my love for you is a stampede of horses.

Caleb Neelon in China.

Caleb Neelon just got back from China and shared with me a few pics of the mural he worked on for eight very, hot days. Normally a mural like this takes about 4-5 days, but because it was so hot Caleb was unable to actually even paint between the hrs of 9am and 4:30pm. (Kinda jealous of that heat right now here in chilly SF). He also passes along some images of the neighborhood and the paintings he mentions below:

"I just got back from China, from Shenzhen, right next to Hong Kong. It was the hottest place I've ever done a mural... brutal. The Dafen Art Museum, where we did the project, is in the middle of the neighborhood where a very large percentage of the world's replica oil paintings are made. Unique neighborhood for sure.

The mural was for (and on) the Dafen Art Museum.  It's a project for the Shenzhen pavilion of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, curated by Urbanus, the architecture firm that designed the museum."

Caleb, practically naked, due to the heat. Heathen!

A mural by Alexandros Vasmoulakis. LOVE it.

Out & About: Lisa Congdon.

By now you must have heard of Lisa Congdon's Collection a Day blog. She's gotten much deserved press and coverage, as that lady has some eye. Her ability to find and couple unique and visually stimulating stuffs is almost like a super power. Yesterday I spent some long over due time with Lisa at breakfast and then her beautiful studio which she shares with another uber-talented lady Jamie Vasta.

I got to hang around and chat with Lisa while she prepped some of her daily collections for her blog. I thought it would be cool to get a small view into her process and check out some of her art and eye candy in her studio. There were so many wonderful splashes of fluorescent color, tchotchkes and work everywhere, I was so inspired by the time I left. You can see a larger studio visit I did with Lisa last year here.

Out & About with Porous Walker.

Last night Juxtapoz screened the SF premiere of the new Bansky film, Exit Through the Gift Shop. I met up with Porous Walker aka Jimmy DiMarcellis and Isaac McKay-Randozzi at Needles + Pens before hand to hang and check out art til the film started that night. We got in Porous' car and the rest is now in the proverbial history books. Pics follow of how the day unfolded. I don't think I have laughed so hard in a long time. Thanks Jimmy!

Our first stop was Needles + Pens, Porous and Andrew talk about autographs and art that buys coffee.

Next we headed up to lower Haight to stop by Fifty24 Gallery to check out Jason Jagel's show I'll Fly (Into Your Heart). I highly recommend it if you are in the hood & get a chance to see it. Lots of thoughtful work.

You are Beautiful stickers Porous brought for Amanda the gallery director at Fifity24.

And of course firecrackers! What would a gallery visit be with out fireworks?

Outside, talking about popcorn.

As we were in line for Exit Through The Gift Shop, a masked dude stuck this heavy duty fridge magnet to the Volvo station wagon that was there to drop the fam off. Porous helped collaborate.

Porous making the audience do what ever he asked of them, while he took photos. Such a charmer.

The audience saying "BANKSY" as Porous snapped their pic.

Before the film started Porous decided to share dollar bill art with the crowd. And then the lights went down...