layout and design: Bryan Harvey
concept and producer: Eva-Maria Kunz
coordinator: Diego Orlando
production: Andrea Barbato, Michael Courvoisier, Candy Pilar Godoy
(based on a true story)
by
David Alan Harvey
Some of my friends have asked why I didn’t talk about my book here. I just cannot do that. The book is the book and I hope somebody likes it. But putting this video here by Bryan is as far as I can go. However, what I can do is I think legit. Published below is a letter from Sam Harris, (Postcards From Home), who managed to get a hold of the first signed copy. So he is, as far as I know, the only person here on Burn to have actually seen the book.
So Sam writes:
BASED ON A TRUE STORY… This book is simply amazing!!! AMAZING!! You have to hold it, feel it, pour over it, get inside it, take it apart, rebuild it, live it, smell it, caress it and then it all makes sense… FRESH, SENSUAL, SEXY, KILLER, DOPE… DAH leads by example, he could just sit back and talk about past glories, but that’s not David’s style… he’s out there doing it, living it. Now, right now… Ideas happen… ‘based on a true story’ is the living proof ; )) This book is an absolute classic. dah’s best yet! And the very best thing about ‘based on a true story’ IS the PHOTOGRAPHY.
SOLD OUT!
for the “making of”, visit: www.theriobook.com
I nailed it…
Back to our regular program…RIOOOOO
What not to BURN!!!
P.S…I would like to have a report from KURT and VIVEK…helloooooooo…
hey ho civi ………..my report …….https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150918338984184&l=3b22c7e2d1
“other than that I figured partially to allow ipad users view my site”
Thank you Imants.
Yai Paul I really do like flash stuff and its versatility so I may run a parallel universe ……..Playing with app cooker begrudgingly just to see how I can translate books into apps that don’t go down the usual path…. have a few ideas floating just got to keep it away from that Harvey fellow….grin and Panos’s book called ” Broadus, Jr does North Korea”
Imants…
I like Flash and never been a iPhone, iPod, or Apple user until my wife gave me an iPad to keep track of everything I love and follow on the Internet whilst working or traveling. Always been a Windows user so it was a surprise to find every so often a website I couldn’t see on the iPad. Now I am absolutely in love with my iPad and nowadays I rarely ever use my laptop, but I still think Apple with regards to Adobe is an obvious act of bullying.
Tearsheet of the day at Photojournalism Links
http://photojournalismlinks.com/2012/05/24/tearsheet-of-the-day-24-may-2012/
OBX by DAH
but I still think Apple with regards to Adobe is an obvious act of bullying.
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not “representing” apple (laughing) but the (Apple vs Adobe WAR) started a long time ago and it seems the war is more like a “Gaza strip direction/approach” than “friendship” …
(there’s no friendships in the corporate world…corporations are born to kill any competition..viva capitalism!!!)
in other words once again same fake dilemma : Republicans or Democrats?
lol…an illusion …they are actually the same..same party…one party….
samo
samo
samo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMO
SAMO is a graffiti tag used on the streets of New York City from 1977 to early 1980. It accompanied short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag, written with a copyright symbol as “SAMO©”, and pronounced Same-Oh[citation needed] has been primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was developed mainly as a collaboration between Basquiat and Al Diaz, with help from a few friends. Diaz had previously been part of the New York graffiti scene,(he knew the first writer of sayings, FLINT…For Those Who Dare when they both attended the High School Of Art and Design) using the tag “Bomb I”. Later Basquiat took on the tag himself, creating some non-graffiti work on paper and canvas using that tag, just before and after killing off the SAMO graffiti by painting “SAMO© IS DEAD” around the streets of downtown in early 1980.
Basquiat claims the name was first developed in a stoned conversation with high school friend Al Diaz, calling the marijuana they smoked “the same old shit,” then shortening the phrase to “Same Old”, then “SAMO”.
The character of SAMO was first developed by Basquiat, Diaz, and Shannon Dawson while they were fellow students at City As School high school. Basquiat took the lead in creating a character called SAMO, selling a false religion, in comics made in high school. The concept was further developed in a theatre-as-therapy course in Upper Manhattan (called “Family Life”) that was used by the trio as part of the City As School program. “Jean started elaborating on the idea and I began putting my thoughts into it,” remembered Diaz.
Basquiat, Diaz, Shannon Dawson and Matt Kelly worked on a comic style endorsement of the false religion, photocopied as a pamphlet “Based on an original concept by Jean Basquiat and Al Diaz.”
Panos, I probably missed it, but I don’t recall you ever saying anything about “Exit through the Gift Shop.” Produced by your buddy Banksy. “Basquiat,” the film by Julian Schnabel is excellent in a different way.
Regarding Adobe Flash and IOS, I’m sure if it was the best thing for playing videos on IOS, Apple would support it. That’s what Windows fanboys and those who don’t follow Apple don’t get. It’s all about the user experience. Flash eats too much power for the little ARM processors in IOS devices, it crashes a lot, and it’s an invitation to malware, hence, Apple doesn’t allow it. Adobe has admitted as much and pretty much moved on to HTML5.
Paul I was actually rabbiting on about flash in reference to creating information rather than viewing……….
I probably missed it, but I don’t recall you ever saying anything about “Exit through the Gift Shop.
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smiling smiling…oh yes u did miss it…i LOVED “EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP” docu…
thanks for letting me “plug” in BANKSY once again…oh yes..i cant help it…i love JeanMBasquiat the same too;)
samo
samo
samo!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks again
Panos – do you really know Banksy?
He tweeted about my project after it was mentioned on Lost At E Minor
http://bit.ly/LorQiP
I just love his work.
Yai Paul I really do like flash stuff and its versatility so I may run a parallel universe …….
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TOTALLY AGREE!…
thats where the whole game gets in interesting!
“parallel universe …….”
mix mediums, create a revolutions…
yup, Imants speaks the truth and im loving it
Panos book dreaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47o10W_ltVc
http://www.rizzoliusa.com/book.php?isbn=9782080300799
Jason:)
“nobody” is suppose to know Banksy…. Felony/misdemeanor charges pending in many countries:)
..if u know what i mean!
Imants;)
yup yep!
Panos, He’s an artist – and an artist can have that sort of affect, especially with his subject matter and medium!
@Jason;)
im also not suppose to know TOOMER TLOKS….in his 2nd felony already…
although…
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1541517077946&set=a.1524943863626.60941.1835521927&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1521195849928&set=a.1278820990708.37467.1835521927&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1521192049833&set=a.1278820990708.37467.1835521927&type=3&theater
got the tattoo
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1521190969806&set=a.1278820990708.37467.1835521927&type=3&theater
the Death Bear!…lol , little that i knew is that there are “certain hoods” in LA im not “suppose” wearing the Death Bear tat…bragging??? nahhhh… silly stuff!!!
not promoting gang violence…
Toomer is a true artist!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1521189169761&set=a.1278820990708.37467.1835521927&type=3&theater
Jason..please check docu INFAMY , above….
big hug
Thank you Panos! I’m checking out all of those links now.
just amazing – i need more exposure. I live in the sticks…
Thank you Panos – I’m going to email you? innerspacecowpanos is it?
PANOS. This one is for you. Stick with it, it really does turn into a nice piece..and information that people dont really want to talk about.
Also a Question. Do you and your fellow americans ‘get’ the irony and very astute political satire inherent in most of banksys work?
anyway. Enjoy
Death Hug
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1542069091746&set=a.1541633560858.61814.1835521927&type=3&theater
CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
THE NEW COMIC BOOK OF TOOMER (FIRST PRESENTATION EXCLUSIVELY ON BURN)
teaser
PAGE 1(warning: explicit)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1541926968193&set=a.1541633560858.61814.1835521927&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1541927448205&set=a.1541633560858.61814.1835521927&type=3&theater
teaser
PAGE 2 (warning: explicit)
JOHN :)))))
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! I will watch it all (one hour eleven minutes)
big thank you!
now to your question:” Do you and your fellow americans ‘get’ the irony and very astute political satire inherent in most of banksys work?”
hmmmm, thats a good one really… honestly i have no good answer right now…let me think about it..no sarcasm…but thats a tough question…
remember , there are more than 3 hundred million american folks in this island and guess what…i havent met them all yet…so honestly i cant throw a blanket statement …i can only talk about me , i only represent my thoughts, im not representing Greece although im “proud” to be greek, im not representing America although im very proud to be an American citizen, i only need want to represent me myself and I…
(remember that song?)
so yeah, i thought about it and i can honestly admit that i dig Banksy and all that…but im not gonna speak in the name of a nation…but in Venice Beach California ???? HELL YES THEY TOTALLY GET IT!
also ask “Oakland occupiers/wall street”
dont get me started…
ok big hug
Cool. was just wondering if things like the sweat shop worker and the royal bunting..or the kids saluting a Tesco carrier bag, translated their meaning properly across the pond. what with differing cultural reference points and all.
Hi David I wrote a blog post about your show a couple of week’s ago after I went and saw it…
http://lisahogben.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/david-alan-harvey-and-a-true-story/
Someone has left a comment underneath which I think you might be interested in replying to as it makes some interesting allegations…
Sorry to be the bearer of this kind of thing but hey I am only a tiny player in the world of photography so I was amazed anyone would even be reading the blog let alone write that kind of comment…
I hope you can shed some light on this…thanks
John ;) really , there is a REASON that BANKSY remains ANONYMOUS in his own HOME , which is your home which is ENGLAND!
In simple greek: Banksy is as controversial and “dangerous”/laughing…. in the USA (especially after the “Guantanamo plastic doll prisoner” in Disneyland…. as he is in Europe , etc…
Even in his own HOME COUNTRY!
U know very well he has REAL REASONS to stay ANONYMOUS ( yes there’s some hype and mystery and sexiness being anonymous ( look at AKAKY for example ) but most of the time the real reason someone stats anonymous is because “someone” is after them/him/her etc
I know u know what I mean ;)
Peace
Panos – Had a class back in college called Modern American Culture – all about outside art, and art on the fringe of acceptance – ie grafitti, art brute, Watts Towers, Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Grottos, Henry Darger, Fred Smith Concrete Park, Googie architecture, etc.
We had to watch this old video – but good – about mid 1970′s to early 80′s NYC Graffiti and Hip Hop culture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETRa_tx9c2w
Style Wars – good stuff.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETRa_tx9c2w&w=420&h=315
WTF. I have sent two comments and now a third and that’s what I get??? Where are my comments going?
Panos Bansky is not dangerous just mainstream http://ahomina.com/art-herd/banksys-rats-exterminated-by-australian-plumbers/3198/
Preserve the art what a load of crap kills all the essence of the work………the plumbers got it right
Bansky is not dangerous just mainstream
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true that! nowadays brad pitt and angelina jolie = Bradngelina , buy his stuff…
Panos you and Onur Ka should get together… even though you are Greek/American background and he is Turkish/Australian you have a lot in common…love that curmudgeonly spirit you both have…
LISA
thanks for your nice review and i will check out the “allegations”…hmmmm…well whatever it is i am now a bit used to blogland and at some point when you try to do something special, the larger target you become…most of the “killers” have not done their homework and just come out slinging s— but i will check this one out and respond of course…thanks again…it was great to see you and your work….
cheers,david