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Special Announcements:
Blade has NO signed agreement with any artist to copy his works, and has NOT participated in the makings of them.
All paintings are a FRAUD! without his personal signature.
BLADE AND PORTIA AT THERE NEW HOME IN FLORIDA 2012
CLICK ON THE BLADE FLYER ABOVE TO ENTER
Tull13,Death,Blade & Vamm Tull13,Death,Blade,Vamm
Richie,Tull 13,Death,Blade,Vamm,Freedom Richie,Tull13,Death,Blade,Vamm,Gear
The Crazy 5 reunion at the Shamrock pub!
BLADE'S BEST FRIEND Glazer
THE "BLADE boblehead dolls"
they will be coming out by xmas.
TO ORDER PLEASE EMAIL - queen.120@hotmail.com
Crazy5 reunion October 22nd,2011
Blade's promoter Letty & Blade!"Get Well Robbo" Sept.2011
CLASSIC CAR SHOW ORCHARD BEACH SEPT 2011
PJ, BLADE, PORTIA AND COMET
TRIBUTE WALL / SLAVE, MS TAZ, COMET, BLADE HAPPY 48 BIRTHDAY TOE 2011
VAMM, BLADE, COMET CLASSIC CAR SHOW SEPT 2011
KASE 2 "KING OF STYLE / REST IN PEACE 2011
1st Blade & Comet in action 2nd Blade Key & Comet chillin!August 2011
BLADE AND MICKEY PAINTING "THE PRIDE OF THE NETHERLANDS" SHARP JEAN GISMONDI AND BLADE
BLADE AND RECAL BLADE AUTOGRAPHS HIS BOOK
SHOE BLADE CAT GRAF FAN AND PAUL SHOE BLADE AND CLEO
BLADE CHILLIN AT KING HENRY THE 5TH BLADE CRACKING UP
BACK YARD OF JEAN GISMONDI HOME BLADE AND VINCENT VLASBLOM AT HIS PENTHOUSE
YAKI KORNBLIT BLADE AND VINCENT CHILLIN IN ANTIBES
BLADE TOUCHING UP HIS PAINTING BO-24
JOE SPENCER CAPTAIN GONZO AND BLADE
DANNY "RECAL" BLADE 17TH CENTURY LOVE SEAT
BLADE GENEEVER BOTTLE KING BLADE
DINING AT THE KING HENRY THE 4TH BASTIDE
"Fun Factory" July 30th 2011!
Meet Blade in person on June 26th at
the Artick's gallery
in
Amsterdam!
We broke the world record for
painting the longest wall in history!
Special thanks to Edo
& Mary for organizing a great event!
Slip, Blade & Cav in "A New York State of Mind!
July 9th in Nice on the French Riviera Meet
Blade
live Gallerie Helenbeck!
| Steven Ogburn, a graffiti artist also known as
Blade, with his wife Portia and Mr. Ogburn's 1972 Ford Thunderbird. Mr.
Ogburn’s father bought the Thunderbird new in 1972, for $5,800, and
passed it down to him a few years later. The car has been on the road
since.The car’s long hood and wide grille with four headlights are
complemented by period details like whitewall tires and a partial vinyl
roof.The big white coupe looks as if it just fishtailed out of “The
French Connection.”The Thunderbird has 238,000 miles on it. The mileage,
Mr. Ogburn says, is 5 miles per gallon in the city and slightly higher
on the highway.Mr. Ogburn's work is included in “Art in the Streets,” an
exhibition that opened last month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Los Angeles.Mr. Ogburn quit painting trains in 1984; now art collectors,
including Paul McCartney, buy his work.
FOR MORE INFO
CLICK LINKS BELOW http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/01/automobiles/collectibles/01ego-slideshow.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/automobiles/01EGO.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steven+ogburn&st=nyt |
BLADE IN FRONT OF TRIBUTE MURAL BY LEE TF5 SHARP FAB 5 AND BLADE IN L.A 2011
BLADE, CHEECH, FREEDOM, AND LEE BLADE AND SIMI AT HER GALLERY IN L.A
CLIFF 159, BLADE FAB 5 AND LEE TF5 TRIBUTE MURAL BY LEE 4-14-201 BLADE MEETS PAMELA ANDERSON IN L.A MOCA MUSEUM SHOW 2011
Blade & Martha at the MOCA4/2011 Blade & Os Gemeos chillin at the MOCA in LA 4/2011
BLADE FIRST NITE AT MOCA. MURAL PAINTED BY RIME AND RISK!
Blade and Portia at the "MOCA museum" in front of Blade tribute wall. On 4-14-11 in Los Angeles.
Rime painted in Blade's honor at "The Geffen Contemporary at Moca"
Blade & Portia at the Geneve switzerland airport Jan 2011
Blade &
Lee chilin at the Shepard Fairy show at the Jeffrey Deitch Gallery summer 2010
Blade & Portia riding above his eyeball piece!
"Blade, Ben, Ale one & James , December 2010 on the balcony!
:"Come meet Blade & Portia in
The Art
Franc's Gallery in Geneva,Switzerland
on December 2nd,2010 ,"The hostess
Ms.Brigitte Argieme"
Party time train
Just walking with my thoughts1
Tomorrow is Forever
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ERIC FIRESTONE GALLERY PRESENTS
"DOWN BY LAW"
AUGUST 14TH - SEPTEMBER 26TH 2010
East Hampton's Long Island N.Y
BLADE, MARTHA COOPER AND HENRY CHALFANT
WILL BE SIGNING SUBWAY ART BOOKS 6PM TO 9PM
EAST HAMPTON PRESS
Vamm of the original Crazy 5 from 1972
Chilling in the East Hamptons at Eric Firestone's Gallery by Blades new
masterpiece
that sold september 25th!
THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, AUGUST 19 2010
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Village Voice tuesday"s PAPERS 8/24/10 Ten Pioneering Pieces Of Hip-Hop Street Art |
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Blade and Coco 144 are two of the first-generation graffiti icons profiled in the exhibition. After coming to prominence in the '70s by painting his name on over 5,000 subway trains, Blade is certified graffiti royalty. Along with Andy Warhol, Blade is also the only living artist to have his work appear on the cover of the Sotheby's catalog. Fellow trailblazer Coco 144 made the train yard at Broadway and 137th Street his playground during the same era while also creating the world's first stencil movement--an invention that helped him swiftly spread his name throughout the city. With both artists on hand to offer expert commentary, here are ten pioneering examples of the development of New York City street art. Coco 144
Blade
Dondi White
Keith Haring
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Lady Pink
Keeping with the Wild Style theme, Ecuador-born but Queens-raised graffiti artist Lady Pink saw her profile rise after snagging a co-starring role in the film. While not the first female to roam the streets with a spray can in her hand, she came to define an era when she started to paint in 1979. Coco 144: "Lady Pink was representing the women who were painting at that time. Her work is dynamic." Blade: "One of the best artists I ever saw paint." Rammellzee
Recently departed gothic-futurist Rammellzee expressed himself in both music and painting, as if beaming in thoughts and ideas from another star system. In between preparing treatises pontificating on the symbolism of the alphabetic, Rammellzee also found time to grab a cameo in Wild Style, swaggering around on stage nursing a shotgun in one hand and a mic in the other. Blade: "He was further out there than the rest of us and expressed that in his work--you can always pick it out in a crowd because of the abstract angle. I was inspired by a lot of the madness that he was creating. He took the work into a totally different dimension to say the least." Coco 144: "Pretty much everything about Rammellzee wasn't about painting a name but about the abstract ideas behind his thinking." Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I remember Basquiat was writing his name as SAMO at one point, but I feel that he was in the right place at the right time to execute what he wanted to do," says Coco 144 of Basquiat's rise from street artist to darling of the downtown gallery scene. "I wouldn't say that he didn't execute it on the streets, because he did, but he also had a dialogue with Andy Warhol that allowed him to take the genre to another level. He was able to then execute his work in a studio setting." Furthering Basquiat's legend, he collaborated with Rammellzee and K-Rob for 1983's "Beat Bop"--a 12-inch release regularly lauded as the world's rarest and most expensive vinyl hip-hop record, due to Basquiat's cover artwork and the low number of copies pressed up. (Rumor also has it that Basquiat intended to rhyme on the track, until Rammellzee vetoed the idea.) Run-DMC Logo
Just as the trio of Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay helped herald a new era of hip-hop, favoring sparse beats and abrasive rhyming over the disco-influenced party agenda of the old school, so their logo signaled the start of what Coco 144 calls "the incorporation of street culture, or subway culture, into the commercial world." There's a degree of mystique about who created their logo--it's sometimes attributed to Haze; other rumors suggest it was formulated by someone at the group's record label--but its iconic power is undisputed. Today it's a staple for hip spin-off tees ("Run-LES"), and there's even a Run-DMC logo generator online. Haze
When it comes to the art of the golden-era hip-hop logo, Haze is king. After paying dues painting the same Broadway line trains as Coco 144, he transferred his skills into the graphic design realm, took advantage of hip-hop music's increased corporate set-up, and sketched out logos and album covers for Tommy Boy Records, EPMD, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys. Among his portfolio is the Cold Chillin' logo (pictured), which helped give a recognizable stamp of quality to releases from Marley Marl and his Juice Crew associates (Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Masta Ace, Roxanne Shante, Biz Markie, MC Shan). |
IN THE NEW YORK TIMES Sunday's PAPERS 8/22/10
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The Spray Can Gets Invited to the Gallery
WITH next month’s release of “Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art” (Taschen) and word that Jeffrey Deitch will be mounting a graffiti show at MoCA in Los Angeles, it is clear that street art — no matter how much of an eyesore it may be to some — is having a high-brow moment. It has even hit the Hamptons. “Down by Law,” a new show at the Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton, features rarely shown old and contemporary pieces from the pioneers of the genre. People like Coco 144; Mare 139; the late Dondi White (whose “Hammers in Hell” is at right); Dr. Revolt, who created the “Yo! MTV Raps” logo; and Blade, known as the King of the Trains, have tagged more than 5,000 of them. “Everyone’s into the term ‘street art’ — it’s become very sexy,” said Mr. Firestone, who, in visiting many of the artists in the outer boroughs, jokes that his graffiti name became GPS. “But there’s more to it than Banksy, and I’m hoping to open up that world.”
“Down by Law” runs through Sept. 26 at
the Eric Firestone Gallery, 4 Newtown Lane, East Hampton.
N.Y.;
(631) 604-2386,
ericfirestonegallery.com.
Credit: Eric Firestone Gallery
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FRONT PAGE "BLADE AND ZHANG DALI
AKA AK 47" 2010 MORE INFO >>>
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A public controversy surfaced in Beijing's newspapers in early 1998. At it's center was an image that had become familiar to the city's many urban residents: a spray painted profile of a large bald head, sometimes two meters tall. The graffiti head seemed to have been duplicating itself, and it's appearances gradually spread from the inner city to beyond the Third Ring Road,. Alone or in groups, the head was found within the confines of small neighborhoods and along major avenues. Who was the man behind these images.? What did he want to say or do.? Should he be punished when identified.? What kind of penalty should he receive.? Was the image a sort of public art and therefore legitimate.? What is public art anyway.? To a city of 10 million that had not been exposed to the graffiti art of the west, these questions were new. None of them had straightforward answers. |
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Blade is a member of one of graffiti's most famous crews. The Crazy Five. In the early 70's he and his boys Death, Vamm, Crachee, Tull, and his partner Comet bombed the trains with full force, often under the influence of various substances. Their style represents the freedom of youth, rock and roll, and teens with out limits making their mark. Blade career on the trains can be compared only to a select few other masters. His spontaneity and never-ending output made it possible for him to bring his most bizarre ideas to life. His images were not political, but more personally focused. The trains were his diary, Blade's pieces directly, reflected his real life. His favorite shirt, a night out partying with his friends, his bandmates: Blade used all of these things as his subject matter. He blasted out ideas that were simple and cartoony, but with a serious psychological energy and strange impact. |
THE AGENDA PHILADEPHIA
  
Henry Chalfant
STYLE FILE: Blade, the self-proclaimed king of graffiti,
says he’s tagged more than 5,000 subway cars. Shown are
three caught by photographer Henry Chalfant's lens.
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Blade & henry chalfant in PHILADEPHIA!
we like to thank the fans for purchasing all 150 books sold drexel university
special thanks to zeek!
PHILADEPHIA the city of brotherly love april 2010
Is it art or is it vandalism?
That's the question graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant says he gets the most. He'll seek to answer it with collaborator Martha Cooper and New York graffiti artist Blade at a Q&A, screening of street art doc Style Wars and signing of the 25th anniversary edition of Chalfant's book Subway Art (Chronicle), which includes 70 additional photographs and a new intro.
"You will see graffiti at its prime and be able to talk to the people who lived through and witnessed it firsthand," says Drexel event coordinator Zeek Weil of the multidisciplinary event produced by the university's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
Though Chalfant began his artistic career primarily as a sculptor, he became fascinated with graffiti and started photographing it in the mid-'70s. New York City was facing financial crisis and widespread poverty, but youth culture flourished on brick walls and the sides of trains with relative impunity to punishment. "It seemed that something that had started out as mischief turned into real art," Chalfant says. With director Tony Silver, the photographer produced the film Style Wars to document a clash in aesthetics: graffiti artists vs. the city.
While big corporations can flog people with their opinions through horizon-swallowing billboards, Chalfant argues, "graffiti introduced to the world a venue for youth, especially marginalized youth, to express themselves. Similar to hip-hop, it gave voice to people who did not have other forms of media."
The centerfold of Chalfant's Subway Art is a piece by Blade, the (UNDISPUTED!!!!!!) King of Graffiti. Though his work is now exhibited internationally, Blade fondly recalls his graffiti roots and echoes Chalfant's sentiment. "By the mid-'70s you have thousands of teens not having any trouble with each other, just running around the underground having fun," he says. "Graffiti was a way to express your creativity because all the school programs were being cut at that time." Between 1972 and 1984, Blade says he tagged more than 5,000 train cars.
Want to know how he did it without ever getting arrested? Ask him yourself during the Q&A with Chalfant, Cooper and Blade following the screening. Filmed during the early '80s, Style Wars highlights the heyday of graffiti and the beginnings of hip-hop culture, featuring prominent artists and scene celebs like breakdancer Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew. But the film has seen better days and needs restoration. Particularly inspired audience members are encouraged to make donations to the Style Wars film fund and get their names in the credits of a rereleased edition.
Since the event is meant to celebrate the finest of graffiti culture, Blade suggests you be prepared when you get in line for the book signing. "Don't bring some Sharpie," he says. "Bring me a silver paint marker to sign with." SPECIAL THANKS TO "CORNBREAD" FOR SPEAKING THAT NIGHT AT THE EVENT!
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