SECRET WALLS Downtown Las Vegas
It’s been a handful of years since I’ve know David of Civillian clothing. He’s come a long way and worked his ass off to create an impressive movement in local Las Vegas streetwear/hip hop culture. David’s newest venture, teaming up with a super rad event “Secret Walls” has us all sorts of stoked! If you haven’t heard about this fuckin’ event…lemme drop some knowledge on ya. “Secret Walls” is a super simple event based on a group of six artists givin’ only BLACK paint and each a large white canvas. During a 90 minute stretch each artist is giving this allotted amount of time to paint ANYTHING they want on their blank canvas. After the hour and a half is up, the crowd will be given a chance to voice their opinion on the favorite hand painted canvas one artist at a time…by YELLING THIER BRAINS OUT for their favorite artist! This is a pretty damn stressful time, during the 90 minutes up on a stage painting…Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that the artists are also up on a stage in front of a TON of people pressured by the crowd to come up with somethin’ worth yelling about! “Don’t fuck up”, “Make it cool”, “Don’t fall off the stage” , “Don’t take another shot”, “Beer me” all going through my head as I’m pounding beers and taking shots handed up from crowd members..all while painting a giant picture in a super short amount of time. It might seem like 90 minutes isn’t much time to paint a giant canvas from start to finish, because it ISN”T. It goes quick, and is quite the challenge. So the real exciting part about this whole story is that as we sit today here at Studio 21 Tattoo..we’ve takin’ home the first place title ALL THREE EVENTS. No biggie. We’re pretty excited about this! Not only are we enjoying participating and havin’ a great time supporting the event..we’re actually winning too! The goal is to get all three of our guys to the final round so we have all Studio 21 artists battling it out! I honestly think it would be pretty fun battling my buddies and even losing to a couple of the most talented artists i know. Mike Biggs, Tyson and I are super stoked to be a part of this event and can’t thank David and Secret Walls Las Vegas enough. We need you guys to show up and YELL for us at all the upcoming battles, so keep posted and we’ll let you know about the future events and would love to see ya come out and support! Be sure to check out Tysonand Mikes work!
Thanks Guys!
Owner/Artist
The Spencer Family took a trip back down south recently to visit our family in good ol’ Houston, Tejas. We got a chance to introduce the newest member of the fam (Baby Lucy) to the Grandparents, cook some great meals and check out the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Being a car guy I was super excited to find out that the Museum had a really really cool exhibit , Sculpted in Steel: Art Deco Automobiles and Motorcycles, 1929–1940. We grabbed lunch and hung out with two of my favorite guys, my uncle John (Charlie’s brother) and my Grandpa Ted (Becki’s Dad). They rule. Grandpa Ted is hands down the most influential person in our family. A small business owner, Woodworker, landscaping all around creative man, my grandpa is the coolest. He’s the one who decides that when he’s interested in something, he goes ALL IN. He started framing artwork for my mom when she was a teenage illustrator and got so good and so “into” it that he ended up opening an Art Gallery and Frames shop. His wife my grandma Pat is also a very creative and hard working lady. She owned a wedding cake bakery in the same parking lot as my grandpas Frame Shop/Art Gallery. As a kid I spent a lot of time in both of the business cleaning and helping out the employees learning all sorts of things from making roses out of cake fondant to cutting frame molding and talking to clients. I never realized how much influence Grandpa Ted had on our family till we got our business going. I feel pretty special to be raised around him, being exposed to the idea that at anytime you want..you can just get into something and completely immerse yourself and maybe even start a business! I always wonder what I could possibly fall in love with next. Thanks Grandpa Ted for being so damn awesome. Thanks for checking out the new blog and hope to keep up on it more.
