Alex J. Cabalu

I make art. On the front page you can see art that I have made with my crew, PMLAB.

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2025 Let’s Get Down to BIDNESS

virtual silent auction

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Although I volunteered a bit less, I donated a lot of art in 2025. It was a good year to give.

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This Chalk-a-Doodle event at Glendale (CA) Marketplace is fun, having been the second time Amara Ononi events had me. I painted a big piece of paper like a canvas for guests to paint on and a cross which to draw a pencil.

There was buffalo wing sauce samples, live music upstairs by Ross Dress for Less, a DJ down by Home Goods, a table for free art activities for the kids, and twenty artists or so doin' their chalk painting ting.

#california

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Before I let another year pass, want to shout out the folks at Jackalope Art Fair 2025 for including me and some of my friends new and established in a charitable endeavor: I plein-air painted "Mt. Big Boy" with oils on canvas to help Jackalope gives raise money for Altadena artists who'd lost everything in the fire this past year. Thank you Sara D. and Gloria B. for coordinating: https://www.jackalopeartfair.com/visitburbank And you can also donate here: https://www.jackalopegives.org/projects

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At last, finally got around to posting these pics of the Minion Air tour, 2024! Visited four events, cities, from LA to the Bay.

Thank you to Jackalope Arts Fair, Light Bringer Project, Amara Ononi Event Design, and Karla Ross Production for making these events go and for supporting artists in what they do.

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foundcoffeela's annie choi had a silent auction fundraiser for our neighbors who were affected by the fire. i donated a print of Pillarhenge to the auction annie posted to IG: "also people who want to still give: there will be a cash donation box during the silent auction AND people have been dropping off grocery gift cards to give with the checks)

thank you @geenahkrisht for the silent auction graphic xx

silent auction items (THANK YOU!!!): local small biz services @revcycle@haps_burgers@clubpilatesburbank gift cards @dune_la@yangskitchenla@bar_sinizki@threegemstea@lifesuperba looseleaf tea bundle @tahminatea beautiful bouquet of flowers @studiochungfloral matcha lesson + tasting @stereoscopecoffee coffee shop consulting zoom sessions @coffeedogguy@birchcoffee haircuts at local salons haircare product bundle @yojo_hair photography sessions @thereafterphoto@playingwithlight35mm javierruizdp artists/ceramicists @younghotghost@kimmmarra@jbpumpkins@[email protected]_ceramics@sunfieldpots@missmindyart@alysoniwamotoceramics@its_thepitts@appojax full set of skincare @stratiaskin tv/film script/screenplay reads @kiransubrawoman consult of cookbook draft @__tien__ made-to-order personalized bday/anyversary cakes (vegan/gf available!) @itsmemueller small biz branding session @teamfridayla therapy services coaching / consultation sessions of various types @ruizzoe@totally_social_ceramics free weekend boarding for dogs under 25lb @walksforpupsla"

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ArtNight Pasadena — Light Bringer Project

ArtNight Pasadena

I searched for pictures of every place I've lived not counting where I currently live. #home

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EDIT: There's a new DRAWING JAM the second Sunday of November 2024! (See the first pic on this post and buy tickets at Eventbrite!)

Much thanks to the humans at The Pop-Hop Collective bookstore and art space at 5002 York Blvd. in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA. I led a collaborative drawing session with about ten folks using Lynda J. Barry's sequential art Syllabus as a guide.

Thanks, Adriana, Jonathan and Kenzo for letting us use the space! Here is the shop's calendar for the rest of 2024.

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We are window painters. Thank you to the city of Azusa and Azusa Connects for inviting us to move some paint around on their storefronts. Special shout out to Kelly Green who helped organize some really great talent for the event.

BIGGEST shout outs go to my niece, Sara (and her dad, Ben, the B in PMLAB) who helped paint Ghostface chilling on the phone and talking to his girl friends (borrowed from Redbubble artist, solartd) *look at their work at https://www.redbubble.com/people/solartd/shop and BUY A STICKER.

WE GOT THE MAYOR'S AWARD. Thanks, Mayor Gonzales! We like scary movies, too.

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Hurricane Han went to great ends to put out an immense rollout of Seattle Korean rapper, Jay Park’s WON SOJU launch at Terracotta and Intercrew in K-town Los Angeles, September 2024.

Thanks Hurricane Han for having a neat vision for a piece and commissioning our art for the launch! It looked like a fun event. Special shout out to apprentice chalker, Tianle Su for helping with making the images!

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I had the pleasure and honor of Tambayan Collective's inviting me to be a part of its show on Aug 18, 2023 at Sunset Junction in Los Angeles. The evening was uplifting and the event, well-attended. Thank you to Edmund Arevalo and Tim Obar for curating and organizing!

Here is some artist info and pricing for the works, and a few words on LinkedIn that I wrote about two of the pieces that really struck my mental. Thanks for looking!

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The organizers of Jackalope Arts (Sara et. al) put on a good show in multiple cities across this fair land. I participated at theirs in conjunction with the Downtown Burbank Arts Festival, 2023 installment, paying homage to what perhaps is my favorite film, parts of which Zemeckis coincidentally shot on the streets of Burbank, I learned from one of the aunties in the pictures above.

Just imagine a Delorean behind the pose-folks and the image is complete! Who did it best? Thanks again goes to Lele S. for coming to help. Most proud of those letters, DANG!

Downtown Burbank Arts Festival 2023 spotlights talented artists - Media City Groove

Downtown Burbank Arts festival 2023 spotlights talented artists

Jackalope Arts

multi-city indie artisan fair focused on local handmade goods. #jackalopeartfair

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We celebrated Pride in 2023 by painting a couple of petite rainbows on the ground at the Altadena (CA) Senior Center. Thanks to Councilman Nic Arnzen and Liz Espinoza (giving me mad sassy side eye in the first pic) for organizing us, and thanks to my enthusiastic apprentice painter, Tianle Su! A group had already painted a crosswalk in ROYGBIV when we arrived in the early morning, and we worked alongside a group of sweet and great artists like Heather Hilliard Bond @hhbarts and Teresa Chandradibya @tchandradibya

There was also a fantastic art exhibit of the LGBTQ artist, Tony de Carlo inside the center as well. Super inspirational.

I kinda wanna do this image again, BUT REAL BIG. Let’s see if they have us come back.

Teresa Chandradibya and niece art.

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Thank you Jennifer Ripassa and Los Angeles Firecracker Run Committee, Inc. for organizing and supporting artists. This was a fun event!

Last/not least, thanks to Lele, Angeli and Laup for meeting me early and helping/hanging out on a brisk Saturday morning. Two snaps up!

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We did it again! This here is a pic from the last Pasadena Chalk Festival on Father's Day weekend in June 2022. We were able to stay overnight right across from the Civic, which helped us immensely in preparing things on Day 2.

So a number of things needed answering: Do we draw the trash can? (no) Will we draw other things (yah) A hole in the can does need to be cut? (yes) Is the trashcan a portal to a lush N. Y. C. loft apartment which would explain much? (NO) Does QscaR have things to do inside the can? (duh) Does Oscar’s not possessing a nose help him in his daily life? (likely)

We want to shout out @coachronangel (IG) at C & H Metal for helping us out with the cut of the metal trashcan which became kind of a careful item with interesting edges from which children could stay away!

AND HEHEHE HERE'S WHAT OSCAR WAS TEXTING (viewable when scanning QR Code during the event):