Posted by Lunaz Starr on Dec 1, 2010 in
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Artists, TOOFLY & PATTYDUKES
- Present -
LADIES LOVE PROJECT ::: HOLIDAY POP UP SHOP!
Bringing Together Creative Styles in Art, Fashion & Music through a uniquely designed Pop-Up Shop!
NEW YORK, NY November 18, 2010 — On Saturday, December 11th, LADIES LOVE PROJECT presents its first HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP [HPOP] at The Panda NYC from 3 – 9pm – featuring some of NYC’s most creative female urban artists and designers. Join us for this one day only boutique market shopping experience – designed to both encourage female artisan unity as well as provide an inspiring environment for young female entrepreneurs. HPOP is proud to host artistasToofly, Good Wood NYC, Junkprints, and Amanda Diva, among other familiar faces, as they will be exhibiting their one of a kind, limited edition, handcrafted flavors just for YOU! Art aficionados, funky fresh collectors and friends and family members of all ages are welcome to pop-in and shop for holiday gifts + more as these women represent their beautifully unique talents – from canvases to handbags, their roots – all 5 NYC boroughs, and their passion – art.
At HPOP, Saturday, December 11th from 3 – 9pm at The Panda NYC – located at 139 Chrystie Street in Manhattan – guests will be able to enjoy a live art performance by Marthalicia, complimentary treats by Jenny Kinns Cupcakes, Photo op’s by Bfresh Photography, and an online live broadcast hosted by PattyDukes and Rephstar from Circa ‘95. At 10pm, LADIES LOVE PROJECT will keep the energy going with its HOLIDAY JAM – featuring DJ Chela spinning the best of Hip Hop, Classsics, House, Funk, Global Rhytyms and more.
Make your Saturday, December 11th LADIES LOVE PROJECT HOLI-DAY – a day for celebrating + supporting artists, women, family and friends!
About A Ladies Love Project:
A collaboration between artists Toofly (www.tooflynyc.com/) and PattyDukes (www.circa95.com) Aiming to create inspiring environments for women artists where they can celebrate their creative styles in Art, Fashion and Music. Ladies Love Project introduces a model for all women who pay homage to market life around the globe as a staple of community building, and of starting your own independent business. Ladies Love Project thrives on spreading a positive and empowering message to their community especially young women who look up and identify with them.
About Toofly:
Maria Castillo, Toofly’s birth name is an NYC artist, community builder and entrepreneur. Recognized in the early 90’s for her hard and fluid character style, she gained popularity as one of the few females in a male graffiti dominated scene who rocked walls with the best but also empowered other women to follow suit. In 2007 she co-founded a 100+ international female arts collective she entitled YOUNITY. Toofly now runs an independent design company called STAY TRU where she consults, designs, and organizes community events and youth workshops. Toofly’s constant and active role in her community allows her to stay true to her roots, as she continues to draw raw feelings from the ever-changing art world around her.
About Patty Dukes:
Patty Dukes is Co-Founder of Circa ‘95. A Hip-Hop music and media group that curates a daily blog and host an original web series that features innovative urban artists from around the world. Celebrating the best of 90’s Hip-Hop and beyond. Rhyming seamlessly through English and Spanish, the duo PattyDukes & Rephstar are inspired by groups like The Beatnuts, Method Man & Redman and radio shows like the Bobbito and Stretch Armstrong Show. They perform all over the U.S. and have graced the stage with artists like Krs-One, Pitbull, NinaSky and Mala Rodriguez to name a few. HBO Latino is currently featuring them in a show called “RoadTrip: NYC” and “Habla Ya”. They are currently hard at work on their debut album. Puerto Rican & Dominican by way of The Bronx and Washington Heights they are poised to make their mark on the world.
About A.Mari:
Allison Maritza is Co-President of F.O.K.U.S. – a non-profit arts organization based in NYC and Ann Arbor, MI. ” As a Colombian in Brooklyn, I believe there is passion in all that we do, who we are, and where we are coming from and going. For me, art is life.. art is a global sanctuary for all of us to learn, share and grow with one another.”
Posted by Lunaz Starr on May 10, 2010 in
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We got yo’ pop-up shop!
Come join Younity and friends for some hip-hop style community building.
Fostering local economies for urban artrepreneurs with a conscious mindset,
it’s time for Younity’s 2nd annual Urban Arts Markit!
One-of-a-Kind -Limited Editions – Hand Crafted – Flavor
Curated by the infamous Toofly, and homegirl Yvey Hidalgo this open air markit pays homage to market life around the globe as a staple of community life and celebration where makers, fans, and collectors come to shop and mingle – 2010 style.
Featuring live DJ sets, live painting, break dancers, vendors,
Hondurian Valiadas, Empanadas, & American hot dogs, in the heart of
New York City’s Lower East Side…
www.theyounity.com
- YOUNITY presents -
Lower East Side Spring Markit!
May 15, 2010 // 12-6PM
( Rain Date: May 16th )
Live Art, Handmade Accessories, Eco-Friendly Jewelry, Breakers Corner, Art Supplies,
Toys, Tarot ard Readings, Dope T-Shirts, Paintings, Empanadas, Valiadas, and more!
TOOFLY, AM, INKS, JUNKPRINTS, FRESTHETIC, KELLY DENATO,
GOOD WOOD, URNEWYORK, DAVE CORTES, MARTHALICIA, 1HUNDREDB, SEE ONE, 627413 COLLECTIVE,
ANTONIO KEL5MH, MASAHIRO, COOKIES-N-CREAM, EROTICA, ARIANNE ZAGER, WERDZ,
& KOOKIE KIMMIE TREATS.
BREAKERS CORNER with Rokafella, Full Circle Crew, and 5 Crew Dynasty.
KIDS ART STATION BY SOH-NUP 12:30-2:30pm,
and TAROT CARD READINGS by Shana Loves All.
DJ SKI-HI & DJ LAYLO
***Spinning the best of HIP-HOP, CLASSICS, REGGAE, LATIN & HOUSE!***
CIRCA95 <<< LIVE ONLINE BROADCAST >>> www.circa95.com
FREE!
(( Everyone is welcome ))
SCHOOLYARD
@Our Lady of Sorrows
213 Stanton Street
( Between Ridge & Pitt st.)
F Train to Delancey
www.theyounity.com
Tags: The Younity
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Mar 5, 2010 in
Uncategorized We’re kicking off Women’s History month this weekend in the BX!
Join a wonderful crew of super talented women Lah Tere, DJ Chela, Patty Dukes, Bless Roxwell, All The Ladies Say, Rokafella, Lichiban, Marthalicia, Younity Arts, and many more! EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL DON’T MISS IT.
TOOFLY slideshow presentation and goodies for sale: T-shirts, Jewelry, Collector Toys, Sketchbooks, and lot’s more!
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen Volume 3, Back to Our Roots, will be honoring 100 years of International Women’s Month by shedding light and creating awareness on Environmental Injustices and Educational Inequalities and their impact on women of color.
Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen will bring together women of color educators, students, environmentalists, djs, emcees, b-girls, poets, visual artists, dancers, healers, pastors, organizers and activists. We will come together through a hip hop showcase to express our solidarity with women’s rights!
This event will take place in the South Bronx, the birthplace of Hip Hop, and the poorest congressional district in the nation, also called “The Forgotten Borough.” In reality, the borough of the Bronx is not forgotten because one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city, Riverdale, lies just northwest and has every amenity a human can ask for.
Hostos Community College will be hosting Momma’s Hip Hop Kitchen event for the second year in a row. Hostos Community College was created in 1968 in response to demands from the Latino community who were urging for the establishment of a college to serve the people of the South Bronx. Hostos was the first bilingual higher education institution in the United States.
The South Bronx is a community that has been in constant resistance, seeking justice in education and the environment. It is a community resisting pollution, asthma, toxic wasteland, and budget cuts for art, music, and gym programs. It is a community that lacks access to healthy fruits and vegetables, adequate health care and after school programs. The South Bronx’s need for reproductive and sexual health education is highly reflected in its high levels of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections.
In place of access to healthy alternatives, the South Bronx has an over abundance of jails and prisons.
However, the South Bronx is not lost. It has experienced a period of healing through leadership guided by community organizations and collectives. This leadership has lead to the creation of new parks, food co-ops, recycling programs, and successful cultural community centers. We have won many amazing victories as a community!
Join us as we fuse our energy, our politics, our ancestry, our traditions, art, song and dance into a brew for Environmental Justice and Education Equality.
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
@ the Hostos Center for Arts and Culture
450 Grand Concourse (at 149th St.) Bronx, NY
(Main Theater)
Time: 2-5pm
This event is FREE and open to all ages.
TRAINS: 2,4,5 to 149th street.
for more information about the event, please visit our website @ http://www.mhhk.org
TOOFLY
art.design.life
site: www.tooflynyc.com
blog: www.tooflynyc.com/life
shop: www.tooflynyc.com/shop
Younity: www.theyounity.com
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Sep 29, 2009 in
Uncategorized According to today’s Metro New York, “Turnout for today’s runoff elections is expected to be even lower than the miserable 10% of Democrats who voted in the primary two weeks ago.”
Okay, now what do you expect! You aren’t giving the people what they want, need, or deserve. Right now people don’t give a flying fuck about politics or politicians. How dare you expect people to take time out of their busy lives to vote for people they don’t even know. Yes, I don’t know You! What do you stand for? What are you doing for my community, better yet, what are you doing for our schools??? How about Immigration? Wheres the Health Care for working families that can only afford to pay rent??
VOTE FOR YOU?? Why would I vote for you? Tell me what you stand for and show me what you’ve done lately if you want me to take time out of my busy schedule to vote for you.
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Aug 29, 2009 in
Uncategorized “The world situation that life is presenting us with in the 21st century is a natural outcome of the state of consciousness that has created it.
“People having an internal system for understanding life that is based on limited thought processes and giving a view of themselves as separate and insecure individuals, naturally creates a world full of conflict and fear.
“But consider that this may also be part of a perfect unfolding!
“This may be how life works, that each stage of consciousness along the way in our development brings with it its own crisis.
“Each crisis forces individuals to question their current reality system, and to try to find a new stability by stretching into new versions of themselves with fuller capabilities and by outgrowing any old habits that no longer support them.
“Life creates situations that cannot be solved at their own level because the ways of seeing and knowing that have brought us to this point aren’t working anymore. Our old paradigms and models are failing us and we are forced to let go of our old ways of constructing reality and look again to see what we have missed.”
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Aug 6, 2009 in
Uncategorized Synopsis:
Synopsis:
Plateau. It represents the walk of life and being on top followed by an ubrupt end. It would have been easy to say, THE HOLY GHOST and talk show hosts are planted in the sand. This means the writer is addressing, holy ghosts and talk show hosts, as being peoples false concepts of what it means to be on top, and those things aren’t there, however, they greet you on the way, yet are not on top. Once on top you are done with your life’s achievement and their’s nothing to show for it but an illustrated book about birds, which I see as spending your whole life working to create something detailed yet unimportant. Have you heard of the saying, “That’s for the birds.”? If you haven’t it basically means, “that’s obsolete, unimportant, or a waste”. At the end of the plateau is a cliff, representing an end in some fashion. It is an end to life or nothing else to conquer.
“Finished with the mop then you can stop and look at what you’ve done” This is saying that people don’t even stop to reflect on their life. They just keep desiring and seeking something better, Greenland or Mexico, which are new achievements to conquer. This doesn’t include the people who think the best place is where they stood. These people are content with their life’s achievement. Its saying they wouldn’t help you if they could, because its pointing out human nature in that people act selfishly and most people are only concerned about their own plateau. Most of the lyrics is a storyline, but the writer does try to give a lesson in word format in the song.
“See a lot up there but don’t be scared who needs action when you got words” This is saying, I’ve been to the top. You’ll see alot of things as you walk through life. Don’t doubt yourself. You don’t need all the crowning achievements to master your own walk of life. You have words. Wisdom is the achievement!
“Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood but those were all just guesses, wouldn’t help you if they could” Notice how the writer does not limit his song to all the others wouldn’t help you if they could, just “others”.
One more thing… Use your life’s work and achieve something more important than an illustrated book about birds. Remember the plateau ends.
Tags: Nirvana Plateau Unplugged
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Jul 18, 2009 in
Uncategorized Just sitting back at the beach, appreciating every moment that I can see my two pefect loves. Thank you God. I love you always.
Posted by Lunaz Starr on Jul 9, 2009 in
Uncategorized So I was busting my brain trying to figure out the whole post via email, and I still wasn’t getting what I needed that I then decided to google how to post via my blackberry, and behold, a blackberry app for wordpress has arrived! I Love it!!!! Thanks WordPress and to all the computer geeks out there that understand code, all I ask God is to please give me the mental capacity to begin to learn to understand code too! Weeeeeeeeee!!!!
Tags: Blackberry, WordPress