Burns like Gonorrhea

What is up my fellow followers its been far too long i have been drain working and doing side projects giving me no time to do jack shit. Last week i was lucky enough to have painted some of the people ive looked up to hear debt elotes just to name a couple. heres some flicks enjoy and feel free to talk shit about my piece haha

Peace your tired street photog
Emenfuckos...

Chicago's Second Cities

My man Matt Tuteur is back in action with yet another gallery. This time bringing back the cabrini green housing projects from the dead. A man who knows no fear when it comes to the documentation of Chicago's neglected buildings and neighborhoods he will give you an inside look into a neglected part of Chicago history.


Studio 914
March 26, 2011
914 N. California

Incase you missed Matt Tuteur's show at black caviar

he will have photos hanging at Strictly Locals Art Gallery 4866 n.clark st. chicago, il 60640 11am-5pm daily
for the next month. So be sure to show him some love and check it out

Matt Tuteur Urban Explorer

Living in a city like Chicago there is alot of urban decay. Factories and buildings that were part of an economic boom back in the day. Today those empty buildings scattered throughout the different neighborhoods of the city that are waiting to get the wrecking ball. While many see these places as an eyesore, Matt see's as an opportunity to document and preserve the Chicago of yesteryear. If it was not for people like Matt, there would be no record of many of these buildings that we take for granted. With the rise of "cookie cutter houses and condos" springing up in Chicago it is only a matter of time before the past is erased by generic houses and glass buildings.

His explorations are not just isolated to Chicago but also surrounding Midwest states.

check out his collection of photos from many of Chicago's forgotten building which include Cook County Hospital,Washburn Trade School,Cabrini Green Housing Projects and Edgewater Hospital

Check out his blog at:
Matt Tuteur

Abandoned Remnants

I'll post the flyer as soon as its out.


Black Market Caviar
July 23,2010

1945 W Chicago
Near Damen Ave And Chicago Ave.

Blogs To Check Out

i have a great blog for you guys to check. It's a friend of mines and she is a great photographer and she is good at speaking her mind. This isn't your everyday blog about some girl on myspace,who wants to tell you guys that she went to the mall.When she post she brings quality in her writing and her photos. Well Check out her blog you wont be disappointed.

Star Belly Up <--Click Here)

The Buff Aint Slackin

They buffed something, so new it probably hadn't even dried yet. Fuck it though that is the nature of the beast some shit rides forever other shit rides a couple hours at the most. Well got an alright update still got a few more things to catch out there hopefully i do it this wekk because ive been a pretty lazy mofo over the last couple weeks.Well I'll shut up now enjoy the flicks.


Peace
-Emen


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Printervention // Printing for the Public

Following the success of last years' Version Festival program: the Bridgeport WPA pilot project, we have asked artists from around the country to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues of our day.
Printervention debuts April 16, 2010 at the The Chicago Tourism Center Gallery and continues through Version Festival to include workshops, a mobile silkscreen cart, a window display at The Whistler and more. For more information and a complete schedule of events and participants please visit www.printervention.org

Opening Reception Friday, April 16, 2010 5pm - 7pm
@ Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
72 E Randolph // Chicago

Printervention, organized by Emily Clayton, Chris Roberson and Ed Marszewski, is part of Version Festival 2010, an annual arts festival in Chicago produced by the Public Media Institute that brings together hundreds of artists, musicians and educators from around the world.

www.printervention.org
www.versionfest.org

Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city

As technology takes over our lives privacy almost becomes non-existent. Chicago police camera adorn our light poles on our city streets. What good is a camera if no one is watching the live feed? Does it matter that it was caught on video? Maybe in court but the reality is the crime still happened with or without the camera.

Many people agree that these camera's are for our own safety. When i walk around the city catching photographs it is the exact opposite somehow myself and other photographers are viewed as a threat.Why i do not know. Maybe it is because just like the watchers can watch us, we can also watch the watchers. I for one do not agree with being watched every minute of every day.If we allow them to take over our streets with camera's for our own good. We will soon see them in our homes to protect us not from intruders but from ourselves.

There is approximately 10,000 cameras that are networked together in the city but since 2006 they have only been able to make 4,000 arrest. They bust vandal and photographers, but they cant stop the spread of gangs,shootings, murders in the city.

Read the article and inform yourselves.


Cameras make Chicago most closely watched U.S.

Feds Keeping an Eye on Social Networking Sites

alright this is nothing that should surprise anyone. What i want to know is where we draw the line? There are people that are being punished for what they post on their social networking page. Well anyway the Feds are making up bogus profiles to gather information on people who have or will commit crimes.

Here are some tips for you guys.

1.)Be careful what information you post on social networking Sites once its out in the open its fair game for anyone.

2.) There are many of you kids out there that like to tell your friends what you do, when you do it and where you do it. Remember that once that information is out it most likely it did not just stick with the one buddy you told. Just Sayin.

3.)Try using common sense on what information you want people to see.


Read this article on Yahoo abou Fed's on social networking sights.
(Click the link below)
Fed's On Social Networking sites

Nicky "Dieter" Adam Interview

Since I began shooting graffiti and later on got into photography. I looked up to a couple of local photographers, who also did the same. One of them was Nick Adam. A person who has his own style of documenting graffiti and photography, which is more then just point and shoot. He captures the atmosphere in and around the subject to give a person, a sense of what he views compared to what someone else might see with his use of framing and style.

I can't recall the first time I met Nicky, but I could say it might have been sometime in 2008. Maybe at the Keys Open doors Show.

I hit him up recently and asked him if he would be interested in doing an interview and he agreed. As a person I look up to I thought it would be a way for me and you guys to get to know Nicky a little better.


(All photos contributed by Nicky "Dieter" Adam)




Emen: Who are you?

Nicky: I'm Nick Adam. Student to the world, designer of print, artist in life, photographer of the streets, loyal to those I love... always trying to stay happy, I just turn 29 years of age and I'm often over caffeinated. I've been known by other things but I really don't relate to those names, for a while people knew me as Nicky Dieter, which is homage to name I wrote for a wee-tad-bit and my German heritage. I rep the super-secret but about to be not-so-secret Mr. Thors' FOCUS GROUP, I'm as well apart of the latest generation of THREE HEARTS CLUB, HASH Crew. I was co-creator of UPSET with Ghetto P, Fotoflow, Cosbe, and Heather, we did a several very cool events in attempt of pushing Chicago forward.





Emen: Where are you from?

Nicky: Des Plaines. My family is from Humboldt Park, Logan Square, and Back of the Yards. My parents relocated to the West-suburb of Addison to birth my brothers and I. Our home was destroyed in the floods of '87 and we moved to Des Plaines. If you are familiar with Des Plaines... from the 016-side. People love talking about the Suburbs... I agree that they are boring and very good at producing people with no understanding of culture... well unless that culture is shopping and eating. I disagree with the thought that all suburbanites are rich and lack life experience. The majority of "native" Chicagoans I've known are far more wealthy than my family ever was or is, and often have not had the same experiences. Shit, I tend to soapbox and go off on tangents... whatever.... I've moved here and there throughout Chicago over the past 10 years, currently I stay in Ukrainian Village on a block that is sacred and still highly Ukrain. I'll be moving in June though, hopefully to a live/work space. If anyone hears any deals give me a shout, okay? Knock some bucks off the monthly cost and I'll help with ground maintenance, you know hand-holding back-scratching activities like shoveling the walks, make sure light bulbs are doing there things, help with the tenants incapable of helping themselves.





Emen: How did you become involved in the Chicago Graffiti scene

Nicky: By no way do I consider myself a writer, merely floated in and out or perhaps even on the peripheral. I got interested by way of highway "The Ike". My brothers and I spent about every weekend in the 80's at Grandma Vicki's in Back of the Yards. She was at 46th and Justine and we ate Naples Pizza allday! That place is still there, arcade games and all! Being a 7-year-old in a big-chevy van listening to Jimmy-Crack-Corn and John-Jacob-Jingleheimer-Schmidt, there was no greater escape then pondering the existence of these big letters in contrasting colors on walls. The Eisenhower was a wonderful expressway to drive down, it was absolutely rocked.... FEDZ and ICEPACK. That was the start of my interest in graffiti, but as well my interest in the human need to communicate, to influence, innovate and conquer. After that I wrote hear and there a bunch of different names... something when I was 12 and was apart of the punk scene going to see The Blue Meanies and Screaching Weasel, some other names while raving from 94-97 dancing to house music in girls bathrooms and chilling at afterhours held in funeral homes and other wierd places... I quit being a party kid around 16ish, had friends die, get years for transporting, and I became an over all piece of garbage. My girl Robbyn and I stopped at the same time and we started shooting the graffiti in the areas we stayed around. Looking back now it's the area surrounding Imperial Furniture wall down to Wicker Park. And incase you didn't know, that area was FUCKING NUTS then!

I was never schooled, and was for the most part was just fucking-about, was arrested plenty of times for being a not thinking shit-head. In 1999 I hated working as a telemarketer and thought that I'd go to design school and wait tables to pay for it. Graffiti was something that fell from my mind. I graduated, got a job doing night-club flyers, had an amazing lady... then in 2002 I had a large amount of friends die. These weren't pals or buds or kids I saw here and there, this was my innercircle. Each one choose the rope or the needle. Anyone that has not dealt with death or bodies each one was found in there own filth by family or friends, and in each case those people had to handle the body and clean the mess after the body was scoped up. I'm just saying, if you are making stupid decisions be conscious of who bears the brunt. I digress... It was the death of my closest friend Martin that got me thinking. The major difference between the dead and the alive is the act of doing, however if all you do is what your asked or suppose to, are you truly living? I didn't feel alive. That is when I created Deter, or Nicky Dieter.





Emen: What was that like Compared to what we see today, more murals perhaps?

Nicky: It's hard for someone like me to say accurately. I was a real little kid with next to no clue what exactly it was, I was in a state of sensory-overload. About all my mind recalls is vibrant colors and characters that looked like loony-tunes. Hell there is even a chance, my mind has made parts of those memories up. It was all murals. there was everything. I remember "Justine Street Boys" and "Saints" with some gangster scripts near Grandmas. Compared to something that actually does exist in Chicago today? I guess if Crawford Steel was illegal to paint and spanned all of Chicago, that would do it. That a question is more for someone that actually participated not some young ass kid that ate pizza all day. There was a lot of graffiti back then... and all the way up in till the buff. However 2010 and 2009 there is a lot of work going up, and staying up longer than the past 13 years or so.





Emen: Does photography hold a certain importance in your life or is it just a hobby?

Nicky: When Robbyn and I started taking photos it was 1997ish we were off the Blue-line. We were in those neighborhoods because we lived near the Rosemont stop and were familiar with those areas from the party scene I wasn't trying document anything, this was a replacement hobby for what I was trying to do without. Hell, I never even developed the film until 5-ish years ago when I found one roll in a box with my Paul Johnson and DJ Funk demo-tapes one roll of film. There was some BSA, Mane CHIROCK, Cove, Joke CMW, Test BTS, THC, KC... other stuff... Several years ago I was sharing some of the photos with Chris Silva, he asked me to show one photo of a "MEL" fill-in to this guy standing behind me. Ended up this photo was of the first MEL Melon had wrote. He mentioned just moving back to Chicago and that all of his pictures were long-ago thrown out, I asked him to keep it. It's great to feel the importance now, and that something can come full circle and act as a testament... or even proof of existence. The buff was an attack to eliminate this culture. It's blueprint was taken straight out of The Art of War. Sun Tzu wrote something to the effect, "it is the lack there of knowledge that precipitates the fall of a culture". By erasing the walls, the younger generations question who did what... everything that was not photographed is lost to the ages. Couple years ago I started seeing several "JOEY" tags, had there been no buff, no person would ever think to touch that name. JOEY had shit slaughtered. Hell, even me "a kid from the suburbs" was aware of that... fake-names and fake-crews pop up and it's because the kids are clueless.

Everyone that knows me, knows how much I hate to talk about graffiti, but since this paragraph is name dropping left and right, I need to mention several important players. First off SIVEL, he is more than a fucking beast. Anyone not knowing that has no clue what they are apart of. It was as if dude had life size rubber-stamps of his fill and straight letter, only something like that could explain how he fit the work of 40 hours in to a 24 hour day and still was stylish to piece and burn. Had his name never been removed off walls there would be no wallspace for new kids to paint. The work of THC, Hash Crew, Three Hearts Club violated off walls and out of the urban setting. It was so much more than graffiti. They perfectly translated artist talent and conceptual thought across all mediums. Antck, Jase, Thor, Cens and the bunch had long stood out for rocking positive-vibes, originality, thoughtful acts, successful experimentation, and raw talent. Skan... from my personal point of view (and that may not mean much to some) that dude thrashed the Kennedy. Most memorable was that Magikist sign! It was our tradition that when we'd drive past it I would have to give my mother a kiss... then there was the day an NCR fill was on it. From my young mind I didn't see an easy logical way of painting that. Fucking props. I past a new fill of his today. Brother Skan, it looked just as fresh.






Emen: Did you ever believe your photography and documentation would impact the lives of others?

Nicky: I started shooting again in 2002ish with the goal of building a collection for myself to save towards posterity. Just a collection that celebrated my childhood thoughts towards mans dedication to conquer. I'm glad to hear people like the photos I've taken. There a bunch of kids that believe photography or atleast this style of photography is not art, that all it takes is a good camera, or that this is purely an act of documentation. I don't suffer fools graciously... art comes from doing and communicating, understanding the medium, thinking conceptually, owning a process, and an internal drive. Every photo I take I took in my brain before lifting the camera to my eye. The camera accurately transmits a lasting form. I had no clue anyone would like these photos but I'm glad they do.

LASTWORDS:

My drive towards everything in life comes from this thought. History is filled with stories of conquest and triumph. Cavemen killed rhinoceros, Egyptians enslaved the Jewish, Christians crusaded and concurred almost all, Pilgrims stole land... Today, luxury condos replace buildings of affordable housing... that took the place of single family homes.... that updated the pioneer cabins... that squashed the indians' tepees.... Rich/poor, Latino/black/white, ugly/good-looking, woman/man, smart/stupid all of our bodies are pumping the same blood... we all want to concur. Subtract humans form the universe and we have beast killing beast, earthquakes cracking earth, what we don't have is destruction... just an ever modifying terrain. It's not that only humans destroy, it's that only humans deem things as fragile and therefor capable of being destroied.

Heads-up, I'm currently showing with Typeforce at the CPS space on Morgan at 32nd street, our date has been extended until March 19th, I encourage people to check out some of Chicago's top designers and typographers. March 12 and 13 is the Chicago Zine Fest, Thor Goodlife, Ghetto P, Oscar Arriola, Brooks Golden and I will be working two tables selling a slew of debut zines. As always, there will be art available as well.




Dope shirts incase you didn't know, BOPZINK. Next homie to blow-up and make it big, Thor Goodlife. Want to stay on top of the Chicago Art scene before things happen, Oscar Arriola. Most valuable asset in chicago art, Public Media Institute. Most inspirational, Multi Polar Projects.

Stay happy,
Nick


Thanks Emen.

Here are some links for people to peep,
My Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allday
THC crew shirts:
http://www.bopzink.com/
THC SITE:
http://threeheartsclub.com/
Oscar's blog:
http://fotoflow.blogspot.com/
Zine fest,,, This weekend:
http://chicagozinefest.org/node/10

TYPEFORCE : The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars.

I'd like to invite you to a show I'm apart of. On Friday, February 26 my work will be featured in TYPEFORCE : The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars. I am far beyond proud to be featured alongside some of the top contemporary typographers.

Thank you,
N

TYPEFORCE : The Annual Chicago Show of Emerging Typographic Allstars.
Please join me at: Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S Morgan St in Bridgeport
Bring your friends and any lover of Type/Letters

Opening: Friday, February 26, 2010, 7p-11p
Runs through: March 14, 2010

Allstars Include:
Nick Adam, Jeremiah Chiu, Renata Graw, David Weik, Billy Baumann, Matthew Hoffman, Chris Eichenseer, Chad Kouri, Ryan Thurwell, Luke Williams, Tnop, Andy Luce, John Pobojewski, Darren McPherson, Lora Fosberg, Margot Harrington, Greg Calvert, Aaron Pedersen, Duncan MacKenzie, Will Miller, Damian Abraham

Brought to you by Public Media Institute and Firebelly Design

Sponsored by AIGA Chicago, Graphic Arts Studio, Unisource Paper & I Shoot Rockstars

CTA You Cant Stop Us Photography Is Not A Crime

The CTA is tryin to fuck up my game. They're going to start making people paranoid by making them think we're(Photographers)terrorist. I for one wont stop what i am doing because i am not doing anything wrong at all.

Peace
MN

Interview With The Pod Collective

The nice peeps at the Pod Collective hit me up for a small interview for their blog check it out fuckos!

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Emen Interview

Bitch!!!

Havent had time to catch flicks been too into my studies lately, Plus When i ride the train in the morning its usually packed full of people to the point where you can barely move let alone breathe. Here's a few that i have caught over the last week and im gonna throw in a sketch for that sack of shit Milton Bradley peace and Enjoy

Just When You Think...

all is done theres more to come caught a few more flicks yesterday and as i was riding around today there was more to catch but due to shitty weather i couldnt well heres some new ones i caught yesterday.

Check out the rest on my flickr!!

Peace,
-MN

Uptown Art Fest

Starting off the weekend with painting by some of chicago's best in uptown. Tons of great flicks most i cant show but here are some that i can.

Today In Chicago Graffiti

Day 3. I took another quick trip around town see what else i could catch i caught some interesting work here and there. This is just a short preview of what i caught to see more check my flickr page

This Week In Chicago Graffiti

This is part 2 of my today graff hunt this week caught a few more as i travels around on the city's reliable and luxurious transit system. haha right well heres some of what i caught today check out my flickr to see more.