Tats Cru: The Basics: Lettering and Hand Style

BG 183, Nosm, and the other members of the Tats Cru graffiti collective introduce some of the basic skills in graffiti art. Includes defintions of "tag," "throw up," "simple style," and "wild style."

"if you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

(mural in Williamsburg,bk last fall)

I took a late lunch yesterday, and when to the sushi restaurant across the street from Carnegie Hall. Read the paper, had a glass of wine and received this fortune, "if you fail to plan, you plan to fail."
Great.
I am a crappy planner.
I tried planning early in my life. I wanted to be worshipped like Greta Garbo, were the audience waited with baited breath to find out what she sounded like (as she had only done silent movies for most of her career). Then upon hearing her sultry voice they were mesmorized.
It was not to be. I found two things about myself. I wasn't sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life pretending to be someone else(while living in poverty) and I don't like actors (this will be explained at a later date).
I didn't plan to be a religion major in college. I didn't plan to be a waitress for 5 years after college. I didn't plan to run a nightclub in Atlanta, or run my own business in New York, and I CERTAINLY didn't plan to go into Classical music management, we're now I work with Marvin "Chorus Line" Hamlisch, Bill "Rocky" Conti, and Peter "Last Picture Show" Bagdonovich. I didn't plan to fall in love with a German graffiti artist while I was still in love with my current boyfriend.
I am not sure what you can plan for. Even planning to pay bills is tricky (especially in new York).
Beso Beso

Central Park and Champagne

(Picture above are: Bethesda Fountain in Central Park and My two nephew from my brother matisse and his wife holly: justin & carter)

Robert and I went to central park yesterday to lunch with a bottle to champagne and our picnic food from whole foods. We were celebrating his new job. He will be the operations manager for a youth orchestra in New York and this is a fantastic opportunity for him. I have a few job opportunities on the horizon, none of which I will mention yet (as I don't want to jinx them!).
Robert has been a very close friend in only four month as we bonded over stress, healthy foods, and boys. We have, in a sense, a slightly prestigious job. Our orchestras and performers are some of the top performers in the world, our boss has work with and managed everyone from Rudolf Nureyev to Martin Scorsese. Yes, I am impressed by this, but I am not impressed by him. He has taught Robert and I about everything we don't want to be in this business of entertainment: Impatient, Delusional, Rude, Condescending....oh, and Crazy (not crazy like me Ama, but crazy like a serial killer).
As Robert and I sat in the park, we felt like we could do anything, that doors are about to spring open, and that artistic opportunities would flow out of Bethesda's arms; that we would eventually find a job in NY that didn't have a nerotic boss and that we might be able to work with the artists that we have always dreamed of working with...(that would be Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders for me).
My interviews are next week...wish me luck.