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happy lunar new year of the dragon!
January 23rd, 2012 by Mr. C
Happy Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dragon! May y’all find health, happiness, strength, & prosperity no matter what galaxy or rock you may crawl out of! I wanted to drop a few well known flavors in your ear to help celebrate the festivities. This includes a famous cantonese folk song often used […]
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Chinatown Dragon Fighters – FDNY
January 9th, 2012 by Mr. C
Just dropping a few bon-bons and popcorn trails before January 23rd to celebrate Chinese New Year — The Year of the Dragon! Engine 9 – Ladder 6 in Chinatown is one of the oldest companies in the New York City Fire department. Engine 9 has shifted from various locations throughout its history in lower manhattan […]
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5 Pointz – long island city
December 19th, 2011 by Mr. C
We went strolling by the mecca of graffiti in queens yesterday on a cold sunday afternoon and discovered a few new goodies on the wall including a dedication to Jam Master Jay by Obe,Peril, & Paris, a hip hop tribute by the jellybean lady of 5 pointz straight outta Japan — Shiro, & a neat […]
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Ronnie Spector at south street seaport–christmas tree lighting
November 27th, 2011 by Mr. C
Probably more parts scrooge than festive usually, we landed the planet chocko mothership on the cobblestone streets of cannon’s walk by South Street Seaport to celebrate the OTHER more diminutive christmas tree lighting in NYC. The main attraction that really drew us in was the performance by the legendary Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes), NYC—East Harlem’s […]
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Lady Pink — Evolution
November 14th, 2011 by Mr. C
“Lady Pink’s unique personal vision has been communicated throughout her evolution from subway writer to fine artist.” —Woodward Gallery While hovering our UFO on the lower east “chinese” side of manhattan, our radars honed into an art gallery that displayed the works by one of our favorite graffiti artists in the N-Y, Lady Pink. Planet […]
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Crosby, Nash and Sweat
November 10th, 2011 by chocko
Last Tuesday, Keith Sweat was at J&R Musicworld in Downtown NYC to celebrate the release of his new album ‘Til The Morning. The Harlem born singer has been in the game since the 80’s ushering in the new jack swing era and continuing on to a successful soul and R&B career along with being a […]
Tags: crosby and nash, keith sweat, new york city, nyc, occupy wall street, ows
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planet chocko zine from the vaults!
November 5th, 2011 by Mr. C
I was cleaning up some skeletons in the closet and low & behold, I found some dusty archives of planet chocko in zine format from 1997! Chocko was the martian behind the excellent artwork on the front and back covers but, you do see a trail of bon bons left by mr c on my […]
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WFMU record fair
November 1st, 2011 by Mr. C
The 91.1 WFMU annual record fair happened last weekend at the Metropolitan Pavillion in NYC! It was a nice way to spend the day digging through the crates looking for that old LP, 12” single, 45’s, CD’s and even DVD’s especially with crappy weather out like we had last saturday. You can sure bet I […]
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Shepard Fairey: artwork in Asbury Park, NJ
October 4th, 2011 by Mr. C
“The Rebel Waltz” mural (depicting Paul Simonon – The Clash) “Mount Rush-core” (Joey Ramone,Johnny Rotten,Joe Strummer,Glenn Danzig,Ian Mackaye,Henry Rollins)
Tags: art, asbury park, revolution, shepard fairey
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greetings from asbury park
October 4th, 2011 by Mr. C
(panoramic pics by mr c)
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The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal : Olek’s Crochet Art exhibition
August 21st, 2011 by Mr. C
The Bad Artists Imitate,The Great Artists Steal Exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery @ 529 West 20th Street NY, NY Tuesday-Saturday August 10th-27th 11am-6pm Artist: OLEK Folks, only one more week left to get a glimpse of NYC’s own crochet artist extraordinaire Olek with her solo exhibition: The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal! […]
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Legends of Folk: The Village Scene
August 20th, 2011 by Mr. C
I saw a great documentary on PBS called LEGENDS OF FOLK: VILLAGE SCENE which was about the folk music movement during the 1960’s in the Greenwich Village section of NYC! The film had awesome footage of live performances from relatively unknown folk musicians at the time in the process of becoming the great legends that […]
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