Today’s “Favorites of 2004” come to you
from Abe Lincoln, Jr in New York, Rekal in Italy, Roadsworth in Montreal,
Zoltron in California, and Buddy Lembeck, also in California.

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Favorite
Event of 2004:

Abe
Lincoln, Jr: I’m going to have to go with Stickerthrow! The sticker art show
Anera and I spent the better part of this year putting together. It was without
a doubt the most rewarding art show I’ve been involved in. Anera and I want to
send out all our thanks to everyone who sent in stickers from the Featured
Artists and especially every one who sent in to the open call you laid down the
foundation to an amazing event! Pics are href="http://www.girlsbike.com/stickerthrow">here

Rekal: Sonar
(Barcellona), it’s the first time for me this year and it was amazing. A lot of
people having fun, and great music…someone told me that the past years was
better ‘couse it was a little bit less mainstream, but anyway for me it has been
great!!

Zoltron: href="http://www.hispanicsurf.com/newsroom/2004/menudo_auditions_to_be_held_NY-
031004.htm">The Revised Menudo Boy Band Auditions.

Roadsworth:
1.Birth and eventual recovery from initial complications of my nephew Mailin
(family criris overcome). Hommage to Victor Jara, Chilean songwriter/activist at
Station C at beginning of Nov. First time I’d ever tried my hand at live
painting. Wicked experience.

Buddy Lembeck: Beautiful Losers opening
in Cincinnati, OH, which included the “Good World” show at href="http://www.publicoart.com/">Publico Gallery and “Beaver College” at
the Mockbee. That was an awesome event to have in my hometown.

Favorite Artist of
2004:

Abe: Tie: Senor B for his clean execution and sense of
humor, Regular Product for his tight style and I dunno what happened but
Supakitch went from “fucking amazing” to “completely unreal”.

Rekal:
Yoshitomo Nara…I think he have a great technique and those fuking kids let me
think about me

Roadsworth: 1.Dan Witz 2.fruhstuck(really dig the pavement
art)3.The Heavyweight crew (these guys were some of the first artists that I
checked out in Mtl.)4.Homeboys (haven’t met them myself) Stare, Thesis, Other 5.
Andy Goldsworthy of course. 6.Ricky Gervais a.k.a. David Brent (man’s a
genius)

Buddy: “Darius & Downey”, at the moment, these two are
pushing street arts definition the furthest, taking it to another level if you
will. The “lamps” in London and the “2.5” piece, Etc..

/>Favorite New Artist(s) of 2004 (an artist who
you did not know of last year):

Abe: Elph blows me away with
his expressive characters

Rekal: Mati Klarwein…He makes me
wonder

/>Zoltron: SFaustina

/>Roadsworth: I don’t know if they’re new but they’re new to me: 1.Arofish(the
stories that go along with the artwork are as awesome as the work itself. Brings
a new definition to the word balsiness.)2.2hora (I love those butterflies and
flowers) 3.Leandro (man after my own heart)

Buddy: Gunther von
Hagens, The German “Scientist/Artist” who did the href="http://www.bodyworlds.com/">Body Worlds Exhibit with all the skinless
dead people…that show is insane.

Favorite Single Piece of Art in 2004:

Abe: Well seeing
the sticker wall at our show start out as a big piece of paper and turn into a
full fledged piece of sticker art was probably my favorite thing. Seeing all the
people showing up and sizing up the wall and adding to it really made it seem to
me to be more of a community event than a “show” Here’s a href="http://www.girlsbike.com/stickerthrow/panorama.mov">QuickTime vr of
the sticker wall

Rekal: a Clayton Brothers paint

Zoltron:
Judy North - Desert Storm

Roadsworth: This sculpture garden that was created in
an abandoned lot at Van Horn and St. Urbain in an industrial part of Montreal.
Don’t know the artist’s name.

Buddy: Once again. The “Lamp posts in
Love” by Darius and Downey

Favorite
New Product of 2004:

Abe: I got a new canon powershot a95 that
I take with me everywhere, so that’s made the biggest difference in documenting
my work so far.

Zoltron: Apple 30”

Buddy: The Beef &
Potato Burrito at Taco Bell

Favorite
CD/Song of 2004:

Abe: EyeDollarTree - Blood of Abraham was
just re-released on cdbaby.com. It’s definitely one of my favorite albums of all
time. They sample William S. Burroughs… Crazy cipher shit. Omegaton is the
best single ever with a sick cameo by Kool Keith.

Rekal: from the
album “Ten” by Clouddead I like a lot “Rifle eyes” but I love all the album
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Zoltron: Sanchez Brothers
- Fuggetaboutit

Roadsworth: Song: 1. “Duplex” from the album of the
same name by Francisco Garcia. 2. “Stampede” by the Quantic Soul Orchestra. 3.
“Behold a Lady” from “The Love Below” by Andre Benjamin.

Buddy: I
didn’t get any CD’s this year, but I bought all of those “Directors Label”
DVD’s, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Etc. They are a great set.

Buddy:
“Happy Birthday”

Favorite “Moment”
(memory) of 2004:

Abe: When Americans woke up and voted Bush
out of offi… Oh wait… uhhh…

Rekal: too hard to chose one but I
feel good thinking to the John Zorn and Masada Orchestra live in Trento (Italy).
When they started I had the creeps….all live long

Zoltron: Bush was
Wired

/>Roadsworth: Seeing the Northern Lights otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis
on my way home from work one night. Almost unheard of in the city.

/>Buddy: Buying Eye Medicine that worked and getting new contacts this September
in NYC, my eyes were blood shot and busted for a week because of bad scratchy
contacts, traveling, and allergies.

Favorite Toy of 2004:

Abe: Those crazy uber Dunny’s
that are like $3500

Rekal: my pen

Zoltron: Mars-1
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Roadsworth: My overhead projector.

Buddy: My bike.

/>Favorite Website of 2004:

/>Abe:  Tied in no particular order…
href="http://www.catchdubs.com/">http://www.catchdubs.com
href="http://www.friendsofsound.com/">http://www.friendsofsound.com
href="http://www.cranemagazine.com/">http://www.CRANEMAGAZINE.COM/

/>Rekal: Wooster collective…really, I don’t spend a lot of time on the web but
I have to say that I check Wooster almost every day like a newspaper…

/>Zoltron: Peter Pan or href="http://www.tokyoplastic.com/">Tokyo Plastic

Roadsworth:
1.www.subcommunication.com (some
wicked work by local Montreal graphic designer)2. href="http://www.nextthemovie.com/">www.nextthemovie.com (website for
upcoming movie on global post-graffiti) 3.not to kiss ass or anything but
woostercollective.com.

Buddy:  href="http://www.blondchili.com/">www.BlondChili.com you have to check out
these videos, watch “Nine News”. The Video works of Andre Hyland.

/>What do you most want for
Christmas?

Abe: Nothing too extravagant just a digital Video
Camera and g5 tower with 23’ screen but I’ll settle for money to fund my
numerous art projects

Rekal: I would like to have a trip around the
world with Santa Claus

Zoltron: Nikon D70

Roadsworth: My
freedom. Can’t leave Montreal at the moment due to legal issues.

/>Buddy: Time and Money….also a new President would be nice.

style="font-weight: bold;">What is your New Year’s wish?

Abe:
That there’s going to be some amenable long-term solution to all this crazy shit
going on in the world…

Rekal: I want to move from my city to live
in a big city for a while…NY be carefull ; P

Zoltron: Something to
do with Baklava

Roadsworth: Love, peace, happiness and a trip to
Cuba.

Buddy: To be twice as productive as I was this past year, and
be able to visit my family and friends more (which don’t seem to go together
that easy)

How will you be spending
the Holidays this year?

Abe: Christmas with my family here in
NYC and sleeping hopefully on New Years Eve

Rekal: I gonna work all
december and the New Years Eve probably I gonna drink a lot of “Vin
Brule”...It’s a tipical drink from my City: hot wine with cinnamon, apple,
orange peel and others drugs I can’t translate in english…here there is a
strong cold and this drink is the right one to keep your body quite hot..
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Zoltron: Enjoying the warm embrace of Sake

Buddy: Briefly
leaving sunny LA to visit my family in Cincinnati. Where I will paint on stuff,
hang out with friends; eat Skyline Chili, and videotape myself throwing fake
barf on public buildings. On New Years Eve I will be performing with a Mock
Church Band called “Tracy, Dean, &
Jesus” at a club in Cincinnati.

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