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This week for Music monday we decided to do something a little different. We wanted to bring to your attention this awesome documentary in the works from our boys in Get Super Rad. Brendan Patrick is an Detroit based artist and a musician who has had a rough battle with Cystic Fibrosis. Beyond having a double lung transplant Brendan lost his eye sight about 9 years ago. The beautiful part is that this tragedy has not dwindles his spirit nor has it kept him from creating his art. The good dudes from Get Super Rad decided that they needed to document his process and spread the word of all the awesome shit Brendan does on a daily basis. We highly encourage you guys to check out their IndieGogo page for this Documentary aptly name and donate what you can for this awesome project aptly named: Cant See Shit. there are only four days left for their campaign and wed love it if you guys could all help. Currently the dudes have been going live via Brendan's Fb page and have been auctioning off his one of a kind work!
check it out and let us know what you think!
Last week, I was visiting some friends of mine in Asheville, North Carolina to celebrate my 21st birthday, and when I finally crashed on an air mattress in the middle of my friend's living room, the TV was on a channel called Viceland, and we were watching a really great show, about the fashions around the world, and what the modeling/fashion industry is like for women around the globe. The channel seemed to have a lot of pro-women advertisements, and previews for upcoming documentaries, etc. Suddenly this flashed across the screen.
I instantly hopped up, because the phrase "Art Hoe" is in my daily vocabulary, and you don't always come across internet phrases like that plastered on a television. Instantly completely taken by whatever was next to come, I was SO PLEASED. I can't figure out how to get the video onto this post so you'll just have to watch it HERE HERE HERE HERE!!!!
Mars and Sage
Co-Founders of the Art Hoe Collective
“Artists of colour are constantly being underrepresented and exploited. If we’re not getting swept under the rug, our bodies are being overtly sexualised and used as muses,” -- Mars, 15 year old co founder of Art Hoe Collective
After watching this stunning, progressive, brave, and entrancing commercial, I shuffled for my phone to look for more information about the Art Hoe Collective.
"The Art Hoe Collective was started by QPOC to provide a space for all creatives of color. This is for us, by us."
Artists and activists are what really come out of Art Hoe Collective. Artists of color submit art work, photography, poetry, dance videos, and really so much more. Everything that is submitted that makes it through to be posted on Art Hoe Collective's Instagram page, is posted with the artist's name, age, location, Instagram handle, pronouns, race/ethnicity, and a little written background about the piece of art that is being posted. Everything that is posted, is so worth reading the bios about. This online movement is giving POC to portray themselves the way they want, free from stereotypes, preconceptions of who they are. Art Hoe Collective has been supported and embraced by Amandla Stenberg, young activist and actress, who I've blogged about here awhile back, and teen polymath Willow Smith.
As a queer woman of color myself, who identifies as an artist, this is the most inspiring thing I've come across in months. It's inspiring as an artist, as a woman, and as a person of color.
Follow Art Hoe Collective on Instagram: @ArtHoeCollective
Follow Mars on Instagram: @SensitiveBlackPerson
Follow Sage on Instagram: @Sageaflocka
XO
MEL
As much of you have already heard, one of our favorite bands to work with is at an end. The dudes of Boys of Fall have had a solid 5 year run! They have blessed our ears with so many bangers and have seen so many sites. We love these dudes and we are excited to see all of the awesome things coming from all of their future projects! So as a last hurrah the dudes are throwing one last party and will be ending everything on a high note! Coincidentally this will be your last chance to see Rumours as well. So come out this friday to the Crofoot and sing one last time and remember all the good times!
and check out their last video for Thanks for the Burgers
So we had a really great time shooting up at the sand dunes this past wk with Jen Drewyore Beck and our good friends Brittlind and LB. Took some good pics, rep'd our New Design "Such Small Hands" designed by Alisha Murray! Who if you haven't checked out her work yet creep it HERE! And we got to shoot some fun behind the scenes action and collaborated with one of our favorite songs by our boys in Lake Effect! Check out the video here !
Located in the heart of Downtown Detroit Red Bull Hart Lines, is an innovative new street skateboarding competition from the mind of Ryan Sheckler that features two distinctive lanes each with its own unique set of skateable features, as well as a first-of-its-kind timing element associated with each run. Hart Lines is a flagship event of the Red Bull Signature Series. Make sure you come out this weekend and check it out!
The argus dudes have been busy as fuck getting everything together for their new record Reconciliation (Available May 19th) Check out this video they put together for their song The Love I Lost.
King of the Road is an institution in skateboarding. Started by Thrasher magazine in 2003, it's a demented, roving adventure that follows various skate teams across the country as they compete to accomplish a set list of tasks, some of which carry great risk of bodily harm, and others that don't involve skateboarding at all (but still might carry great risk of bodily harm). VICELAND has teamed up with Thrasher for the latest season, which will feature the Birdhouse, Chocolate, and Toy Machine teams hauling ass across America, throwing their bodies and whatever dignity they might have had into the wind for a chance to become the reigning King of the Road.
