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This year’s list was fantastically diverse and
pivotal. As I clinked glasses with Gaston, Leeroy, and the Cyclone,
a smile crossed my face. One more year on this planet checked off
the list. 2010 is already exciting and in-the-works. Like the Satori
Movement, currently calculating their fall 2010 line with some
of my designs. Its important to look ahead, further down the path.
Think big, roll the dice, and make that shit happen.
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Humans have been constantly rubbing Aladdin’s
lamp and smoke is finally emerging. 2012 is where humanity realizes
their full potential and hopefully the world’s old ways
and bad habits will die like a cosmic new year resolution.
Worm holes over Norway, magneto
plasma propulsion, stem cell research, warping time and space
with the hadron
collider! Cmon its bananas but still no flying cars? Like
it or not we are heading into an amazing time for human civilization.
Our exponential technological advancements and possibilities in
medicine and technology are rocketing into fruition. Its Future
Shock, just like Alvin Toffler predicted in his book written
in the fifties. Its almost like we don’t believe what’s
happening right in front of our eyes, or perhaps its that we just
can't personally fix it all on our own. Sustainability is our
only fiduciary obligation to our earth and we are getting there.Dreams
do come true and positivity is in the air. I think of my buddy
Hans and his inspirational attitude in the face of crazy diversity,
he still remains positive and won't lose heart. His philosophy
is that if you stay ready for a few laughs, you're golden. Keep
chasing your dreams, no matter what, you don't know how long you
have. Approach the present wholeheartedly, just like Hans. Trial
by fire is the way of the universe. If the right set of factors
line up, there is a cause and effect. Action and reaction. Take
action more, and worry less about reaction.
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Here is my 2009 in a random stream of consciousness
summary:
Ma-Ma-O Beach dealing with karma and politicians
leading to inappropriate words from a Mayor (slave girl!?). Bico
tribe sponsor and a movement named Satori, more skateboarding
and less injuries, reconnecting with my step dad after 20 years,
Reverand Kill commissioning
me to create a CD cover for "War and Conflict", an amazing
10 year anniversary in Palm Springs with Shanni my favorite person
in the world, Snow Paw came into our life while Sully is aging
& dealing with a new furry face, cool Art Spot people helping
me expand my art, realizing depreciating assets can unfortunately
be friends, defamed by a Hater with snow job accusations, Luke
and Mackenzie bright the new recruits, sales with niches, Russell
losing Survivor, hard work, all important life lessons leading
down an aging well worn path to enlightenment.
I dedicate this entry to my friends Hans and Tammy. Get well soon!
Also thanks to Satori
Movement and Bico
Tribe for digging my art in 2010. I truly look forward to
doing business with you.
jason urbantribalism.org
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Because sometimes it's good to shake
things up. Move to a new cool pad, take a random chance, and flip
your script. Tell your boss you think they suck. Get a cool tattoo.
Move and work in a tropical
paradise, Take a business risk. Tell your art teachers they
are douche bags. Downsize or upgrade according to each situation,
and get behind a decision that some of your people may question.
They will question it mostly because they love you and don't want
to see you go, or fail, or worse- turn into an asshole. But it
all stems from love, or no one would care what you do.
Mostly all love anyway, I like to think.
Love with a few human competitive tendencies, jealousies, and
strings attached. I say let your people surprise you and support
them in their choices. Looking at it that way feels better. Getting
judged sucks, but I catch myself doing it. Then I stop! Because
I believe that people, especially the people I love, can do anything
they want. Anything.
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You can actually see people shine when they
are winning. When people you love are shining, you see that core
light bursting from their seams. You see it when people are doing
well, moving forward, and making their daydreams really happen.
It might take 5 years, or 10 years, or an entire lifetime making
it happen. But making it happen is what I think life is all about.
I hate it when people assume someone just can't do something.
But accomplishments speak for themselves. No talk needed. Just
blow people away with your accomplishments, and they might realize
that they are really proud of what you have done. Even if they
didn't think it was going to work, that it was too risky. Everyone
evaluates risk differently. But seeing people succeed; that is
how you store the essence of that person in your brain. At their
most brilliant time. Inevitably friends move to new locations
- hey a cool new spot you can go visit. And they'll know the freshest
local spots.... and maybe then you'll totally understand why they
did it.
And when you're looking around thinking "holy
crap, check out where I am right now", you can sit back and
smile. You change where you live and where you live changes you.
No matter what kind of crappy experiences will come along with
big life changing decisions, you always learn some good lessons
and at the very least, have a crazy story to tell. I feel that
we need to keep going forward, increasing our personal wisdom
always striving onwards and upwards. Sacrifice and commitment.
To leave a legacy, a great story. One that YOU wrote, and looking
back creates an interesting, unique and twisting path. With risks.
Your "future ancestors" might just sip sacred water
and tell your story around a fire in a post-petroleum earth. So
with that in mind, for fucks sake, make it an individual and interesting
story! Tell your friends and family when they are contemplating
a big decision that you know they can do it if they just commit
to doing it 100%, think ahead to avoid risks as best as you can,
but go for it. Everyone needs someone in their corner no matter
how things turn out.
I dedicate this entry to my beautiful muse Shannon,
who told me I should write a blog because I have interesting stuff
to say. Also for my Mom who never stops seeking her dreams out
and surprising her people with her life's colorful path.
jasonurbantribalism.org
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I painted this sign for Marie: Marie was a local Ni-Vanuatu who
was one of our amazing Ni-Vanuatu
employees. She helped us so much so we paid for her to go to USP
upgrade her business skills. I painted her a surfboard sign for
her village store that her family ran. A great business person
and friend.
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So we sold our bungalow to raise money for
our business venture. We ended up kind of impulse buying this neat
condo built on one of Alberta's biggest foothills. So we downsized
tremendously and shed a bunch of junk we were just storing in our
house. It turns out that this area was a big Blackfoot campground
for a bunch of different reasons. To scout bison herds, get water
from the Bow River, and live in a beautiful location. If your explore
around there is a giant medicine wheel, and Tipi circles all over
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Finally I have done it. A new more functional web site is here
to better represent what I am doing. I guess when you are super
close to your work it's kind of hard to decide on a style that
most accurately represents it. My aesthetic essence is Urban Tribalism
and it most accurately depicts the type of art I create. My
and experience are kind of different from others. It is almost
cliche at the same time what with me being a former graffiti writer
and what not. The truth is I haven't created anything street for
a while now. Canvas, wood, doors, chests, and things that we can
use in our homes are more what I do now and people
are digging it. I really want to paint on the streets again because
its just so amazing to see that perfectly placed stencil or wheat
paste. Even the messages like the one on the right and below are
artistic. People have such a desire to spread their voice that
they write it wherever they can. The bullet holed walls in the
CNN background with the political graffiti....that is what people
should be paying attention to. It is the word of the streets.
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I have seen this writers work in Calgary, Seebe,
and Canmore.
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its the faint radio signal of the
artistic populace. Even the ones who have no "can control"...
I love art and will never stop.
This is a personal guarantee to everyone who owns my work.
So welcome to my new web site, my next level of artistic expression,
but most of all welcome to the tribe. That's why I chose the .org....
because I am passing it down to new artists. Others will come and
a movement will be created. From the pigment in the reed to the hand
on the cave wall, it's the impression left for us to find. This is
how Urban Tribalism will be discovered in two thousand years from
now. A simple "cave painting" from a distant civilization.
jasonurbantribalism.org
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