SOUL OF THE MESSAGE 2012
Featured Artists:
Will “Kasso” Condry
LUV1
Lank Williams
Leon Rainbow
Aylin Green
Andrew Wilkinson
Roebus-One
DEMER
Vanity
James Carey
Ricardo Coke
Featuring Performances by:
Black Collar Biz and Roebus-One
Spoken Word:
POLO Cortez
DJ Ahmad of the 1s and 2s
Opening Reception:
April 20th 2012
6pm-10pm
Location:
219 Gallery
219 E. Hanover St.
Trenton, NJ
SOUL OF THE MESSAGE 2012
Featured Artists:
Will “Kasso” Condry
LUV1
Lank Williams
Leon Rainbow
Aylin Green
Andrew Wilkinson
Roebus-One
DEMER
Vanity
James Carey
Ricardo Coke
Featuring Performances by:
Black Collar Biz and Roebus-One
Spoken Word:
POLO Cortez
DJ Ahmad of the 1s and 2s
Opening Reception:
April 20th 2012
6pm-10pm
Location:
219 Gallery
219 E. Hanover St.
Trenton, NJ
SOUL OF THE MESSAGE 2012
Featured Artists:
Will “Kasso” Condry
LUV1
Lank Williams
Leon Rainbow
Aylin Green
Andrew Wilkinson
Roebus-One
DEMER
Vanity
James Carey
Ricardo Coke
Featuring Performances by:
Black Collar Biz and Roebus-One
Spoken Word:
POLO Cortez
DJ Ahmad of the 1s and 2s
Opening Reception:
April 20th 2012
6pm-10pm
Location:
219 Gallery
219 E. Hanover St.
Trenton, NJ
Many thanks to RAIN and the Art All Night people for bringing out the SAGEs to paint live on the AAN float. It was sooo much fun! Check the video to catch what I could capture while painting on a moving vechicle (which is admitedly harder than I thought). Something like 4k people flood Hamilton Ave and turn Trenton into a sea of green New Orleans for a few hours. 
RAIN and LUV1
LANK and KASSO
Many thanks to RAIN and the Art All Night people for bringing out the SAGEs to paint live on the AAN float. It was sooo much fun! Check the video to catch what I could capture while painting on a moving vechicle (which is admitedly harder than I thought). Something like 4k people flood Hamilton Ave and turn Trenton into a sea of green New Orleans for a few hours.
RAIN and LUV1
LANK and KASSO
Many thanks to RAIN and the Art All Night people for bringing out the SAGEs to paint live on the AAN float. It was sooo much fun! Check the video to catch what I could capture while painting on a moving vechicle (which is admitedly harder than I thought). Something like 4k people flood Hamilton Ave and turn Trenton into a sea of green New Orleans for a few hours.
RAIN and LUV1
LANK and KASSO
Way before there ever was a SAGE, back in 10/07, I got a call from RAIN to paint with the VS Crew at the World Trade Center in Inc. Magazine’s Headquarters. My can controll was admitedly not on point at this point, but the magazine folks loved it! I had a great time, getting my pizza and beer on with the Viciousez. This was my first time painting indoors with spray paint and I learned a valueable lesson that night…use a resperator! I think I bought one the next day lol. You can even see me stumble getting off the ladder in the video below, I was dizzy and all messed up by the time I left. Another thing I remember is security was unbelieveable in that place. It was by far the most heavily secure place I have ever been in.
*Ironic interesting fact, I got that call to paint, I believe, because a member of VS, now member of SAGE, PLAN aka DELVE, couldn’t make it.
here’s a snippet of mine…
KASSO in progess…
and a video RAS made, for TerraCycle (who hooked us up with the gig. Thanks Tom!)
One Love,
LUV1
Way before there ever was a SAGE, back in 10/07, I got a call from RAIN to paint with the VS Crew at the World Trade Center in Inc. Magazine’s Headquarters. My can controll was admitedly not on point at this point, but the magazine folks loved it! I had a great time, getting my pizza and beer on with the Viciousez. This was my first time painting indoors with spray paint and I learned a valueable lesson that night…use a resperator! I think I bought one the next day lol. You can even see me stumble getting off the ladder in the video below, I was dizzy and all messed up by the time I left. Another thing I remember is security was unbelieveable in that place. It was by far the most heavily secure place I have ever been in.
*Ironic interesting fact, I got that call to paint, I believe, because a member of VS, now member of SAGE, PLAN aka DELVE, couldn’t make it.
here’s a snippet of mine…
KASSO in progess…
and a video RAS made, for TerraCycle (who hooked us up with the gig. Thanks Tom!)
One Love,
LUV1
Way before there ever was a SAGE, back in 10/07, I got a call from RAIN to paint with the VS Crew at the World Trade Center in Inc. Magazine’s Headquarters. My can controll was admitedly not on point at this point, but the magazine folks loved it! I had a great time, getting my pizza and beer on with the Viciousez. This was my first time painting indoors with spray paint and I learned a valueable lesson that night…use a resperator! I think I bought one the next day lol. You can even see me stumble getting off the ladder in the video below, I was dizzy and all messed up by the time I left. Another thing I remember is security was unbelieveable in that place. It was by far the most heavily secure place I have ever been in.
*Ironic interesting fact, I got that call to paint, I believe, because a member of VS, now member of SAGE, PLAN aka DELVE, couldn’t make it.
here’s a snippet of mine…
KASSO in progess…
and a video RAS made, for TerraCycle (who hooked us up with the gig. Thanks Tom!)
One Love,
LUV1
This past sunday, Luv-One and myself took a trek threw the woods of rural New Jersey to..drumroll…PAINT ROCKS! I know..sounds a bit weird. Luv contacted me earlier within that week to ask if I would like to join him on his nature adventure. At first I was like…paint a rock?! We should rock a wall! Then he told me that some of the rocks were as big as five feet wide! When I heard that…I was like “Yooooo, this can be great!” Lets do it!” If I cant paint a wall…then a wall size rock sounds pretty interesting!
Luv paints these quirky lil’ characters. He’s been doing them for years on canvas and other materials. I believe he said most of the inspiration for these characters comes from his son’s drawings and that the two of them do this all the time simply because it’s fun! So thats was the idea for the day; to paint a rock or two and keep it fun…like a child would. While we were out there painting, I at first thought this was a bit juvenile, but once u do your first one it becomes an instant addiction…u want to do more!
You want to find the rock with the most character…the most personality…and bring it to life! What I thought would at first be a waste of time, became a time I would never forget! What we were doing was reliving our childhood. Taking nature and turning it into art! Using what’s there to create something new! I swear, it was like being 10 years old again. We were adding “character” to nature; giving it a personality..and making it our own. It made you wanna seek out new “rocky” terrane, while at the same time taking in the beauty of the breathtaking country side. In doing what we did, it made us appreciate the beauty of nature even more so than before. We both agreed that this day was something epic..even if just for us. It literally planted the seed of new ideas and possibilities! It made me see that sometimes you have to strip layers away and revile whats inside to find something new. It showed me not to judge a situation buy what’s only on the surface, and if you want something of value, you have to seek it and dig for it. We sought and found….and who would have thought a rock in a hard place would move creative mountains! You cant spell “nature” without A….R….T!
Checkout the pics below to what we “rocked out”.
Peace.
-Will Kasso
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