Jan

Fab 5 Freddy x Brooklyn Wildlife

Author // BROOKLYN WILDLIFE

Shouts to hip hop legend, Fab 5 Freddy, who sent us this photo of him in our Yellow Raccoon Crewneck Sweatshirt... so amazing.

If you dont know.. Fab 5 is a pioneer in the art, culture and media world.. do the knowledge..

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2010/12/14/fab-5-freddy-goes-to-las-vegas/

Jan

IN STUDIO WITH FRESH DAILY (PARTS 1 & 2)

Author // BROOKLYN WILDLIFE

Episode 06 - In Studio with Fresh Daily (Part 1) by Brooklynwildlife on Mixcloud

Episode 07 - In Studio with Fresh Daily (Part 2) by Brooklynwildlife on Mixcloud

Fresh Daily joins us for an In Studio session. This episode, he talks about how he got started rapping, the hip hop scene in NY in the early 2000s, ups & downs throughout his career, and even some technical pointers for emcees! Not to be missed!

Background beat credits Part 1: The Stuyvesants, SABeats, Mndsgn, DJ Spinna, Ge-ology, Oh No

Background beat credits Part 2: Knx, Ohbliv, Tuamie, P.U.D.G.E., Dil Withers

Jan

BROOKLYN WILDLIFE & SHAOLIN JAZZ PRESENT COLOR OF SOUND @ FUCHS PROJECTS 1/14

Author // BROOKLYN WILDLIFE

COLOR of SOUND highlights the art, music videos, and event photography created and taken for SHAOLIN JAZZ.

Date: Monday January 14, 2013

Location: Fuchs Projects – 56 Bogart St. Studio 1E – Brooklyn, New York 11206

Time: 8pm-11pm

Sounds: DJ 2-Tone Jones, DJ Pudge, and other special guest DJs spinning Wu-Tang

Complimentary cocktails courtesy of Chairman’s Reserve Rum, Beck’s Sapphire, and vitaminwater

*Additional artwork from guest artists

For more info visit www.gmoney77.wordpress.com

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About SHAOLIN JAZZ:
SHAOLIN JAZZ – The 37th Chamber, the brainchild of Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones, is a specialty mixtape project that has 2-Tone artfully blending the a-capellas of rappers from the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan with hand picked instrumentals from jazz greats.

About Fuchs Projects:
Fuchs Projects is a contemporary art gallery/studio/events space
founded in Bushwick, Bklyn, NY in 2012. Our mission is to preserve, produce, create events and exhibit art works of emerging and mid-career artists who are a part of the Bushwick art evolution and are creating challenging, educating and titillating works that are related, especially, to photography.

Jan

Upcoming events this week.. by Brooklyn Wildlife

Author // BROOKLYN WILDLIFE

SoundsVision3d and Brooklyn Wildlife are hosting the opening night of the Brooklyn Wildlife #12DAYSOFART with a Hip-Hop event titled ‘Undrgrund Gods of Art’; January 4th at Rock Bottom (177 Stockholm Ave. L Train to Dekalb) in Bushwick, Brooklyn. This event will feature 6 music acts, 3 artist and 2 DJ’s from all 5 boroughs presenting their Art. Hosted by: KING CELEB (Radio/TV Personality)- Makeba and Lana Killa will be presenting and selling their art, while Marthalicia will be doing a live wall piece. For further info or questions hit up This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

DOORS OPEN @ 8 FREE BEFORE 11 After that $7 21+ at bar

Musicians & Artist for show:
Chaz Van Queen - http://chazvanqueen.bandcamp.com/album/a-4u
Dom O Briggs- http://domobriggs.com/
DJ Brake - http://www.facebook.com/BRakeDJ
DJ Tropic - https://soundcloud.com/djtropic
King Celeb - (Host) Radio/TV Personality http://thekingceleb.com/
Lana Killa - (Artist) http://www.facebook.com/lanakilaart
Leon Marin - http://www.leonmarinmusic.com/
Marthalicia - (Artist) http://marthaliciaart.blogspot.com/
Makeba - (Artist) http://www.facebook.com/justcallmeKEEBZ?fref=ts
Qu’ ailty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6M_eJvMgI
Tyquan Sounds - http://soundsquiat.tumblr.com/
Watercolor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hG_yrtQMY

Join us Saturday, Januaury 5th at Brooklyn Fireproof for a night of great music provided by some of the dopest DJs in Brooklyn.

LINK TO FIREPROOF - http://www.facebook.com/bkfireproof?fref=ts

This will be the third installment of Brooklyn Wildlife's 12 DAYS OF ART event series.

Keith Edward, DJ Tropic, DJ Henry C and DJ Brake will be throwing down some of the finest in classic hip hop jams of yesterday and today. Flat tops, fades, high tops, backspins, worms, throwback jerseys and even Temple Tapers are encouraged, but seriously, fuck a fashion show... all we really want to see if you having a good time! And if you do wear high tops, make sure you can dance in them! I mean seriously, remember when dancing actually happened at hip hop parties?

The DJs you know & love:

Keith Edward - http://facebook.com/djkeithedward
DJ Tropic - http://facebook.com/djtropic
DJ Henry C - http://facebook.com/djhenryc
DJ Brake - http://twitter.com/_djbrake_

Save the date, and bring your ass to Brooklyn Fireproof!

Jan

Gun CONtrol by Jim Earl

Author // BROOKLYN WILDLIFE

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to contribute to your wholly legitimate publication. Everyone else seems to have taken off at the beginning of the week eh? Heh heh. Theres business to be done! Heres the version I think we can go with. Thanks again and Shalom!

PS I know the first reference is two stars (**) and thats on purpose to indicate II amendment and to leave room for the second part that should have come first.

Brooklyn Wildlife: Gun CONtrol
II AMENDMENT
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Don't forget why lawyers get paid what they do. The Constitution is a contract. These are concessions from the same men who brought us the Senate saucer to cool the tea Kettle House.** The amendment also begins with "a well-regulated", which leaves it to lawyers to interpret who shall regulate and how and under whose direction and authority. The same amendment that promises that a people’s right to arms shall not be infringed, places that right within the context of an ill-defined regulation without a definition of that which is to be protected: knives are arms and their lengths are regulated; nuclear material is globally regulated and the FBI will track patterns in bulk chemical purchases (any allergy sufferers out there have to show ID to get that Claritin D?). Most legal language, while masquerading as an expressly defined set of statements regulating behavior and the nature of transactions, is more often a word puzzle that, when asked the question “Is this or that legal or protected?”, will invariably yield the answer, “It depends.”

The top three handgun manufacturers in this country make about 1.5 million guns a year and generate about a half a billion dollars of revenue. Three companies. There are thousands of licensed gun manufacturers in this country** and, as far as tracking sales, nearly half of guns are sold through private unlicensed sellers. It's a lot of guns. Who is buying all these guns? Rights aside...who is buying this many guns every year? I mean it's not the kind of thing that busts every year or five, or ten to twenty... I read an article from a shooting industry magazine that made me laugh then made my blood freeze which discussed a renaissance of gun culture more recent than the boon to gun sales before Obama's election, when people feared he would ban certain guns and so bought them while they could, so to speak.

This article*** argues at length that the reason there has been a more recent resurgence in gun sales is that the aspect of fun has been revived in our cultural view of guns and gun ownership (of course the readership of this publication is fairly specific, plus randoms like me). It was this claim that the proliferation of deadly force was based in fun that gave me pause. I have seen some friends and relatives become very excited over first person shooter games. Friends and relatives have gone off to war. I have lost three friends to self inflicted gun shots and I have another friend who fiercely believes in 2nd amendment rights but through his twenties never owned anything more than a .22 because he feared he might shoot himself and he didn't think that that low a caliber would be fatal. I don't think he said that when he bought it. More recently he was pondering how to acquire an AK47.

Mental illness and handguns? Defending property and handguns? Stopping the United States Army with handguns, shotguns, rifles? Fun with guns? CNN reports 26% of Americans favor a handgun ban now versus 60% in 1959. The general perception of gun culture, thanks to gun lobby moanings over Second Amendment infringements, is that there is a growing unfriendliness towards guns and gun enthusiasts in this country, yet gun business is globally booming in small and large arms and we repeat cycles of mass violence committed by students or on them every few years. The act of lone madmen takes place in a larger national context in which such an act has become less rare. The amendment comes from a time when honorable people had a reasonable expectation of encountering dishonorable people who were armed. Also, it made slave-owning safer, and you can believe slaves did not have a right to bear arms.

  I think both sides of the 2nd amendment issue can agree that the issue of gun control, from its insertion into the Constitution to the debates and bans of the last twenty years, is about avoiding the tyranny of madmen. It seems that we have misstepped.  The talking heads seem to me quite mad.  We have an astonishingly gun-crazed culture that is on the rise and that we all misunderstand. I think an armed citizenry was necessary in so many ways especially at a time when so many aspects of life (late 18th century, pre-electricity, pre gas-powered anything) were actually based on physical survival   WE are increasingly a culture that does not routinely find itself in life and death situations, yet we are consuming an incredible number of instruments of lethal force.

Here’s what I think is fucked, but indicative of how we have been operating this democracy, particularly since the late fifties since Ike left and no one listened, or better put, a lot of people said hush hush.  With reverence and a hoped-for protection we turn to this country’s founding document.  The same founding document has allowed the gun lobby and arms manufacturers to hold powerful sway with the Congress, it has allowed gun manufacturing to become a significant source of American jobs and commerce and it creates  a situation in which the 2nd amendment can never really be debated in terms of ideals and rights because it exists now within a divided political and explosive economic quarrel that doesn’t have to do with individual rights.

The only time I fired a gun was in New Hampshire at a firing range with my ex-girlfriend and her father who was a bail bondsman.  I shot a .22, a .38 and a .45.  It was one of only a few times in my life where my senses seemed to tunnel as though they are inciting me to take something from this experience.  I am wearing ear protectors, but the sound of the other guns blasting their lead into paper targets and rubber walls is even further muted.  The grey black of the mat rubber at the opposite wall rushes forward and my peripheral disappears as though the target and my eyes had raced to meet each other as I pulled the trigger of a .45 Magnum and felt the fierce kickback and instantly heard the thud of the bullet embedding itself in the wall that had rushed forward.  Humans are not cut out for this.  That is what I realized.  A gun, like a bomb, a missile, grenade, whatever, delivers a force that is beyond most human’s levels of both foresight and responsibility. There are few who have the training and the maturity and the life experience to wield a gun well, and I have every inkling that the civilization of the planet will yield fewer and fewer situations where guns are even a flicker of factor in the resolution.

As a species, I think we taught ourselves to shoot and kill only so that we could learn a repetitive lesson about the importance of containing and defusing our propensity toward violence.  So we could create a monolithic record of the extensions of imperial, feudal and ego-based logic that would stand for all time as a warning against aggressve human development of methods of hastened death and universal imbalance.

Why can we kill each other with a single itchy finger and erase a house in Pakistan from a joystick controller in Arizona and erase a city with a load of steel and boom from a plane…?  These things took incredible amounts of capital and research and facilities and careers and accidents and steep, very dangerous learning curves with unforetold consequences…yet they endeavored to make it so.  Why?  Why have we not pushed ourselves beyond the limits of human evolution on the wings of imaginations in directions that are unthinkably positive?  All experience is transformational, but not all people can have all experience, and this makes communication invaluable. Our human scientists have understood the manufacture and deconstruction of matter on such profound levels, yet it has been reduced and directed in terms of profitability.  I can only discuss guns and the founders in the way some founders discussed government, as a necessary evil, whose reimagination should constantly be sought.
**http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Created.htm