wear an oversized faded blue jacket and matching jeans. That was her first awards show appearance since giving birth to her and fiance Orlando Bloom's daughter Daisy.
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Thoughtful guide: Alexander Dutson and James Hill's book "Thinking Experiments" contains a lesson on gender that went over well with students in Shizuoka Prefecture.
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Trying out a lesson on traditional notions of gender
by Farrah Hasnain
HAMAMATSU, SHIZUOKA PREF. - I teach a class of 38 at Hamamatsu Higashi Senior High School in Shizuoka Prefecture, and earlier this month I tried out a gender-themed lesson from Alexander Dutson and James Hill's "Thinking Experiments."
The class I teach emphasizes essay writing and comprises students who aim to attend university or continue their English education after graduation. However, less than 25 percent of the students at the school attend university post-graduation, and there are fewer returnees compared to the school that Dutson and Hill taught at.
Following the book, I decided to have the students look at the way gender is reflected in Japanese before having them express opinions in English.
At the beginning of the lesson, they were handed a piece of paper and asked to write down as many kanji as they could think of containing the radical for "man" (男) and "woman" (女). After a few minutes, the students wrote the characters they thought of on a whiteboard at the front of the class.
For "man," almost all of the students only thought of the character for "brave" (勇). For "woman," the students came up with "older sister" and "younger sister" (姉, 妹), "like" (好), "cheap/calm" (安), "guy/slave" (奴), and "mischief/rape" (姦). The Japanese teacher of English (JTE) also contributed "nephew" (甥) and "captive/prisoner" (虜) as examples for "man."
The students were then asked two questions individually and as a group: What, if anything, do these characters tell us about men and women, and do the characters tell us the truth about men and women?
To my surprise, the students thoroughly engaged with the topic and opened up about stereotypes and imposing gender roles in society. According to my students, the words with the "woman" character in them were associated with family values, weakness and lower ranks. Meanwhile, the words with "man" conveyed strength and bravery with a less concrete image. (One thing to note, "Thinking Experiments" also includes material pertaining to nonbinary and transgender individuals. We didn't have time to get to it in my classes, however.)
As for the validity of the meaning of these characters on a larger scale, some students said they reflected how women and men were viewed in society since the time of the characters' conception, while others stated that the characters reflected outdated ideas on gender.
During the second class, the students were asked to answer a writing prompt on whether or not men and women were equal in society (all of them chose to discuss Japanese society). Within 15 minutes, the students had armed themselves with examples of how women and men were perceived and treated differently, including the existence of women-only train cars (noting the absence of men-only train cars), the mistreatment and lack of female members in the Diet, the different brands of harassment and assault targeted toward women, having a "Ladies' Day" but no "Men's Day" with discounted tickets at the movie theater and a ban on all-male purikura photos.
Before this lesson, the atmosphere of my classes would mostly comprise of tension and intimidating silence whenever we would discuss heavier topics such as sexism and racism. When I first showed a different group of students the documentary "Hafu" a few years ago, I could tell that they were mainly focused on responding in the way they thought I wanted them to instead of speaking about the topic honestly. Although the students would sometimes write concrete examples and reflections of different issues, they would (understandably) be hesitant to carry the weight of the conversation during class.
The questions involved in this particular lesson were split into four types, the kinds that are typically implemented in English lessons: "Start" questions to strike the students' interests, "Hermeneutic" questions to understand the students' initial interpretation of the topic, "Task" questions to inquire students about their core philosophical beliefs, and "Related" questions to connect their arguments with a specific topic.
What made the "Thinking Experiment" lesson successful in my opinion was allowing the students to draw their reflections from something that seems to be neutral yet familiar to them: their native language. Once they deconstructed the nuances and historical context of the kanji, they were able to draw their own conclusions and ideas based on personal experiences. Without mentioning the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (the idea that language shapes thought), the students were able to stimulate more philosophical insight with an open discussion.
In the end, the JTE and I found that providing different sources for self-reflection liberated the students from any intellectual obstacles and helped them embrace a more inquisitive mindset.
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The Seventh Letter Presents: #Art Share LA (Los Angeles, CA)
February 24, 2013 Afghanistan
The Seventh Letter presents #ARTSHARELA
Opening reception: March 1, 2013 | 8 – 10pm
Show runs: March 1 – April 7, 2013
Art Share LA
801 E 4th Place
info@knowngallery.com
A celebration of Street Art curated by Casey Zoltan of Known Gallery, featuring gallery pieces & outdoor billboards from noted Los Angeles artists: Saber, Patrick Martinez, Rime, Victor Reyes, Pose, Sage Vaughn, Willie T, Shepard Fairey, Risk, Push, Revok, Zes, Sever, Augustine Kofie and Vizie.
http://www.artsharela.org/gallery/seventhletterpresents.html
Fun Friday 12.14.12
Hey bro and sis! Here are some of our favorite picks for the weekend around the global way as we head into the final holiday and New Year beauty that we hope everyone is surrounded by. Happy 7th night of Hanukkah to the Jews, and Happy ongoing holidayz to the Christmas and Kwanzaa and Solstice people.
1. 215 "Orgullecida" (Barcelona)
2. "Kids Eat For Free" at Tender Trap (BKLN)
3. Fresh Low-cost Original Silkscreens at "First Worldwar in Silkscreen" Group Show (BKLN)
4. "Graffuturism" at Soze Gallery (LA)
5. "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets", Photography by Imminent Disaster (BKLN)
6. "Snap Back…" Rime and Toper at Klughaus (Manhattan)
7. New2 at White Walls (San Francisco)
8. Dave Kinsey "Everything at Once" at Joshua Liner (Manhattan)
9. Brett Amory at 5 Pieces (Switzerland)
10. RISK: The Skid Row Mural Project by Todd Mazer (VIDEO)
11. Swoon's Konbit Shelter in Haiti (VIDEO)
215 "Orgullecida" (Barcelona)
French Street Artist C215 has a new solo show titled "Orgullecida" at the Montana Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. The artist has been for awhile using a lot of color with his multilayered stencil work – expanding his established vocabulary bravely in a way that most artists are too afraid to do. His portraits are placed well, are individually hand-cut, and sprayed with a sense of the humanity he's always giving center stage. This show is now open to the general public.
A one color stencil from an earlier period by C215 on the streets of Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A detail from a more recent C215 (© and courtesy the gallery)
For further information regarding this show click here.
"Kids Eat For Free" at Tender Trap (BKLN)
A phrase lifted from restaurant franchises that serve food like you are livestock at a trough, "Kids Eat For Free" is a mini survey of train riders who know the back sides of the country well. Under the moniker of The Superior Bugout, curator Andrew H Shirley continues to explore fresh talent from the emerging margin, and this group exhibition features work by North Carolina's NGC Crew. Now open, and don't forget the kids!
For further details regarding this show click here.
Fresh Low-cost original Silkscreens at "First Worldwar in Silkscreen" Group Show (BKLN)
The best way to support your local artist is to give their stuff as a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Soltice present. No kidding. Everybody wins. Tonight a show of original silkscreens at totally reasonable prices is at Low Brow Artique in Bushwick. For tonight's opening of their silk screen print show where you'd be able to purchase prints for $20…yes you read it right $20 bucks buys you art from 25 artists – many of them with work on the street – from Sao Paulo, Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Berlin. Participating artists include: Selo, Markos Azufre, Hellbent, El Hase, ND'A, XOXU, Daniel Ete, Salles, Baila, Anderson Resende, DOC, SHN, XILIP, Serifire, Vero Pujol, Marquitos Sanabria, Diego Garay, Desastre, and Head Honcho.
Head Honcho. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
"Graffuturism" at Soze Gallery (LA)
This is like an exclamation point for the end of the year. No kidding.
POESIA, founder of Graffuturism, the term and website, continues to explore the depths of "Progressive Graffiti" or, as it was previously known, "Abstract Graffiti". With great intelligence, passion and an acute eye for detail, POESIA brings to the forefront the importance and beauty of this emergent new direction that is impacting the Street Art and graffiti scene (with ramifications for others).
"Graffuturism" opening tonight at Soze Gallery in Los Angeles and promises a smart-headed visual feast of shapes, patterns and color from a mini-galaxy of talent from all over the world. Perhaps more significantly, it's a bit of a decentralized movement that has been centralized for you. The artists list includes: 2501, Aaron De La Cruz, Augustine Kofie, Boris "Delta" Tellegen, Carl Raushenbach, Carlos Mare, Clemens Behr, Derek Bruno, Doze Green, Duncan Jago, DVS 1, El Mac, Eric Haze, Erosie, Franco "Jaz" Fasoli, Futura, Gilbert 1, Greg "Sp One" Lamarche, Graphic Surgery, Hense, Hendrik "ECB" Beikirch, Jaybo Monk, Joker, Jurne, Kema, Kenor, Lek, Marco "Pho" Grassi, Matt W. Moore, Moneyless, O.Two, Part2ism, Poesia, Rae Martini, Remi Rough, Samuel Rodriguez, Sat One, Sever, Shok-1, Sowat, Steve More, West and Will BarrasSoze Gallery in Los Angeles .
Also New York chronicler and enthusiastic lover of the graff/street art scene Daniel Feral will be there with a special edition of the Feral Diagram in glicee prints, and a couple other formats (salivate). An ambitious exhibition like this is rare and not easy to come by so if you are in Los Angeles you must go.
El Mac on the streets of NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show and to read a great essay for the show written by Daniel Feral click here.
"Dark Corners, Savage Secrets", Photography by Imminent Disaster (BKLN)
Self-appointed moral custodians (mostly white men) have traditionally hampered the exploration of sexuality in formal art history and the academic canon of what gets celebrated and revered continues to evolve more quickly now. The sea change that modern social liberation that was once revolutionary is now a given, but the debate of the appropriate role of sex and sexuality in the arts is far from over. We may have just quashed one Trojan horse of social conservatism in the White House, but the radical right wing has pulled the center pretty far in the last decade and some have even said there was a war on women launched legislatively throughout 2012. So we are pleased to tell you about fine artist and Street Artist Robyn Hasty AKA Imminent Disaster, who has a new show in collaboration with Alex Pergament entitled "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets". Furthering her exploration of photography Ms. Hasty has semi-retired her now well known hand cut paper pieces and lino prints on the street and traded the cutting knife for the camera. With this show of photographs, sculptures and performance art she's aiming to tear apart the inhibitions associated with the sexual act. "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets" opens tomorrow at Weldon Arts Gallery in Brooklyn.
Imminent Disaster and Alex Pergament (exclusive photo for BSA © courtesy of the artist)
"Snap Back…" Rime and Toper at Klughaus (Manhattan)
Freshly snapping back to New York from their successful truck trip to Miami, Klughaus Gallery brings Brooklyn natives RIME and TOPER for their new exhibition titled "Snap Back – Dangerous Drawings About New York". The storytelling show features illustration and painting inspired by personal stories. Says RIME. "This show aims to tap into our life experience coming up in New York." Show opens Saturday.
Rime and Toper shown here with Dceve in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
New2 at White Walls (San Francisco)
The White Walls Gallery in San Francisco are fortunate to host Australian artist New2 with his solo show titled "In One Hand a Ghost, The Other an Atom". New2's work on the streets is complex and dynamic with aerosol, but his handcut collage work for the gallery is moreso somehow – maybe because of a painstaking process of arranging thousands of hand cut pieces of paper. This show opens on Saturday.
New2. Detail of one of his hand cut paper pieces. (photo © courtesy of the gallery)
New2 on the streets of San Francisco. (photo © courtesy of the gallery)
Also happening this weekend:
Dave Kinsey with "Everything at Once" at the Joshua Liner Gallery in Manhattan. This show is now open to the general public. Click here for more details.
Brett Amory at the 5 Pieces Gallery in Berne, Switzerland opens on Sunday with his solo show "Lil' Homies". Click here for more details.
RISK: The Skid Row Mural Project by Todd Mazer (VIDEO)
Art in the Streets from MoCAtv
Swoon's Konbit Shelter in Haiti (VIDEO)
Street Artist Swoon is looking to return to Haiti to build more shelters for people in the rural part of the country. This video gives a great look at the families and community who are helped. You also can participate by donating to the Kickstarter campaign to help Swoon make it happen.
Soze Gallery Presents: "Graffuturism" A Group Exhibition (Los Angeles, CA)
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Graffuturism
Graffuturism.com, opens in the new Soze Gallery location at 2020 E 7th St, Unit B, Los Angeles, CA, 90021.
Since Graffuturism's inception as a public blog and private Facebook group in 2010, there have been two major group exhibitions that featured associated artists: "Rudimentary Perfection" in Glasgow and "Futurism 2.0″ in London. Both were successful in their curatorial intentions and created a sense of community and motion for the movement. Soze Gallery also has been an early advocate hosting solo exhibitions in 2012 by Jaybo Monk, Moneyless, Remi Rough, Dale Marshall, and a two-man show with Augustine Kofie
and Jaybo. Recognizing the significance of the Graffuturists, Soze Gallery also presented the opportunity for Poesia to curate this exhibition, which he chose to simply call ""Graffuturism." This exhibition has been eagerly anticipated as the first group show to be curated by Poesia, because he is the founder of Graffuturism.com and also a well-respected graffiti artist with a twenty-year history. Ending up in this unique dual position as artist and commentator, it has fallen on him to be the cultural instigator and diplomatic facilitator of this renewed interest, practice and discourse surrounding what he calls "Progressive Graffiti," which has also previously been called "Abstract Graffiti." At this juncture in the three-year history of the website, as well as in the thirty-year history of this over-looked aesthetic trajectory within the Graffiti movement, Graffuturism.com has become a hub and Poesia the dedicated and consistent chronicler and theoretician. With the internet as his podium and round table, he has been historicizing and canonizing these artists, young and old, who have been creating art outside the norms of traditional graffiti, esoteric forms of painting and sculpture that veer outside of the proscribed boundaries into the experimental, the abstract, the poetic, and the hybrid.Artists that fall under the term Progressive Graffiti are generally innately gifted draftsmen, who aspire to a Master's Level at their craft. Overall this movement could be classified as a "High Style New Millennial Aesthetic." The art they produce is derived from a dialogue that ricochets around within a pin-ball matrix constructed of coordinates lying between the historical and the contemporary, including high and low influences, fine art and graffiti studies, scholarly and street pursuits, intellectual and visceral marks. Whether the resulting output is graffiti, painting, murals, design, sculpture or installations, the pictorial elements are mutated and transformed through each artist's unique vision into a personal vocabulary of cross-pollinated styles. Whereas the Street Art movement of the mid-2000s tended to focus on figurative stencils and wheat-pastes, this group of artists on the whole is more concerned with hands-on, singular creation, whether within an academic or street setting. Unlike Post-Modernism, the resultant overall aesthetic is a seamless personal statement, not a collaged juxtaposition of historic styles.
Because of Poesia's dual roles within the movement, he as been in the unique position to attract this international line up of esteemed contemporary artists, which includes many of the significant forefathers from the seventies and eighties. As a result, by including so many of these original Masters, he has created a chronological continuum within the line up, which defines this historical thread from its earliest days. Therefore this group show has developed into a "survey" that historicizes and canonizes each artist within the Progressive Graffiti thread, as well as within the larger Graffiti movement. One of the earliest, and possibly the most influential to most these artists, is Futura. In the early eighties, after a ten-year career as one of the early seventies writers, he broke away from one of graffiti's most sacred traditions, the letterform as subject matter. At that point he began to paint in what became known as an "Abstract Graffiti" style. With his groundbreaking subway whole-car "Break," as well as on the canvasses he was painting at the time, he pushed an atmospheric geometric style to the forefront of his work and began to experiment with a wide array of experimental spray can techniques that had not been seen before.
Around this same time, other early NYC writers, who had also started their careers in the seventies, began to experiment with new hybrid directions not based in pure graffiti traditions. In 1985, Carlos Mare began to combine abstraction and Wildstyle within the medium of sculpture, which over the past couple of decades has expanded to include other mediums under the term Urban Modernism. Haze also began to cross over into the fine art domain and over the years has created a body of work that might be referred to as Iconographic Minimalism. Doze Green was also a significant member of the early community of writers who crossed over with an experimental style that included the use of archetypal icons, poetic typography, figurative motifs and painterly styles. West was also another early intrepid explorer, adopting a gestural expressionist style, applying the muscle memory of train and wall painting to the canvas with his long whole-body marks and splashy, dripping strokes.
This exhibition has also united artists from the second generation who took off along the path forged by those early pioneers. These artists started to formulate their progressive aesthetics in the late eighties, such as Delta, the European three-dimensional geometric letterform pioneer turned pure abstractionist; New Yorker Greg Lamarche aka SpOne, who has been able to establish an abstract typographic collage aesthetic parallel to his foundation as a graffiti writer obsessed with the hand-written letterform; Part2ism was one of the earliest UK experimentalists in Hyperrealism, as well as co-founder of the Ikonoklast Movement in the UK with Juice126, which also came to include abstract colorist Remi Rough in the early-nineties.
Also beginning in the late eighties on the West Coast of the US, the Wildstyle-reductionist Joker was one of the first graffiti artists to paint purely geometric abstractions and pushed for its acceptance within the graffiti community by founding the Transcend Collective in 1991 with She1, who was an abstract writer in the UK. Poesia, became a key member of the collective in 1995, exploring a more hybrid, expressionistic approach to Wildstyle, as well as taking it into pure abstraction, which he is currently pushing in new directions, as well as reaching back to the Baroque painters and reinterpreting their masterpieces as graffiti-dissected new millennial re-paintings. Over in Europe, first in Paris then Italy during the same time period, Marco Pho Grassi started out as a wall and train painter but quickly started mixing in abstraction and more painterly expressionist techniques much like Poesia, yet totally unknown to each other. Then in the mid to late nineties, back in the US along the West Coast, other artists with alternative, experimental mind-sets, who were aware of recent developments, were coming out with brilliant, refined hybrid styles, such as Augustine Kofie and El Mac.
Artists such as these had been forced to skirt the edges of graffiti culture as well as the fine art world for the past ten to thirty years. Due to the esoteric nature and hybrid aesthetics of their graffiti-based paintings, and their disparate locations around the globe, they had no way to band together or find an audience to support them because of the lack of enough interest in their local communities for their esoteric and singular aesthetics. On the other side of the tracks, they were also ignored by the fine arts establishment because of their association with graffiti culture and for unabashedly continuing their gallery-related practices under the term Graffiti, which they still did not entirely leave behind. But, as the world population grows and becomes more connected through the internet, these geographically disparate artists have found it easier to come together, work together, and share global opportunities with each other, rather than being confined to tiny local communities.
Now, as this historical thread comes of age and recognizes itself in the mirror of history and on the faces of its youth, as the pioneers of the culture are canonized and the younger artists are united, there are many more opportunities afforded them within the design market, auction houses and fine art world, as these communities continue grow in their recognition of the cultural value and influence of Graffiti and Street Art, as the most prevalent styles and art movements in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This particular Graffuturist group exhibition, as well as the previous two, are significant steps in the growth of awareness and activity. This is a significant exhibition because it connects all the artists across the continuum of this overlooked historical trajectory back to these forefathers to finally make the connections and give the recognition due to Progressive Graffiti in all its current manifestations and their historical referents.
Across the board, 2012 has been an explosive year for Progressive Graffiti. The synchronicity of all these group exhibitions and solo shows can only emphasize that there is increased activity by the artists and an amplified interest in the audience. Futura had his first solo show in ten years, which attracted a massive turn out of the wealthy and the fashionable, as well as the highly-respected hardcore members of the graffiti community, which is a testament to his growing importance outside the culture, as well as cementing his stature within it. Following on the heels of the success of his solo show, Futura exhibited with two other crucial esoteric Old School Masters, Rammellzee and Phase2, in conjunction with the Modernist Master Matta in the exhibition "Deep Space" in NYC. This exhibit was particular significant because it canonized these three graffiti artists within the fine art pantheon by successfully illustrating their undeniable aesthetic accomplishments in relation to Matta's masterworks. Rammellzee also had a banner year, being included in the "Vocabularies Revitalized" exhibition at the MoMA, as well as being given a complete retrospective at the Children's Museum, both of which were in NYC, not even to mention his solo show at the Suzanne Geiss gallery in 2011 called "The Equation."
In London, also significant in its curatorial aims to canonize and historicize, as well as it's grand scope, was "Futurism 2.0," which compared and contrasted the Futurists and the Graffuturists in an exhibition, book and documentary. Another group show of significance was BrooklynStreetArt.com's exhibition "Geometricks" which held high the torch of Abstract Graffiti in it's title and Progressive Graffiti in its roster, which included Hellbent (the curator), Augustine Kofie, Drew Tyndell, Momo, OverUnder and SeeOne. One of the most significant of the many murals and "in situ" collaborations painted this year by Graffuturist-related artists was the abstract mural painted on the Megaro Hotel by Agents of Change members Remi Rough, Augustine Kofie, Lx.One, and Steve More, which is currently the largest mural ever painted in London. Also, a slew of solo and duo exhibitions opened every month around the world by many of the artists associated with Graffuturism and Progressive Graffiti: Poesia, Dale Marshal, Part2ism, Remi Rough, Augustine Kofie, Jaybo Monk, Mark Lyken, Moneyless, Carlos Mare, She One, Matt W. Moore, Jurne, Greg Lamarche, Delta, Hense, Rae Martini, Marco Pho Grassi, and Graphic Surgery. In order to see the full scope of activities though, one would have to go back through Graffuturism.com for a complete review.
Above and beyond the growing interest in Progressive Graffiti is the expanding interest in the over-all culture as well during these first two decades of the new millennium. Massive museum exhibitions encompassing the full spectrum of subcultures and historical threads within the Graffiti and Street Art cultures have also opened to wide acclaim. The success of ticket sales for "Street Art" in 2008 at the Tate Modern in London and "Art in the Streets" in 2011 at the MOCA in Los Angeles revealed the mass cultural interest of these art movements and all the art forms that are connected to them. The fact that these two exhibitions happened at all signifies the growing acceptance by the fine art community as well.
These museum exhibitions, as well as the trend towards many other smaller historical exhibitions, such as "Deep Space" and "Futurism 2.0" at the end of 2012, and "Pantheon: A history of Art from the Streets of NYC" in 2011, indicate a new interest in the study of the history and cultural significance of these movements. Other indicators are the release of high quality scholarly books, articles and movies, such as "Abstract Graffiti" by Cedar Lewisohn in 2011; "Beyond Graffiti" published in ArtNews in 2011 by Carolina Miranda; the 2005 documentary "Next: A Primer on Urban Painting" by Pablo Aravena; and "The Feral Diagram 2.0: Graffiti and Street Art" published in 2012 by Daniel Feral. These are all testament to the growing enthusiasm of scholars, historians, and theoreticians to examine, define and record the fifty year history of graffiti and street art, and recently in particular the Progressive Graffiti thread. Like any misunderstood movement before these, such as rock'n'roll, comic books, and cinema, eventually the art forms, the audiences and the scholars united to finally recognize the movement's undeniable cultural value, relevance and resonance in all their forms from the simple and visceral to the esoteric and intellectual.
Text by Daniel Feral
On Friday, Dec 14, 2012, the eponymously-titled "Graffuturism" exhibition curated by Poesia, the founder of Graffuturism.com, opens in the new Soze Gallery location at 2020 E 7th St, Unit B, Los Angeles, CA, 90021.
The complete artist list in alphabetical order by first name is as follows: 2501, Aaron De La Cruz, Augustine Kofie, Boris "Delta" Tellegen, Carl Raushenbach, Carlos Mare, Clemens Behr, Derek Bruno, Doze Green, Duncan Jago, DVS 1, El Mac, Eric Haze, Erosie, Franco "Jaz" Fasoli, Futura, Gilbert 1, Greg "Sp One" Lamarche, Graphic Surgery, Hense, Hendrik "ECB" Beikirch, Jaybo Monk, Joker, Jurne, Kema, Kenor, Lek, Marco "Pho" Grassi, Matt W. Moore, Moneyless, O.Two, Part2ism, Poesia, Rae Martini, Remi Rough, Samuel Rodriguez, Sat One, Sever, Shok-1, Sowat, Steve More, West, Will Barras.
Images of the Week 07.24.11
Our weekly interview with the street, this week including DodieBoy, Dust Lust, Freddy Sam, Jaz, Lia Smaka, MSK, N'DA, Risk, Samson, Seh Palito, Sever, Swoon, Tian, Trustocorp, Various & Gould, and Wane.
Congratulations to the hundreds of newlywed couples in New York's streets today!
Swoon's "Ice Queen" was originally conceived as part of her installation for the "Art in The Streets" exhibition at LA MOCA is now on the streets of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon "Ice Queen", detail. Originally conceived as her entry for the "Art in The Streets" at LA MoCA is now on the streets of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Swoon's Ice Queen at "Art in the Streets" currently on view at LA MOCA Geffen Contemporary. (photo © Jaime Rojo). For BSA's coverage on "Art in the Streets" click below: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jaime-rojo-steven-harrington/street-color-art-in-the-s_b_849495.html#s264887
Swoon. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Swoon will also be participating in "Street Art Saved My Life: 39 New York Sories" August 12 in Venice, Los Angeles, CA.
Swoon. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This Various & Gould piece has been winking at me from the heights of a rooftop in Brooklyn for a long time now. I'm grateful for the opportunity to get a closer look at it. (photo © Jaime Rojo) Various & Gould will be participating in "Street Art Saved my Life: 39 New York Stories" In Venice, Los Angeles, CA.
Dust Lust (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DodieBoy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
MSK, COD, Sever, Wane and Risky (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JAZ and Freddy Sam (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ND*A (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zeh Palito (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TrustoCorp recently appeared in all sorts of places in New York with their witty and realistic signs. This one alerts us to the arrival of Pigeon Season, which officially ends … when? (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Samson and Lia Smaka (photo © Jaime Rojo)
We sadly mark the passing of talented singer Amy Winehouse, who left us yesterday at the age of 27. Thanks to TIAN in Paris for sharing this. (photo © TIAN)
Hail to the Street : Presidents Day Street Art
February 21, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street
Happy Presidents Day! In the US this is a holiday, officially to celebrate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, whose birthdays were commemorated separately until about a decade ago when they were merged. A lot of New Yorkers think today about skiing, since it's really the last 3 day weekend of the winter – and it's snowing this morning so a lot of kids will be shoved outside by their parents to go play in it. Or they may take them to the Met , Guggenheim, or MOMA, which are all open today.
George Washington by the Street Artist named Senator (photo © Jaime Rojo)
But back to the gallery of the street, which is always open, we can get a little history lesson too. Everybody knows that Shepard Fairey nailed it with his Obama posters a couple of years ago, but did you realize that Street Artists have been putting up many presidential portraits over the last decade? One artist, Senator, sometimes confused people with wheat-pasted pieces in the late 2000s because his name signed to the image lead you to think it was about the subject, like the George Washington image above. His black and white coloring-book style depicted many presidents – Lincoln, Adams, Jefferson, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan. As you can see below, Senator is not the only Street Artists to find US presidents a worthy topic.
Senator (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Abraham Lincoln by Visual Resistance (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Smoking Jack Kennedy by Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Richard Nixon by Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ronnie talk to Keith; The Gipper shaking the hand of a Photoshopped Keith Hernandez from a street art viral campaign a couple of years ago. Photo © Jaime Rojo
Sever focuses on the the Bush Cheney duo. Primary Flight Miami 2008 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The simple placement of a dollar sign was all this Street Artist needed to complete their portrait of George W. Bush. Photo © Jaime Rojo
President Obama's image next to Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth is appropriated by Street Artist General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)
One of the many Obama street art pieces from 2008, this one is similar to the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey images around at that time. © Jaime Rojo
Brooklyn Street Art: 2010 Year In Images (VIDEO)
December 20, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, Florida, Manhattan, Miami, NYC, On the Street, Queens
We're very grateful for a wildly prolific year of Street Art as it continued to explode all over New York (and a lot of other places too). For one full year we've been granted the gift of seeing art on the streets and countless moments of inspiration. Whether you are rich or poor in your pocket, the creative spirit on the street in New York makes you rich in your heart and mind.
To the New York City artists that make this city a lot more alive every day we say thank you.
To the artists from all over world that passed through we say thank you.
To our colleagues and peers for their support and enthusiasm we say thank you.
To the gallery owners and curators for providing the artists a place to show their stuff and for providing all of us a safe place to gather, talk, share art, laugh, enjoy great music and free booze we say thank you.
To our project collaborators for sharing your talents and insights and opinions and for keeping the flame alive we say thank you.
And finally to our friends, readers and fans; Our hearts go out to you for lighting the way and for cheering us on. Thank you.
Each Sunday we featured Images of the Week, and we painfully narrowed that field to about 100 pieces in this quick video. It's not an encyclopedia, it's collage of our own. We remember the moment of discovery, the mood, the light and the day when we photographed them. For us it's inspiration in this whacked out city that is always on the move.
The following artists are featured in the video and are listed here in alphabetical order:
Aakash Nihalani,Bansky, Barry McGee, Bask ,Bast, Beau, MBW, Bishop ,Boxi, Cake, The Dude Company, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Dain, Dan Witz ,Dolk ,El Mac, El Sol 25, Elbow Toe, Faile, Feral, Overunder, Gaia, General Howe, Hellbent, Hush, Imminent Disaster, Jeff Aerosol, Jeff Soto, JMR ,Judith Supine ,K-Guy ,Labrona, Lister, Lucy McLauchlan, Ludo, Armsrock, MCity, Miso, Momo, Nick Walker, Nina Pandolfo, NohjColey, Nosm, Ariz, How, Tats Cru, Os Gemeos, Futura, Pisa 73, Poster Boy, QRST, Remi Rough, Stormie Mills, Retna, Roa, Ron English, Sever, She 155, Shepard Fairey ,Specter, Sten & Lex, Samson, Surge I, Sweet Toof, Swoon, Tes One, Tip Toe, Tristan Eaton, Trusto Corp, Typo, Various and Gould, Veng RWK, ECB, White Cocoa, Wing, WK Interact, Yote.
Images of Week 01.03.10
January 3, 2010 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week, Miami, Week in Images
BSA: Miami
We start 2010 with a bag of sea-shells and this bounty of inspiring Street Art images from warm sunny Miami – which was a break from the bitter coldness of BK for a bit. Heartfelt gratitude to Typoe for showing us what's up and who, together with a dude named Books, has built the one-of-a-kind Primary Flight show on the streets of Miami's Wynwood District over the past three years during Art Basel.
With a vision that speaks to the next decade of public art, these guys have coordinated with local businesses, galleries, graff/street artists, and the City of Miami to clear the way for what is turning into a global gallery on the street. Without self-aggrandizing rhetoric, these peeps are developing a model for building an art scene while keeping the edge and encouraging experimentation. So far the "collection" doesn't risk the blanding that can happen when bureaucrats, committees, or self-appointed art critics insert themselves, or when corporate sponsors commodify the spirit.
It's worth mentioning that this is just one more case of artists revitalizing abandoned blighted areas of the urban landscape, of their own volition, with grit, determination, and vision.
During a whirlwind tour last week of Primary Flight sites (and many others who have jumped into the game) we witnessed a diverse, energetic mix of graff, old-school, art school, graphic design, sculpture, illustration, surrealism… all part of the developing Street Art vocabulary that we're witnessing in Brooklyn and NYC at large. Thanks to Typoe and Giovana for their kind hospitality and insight.
We hope you enjoy the Dade County Bounty: a past and present explosion of art on the streets of Miami.
One stunning example of what's happening – this female form is answered with a male counterpart further down the street (J. Robles) (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Yes, it's all aerosol, friends. (J. Robles) (detail) (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Evils does a Medusa on an 3 sided block-long wall completely covered with new pieces (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Retna and Mac's '08 entry still stands on a massive wall – using a self-developed symbol library that functions as an alphabet. Typoe says certain people can read it. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Retna and Mac (detail) – the circular fine line patterning on the boy in this piece was accomplished by keeping the cans in an ice cooler – and fine can control of course. (photo © Jaime Rojo)


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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 17TH FEB 2017
1. CABINET APPROVALS ON FEBRUARY 15
i. The Union Government chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi approved setting up of Food Legumes Research Platform at Amlaha, Sehore in Madhya Pradesh for meeting the emerging food security challenges.
ii. The Cabinet approved the signing of Air Services Agreement between Rwanda and India which will enable the airlines of the 2 countries to operate services in each others' territory.
iii. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval to award contract in 31 contract areas under Discovered Small Fields Policy 2016.
iv. The Union Cabinet approved the merger of the SBI with its 5 subsidiary banks namely State Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Hyderabad and State Bank of Travancore.
2. INDIAN PANAROMA FILM FESTIVAL BEGINS IN PORT BLAIR
i. The Indian Panorama Film Festival started in Port Blair. About 15 films of different languages and different genre will be screened at two different venues.
ii. The 5 day film festival has been organised by the Directorate of Information, Publicity & Tourism, Andaman & Nicobar Administration in association with the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Directorate of Film Festivals/IFFI, New Delhi, Govt of India and inaugurated by the Chief Secretary, Andaman & Nicobar Administration, Shri Anindo Majumdar at DBRAIT Auditorium, Dollygunj, Port Blair.
3. KERALA CABINET GIVES IN-PRINCIPLE APPROVAL FOR GREENFIELD AIRPORT AT SABARIMALA
i. The Kerala cabinet gave its in-principle approval for setting up a Greenfield Airport at pilgrim centre Sabarimala located at the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghat mountain ranges of Pathanamthitta District, Kerala.
ii. The state government has also directed Kerala State Industrial Development Corp to conduct a study on the proposed airport.
iii. The airport will cater to the needs of lakhs of devotees who visit the famous Lord Ayyappa hill shrine every year by reducing the traffic congestion.
4. INDIA RANKED 143 IN THE 2017 INDEX OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM INDEX
i. India has been ranked 143 out of 186 countries in the annual Index of Economic Freedom 2017 released by top US based Think Tank, The Heritage Foundation.
ii. Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand are the top three nations in the Index respectively.
iii. India has been placed in the category of "Mostly Unfree" Economies.
iv. Among South Asian countries, only Maldives (157) and Afghanistan (163) were ranked below India. Sri Lanka (112), Nepal (125), Pakistan (141), Bangladesh (128) and Bhutan (107) surpassed India in economic freedom.
5. RBI WILL REIMBURSE BANKS MDR CHARGES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2017
i. The Reserve Bank of India has decided to reimburse banks Merchant Discount Rate charges on debit cards used by citizens for payment with effect from January 1, 2017.
ii. In December 2016, the government had decided to absorb the merchant discount rate charges in respect of debit card transactions for making payments to it to encourage people to use digital payments.
iii. RBI has directed the banks to forward their claim for reimbursement of MDR along with statutory auditor's certificate to RBI's Nagpur office on a quarterly basis.
v. The banks will have to certify that MDR charges for transaction amounts up to Rs 1 lakh have not been collected from the payer.
6. CITI BANK LAUNCHES INSTANT CHAT SERVICE FOR CUSTOMERS
i. Mumbai based Citi Bank has launched instant chat services for customers named Citibank Online. With this India become the 1st country in Asia Pacific within the Citi network to have this kind of service.
ii. CBOL will focuses on resolving queries instantly regarding loans, cards, domestic and non-resident accounts, and online transactions.
iii. It will feature a regular chat facility for generic query resolutions. It does not require additional verification for the customer once logged in and authenticated.
7. RBI DOUBLES GOLD LOAN LIMIT FOR REGIONAL RURAL BANKS TO RS. 2 LAKHS
i. The Reserve Bank of India increased the gold loan limit for RRBs to Rs 2 lakh from the current Rs 1 lakh to help the farmers and artisans have access to credit who are willing to pledge gold as collateral.
ii. The limit has been twice for the loans not exceeding 12 months from the date of sanction.
iii. The facility will be available with bullet repayment scheme. Under the scheme, while interest will be charged on a monthly basis on the total outstanding, it will become due for payment along with principal only at the end of 12 months from the date of sanction.
iv. However, RBI has also directed that the gold loans should not exceed 75% of the value of the gold pledged for taking the loan.
8. EDAPPADI K PALANISWAMI APPOINTED AS THE NEW CM OF TAMIL NADU
i. The TamilNadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao appointed Edappadi K Palaniswami as 13th CM of the state. His appointment is in acceptance of the letter submitted by Palaniswami that he was elected as the leader of the AIADMK legislature party at a meeting of the party MLAs.
ii. O Panneerselvam was appointed as the CM within hours of death of AIDMK supremo and CM J Jayalalithaa. Later Panneerselvam stepped down paving the way for Sasikala to be elected its legislature party leader who was already chosen AIADMK general secretary.
9. VIKAS SWARUP APPOINTED INDIA'S NEXT ENVOY TO CANADA
i. The Indian Foreign Service Vikas Swarup was appointed as India's High Commissioner to Canada. He will replace Syed Akabarudddin , who is moved as serving as India's Permanent representative in the UN.
ii. Vikas is currently working as the spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs.
iii. He has penned few books is best known for his novel 'Q&A' which was later adopted into a movie 'Slumdog Millionaire'.
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS BASED ON TODAY'S NEWS
Q1. THE 5 DAY INDIAN PANORAMA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 HAS BEEN ORGANIZED IN WHICH STATE/UNION TERRITORY?
a) Goa
b) New Delhi
c) Maharashtra
d) Andaman & Nicobar Island
Q2. THE UNION CABINET HAS APPROVED TO SET UP FOOD LEGUMES RESEARCH PLATFORM IN WHICH STATE?
a) West Bengal
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Haryana
d) Gujarat
Q3. WHAT IS THE RANK OF INDIA IN THE INDEX OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM 2017?
Q4. THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF KERALA HAS GIVEN ITS IN-PRINCIPLE APPROVAL FOR SETTING UP A GREENFIELD AIRPORT AT WHICH OF THE GIVEN PLACE PILGRIM SPOTS?
a) Sri Vallabha Temple
b) Thirunelly Temple
c) Mahadeva Temple
d) Sabarimala
Q5. WHO HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE 13TH CHIEF MINISTER OF TAMIL NADU?
a) Edappadi K Palaniswami
b) K T Rajenthra Bhalaji
c) K A Sengottaiyan
d) P Balakrishna Reddy
1 - D 2 - B 3 - C 4 - D 5 - A