Teh Surf

The Hit and Run crew have been doing their one of a kind live silkscreening events for a couple of years. 100+ events have gone down since. It seems like they’ll go anywhere, skyscraper roof tops, parks, nightclubs, mussems, warehouses, backyards parties, everywhere. You never know what designs they’ll have before an event. You pick up the ones you want and were on the shirt you want them. Blam’o they screen it right in front of you. For t-shirt fanatics like me it doesn’t get any better than this.

This one I got at Arthur (Magazine) Fest, I really like the multi color ink job, nice.

This one is from the recent year end event held in downtown LA. If you wore your favorite H+R shirt you got a free shirt to have screened that night. How cool is that, kind of unheard of these days.

The untold story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and the Source Family by Isis Aquarian with Electricity Aquarian. Utopia, religion, sex, tragedy, rock & roll, this story has got it all. For anyone interested in life outside the mainstream, this is a great read. An epic tale told by the family members themselves. From their beginnings in Hollywood to life on the Hawaiian Islands. The book also includes lots of photos from the family archives and a CD of music, so you get much better vibe as to just what was going down with the Source. A strange tale indeed, highly recommended.

Dustin Ortiz is a printmaker, painter, designer of graphics clothing and t-shirts and all around hipster living in Leucadia, Ca. He successfully blends these traits in works like this very graphic painting titled Double Up …

…yet at times his work seems somber and refined like the mixed media collages in the center below.

I really dig his range and picked up the full set of these super cheep prints at the first Nixon Art Mosh.