Taken From JUX.

Juxtapoz for the month of August in the year 2009 decided to split the covers: Newsstand featuring the Clayton Brothers, subscriber featuring Mac. Figuring both artists have distinct styles, it made for a nice juxtaposition, get it? Besides showing the newest work from the Clayton Brothers and Mac, August 2009 has features on Natalia Fabia, filmmaker Stacy Peralta, Lisbon-based, London-residing artist Vhils, and cultural and fashion icon, Shawn Stussy. We also have a fantastic feature on our hometown artist, Henry Lewis. Amanda Fairey, curator of Subliminal Projects, also makes an appearance.
We also have Greg Gossel, The New Yorkers, Basco Vazko, and Jonathan Yeo in here, as well as Michel Gondry’s toilet paper. Come, come get it.

From MAC:

Damn!….I saw the new issue of Juxtapoz (#103) and was blown away to see one of my paintings used as the cover of the subscriber edition!….and inside there’s a 14 page interview with me by David Choe, who tries to get me in trouble….along with a portrait photo at the beginning taken by Estevan Oriol…
Wow.
After years of reading Juxtapoz, and never actually being in Juxtapoz…here I am… on the cover of Juxtapoz. Not sure how that happened but I feel really honored! Aside from all that it looks like a great issue with some other great art in it…
I’m just posting the cover and the first spread of the interview here for now…maybe more later when I have time…. and you can also get a copy at Juxtapoz.com

Taken From Revok:

My man from the CHI KC just went to Vietnam to shoot the fucking horrifying aftermath of the US’s use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war…

KC writes:

During the Vietnam War, the American military sprayed over 18 million gallons of the defoliant named “Agent Orange” on Vietnam. The military claimed it was harmless and was only used to clear the leaves off of trees to spot North Vietnamese soldiers. The harmless aspect of Agent Orange would later be challenged, and proved wrong. The dioxin in Agent Orange can lead to many health and enviromental issues. Health issues range from liver cancer to severe birth defects and miscariages. The dioxin in Agent Orange can actually change a person’s DNA, reacting in diferent people in diferent ways. One of the reasons why studying the effects of Agent Orange is such a monumental task. Not to mention the potential political ramnifications of a full scale study of its effects. Enviromentally, Vietnam and its landscape were forever altered once the herbicide rained from the skies onto the land. Animals disapeared, jungles died never to come back, livestock, fish, and some game became carriers of dioxin, passing it on the human population. People that were not yet born, or never came in to direct contact with Agent Orange, became victims of its effects through the land they lived in. Today, over 3o years later, the effects of Agent Orange are stronger then the day it was sprayed.
The following photos are part one of a larger series. These photos focus on the residents of 2 Friendship Villages, Vietnam Friendship Village outside of Hanoi and Tu Du Friendship Village in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). These Friendship Villages care for and house supposed victims of Agent Orange’s destructive dioxin.

-Check out more of his photos from this project plus many more at his site HERE

To See more photos from Revok’s recent trip visit :  REVOK1

I just got back from hanging with the RVCA fam.  I was invited to come paint the new training facility for the BJ PENN camp, as he is in the midst of training for his upcoming fight.  It was an honor to come hang and paint a Roll Call of all the fighters and people who are affilated whom make everything possible down there.  My VA motha LIZ ROC took care of me as always, and got to see George, KC, Kevin Ancell, Pm Tenore, and the rest of the RVCA players.  I think I can move down to Costa Mesa / Newport one day, seems like a nice way of life.

It starts out ;

RVCA . VA . AWR. MSK. RVCA. VA. CLUB. CA

BJ PENN.JD PENN.REGAN PENN.PARILLO.UNCLE RUDY. TRACTOR. VITOR BELFORT. DR. G. SUGAR SHANE NELSON. IRON CHEF EVAN. KJ THE POET. PM TENORE. RICHIE RICH. VA . DIAZ BROS. LUCAS. MAKUA. LEO VIERO. RV. JOHNSTONE. FRANCO. ANTONI. HENRY. APPLE. KRON. YVES. GORMAN. PETE ROCK. PUNKER. BRADLER. EMERSON. MC CULLY, YOUNG SEF.

Then I painted a wall behind the ring that reads:

RVCA. WE ARE A BROTHERHOOD OF AN ANCIENT TRADITION OF OUR ANCESTORS WHO FIGHT WITH HONOR AND RESPECT FOR OUR ADVESARIES ALTHOUGH WE HAVE COME TO HUMBLE YOU. DONT TRIP. VA

BRIMSTONE.

BEHIND ME STAND A HUNDRED MEN, WARRIORS OF THE AGES, THROUGH OUT THE STAGES OF OUR LIVES, WE HAVE SPARRED AND BRAWLED OUR WAY TO VICTORY, WE STAND AS ONE TIMELESS MOVEMENT, NOW LETS BEGIN THE RITUAL OF OUR FATHERS AND BROS. MANO A MANO.

Then My friend Young Sonia, came to visit me and took me to chill on the beach and relax the mind.

Continuing with the Ovation Tv American Revolutionaries campaign, I recently went to MCA in Chicago for the screening and Q & A in regards to my involvement with the project. Met up with Pose and Diana, good looking Nekst.   Here are a few Snaps.

My good freind Oscar Magallanes and I recently did this project for Land Rover as they were debuting their new 2010 Range Rover Sport at the Standard in DT in conjunction with the ESPYS Awards. Here are some snaps.

These are photos of a Trip I recently took to NY for a Screening and Q&A at the CORE, for American Revolutionaries Ad Campaign I did for Ovation TV, also kickin it with Nick Cassavetes at his Movie premier ” My Sisters Keeper” with the homie Zach also in NY and a few random shots kickin it in city.

These photos are from a shoot I did with Sistah Rosalee as the model, Yuri Hasegawa for the photos and Dianne Garcia as stylist, and I as this lil troublemaker.   Young Rosa is a multi-talented artist who makes music, paints graffiti, models, and skateboards. Check out her work at www.myspace.com/missradhe or her blog missradhesland.blogspot.com/. You can see more of Yuri’s photos at yurihasegawa.com and Young D, well just be on the look out shes on the prowl.

Mac and I just exhibited this piece of a good friend and fellow artist who past away 3 years to the day that we did this piece. He was a great friend and very instrumental partner in my early piecing history.  We shared a lot of great times, sad times, and painful times.  When I went to the funeral and saw him laying there in the casket, I saw a beautiful image of a man who’s life was cut short, I felt that I would have liked to do a painting from it but felt it wasn’t the right time to take a photo.  Months later I was hanging with his Brother Gil, and had asked him if anyone had taken a photo, he came back and brought me the photo that I had wanted to take.  Time past and it was put away for the right moment. Mac and I had this show planned at Mid City Arts.  So when It came time to do the piece, I remembered him, the date just happened to fall on the same time he was killed, and He was actually shot right next door, so all the signs where pointing to a piece to celebrate his life.  Mac came thru as any good friend always does and Im grateful to him, for painting a portrait of someone who meant a lot to me and his family and crew.

The Quote on the Tux. Reads:

This was something he used to like to say:

The Wise Move In Silence:  Meadowbrook I die.

He Restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his names sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art wih me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head in oil. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:

We will miss you forever our beautiful brother, son, uncle and friend.