Jack O’Neill.
In love with a lifestyle I can't afford
REVOK SHOW @ KNOWN GALLERY
REVOK
Born in Riverside, Ca. in 1977 Los Angeles based REVOK discovered art through his fathers collection of 60′s & 70′s album covers, comic books, and skateboarding. In 1990 REVOK began sneaking out of the 2nd story window of his parents home to write graffiti around his neighborhood… 21 years later not much has changed despite numerous arrests, Jail time and fines in the U.S. and overseas.
REVOK enjoys traveling and painting graffiti, He is currently the target of a political war against Graffiti and street art led by Los Angeles city attorney Carmen Trutanich and the L.A. Sheriffs dept. REVOK’s art explores the struggle of survival and dominance between opposing perspectives that is perpetual action around us in our shared common spaces.
REVOK has shown in LA’s MOCA in the “Art in the streets” Exhibition, as well as The Pasadena Musuem of Contemporary art’s “Street Cred” Both in 2011.
2Tones Pick of the Week
Who says that gangsters can’t be classy. With the profits from the sales of various street substances a notorious LA street gang began to invest in the classier things in life.
Bored with the trappings of the rich, the cars clothes and homes, they invested in the actual skill sets of the upper class, polo, linguistics, and the arts.
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ART WITH NORM.
Norm and I cooking up some marvelous shit in the lab. Be on the lookout got the Norm/TLFI graphic coordination coming soon.. Nilbog the God and Omar Little sat in and generally fucked shit up. Check out Norm’s tatts and various hijinks:
Guitar Solo
Don’t know how I missed this one, this is dope.
I’m halfway through with the edit for Radio Song…
My next video, I want to go to the D and shoot Danny Brown on his home turf…
Get Bruised. @XDannyXBrownX
Check out the TLFI Piss shirt that the guitar player has on.
Sketch of the Day
MOCA: Art in the Streets
TLFI founder Alex 2tone went to check out the MOCA: Art in the Streets exhibit. If you missed it (ended today) enjoy his photo blog:
2Tones Pick of the Week
7th letter / TLFI Coordinated Graphic Effort
Backstory.. Before 7th Letter was a brand it was a graffiti crew, or a combo of graffiti crews. The Crews, started by EKLIPS, are AWR and MSK, which essentially are one big crew divided by 3 letters each. AWR are the older guys and MSK are the younger, hungrier dudes. There was a time when all AWR members pushed MSK as well as AWR, and then there was a movement in MSK for autonomy led by the leader of that crew (GKAE). Many members of AWR are also members of MSK, or just gravitated to MSK, because the AWR guys got fat and lazy (Present company included) and they still had the urge to do graffiti. Either way, the MSK guys became bigger and more well known then AWR, which was interesting because MSK was, at a time kind of a stepping stone for AWR members. Either way, AWR killed it, MSK kills it currently, and were all family, no matter what we choose to write… I got a little sidetracked here.
What I meant to say, is that the 7th Letter Crew is an extension of the AWR/MSK thing that’s been going strong for some 20 plus years. 7th Letter is a really good segue for a bunch of guys who have given their lives over to doing graffiti and to their crew and a testament to EKLIPS for being able to keep this shit alive for as long as I’ve ever seen any graffiti crew stay relevant. I’m sure some of my facts are mixed up, but that’s the general layyout as I remember it.
This tee is a combo of 7the letter iconography and TLFI logos. And that’s all I have on that.
- 2TONE AWR/MSK/7th LTTR.
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2011 Trade Shows
APATHY RAPATHY
Check out CT’s Atlas, (because he’s holding up Connecticut on his back) Apathy, doing what he does best. Rappin his ass off. I knew then sweatshirts would come in handy. We can’t wear that cold weather shit till after X-Mas. Get a palm tree in your life. Preach.