La Parada - finished yesterday

With some blues, browns, reds and greys I was able to finish this. I wanted to get it done in one day, but nope, took alittle less than two days. I'm happy and the customers were happy. That's what its all about... a little something for the community. For the begining stages go down alittle.
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My boy Cees..

My boy Cesar moved to NY! I'd take a bullet for this cat. He has been my bro through thick and thin... I had to give a shout out! Its good to have you around my bro, NY is ten times more fun! He is also a myspace fiend when he is anywhere near a computer.. observe. One love fam! (the other pic has Brandon wildin out on the left)
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Van Window

Walkin to Myrtle Ave on the J after some slammin shwarma holla!
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La Parada Barbershop - Tremont & Walton

Big ups to my homeboy Freddy, DR cat who is nice with the airbrush. He put me on to Carlos who owns a nice little barbershop in the BX. This took me the afternoon.. Tomorrow I better finish.. I just need to add a couple more things.
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First NY Mural

So, my landlord gave me his garage door to paint! He's prob the best landlord in NY... when I'm hungry I can just call him up and his wife will hook it up with the best Guyanese food ever! Well anywayz, he hooked it up, and my homeboy Korel (red piece) came through with his homeboy, Coner (blue piece) and we are rockin. Along with about 30 cans we are workin to get this finished. Work in progress, I'm going green, its the "In Thing" right?
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This your boy??

42nd in the morning.. What is your boy doing up so early?
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Muslim Temple Hat

I owe a friend of my about 5 painted hats that he gave me about two months back, well he caught me on the street with another hat that he wanted painted. The design was from a photo that he gave me.

He told me that "its ok if I don't give him the hats, because I will give them to him when I go to heaven." Cool people...
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Walking out the subway surprise

So I walked out the Jefferson Stop off the L train and bam!! Was this wall all painted up! Now this wall is big..its not only painted but it was made with stencils.. I guess huge stencils. Anyways, I was like "what the..." This wasn't here last week. BK artist get up!! Check it out..the pics are dark.

The first two are the whole wall and the second are close-ups on the sick stencil detail!!
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Kid at Laundrymat

This is the first phone blog that I am going to attempt! The kids at the laundrymat always seem to be having the best time. I caught this lil guy as he took a break outside. There were like 8 kids running around..
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BK SUMMER 2

Had to make the Obama Stencil...the che was made also ; ) Ill get pics later.




My Second airbrush shirt. Airbrush requires hand control...im still workin on. This was for my friend ENRIQUE. It says "Rique," Im happy with it..got a lot mo practice to go.



A fellow native Colombiano, JUJU gets nice on the tables, standing behind him is Large Professor and ten feet away is me. A dope roof top party...nothing better than parties where you kick it with the artists.



This is a pic of one of my work tables that I had to put away in the closet the other day ) :

BK SUMMER

Something bright off my table at Canal



A shirt I did for LOOSH!


Joker hat


My homeboy Justin just moved to ny, and is staying in this old school warehouse building in Willyburg South. He has this dope roof top to chill on... On the top are a bunch of nice burners and throwies...along with this Harold Hunter Gem.



My homegirl Lily's granfather passed. She asked me to do a shirt. Alittle stencil and airbrush combo. My first airbrush shirt ever. PAZ AL ALMA DE SENOR RODRIQUEZ!

Canada - BK

Well, I went to Canada. I keep wanting to spell it as "Canda" anywayzzz. I took some pics. These are two are the first I stumbled into. My bro, Stephen, saw this little guy walking on the path by our place in Canada. Being the turtle guy I am, he got me to rescue the litle guy. I set him free ; )




This is a van for this rap group, and they were like "if anyone would like to bomb our road van, please let us know." And I was like "Ummm where do I paint." So here are the first pics i found..there are more..but I had a good time with some stencils of mine.



KRS-ONE is on stage

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Barrio Plan Paz - my senior thesis

With the help of my good friend Enrique, I was able to transfer my senior thesis from DVD on to youtube. I worked about six solid months on this project, hoping to give viewers a sense of the beautiful world which I am from, Colombia! My senior project consisted on 40 x 30 3D stills, this video was made just for my enjoyment.

Everything was modeled and colored by me, meaning all the billboards and graffiti. Music by Thievery Corporation.

ps - I had to render it quickly (almost one week of rendering on 5-6 different computers, g5 macs) If I did it any slower it would have taken another week... My mom complains that it is fast, but I had little choice.

I hope you enjoy.

another rendition

I felt like comparing two artist's renditions of the lake which my father loved so much, and I love so much.





First is a painting by painter Jane Grey (Ontario, Canada), second (if you had seen before) the memorial collage piece I did for my father, third the actual photo to give you an idea of the scenery.

First NY gallery showing...holler!

My first gallery showing en la cuidad de Nueva York, at Niagra off Ave A and 7th... not too shabby of a place! Had fun, saw some friends, talked a little bizz.



(last pic, stose in native american costume, rico and some other artist that was there..) See more of my work at www.federicofrum.com

Ricky Powell, good guy to meet

The other day I went to this Fader party and had the pleasure to run into old school hip hop photographer, Ricky Powell. Real cool guy, we shot the sh*t for a minute. He photographed greats like Run DMC, LL, and the was notorious for rolling with the Beastie Boys! and many others..! The vid gives a little idea of who he is! (he is having a show @ Milk (450 west 15th), June 3rd, checkiT!)

sketch book vol. stencils

I wanted to snap away some of these sketches I made with some of my stencils. and give you a peek.


something i did about books and reading

jay

hector lavoe

jam master jay

big and ol' dirt


no la dejas sola design (my cuzo and her kid)

run, pigeon plus chrystler building

you know...

packages

feels good when you get some orders! big ups to the supporters..