Monday, March 21, 2011

Under Pressure magazine












Under Pressure magazine is published twice a year, it isn't your typical magazine its focused as being more of a collectible and is all about canada. It focuses any tons of different aspects from rappers to boxers and photographers. It was started as a graffiti magazine focus on the roots of canadian graffiti. The magazine was started and is still owned by Sterling Downey,



I had the pleasure of spending a night with sterling downey earlier this year at the after party for the wall to canvas event in Burlington VT and got to talk to him a little bit about the magazine and the whole idea behind the events they put on and what its all about.

The first thing he had to say was that its about canada first and foremost,and that everything about it is a pain in the ass. We chatted about mostly about some of the friends and acquaintances that we share in the boston graffiti world. and other random things but, he said one thing to me that I remember clearly,said Im out at 20 years, once the events and magazine makes it to 20 Im done. He was honestly one of the coolest dudes that I have met.




Under pressure its self is responsible for many things other than the magazine it hold an annual international graffiti competition every year. as well as hosting tons of concerts and and different events all located in canada.

Learn from maine

Ichabod from Massachusetts


There are a few people that work in different mediums that are they poster children for under pressure magazine. 2 come to mind immediately Killah Ef and classified. one is a graffiti artistand one is a rapper




Killah EF is a graffiti artist located in montreal he is known for his crazy party habits and his amazing skills with a can of spray paint.

classified is a artist that Under pressure does articles on all the time, he's from canada and sticks to his roots, classified is a canadian rapper which is something that you wanna check out cause its a strange mixture.


Killah EF

Classified

Efekt by Killah EF



Oh canada by Classified

Sunday, March 13, 2011

We were a band of young toughs and this is our story....





Media eats my life away




whether its flickr, tumblr, wordpress, or any of the other things that I use to look at the random pictures that cultivate and wash through the hundreds of "trendy" blogs around the internet.




although some of this is lame, some of these have actually interesting photos and videos weather its doing really "cool tricks" on your fixed gear bike....

these websites appear solely to the limbic and reptilian brain all they are is pretty colors and funny sounds, theres no real thought to them that appeases the neocortex, its just things to look at .




or your new random tattoo to show to all of your hipster friends,




sarcasm aside, theres at least a few gems hidden in the strange places of hipstah blogs that are more than fixed gears and trendy tattoos.........
theres usually a great variety of random pictures that have been taken from random photographers and websites around the internet, there a great way to find cool pictures and tons of other random content, they are the epitome of conversion, they are photographs taken from a camera, uploaded to the internet, used by one they taken to another and another, they combine many forms of media to create them into one.










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