Studio G_Incubation

Im back from my vacation.

Batteries charged back up.

I want to thank everyone for they're overwhelming support for the work that i do. I have received a lot of emails from folks expressing to me the satisfaction and inspiration that they get from my work. I still find it weird, but cool too.

Also would like to clear one thing up. When i talk about shooting myself i dont mean it. I have a interesting sense of humor and its all in the name of "shits and giggles".

"This town deserves a better class of artists and im going to give it to them!"

Here is the clip from last week that i promised pre-mental breakdown. Its a work in progress.

Oh, i know that i posted on another site that i will not be using Radiohead anymore but this is an old joint so go chew on a stick:P



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Studio G_Incubation from T.A.G.San Francisco on Vimeo.

San Francisco mornings

This morning i was dropping my friends car off way over in the avenues before work. I was thinking to myself that the next time i wake up i will be back in North Carolina. The weather is of course much differnt here so i took a couple snaps of the SF morning.





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Le Corsaire

Joseph Phillips doing what he does best.

This man has been my dog for above 10 years now and still continues to impress me and the rest of the world.

Casette Playa

Until i get some motivation to produce more new joints im temporaly putting TAGsf on hold. My focus for the time being will be on trying to figure if really want to do this? Looking at differnt sites and other artists of all fields will consume a lot of my time along with the Lord of the Rings extended box set Trilogy.

here is a dope site along with a YouTube.

http://www.cassetteplaya.com/

Not today

Sorry no new joints today. All my motivation is gone. As of now i dont
see the point in producing work anymore. The only reason why i have
been doing it is so that i can get my ideas out. I have been working just
to work. Right now i feel like i have been spinning my wheels.
I lied when i said that i am better cause i am not.
Considering taking a long break from all of this and focus my energies
on something else.


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Hmmm.........

Yesterday after being on the verge of shooting myself i was able to get my bearings back. My friends pointed out to me that i am on the right track with what i am doing and producing good work. To take my mind off the "Blue Pill" i went skateboarding to blow off some steam which helped center me again. Its weird cause i am a very confident person who knows my strengths/faults so me feeling discouraged happens very rarely, but when it does the shit hits the fan for me.

Today i am back to normal and know what i need to do to push things further along. I have never been one to care about what other people are doing cause i am so caught up in my own little world. What that means is that i never compare myself or work to anyone elses. I cant. Never have i wanted to be anyone else or change lives but yesterday FUCKED me up and i did not know how to deal with it.

A little while ago i was on Gawker.com and read a very inspiring article.

Subject: All New: call for ideas

Hello everyone,

We're planning an issue for January called the All New issue. It will be pegged to the Obama inauguration, and the idea is that we're heading into a new era with an opportunity for new thinking and new ways of doing things.
We're looking for suggestions in all categories: the most interesting new people and ideas in science, medicine, economics, education, business, film, television, art, books, music, architecture, fashion, sports, food. The
actor or author making a phenomenal debut; the gadget that will change the way we do things; the policy wonk with a new plan for tackling homelessness; the new ingredient that's showing up on restaurant menus; pharmaceutical breakthroughs; new trends in fashion... The only requirement is that it has to be—new.

The issue is coming up quickly, so please send your ideas by November 26.

TAGsf is all over that ass. Trust me on that!


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To Do lists

Today is the day that i was supposed to put up my weekly "To Do List". Well, after i got done speaking with Casey(interactive guy) about how i need to get either an LLC or fiscal sponsorship so that we have somewhere to put money from producers or whatever. Casey told me "dude you dont need that just yet. Your shit is an underground organization." True. Very True. He then showed me some other websites of kids doing the same thing as us. Something that i noticed on the other sites were how well they used branding. Every video section opened up with a graphic of the logo. SHIT!! Now i have to go back and incorperate the TAGsf logos in all of the videos that we have produced. I will not be doing that with any of the old joints that we already have out there. Instead, from this time forward i will be adding the branding to all new works that we are doing. Problem solved!


To Do list:

1. Branding

2. Merchandising

3. DVD

more of that to come about the DVD.


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Tomorrow we dance/Studio G_(clip)

Here is clip from some phrasing that i worked on 5 months ago. Sooo
many blurbs of movement that have gone untouched. Now im starting to
revisit them and develop the phrases into full movements.





Tomorrow you get the real deal buddies:)

oh, i will suggests that you play your own music with the clip. You will be surprised. Might be cool!



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Mans Dinner

Sunday I did exactly what i set out to do. Chill!

My room mate the "Crazy Bastard" himself and i went to the beach and decided to rent Lord of The Rings. After the Fellow Ship of the Rings Rogers decided to cook us a "Mans Dinner!"

Something that needs to be said about "Rogers" is that he is a Crazy Bastard but in the Kitchen he is a prodigy child. He is lead chef at a 4 star resteraunt in Marin called Picos.

He made me a pork sandwhich and for himself, check out the pics


you can too have a "Mans Dinner" here is the recipe:

1 big ass steak pork

2.One "big ass" Potatoe

3. One "big ass" loaf of bread

4. One "big ass" cup of water


Dont worry ladies. The "Womens Dinner" is up next



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Sexy aint Easy

There is nothing i enjoy more in the world then calling my friends who i know are sleeping early in the morning. The reason why its so funny to me is because im not a morning person but i have to get up early for work. By the time I'm awake all my friends are sleeping so its ripe picking. Everyone of them have a differnt response to my phone calls. The smart ones learned to turn the phone off, while the others well......

Here is my latest victim. Dorito. Her response to my calls had me laughing this morning. Now i might be eating my words cause i might be up for revue to get kicked out of the "Sexy Kids/Team Sexy". Her argument is that its not sexy to call someone early in the morning. My argument is that it is Sexy.

Peep our FaceBook conversation below

Dores:War is on Bitch,swear I'm calling you at 5am on Sunday........first fucking day I slept in,YOU woke me up.....get ready for war

Me:ha ha ha ha.

in spanish

ja ja ja ja ja!

Dores:Next Friday at the Independent,El Guincho,Team Sexy is going and although morning calls ain't sexy,we haven't exclude you,yet.

Me:Why are you always trying to kick me out of the Sexy Kids? Getting up early in the morning is one of the sexiest things a person can do. It tests the Sexy. Do you think that momma Trya Banks gets up late? Hell naw. That bitch us up at 6:00am putting in her weave(and LIZ). Not just anyone can do it. Its a dog eat dog word out there and only the Sexy will survive.

Dores:Me and David(Bowie) still think you'r sexy,don't you worry.


Alright. Sounds like my future is secure(for now) with Team Sexy.

Bowie Said so mothafuckas!


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Studio G_ Street Rocking(clip)

Yesterday i was out on my balcony shooting some B-roll of the street.

Looky what i saw:P

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Introducing...Frank

It is my pleasure to introduce our new collaborater, Frank!

Keep your eyes peeled, Frank is known to pop up when he feels like it.

Soon we rock

Yawwwwwnnn.........:P

Of course im tired.

This entire year for me has been about working from the back end of TAGsf. My priorities have not been performances which sucks. My priority has been in developing the brand idenity, developing an online pressence, new joints(material) making new contacts, learning how to edit, staying innovative without being cheesey. Above all getting ready for battle!

Next year is "Go Time." I am activley looking for venues/collaborators learning about new technologies so that we can bring this thing to you. Thats what i am most excited about. The way that i see it is that we operate like a band.

1st- we put the music(dance) out there. Hopefully you like it and want to do some investigating to see more of what we have to offer.

2nd- You buy the album and tell your friends how hot it is. Word of mouth kicks in and the "hype machine" starts.

3rd- The band goes on tour and you buy tickets/merchandsing to the show. Hopefully the show does not suck and you walk away from an amazing time eager to go back for more.

This is the model that i will be basing TAGsf after. The main thing are the shows which are fun with amazing dancers. "No Expectations" is a model that i set up for TAGsf so that we can keep coming up with fun new ways to get people to check out our work and come to the shows. You can come to expect that we will be doing something differnt but fun. At the end of the day its all about the dancers and collaboraters who i am so lucky to have. Yet again i dont know how in the fuck i,ve done it?

Man, this is a lot of work for a non-existant company with no money huh?

thats on my list too.


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The Sweetest Thing

THANK YOU!

THANK YOU!

THANK YOU!

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE:)P


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one more thing

I have to re-visit my comment about the homeless "cock block" because i think that we are onto something. Plus its funny shit.

Last night while we were out at a bar in the mission i had met 2 grape ice creams from Atlanta. They were nurses intown for work. Matter of fact, lets rewind a little further.

Leaving the concert that started the night off for us, Ben and i took the BART to the mission. We got off at our stop and there was this cardboard murial of Barack Obama. The cool thing about that was you were supposed to sign it. We did our thing, i snapped a pic or two and we roll bounced to the bar so that we can find some action.

For some odd reason no one was at the places that we frequent for some reason or another. We decided to kick a free stlye at Dellerium and even managed to get caught in a dance off. It was cool, it was dope but... we needed some grapes. An hour or so passes and 2 grapes walk into the spot. I start to chat them up thinking that its about to go down. Little did we know that my man with the Obama sign was with them. Straight up homesless. let it be clear Im all about the "starving artists from the streets trying to get him some of his, regardless" but, c'mon man. I got a motha fucking job and Im a small time pimp. Anywho, the girls wanted to go somewhere else and dance so we roll bounced to the Elbow Room. As we were leaving my man had the girl i was talking to hold his cardboard art. WHAATTTTTTT?

We get to the spot, danced, do our thing. Im happy cause im chiiling with the grape and at the same time Ben is trying to fight with the homeless dude over the other girl. 2:00am hits so we had to peace out. Ben said that we should go back to his and chill with the grapes. We got cab. Dont tell me that the homeless dude pops his ass in the cab with no loot, making one the girls hold his shit and sit up front with my girl. By this time Ben and are laughing cause we were being out played by a homeless man. Dude comes back with us to the house and chills up on it. We even got a taxi back together!

If you need any more proof that the economy is down look no further. I guess its all about that homeless swagger.

you aint got nothing, you wont loose nothing.

Game well played:)

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Night Owls

Last night i found myself caught in the heat of battle. My knees were all scrpaed up but still i fought on.

Last night i found myself along with my boy Ben being cockblocked by a homeless man.

Last night i found myself taking pics of Pat sleeping with some weird "New Balanced" ergonomical pillows. We were all very impressed. I think that he got them in Japan

Last night i found myself at "Bimbos". A concert hall for the SF band the "Do Dos" performed.

This morning i find myself tired.

OH, San Francisco!


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Yes We Did!

Last night america spoke to the rest of the world. We said that we want change.

Our newly elected president is the face and voice of that change.


Barack Obama!

We heard the news after me being mad at one of my friends for voting for McCain. My friend is a well known male ballet dancer and it makes no sense to even think about supporting the red ticket if you are in the arts you know? After calming down i went to Jeezys place and we talked a little followed by skating so that i could relax and get away from all of the poll coverage. About an hour later we went to a friends place right up the street. The moment that we walked in she had told us that Obama had been elected president of the USA. All of us cheered and made phone calls to family and friends. Jeezy looks at me, "Streets" he says. I nod my head in accordance. We roll bounced through out the entire city. Everyone was pouring into the streets in celebration of this mile stone. We both knew that then and there everything has changed, forever. We were part of history that night. So much elecetricty in the air.

here are some shit photos that i took with a camera i bought off of on the streets for 8 bucks. I will try and convince Jeezy to add his to the blog. Yes We Can!

Jock the vote

A couple weeks ago i was approached by the artists Czelena to help edit a video. The video so happened to be in support for Barack Obama. Anything that i can do in support of helping getting him elected i will do. Today we are fighting to make that happen.

If you have not gone out to "Jock" the vote make sure to hit up the streets and make your voice heard. Unless you are a undecided voter. If that is the you, Please stay home!




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1 min man

(jeezy rehearsing in Studio G)

Look below at the pic of the last post and wonder "what the hell is that?" I know the answer and still feel the same way.

The graphic is from a show that we were part of last Halloween hosted by Urban Art Farm. I was approached the Saturday before to be part of the program. What sucked was that i already had plans for rehearsal on Monday with 2 other dancers so i could not get cracking on new joints til Tuesday.

Long time collaborater/musical directer kendall Teague "jeezy" was my dancer for the piece d'occasion. I knew that i wanted to do something different/buck nasty because:

A. Its Halloween

B. Performance followed by party.

C. We can get away with it:)

What i had in mind for the new joint was having Jeezy be a detainee. I have been doing a lot of reading and research over the past few months on the current administrations interrogation policies and wanted to express some of my angst. The dance was in 3 sections.

1st section-Introduce jeezy and the chair with loud annoying music blasting

2nd section- Jeezy being forced to look at fucked up images that i ripped off youtube with a track that was kind a beachy.

3rd section- Jeezy dancing in chair and finally standing up breaking free from his constraints.

After it was all said and done, we were happy with the product. Everyone involved with the program had kind words to say about the "not so kind piece". A principal artist that we respect had some super nice things to say about Jeezys dancing and i got hit with a healty dose of "Hater Spray" later on that evening by a stranger who did not even go to the performance. Haters are a good measure of if you are doing anything well. Its there job to hate. I need to take that one hater and double the hateraide.

What matters most to me about this venture is that i have learned to very important things. One of them being this marks the 1st time that i have ever used projection to accompany dance. I was very pleased with the results and look forward to doing bigger better things with it. The 2ns thing that i learned is that i am the "1 minute man". Every day that we worked for an hour or less i consistantly produced a min or more worth of material.

Later on this week i will be posting the video of the new joint.



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