heavyLox

id like the 15 years ago me to meet the me of today...

the only knife i use is to butter my bread. KEEP the doe flowing heavy.... leathermen are useful these other knives are a waste of doe...unless you camp and do outdoors man shit. i use my SAP gloves when i masturbate.

NFN but zek has really stepped his game up over 2007. BIG IT UP PAPA!

|| no fasy dat

its too bad he stuck playing his 'popular' tunes cause my man has a deep catalog

Freddy is NON_replaceable.

COMEDY... bates makes good style writing.

NO0B does no one play battlefield 2 any more? That was the first experience i had with live, it hooked me i got dyslexic and ended up getting COD4. But i want battlefield but not if no one plays it anymore.

some how BOB has gone through this, hes what most people who have never heard reggie b4 have heard of, thus reggie fans look down on you if you say i like BOB; but really its only if the only album you own is legend, where you're some what tool status. BOB made SOOOOO much music that still kills the culture music of today. Its too bad there is a decline in instrumentation in the reggie world now. cause the money nah run for bands or theres a conflict of interest most reggae artists ar solo acts, one dude voice, one dude produce the rhythms, shits less then it could be in terms of the artistry. To make money you have to ALWAYS make next tunes and TOUR, stage shows are where the money is. you cant tougher then BOB. the man get rated number one for iver. However there are some super strong next singers and djs to hold the vibe.

and hesh and daim weren't doing their 3d letters with bits of overlap at the time ether right? to me that was the impetuses of much of it. applying the concepts of light and shade to wild-style letters; based on seeing them 'realistically' painted on 3d pieces.

of course UW wasnt doing that then at all.

yeah it was definitely him latching on....

but still the game is ON

(Maybe not the tuff as nails dudes you want protecting your country, in this one)

those pillows... i could sleep on one.

there is no such thing a illegal writing the doesnt stand a chance at getting buffed...

JIVE TALKING TURKEYS

washed up... hahaha.

KOH i have things to say about your latest piece as well as others, its been a slightly more taxing day at work... but i will. I feel bad in that i have been ultra uninspired to make any work lately, or at least work that is appropriate for a thread such as this; so being critical and not also participating with work atr a decent level makes me feel douche-like. so Im guilty of opinions and no work.

to be clear i did state i might have over croppedededed... to me the space at top and space at bottom is almost equidistant thus is neutralizes some bang IMO. *** starting the excuse train before the piece is even done is wackola son.

landscape, nice; def the stronger of the three.

Normally I am a huge fan of KOH. however this piece to me reads as unilaterally applying what you know (line) to something your less familiar with (absract form). theres a strange mix of stuff going on in this piece... the tattoo influence- the pointillist style of shading southwestern feel of the yellow- reads like adobe work/glaze to me. the over all low contrast and grey value Heavy black border, of inconsistent width. materials and yet they all are things that are well with in your comfort zone they combine into a semi predictable product. Id like to see you work with a SHIT brush (bristles stick all which-a-way, from aggressive use and poor up keep) and non sharpened pencils. IN many ways this piece suffers from the opposite pitfalls as Harveys pieces; your over controlling your work. Which is cool and needed for most of what you do, tattoos and really anal line drawings, that are awesome btw. this piece however seems to have gotten away from you in the number of competing elements that dont resolve into a harmonious piece or into enough of a conflict to start a good internal dialog with in the elements themselves. in the end to me your ability to work abstractly is gonna center around your ability to relinquish control for a bit and allow your pieces to speak back to you in a creative dialog instead of forcing your will on it. Even your list of materials seems overly controlled; sort of like you pre-decided those were the things the would allow you to create an abstract work. Control control control. Let go luke.

1.) 2.) I think both of these images fall victim to the same thing, which many many of us are also victimized by, material seduction. Wood grain, Cracked and weathered surfaces, drips. TO me the first piece you posted is the stronger of the two; but still kinda of weak, or restrained or something. The material seduction is a trap that stops you from controlling your picture; the natural material is so strong that you don't want to ruin it my adding to it so you hold back. In these cases, ether choose materials you hold less dear or fearlessly destroy the piece of wood, in hopes or emerging on the other side with a 'new' thing you've made. Drag it through the gravel, beat it with a hammer, or otherwise own the canvas. Treating it as a precious object to start with, will always take over the piece and you will end up with a piece of wood with something you stamped on top; instead of a well integrated piece you created. Does that make sense? I like the direction of the black line work. The line weight could vary a bit more. And i think that after the initial line starts (i read it from the bottom left) the line then turns in to predictable fake script; not enough variation in interacting the top and bottom of the wood. the black becomes centered and contrived. the black dots read similarly, as well as the orange drips. It may serve this kind of piece well to work via a process of chaos control and element removal. There are few people, with in the context of this site, joker and BOBOjingles come pretty close, who can work via a process of controlled addition. That is their images appear to start from nothing and end with just enough; their pictures work with a sense of efficiency very controlled use of materials; theres jsut enough of everything. The rest of us can achieve the same thing via the opposite approach. put EVERYTHING you have onto/into the canvas. Then create your picture through the process of removing the bits that don't belong. In many ways this becomes a process of negotiation. building up and areas while destroying other areas. The Timber piece i like less theres a false tension by the lines approaching the edge but not breaking it. I dont see a clear reason for the line work to start and stop where it does. and again it reads as a piece wood and line drawing instead of one piece. *****edited into more readable paragraphs

this has received a lot of positive feed back; I feel like its placement within the picture plane makes this a less interesting piece then it could be if say the if the picture were framed or the work was a little less Centered. I TRIED TO CROP IT TO SHOW MY THINKING. with the cropped image to me the external shapes created by the lines, quartering the page become more exciting and visually dynamic. However it also creates slightly suffocating and locked in areas, that could be alleviated by breaking some of the line work; so not a continuous line and or by varying the line weight more. At the top i cropped the image so the edge isn't broken but its close enough to divide the top of the picture in to two pieces while also creating a greater level of tension between the line and edge. this top space, along with my suggestion of breaking the lines a bit allows for alternative visual navigation. That is to say it would allow the viewers eyes to move through the image by both following the lines and by moving in and out of the spaces created by the lines. And with the addition of well place gaps the eye would be able to move more fluidly through the piece instead of hitting the line like a wall and having to back up and find an alternate route through the picture. I like the use of transparency where the orange overlaps the blue. that being said everything else sort of sits on the same plane; the whole picture to me, sits at sea level. The transparency allows some opportunity to add some depth to the image. The depth of the image will also be affected by varying the line weight. As well as adding to the space and relative 'air' separating the various intertwined elements. The blue is really heavy and draws the eye in like a magnet. Whats nice is the way the line work acts to tug you away from the blue and sling shots you right back in to the blue... Over all i like the picture, the direction is right the feel is right and the image reads as honest and not trying to be anything other then what it is. Nice. **** i might have over cropped. *****edited into more readable paragraphs

yeah take it...bitch. ||