I really don’t go to NYC as much as I would like to. So when I do make the bus ride, I make sure to pack in as many things as I can handle. When I posted earlier about the opening, I knew there was no way I was missing this one.

Here are flicks from the show.

My FAVORITE piece of the show.

Detail of the piece above.

If You can afford it, he has 2 prints available for $600

This trip has been extremely inspirational for a stencil artist like myself and it has only fueled my creativity. Time to hit the studio!

_SKRIPT.

-BIGJUS

As you may or may not have heard, MCA aka Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys died today. There are two bands that have molded me as a person and have always been by my side in this lifetime and the Beastie Boys are one of them. My friend Jeremy introduced me to the Beastie Boys in 1989. Up until that point I had listened to a lot of hard rock, like Guns & Roses and Metallica (hey it was the 80′s) but in 7th grade, that’s when I became a man and started listening to new shit. Not many people were lucky enough to start out their fandom with Paul’s Boutique. This album was hated from the get go by die hard frat boys who wanted to fight for their right to puke. But to us suburbanites living in Texas, we finally got a taste of what our lives could be like. Within days we were rocking sambas and campuses. We paid this weird 18 year old with a fake to get us jugs of Brass Monkey so we could get smashed and try to bust windmills at Jeremy’s house. I ripped a VW logo off a bug and attached it to a chain and if you ever watch the ProSho that chain is still in my eye’s view daily. My mom asked me to stop calling her dog and my buddy Gordon and I started a Beastie Boys cover band with our first live performance of Boomin’ Granny at church camp. I have probably seen the Beastie Boys 10 times in my life going from the stage where I remember seeing old guys also at the show to becoming the old guy at the show. The Beastie Boys got me pumped up for major life experiences and even today I’ll hear a line in a song and I finally get what they are talking about. When I was young I was a huge fan of Adrock, but the older I got the more I appreciated the subtley of MCA. You never think you will be saddened when a person you have never met, and never really knew passes away – but I can tell you that today I am sad. Rest in Peace MCA. You helped form a generation.

This video is an instrumental version of Mullethead (a song featured on the Clueless soundtrack linked up with the skate scene on the halfpipe) Anyways, this is a rip from the Beastie Boys VHS entitled “Skills to Pay the Bills” a VHS I have owned since I was in Jr. High, and watched so much the first one broke so I bought a second on eBay. Anyways, this is MCA and this was some serious boarding back in the 90′s.

My good friend Vanessa Ly recently had a show at the old Proletariat spot, Kulturez and I was there to document the happenings. She has a very detailed style that depicts a world truly owned by her. Her playful black and white style contain serious undertones that permeate through her drawings.

Her prices in my mind, are DIRT CHEAP, and if you are interested in any of them, I suggest you get your ass to Kulturez and pick up a piece before they are all gone!

The shots from the night.

Still keeping kids in the game with a nice selection of paint.

The sticker case alive and kicking!

Remnants of years past.

All in all it was a good night, and it was nice to be back in that space.

_SKRIPT.

What’s up y’all? In our latest installment of The ProSho we discuss Jeff Soto’s Chevy Cruise propaganda, my new favorite writer Nychos from Vienna, Austria, Cinco de Mayo festivities, and we show you some graffiti footage I shot in Indiana backed up by Spose’s new album. Enjoy! And subscribe to the Proletariat TV Channel if you don’t want to miss a beat.

It’s time for you to listen to episode 7! Personally, I thought Big Jus and I wouldn’t even make it to episode 2, but we are well on our way to our 100th episode. In this episode Big Jus and I discuss our recent travels to the amazing metropolis of Indianapolis and the shitty, ice-cold wannabe vacation spot – Cancun.

If you use a computer, cell phone, credit card, television, or any other device attached to the internet or cable you should read this article. The NSA is building the world’s largest spy facility in the Utah desert. This facility will screen in real time, without warrants, your cell phone conversations, your text messages, your emails, your facebook and twitter, your credit card transactions and anything else connected to the internet or cable. This is not conspiracy theory talk, this is the real deal, and much of that is already happening now. This article talks about the filters that are un-constitutional yet somehow still in operation that already screen cell phone conversations and mark users who “sound like terrorists.” Then if you are in that person of interests circle of contacts you are also marked as a person of interest and all of your phone calls are recorded and stored as well.

Let’s look at the Occupy movement. This was a non-violent movement that challenged authority and many of the services that helped get the word out about the movement (twitter, Isp’s) also turned over private data of the more outspoken leaders directly to the police. Imagine if there was ever a real uprising. Or imagine if you wanted to run for office and your enemy who was already in office pulled some strings to check your email or your porn history in your browser and then used that against you. In a land where there is no privacy, the only people with privacy are the ones in control, and they usually have the most shit to hide. Honestly, I don’t have the answer on what to do from here. We are all obviously connected and invested in this new communication medium, but at what cost?

Go ahead and read the article and decide for yourself if you feel comfortable with what the people we pay are doing with our money. Remember this, just because you are a good person who literally has nothing to hide (which is no one btw) doesn’t mean the people pulling the strings can’t completely fuck you over when necessary. There are way too many men and women on death row for crimes they didn’t commit to believe that shit.

For some brands, it’s seeing the latest slut wearing their jeans after their Hollywood sex tape gets released. For other brands it’s a Guido knocking the hair gel out of his girlfriend’s weave on MTV. For Proletariat, it’s shit like this. Our buddy Greg Faxon, is one of the stars bringing hip hop to the deaf in this video No Church in The Wild, by Jay-Z and Kanye West. This is what separates us from all the other cookie cutter brands out there – talented, intelligent people. Nice work Greg!

Thanks to the Huffington Post for the original story.