CLAW MONEY VANDAL LAUNCH

The Claw Money Vandal launch party was hella dope! Heres a few pics that i nicked off blogs because I dont have a camera anymore!!

the exhibition comtinues for 2 weeks at Blink Gallery on Poland St, Soho, so get down and have a look if you're about xxx

LEEDS MASSIVE: MIGHTY 4 UNITED KINGDOM

If you can get to Leeds this weekend then you need to quickstep your ass (or arse?) down to this event. For FIVE POUNDS you get entry to a pre-party on Saturday which features top-rock battles and live beatboxing (I don't know why I added that word 'live' obviously it's gonna be fucking live) and also entry to the main event on the Sunday which features b-boy and b-girl battles and a really sick sick DJ line up. All that for a fiver!

I can't go because, while I am in posession of said amount, I can't afford the train fare (it's cheaper to go to Majorca than it is to go to Leeds), I can't afford to spend eight hours travelling by coach (it's quicker to go to St.Lucia than it is to travel to and from Leeds) and I can't afford to call an ex-boyfriend to drop me up there (it's easier to get off crack than it is to mend a broken heart in Leeds). But you should go by all means. Don't let me stop you.

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HAPPY DIWALI

...to anyone who is celebrating the festival of lights this weekend. My great-grandfather 'Papa Lal', who moved from India to St. Lucia as an indentured worker at the beginning of the twentieth century, was Hindu and so I'll be stuffing myself with ras malai until I throw up in his honour. It's what he would have wanted.

About Diwali

East Indian migration to the West Indies

Picture of me naked

Picture of your mum and dad in bed

MARKS AND SPENCER GOING ON GHETTO

But not ghetto prices...check out their new leather bomber jacket that'll set you back £199. I can't really imagine Margaret Thatcher rocking that shit.

REDDER THAN RED

I caught a sneeky peek of this a year or so ago at the NFT in London. It's a film about the UK's first ever b-girl, Bubbles (or Hanifa Queen as she now prefers to be known) and how she basically had everyone's jaws dropping with a style and technique so fresh and on point that no b-boy wanted to battle her.

Not sure when the final film's gonna be released but now you can see a few clips from Redder Than Red online. And: "hey, check the one in red...it's a girl!" Classic!

MY WAH GIRL OF THE YEAR!!

I have a slight obsession with tattoos so much so that if I was a man I would of had probably both arms covered with a complex, decorative design by now (if you think i'm kidding you should wait until my currently unfinished backpiece is done). The art of tattooing has been practised worldwide from the Polynesian people to the many tribes in countries such as the Phillipines, South America (need reference? watch Apocalypto), Africa, Cambodia , New Zealand etc.

The history of it fascinates me so much..that an art form can be so widespread and worldwide but still remain a taboo..and have so many emotional connotations attached to each one. Whether it would be as a sign for a spiritual commitment such as a simple psalm or prayer or as a sign of punishment for example, the ka-tzetnik identification system for Jews in part of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. For me, personally, my current tattoo and the ones yet to come will be most likely all dedicated to my father. When he commited suicide a few years back I wasn't left with anything of his which I felt I could save so I decided that as a tribute I would dedicate pieces of me to him.

So as I am obsessed it was only natural that I became obsessed with brilliant tattoo artists. Which brings me back to my title " My WAH girl of the year".KAT VON D. This woman is renowned for being one of the world's best at potraits & realistic art with an emphasis on black and gray and one of the great female tattoo artists if not the ONLY great female tattoo artist out there right now. Her artwork makes me speechless...how they can be so realistic?..not only to mention she's the kinda kick-ass no bullshit type of woman that I admire. She did her first tattoo on herself at the age of 14, a letter "J" in Old English style on her ankle and her first work on someone else was a Misfits (Crimson Ghost) skull which was done soon after..need I say more?

Miss Von D












Asantewa
xx

IS IT SO WRONG...

...to want to throw a party for a young member of your family on the day they get their period for the first time? Where everyone has to wear red and all the decorations are red and you can only eat red food and drink red beverages? Is that so wrong?

Jeez, you think she'd be grateful for having someone with such creative ideas around to mark her special day.

PARTY NIGHT

Our new favourite DJs are playing again on Saturday with ANOTHER dope ass flyer! See you there!!!

RESPECT DUE...

If you read yesterday's Independent on Sunday (of course you did, daaahling!) then you couldn't have missed London-based designer, DJ and all-round party girl Kesh gracing the cover of their magazine as part of a feature entitled 'Young, Gifted and Black'.

This video shows all the behind-the-scenes shiznit, including how she made that dress in twenty minutes:

Big up your chest girl!*

*Metaphorically, of course.

ARKITIP

Some time in September a new mag arrived on my boss’s desk. Normally I would have ignored it as he gets rags begging advertising daily but this one aroused the nosey parker within me. It’s called Arkitip. Turns out its not so new: It’s an art based publication founded in 1999 and takes contributions from graphic/digital/fine artists worldwide and their philosophy is to make art affordable and accessible. Nice, right?



September’s issue came complete with a free OriginalFake x Incase laptop case and Kaws-designed cover. CRIKEY MOSES - I love Kaws, errrone love Kaws! And I just copped a new laptop, a cardigan was its case. It was meant to be. Didn’t even bother to beg my boss for his – the man was not INTERESTED. Anyway I hollered at them from work and they sent me a promo copy plus case via Airmail! - How bloody nice of them. So yeh, now I love Arkitip. Check it out: www.arkitip.com Issue no.42 – it’s on some sort of Ferrari tip. Might tide you over until WAH3 drops onto your doormat.

NIKE X CLAW MONEY

Come to launch of Claw Money Vandal next Thursday at Blink Gallery, Poland St, Soho, for "Peacock feathers, blue skies, pink champagne, cupcakes and everything a girl could ever dream of." (I'll remember this checklist when I need to remind myself of what makes a woman...) More importantly the shoe is on sale at Footpatrol the following day. I'm still very unsure but might get the black for my sisters...Either way, its a big event for the ladies...Click on pic to see details....See you there!

WAH! - THE MUSIC VIDEO!!!

We filmed this in Paris a couple of weeks back and now it's finally finished! Check it out and let us know what you think!

I AM STUPID

This is CLASSIC Josephine: the Wildstyles exhibition showcasing classic and rare hip-hop photography has been running in London since 13 September. I love classic and rare hip-hop photography. I should've been there on opening night, browsing through the pictures and folding my arms and nodding intelligently at the visual representations of a culture so dear to my heart and saying 'hmmmm' a lot and talking to people with t-shirts that have Kool Herc's face on it and cost sixty fucking quid even though they don't even know who the fuck Kool Herc is and they're only there to look cool. But no, I chose to wait until today, the last motherfucking day, to head down.

If you are as stupid as me, get your batty down to the PYMCA gallery today before it closes at 7pm.


PYMCA Gallery, 41 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1. Opening hours: 11.00 - 19.00

YOYO - NOT SURE IF I'LL BE GOING ANYMORE...

UPDATE: YOYO'S REVENGE...to make things worse, I cannot get their red door stamp off my hand even though I've been scrubbing for a hundred years. It looks like I got my fricking period over the back of my hand or some shit :(

SPOOKS

Asantewa is dying of influenza right now so she can't blog her photos from Saturday's Gullyver Hollerween special (get well soon!) but here's some snaps that Niranjela took. We took that shit SERIOUS. I was Death aka 'Ghostface Trilla'.

I just made that name up.