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Justin Bua Bio
Apr 3
Justin Bua
Mar 3
Justin BUA (born 1968) is an artist from New York City’s Upper West Side, raised between Manhattan and East Flatbush, Brooklyn. BUA was fascinated by the raw, visceral street life of the city. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts and complemented his education on the streets by writing graffiti and performing worldwide with breakdancing crews. BUA went on to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California where he earned a B.F.A in Illustration.
Starting in the world of commercial art, BUA designed and illustrated myriad projects from skateboards and CD covers to advertising campaigns. He developed the look and feel of the opening sequence for MTV’s Lyricist Lounge Show, EA Sports video games NBA Street and NFL Street, and the world of Slum Village’s award winning music video “Tainted” among others. He designed the BUA line of apparel and a limited edition shoe line with PF Flyers that sold out completely. Currently, he teaches figure drawing at the University of Southern California, while continuing to be a leading innovator in both the fine and commercial art worlds. BUA’s energetic and vocal worldwide fan base ranges from former presidents, actors, musicians, professional athletes, and dancers, to street kids and art connoisseurs.
In his first book, The Beat of Urban Art, BUA lays out his unique vision, melding urban rhythms, graffiti, and classical art training. This visually arresting book is about his life, his work, and the birth of Hip-Hop. As we follow BUA through his turbulent youth, navigating the streets and underground worlds of the urban jungle, we recognize the powerful evolution of BUA’s distinct style—“Distorted Urban Realism.” Following in the footsteps of the great masters, BUA represents the lives of both the revered and the marginalized, the heroes and the underdogs of his time—New York City during the 1970s and ’80s. With an autobiographical narrative illustrated with photographs, drawings, sketches, studies, and explanations of how many of his paintings were created, The Beat of Urban Art takes you into the head of the modern-day Toulouse-Lautrec.
The Tank chair, at colette from March 22nd to the 28th and then at the gallery from March 30th to April 24th
The Tank chairs are released in a limited edition of eight pieces in each style.
Tonë – Norwegian indie- pop with a vulnerable twist
This is the debut solo project of Tonë, a singer, songwriter, producer from Hush Music (myspace.com/hushmusicnorway). Singing started out as a hobby for her, a side project to working with songs and productions for other artists. Coaching others to find their essence and their own personal style, Tone finally decided it might be time for herself to do the same thing. Following several incidents of strong feedback on the music presented as a result of the fragile first steps of experimentation, the insisting response proved this was a project to take seriously.
So, Hush Music decided to take it one step further, and turn it into one of their priorities. The project is still in its early days, Tone is still in the process of searching for that important “personal voice”, writing songs and experimenting with styles. Recently, however, the song Two Steps, that was also considered for the soundtrack of the major Hollywood blockbuster Twilight – sequel, “New Moon”, was chosen for a compilation called Trondheim Calling, – a record distributed by Universal Music, -meant to represent the best new acts from the central region of Norway.
Following that, the song has been aired a couple of times on national radio, and the production team is now considering pre-releasing it as a radio single, due to the great feedback, even without promotion. Tonë also had her first live performance with this material – on the release gig for the record, on the 23rd of January this year, borrowing a bunch of great musicians for this occasion only, and with only a month of preparation, – receiving great reviews.
More stuff will surely be on the steps for this project, pretty soon, both live and on record! :-)
JEFF MILLS × PUBLIC IMAGE
Feb 24
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
http://www.urlesque.com/2010/01/15/professor-kitaokas-optical-illusions/
