A rough X’mas e-card to you all, I wish you all to have a wonderful
Christmas holiday and celebration with your family, friends or your beloved.
For those who have been working throughout the year for their jobs or dreams,
please take a good rest! Loves from Invasian.
To be precise, Mellowpark is running by a community called “all eins e.V.”
and this community had its 10th birthday one week ago. I was invited to join
their celebration and witness the 10 years development. My bf Mo told me
that Jens is like a magician that he has turned the concept of Mellowpark
from nothing to the biggest outdoor skate/sportspark nowadays in Europe.
To celebrate their 10th year anniversary, “all eins e.V.” also released a book
about the ten years development of the community and the Mellowpark.
Here are some photos that I took at the party. Sorry I know the quality
of the pictures is not good enough, just want to give you the feeling and vibe.
This gonna be the last post of my Finland trip. I really have to say BIG BIG
thanks to my homie Trama that he told me a lot about the graffiti history
of Finland as well as showed me all those important areas such as the first
hall of fame in Helsinki, the Helsinki graffiti place of birth and the train yard.
The Zero Tolerance project in Finland started in 1998, after 10 years
and all the debates, it stopped and brought this over 80 meters official
legal wall in Suvilahti. It looked endless to me when I walked there.
The below image could not show you the whole thing, check the photos
and every wall started with the new sign belonged to the wall.
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Some photos from the painting section.
To continue the preceding post about Finland, I would like to share you the photos
that I took in MTN gallery in Finland – Make Your Mark Garage / Gallery. I have been
travelling to visit the MTN family since the MTN Distributors Barcelona Meeting 2005.
Back then I was just helping my friend Dofi, the first MTN distributor in Hong Kong,
to take note during the meeting as his partner can’t join the meeting. I was really
the lucky one. Then I took over the Asia distribution in 2008, well, shit happened,
anyway, now the distribution runs by 3 parties, Dirty-Panda, Stan, and me.
Sorry I was off topic, before I went to Finland, I was still thinking of Timo & Kims,
who were the Finnish representative in the meeting, I wondered how I could visit
the distributors there although I have been hearing the rumors that they are in
super trouble. Somehow, all of a sudden, my friend Trama is the current one.
So I feel I did one of my missions on this trip.
The gallery is located in Suvilahti where the first Helsinki hall of fame is built.
Later I will show you more photos of this biggest hall of fame in Finland.
Suvilahti is a former energy production area in Sörnäinen, Helsinki,
and the gallery is in Puhdistamo (building 6), pretty good location.
What I like most is the set up next to the gallery, there are seats from trains,
traffic light from track, a framed poster that is a photo taken in 1988 from
a train station with full of legendary Finnish writers tags, train map with
different lines, plus no ticket control.
At the moment there is an exhibition by Hannaleena Heiska & Rauha Mäkilä:
Work in progress (Mr. Ward forever), check out the gallery and the show.
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Last week I spent 5 days in Helsinki, Finland, was visiting my friends
and hoping to experience the darkness there. So when I arrived at
the afternoon, I could feel it straight away.
My homie Trama from FTC (Fuck The Cops) who started writing in 1986,
came to pick up and we headed back to his apartment, after unloading my luggage,
the Finnish graffiti history tutorial started. Trama showed me a book that
just released a week ago which is about the Zero Tolerance project against graffiti
in Finland. The book idea is originated with Mikael Brunila, Kukka Ranta
and Eetu Viren. There are lots of details and data that you would have no clue
how they can get them.
The book is mainly driven by text which I like the idea very much as it is
different from most of the graffiti book. There is only very few images
but they are good enough to show you how bad the project is.
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Last week I was in a small city of Germany called Bielefeld to participate in an
exhibition called Up, Down ‘N Around. The event opening was pretty boisterous
and it spread from the venue to different corners of Bielefeld in the next few days.
Here are some highlights for you.
to the dull or steel sides of the city.
Apart from visiting “An Exhibition” of Dilk, I was lucky enough to join
a painting section of a music event Detonate All-Dayer 2011 where it is
held at Rock City & Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. Big thanks to Steven
for arranging everything again! And a few extra graffiti photos for you.
Sick DJ line up: Nero, Skream, Friction, Netsky, D Double E, Jakwob, Loadstar,
Icicle, Coki, Roska & Jamie George, Funkystepz, Alix Perez, Rockwell, Transit Mafia;
MC: SGT Pokes, SP, AD, Texas, Script, Ruthless;
Writers: Dilk, Garcon, Soviet, Droid, Redy, Left.
I was in Nottingham two weeks ago, showing up in An Exhibition of Dilk and
giving him and his girl Dora a little bit support was the major reason of the trip.
Dilk is one of the UK writers who has been painting more than 25 years I know
that is still trying very hard on developing new style and making his pieces different.
Some photos I took from his show, check it out.
Couple weeks ago I arrived in Germany and because of an EU x CN artist
exchange program I’ll be here for a while. I have to apologize that
sometimes there could be contents about my Europe trip as I’d like
to share what I have found cool here. Hope this is fine to most of you.
But don’t worry, I’ll keep the Asian contents regularly!
At the beginning of this year, I went to the BRIGHT Tradeshow
in Berlin. What impressive me most was not those decorative showroom
or creative catalogue by international street wear brands, instead, it was
a film screening about a project called Skateistan.
Skateistan is Afghanistan’s—and the world’s—first co-educational skateboarding school.
Operating as an independent, neutral, Afghan NGO, the school engages
growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth in Afghanistan through
skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural
interaction, education, and personal empowerment.
I was really amazed by the project. It is such an awesome idea and I am very proud
of the organizers although I have never met them. After more than half a year,
I met Joel, who is involved with Skateistan since quite a while and he just
wrote his diploma about street cultures as a tool for development cooperation.
And now, I can’t believe that I have the chance to give a hand on their coming
exhibition preparation all out a sudden! The exhibitions will start on this noon. If you
are in Berlin, just come over and help spread around this meaningful project!
EXHIBITIONS
SKATEISTAN – Skateboard School Afghanistan
Location: Hatch Sticker Museum, Brunnenstrasse 196 / 3. HH, 10119 Berlin
Date: 06-17.09.2011 / Wednesday-Saturday
Time: 12.00 – 18.00 Uhr
TINY TOONES & TINY DROPS – Hip Hop Schools Cambodia & India
Location: Hip Hop Stützpunkt, Marienburger Straße 16a / 10405 Berlin
Date: 06-17.09.2011 / Monday-Saturday
Time: 12.00 – 18.00 Uhr
Check more about the programs…
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