Redefining Time Recap- Rick Osborne and HOUR BAND

Rainy weather greeted us as we drove into Corpus Christi for the REDEFINING TIME art show and concert. Luckily the rain let up a bit as we made our way into the House of Rock to meet up with Austin rockers HOUR BAND. Hour Band had a great set as they debuted for the first time live a full 5 piece ensemble as opposed to the 3-piece it had been in the past.

As Hour Band rocked the main stage, artist Rick Osborne was poised atop the second smaller stage creating a piece of art which was raffled off later in the evening. The active multimedia projections of time lapsed paintings was really interesting and kept viewers intrigued.

Great weekend in the 361 despite all the rain, and our heroic escape back to Austin from floods.

To view more of Rick's work- visit the PRODUCE gallery downtown on Peoples Street, who incidently have a sweet neighboring boutique where they carry art books, streetwear, and a great collection of KAWS vinyl toys.

Rick raffled this amazing piece away to some lucky guest. I love that it looks like the last supper is happening on the flight deck of the death star or something...pretty interesting, and awesome. The piece is 4ftx8ft .

Rick Osborne's use of color is pretty intriguing.

Hour Band's Karthik

Arthur Vader

This Osborne piece which was being painted during the show was raffled off as well. The theme of "before the flood" was definitely stirring especially as the city was flooded two days later.

Matt of Hour Band

Jungle Art by Rick Osborne

Moshe of Hour Band

Barak of Hour BAnd

MUGGZY FLOWZ CD RELEASE PARTY-Recap

So a week or so ago, Muggzy Flowz held his CD release party at the 6th street boutique, SOLE FRESCO. Guests enjoyed tons of giveaways, barbecue, drinks, and some of Austin's finest hip hop acts.

We are happy to see and hear Muggzy's first solo debut project "The Boi Who could Fly". The day was hot as the Texas sun can get, but we still had a great time with true heads and friends.

Muggzy is one of those rare MC's that seems to always "go for the throat" when he grabs a microphone. Whether it be his freestyles or writtens, he always seems to have welll thought punchlines and wordplay. Check the video down below if you dont believe me--count the "quotables" , I dare you.

Here's some pics.

3-D Illusion art by PHANTAZM

Digging these kicks from SOLE FRESCO

Here's Erica with the host with the most , MAMBA, giving out some dope tees from Sole Fresco to lucky winners of Paper, Rock, Scissors.

Here's a nice you tube video of a nice flow from Muggz Flowz courtesy of Crew 54's Dookie Vision Productions.

Crew 54 always killing it when they grab mic.

Solomon Perry of PHANTAZM painting the cover of Muggzy's CD

Paper Rock Scissor match for some giveaways

Promise Udo dropping verses

Another sweet giveaway of the day

GRIMM attacking the mic, while ripping tales of science fiction and awe

CREW 54

Giveaways by Mofoz Visualz clothing

Table Manners Crew's DJ CROWN held down the beats and the turntables for the good part of the day--awesome!

Notes was kind enough to grace the mic, and dance into splits..good performance.

Rare austin appearance by Word Associate Park NAsty

Muggzy Flowz spits hot fiya like Dylan, nah for real though, this dude keeps the mics hot

We had to resort to painting this door after a highway mishap with the original painting material.


Big Ups to everyone that made this event possible--Sole Fresco, Airica of Mofoz Visualz, BOYCOTT Magazine, Mamba and Kwest, Nick the bbq man, Muggzy's fam, Krishna ,JAysin Choppy Cheex and Shadow Paradigm and everyone that came through.

NEW CUSTOM KICKS!

Just Finished!! These Custom Pumas were pretty fun to paint...elephant-like-print reversed on both kicks. These sneakers started completely white with the exception of the inside of the sneaker that was gold...along with the gold puma brand.

nywho..heres the end product--enjoy.

"Click pictures for larger"

Thursday February 18th at ACES...we'll be repping

ONCE AGAIN ITS ON...The Word Up Wednesday Alumni are back with a better venue and some fresh faces for the new hip hop show Thursday at Aces Lounge. Check out hip hop/r&B band In the Pink, Hip hoppers Tee Double, Phranchyze, AUX and DJ Rock Well while Deform and Mofoz Visualz create live art. THE FIFTH GALLERY will also have merch available at the show....come through and check iyt out...18 and up

H-Town Sneaker Summit Video

You can see a few Mofoz Visualz customs and THE FIFTH GALLERY repping if you keep your eyes open.

New Painting: "The Dream Never Sleeps"

New Painting by Marc Zuazua" The Dream Never Sleeps"

Acrylic and Krink on particle board

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Get up, stay up.

H-Town Sneaker Summit

Sunday we ventured into the H for the winter edition of the H-Town Sneaker Summit. This would be our second winter summit showing. We had a good time chopping it up with upcoming brands and past existing ones, It's always good to see so many creative DIY'ers who follow through with their art to create really cool streetwear. 

In doing this-it really makes you stop and wonder why so many Texas boutiques will support the same old "hype" brands and consistently look over established artists and brands that rep their own city/state/region....its a shame because we definitely have a lot of great designers. 

We are proud at THE FITH GALLERY to show and sell streetwear/urban gear from local and area designers--If you dropped by our booth you either saw or picked up really cool gear by locals including MadGods, Mofoz Visualz, 3rd ID, First and 15th, and Thic Threads. We whole heartedly want to thank all that came by to chat or buy local designs. You will bne the reason that Texas brands will keep it progressive in 2010.

Big Ups to Induce Clothing who we met at this past years KIXPO in Dallas--good dude. We were also impressed by DESIRED HEARTS, GRITS clothing, Simply Complicated Apparel, and Killa Vees Clothing

Highlights of the sneaker show included a dj set by one of our favorite DJ's, Squincy Jones as well as BUN B of UGK hanging out all day at the show taking pictures with anyone that asked him...real cool dude that Bun B; we also enjoyed seeing our homie ZEUS who was doing custom airbrushing. 

However, other than that there was definitely a lot less people in attendance and a lot less going on than the last time we were there. Less art, no skateboarding demo, and no b-boy circles that I saw...oh well- we still had a good time seeing some familiar faces and meeting new ones.

Anyways--we were pretty busy at the booth to run around and take a lot of pictures, so here's some pictures from before the show opened.

Airica holding it down for THE FIFTH GALLERY

Clothing by Simply Complicated

Clothing and gear by INDUCE

GRITS CLOTHING is cooler than your average

DESIRED HEARTS showing off their new tees

cant remember the artist name, but these were awesome