RJ talks to New York based graffiti / street artist Depoe who had the intimidating task of painting two 70-foot-high silos at Primary Flight Miami this year.

Jeff Soto talks about goofy guys with paint rollers and knives – and why fatherhood has change his take on street art.

URBAN DEVELOPMENT Episode 1 from Askew One on Vimeo.

Urban Development is an outdoor art project, the objective is to provide the platform for collaboration between artists across a wide range of mediums and stages in career. The project centres around street influenced mural work but will also draw in a variety of creative’s, both emerging and established. The concept is to think outside the conventional confines of graffiti, fine art, sculptural work, performance and beyond, blurring the lines and creating a dynamic and interesting project worthy of international attention.

This Episode introduces the project through brief interviews with the founding collective, Berst, Askew, Snek and Tim Webber. Stay tuned for regular updates including profiles on collaborators and the murals progress.

El Mac & Retna | Primary Flight T-Shirts from Upper Playground

Upper Playground recently released some of Mac & Retna’s work with Primary Flight on a couple of t-shirts. There are two designs available: “La Reina de la Tribus” from Primary Flight 2007, and “Young Scribe” from Primary Flight 2008. Get ‘em while they’re hot. And don’t forget about the Alianza and the Montana Artist Series cans, previously covered here.

UPDATE: Tee’s are all 50% off right now until 1/31, and for every purchase
during the promotion, we’re sending a t-shirt to Haiti.

Biscayne Times writer Anne Tschida takes you deep into the heart of Wynwood to explain how Miami got to be the graffiti and street mecca that it is today. The article gives credit where credit is due, explaining how Primary Flight paved the way for unbridled creativity to take over the Design District. The article interviews BOOKSIIII, HOX, Lynn Yohana Howard, and Tony Goldman. Recommended reading.

Our dear friends at Juxtapoz Magazine have named Primary Flight #36 in their Top 100 Moments of 2009. Check it out here, and be sure to check out the rest of the list. We gotta say it was a good year.

]]> http://primaryflight.com/blog/juxtapoz-names-pf-in-09-top-moments/feed 0 http://primaryflight.com/blog/flick-update-depoe-vs-depoe http://primaryflight.com/blog/flick-update-depoe-vs-depoe#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:58:19 +0000 admin http://primaryflight.com/blog/?p=3012 Peep these photos of Depoe’s process, previously documented here.
Thanks to Jim at NikonMiami for these photos!

Primary Flight wanted to say thank you to HOX / MSG and his truck. If it wasn’t for Hox, we wouldn’t have gotten all the walls buffed and all the machinery figured out in a timely fashion. Thanks again, homey.

Learn more about HOX at houseofhox.com.