Bronx Banter » Artwork by Alex http://www.bronxbanterblog.com Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Morning Art http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/02/25/98973/ http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/02/25/98973/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:24:27 +0000 Alex Belth http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=98973

I made this painting when I was nine-years old and gave it to a family friend. When she died, her son gave it back to me and it now hangs in my apartment.

From this card.

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Two paintings of Greg G in Santa Monica (gouache on paper), 1997

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Drawing Class: NYC. Charcoal on paper. (1996)

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Here are a few drawings I did back in the late ’90s.

 

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Yeah, I know it’s Monday. Snap out of it and look alive.

[Collage I did in 1993]

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I just started a Tumblr site for the Banter. Is 50 posts in 24 hours excessive? Dudes, I’m hooked.

Bookmark the bitch and check it out on the reg for artwork and cool stuff to look at.

[Painting by me, gouache on paper, 1997]

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Last week, I read an interview with our pal Pete Abraham over at a Respect Jeter’s Gangster, where he mentioned that he listens to Old School Wu Tang Clan. A few months ago, I had a discussion with a kid at work who claimed that Biggie Smalls and Tupac were Old School. Which leads me to this: What exactly determines whether you are from the Old School or not? Does it simply mean anything that is more than ten years old? Whitey Herzog is from the Old School. Ditto Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin and Bix Beiderbecke for that matter. In Hip Hop terms, Old School means funk and soul records from the ’60s and ’70s and then the early days of Rap records, maybe through 1983. I guess you could call Run DMC Old School, ang go through ’86, but I generally don’t. However, a kid in his mid-twenties would think of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest as Old School I suppose. But Biggie, Tupac and the Wu? I guess that means Nas and Mobb Deep are Old School too. Or maybe I’m just getting old. What’s your take?

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