SNOWBOARD

MAO December 30th 2008
Off to the mountains of FUKUSHIMA for a few days of snowboarding and family.

MT. FUJI

You can see MT. FUJI from the window at Ebisu, Tokyo Art Studio on a clear winter day. The last few days of the year 2008.

ALMOST FAMOUS

HUF is now in Tokyo. Over in Shibuya at the new store from ALMOST FAMOUS

TOKYO STREET RIDERZ©

A New TOKYO STREET RIDERZ© board hand painted by Isaac Schulz. Titled "Candii Stix". ©2008

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isaac schulz ©2008



isaac schulz ©2008

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BRILLIANT WORLD EVENT

BRILLIANT WORLD had it's last official event of the year at club OVO in Naka-Meguro.

Isaac painted all six hours like a good artist and the party was really awesome. The seven plus DJs did a great job and there was a super interesting mix of music.  The crowd was dancing and drinking like fish+ over all it was a super inspirational place to be.  BRILLIANT WORLD videos are to be seen here.

Isaac Schulz live painting 2008.

Isaac Schulz live painting 2008.

this is me and i am you and this is the one...-DIS

"in the Universe you flew to me" -MM

12/10/08

After jackhammering concrete:

Isaac and I have been talking about what it is that stops us from becoming successful artists in a way that is meaningful to us. We come at it from different stances. Being older, I have a greater hold on the concepts of high art and the pitfalls of being a modern man – struggling financially, but maintaining some separate sense of honor. He just thinks he basically gets in his own way.

I think the same can be said of spiritual matters and non-profits. That somehow we are all exempt from the impurities of capitalism even as we struggle to do business within an established paradigm.

Well, the paradigm is unlikely to change much in the near future. So unless we can shift how it is that we see ourselves in the ‘real’ world, and become more conversant in the language of commerce, then the more likely we are to languish in frustration and borderline poverty. That is not a good thing, because it hinders us from pursuing our calling in an effective way. And that stops the world from benefiting from our contributions.

An individual or an institution that is especially worried about ‘keeping the door open’ has closed the equally important door that is the access to creativity and clear thinking.

In Isaac’s case, we are beginning to look at his stockpile of paintings as his inventory. At the Center, the inventory could be energetic and committed personnel, vibrant and forward thinking visions, plans to implement those visions, and established publications.

If there is no other lesson to learn in today’s economic malaise, it is that diversification is paramount to success. An artist may need to focus on several series to indicate a depth to an investigation. But there must also be ‘side ventures’ that indicate a broader field of interests, involvement in experimentation, and an ability to risk failure in the pursuit of a new idea.

I am convinced that art is not a solitary pursuit. An individuals ‘expression’ is only actualized in community. A great painting, a great novel, a great curriculum are disempowered without involvement within the context of  viewer, reader, student. A tree may fall in the unpopulated woods and still make a sound. But that sound is not experienced without a human present. That sound is not open to discussion and evaluation without a community present.

Historically, as an economic or cultural wave has collapsed, a new wave has already formed and started its steady march towards shore. Every social movement, every painting, every poem and every business finds egress in the collapse. In the completion. This is how we grow. This is how we lean into the experience of success. 

"It’s like a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color." -Mr. West 

Studio shot, before isaac goes to Boston

(アイザックシュルツ Isaac Schulz) BW interview with the Anti-Hero

BW:  How long have you been making ART?

Anti-Hero:  First, Let me tell...  I just would like to say it is good to see you, and say, thank you to all my fans and a special thanks to the number one hero... the universe...  Its good to be here.  And second, how can you even have an interview about anti-art? 

BW:  So...OK, I see.. well,  We have heard you are the anti-artist?

Anti-Hero:  Are you a rabbit?  It is free.  What would be the point of spending time creating around and in an anti-art movement?  I am more like a futuristic space  caveman or a sponge connected to all information and emotion dripping the color black and red.  And, I do not even see any legit "art" movements, so I really see nothing to be "anti" towards, so I suppose that just the act of making a "true" expression could be considered anti-art.

BW:  Well, that is all the time we have today folks, we wish you luck in your upcoming show and as always it is good to talk with you. Any last words to the fans?

Anti-Hero: As always, I love all the animals... even the ones I eat... believe me when I beg you.... when you told me you did done not be need me need me anymore, I do not bend down to die... you come see me live paint Dec. 20th  and come to my show and finally to answer your question your momma is the best art even if that means my grandma!

100%生SUPERビール

"100%生SUPERビール”（アイザックシュルツ）

isaac schulz, mixed medium painting, ©2008

"You are a freaking genius" -Mike B.

yo big mike

big mike?

tokyo to big mike

12:44amMike

i don't know how to do this yet - wassup!!!!

12:45amIsaac

its easy just type

chillin

12:45amMike

are you japanese yet?

12:45amIsaac

i hope not

are you an iguana yet

12:46amMike

i look at your art and like it and nobody knows . . .

12:46amIsaac

nobody knows what?

12:46amMike

my iguana is still alive somehow . . .

12:47amIsaac

that one cool as one who lived with you

12:47amMike

that you are a freaking genius

yeah same one

12:48amIsaac

mike are you trying to make me cry

haha

12:48amMike

only if you have a webcam ready . . .yeah!!

12:49amIsaac

are you on skype?

12:49amMike

is that some new asian drug?

12:49amIsaac

haha

12:49amMike

naw

12:49am

12:51amMike

you still in tokyo

12:51amIsaac

tokyo is awesome

you would love it

do you have any of our old songs?

12:52amMike

it's not too congested?

12:52amIsaac

its really cool like that

12:53amMike

i might have E. Oliver/Joya on tape . . .

12:53amIsaac

cause you can be in the most busy place in the world

go one block

dip down an alley

and end up in a bar that is cool

and small

just like blade runner

but more real

12:53amMike

don't you need some trees?

12:53amIsaac

and without

the flying cars

trees...? i live in the heart and there are trees right outside my window

12:55amMike

what is the heart?, can i go there?

of the city . . .duh

does it get cold out there?

12:57amIsaac

man hell ya you can come here..i do not understand why more people do not come to visit me...and yes the weather is kinda like NYC and it is cold here now....but the girls wear more mimi skirts in the winter it is the fashion

not mimi skirts mini

12:59amIsaac

i am so stoked that the man who always would come and meet me and be down for anything　thinks my new works are good.... not to sound lame but that makes me really stoked

1:00amMike

you are still too funny . . . most people cant spend $8000 just to hang out with you, player!

1:00amIsaac

haha

1:01amMike

I'm not like an art critic or anything, but when i see realness, i accept it happily!!!

newsflash: Isaac is cool!

1:02amIsaac

what ever stop making fun

yo

i was in SF

and Joyo

was telling me jaguar stories about brett

1:02amMike

i'm not making fun, i'm just happy to talk to you

fuck brett

1:04amMike

that guy broke my heart numerous times

1:05amIsaac

word.....i saw mark smith rub his head in dog shit...always thought he was fucked after that

i also heard mark stabbed a dude for crack...

what a motivating group we know

1:06amMike

i am laughing so hard

mark smith rules!!!

i dunno @ the crack thing, though

1:07amIsaac

haha if he rules it makes for a good story

before that he parked his car in the woods before it broke down and lived in it and smoked crack

or so i have heard

1:08amMike

hey used to smoke weed w/ me at AHS

1:08amIsaac

he went to AHS?

i thought he dropped out on middle

1:08amMike

i thought so?

1:08amIsaac

haha

did any of us actually go to that school

i can not remember one thing i learned at that school

1:09amMike

i did for a year

1:09amIsaac

besides to not wear the same thing as brad conner

haha

1:09amMike

i learned aubrey philips

b.rad!

1:10amIsaac

aha

she just copied marshall

1:10amMike

hough?

1:10amIsaac

oooo yea

where do you live these days

1:11amMike

that fool moved into the house across the street from me

1:13amMike

i take care of disabled people and also serve coffee

1:15amIsaac

i thought so

SF was just as crazy

as i remembered it

so dirty

1:16amMike

and dirty

1:16amIsaac

and man it is like being hooked up to a weed machine

1:16amMike

i wish

1:17amIsaac

it is so hard for me to hang out with people i like these days

i am trying to get a show in LA right now

1:18amMike

why?, you da bomb!

1:18amIsaac

cause people i like live all over the freakin world

1:18amMike

I'll be your driver -- $200/hour

1:19amIsaac

and dirty

i like that you think i have money

haha

1:19amMike

well you went to hawaii and japan! how do you not have money?

you're like howard stern

i take thst back

that

sorry

1:21amIsaac

i went to hawaii and japan the same way... broke

1:21amMike

all your photos look like you're livin' the high life

1:21amIsaac

yep