Toofly NYC

Soooooo the official reason we flew all the way to Berlin was to rep, support women, and participate in the all female Catfight graffiti jam for We B*Girlz. At first I must admit I was a little dissapointed. Why would we come all the way to the other side of the world to paint on boards? After getting the dirt on the property owner who was being an ass and not giving permission to the organizers to rock the already graffed up walls with some new shit  I “sighed”. I thought it would be a little different here but like in all places “graffiti art” is still not accepted for it’s direct connections to the destructive illegal markings of it’s roots. Anyway in the end Faith47 and Mickey lead the team and fought for the walls. Thank you ladies!!! We all jumped in cleaned up the weeds and dirt from beneath us and threw down our skills. This is what we came to here to represent…

LINEUP:  TOOFLY (NY), SHIRO (Japan), FAITH47 (South-Africa), MADC (GER), MICKEY (NL), FANY (GER), HERA (GER), SPICE (Australia) , MASSACRE (Sweden), WINTER (Sweden), YEAH (Sweden), QGE (NOR), VENUS (Spain), POLITRIX (SE) , SIZTA (SE), NUMI (Spain), FLAI (Spain) , MALICIA (Spain), ALICE MIZRACHI (NY), F.LADY (NL), JOLIE (GER) and more…

©2008 Photos by: Just ekosystem and Martha Cooper

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After our weekend inspiration, tourist sessionz, and exploring the city we geared up for one of the most intense wall project we had scheduled during our trip. Project: Female mural collaboration on a HUGE ASS building for the community youth center called ARCHIV. Shout out to Monika who hooked us up with the paint, and all the energy filled yummy snacks full of cheeze and wholegrains. Damn I miss those tomatoes with mozzarella! craving them…Anyway this wall is hella freak’n awesome what can I say you got females from all different continents repping: South America, North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Australia all we were missing was Hawaii! Any graff / street artists from Hawaii? Yeo this was pretty herstoric…

Most of the flicks are from our good friends JUST who’s an amazing photographer you can check out the original layout here: EKOSYSTEM and our culture’s legendary photographer Martha Cooper!

Mad C, Faith47, Paulina, PSF, Toofly, Spice, AM

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Saturday couldn’t have been a better day to paint. We headed over to the terrain where the Cassiopeia is located. I’m not really sure what this spot is called but it’s a huge urban playground for adults and grownup kids in the heart of Friedrichshain. The area has three to four different club locations, a burnt down building with mad graff, an exhibition venue, a huge indoor Skate Park, a beer garden and the highest climbing tower in Berlin. Seemed like this place was an abandoned dump but the folks there have been cleaning it up and keeping it funky. Love it when shit looks griddy…

I went all out on this one…surface was great, location was awesome, and the weather couldn’t have been better ..all we needed was some rice & beans for lunch!

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Our first night out we attended the Hip Hop Ladies with Attitude exhibition at the TACHLESS. This has got to be the most tagged up building I’ve ever seen. This is def a griddy ass building…Catfight female graffiti portrait prints by F Lady looked dope!!! I got my Mickey joint to hang on my wall. Mickey I gotta get a signature next time your in NY! So I borrowed a few flicks from JUST from Ekosystem who’s flicks are mad official. Mine are a little dark and blurry:(

female graff artists paving the way…

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Yay finally back home! OMG I feel like I have been away for months!!! So happy to be back in NY there’s just not place like it man. Berlin was an interesting city…”hardcore” and “rough”. A lot more graff there, than here. Puts us to shame:( Places and spaces are endless its no wonder it’s thriving on the streets. I enjoyed the huge ass blockbusters on the street and rooftops. Kind of resembled their environment a bit. “blocky” residential buildings that went on forever with hardly any space in between them. Forming huge WALLS carved out throughout the city like NY projects only european style, modern, and pretty. Yeo what was most odd was that I saw nooooo homeless or spanish people there? It was a lil weird and a bit uncomfortable at times but because we were rolling united nations style most of the time we were good;) The slow down pase was nice, bikes are everywhere, and their transportation system really smooth. Hardly no need to hop the metro! Here some flicks of our first days I’m backed up for days but will add more soon…

Walls and walls, and walls of buildings…

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I’m outta here!!! my journey across the globe has officially begun. I’ll be back in September with flicks of the We B*Girlz event, Hip-Hop Ladies with Attitude “So Fresh and So Def” exhibit and much more. Laterzzzzzz

”Hip Hop Ladies with Attitude”
August 22nd- August 31st 2008

10-day exhibition presenting female graffiti and female Hip Hop history organized by: Catfight Magazine, Anattitude Magazine & We B*Girlz.

location: Blauer Salon, 5th floor of Tacheles, Oranienburgerstr. 54-56a, 10117 Berlin
19:00 till the breakadawn
Entrance: Free
DJs Mok La Rok (a.k.a. Rosy One) & P-Tess (Zürich/Switzerland)

www.hiphop-ladies-with-attitude.com

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WE B*GIRLZ FESTIVAL

The We B*Girlz Festival is a multimedia Festival by women for women celebrating the 4 elements of Hip Hop and more. We B*Girlz wants to present a strong role model for adolescent girls. We B*Girlz Productionz wants to show that women mastered skills in all aspects of Hip Hop and have earned a place in Hip Hop history. We will celebrate their creativity with a one month festival in August 2008 in Berlin. Our intention is to provide a platform for girls and young women from different nations and cultural backgrounds to make contacts, exchange ideas, and support each other. We want to teach them new skills, strengthen their confidence and show them the accomplishments of women in all aspects of Hip Hop culture. Within 4 weeks in August 2008, the We B*Girlz Festival will provide the girls with tools to be creative in the different aspects of Hip Hop culture, and will also teach them how to document their own culture through workshops in video editing, photography, and web design etc. During the 4 weeks in August, we will not only have lots of workshops, but also exhibitions, concerts, club nights, a filmfestival etc. We will produce a compilation with female artists, a magazine and a DVD. The event series will close with a big festival with battles, shows and a concert on the last weekend in August. We hope to see y’all in Berlin!!!

EXHIBITIONS & GRAFFITI JAM
August 28, 2008
location: Tachless

MadC (DE), TOOFLY(US), Shiro(JP), Faith47(SA), Mickey(NL), Fany(DE), Wave(DE), Hera(DE), Spice(AU), Anarkia(BR), Winter(NO), Yeah(NO), Qge(NO), Venus (ES), Politrix(SE), Sizta(SE), Numi(ES), Flai(ES), Malicia(ES), Alice Mizrachi(US), F.Lady(NL), Jolie (DE).

* The “Hip Hop Lady’s with Attitude” exhibition “So Fresh & So Def “will be kicking of August 22nd!

WE B GIRLZ CONCERT
August 29, 2008
location: Cassiopeia

ROXANNE SHANTÉ, BAHAMADIA, YARAH BRAVO, INVINCIBLE, ETERNIA, STACY EPPS, DJ SHORTEE, PYRANJA, SHE-RAW, JENEEZ, ISCHEN IMPOSSIBLE, TOO FUNK SISTAZ, NIA GARA,

DANCE OFF
August 30, 2008
location: Universal Hall

ROKAFELLA (NYC) ASIA ONE ( LA) A-KO ( Paris ) MOVIE ONE ( Barcelona )

To stay in the loop sign up for the “newzletta” at www.bgirlz.com

www.hiphop-ladies-with-attitude.com
www.bitchesincontrol.com
www.catfightmagazine.com

http://b-girlz-berlin.com/info/hostel/

My sister sent me this amazing animated video this morning from a John Lennon Interview…

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
- John Lennon

Thanks Pam, this is DOPE!

I’ve been compiling a bunch of stuff I really digg, most of it you find on other sites/blogs but I figured I should archive them as well so I can bring them back months later so people don’t forget about them…

This flick is especially dear to me because it takes place in Queens. The shots are beautiful to look at, big ups to the photographer involved. Brings me back to the good old days growing up here, it looks, and feels exactly like it. I’m especially proud of the STEREOBIKE CREW youth who set up shop and came up with something mad “ORIGINAL”. Made in Queens baby! OMG where can I get a T-Shirt that says that…
www.madeinqueensfilm.com

this weekend we celebrated our homie’s cumplaños with some good ass BBQ food, and a walk through the west side of Central Park. The weather couldn’t have been better, y la compania even more so;) We got laughs for days when we get together. Gotta enjoy the good people around you any chance you get. Now we’re gonna get ready for the lake trip! Last month of summer folks enjoy it while it’s still here!!!

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Finally! whew that took a while…I finally figured out how to put a YOUTUBE Video on here. Sure took me a while to figure it out, and searching online for the HOW TO ON WORDPRESS…anyway. Better late than never… Here’s the chosen few Ron English, Tara Mc Phearson, and Toofly rocking my lemon yellow sunshine T;) Now I just gotta figure out how to expand it to line up with everything…Crap, I’m a nut when shit’s not aligned drives me crazy!

Okay that’s all people! Hope you got a chance to see the billboard for yourselves. It’s not gonna be up for much longer;( Catch it at the entrance to the Midtown into Queens like a big “Welcome to Queens….!” You know how we do…

So yeah…I worked on this $ gig for T-Mobile last night in the Lower (LES). I never expected this sort of event to be dead center in our peoples hood. Puerto Rican flags in the summer breeze, a bunch of triple X T’s drying on the firescapes, and mami’s plants blooming with flowers. Then again all them condos are creeping in everywhere you look making it feel “cool” to host this type of establishment on this side of town. Sigh…New York an ever changing landscape. So anyway, I didn’t really know what to expect, I was just ready to throw down, collect my dough, and call it a night. I get there and I was like WORD! set up was tight. I dig professionalism, that’s corporate $ for ya. Damn the food was off the hook! shumai, noodle soups, spring rolls, dumplings, yum! big ups to the caterers for hooking up my dinner for the evening. Peeps rolled thru, and got first dibs on all the free shit; food, drinks, sidekicks, custom skatedecks, Kidrobot Munny’s, T-Shirts, and a time to shine on the green screen. That was a lot of fun actually. Shout out the fellas who put on an excellent freestyle dance sequence just for fun. That shit was GREAT!!! Vee and I were rolling…Okay folks just felt like writing more than usual today. Here’s the T-Mobile / Skin-It! action in full effect…

Gotta save that loot for Berlin baby!

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Shiro, Ema, and yours truly hooked up ALL THE RIGHT in corona queens with this slamming rooftop piece.
It was a hot ass day but we kept it cool with some fresh chopped fruits for like $!1.00. I love Queens you can still get shit at a reasonable price!

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