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free K-Pook

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Tonight they’re  celebrating K-Pook’s birthday at Firecraker. Some limited HVW8 “free kpook” canvas will be available in support of our friend.

More info on K-Pook and tonight’s event HERE.

scary graphic design

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These are the actual graphic layouts that Donald Rumsfeld would supply George Bush on his daily briefings before America’s crusade to war in Iraq.  Crazy!

(Originally published in GQ magazine)

More HERE

Meet the President

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Got to meet the President last night at a DNC fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton. Snapped a few picks of Obama, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jennifer Hudson along with a little of the action around the President. Must say it was pretty inspiring to shake his hand!

I heart JP

Art + Design Gallery and the Parra exhibition get some lovin’ in Japan’s Warp mag.

Lost Art – HVW8 Roy Ayers' painting

People inquire a lot about one of our most infamous pieces; the Roy Ayers Wax Poetics cover piece from 2004. Here is the story –

The Roy Ayers painting by HVW8 Art Installation was created in Montreal during a live set with Afronaught and Mark Force, from the Bugz in the Attic, during the Goods. I brought back the original painting to Los Angeles from Montreal and gave it to Andre Torres at Funky Sole at Star Shoes for the Wax Poetics cover. Andre took the piece back to Brooklyn. This was the last time I saw it.

A few weeks passed and I asked when we were going to get the piece back. Andre said he had already Fed-Ex’d the painting back to Huntington Beach, where HVW8 had an office within Giant distribution, but didn’t have a tracking number. Fast foward 6 months, Andre finds the tracking number and we find out that the painting was received at Giant distribution and signed for by an employee who was fired that day. This employee then left back to Mexico. Sad thing this piece was never properly documented.

So best bet the HVW8’s Roy Ayers is currently in Tijuana area.

Please let us know if you ever see it! Also never lend out original pieces!

Mr. French – Int'l podcast Vol. 8

Hey Playboy – this one is for the ladies!

We finally got the Mr. French podcast up ….

HVW8 International Podcast Vol. 8 with Mr. French

jazzsteppa “taylor rain” 
evs “let it go” 
floating point “shangri la” 
suzi analogue “son” 
morgan zarate feat eska and ghostface killah “sticks and stone” 
zo aka la chauve souris “moon (ghetto love night)” 
hudson mohawke “polkadot blues” 
fulgeance “rusbicube” 
j todd “ghetto attachment” 
letherette “in july focus rite” 
steve spacek “this one feels allright” 
steve spacek “look” 
negghead “blast” 
aqeel “rock hard” 
the parallel dance ensemble “pizza turtle cadillac” 
detroit experiment “think twice” henrik schwarz remix

Podcast Page HERE

Subscribe free to the HVW8 International Podcast via iTunes HERE.

 

Keep up with Mr. French and his weekly radio spot: 
KCRW 89.9 FM 
FRIDAY MID TO 3 AM 
www.mathieuschreyer.com 
www.kcrw.com/onthecorner

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