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The Way It Is

Video Courtesy of Robert Tsu


This past tuesday, Winnipeg Poetry Slam hosted the final competition of the season to determine who will be going to Ottawa to represent at the 2010 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. I was asked to feature at this event. The crowd was great, the lighting set the mood very well, and the wheelchair gave me back some super powers that I thought I had lost forever. It was a great night.The Winnipeg Spoken Word Artists inspire me. They brought me back to my feet. I am thankful to be a part of a community that supports and honours freedom of speech, creativty, individual expression, and diversity.

Inspire.

Let it begin!

In your face world! Take that! Fresh off the Brain Style Reigns supreme officially brought to you by yours truly.

Three days away from featuring at the Winnipeg Slam Poetry Finals and I've got nothing but old poems sitting in a garbage bag, literally sitting in a garbage bag. School day Sunday Garbage day Tuesday. Full bag or empty its gotta to be picked up

nice and smooth

SWEATBOX

Sweatbox designs have begun. cheers to sketch night number one.

Dancing in the Rain

Dancing in the rain. So much fun. Join in

Official Website

The official Nereo II website will be up and running in about 3-4 weeks. It's time the world knows the name and what's behind it. Stay tuned..

Underground Warfare

photo1 courtesy of Tadao Horikawa and 2,3,4,5 of Annex Panlilo

What a jam what a jam. I don't think there will be another opportunity to break, emcee, and have my art on display all at in the same venue, well atleast not for a while. What a beautiful life. I'm taking advantage of it until it comes down. Speaking of which, the gallery has decided to extend my exhibit untill August 27 at which time the Governor General of Canada will come visit the graffiti gallery.

Coloring outside the box

Jazzy Jester of the Albino Rhinos crew came to Wininpeg to share his philosophy on dance and hip hop. He did a workshop that involved alot of coloring outside the box, which I found very liberating. He promotes invidual creativity, and the confidence to be who you truly are, while still having that balance between whats outside and whats in. Know both, but use whats inside the box, to know what you want to do outside. What else did we learn....FALLING! learning how to fall..with style. WATER moving like it. Movement vs. moves. No one can move like you, people can imitate moves, but they cannot be you. what else..as soon as you begin to define what hip hop is, you are boxing yourself in, don't fall victim to that. Go for self, and do what feels natural. Flying Bears, angry snakes, majestics ASSteroids, and shoulder brushing handshakes.



"it's better to fail in originality, than succeed in imitation" - herman melville


and in other irrelevant news. I climbed onto a church roof today. Oh what fun

no more drinks please

You know that feeling you get after you've had some drinks but can't remember how many you've had and your stomach turns and turns and you can barely walk straight, and you come home 10 hours passed your bedtime, you puke everywhere, you get a phone call from your friend reminding you that you have to perform a dance for some business people downtown, you have to do alot of movement, you have to spin on your back, roll around on the cement, but on the way there you make a stop at some back alley to puke some more, and all the colors of the rainbow that you mixed into your drinks from the previous night come spewing out on the floor and you feel somehwat releived but not entirely because you know the feeling wont go away right away... yea yea that feeling... fuck that feeling. no more poison please.

Two of a Kind

So the show was a success. Many people came through, alot of support was shown, many of the pieces were sold, some that I now regret selling. I'm happy that the artwork made people feel happy, and happier to know that it inspired alot of people to go home and make art. That is quite the reward. In the end I was happy, although I am still not satisfied with the outcome, and I think that it's a good thing. I enviosion something bigger, something wilder, something a little more fun, with a live performance, live painting and dance. And A book launch, and a cd launch. I will make this happen. Stay tuned.

Generosity can be good fortune

I received this as a gift in return of a small favour. The lesson learned from this is to always be good to good people. Good things will be returned. The key is not to expect anything in return.

"Lower the sails" in French became Beychevelle: when the Admiral de Nogaret was absent, it was his residence that received the honours of passing ships. Today the château is honoured by wine drinkers the world around. Its red wines of Saint-Julien, born of the marriage of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot, are the object of praise far and wide

Monday night Raw

Last Monday the Powerful Pharoahe came to the Pyramid. He was what I expected...REAL. Human but so Godlike. So much soul in him, I was with him from start to finish on his set. I feel that he should have been highlighting the show instead of Slaughterhouse. on the contrar, it makes sense to have him go before hand, its primetime, plus, you get to go home early. (jokes) Slaughterhouse is nice, but it just aint for me. They were complaining about the mics and giving that Harry Potter soundman guy a hard time. Not once through Pharoahs set did it seem like a problem. When he did Simon Says of course the play errupts, its like the one track that everybody knows. But everything else, from the Soundbombing tracks to shit off of interntal affairs to bits from O.K days to the newer Desire shit..sweet lordie lord, I was on it. I caught capital Ph ar oa he pharaohe standing in the back by himself after his set. We shook hands and bowed heads. I extended my respects and that was that. Truly and Honour. Pharoahe is superhuman to me and that was special night. The rest of the hip hop that night was ...no comments

Getting Old

Bushbabies

Leaked!

Come to my artshow at the Graffiti Gallery on May 6 and meet the bushbaby as well as other creations. in person!

Sad clown

WAAAAH My tooth hurts sooo much.

Battleship

nereo looks like hes been munching too much on his stereo. I would use that in a rap battle against me and WIN