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070502 Bs class party r

Image by xjyxjy
Handing out stars for "Class’s XXX" . Amazingly nice to each other, very little winding up, not even teenage bad judgement most of the time. Everyone got a star. They really got to like each other during their 3 years together. Most of the kids brought 2 guests along, a surprising number bringing parents, others brothers or sisters or friends.

Redwood

Image by Editor B
Her’s Mom and Dad in front of a giant redwood.

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TONY @ sk8likecanvas2010 (expo curated by mrklevra)

Image by OMINO71
RIP – Tribute to Tony Perez
written by Omino71
photo by Jessica Stewart

This is the story of an artist, a virtual friend whom you’ve never met in person, but with whom you share an undying passion for art. It’s a friend that was chosen from the thousands of photos on Flickr and whom, almost by chance, becomes part of your daily life through the exchange of comments on photos, sharing of ideas, and invitations to events, all leading to the inevitable exchange of artworks. These artworks arrive at any time of the year, packages coming in as a sort of “Santa Claus,” to celebrate the idea of spontaneous art, fun, generosity, and selflessness. It is this friend that we have the honor to celebrate in this corner today at Sk8 Like Canvas Vol. 2, thanks to an idea by Mr. Klevra.
>TonyTony< was the screen name of Tony Perez, an artist born to Spanish parents in northwest London and who landed in the US, more precisely, Kentucky. It’s from there he sent his beautiful multi-layer stencils out into the world via internet. His hyper realistic stencils reflect his own experiences and passion for vintage “Made in the USA” of the 1920s and 50s, including hot rods, swing, jazz, rockabilly, cult horror films, and so on. Pitched somewhere between low brow and urban art, he was an outsider who loved to march to the beat of his own drummer, just like us.
Tony posted his last masterpiece on Flickr on December 6, 2010. It was a beautiful 70×100, 13-layer stencil done in red tones that realistically captured the spirit of John Lennon in celebration of the 30-year anniversary of his death. It was still there on December 21 when Tony wrote his last commenting thanking everyone for the kind words that he’d received – punctual and polite as always. At 11 pm that same night a sudden heart attack took Tony away from his loved ones, friends of his posting comments immediately following the incident to let everyone know. It was a lightning bolt that struck through the clear blue sky, as they say in these cases.
While it isn’t our place to sing his praises or comment about him personally, being a person we never knew personally, what we can do, as both artists and curators being “on the ground,” is to continue to circulate his art to the public. This display starts with two skateboard pieces that Tony had already completed for the first edition of Sk8 Like Canvas. To this we have added some of the pieces that we had the pleasure to exchange with him, stencils on vinyl, record covers, cardboard, newspaper, and canvas, which are consistent with his practice of transforming everyday objects into masterpieces. His compositions, full of tonal subtlety, which layer upon layer show a rich hyperrealism that was always present whether the subject was a lost pop icon, vintage portraits of strangers, or old school tattoos – Tony was a window into his own time.
We’ll leave you with Tony’s own words, taken from his Flickr profile, which reminds me of a time this summer when, with Mr. Klevra and Jessica Stewart, we pasted up some of his stencils on newspaper in Pigneto. This long distance paste-up was an honor and it is thank to these exchanges that Tony’s work was able to arrive millions of miles away from Kentucky to places like Rome, Paris, Bogota, and Sao Paolo, Brazil, just another reminder of the power of his art to find its way into the hearts of the many users of Facebook and Flickr.
For more details: www.flickr.com/photos/26253553@N06/
www.facebook.com/pages/In-loving-memory-of-Tony-Perez/170…

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Barack Obama

Image by elycefeliz
www.biography.com/featured-biography/barack-obama/index.jsp
Barack Obama, the junior U. S. Senator from Illinois, is the first ever African–American to become the presumptive presidential nominee for a U. S. major political party. On June 3, 2008, he gained enough delegates to be nominated by the Democratic party at its national convention in August.

Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.

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