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Love this new mural by @bear_2.1.5 on Carpenter between 7th and 8th! (Photo by Streets Dept Contributor, @ericinphilly)Congrats to @cooldudesarchive and @highartproductions for an incredible pop-up exhibition this weekend in Fishtown... And y’all, their book, ‘Create Destroy Conquer,’ will be available for purchase online tomorrow: Check out @highartproductions’ page for more details!"...I freestyled 100% of the art that went inside of the crack, so it was all influenced by my emotion and the environment..." I'm absolutely in LOVE with this new mural from Philly-based artist @culturesclothing, finished this week in South Philly (2nd and Washington)... Click the link in my bio now to see more photos and to read my interview with the artist!Tonight and tomorrow ONLY: Don't miss this weekend's pop-up exhibition celebrating legendary graffiti crew, The CDC, hosted by @highartproductions (FRI 6-10pm, SAT 3-10pm at Front and Oxford streets in Fishtown)... The exhibition will give you the opportunity to see some new pieces that The CDC crew has just put up. It’ll be your first chance to purchase their book. And it’ll give you a chance to make a donation to the fund that's raising money for the medical expenses of one of the crew’s own who is currently in need of a kidney transplant... Come out and show your support, much more info now at the link in my bio!PHILLY: You will NOT want to miss this... Nationally acclaimed graffiti crew, The CDC, is hosting a two-day, pop-up exhibition in Fishtown this weekend with @highartproductions: Click the link in my bio now to read more!🔈Sound on!🌸🌳🤗 (Mural by @_david_guinn, located at 13th and Pine streets)Shout out to the two sold out tours this month that let me spend a few hours walking them around to see a bunch of my favorite works around The Gayborhood... June’s tour to be announced soon, stay tuned! (Photo by @Fhweiner; mural by @candychangland) ❤️Cranes, and trains, and automobiles.Y’all: An awesome new mural has just popped up in Northern Liberties by a pair Philly artists, @NileLivingston and @UriahB_, commissioned by @SunkistGrowers... Click the link in my bio now to read my interview with the artists! #Ad💚 (by @amberellaxo)HERE'S THE THING: In the 1990s and 2000s when Philadelphia started to make skateboarding in LOVE Park more difficult with redesigned benches, buffers to make skating all but impossible and steep fines for anyone who tried, even Ed Bacon (one of LOVE Park’s original designers) began to advocate for the skateboarders. Ed was so smartly pleased that the skateboarders had found a new use for the space he designed that at age 92 he even skated in LOVE Park in protest of the city's crackdown (and yes, there's a video of it on YouTube)... Can you imagine if our city's public and private leaders were smart enough to leave (the old) LOVE Park and now Graffiti Pier alone, or better yet if they were smart enough to outright give these spaces to the skateboarders and graffiti writers (respectively) that made them what they became? If our leaders saw the value in letting iconic, community-created spaces thrive and not put the people that created them under threat?... I don't know, I don’t have the talent to be a skateboarder or a graffiti writer, but I have so much respect for these communities and I feel like I know what's right here; and what's right is to give these spaces to the communities that have shown them love for decades and in the process made them some of the most iconic spaces in Philly... If this interests you or, hell, if you've read this far already, check out my article this week in @PlanPhilly: Link in my bio now.Departments
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