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More recent pic of the man himself. #veganforlife #moby #veganmoby

Moby blessed us with a great mural back around 2013. A wonderful garden party and more.

Here’s some info on him from Wikipedia in case you’re not familiar.

Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United Kingdom and the United States".

After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the 1980s before turning to electronic dance music. In 1989, he moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer, and remixer. His 1991 single "Go" was his mainstream breakthrough, reaching No. 10 in the United Kingdom. Between 1992 and 1997 he scored eight top 10 hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart including "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)", "Feeling So Real", and "James Bond Theme (Moby Re-Version)". Through the decade he also produced music under various pseudonyms, released the critically acclaimed Everything Is Wrong (1995), and composed music for films. His punk-oriented album Animal Rights (1996) alienated much of his fan base.

Moby found commercial and critical success with his fifth album Play (1999) which, after receiving little recognition, became an unexpected global hit in 2000 after each track was licensed to films, television shows, and commercials. It remains his highest selling album with 12 million copies sold.[2] Its seventh single, "South Side", featuring Gwen Stefani, remains his only one to appear on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 14. Moby followed Play with albums of varied styles including electronic, dance, rock, and downtempo music, starting with 18 (2002), Hotel (2005), and Last Night (2008). His later albums saw him explore ambient music, including the almost four-hour release Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (2016). Moby has not toured since 2014 but continues to record and release albums; his most recent is Long Ambients 2 (2019). Moby has co-written, produced, or remixed music for various artists. In addition to his music career, Moby is known for his veganism and support for animal welfare and humanitarian aid. He is the owner of Little Pine, a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, and organized the vegan music and food festival Circle V. He is the author of four books, including a collection of his photography and two memoirs: Porcelain: A Memoir (2016) and Then It Fell Apart (2019)

John was kind enough to do the wall back in 2014.

We’ve stolen some bio history from Wikipedia

Lurie has been painting since the 1970s. Most of his early works are in watercolor and pencil, but in the 2000s he began working in oil. He has said of his art, "My paintings are a logical development from the ones that were taped to the refrigerator 50 years ago."

His work has been exhibited since July 2003, when two pieces were shown at the Nolan/Eckman Gallery in New York City.[15] He had his first solo gallery exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery in May and June 2004 and has subsequently been exhibited at Galerie Daniel Blau in Munich, Galerie Lelong in Zürich, the Galerie Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam, the Basel International Art Fair at Roebling Hall and the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the NEXT Art Fair in Chicago, the Mudam Luxembourg, the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Gallery Brown in Los Angeles, and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.The Museum of Modern Art has acquired some of his work for their permanent collection.

Lurie has released two art books. Learn To Draw, a compilation of black and white drawings, was published by Walther Konig in June 2006. A Fine Example of Art includes over 80 reproductions of his work and was published by powerHouse Books in 2008.

Lurie's watercolor painting Bear Surprise was enormously popular on numerous Russian websites in an Internet meme known as Preved.

The Lounge Lizards

Main article: The Lounge Lizards

In 1978 John formed The Lounge Lizards with his brother Evan Lurie; they were the only constant members in the band through numerous lineup changes.

Robert Palmer of The New York Times described the band as "staking out new territory west of Mingus, east of Bernard Herrman." While originally a somewhat satirical "fake jazz" combo spawned by the noisy No Wave music scene, the Lounge Lizards gradually became a showcase for Lurie's increasingly sophisticated compositions. The band's personnel included guitarists Arto Lindsay, Oren Bloedow, David Tronzo, and Marc Ribot; drummers Grant Calvin Weston, Dougie Bowne, and Billy Martin; bassists Erik Sanko and Tony Garnier; trumpeter Steven Bernstein; and saxophonists Roy Nathanson and Michael Blake. The band made music for 20 years.

Marvin Pontiac

In 1999 Lurie released the album The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, a posthumous collection of the work of an African-Jewish musician named Marvin Pontiac, a fictional character Lurie created. It includes a biographical profile describing the troubled genius's hard life, and the cover shows a photograph purported to be one of the few ever taken of him.[5] Lurie wrote the music and performed with John Medeski, Billy Martin, G. Calvin Weston, Marc Ribot, and Tony Scherr. The album received praise from David Bowie, Angelique Kidjo, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen and others.

“For a long time, I was threatening to do a vocal record. But the idea of me putting out a record where I sang seemed ostentatious or pretentious. Like the music of Telly Savalas . . . I don't sing very well, I was shy about it. As a character, it made it easier."

John Lurie National Orchestra

Lurie in 1992Parallel to the final version of the Lounge Lizards in the early 1990s, Lurie formed a smaller group, the John Lurie National Orchestra, with Lurie on alto and soprano saxes, Grant Calvin Weston on drums, and Billy Martin on congas, timbales, kalimba, and other small percussion. Unlike the tightly-arranged music of the Lounge Lizards, the Orchestra's music was heavily improvised and compositions were credited to all three musicians. They released an album (Men With Sticks, Crammed Discs 1993) and recorded music for the Fishing With John TV series. In February 2014 the Orchestra released The Invention of Animals, a collection of out-of-print studio tracks and unreleased live recordings from the '90s. Columnist Mel Minter wrote:

This new release may require a reassessment of Lurie the saxophonist because the playing is engagingly fluid, inventive, and visceral—and well worth revisiting. . . . The emotional immediacy of Lurie's playing – and that of his partners – makes for riveting stuff. Think of his sax not so much as a musical instrument, but instead, as a window with a clear view of his soul.

Michelle Quan’s amazing finished piece. @mquanstudio

Michele Quan of MQuan Studio creates handmade ceramic art & objects for the home and garden. The pieces become a canvas for her love of drawing, painting, text and color. Many of the objects and images are rooted in the symbols of Eastern iconography- their depth & meaning of which she is continuously in awe.

Impermanence & interconnection are ideas she returns to often, drawing inspiration from the writings and teachings of Buddhism and it’s extensive visual language. She understands the meanings to be universal and independent of religious attachments.

‘Sometimes when you look at the sky, it can cut straight to the bone and this moment in the midst of it all, is what I attempt to convey. My hope is that my work serve both as objects of contemplation to inspire reverence and as a source of encouragement and refuge’.

Clay forms are hand built or thrown on the wheel and all images are hand painted. The work is then fired in a gas kiln to 2350 degrees. Other materials used include hand-dyed cotton, hemp rope, walnut and white oak.

Quan works from her studio in Brooklyn, she has lived at Prince & Elizabeth Street since 1991, and witnessed the neighborhood morph into what is now known as NoLiTa. She remembers when all the storefronts were boarded up, sidewalk BBQ’s with lawn chairs and blow up pools would appear on summer weekends and the space where Quality Mending is, was a bodega with hardly any food on the shelves, she wasn’t sure what they were selling.

Michelle Quan has blessed us with the art for our wall.

Here’s a piece by @albert_diaz1 and @curthoppe that just came off the wall. Hoping to post all the past wall folk up on this blog soon.

@iamfinley blessed the wall with her great art. C. Finley spends her life travelling between Rome and New York, stopping off in numerous locations around the world for extended periods of time along the way. Her art shows her incredible personality and warmth as a human being.

@tombobnyc was up on our wall a while back. Wonderful wonderful things. New York based artist who spends his time travelling between New Bedford MA, New York City and around the world changing inanimate objects into pieces of art.

Elizabeth Street Garden, located just a few feet away from the QMC Artwall, are in the midst of battling the city to survive. It could be the building site for what the city call “ Affordable Housing”. The city would give a small number of the units in the building to people on the waiting list and sell the remainder for crazy money.

We don’t want to loose our outdoor space. So much of the city is disappearing quickly. Gas station are pretty much extinct. Green spaces, such as Elizabeth Street Garden are being swallowed up so that the rich get richer while our inhabitants suffer, families are left with fewer and fewer neighborhood spaces where they can relax feel secure.

We hope that this beautifully shot photo series of folks who would dearly miss their garden will help raise awareness about what might soon happen if the wrong people get there way.

Please visit the garden on Elizabeth street between Prince and Spring Streets, come shop with us while you’re there. Also visit their website: elizabethstreetgarden.org and ours: http://www.workclothingsport.com/#!art-wall

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BILLY CHILDISH

JULY 2015 ON THE QM ART WALL

quote from the guardian newspaper may 2014 by clive martin,

"Childish refers to himself as a "radical traditionalist" and appreciates the methodology of old (he won't play live any more because he doesn't like modern PA systems). "Tradition is the platform to freedom," he says quietly. "It's often seen as enslaving, but it's actually the way to go. The problem with fashion-based stuff, is that it's… kind of a blancmange." A striking 54-year-old in dirty overalls, he paints every Monday in his studio, located in the same Chatham dockyards where he first worked as a 16-year-old apprentice stone mason. He's lived and worked in the picturesque yet brutal town all his life (he says a bit of gentrification is OK, "because it means you get good sausages"). There seems to be a kind of parallel between his work, which sits just outside of London's cultural scene, and Chatham's geographical placing, also just outside the capital. "I never needed to validate myself by moving to London," he says. "In my mind, it's actually a very provincial place because it's full of people from the provinces trying not to seem provincial. I always found it very limiting."

The legend of the man born Steven Hamper is as of much interest to his followers as his work. He was expelled from St Martins, he became an alcoholic, he beat up his own father, he co-founded the stuckism movement (which took a tongue-in-cheek stand against conceptual art), he's made the same album for 35 years and he looks like a boozy 40s cad straight out of a Patrick Hamilton novel. I ask him about the famous moustache, now so prevalent in certain districts of the London he's never musch cared for. "I'm an interesting person with a moustache, rather than a person who's grown a moustache to be interesting. But it's a good trick to do that, and good luck to them if they can pull it off."

Childish's fans see him as the last artist out there with any integrity, a Medway renaissance man who you'll never see on the front of Mojo. But just looking around his studio, you realise a strange paradox: you are in the presence of a man who is endlessly creative and somewhat subversive, yet only seems to want to create the same thing over and over. A gentleman monomaniac, if you will. He's fronted a number of bands down the years – the Pop Rivets, the Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Headcoats, the Buff Medways, etc – but I put it to him that he might as well have called all of his bands "Billy Childish" as the form differs so little. He is cheekily defensive. "Well that's not true, because we just did four albums where I played bass and my pal sang and played guitar."

I wonder if Childish's output is, in the best possible way, secondary to the man himself and his story. Perhaps Steven Hamper from Chatham, as much as he would hate the suggestion, is a kind of performance artist, the main feature of a 35-year-long conceptual satire of the London art world. But then again, tenacity alone suggests this is no send-up. And if so, he is surely the ultimate outsider: not just an artist who is ignored by the mainstream, or one who sticks two fingers up at it, but one who respectfully says it's not for him. A radical traditionalist, I guess."

Gigi Spratley and Jack Waltrip Li'l Beasties

About the Mural

The mural for Quality Mending Co., Veil of the Eternal is a 3-D work conceived as a space between dreams and meditation where veiled potential can be revealed,just as the 3D glasses reveal an alternative experience for the viewer. The mural grew out of an ongoing project they’ve been involved in which includes the development of a book and animation project collectively known as the Li’l Beasties

About the Artists

Gigi studied abroad in Rome at the St. Stephen's School from 1974 until 1976.

After her time at St. Stephen’s Gigi moved to Claremont, California where she earned a BA in art from Pitzer College and a MFA in painting from Claremont

Graduate University. She then moved to Los Angeles where she lived and worked as an artist from 1983. In Los Angeles in 1985, working primarily in two-dimensional media, painting and drawing, she acquired her first computer and sought to integrate digitally produced imagery into her drawing practice.

Since moving to New York in 1995 she’s expanded into sculpture, assemblage, photography, digital prints, stop action animation and collaborations with her husband, musician and artist Jack Waltrip. She has an interest in organic formsfound in nature, the phenomena of light, pop culture, and technology.

Jack has lived in New York City for thirty years, and has been forging a unique and innovative musical style during that time. His latest recording Monoceros, is primarily defined by his interest in middle-eastern tonalities and rhythms, to amazing effect. Having played with Miles Davis, John Scofield and Darryl Jones among others, he continues to explore groove/soundscapes that are beautiful in their darkness.

Gigi and Jack work together on many levels in music and art. They’ve made a short anti-war stop frame animation entitled All You Need is Love, which can be viewed on YouTube. Their collaborations include 3-D digital prints, designs for jewelry and fabric as well as forthcoming music releases.

http://gigispratley.com/

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JUNE 2011

Little Annie Bandez (also known as Annie Anxiety or Little Annie Anxiety Bandez) is a New York born singer, songwriter, painter, poet, writer. performing and recording artist, pastor and stage actor

biography

Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez O'Connor, who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, has been "real" ever since. She is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school drop out, juvenile delinguint, self taught painter, and multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who had defied catagorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law.

Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations (with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, Collapsed Lung, Christophe Heeman, and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde. She has written three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces, and films, and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch of Botanica.

Frank Zappa in his 1980 interview with Songwriter magazine said of Little Annie "But when I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour, painful as it was - their show was real personal and disorganized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real ! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. groups."

http://www.brainwashed.com/anxiety/

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WK Interact

WK (aka WK Interact) was born in 1969 in Caen, France. He has lived and worked in New York since the early 1990s. WK is interested with the human body in motion, his paintings of figures frozen in a flight of movement reflects this infatuation. The artist’s unique process involves a technique of twisting an original drawing or photograph while it’s being photocopied, resulting in the monochromatic palette and streamlined moment-in-time appearance of his finished work. WK site-determines his placements by finding an appropriate location first, then his imagery is chosen specifically with a concern for encounters in an urban environment or “interactions” (as the artist indicates in his pseudonym). In the late 1990s his images began appearing on building facades in downtown Manhattan, complimenting the constant stir of bodies and the perpetual motion of contemporary urban life in the fast-paced city.

http://www.wkinteract.com/

Musician and artist Ted Riederer combines his love for art and music in this clever repurposing of vinyl records. Using a plaster skull mold, he places the vinyl on top and melts it, so that when the plaster is removed, he has a vinyl cranium, which can then be stacked into a pyramid of skulls! The series is called Primal Sound. Riederer’s artworks all share a musical theme and he has brilliantly come up with many ways to recycle phonograph records. An MFA graduate of The School of Visual Arts in NYC, the 33 year old artist has shown his work all over the U.S.A and internationally.

Read more at http://www.visualnews.com/2013/08/22/artist-ted-riederer-creates-skull-sculptures-out-of-melted-vinyl-records/#d8gJQPRpJYozIMPz.99

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